Last night, at home by myself for a change, I discovered that YouTube has videos of my favorite musicians! I watched Joao Gilberto and Bill Evans and Stan Getz just before he died and Joe Pass and such ( Read more... )

OHHHHHHhhhhh I'm so demolished. Spent the ENTIRE day flogging through the knee-deep snow, eyes asquint against the horizontal sleet. Thunder and lightning! Basketball against a New Zealander who was more athletic than me but had 3% less heart. Lost. Beat all the Chinese-Canadians though. Now I have work to do, and spent half the morning on a ( Read more... )

Everyone in Montreal is going to write about the same thing today. I woke up at six, stumbled around getting dressed in the dark, somnolently put on my coat, lugged my hefty laptop bag down the stairs, hip-checked the door... and emerged into a howling wilderness of whirling snow. Within seconds, I was literally up to my knees in powder, flailing ( Read more... )

Though most of them aren’t much to write about ( Read more... )

So apparently Mark Twain once began a letter by saying, "Sorry this letter is so long - I didn't have much time." I like that.

I think many intelligent people fall into the following logical trap ( Read more... )

If someone offered to make me a nice, bound hard-copy of my livejournal for $20, I would totally do it. And a good programmer could probably script it to be converted into a formatted text document automatically, since LJ is so open-source. I wonder how big the demand would be...

"I want you to succeed, but not in the stereotypical way success is defined. Actually, I don't care if you succeed or not - just have fun." Tamar is talking about how lovers should support one another. I'm happy that our love isn't completely unconditional, odd as that sounds. Just saw this movie called Odette Toulemonde, a Belgian/French flick ( Read more... )

It's raining cats and dogs. A parrot is trying to nuzzle with me so I'm typing one-handed. Tamar is squabbling with her mom about a burnt pot.

Tamar's family has been here all weekend. We went apple picking and I ate fourteen. Tamar and her mom have been amiably arguing all day. Tamar just said "I don't tie myself to any land. I don't believe in land-ties. Unless I own it. I think too many people die for land. That's why if we ever join a war, Jakob and I are moving up to Nunavut." so ( Read more... )