We are hopeful that Nekko’s episode with insulin shock was an isolated event. Since Tuesday we have closely monitored her eating and insulin, and haven’t seen any evidence of another bottoming out like Sibylle caught that day.
For her part, Nekko, seems to be normal again. She still displays some aggressiveness around our food, needing to [...]
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
For the past twenty months Nekko’s diabetes has been under control. Sibylle and I have eased into a pattern where she administers the AM shot, and I take care of the PM shot. The last several spot checks of her blood glucose levels have been good, and the blood glucose curve we had performed in [...]
Backing up iTunes Purchases
Posted in nerdliness on May 26th, 2008
iTunes allows you to back up your purchased media, in fact you can make a back up of your entire library. However, since most of my non-iTunes purchased media is already on CD, I don’t see a need to back up the iTunes version. My iTunes purchases include the introductory mini-series and first three seasons [...]
Learning Mode
Posted in nerdliness on May 25th, 2008
In the early 1990’s, when I was still using OS/2 as my primary operating system, I attended a day-long demonstration about the platform. Included in the slate of presentations was one about voice recognition. The presenter, an energetic woman, described how she was able to read and respond to hundreds of emails and Compuserve forum [...]
Sibelius Simplify Notation Plugin Solves Latency Issues
Posted in nerdliness on May 25th, 2008
After a morning of continued experimentation with, and reading about, Sibelius, Sibylle discovered a posting online that talked about using plugins. Also, I received a comment to my earlier Sibelius posting, that specifically called out using the “Simplify Notation” plugin to clean up a score that had been entered using Flexitime.
It actually works.
Sibylle was [...]
Sibelius, Driver Installs, and Flexitime
Posted in nerdliness on May 24th, 2008
Recently Sibylle purchased an electronic keyboard for her studio, and last week the copy of Sibelius 5 that she had ordered arrived. Sibelius is one of the top two or three music notation software programs available and includes a note input mechanism called “Flexitime.” Flexitime captures the music you play on the keyboard (or other [...]
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
As a child I hated this mantra. As the target of taunting and teasing I knew full well that names, and false accusations, do in fact hurt. Some of those childhood emotional scars took a long time to heal. And [...]
Failing Grade
Posted in Uncategorized, life on May 20th, 2008
USA Today has an article up about new school policies regarding the minimum grade possible. Instead of allowing scores below 50, this new “minimum 50″ policy would have 50 be the lowest score possible. The reasoning given in the article is that having a score range from 0 - 59 makes getting an F six [...]
On Playing Music
Posted in life on May 17th, 2008
In the fifth grade my class was taken on a field trip to a neighboring junior high school where we heard the band play. After the arranged pieces were done, each instrument was introduced by the conductor, so we would start to know what they were and what they sounded like. After that performance we [...]
1001 Movies To See Before You Die
Posted in diversions on May 13th, 2008
As seen on Kottke. Here are the 263 titles that I’ve seen. The original list is here.
Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror(1922)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
42nd Street (1933)
Duck Soup (1933)
King Kong (1933)
The Thin Man (1934)
Captain Blood (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Sabotage (1936)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Snow [...]
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