Eric Nehrlich, the New Release!

July 6, 2008

• Finally scrapped the home page and just pointed at my blog since I have an introductions post there now.

• Updated a couple details on the home page

• Updated the main page since I hadn't updated the basic layout since around 1994 (see this 1997 snapshot). Here's a link to my old home page, if you need that for some reason.
• Updated the chorus page with Messiah and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Le Rossignol.

• Updated the chorus page with Beethoven's Ninth.
• Also updated the main page with my new work information.

• Updated the chorus page with a couple more concerts from this season, including the Haydn Harmoniemesse and more stories from the chorus.

• I've moved this website from one server to another. It should theoretically be seamless and look the same, but if you come across any weird things that weren't there before, please let me know.

• Updated the chorus page with the first couple concerts from this season, including the recently completed Janacek Glagolitic Mass.
• In case anybody actually looks at this page, it should be obvious by now that the only updates I'm doing are on my blog page.

• Updated the chorus page with the Mahler 2 concert review as well as more quotes from MTT, and a picture of my certificate honoring five years of service in the chorus.

• Added a couple movies to my movie watching page, of which I highly recommend Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
• Updated the chorus page with the Fidelio concert review

• Updated the chorus page with the Beethoven Journey concert review and more tales of Michael.
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• Updated the chorus page with a pointer to Spark's profile of the chorus.
• Added a few more movies to my watched movie list
• And the blog continues to get updated infrequently when I have thoughts to put down and the time and energy to do so.

• Updated my chorus page with Getty's Young America and Annabel Lee
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• Added a couple more movies to my movie watching page
• Updated my chorus page with Faure's Requiem and an amusing story.
• And the regular blog updates
• I also changed all the links on this page to point to my blog here rather than on my home machine.

• Added my review of Return of the King to my movie watching page
• I've been updating my blog page pretty regularly if you're interested. Instructions on how to get an email update are available on my blog summary page.
• I also updated my chorus page with my impression of the Messiah.

• Combined the former weblog page and my former book review page into a new combined blog page. There's a couple subsections of the new page: rants, journal-type entries, and book reviews. There's also a summary of the directory structure. If you want an rss feed of the whole page (or any subset), just use index.rss instead of index.html in the URL.
• Fixed other links throughout the site to point to the new page.

• Updated the home and ramblings page to point to my infrequently updated blog. Oh, and put a new entry up there.
• Updated the chorus page with the new season, as well as some stories about MTT.
• Plus the usual book and movie updates.

• Updated the home page to reflect recent employment changes.
• Plus the usual book and movie updates.

• I went to see a fire show a couple nights ago.
• I saw a couple movies recently.
• And, as always, I'm reading books.

• I'm trying to update my recently read books page and my movies page on a regular basis, so just go visit those whenever.
• Removed the wacky dark background from my home page.
• Added the description and reviews of the Wagner Flying Dutchman performances

• I saw a bunch of movies recently.
• Updated my recently read book page.
• I'll be doing a road trip over the next few weeks.

• I took a walk through San Francisco this evening.

• Finally did a long-needed update to my book page, including a nifty new updated method of keeping track of my recently read books and updated movie and TV pages.

• The SF Chronicle did a feature article on the chorus, so I added that to my chorus page. I also added a report on the Schubert concert of this weekend. I also added a couple pictures to the main page, as well as a vignette from the concert.

• Added a couple more updates to this season's chorus page
• Also working on revamping my book page, but that's still in the works.

• Added a vignette from tonight's Messiah rehearsal to the Life in the Chorus page.

• The San Francisco Symphony December program featured an in-depth article on the chorus, featuring an interview with me! I managed to get a plug in for my web page on the chorus, of course.

• Pictures of my recent adventures in hair coloring
• A paean to the Best Secret Satan present ever!

• Added a description and reviews of the recent chorus performance of All Rise to my chorus page.

• I added a couple entries to my infrequently-updated weblog, featuring FlugTag, and Yuri Lane.
• Added a description and reviews of the recent chorus performance of the Britten War Requiem to my chorus page.
• Updated my recently read book page.

• Added a couple more books to my recently read book page.
• Put up an entry into the latest Viridian design contest.

• Finally completed my travelogue-type web page, chronicling my two-week vacation in New Zealand.

• Updated my recently read book page with three non-fiction books read on my recent vacation (webpage coming soon) and one fiction book.

• As long as I was updating everything, I decided to use blogger to help me make quick updates all the time. So I started my very own weblog. Not much on there yet. I don't know how often I'll update it. Probably only when I want to tell a cool story, or include a neat link, or something. I made an abortive attempt to do a pseudonymous weblog a while back, but I got bored. We'll see how long my interest holds up this time.

• Updated a bunch of links throughout the site, and noted where I was leaving broken links around.
• Updated my recently read book page for the first time in two years. Yowza!

• Added a report on the entire 2001-2002 season to my chorus page.

• Wrote a new rambling. I may even get around to updating the rest of the site at some point.

• Finally updated the chorus page, including a new review of our Carnegie Hall concert. Plus, Haydn's Creation, Mahler's 2nd, Mahler's 8th, Mozart's Requiem, and Sweeney Todd.
• More news from my company. We acquired another company, and closed $43 million in funding.

• Added a link to our new CD and some reviews on the chorus page. Also, added a quick story to the life in the chorus page. Plus, a couple pictures on the Carnegie Hall page. A page on Haydn's Creation will go up soon. As will a bunch of book reviews if I ever make the time.
• My company, Signature BioScience, was recently profiled in the Industry Standard. I haven't figured out where to link to it on my web page, so I'll leave the link here for now.

• Added a Life in the Chorus page, and tweaked the Carnegie tour page, adding links to Michael Wolverton's photos from the trip and to another review.

• Added a page describing our Mahler concert and our Carnegie Hall tour to my chorus page.
• Fixed my other domains, dorkbutt.com and perlick.org, to point back to my home page until I figure out what to do with them.

• Added the San Francisco Classical Voice review to my Stravinsky concert web page.

• Decided to make a chorus page, dedicated to my experiences with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Moved the Charlotte Church, American Mavericks, and El Nino pages there, and added pages on our recent Stravinsky concert and on life with MTT.

• Added a profile of John Adams to my El Nino page.

• Added book reviews of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, by Lawrence Lessig, and Newjack - Guarding Sing Sing, by Ted Conover, to my recently read book page, mostly because they're due back at the library today.

• Added a page describing my experience with the American premiere of El Nino, an oratorio by John Adams. I hope to add more pages about my singing experiences in the future.
• Re: the Penn and Teller show in the previous update, Penn wrote up his version online as well.

• Updated my front page to reflect my new job status.
• Partially updated by recently read book page, moving old reviews to my fiction and non-fiction pages as appropriate.
• Apropos of nothing, a description of a Penn and Teller show that I recently went to.

• I'm getting psyched for Burning Man. But I'm trying to get some more content for my website before I leave. So I added a couple book reviews: The Social Life of Information and Chasing Che to my recently read page.
• I also just got back from NIWeek, where my paper was declared the best in the Biomedical category.

• Added a gun control ramblings to my ramblings page.
• Significantly updated by recently read page with book reports on five new books, and adding the descriptions of four books to my soon-to-be-read descriptions.

• Added an account of Wednesday's concert featuring John Adams to my American Mavericks page. Thus concludes my Mavericks coverage. Guess I'll have to find something new to ramble about.

• Added an account of Saturday's concert featuring Steve Reich to my American Mavericks page.

• Added an account of last night's concert to my American Mavericks page.
• Updated my recently read page, including a review of Power and Prosperity, by Mancur Olson.

• Added a pointer to my Amazon wish list to my someday reading list page.
• Added an account of the American Mavericks festival currently being performed by the San Francisco Symphony. I've performed in a couple concerts and seen a couple others, and it's been a blast, so I wanted to write down my thoughts while they're still fresh.

  This series has been just too cool, being able to hear the works of these modern composers, and hear them talk about their works and their influences. It really adds to the enjoyment of the music, and contributes to a broader understanding of the music. Stuff I might not otherwise have given a chance I now enjoy.

  Plus, this sort of thing just doesn't happen very often. I kinda started to realize that yesterday. This sort of festival is maybe not a once-in-a-lifetime event, but it will be rare. So I'm going to try to make it to all of the performances I can.

• Added a page to recount my Charlotte Church experience. Including pictures my father grabbed from the concert tape.

• Moved my Bay to Breakers account to its own page, and added a few more pictures snagged from zing.com.

• Added a paragraph to my sports page about my Bay to Breakers experience.

• Added bits about atheism, truth and incentives to the unformed thoughts page.

• Added a bunch more book reviews to my recently read page.
• Added a ramble about politics to the ramblings page.
• Reorganized and added to the unformed thoughts page.

• Added to the Unformed thoughts page in my ramblings section.

• Added an Unformed thoughts page to my ramblings section.

• I just updated my ramblings page to include some e-mail ramblings I've been doing.
• I also made a start at updating my book page, both on my recently read page, and my previously read non-fiction and fiction pages.
• Lots of other little changes in the slow climb towards web page currency.

• I just wrote a letter to Jon Katz in response to his latest article. It covered enough issues that I've been thinking about recently that I figured I'd post it here too. Also included is the brief bout of correspondence I had with him in response.

• Flaming about the Littleton killings. This is an article I wrote for possible submission concerning the reasons for Americans needing a scapegoat to blame. Here is an article I posted to the Buffy newsgroup deriding the alleged sympathy demonstrated by pulling a new episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by the WB. I'm sure there will be more coming.

• Trying to get my web page in something resembling a presentable form. I tried a couple months ago to do this, but made the mistake of using Netscape Composer which cleverly decided that it knew what I wanted to do, and broke all of my links for me. So now I'm restarting from the zip file I had of my phone-home web page, and editing with emacs which will do exactly what I tell it, and no more, damn it. Theoretically, all e-mail addresses now refer to nehrlich@alum.mit.edu, and the more egregiously out of date links have been slashed. Ones that are still broken should be pointed out to the management.

• Quinzee goaded me into becoming a co-FAQ-keeper for the newsgroup alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer. So here's the FAQ, or it's available in 3 separate parts (1,2, or 3), mostly for posting purposes since apparently some people have wussy newsreaders.

• Re-updated the current book page.
• Resurrected the Ramblings of Eric Nehrlich page, adding in a couple random e-mails.
• Added a link to E-node on my CyberGroupie page.
• Added a list of my publications to my physics page.

August 4, 1997

• Added a bunch of stuff to my bookworm page, including a movie/TV page and a CDs page. I also added a page which has current and recently read books on it, relegating the other pages to "best of" status.
• Minor fixups of rotted links. I know there are a bunch I've missed but nobody ever browses my page so it doesn't really matter anyway (ah, the perils of running your own web server so you can find out just how unvisited your page is)
• Changed the background of the main page cuz the plaid was incredibly hard to read.

• Added a list of links to the web pages of other people I know at the prompting of my roommate, Lou.
• Just wanted to include a temporary pointer to the electronic birthday card my dad designed and sent to me - ah, isn't the electronic age wonderful?

• Made the background of the front page plaid. For a little, um, background on why I chose this, read this story.
• Re-connected The Draketooth Four-Seven to my Weird one page.
• Added a picture of me working in lab to the bottom of my physics page. I keep meaning to add more pictures but don't have a scanner handy - this picture came from a digital camera that we had in lab.

• Made the front page absolutely totally atrocious with a horrible background, ugly font colors, etc. Since I mainly use lynx, doesn't bother me, and I figure other people will let me know if they see it :).

• Updated the links that needed it, added some graphics to the front page, revised my e-mail address to be my Stanford one, revised the fiction book page format.

• When I have the time, I plan to write up a travelogue of the travails of driving over 22 hundred miles in 4 days from Wheaton, IL to San Francisco, CA, including the cornfields/flatlands of Iowa/Nebraska, the mountains and blizzard (in September!!) in Colorado, the salt flats/desert of Utah/Nevada, and the traffic jams of California. Yeah, in my copious free time I'll do that.

June 24, 1996

• Went through and updated all the old links that needed it. Added a few more random links that I've found in the past few months.

• Added a fairly rough resume to the offerings of my CyberGroupie page.

• Described on my Weird One page my experiences with Survival Research Laboratories (SRL), and their recent show in San Francisco.
• Removed my old "Amateur Philosopher" page since I haven't gotten around to adding new ramblings in a really long time.
• Added a link to some net dreck about the eighties on my random stuff page.

• Noted throughout that I'm now at Stanford University in my first year of physics graduate school. Haven't bothered to change my e-mail address to nehrlich@leland.stanford.edu yet though.
• Moved my cyber-politics stuff, what little of it I had, to my CyberGroupie page.
• Slightly updated my reading list page, to reflect my summer reading and my recent splurges in used bookstores.

June 25, 1995

• Updated my reading list page.
• Changed most appearances of my email address, nehrlich@athena.mit.edu, such that you can actually email me with it. Let me know if I missed some.

June 19, 1995

• Added a link to the Bastard Operator from Hell on my Weird One page.

June 17, 1995

• I added my running commentary as I read the debate over the Exon amendment i.e. the "Communications Decency Act" to my home page as well as a link to VTW.

May 31, 1995

• I added this page! Hey, what a good way to start this off - with a self-referential loopback!
• I also added the reference to Beemer's story, The Draketooth Four-Seven: Killing Time, on my Weird One page.

May 28, 1995

• Added the blurb and link to the petition home page on my main page.
• Admitted my bookworm page was hopelessly outdated but didn't remove it.
• Added a link to CyberWire Dispatch on my CyberGroupie page.
• Added a new story to my Perlick page.
• Added The Tick! home page to my Weird One page as well as noting that the Temptation of Saint Anthony was without a home.
• Added a couple new links to my list of links, the coolest being the MIT Hack Gallery.
• Oh yes, and added the Eric Nehrlich, when bored page.