Month: December 2012

A few months ago, I learned of the Open Goldberg Project.  Being massively fanatical around the music of J.S. Bach, with the Goldberg Variations being possibly my favorite work, I immediately seized the moment and downloaded Kimiko Ishizaka’s open source project files (in high-res 24-bit/96k lossless FLAC format, but you can get them in WAV or lossy MP3 as well).  From time to time, I revisit her site to see what her next project might be (seems to a Kickstarter project to fund performances of the Well-Tempered Clavier), and today I found a video tribute:

I highly recommend this music, and welcome you to drop in for a listen in its entirety.

This year THE OREGONIAN published a massive 2&1/2 page crossword puzzle on a 2012 cultural theme.  So the resident puzzlers took it along to enlist Grandma Janet’s legendary crosswording skills as the highlight of Christmas Eve … supplemented by cookies and tea, of course.

In a frenzy of cooking — actually Ivi has been creating culinary delights in the kitchen every day of her winter vacation — Ivi prepares cookie assortments to gift Grandma Janet and her friends, braving the cold nights to make walking deliveries around the neighborhood.

The ingredients in some of these are fairly exotic, but I can’t shed much light on them without Ivi’s help.

Something from CNN Report:

… to remember what computers used to be like 40 – 50 years ago?  click on, then regress to enter your search …

Now, we know there is a lot of political polarization around these days, but this Slate piece attempts to explore the possible outcome of a new civil war: http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2012/11/27/civil_war_who_would_come_out_on_top_if_the_united_states_all_declared_war.html?wpisrc=obnetwork

Find out here or click on image.

Prepare to become distracted, and possibly addicted.

Small Demons says it is about “The people, places and things from books, and everywhere they can take you.”

HuffPo also has some explanation (and was the source of this discovery for me).