I love the Casals quotes. Wow.

Great, now I can’t give up on reading Ada! It’s really hard, like I was telling you. My edition doesn’t have any notes, so I found this site:
http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/

It is a great reference and reveals 500 more dimensions to the first three chapters than I was able to glean on my own. I don’t think I can read the text online though — the highlighted text (indicating footnotes) is astonishingly overwhelming.

That is a cool link….. (the makers of the link do say that “You should use ADAonline only if you have already read Ada in book form. Otherwise you may spring surprises in the novel that you would be much better to learn in the way and in the order that Nabokov has prepared with such care and imagination.”

So. You’re quitting Facebook? Your status only said good-bye….. does this mean you will leave more comments on my web page? Heh….

Are you actually quitting (or taking time away) due to the privacy issues?

PC article says not many are doing this: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364338,00.asp

I know privacy is touchy for many people. But I have been wondering about individual’s actual privacy for years…. the paranoid in me says there hasn’t been much privacy for a long time….. and of course in the UK they have the ever present camera system…..

And there are members of our family who shun online presence or mention, he said obliquely hoping this didn’t offend said fam members who still lurk… Heh….

I am still not sure about the issue with Facebook? It seems to me that if you put it on the internet, then people will know about it. So, maybe personal information should not be put in public view if you want it private.

I think I tend to agree as I mentioned in my response to Elizabeth on a recent post. I don’t think much is truly private these days especially from the government. But that might be just me being a paranoid old hippie who was read too much sci-fi. Heh.

It’s not so hard for you and me to connect!

On an unrelated note, I was just checking out the free downloads on the local NPR station (WNYC)… listening to Meklit Hadero who’s playing at Le Poisson Rouge tonight! Link: http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/music-hub/

I’m listening to the Meklit Hadero. Nice. I can hear some Annie Defranco influence. I like it.

Of course you and I connect. I will always connect with you. But I like connecting to a network of friends and family that are on FB, especially my Hatch nieces and nephews whom I rarely see in person.

But each to their own, of course. No biggie. love from your Dad

I came upon your blog when I Googled my grandmother’s name: Helen Swetka. She was my maternal grandmother. Grandma Swetka had been the organist at Emmanual Episcopal Church located on John R in Detroit back in the late 20’s. I still remember the old pump organ she probably practiced on at home.

I’m sure Helen never told you that her son-in-law, my father, the late Philip Eugene LaRowe, was himself an organist of some stature who concertized extensively throughout the southwest, midwest, and northeast during the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. In Chicago (where he grew up from age 9) he studied with Francis Hemington and Edwin Stanley Seder. At the University of Michigan, where he obtained his A.B. and Master of Music degrees, he was a student of Earl V. Moore and Palmer Christian. While completing his masters degree he was Palmer Christian’s assitant as university organist.

Helen was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1893. She and her sister, Elizabeth, worked at the same company in London. It was during this time that Helen became Helen. She was born Ellen Brixton Swetka. But, it was confusing when she and Elizabeth initialled office correspondence, “E.B.” To clear up the confusion, Ellen changed her name to Helen.

Helen died in 1992 at the age of 99. She was a remarkably keen business woman remaining active in stock market investing into her 80’s and 90’s.

Dave LaRowe
dave.larowe@gmail.com

Privacy has such an interesting new twist on it, now. There must be some kind of formula to indicate how many people know how much about you. I suppose there must be a simple relationship between how many people who know X about you, how interesting or valuable knowledge of X is and what the connected population size is. One twist is that “interesting or valuable” is almost everything about you since it is so cheap to keep records of it all, and there is some business somewhere interested in, say, what your favorite color is. Another twist is that the connected population is now so large.

In regard to keeping your information away from business or government (as opposed to friends and family who usually find out the most interesting things about you the old fashioned way), the internet connection is almost irrelevant. If a business or government wanted to know personal stuff about me, it is pretty easy to get without looking for info I’ve volunteered. Obviously, my credit card and phone bills will say a lot, but so does, say, my water usage, if I were to start sharing my apartment with someone. There’s all kinds of data in all kinds of places about me that can tell a determined investigator things I probably wouldn’t guess.

I’m relying heavily on the fact that I’m boring that no one will care what I’m doing, heh.

I think you are a spy. Heh. Just kidding…. the appearance & emotional area of privacy is very important to me. It’s in the same part of my brain as my need for solitude and silence, but intellectually I’m pretty sure that we are open books to many eyes. I know that sounds paranoid so that’s why I use caution when talking about it.

Leadership is the issue with the job. Good leadership is essential for an effective organization. Validation by the boss may be very difficult to receive if that is what you are looking for. It is good to expect the best from others, but realize that their best may not meet your best.
I wish your brother well in his new venture.

You have heard of reality TV. Well this is reality Jupe IT!

Heh.

Hi Steve,
Isn’t technology wonderful!? The great undertaking, information versus knowledge. This is the problem for most people. The abundance of information and decision as to what to make my knowledge.
As an aside, I went to ATT Uverse. It had built in wireless. Even though every room in the house is wired, I do not need it. Maybe the next owner might find some use for the “CAT five” wiring.

A bit hokey? A bit of a sniff? Maybe check out more of my music. Thanks, I guess.

If you read carefully, you’ll notice I don’t necessarily share these opinions. Thanks for reading my blog, I guess.

You are right. TV causes a lot of time to be lost and mostly for no good reason. I have a very tough time watching or reading any fictional material. It just does not interest me. I do read non fiction on a variety of topics. One of my favorite authors is Thomas Sowell. Since I was in the financial industry for a number of years, I became interested in economic matters. Dr. Sowell is an economist and has written many books.
On another matter, you should record your concert coming up in August.

I would love to have my performances recorded. As it is, it’s all I can do to organize, rehearse and perform them. My one friend who understands recording dislikes the venue that I play in. I hate to subject him to a hostile aural environment. What I would really like is to web cast my recording. The tech is there, but I find that it takes all of my concentration to just do the gig. Lame, I know. But that’s the reason.

Happy anniversary! It is amazing how fast the years go by.

rw — would it be possible to send me your recording of “Orchestrina” as well? My sister Debbie was in this production with Terry, Jeff, and Anne O’Donnell, which I was able to attend, and I would love to get a copy!