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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Some Days

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Some days are more challenging than others. Above is an altered photo from a trip we took to Alcatraz. No matter how hard my own projects may be or how much slower they go than I wish they would, it's good to remember how good I've got it!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Time Travel: A Primer, Lesson 5, CLIMB ABOARD

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Simply Execute the Code and CLIMB ABOARD

Dear Class,

A few students have contacted me in regards to challenges following up on yesterday's simple class assignment found in the online class journal. A few simple steps backwards in time shouldn't be that all difficult a task. I think a few of you have not been paying strict attention to the details of this class. Facebook is fine for use at home, but you should not have it running on your laptop during the lecture. However, the Dean of the Time and Space Department, has directed me to provide remedial instruction to those of you dullard- err, I mean those of you well-educated students who cannot complete this simple assignment.

The C language code is, of course, intuitively obvious. Perhaps the hints in the console output below will help you. Remember the fees your parents are paying to send you to college and stay abreast of your reading and homework from now on.

Expecting better results,

Your Professor - The Simple Romantic

..... Assignment Hints..............

simple-romantics-imac:ch03 simpleRomantic$ gcc CalculateTimeTravel2.c -o Travel

simple-romantics-imac:ch03 simpleRomantic$ ./Travel

After 0 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 2009

After 1 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 2008

After 2 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 2007

After 3 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 2006

After 4 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 2005

After 5 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 2004

After 6 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 2003

After 7 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 2002

After 8 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 2001

After 9 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 2000

After 10 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1999

After 11 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1998

After 12 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1997

After 13 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1996

After 14 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1995

After 15 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1994

After 16 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1993

After 17 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1992

After 18 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1991

After 19 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1990

After 20 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1989

After 21 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1988

After 22 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1987

After 23 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1986

After 24 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1985

After 25 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1984

After 26 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1983

After 27 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1982

After 28 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1981

After 29 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1980

After 30 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1979

After 31 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1978

After 32 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1977

After 33 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1976

After 34 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1975

After 35 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1974

After 36 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1973

After 37 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1972

After 38 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1971

After 39 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1970

After 40 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1969

After 41 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1968

After 42 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1967

After 43 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1966

After 44 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1965

After 45 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1964

After 46 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1963

After 47 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1962

After 48 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1961

After 49 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1960

After 50 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1959

After 51 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1958

After 52 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1957

After 53 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1956

After 54 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1955

After 55 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1954

After 56 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1953

After 57 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1952

After 58 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1951

After 59 minutes traveling through time from 2010 you are currently in the year 1950

simple-romantics-imac:ch03 simpleRomantic$

Get the idea now?

Good. Please hop in the carriage and let's get moving

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Time Travel: A Primer, Lesson 4, Resources





This clock is from the Clock Link Gallery

Time Travel: A Primer, Lesson 3, Time To Go Back

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Chapter 3: Travel Methods

Since this journal has been covering, extensively, various methods of time travel, this simple exercise is left to the reader.

For review, the Reader may wish to refer to Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series


Monday, August 9, 2010

American House Spiders Unite - No Sacrifice Required!

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A female American House Spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum. Apparently, she is still alive and kicking

Identified at
Spider Identification Org, by Bug Eric,
a.k.a. Eric Eaton author of the Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America.

Having read too many articles about how to be a good parent, I thought she had left her poor decayed body behind to feed her offspring, but Eric says that she looks alive. I guess she is simply hanging around waiting to see what kind of peanut butter the kids want to go with their flies.
In the photo below, she is waiting for her kids to emerge. I guess this is the equivalent of reading a magazine in the parking lot.



Sunday, August 8, 2010

The London Loaf, For Anna





Laurel's London Loaf

Inspired by my ancestor, Anna Sherman






For more about making bread using a combination of a bread machine and traditional oven, see my previous entry, The Mystery of Trenta

Bread Machine Dough Cycle

2 loaves (if making half recipe use 2 and ¼ t yeast)

Wet Stuff

1.5 c buttermilk (low-fat if possible)

1 c water

pinch salt (put in w/ wet, isolate from yeast area)

Dry Stuff

Grated outer peel of one or two lemons

4 3/4 c BREAD flour

3/4 c oatmeal

Nestle on top of Dry Stuff

1/3 c brown sugar (first)

1T plus 1 t good fresh yeast (on the very top) (if making half recipe use 2 and ¼ t)

200 degrees 20 minutes (re-raising)

350 degrees, 30 minutes

Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Heart of The Music

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It’s been a tremendous pleasure singing right in the 'midst of the Junge Kammerphilharmonie Freiburg I’ve sung with instrumentalists and orchestras before, but they were separated from the chorus, and usually seem to be uninterested in the singers. Here, we are cheek by jowl with a chance to nearly touch each other’s music as it emerges.

The concert master, from my point of view in the middle of the stage, takes on a new role. He doesn’t just lead the strings, he encompasses them. His body and violin lean back toward his section, eyes and bow sweeping back and directing the form for a sea of moving wands.

I’m close enough to watch the blond wind player switch from her clarinet to her piccolo. The first notes tremble out bird-like. Then I eye the French horns as they take their shimmering brass bells in hand. The first mellow notes of their part, resonate in my own body as the notes rise up from my diaphragm into my own instrument.


Wunderbar.









The Concert Master In Rehearsal



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