Pragmatism is one of the most difficult traits to acquire, but also one of the most valuable traits to have. Shades of gray can defy polarization – if they’re acknowledged. Working together requires understanding a point of view other than your own, even if you don’t agree with it. Being willing to be wrong leads
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It’s easy to forget, but we live on a pretty lonely planet – let’s do our part to keep it habitable.
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No, you haven’t imagined it – there are some missing posts, the most recent ones, to be exact. I had some database corruption, which involved restoring from a backup, which was from several days ago, so some content was lost. Thanks goodness for backups!
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Heather and I went to Bend for a winter retreat, and in spite of some rain for the first day or so, we were lucky to have gotten some nice snow on our last day. We’re playing in the Harvey Rosenkranz Orchestra with Pink Martini this New Year’s Eve – there may be an update
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It’s that time of year when the blog goes on a brief hiatus for the holiday week. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to you and yours! See you next year!
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Life sucks in Pittsburgh – link. It sucks in SW Florida, too. – link. El Sistema in the US – link.
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The Oregonian reports that Oregon Symphony and the other major arts organizations in Portland have managed to stay in the black in this tough year, largely due to belt-tightening in their budgets. For the first time in five years, the Oregon Symphony balanced its budget, although the exact numbers won’t be known until an audit
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This amazing dessert (a viola and two eggs) is made of tons of hazelnut mousse and puff pastry, with some delicious chocolate topping to complete the effect. It’s a viola-tastic (viola-tasty?) creation engineered (imagineered?) by Badbeard himself (with upcoming Badbeard action figures) Justin Kagan. What an amazing dessert from an amazing guy!!
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Just got back from a visit to some friends who have the most amazing garden, which was created from a completely blank slate over the course of several back-breaking years. Here’s one photo from many that I took over the weekend. You can see the rest here.
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See you after the New Year – hope that your holidays are safe and happy, and the new year brings success and joy.
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It’s the day before Thanksgiving Day (the US version, Canada’s was last month), and it’s time to reflect upon what has happened up to this point and to find things for which to be thankful and glad. I’m mostly thankful for the fact that, in addition to being relatively healthy and happy, I have a
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First of all, I’ve put up a Google calendar with all of the currently scheduled Oregon Symphony concerts and education events listed. You can reach this by looking in the left sidebar for “Oregon Symphony Performance Calendar“. Next, in the right hand sidebar, you’ll see another calendar that only lists my non-Oregon Symphony performances. I
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If you’re using an iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android phone (sorry, it doesn’t work for Blackberry yet), you will see a much more streamlined and easy to read version that’s specially designed for your phone! So enjoy, and don’t text and drive! If you’ve got a WordPress blog that you’d like to modify – just
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There’s been a dearth of activity here at Daily Obs, and that is accounted for by a few things. First of all, we’re in the middle of a 10-day period where there’s not symphony services due to the vagaries of scheduling. In addition, I’m working on designing the brochure for Fear No Music’s upcoming season,
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for safari browser users
by Charles Noble on December 18, 2010 · 6 comments
Hi all – if you’re using the Apple web browser Safari to read the blog, could you let me know if the comments are visible when you are looking at a single post (i.e., not the front page that never shows the actual comments, just the post content). And let me know which version of
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