10 September 2009
In two days, on September 12, is the local competition of the National Bible Bee. I’ve studied quite a bit during the summer, including on walks with Apple’s iPod shuffle—I had recorded most of the Bible memory passages myself.
27 August 2009
I don’t know if you noticed, but the other day I added the link ‘Publications’ to the navigation bar at the top of my blog. The most recent addition to my Publications was How to be a man and How to be a lady, two works by the New England minister Harvey Newcomb (1803–1863). These two books were published simultaneously, and since the majority of the text overlaps (according to my estimation, possibly around eighty-five percent), I typeset them together as one book, using floral printers’ ornaments to distinguish those parts that differed.
15 July 2009
Unfortunately my entire Linux partition was wiped because of that, and when a Linux partition goes, the GRUB loader fails, making the entire computer unusable except by a clean installation of an operating system. [read more]
11 July 2009
This past week Samuel, Jonam and I have been at a music camp for high-school string instrument players at Rowan University in New Jersey. Every day from Monday until Thursday we left the house around eight in the morning and got back around ten at night; Friday was the last day, and we got home around seven. [read more]
23 June 2009
I finally got around to getting the recording of Csárdás, which I performed at the Tri-County Youth Festival concert. [read more]
20 April 2009
Those who know me might have heard that last Saturday I participated in the Tri-County Youth Festival. I played Vittorio Monti’s Csárdás with Nico Salvitti, who very kindly accompanied me. [read more]
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