Too much music to talk about in brief this month but here’s what I have been devouring this month. The Percimon Tree: a novel Bryce Courtney’s last RIP. The Fellowship Not a religious book at all but a bio of Frank Lloyd Wright and his times and all the people associated with him. Our Magnificent [...]
“You’ve got to learn braille but you have to really concentrate.” So four-year-old me was told by a preschool teacher. This moment of idealism was magically caught on video. I still have the videotape [yes, it’s a REAL video!] I want to tell everybody how important Braille is in my life. When I began school [...]
Well, I didn’t come back in a box from America. Had so much fun I didn’t want to come home. But this post is a bout airlines. We all know that they are not very interesting and the food leaves a lot to be desired. Sometimes we don’t think about the fundamentals of life - [...]
A wee while ago Noelle McCarthy, an Irish broadcaster and columnist for the Herald here in New Zealand, published a 200 words of nothingness in the newspaper. So now it’s my turn. Not much is happening right now.. Seven more sleeps before I get to California! I am very much looking forward to my trip [...]
This year I have decided to publish once a month what I am reading and listening to. I will do it about the 1st of every month. Listening to Britten — A Ceremony of Carols/Friday Afternoons, 1995 Naxos Poulenc — Gloria/Stabat mater One of the 1000 classical recordings to hear before you die Jewel — Pieces of You, 1995 Quite nice. [...]
In 2007 I started blogging under the pseudonym of Gudrun Miller on this wordpress blog I’m surprised it’s still up there. I just decided to leave it there. A few years later I made a LiveJournal which is full of stuff that might be of interest to some people one of these days. I also [...]
So, the most popular tweets were as above. Enjoy them, all my tumbler followers.
I have spent the past two days grappling with iPhoto. iPhoto is very good on the whole — gives lots of feedback with VoiceOver. But, there’s always a but, the exporting capabilities don’t talk so well — not as well as they could. They did talk before so I grappled with my Mac. They didn’t talk to me. Then… [...]
So I did buy a camera. But oh the amazement when I went shopping for it. “Have you got a basic point-and-shoot that records audio as the photo is being taken?” They shook there heads. So the nice man at JB HiFi found me an easy-to-use camera. It’s really great! You can see some of [...]
View from Mount Eden, 2012.