Shipman's new stuff: recently added pages

Entries are from newest to oldest. Dates use the format YYYY-MM-DD. This is the only logical way to encode dates, imho, because the units are ordered largest to smallest. There's even an ANSI standard to that effect. I'll shut up now. I know when to shut up. No one has to tell me when to shut up. I'm not one of those people who has to be told when to shut up.

Note: I was a performer in all the concerts reviewed.

• Two bird-related projects are ongoing:
  • All my birdwatching field notes are online, at least in skeletal form. Lately I've been embedding photo links for some of the more interesting records (and the occasional decent photo): click on the thumbnail to view an image that is usually larger and generally better cropped and color-corrected. Eventually I hope to flesh out the older records with notes on behavior, more precise localities, and other details.
  • A union catalog of bird photos in phylogenetic order. The images in this catalog are only thumbnails, though generous ones (200x200).
• 2012-11-01: New Mexico Symphonic Chorus: Languages I've sung in.
• 2012-08-02: Concert review, Honegger, King David.
• 2012-04-22: Bodega Burger, Socorro, NM
• 2012-03-23: New Mexico Symphonic Chorus: schedule and reviews; also finalized my NMSO Chorus history page.
• 2012-01-15: Hewlett-Packard tightens the screws (1973)
• 2012-01-15: The day I wore a burqa
• 2012-01-15: The first computer program I ever ran (1966)
• 2011-04-15: General rework of my restaurant pages.
• 2011-04-13: On ways of teaching and learning.
• 2011-04-13: Two rules for writers.
• 2011-02-26: Concert review, Haydn, The Creation.
• 2010-12-04: Newly added to my lightweight literate programming examples page: mazeratty: A rattier maze generator
• 2010-12-04: Old Town Bistro, Socorro, NM: A review.
• 2010-11-06: Non-Euclidean carpentry
• 2010-06-12: Of cannons, Tchaikovsky, and a pregnant cheetah
• 2010-04-02: Completed a project to update the Christmas Bird Count Database, transferring it from 1998-era MySQL platform to a better-normalized Postgresql implementation built on top of a terrific Python-language object-relational mapper called SQLAlchemy.
• 2010-03-04: NMSO article: ``An underfunded jewel''
• 2010-02-28: Concert review, Bernstein, Chichester Psalms.
• 2010-01-23: Favorite fantasy authors: Ernest Bramah—Over a number of years, I typed in an entire 169-page book, out of some quixotic desire to keep it in print. You may freely download this book as a PDF.
• 2009-12-21: Concert review, Handel, Messiah.
• 2009-08-21: Dolphin-safe beef
• 2009-08-21: Mr. Gaar's perpetual motion machine
• 2009-07-18: Kree-kree!, or the hazards of live music: The show must go on, despite amorous waterfowl.
• 2009-07-17: Oryx: armed and dangerous
• 2009-03-25: Concert review, Beethoven, Missa Solemnis. Singing this is the hardest I've ever worked onstage.
• 2009-01-05: Restaurant review, `Pacific Grill, Truth or Consequences, NM'.
• To my story `The great rock removal', added a photo of my memento.
• 2008-10-11: Concert review, Mendelssohn, Elijah.
• 2008-04-14: Rendering bird field notes for the Web, a new literate programming example.
• 2007-11-21: Concert review, Walton, Belshazzar's Feast.
• 2007-11-09: Review of a new Socorro restaurant, the Stage Door Grill.
• 2007-10-25: rational.py: An example Python class. This is a small example of a Python class that supports calculations using rational numbers, written in lightweight literate programming style.
• 2007-09-17: Concert review, Beethoven, Symphony No. 9.
• 2007-05-22: Completed huey, a graphical application for color and font selection. See the specification and the complete code in lightweight literate programming exposition.
• 2007-05-12: Concert review, Gordon Getty, Plump Jack.
• 2007-04-21: Evidence that New Mexico Tech students still rock.
• 2007-03-15: Concert review, Rachmaninoff, The Bells.
• 2007-02-06: Concert review, Orff, Carmina Burana.
• 2006-10-03: Concert review, Berlioz, Te Deum.
• 2006-07-27: Finished my largest lightweight literate programming programming project to date: iband7: IBP banding data entry system. This is the 30-page specification. It has links to two literate programming documents, one with 160 pages (in PDF form) of literate Python, another with a package written in emacs LISP.
• The NMSO Chorus performed at the Bravo! Vail Valley (CO) Music Festival. See an article about how we're invited back next year.
• 2006-03-05: Reworked `Shipman's Unfamiliar Quotations' to use CSS. The old version was just one huge block of <pre>-formatted text.
• 2006-02-21: Concert review, Verdi, Requiem
• 2005-12-21: Concert review, Handel, Messiah and a preview of Miguel del Aguila's Time and Again Barelas.
• 2005-11-25: Finished putting up an entire book, Why don't we learn from history? by B.H. Liddell Hart.
• 2005-11-01: Concert review, Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms and a preview of Miguel del Aguila's Time and Again Barelas.
• 2005-06-01: Concert review, Ramírez, Missa Criolla.
• 2005-05-26: All the significant programs I've written in the past few months have been done in the literate programming style. This technique embeds the program's source code in its documentation. Included in this page are a dozen examples.
• 2005-04-15: Typed in one of my favorite ultra-short short stories from the mid-20th century, Nellthu by Anthony Boucher (1955).
• 2005-03-13: Concert review, Wagner/Liszt.
• 2005-03-06: Concert review, Poulenc, Stabat Mater and Boïto, Prologue to Mefistofele.
• 2005-02-02: A completely new toolbase for managing wild bird records.
• 2004-08-18: Mini-reviews of two low-end restaurants in Socorro: Roadrunner Truck Stop and Casa Cuisine.
• 2004-03-21: Concert review, Hindemith, Requiem: When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd.
• 2004-02-27: Put up `Shipman's favorite recipes', which grew out of my work in teaching XML.
• 2004-01-27: Reviews of three Middle Eastern restaurants in Albuquerque.
• 2004-01-21: Put up some photos of a Northern Pygmy-Owl on my birding photos page. Note the bloody bill.
• 2004-01-20: Scans of articles about my singing with the NMSO Chorus in last December's local concert from the two local papers, the Mountain Mail and El Defensor Chieftain.
• 2004-01-15: A page dedicated to my most influential music teachers and the importance of music in the public schools.
• 2004-01-07: An original short essay of mine from 1988: `Requiem for a microhabitat'. This is part of my series, In My Day: New Mexico Tech Student Life In The Late Sixties.
• 2003-12-30: A complete classic short-short SF story, `SF short-shorts: ``Solipsist'' by Fredric Brown'.
• 2003-12-18: Concert review, Monteverdi/Saint-Saëns Christmas program.
• 2003-10-13: Concert review, Berlioz, Romeo and Juliet.
• 2003-08-30: A postscript from a second visit to Ambrozia restaurant (scroll down).
• 2003-08-21: Pictures of a rare bird, a Rufous-backed Robin that showed up near San Antonio, NM, back in December 1989.
• 2003-08-13: Updates to two Albuquerque restaurant reviews, Scalo and Bien Shur.
• 2003-07-20: Scalo, one of my very favorite places in Albuquerque, has completely remade themselves, and here's a review of the new menu.
• 2003-06-15: Restaurant review for Ambrozia in Albuquerque's Old Town.
• 2003-06-13: Finished typing in an old journal article: The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard: Forty Years of Frustration by Robert Parkinson. This seminal article appeared in Computers and Automation magazine in 1972 and inspired me to convert to the Dvorak keyboard. It is also a useful commentary on human inertia.
• 2003-05-11: Concert review, selections from Berlioz, Les Troyens.
• 2003-04-23: The page for requesting Christmas Bird Count history reports has been updated to use the latest taxonomy from the Forty-third supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of North American Birds.
• 2003-03-21: Concert review, Berlioz, Damnation of Faust .
• 2003-01-08: Concert review, Handel, Messiah; see my NMSO page for the link.
• 2002-10-31: Restaurant review for Café Voila (country French). It closed after we went there, and has since reopened, but we haven't been back yet.
• 2002-10-28: Added Red Cross sidestroke form standards for swimmers.
• 2002-10-26: In my cleanroom software development pages, added a new section on verification using trace tables.
• 2002-09-23: Concert review, Beethoven, Symphony No. 9.
• 2002-09-22: Completely reorganized my Albuquerque restaurant page, moving category summaries to the next level down. Added new review of Artichoke Cafe.
• 2002-08-09: Updated my radical agriculture reading list: Fukuoka's important One-straw revolution is back in print.
• 2002-08-09: Review of the terrific Prairie Star in Bernalillo, NM. Also gave up trying to rank the top Albuquerque restaurants; they're all good.
• 2002-06-21: Added another meal's worth of commentary to the Terra Bistro review; added to my page for the Dune novels; and put up my 2002 scoring rubric for the Science Olympiad ``Sounds of Music'' event.
• 2002-05-21: Concert preview, NMSO Choral Spectacular.
• 2002-05-09: Concert review, Beethoven, Choral Fantasy.
• 2002-05-01: A month late, my wonderful new Theory of Everything.
• 2002-04-03: Review of Terra Bistro in Albuquerque.
• 2002-02-24: Concert review, Janacek, Glagolitic Mass.
• 2002-02-24: Reworked my top choices on the Albuquerque restaurant page, with a new review of Restaurant Jennifer James.
• 2001-10-24: Concert review, Mozart, Great Mass.
• 2001-09-29: Review of Bien Shur Restaurant on the north side of Albuquerque.
• 2001-09-01: Review of La Piazza bistro in Albuquerque.
• 2001-08-12: Complete dates and repertoire for the upcoming NM Symphony Chorus season.
• 2001-07-09: Review of El Norteño on my Albuquerque restaurants page.
• 2001-06-20: Documentation of rarities for the 101st Christmas Bird Count.
• 2001-06-03: Review of Cafe Miche in Albuquerque.
• 2001-05-26: For users of the Christmas Bird Count six-letter code system, there is now a page for looking up codes.
• 2001-05-06: Put up my collected neologisms.
• 2001-05-06: A page of books on radical agriculture.
• 2001-04-22: Concert review, Fauré, Requiem.
• 2001-04-08: Concert review, Bach, Mass in B Minor.
• 2001-04-08: Various food updates:
  • Update on Rancho de Chimayó, Chimayó, NM
  • New review of El Paragua, Española, NM
  • Restructured my New Mexico statewide restaurants page by city.
  • Added a link from my page about Seasons in Albuquerque to their official homepage.
  • The Blue Springs, formerly of Mountainair, NM, has been closed for some time.
• 2001-01-02: Reviewed a new Albuquerque restaurant, Cafe Bodega, which immediately made my short list of great Albuquerque restaurants.
• 2000-12-18: Concert review, Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky and Beethoven, Symphony No. 5.
• 2000-11-08: Concert review, Bernstein, Chichester Psalms and Verdi, Te Deum.
• 2000-07-26: Updates to the Albuquerque restaurant page: rated Silk Road at three stars; added a pointer to Ma's on San Pedro until I can get there to try it; and dropped the Yen Ching branch on 4th street due to legal and publicity problems---but the original Yen Ching at Wyoming and Montgomery is still good as far as I know.
• 2000-05-21: Review of a new restaurant, Silk Road and an update on Seasons, both in Albuquerque.
• 2000-05-04: New page for compilers of Christmas Bird Counts in New Mexico.
• 2000-05-02: My page on organizational behavior and William Livingston's Have Fun at Work has a link to Livingston's new Front End site.
• 2000-05-02: Review of a great dim sum restaurant, Beijing Palace.
• 2000-04-28: Re-ordered the list of my top five Albuquerque restaurants, with new reviews of Chef du Jour and Cafe Spoleto.
• 2000-04-24: Concert review, Great opera choruses.
• 2000-04-04: Added a new site map script that shows the structure of the whole site.
• 2000-02-23: Concert review, world premiere of Ray Shattenkirk's American Icons.
• 2000-01-16: Added two new Socorro (NM) restaurant reviews: Copa Cabana (closed July 2000) and Socorro Springs Brewery. Moved Eat at Dan's to a new Gone but Not Forgotten section (alas), and added a short reminiscence of an ancient Socorro place called La Casita on my Socorro restaurant page.
• 2000-01-13: Added Chow's Chinese Bistro to the Albuquerque restaurant page; three stars.
• 2000-01-03: Restaurant review, Chef du Jour in Albuquerque.
• 1999-10-18: Concert review, Beethoven, Missa Solemnis.
• 1999-09-05: Added a long-overdue page on science fiction author Walter Jon Williams.
• 1999-09-05: Completely reworked the play-aids for the Mayfair ``crayon train games'' to include the new edition of Empire Builder and the new game of India Rails.
• 1999-06-24: I was quoted in a New York Times article on pocket protectors.
• 1999-05-30: Reviews of fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay.
• 1999-05-07: Added a list of my favorite books on software engineering. Some of the material was moved there from my human factors reading list, but I also added some new material to that list.
• 1999-03-28: Concert review, Bach, St. John Passion.
• 1999-02-07: Christmas Bird Count fans can now generate a report showing the complete history of any single count circle. See `Christmas Bird Count: Circle history report request'.
• 1999-01-19: Concert review, Verdi, Four Sacred Pieces.
• 1999-01-02: Mini-reviews of two more concerts, Walton, Belshazzar's Feast and Poulenc, Gloria.
• 1998-10-25: Added information on ergonomics and re-engineering the keyboard.
• 1998-10-20: Added the upcoming year to my music page, including a review of our first concert.
• 1998-09-20: Updated my Nerd Culture page to conform to my current set of office supply fetishes.
• 1998-05-22: Concert review, Sir William Walton, Belshazzar's Feast, and a brief restaurant update on Seasons (Albuquerque).
• Review of New Mexico Tech's spring musical, South Pacific.
• 1998-04-15: Concert review, Beethoven, Symphony No. 9.
• 1998-03-28: The Christmas Bird Count Database Project is done. See `The Christmas Bird Count database project'.

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