What Keeps Me Busy Nowadays

I love political blogging! It's hard to stay away from this pleasant pastime, but, alas, I must work diligently on what is decidedly my first interest - Music. This self imposed exile must last for at least a month (although I may slip an article in here over this time period).

Right now I'm analyzing Beethoven's First Symphony, finishing a paper, and preparing for both my recital AND my oral exams. It keeps me busy.

Here is the divine First Symphony in C Major, Opus 21, by Ludwig von Beethoven
Directed by Herbert von Karajan


I must add this visualization of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor! Let the kids see this and see if they can find the subject of the fugue. It has a specific shape and can be seen in inversion (upside down) and retrograde inversion (upside down and backwards!!!)

I like to boast about my kids

My oldest son is an excellent computer programmer. He started programming when he was 8 years old, right when we purchased our first IBM computer with 40 (count 'em, 40!) MB of Hard drive space. His father started teaching him Basic and now he's amazingly skilled in this field. Currently he knows about 30+ programming languages, but only uses about 6-10 regularly.

Here is his blog: http://blog.akkit.org/