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Posted in life on Feb 23rd, 2008
Today, Sibylle and I traveled to Manhattan KS to participate in and watch the 2008 Manhattan Area Music Teachers Association Concerto Competition. Students competed in four age categories by performing concertos accompanied on a second piano by their teacher, who played the piano reduction of the orchestral accompaniment for the various pieces.
The adjudicator has [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 21st, 2008
If you are like me, you have at least once in your email usage history, accidentally sent a mail that you either didn’t mean to send, or immediately wanted to recall to edit or attach or otherwise massage before sending. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to hold your outbound emails for [...]
After a week of wearing trifocals I have come to some conclusions.
They are better than progressive lenses for me. The blurred, fun-house-mirror effect the progressive lenses had is not present at all with trifocals. This isn’t to say that there isn’t some adjustment required. When I got my first set of bifocals in May 2003, [...]
Posted in life on Feb 18th, 2008
Last week, on Thursday, Sibylle and I pulled the trigger on a bookcase purchase from IKEA. As a full-time music teacher, Sibylle has a lot of music, and a lot of reference books that she’d like quick and easy access to. We also have lots and lots of books that we’d like to [...]
As a student in American classrooms in the 1960s and 1970s I was introduced to the metric system in a failed attempt to join the world standard. (That the United States is one of but three countries on the planet that doesn’t use the metric system speaks volumes.) Personally, I think the reason the metric [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 15th, 2008
Until I generated a graph of my site, I never knew it contained a sunflower.
(Click on the image to generate one of your own.)
Posted in health on Feb 15th, 2008
In the two days since I picked up my trifocals I have been thoroughly pleased with the improvement in my vision. I have sharp focus at all three ranges of sight: near, intermediate, and distance. Having owned a pair of bifocals before my laser surgery mistake, I knew there would be an adjustment period regarding [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 13th, 2008
Most technology reviews happen shortly after the hardware or software is released, and the reviewer has had only a limited time to tinker with the product. Publishing is not without a sense of one-upsmanship, and getting your review to press first is the only way to win that game.
Here at Zanshin.net World Headquarters, I’ve [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 12th, 2008
Great Googly Moogly!
Yesterday I put up a short posting about wistful thinking, wondering what it would be like to have more than a handful of visitors to my site in a day (or week, or month). Today I know what that feels like thanks to the generosity and kindness of one man.
This morning, as usual, [...]
Last Friday, after work, I returned to the vision center, ostensibly to have my eyes measured for bifocals. In the time between making the appointment Thursday morning, and arriving there Friday afternoon, I had changed my mind - I wanted trifocals instead.
When I spoke to the technician on the phone Thursday morning, I complained about [...]
