Now reading a novel outside my usual genre. The book, Into the Leopard's Den, by Harini Nagendra is a murder mystery set in South India, in Bengaluru in the 1920s.
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reader of sf and history/biography/other literature, occasional writer, student of keyboard, guitar, and tabla, listener of new age, Indian classical, Western classical, and some film music.
Recorded my performance of the bass portion of Minuet in G Major on keyboard (piano voice) using the MIDI interface and made a stereo version using this track and the previous track of the treble portion on guitar. Revised guitar+piano combination is attached below, to provide you with dance music to ring in the New Year!
A recording of Minuet in G Major (on acoustic guitar), which I made today on my upgraded xubuntu system. My performance has improved since last year -- I have been practicing, but the sound is not yet as clear and crisp as I'm aiming for.
Feel free to dance to the music since a minuet is written for a dance by two people.
#xubuntu #linux #LinuxAudio #guitar #ClassicalMusic
Screenshot of Xubuntu version 24.04.3 LTS with XFCE graphical desktop running on an AMD 64-bit system with 2 GB RAM and VGA 1024x768 graphics output.
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#Xubuntu #Linux
I found this fabled trail and it beckoned me to enter. After a half hour of walking, the trail had become less clear -- a thick layer of leaves covered it. Turning back would have been sensible but I pressed on until the trail vanished. Searching a while I picked it up again, but now I had no idea where I was or where it would end. Fortunately two wood nymphs and their leashed servant beast came to my aid. Pressing on would surely be my demise they warned, and then giggled. I turned back.
Our Brahma Kamala plant is close to flowering. The flower bud grows out of the side of the leaf. We raised this plant for about six years before its first flowering, a few months ago. The flower is quite beautiful and fills the room with a pleasant odor, though it wilts after only a day or two.
It is not the island of Gont, but it is an island in a Northern sea. More than 400 years ago a wizard lived on this island and the ship that bore us to the island is named after the wizard's castle, which was razed after he left the island. The wizard's work here was the foundation for understanding planetary motion in our solar system. Visiting the island had been one of the items in my bucket list.
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#travel #astronomy