Archive: April 2006
Spring Concert
The Cantabile Singers are presenting our spring concert, I Know Those Words, this Sunday, April 30th, at 7:00 pm at the Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield.
I think it’s going to be a very nice concert. Our pianist, Stella Pradeau, will be playing two lovely Rachmaninov pieces. Yours truly is providing some narrative commentary [...]
Look out, LA
Lisy Babe is in town. Or maybe she’s already out of town, seeing how behind I am on my blog reading, but it’s an event worth noting anyway.
What goes up …
At work, most of the buildngs are a single story - except mine. I work in the five-story Tower (not much of a tower, I know, but this is Boulder, which has building height limits).
The Tower dates from the late 50s/early 60s. It has at various times in its history housed classified programs, which means [...]
By Request
There are a couple of things in the request queue:
Derrick Parkhurst of Iowa State University is looking to publicize his IPRIZE initiative “to create better tools for disabled users to interact with computers. In particular eye movements have been shown to be an effective human computer interaction technique for individuals with motor disabilities.” It looks [...]
Bitch, bitch, bitch
Bitch #1:
An organization I am peripherally involved in recently had a big fundraising event. Prior to the event there were flurries of emails, including this one:
The lot right there is the free lot. It is down hill from the stadium so you will have to wall up the hill and will enter at the [...]
Behaviour Modification?
I have not yet succeeded in getting the police to write Gebhardt BMW a ticket; apparently we cannot ticket a car that doesn’t have a license plate. I asked what they would do if a business put a dumpster or a large rock in a permit space. The business would be warned and asked to [...]
It’s a bad world out there
I read somewhere that an unprotected Windows machine on the internet takes about 20 minutes to get infected.
Last week my hard drive died. I got a new hard drive and ran IBM’s Rescue and Recovery on it, which basically restored it to factory defaults.
I figured the next Good Idea would be to run Windows [...]
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