The Kirsh Family Page

Greetings! This page is mostly here to provide a place to post pictures for the amusement of friends and relatives. If you don't know us, well, maybe you'll be amused anyway.

Our family consists of:

  • Maryanne Kirsh - 10 years old
  • Richard Kirsh - 14 years old
  • Daniel Kirsh - 17 years old
  • Maryfrances Kirsh (aka Merf) - somewhat older
  • David Kirsh - old enough to know better

    • You should be warned that what you see here is mostly stuff that's of interest to David, since he's the one who's done most of the work to get it here. We'd love to hear from you. You can click right here to make it happen.

    Original Content

    In the spring of 2005, we took a trip to China. Read David's personal journal (first eight of eleven days, so far) of the trip here. If you've already read it, you should start over at the beginning, because David keeps adding more annotations to the parts that have already been posted. Who knows, maybe you'll even think it was worth reading again :-). There are a few pictures linked into the text, with more coming eventually (but "eventually" can be a long time -- see next item (a little ironic, given the stated purpose of this site up at the top of this page, don't you think?)).

    The camera we used to take the 2000 and 2001 pictures broke, so we had a long dry spell with no new digital pictures. But in the spring of 2003 we took a vacation to the Southwest, which prompted us to buy a new camera. Eventually, we'll have some of those pictures up here.

    Family pictures from 2001
    Family pictures from 2000

    And now the formerly new stuff: Mandelbrot fractals (Zooming in works, but not the color map functions on the right-click menu. That stuff worked in Apple's Applet Runner where I developed it, but I don't have time to fix it for real browsers.)

    Obligatory Links
    Just about everyone who sets up a personal web page has a section of links to their favorite places, so why should we be an exception? In no particular order, here some of my favorites...

  • Want to know where the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station are? This page shows a global map with their locations displayed in real time. (It uses a Java applet, so you have to have Java enabled, and the download takes a while if you have a slow connection like we do.)
  • I've spent hours looking at aerial pictures from Microsoft's TerraServer site. That's partly because it's fascinating, and partly because it takes hours to zero in on a particular thing. Just try to find your own neighborhood! Here's ours.
  • If you have a Macintosh, and you want to get the most out of it, you should study Accelerate Your Mac. There's tons of information about the latest releases of various Mac software, people's experiences with various hardware add-ons, discussion forums, etc.
  • I've been interested in electronically generated music for years, and my current medium for playing with that is Csound, a program that generates digital sound files from what are essentially programs in a special-purpose language.

    • This site was last updated on Thursday, December 29, 2005.


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