Casa Jonsson

Nils & Araceli’s home on the web, est. 2003

New blogger

Laurie has joined the fray, thanks in part to the encouragement of her bloggerific husband, Mark. I get a little misty-eyed when a blogging convert walks the aisle, as it were. 

A towering figure falls

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Philip Johnson died Tuesday at the age of 98. His work was not universally loved, and I myself find it difficult to forgive him for producing The Crystal Cathedral (1980).
But Johnson did build my top two favorite Houston structures: The Williams Tower and Water Wall (1983) and the Bank of America Center […]

New old recordings

I’ve added three items to my music page. There are now performances from years past of works by Albinoni, J. S. Bach and Debussy. Enjoy! 

My life no longer has meaning

How will I go on? Dave Barry has thrown in the towel and will not be writing his Miami Herald column anymore. 

XML web services from the horse’s mouth

My buddy and former college roommate—who is now a Microsoft product unit manager working on Indigo—appears in a new Channel 9 video clip. If XML web services are new to you, and if you spend more time and effort expressing yourself to computers than to the human beings in your life (you know who you […]