AdamSmith

(Oops. As some pol said.)

Just recollecting on some physician (or lawyer? Or some such non-musician) who was a Mahler fanatic, and who either won or purchased (ennybody heahabouts recall?) a chance to stand as conductor over some orchestra foredoomed to put up with him in public performance. Point is, was fascinating to hear some member's (lead violinist's? Natural alpha performer but can't recall) remarks to the effect of, to paraphrase: He could count time, and knew more or less where we should be emphatic and where subdued and understated; but otherwise he taught us why we should appreciate our professionally trained conductors. This amateur never thought to give any division of the orchestra any least hint of the comparative dynamics he would like, nor any hints about phrasing, which with Mahler as with many others is far from obvious or one-choice-only.

Sweet piece in, as ever, The Guardian: http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/slYR4V99RHd_rrz3VgWirMw/view.m?id=15&gid=commentisfree/2012/aug/10/gay-marriage-federal-matter-state-ballot&cat=usa

You simply lack sufficient nostalgie de la boue. (As the frogs put it, with characteristically irritating aptness.) La boue is where I spent the majority of my time in Gotham.

2001 Star Child if NASA were folded into the TSA

...und der cherub stett vor Gott! Posting that only to snit how bad is the line just previous, and how really second-rate is Schiller in general. Odd that age's veneration of him.

Here in Raleigh I keep it at 79 most of the day. May click it down to 78 a little before beddie-bye if the front wall (against which my bed lies) is blasting forth a lot of retained heat soaked up from the afternoon sun. Winters, 68 or 69 is fine day and night.

... "All men become brothers."

You have, despite this inexcusable failing of not meeting him (and getting the attendant aftermarker rewards!), one's undying love.

You have a one-track mind! (As opposed to me...!)

I don't, but my experience living in NYC is in line with EXPAT. Virtually everybody there 25 or under (OK, actually, far fewer of the professional escorts; but almost everybody else who is in it for little or no money) comports with that description.

The incomparable Lennie conducting (after reflecting on) the Ode to Joy... ...with the Vienna Philharmonic, possibly the finest machine ever put together by the hand and mind of man. I had thought the recording conducted by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt leading the same orchestra was the sine qua non, but just stumbling across these Youtube bits makes me reconsider. Holy shit. Just noticed he does not even have the fucking score in front of him. Cojones. Brilliance.

...Any bets on whether he has a "wide stance" himself?!

Aw. Know anybody to ask?

!!! Would you know, or know of, one Joe Gordon? Indiana native who at one point seemed on the cusp of becoming a national Democratic party bigwig. Party chairman, or close. Then something seemingly went awry -- he crossed the Clinton (Bill) machine? Or something else? Curious partly from having gotten to know him as he was in my class at Jale in New Haven. Any intel, gossip or rumor would be welcome.

So why the brouhaha? Put it on a memory stick and forget about it. How dense can we be?

Yeah, just so. B2B cloud providers of that ilk use massive security and partitioning tools (and offer contractual guarantees, with reparation commitments etc.) that are worlds apart from Dropbox et al. We are in heated agreement.

Why, thank you!

This rather extraordinarily good profile of one's particular idol, Harold Bloom, reminds me I must get hold of his latest summa, The Anatomy of Influence: http://www.nytimes.c...?pagewanted=all

That would make unavailable one of the central benefits of the cloud: computing on demand. A big reason that companies such as those I mentioned above buy cloud computing services from third-party hosts is to accommodate spikes in demand as engineering projects move through peak workload periods. It has long been a source of cost and waste for these companies to have to maintain in-house what is, a great deal of the time, idle computing capacity. One of the industry's terms of art for this is "infinite computing." In fact it is proving a godsend to medium and smaller engineering organizations that can now afford to rent levels of computing power for brief but project-critical tasks that they would be hard-pressed to pay for as purchased and in-house-maintained infrastructure.

Excellent piece by two tax specialists on why there almost have to be skeletons in Mitt's tax closet: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/18/opinion/kleinbard-canellos-romney-tax/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Amusing & illuminating bit from The Guardian... http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/sudIx8UvmA8z5iLRAfqL-dQ/view.m?id=15&gid=commentisfree/2012/aug/07/pubic-hair-has-job-stop-shaving&cat=most-read Must say I agree.

Respectfully beg to differ. When world-class engineering organizations put their mission-critical IP into the cloud, the security is banking-level. Agree, as I said before, that is far different from many consumer-oriented cloud services. My point is that security is not inherently put at risk simply because of something being cloud-based these days. Just depends on how it is implemented.