Confidence
Confident advice from an accomplished opera-singer to an up-and-coming opera singer about the pacing of a song:Make the conductor wait for you.I'm pretty sure that only works if you 'win' some sort of cosmic ego battle. But one should aspire to being someone the conductor waits for.
Labels: art, does anybody really know what time it is, music
posted by Arlene (Beth)12:22 AM
Friday, April 09, 2010
I argue about this sort of thing all the time
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Macbeth and Macduff Get Into an Argument Over Semantics. Rather good. Least relevant sample:MACDUFF: Okay, thou hast no need to get snippy.
MACBETH: I'm not snippy.
MACDUFF: Thou ist. A little bit.
posted by Arlene (Beth)9:07 PM
Monday, April 05, 2010
Shake, rattle, and roll
The USGS Recent Earthquake Maps for Northern California and Nevada (quake.usgs.gov) have been full of fascinating graphics for the last day or two, as aftershock after aftershock stacks up in SoCal.
I love this site, and visit it often, but... it is so FULL right now. At left: a close-up of the impacted area.
Yes, I need to refresh my emergency water supply.
Yes, I'm signed up for AlertSF at 72hours.org, San Francisco's emergency preparedness website.Labels: earth day, technology is my friend, web stuff
posted by Arlene (Beth)10:13 PM
