Chris HEATH: the lighter side

Entertainment in Ann Arbor

The list of Ann Arbor movies.
There's lots going on in Ann Arbor! Check out the ArborWeb!
U of M has a great School of Music, which puts on a wide selection of shows.
The UMGASS (University of Michigan Gilbert And Sullivan Society) stage two musicals a year. G & S musicals are my personal favorite!
The University Musical Society put on a large selection of concerts in the fall and winter terms.
Each summer, the UMS Choral Union sponsors the Annual Summer Sings. This year, in the evenings of July 12, 19, and 26, the choral works Stravinsky's "Symphony of Psalms", Bach's "Magnificat", and Dvorak's "Requiem" will brought up to performance standard in 2.5 hours. The ArborWeb usually has the details.

Get the accurate time from the U.S. Naval Observatory.
Get a British-style crossword from The Guardian. I like the Quiptic ones.
Use the Webster's dictionary on-line. (Hmm... is this the right place for this link? See what you think!)

Here are a couple of Java programs I've had fun writing. I hope you have fun playing with them!

Othello (also known as Reversi) is a popular two player board game. Here you can play against the computer.
Have you ever got bored while solving sliding puzzles? Do you find that the moves become boring and routine? Well, this sliding puzzle is not at all like that. (Warning: it is HARD! If you prefer a simple sliding puzzle, try this one.)

Here is a MIDI file that I made. It is of the last track ("Final Fantasy") of the CD "Phantasmagoria".

Constructing models of regular and semi-regular solids (eg icosahedron, truncated icosahedron). My most complicated one to date is the "5 cubes in a dodecahedron". At one stage, I had ideas of making a set of 4-dimensional solids. However I am now balking at the idea of making a 120-cell (where each cell is a dodecahedron)!
Hiking — not much time for it these days, but when it gets warmer here, I might venture outside a bit more.
Choir singing. In 1995 and 1996 I belonged to the Campus Cantoris, an almost-all-comer's choir at the University of Auckland. Last year I was a member of the University of Michigan Arts Chorale, which was heaps of fun! I'll join it again as soon as I have some spare time in my schedule.
I have left my violin back in New Zealand - an era past, so to speak. But when I was in Auckland, I would occasionally pull the old violin out of the cupboard and read through some Bach solo partitas. No 3 is definitely my favourite.

Last changed 25 June 1999