Last evening, I had the opportunity to sit not 3 meters from the amazing Russian classical pianist Olga Kern in concert. Olga won the Gold Medal in the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, considered to be the best and toughest piano competition in the world. She is the first woman to achieve this honor since [...]
Just happened to check in on the Uniqlock (scroll down) and noticed that they’ve updated both the soundtrack and the syncopated videos. be sure and check out the on-the-hour variations.
09.07Summer’s End
Having the three months of Summer Vacation was great. I must figure out a way to make a habit of it. I’ve learned several things worth noting during this break—some surprising, others less so:
I missed being attached to HP more than expected: The intensity of the loss of ‘family ties’ hit me harder than I [...]
08.26Texas Cream
Spent an hour with the slab of Texas Cream limestone today. Next to marble, this is like carving butter. Looking forward to more time on this.
Thinking about carving an abstract torso “plant stand” into the large block of Crema Español (a particularly attractive variety of marble from Spain) I’ve been holding on to for a [...]
You know it’s a mainstream idea when Cringely devotes his weekly column to the topic. Late last week, he wrote Surviving Immortality: just getting to the Singularity is the hard part which is a fairly balanced introduction to the notion of a Technological Singularity.
Having long been a follower of Kurzweil’s writings, I’ve been reading about [...]
So I have finally decided to start a blog. Initially (and for the forseeable future) this will be little more than a personal journal where I track and record thoughts and ideas for which I have some greater-than-passing interest. It is mainly for myself (a journal more than a blog) but also a means of [...]