Thursday night I could have made grand advances on my work, but I decided it was important to take the night off and enjoy it with friends. Best Video had a band playing called La Tunda (see also) and they looked like they were really good. They certainly were--with great guitar work and really great drumming. They played only one cover, as far as ( Read more... )

This week I've had two unplanned evenings ( Read more... )

This evening, we skipped the "restaurants" on the resort, which had only given us disappointment the previous three nights, and went to the all-you-can-eat buffet. What a difference! The food was much better and many more choices, including decent Mexican food. Ironically, some of the dishes from the restaurants were available here as well. We ( Read more... )

Do you ever find a certain remix that just amazingly transforms a song into aural bliss, so you seek out the artist's Soundcloud and then spend 15 minutes clicking through 20 songs, each time hoping to hear another mix with that same magic, only to realize that, yes, all the other songs are utter crap?

This happens to me surprisingly often.

I don't know whether to groan or show a little respect to Drake for including a little vulgar math joke in his rap segment for Rihanna's "What's My Name?". I really didn't expect to suddenly hear

"The square root of 69 is 8 something."

I found a random email in my inbox which I don't believe is spam and instead was misaddressed to me. Or maybe it's one of those philosophical riddles on the way to enlightenment...

bonjour
l'accordeon est toujours disponible.

On Sunday I headed over to Southern Connecticut State University for the first time to attend a drum corps competition. My niece's drum corps was participating and so I wanted to see her perform. It's hard picking out people from afar, especially when they're in uniform with tall hats slumped on their heads, but I think I did manage to spot her in ( Read more... )

This weekend was our second weekend in the past month that was filled with social activities. It was so much this time, that it spilled into Monday ( Read more... )

We did all of our holiday shopping this weekend. We consciously decided to keep the presents rather small this year and so we've been getting books and scarves and other presents. Today we walked through downtown New Haven and stopped in the Yale Bookstore (= Barnes and Noble), where we encountered several gift ideas. In the bestseller's section ( Read more... )

Jean-Louis is over for dinner. Christian put on some music and Sarah MacLachlan's Ice Cream came on. I remarked that I don't get this song's popularity among lesbians. This led to Christian going off on an explanation on the whole subculture of lesbian love songs, which finished with ( Read more... )