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Download Beethoven’s Symphonies – FREE

Posted on by Timothy Foreman

Download all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies here the day after they are broadcast. All the symphonies are performed by BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.


Better get them quick if you want them, they are taking them down after a bit.

Update: They are encoded at 128kbps (not high quality) and have the announcer introducing them at the beginning. But they are still worth listening to at work.

From the BBC:

When are the nine symphonies available to download as mp3 files?

Symphonies 1 & 3 will be broadcast on Monday 6th June, and available to download from Tuesday 7th June to Monday 13th June.

Symphonies 2, 4 & 5 will be broadcast on Tuesday 7th June, and available to download from Wednesday 8th June to Tuesday 14th June.

Symphony 6 will be broadcast on Monday 27th June, and available to download from Tuesday 28th June to Monday 4th July.

Symphony 7 will be broadcast on Tuesday 28th June, and available to download from Wednesday 29th June to Tuesday 5th July.

Symphony 8 will be broadcast on Wednesday 29th June, and available to download from Thursday 30th June to Wednesday 6th July.

Symphony 9 will be broadcast on Thursday 30th June, and available to download from Friday 1st July to Thursday 7th July.

Misc-Other

Hanzi Smatter

Posted on by Timothy Foreman

There is a website called Hanzi Smatter – I have a link to it on the left. People submit photos of Japanese or Chinese or other oriental characters (kanji) and they tell you what it really means. Sometimes it’s really funny.

Anyway, I have this shirt I got for Christmas one year. It came from Target. It has dragons on the front and a kanji character on the back. Thus:

I submitted it to Hanzi Smatter to see if they would tell me what it means.

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Got an answer already!

it is correct and means “dragon”, and here is a reference link if you
are interested: http://zhongwen.com/d/192/x115.htm

Family

Artist at work

Posted on by Timothy Foreman

It’s a beautiful morning. Bright and sunny. Liz, Roz and I had breakfast on the front porch (Stef was sleeping in.)

After breakfast, Roz grabbed the chalk and went to work.

Here is the artist at work.

Here is the finished artwork.

Family

LASIK Update

Posted on by Timothy Foreman

Well, it’s Sunday now. My left eye is getting better, but it’s still pretty blurry. The right eye is pretty good now.

My far distance is pretty good, but fuzzy. Reading is a pain.

Guess we keep waiting.

Family

LASIK – Wow

Posted on by Timothy Foreman

Had my LASIK surgery yesterday. Please forgive any smelling pistakes as all is pretty blurry right now.

So yesterday morning I had Liz drive me down to the clinic to have my surgery. We got there around 7:15am and then I had to wait a bit.

There was the normal intake stuff, had to fill out some forms and sign some releases.

Then after a bit, the surgery. What to say about that. It was unpleasant. It was uncomfortable. It wasn’t painful…

First they put numbing drops in my eyes. Then they had to put this suction device on my eye to hold it still to cut the flap. That was uncomfortable. They cut the flap using the new intralase procedure where they actually use a laser to cut it instead of a knife.

Then they fold the flap back. They have you look at a blinking orange light while they are folding the flap back and doing the actual laser work. When they folded the flap back all I could see was the orange light in the center and a large white ring around it. As they did the laser, the white ring dissapeared. That part was pretty cool.

So when it was all done, I could hardly see at all. I went home and took a nap. Then I could see a bit better, so I took another nap. Better yet.

I went in for my post-op checkuo and my right eye is about 20/30 already, but my left is really, really blurry. The Doctor says that all looks good and it just needs to heal some more. He says that when it heals it should be pretty good.

I hope so. 🙂