Went to the opera last night. Lucia de Lammermore. An opera about Scotland from a novel by Sir Walter Scott sung in Italian by a Russian soprano and Greek tenor with English surtitles.
Went to the opera in Moscow. Macbeth. An opera based on a Shakespeare play about Scotland sung in Italian by Russians with Russian surtitles.
Now for the bragging. In the crossword puzzle yesterday, a clue was Dino's girlfriend. Don't know. Another was a 70's sitcom mother of Mearth. Don't know. Another was Dag Hamerskold's successor. U Thant.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Hypocrisy
Rick Perry and the anti abortionists are demanding that any woman who wants an abortion in Texas has to have a sonogram, see it, hear the heart beat, talk to a "counsellor" and pay for it all. With everything else wrong with this, do they understand that this is no different from forcing someone to pay for health insurance. I don't know of any other unnecessary elective procedure you are forced to undergo before having something done. All unnecessary procedures just add to health care cost.
This does not even begin discussing the instrusion of politicians into our personal lives. Talk about government in your bedroom. These guys don't even begin to see their hypocrisy. Apparently no one else is questioning it.
This does not even begin discussing the instrusion of politicians into our personal lives. Talk about government in your bedroom. These guys don't even begin to see their hypocrisy. Apparently no one else is questioning it.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Just thinking
I hear snippets of "news" on the radio make me start thinking. So as I was driving home from work, then errands the other day I thought about journaling. Then I snapped that I was living in 2011 and should just start blogging so here I am.
I was thinking about people who are my age or about my age - 68 next month. Most of the people I know are computer literate, at least with regard to email, although facebook is has taken over as the communication favorite. People with kids or grandkids tend to text. Almost everyone has a smart phone. I have Kindle and so do a lot of my friends. My husband just got an i pad. As soon as he lets loose of it, I'll start fooling around with it.
If you are not plugged in, to paraphrase Timothy Leary, dearie, you are really tuned out. I love being able to type in any kind of question in the Google bar and have a reasonable choice of answers. I like the new verbs, google, tweet and abbreviations, BTW, OMG and WTF. I don't get all the details of acronyms attached to LOL, but I can approximate a guess.
I heard that school system back east was no longer going to teach cursive writing. That old lady in me reacted viscerally against it. But people don't hand write things any more and when they do, it's often not legible and the spelling is atrocious. I learned formal penmanship in third grade using the Palmer Method. Our graduation was the use of an ink pen. We had liquid in inkwells on our desks and had to dip the pen in the ink bottle and slurp the ink up using a little lever on the side of the pen. To be able to write cursive in ink was really a big hurdle. I have pretty handwriting. People comment on it. I learned how to print well, to caption maps and technical drawings freehand.
President Lincoln and people of his day on learned to write cursively. They did not print as we know it. But I think kids need to be taught to hand write. Block letter prnting is probably best. I think they need the hand/eye/brain connection to the letters as they are learning to read. I also heard that some people in the 1700's could read, but not write. The two subjects were taught completely separately. But cursive? I'm glad I learned it, but there is so much more to learn. We don't use flowing ink pens anymore. We don't dial phone numbers, we don't get up to change channels. I think laptops will be another fond memory. Anyway, I've let it go and can't wait for new things to come.
I was thinking about people who are my age or about my age - 68 next month. Most of the people I know are computer literate, at least with regard to email, although facebook is has taken over as the communication favorite. People with kids or grandkids tend to text. Almost everyone has a smart phone. I have Kindle and so do a lot of my friends. My husband just got an i pad. As soon as he lets loose of it, I'll start fooling around with it.
If you are not plugged in, to paraphrase Timothy Leary, dearie, you are really tuned out. I love being able to type in any kind of question in the Google bar and have a reasonable choice of answers. I like the new verbs, google, tweet and abbreviations, BTW, OMG and WTF. I don't get all the details of acronyms attached to LOL, but I can approximate a guess.
I heard that school system back east was no longer going to teach cursive writing. That old lady in me reacted viscerally against it. But people don't hand write things any more and when they do, it's often not legible and the spelling is atrocious. I learned formal penmanship in third grade using the Palmer Method. Our graduation was the use of an ink pen. We had liquid in inkwells on our desks and had to dip the pen in the ink bottle and slurp the ink up using a little lever on the side of the pen. To be able to write cursive in ink was really a big hurdle. I have pretty handwriting. People comment on it. I learned how to print well, to caption maps and technical drawings freehand.
President Lincoln and people of his day on learned to write cursively. They did not print as we know it. But I think kids need to be taught to hand write. Block letter prnting is probably best. I think they need the hand/eye/brain connection to the letters as they are learning to read. I also heard that some people in the 1700's could read, but not write. The two subjects were taught completely separately. But cursive? I'm glad I learned it, but there is so much more to learn. We don't use flowing ink pens anymore. We don't dial phone numbers, we don't get up to change channels. I think laptops will be another fond memory. Anyway, I've let it go and can't wait for new things to come.
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