Category: Everyday Stories
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What’s your favorite Bach Passacaglia in C Minor (serious, looking for good one)
I’m looking for a good version of Bach’s Passacaglia in C Minor. One with drama and nice flavoring. I’m only coming up with lifeless versions, and this should be a powerful piece. Any suggestions? Hope so.
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Another friendly warning
You know those pot stickers from Publix that your child is insanely crazy about, which make your closet-sized kitchen stink like boiled cabbage for hours after you’ve microwaved them? Well they work a potent magic in the child’s intestines as well. So if that child slides up next to you with a sly grin on…
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Yes, we love Brainpop and Brainpop Jr., but have a suggestion
And speaking of obnoxious humor that kids love (see above post), Brainpop knows how to make use of it with Tim and his robot Moby to draw kids in and capture their interest while dispensing science knowledge (and health and social studies and math and technology). Why do I bring this up? I can’t be…
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Perhaps this will prevent one laundry disaster
You know those new big navy blue towels you just got from IKEA because you somehow lost a whole load of towels at the laundromat, and you need to bathe but you don’t have time to go to the laundromat and wash those new towels first? Which may be fortunate because you don’t know yet…
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Portugese Man O' War were a hit
Brainpop is launching Brainpop Jr., geared for K-3. Right now it is free but will later be subscription. H.o.p. and I realized it was there today and he’s been tooling around it this evening and is so far enjoying it. Agh, it will be a separate subscription service from their regular Brainpop. More bucks. Maybe.…
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Gack. Trials and tribulations of 2D animation software are just beginning
Taught H.o.p. the Base 2 mathematical system Monday using “The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat” for introduction only. Penrose the cat certainly opened the door to his being inteested but it wasn’t thorough enough. H.o.p. was all excited about the idea of a cat that could do math and then I had to burst…
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Heston Listening Party
I don’t do parties but decided to do this one. Heston was having a listening party on the roof of the 17 floor William Oliver House downtown for his upcoming CD (Marty engineered and mixed 11 of 14 songs), part of the purpose of which was to do a survey and pick the first single.…
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Oh yeah, the acting class
I gather they were kittens, lions and mice on Saturday. That’s all I know. H.o.p. is having a great time with the class but when I grill him he says it was forever ago and doesn’t remember any more than what he’s told me. The assignment for his next class is to come with his…
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The Katherine Harris spammer
Some dude dropped by last week and left 3 comments on an old Katherine Harris post. I mentioned it then and how there were 3 different email addies but from the same IP. I nuked the comments. Same person dropped by last night and left 2 more comments. Stats Info:
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Listening to Tuva overtone music
We had the pleasure of learning a little about Tuvan overtone music (throat music) today. Was showing H.o.p. a little video on different types of music, the what of music place to place, and they focused some on Tuvan throat singers. So we’ve been listening to a few files online and now I’m watching this…
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Testimony of the Sonderkommando
This will be perhaps the toughest book I’ve ever read and hope I am ever likely to read. By way of the internet, I came upon Gideon Grief’s “We Wept Without Tears; Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz”. How I came upon it was first I had read a NY Times story of Dina…
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oh, the world, y'know, it's just so complex…
The world’s so damn complex. I’m always rooting around for possible homeschooling resources and today I found a number of education videos up at learner.org, a place I was unfamliar with. Don’t recollect how I happened on them, what exactly I was looking for at the time. So I selected one on history and maps…