Electric violin!

Bree bought an electric violin!

I'd like to make an amp for it. I found the Cooperative Tube Guitar Amp Project that looks pretty nifty (and has "cooperative" in the name, which is just so apropos), but I was thinking something much simpler, and transistor-based.

toxic rochester

Whenever we receive an email containing the word "community" (such as "Community Update" or in this case "Message to the University Community") it's because something bad happened. A few days ago it was to announce that someone had driven his car through the glass windows and into the lobby of one of the large dorm complexes! Less recently it was to announce that a University employee had been convicted for murder, or something like that (!). Today they write informing us that the University water supply is infected with the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's Disease. Wonderful!

Nabatæa

Entrance to the ancient Nabataean city of Petra, in the present-day Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. August 2002. (See the journal entry "Walk like a Nabatean," 2002-08-06.)