Category: General
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Free to Be You And Me
I’m going back even further here. I think Free to Be You and Me must have been my first album. I remember it playing alongside Kenny Rogers (Lady was my mothers favorite song) and Casey Jones, which I’m a little surprised to find out is a Greatful Dead song because I thought I’d never heard…
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Arthur’s Theme
My sister used to play Arthur’s Theme by Christopher Cross on the clarinet and our enormous mutt, Sam would howl along with her at the bottom of the stairs. I need to figure out if it is possible to link to the music snippets on iTunes music store. Hearing this stuff again is fabulous, even…
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Rollerskating at church camp
Def Leppard’s Pour some sugar on me reminds me SO much of rollerskating at church camp. The next year they changed the music to all Christian bands… but that first year was excellent. I still remember the boy who I invited to the banquet — I was a tomboy and practically ran him over on…
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80s Music
I realized recently that what we remember musically from the 1980s is not at all universal. The cheese, the glam, the big hair might have been universal, but even if the same singer were popular in Europe and the US they probably released different songs to great acclaim. I started wanting to compile a playlist…
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Salsa at L’Atelier
I finally took pictures and videos of Salsa dancing at l’Atelier. These pictures were taken in November just before I left for India. I went again on Wednesday for the first time in a while. Normally on Wednesdays I have to take the bus and since I don’t do the first class anymore (it is…
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El Diab’litho Latino
The last two Fridays I met Christophe and his friends at El Diab’litho. It is a cool bar, friendlier than most in Paris, with a young crowed and good dancers. On Friday nights they have two courses, beginner and intermediate starting at 8h30 and 9h30 (verify times if you go because I’m not 100% sure).…
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France versus Chypre
Nous sommes alles voir France vs Chypre a la Stade de France. Hugo a pris les tres bonne places, on etait a dix metre de Zidane!
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Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site
Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site Mint, by Shawn Inman, the writer of ShortStat was released a few minutes ago. I can’t wait to take if for a spin, but for the moment the demo version is still requiring a login and password. Waiting to hear back from them.
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A List Apart
A List Apart has launched a new site design. They had a couple seconds of style-less content, and then boom, the new site was born. At first glance it is a 1000px wide, four column design based on ruby on rails. Take a look. New design. New structure. New server. New publishing system powered by…
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Discovering Your Tail
My Bichon has discovered his tail, or rather, from his persepective, someone has attached a pompom toy to his back. It has been there for fourteen months, how could he have missed such a goodie. Last night he ran around in circles, this lovely toy always just beyond reach. Faster and faster he whirled until…