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magidI started with a visit to the gym, where I found that despite not using machines for a couple of weeks, I needed up up the weight levels dramatically for a couple of them. I guess the increased walking makes a difference :-)
In the afternoon, I went out to Wellesley to walk by Boulder Brook Trail with Queue. It was a lovely day for it, bright and not cold. The area is really pretty, even in still-winter (though I'll note that I could already see bugses out cavorting. It's too early for them! One of the advantages of winter is the lack of bugses, darn it.). Highlights included a number of little bridges, a stream that was mostly frozen over (but we could hear from the one break in the ice, and the reverb from the underside of the ice), a view that will be nicer in a greener season, and the chance to scramble around rocks.
Later, we met my parents at Wellesley College's chapel for a concert by the Israeli Contemporary String Quartet (they don't seem to have a web site, but there is an MP3 download available. (Based on pronunciation, it should be "an" before MP3, but based on spelling, I wanted to put an "a". I wonder if more spoken acronyms are visually consonant-beginning but aurally vowel-beginning.)). The group is four women (Hilla Epstein, Hada Fabrikant, Tali Goldber, and Amelia Hollander) playing two violins, a viola, and a cello.
The performance included:
Not from Sunday, but I thought it interesting: the unotchit, a system for remote signing, designed for authors to sign books remotely. I wonder whether collectors will want to distinguish signatures written in person with those made remotely?
ETA Also, algebra by balloons.
Current Music: Laughing Gnome earworm
In the afternoon, I went out to Wellesley to walk by Boulder Brook Trail with Queue. It was a lovely day for it, bright and not cold. The area is really pretty, even in still-winter (though I'll note that I could already see bugses out cavorting. It's too early for them! One of the advantages of winter is the lack of bugses, darn it.). Highlights included a number of little bridges, a stream that was mostly frozen over (but we could hear from the one break in the ice, and the reverb from the underside of the ice), a view that will be nicer in a greener season, and the chance to scramble around rocks.
Later, we met my parents at Wellesley College's chapel for a concert by the Israeli Contemporary String Quartet (they don't seem to have a web site, but there is an MP3 download available. (Based on pronunciation, it should be "an" before MP3, but based on spelling, I wanted to put an "a". I wonder if more spoken acronyms are visually consonant-beginning but aurally vowel-beginning.)). The group is four women (Hilla Epstein, Hada Fabrikant, Tali Goldber, and Amelia Hollander) playing two violins, a viola, and a cello.
The performance included:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet kv.421 in D minor
I - Allegro moderato
IV - Allegretto ma non troppo - Franz Schubert, Death and the Maiden, String Quartet no. 14 in D minor
I - Allegro
II - Andante con moto - Josef Bardanashvili, String Quartet #1
I-Dance macabre
(This was my favorite piece, very dramatic, and interesting to watch, too, as the musicians moved their hands on the strings far closer to the bow than I've seen before.) - Matti Caspi, Song of the Dove (Shir HaYonah), arranged by Mr. [?] Epstein (father of the cellist)
Not from Sunday, but I thought it interesting: the unotchit, a system for remote signing, designed for authors to sign books remotely. I wonder whether collectors will want to distinguish signatures written in person with those made remotely?
ETA Also, algebra by balloons.
Current Music: Laughing Gnome earworm