Last Thursday while I was busy cataloging books at the Open Hearth Foundation I was having a discussion with Tigre Cruz about a particular song that I had heard several years prior, right after he had been involved in the recording of it.  The song was Yeyo Chango by Oshun Gaia.  Here's the track on YouTube.

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My mother called me on my way to work ( Read more... )

Last night I was watching the Discovery Science Channel, which has become my new favorite background noise while chilling at home, and I watched a program about what it could take to get a manned mission to Mars. It was absolutely fascinating and the whole idea of terraforming Mars by helping produce a no-ozone depleting greenhouse effect just ( Read more... )

After watching all this Doctor Who and thinking about travel through space and time and all of that, it's got me thinking about the practicality of such things. I mean, think about it. Everything in the universe is spinning and moving and expanding and all of that, and that within larger spinning objects like galaxies are smaller spinning things ( Read more... )

Word has come from the BBC that the new season of Doctor Who will begin in March. Specific dates are not yet given, we'll find out two weeks out. From what I recall the sci-fi channel will be picking it up VERY SHORTLY thereafter. Given that they Sci-Fi channel does things in three month stints and Galactica just got back on mid-January, I ( Read more... )

Yesterday I spent all day just watching Doctor Who at home. Ran through the entirety of Season 2, and saw the scenes that were cut from the three episodes I hadn't watched on DVD since I bought it: "The Idiot's Lantern," "Love and Monsters" and "Fear Her ( Read more... )

As you probably know I bought the Season 2 Dr. Who DVD box set that came out on Tuesday. I've been going through the episodes in pretty rapid succession and there were some notes and speculations that I had that I'm just going to jot down here.

( Dr. Who Geekery With Spoilers )

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Tonight we get Episode 7 of Project Runway. I'm not as excited as I should be. Maybe it's that blueberry banana smoothie keeping me in the b-vitamin mellow mode. Who knows.

Anyways, here's all the pre-show speculation you can handle.

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