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2010 European Tour - Fri 10/01
Took enormous ammount of time to get out, then M forgot to leave check for builder. Mad dash back and then forever to leave envelope. Can't figure out how to roll down car windows. Many moms w/brollys hauling kids about in the rain ( Read more... ) -
Female, redhead, atheist prime minister
And that's not all:
"Australia has had 26 previous prime ministers - mostly middle-class married white men. Gillard breaks that mould emphatically: a foreign-born (she is the Welsh-born daughter of working-class migrants), unmarried, childless woman of 48 whose nominal political home is the far left. She's an atheist, whereas Rudd thanked God in ( Read more... ) -
Overheard, depressing
A couple of tables behind me at Diva's was a chatterbox whose friend didn't get a word in edgewise. The depressing part was his litany of woe is pretty much the same as mine, but he's faced up to it and is addressing it, no matter how unsuccessfully. Oy!!!
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Successful fiddle gig
Hurrah! Played for, apparently, a couple hours (can that really be? Nahhhh...) at a house part contra dance, and the attendees were very kind with their praises. One sincere young man came up and blurted "You're AWESOME!!!", but he might have had one too many.
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Current books: "The Great Derangment", Matt Taibbi
Current book: "The Great Derangment", Matt Taibbi
Books this week:
"Dreaming in Code" -- some Salon© guy -- it shore ain't no "The Soul of a New Machine"
"The Year of Magical Thinking" -Joan Didion -- reflections on a sudden death.
"The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, & religion at the Twilight of the ( Read more... ) -
eBay international -wth?
What the heck? The people who want my eBay offerings are all in Turkey, France, and most of all, from Australia.
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James Tiptree Jr. = Monumental pain in the ass. +Leguin & Russ
Just read a really outstanding biography by Julie Phillips of "James Tiptree Jr", AKA Alice Sheldon. I remember when Tiptree burst onto the SF world, although I think I may have bought "10,000 Light Years From Home" on the basis of the cover, which she hated.
Sheldon was a fascinating personality, but for me she DID come under that category of " ( Read more... ) -
The coolest thing I've read in a while
"The same genes build a caterpillar and a butterfly, the difference is in the hormonal environment that selects which genes will be active."
from Pharyngula
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Ballard Celtic slow-jam
Well, I enjoyed this quite a bit, although it was more like "Celtic Sight-Reading Practice" than a "jam" literally: still, good practice and nice people. Oh, and free soup! Huzzah!
At the very least, another list of favorites to practice.
Played fiddle, and a little harp. OKAY, claves too.
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Seven Days Without Coffee
It's DAY 7 of the coffee avoidance regimen, and although the very second I started typing this my shoulder (the proximate reason for avoiding the bean) started twinging, I think I'll keep "on the wagon"-- my suspicion is that coffee, at least too much of it, hinders the body's repair mechanisms.
So, sadly, it will have to go on the list of " ( Read more... )