I've spent my time throwing bales of hay onto wagons and into barns. To think that I now complain of a hard day's work at the keyboard!The first day I spent haying, I wore shorts and a teeshirt and laughed at the "old" farmers (probably about my age now) who wore canvas pants and long-sleeved flannel shirts. By noon, I was sunburned and covered with scratches from briars and jagged hay, and stung by bees trapped in the bales (they were perturbed by the experience, understandably). You better believe I showed up fully garbed, gloved, and hatted the next day.
This paean to hay almost…
These are more addictive than potato chips.
Soup or sparks? How we figured out how they work.
Most of the reviews I've read of Edmund Morris' Beethoven biography didn't encourage me to read it, but Tim Page's beautifully written appreciation has catapulted it to the top of my list.
I'm not sure what makes it so special; I'm not sure if it really is as special as Mark Levinson says it is. "This is about life. This is going to bring digital music life."
Mark Levinson: when he speaks, yes, he speaks of music, but he can't seem to separate music from so many other things, and why should he? Why would he? When he speaks of music, he speaks of how it relates to the human body and how it relates to technology and how all of this relates to love and to life. He can't help himself.
Is the Burwen Bobcat really the most important innovation in high-end audio I'll…
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis posits that the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks affects how he or she perceives the world. It has been a lightning rod of controversy ever since it was proposed. A new paper suggests that it's half true—sort of.
I love these re-imaginings of film trailers. What if the ultimate two-hankie movie was much, much creepier?
A good read from The New Yorker. I saw a special on the Enigma Project once and they interviewed a woman who had worked with Turing at Bletchley Park. She basically said that everybody at BP was phenomenally bright, but that Turing was a genius and that the difference between being intelligent and being a genius was the difference between going from A to G and from A to Zed. Genius didn't need the intermediate steps that even the very brightest of us require.That sounds lonely to me.
Jerome Harris sent in this tidbit, commenting, "Talk about ahead of the curve!"
"Honestly, I have no idea how those CDs wound up on the floor."
