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Thursday, January 30, 2003

Leonardo in New York CNN featured an exhibit at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings as though there were a shortage of reasons for people to wish they lived in New York.  Fortunately they have an online accompanyment that will give you snippets of the actual exhibit.  You may also get better resolution images of the drawings here. These days it seems even the most amazing things are cliched into a meaningless void of repetition but a glimpse of those images takes one way beyond the familiar image of the Mona Lisa (for which I won't even bother finding a URL).  Aaron Brown got caught watching tape instead of being his usual alert self. posted in [home], [prattle] 8:31:12 PM    comment [] Internet Werk, Conceiving Books I never realized it but that I surf the web is an aspect of my job has become more than apparent to me over the last few days.  I complained about it before but with a lack of other exciting developments I must expound.  It's 8:03 pm now and I've been here since 5:30 or so.  Checking mail takes time, of course, responding to this and that, investigating this and that, and soon it's 6:30 pm.  I chat with a friend on IM and soon it's 7:15 pm.  I hunt around for some work related stuff and now it's 8:00 pm.  A newly acquired friend in NY asked me a question which I will vary in asking.  A friend of hers was talking about Immortality by Milan Kundera, something along the lines of him wishing he'd written it.  I usually have too much respect for the authors of my favorite books to muster up the thoughts like that but in my version of the question I'd ask which books you've read have you wished you'd have the ability to conceive? People who know me will guess my choice right away: Helen Dewitt's The Last Samurai. posted in [home], [prattle] 8:13:50 PM    comment []

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