by Jan Bear | May 26, 2005 | Uncategorized
I’ll be away from home until Sunday with uncertain Internet access. When I get back, I’ll have a report (of some kind) ion the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
by Jan Bear | May 11, 2005 | Uncategorized
Looking north along the Willamette River Originally uploaded by janbear. On the theory that a picture is worth a thousand words, I’m blogging 3,000 words tonight. At the time of its construction in 1915, some called the Oregon City Bridge one of the most...
by Jan Bear | May 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
I had to get a Windows computer for my court reporting software and didn’t have much budget left for Microsoft Word. I hard about the Open Office suite from an on-line acquaintance and have found it to be quite good for my uses — typing up steno notes. The...
by Jan Bear | May 8, 2005 | Uncategorized
I hope I don’t have to have watched an episode of the television show Joan of Arc to say that the New York Times DVD critic Kate Aurthur doesn’t seem to get it.I don’t mean she doesn’t get the show. As I said, I haven’t watched it and...
by Jan Bear | May 5, 2005 | Uncategorized
My friends and fellow choristers were futzing with a sticheron for vespers of next Tuesday, and asked me to have a hand at it. The problem was that the Greek version was too soft and the American version was too hard (or vice versa). That is, the Greek version sounded...