Posted in diversions on May 9th, 2008
It isn’t often that I add a new artist to my music collection, but thanks to Ted, and a generous birthday gift, I have not only added Loreena McKennitt to my collection, I’ve discovered a new favorite artist. Her music is hard to describe except to say that it beautifully combines Celtic origins with poetry [...]
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Posted in diversions, family on Mar 13th, 2008
I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don’t know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don’t know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.
I look at the world and [...]
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Posted in diversions on Mar 9th, 2008
Having grown up listening to The Beatles I am hugely pleased by the “McCartney reported inks deal with Apple” headline over at Ars Technica. No time frame yet of when the catalog will appear on iTunes, but I would suspect this will make a great “one more thing” bit at this years WWDC.
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Posted in diversions on Mar 7th, 2008
Last evening Sibylle and I attended a piano recital at Park University in Parkville, Missouri. The recital was part of a three-day piano festival that the university’s International School of Music is hosting this week. Sibylle had spent the afternoon attending a piano master class, and after dinner out, we returned to the [...]
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