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Learning German through pop
I like warbling along in badly accented German to pint-sized Hamburg songstress Annett Louisan. This is my wonky translation of 'Das Spiel' (The Game).
That you're not the same as you once were ( Read more... ) -
Cribbage excitemint
Well I have been very busy scaling and polishing my Cribbage Corner web site. It is looking alright! I have now got sections on cribbage rules, online cribbage, mobile phone cribbage, the 29 hand in cribbage, cribbage for Mac OS X and much, much more! That is what advertisers always say when in fact they mean "and much, much less ( Read more... ) -
More what you missed on Twitter
Modern lifestyle busy. No time. Communication reduced to 140-character blipverts. Follow @ keithlard on Twitter.- "Fed up with reading the news as it is always gloom, misery and disaster. Is there a newspaper featuring bunnies? Or just a big smiley face."
- "So, should I get a Lotus Elan S2 Turbo convertible in British Racing Green, or a ( Read more... )
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The BBC is ripping me off!
The BBC web site news story "Row over 'street in sky' estate" describes the notorious Robin Hood Gardens estate thus:
Robin Hood Gardens is a council housing complex in Poplar, London designed in the late 1960s by architects Alison and Peter Smithson and completed in 1972... It was intended as an example of the 'streets in the sky' concept: social ( Read more... ) -
A pedant is stalking my journal
I just got a comment on a three-year-old entry! Who loves me so much that they are obsessively reading back through my journal to find tiny errors that need correcting.
Ligeti's Volumina
The commenter says:
I don't think serialism was in any way involved in the composition of this piece, just because its not tonal does not render it serialist. ( Read more... ) -
Oh noes
Twitter is down (addickts everywhere are jonesing for their fix right now. Not me obviously ( Read more... )
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