Archive for November, 2009
Vehicular Orchestration
In: Random
23 Nov 2009Some people sing in their cars.
I conduct orchestras with the music on full blast.
(Nothing like a little Stravinsky to get weird looks from the car full of guys next to you at the stop light.)
I should not, however, be allowed to listen to certain pieces of music, because I get too wrapped up in them, [...]
Behold, the Power of Facebook
In: life
9 Nov 2009I am not a Facebook apologist.
I frequently am frustrated with it, check it mostly to delete invitations to parties from friends I’ve not seen in 12 years and who live halfway across the country and to block applications from sending me junk mail. No, I don’t want to play Mafia Farm Pets with you. Sorry. [...]
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- Tags: facebook, internet, jazz, lessons, memory, misha piatigorsky, music, piano
Peeved at the TV
In: fiber
9 Nov 2009I get it. Christmas is coming. There are cards and trees and tinsel and badly played tinny renditions of carols on every other commercial on TV. (It’s only mid-November, so it’s not /every/ commercial yet)
But that’s not all that different. Nor are the “buy your kids 12 billion things to show you love them” undertones [...]
Priorities
In: fiber
5 Nov 2009Left Mitten, unblocked. Pattern is Bella’s Mittens, by Marielle Henault.
I’m just now casting on its opposite.
Yarn is Malabrigo Merino Worsted (single spun) in colorway Pearl Ten, held double. Knit on size 8 circular (yes, I know the pattern calls for a size 11 needle. I knit loosely, and my intended recipient is not a large [...]
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