I’m sort of reluctant to post this lest they track me down, but apparently I’m not only a lost alumna of the AYSP (Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program), but a lost alumna on the internet! Please, don’t turn me in! I’d like to stay missing. I get enough monetary requests from old institutions as it is.
Book review: University Builder
In the last Sallyport magazine, I noticed that one of the books reviewed was Rice Professor John Boles’ University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute. I decided almost immediately that I should read it, even though I was a little hesitant since it only listed availability through the publisher. It […]
Nashbar wins again
I’m guessing the crappy knicker thing with Nashbar was just a fluke, because I ordered some more stuff from them recently and it came today and everything looks great. The Cateye magnet works fine with the Cannondale computer I mysteriously either lost the magnet for or which was defectively packaged with no magnet. I also […]
Soreness
Well, the whole mileage plan was great in theory, but definitely not happening. There is both more and less soreness than I expected based on yesterday. I’m not staggering around on insanely sore thighs, but my whole body seems to be a bit sore from shoulders to feet, and my hands and saddle area are […]
Ride report: Long-ass hilly ride (San Carlos-Menlo Park loop)
Ride route: Cedar St/Eaton Rd/Alameda, Edgewood, Cañada south to Woodside, Mountain Home Road to Portola, Portola to Alpine, Alpine becomes Santa Cruz into downtown Menlo Park. Pause in Menlo Park for lunch at Le Boulanger. (I think we stopped about 40 minutes.) After lunch I could have gone back home (total distance just over 20mi), […]
SFSO & C do Brahms (and blow my mind)
Back in February after my first experience at the San Francisco Symphony, I wrote that if them doing the German Requiem (with SFSO Chorus) didn’t blow my mind, nothing would. Well, it did. What a beautiful concert. For the first half they did Gestliches Lied and Four Songs for Women’s Chorus, which I thought were […]
updated webpage
I updated my webpage last night, which I evidently hadn’t done in a couple of years. That’s hard to believe — time has flown. But the content was showing its age, and links to my gallery and blog (which have been set up and working for almost six months now) now exist, which should help […]
Scots-Texans of the past
This is too funny. I was looking at the area around Dallas on Google maps, and found that there is a city in Ellis County called Midlothian, which is also the name of the area around Edinburgh to the south and the historical government area in which Edinburgh is located (these days it’s a council […]
Vegan WTF coordination
I saw an example in the wild world of vegan blogging today of what Language Log calls WTF coordination (aka syllepsis): With a dough hook and the mixer running, add remaining flour and knead another 5 minutes. If this sentence doesn’t strike you as strange, note that “a dough hook” and “the mixer running” are […]
Never thought it would happen but…
…I think I’ve fallen for California, or at least for the Bay Area. I fell for San Francisco a bit before I moved here, loving the little houses all packed up in the hills. It reminded me a little of Edinburgh (the city I love best). I also had an affection for BART — the […]