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I ♥ my iPhone
Not only has the spellchecker on my iPhone learned the word "yAt!", but if I'm trying to type "yAt!" and make a typo, it autocorrects it. -
Concert Announcement: Brahms Requiem
This Saturday, May 16th, I am performing the Brahms Requiem with the Back Bay Chorale, and I hope you will come see us ( Read more... ) -
Concert related anxiety dream
I was at rehearsal for next Saturday's performance of the Brahms Requiem when I suddenly realized that the reason I felt out of sync with the rest of the tenors was that my copy of the music was in English. We are performing in German, of course. Fortunately, the director started working with the basses on something, so I had a chance to stare at ( Read more... ) -
Maine Governor FTW!
yAt!
I'm confused. I thought New Hampshire was supposed to be next.
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On things I failed to learn in high school
In high school, I wasn't paying attention in calculus when we were taught integration by trigonometric substitution. Consequently I never learned how to do integration by trigonometric substitution, and this has bothered me ever since. So today I broke out a calculus textbook and taught myself integration by trigonometric substitution ( Read more... ) -
Connecticut same sex marriage
Can anyone explain the law that passed in Connecticut today? Connecticut already had legal same sex marriage. It's kinda cool that it passed in the House 100-44 and in the Senate 28-7, and that Gov. Rell signed it, even after expressing her opposition to same sex marriage (making her the first Governor to sign a same sex marriage bill into law), ( Read more... ) -
If this is wrong, I don't want to be right
Today at work I studied the Wikipedia pages on digital filters and related topics. I then set up and tuned a simple filter to help analyze a bunch of data related to stuff I work on ( Read more... ) -
An orange for Passover
The traditional story for the reason for including an orange on the Passover seder plate is wrong. The spirit is similar (it was originally to signify the inclusion of lesbians and gay men in the Jewish community) but the details are wrong, in ways that take credit away from the originator, Susannah Heschel, and grant it instead to an anonymous ( ( Read more... )