Word: weiss
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...because of that, most musicians come to the medium through their interest in computers. They do not necessarily know how to play an instrument. "You write a program and feed it to the computer, which reads it as if it were sheet music," explains 24-year-old Sam Ascher-Weiss, whose cover of Davis' "All Blues" appears on Kind of Bloop. "You see what it sounds like, mess around with it, and try it again." Ascher-Weiss is a chiptune anomaly: he is a jazz pianist and working musician in New York City. For Kind of Bloop, he recorded himself...
Before her 21-year-old daughter died in a sledding accident in early 2007, Pam Weiss had never logged on to Facebook. Back then, social-networking sites were used almost exclusively by the young. But she knew her daughter Amy Woolington, a UCLA student, had an account, so in her grief Weiss turned to Facebook to look for photos. She found what she was looking for and more. She was soon communicating with her daughter's many friends, sharing memories and even piecing together, through posts her daughter had written, a blueprint of things she had hoped...
Like a growing number of grieving relatives, Weiss tapped into one of the most powerful troves of memories available: a loved one's online presence. As people spend more time at keyboards, there's less being stored away in dusty attics for family and friends to hang on to. Letters have become e‑mails. Diaries have morphed into blogs. Photo albums have turned virtual. The pieces of our lives that we put online can feel as eternal as the Internet itself, but what happens to our virtual identity after we die? (Read "Your Facebook Relationship Status: It's Complicated...
...thing. No matter where you’re ranked, a lot of guys get upset, so to go and win All-American, I couldn’t have asked for a better ending to the season.”Although Caputo finished seventh as a sophomore, Harvard coach Jay Weiss saw Caputo’s return to All-American status—a feat that only four other Crimson grapplers have accomplished—as a tremendous step forward from his second-year campaign.“[Caputo] wrestled so well, just putting everything together,” Weiss said...
...here,” O’Connor said. “With injuries, we don’t have the depth that other teams have.” Despite a slew of setbacks that sidelined Jantzen, Caputo, rookie heavyweight Spencer Desena, and others, Crimson coach Jay Weiss took encouragement from the squad’s resilience all season. “When the injury bug hits us, some of our [team] goals are unattainable,” he said. “But we really kept focused on what we needed to do at the end of the year?...