Wow. Must post Blogs more often. I’m getting soft…<\/p>\n
Had a great weekend, with lots and lots of singing. Other than Sunday morning at St. Thomas’s, it was all Pax Christi<\/a>, a Toronto Mennonite choir directed by my friend Stephanie Martin. We performed the Dream of Gerontius by Elgar, a fabulous, lush work rarely performed in Canada (although apparently one of the ‘big 4’ in England after Messiah and Elijah). The choir numbered 84, we had a decent-sized orchestra and great soloists, and basically rocked. Steph did a wonderful job, and was a total pleasure to sing for.<\/p>\n With the dress rehearsal Friday night and performances Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, guessing that I had very little free time this weekend would be correct. Saturday day was a nice break, and I slept in (read paper in bed with cat, yay!) and played games with Dave in the afternoon. Brain reset, basically.<\/p>\n I’ve found some great web sites recently. Here are some of my favorites: Wow. Must post Blogs more often. I’m getting soft… Had a great weekend, with lots and lots of singing. Other than Sunday morning at St. Thomas’s, it was all Pax Christi, a Toronto Mennonite choir directed by my friend Stephanie Martin. We performed the Dream of Gerontius by Elgar, a fabulous, lush work rarely performed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Feed magazine<\/a> associated with Suck.com, but less bitchy. Good stuff.
Slashdot<\/a>, a bit-head mag with articles on evil Microsoft and good Linux and the battle for freedom of music from the czars.
Kuro5hin<\/a>, another techie mag with slightly better production values but less content than Slashdot.
and, of course
Sherman’s Lagoon<\/a>, the ongoing cartoon about a man-eating shark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"