rssOne may know how to conquer without being able to do it. - Sun Tzu
2005, July 29
Add a virtual cat
A kitty on our website makes it more like home.
In line with adding cats, here is a new member of the household.
| adopt your own virtual pet! |
Thanks Karan
2005, July 28
Add some cats
Cats in our family make the house a home.
 In the kitchen |  Baby in the grass |
 In bed |  Sister |
2005, July 26
Catcher?
I took the Quiz at the Blue Pyramid. Here is the amazing result. This was one of my favorite books when I was in my twenties, and Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters are still on my list of very good books to re-read.
You're The Catcher in the Rye!
by J.D. Salinger
You are surrounded by phonies, and boy are you sick of them! In an ongoing struggle to search for a land without phonies, you end up running away from everything, from school to consequences. In this process, you reveal that many people in your life have suffered torments and all you really want to do is catch them as they fall. Perhaps using a baseball mitt. Your biggest fans are infamous psychotics.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
2005, July 24
Air on a G string
Air from Orchestral Suite 3 in D, BWV 1068.2
We are now working on this short piece of music, short only in the number of notes it comprises. Bach could not let even a short aria go by without creating a masterpiece of counterpoint. Essentially, though it is often played as a solo piece, it is really a duet for two violins.
Learning, as my teacher puts it, the "choreography" of the bow makes this a very full sized piece. Here I am faced with a concept that takes as much assimilation as the idea of "no dead notes" in the Two Part Keyboard Inventions, the holding of non-moving notes in the mind while playing the moving part of the counterpoint.
Of course, the ideas, to the mind seem simple enough. However the doing of the thing is much more difficult.
Bass, viola and violin 2, with 4 eighth notes for tempo, music minus one
