oh another February 29... a slit in the Gregorian calendar
you would've think that Leap Year would've been the word of the day but not, here anyway Dictionary.com definition of a Leap Year:
"A year that contains 366 days, with February 29 as an additional day: occurring in years whose last two digits are evenly divisible by four, except for centenary years not divisible by 400."
the only movie i have seen so far out of 5 nominated for Oscar for the best picture is No Country for Old Men here an earlier review
and no wonder i went to watch it the day it came out... a combination of the always-witty Coen brothers with extraordinary talented spanish actor Javier Bardem cannot go wrong
so tonight, it won best director(s) - two in this case best picture and best secondary actor Javier Bardem
2 great personal surprises were Tilda Swinton for best supporting actress i know her very well since she's the leading actress of one bizarre film i love Orlando
i am really curious about La Vie en Rose of the life of Edith Piaf specially since this lovely french actress Marion Cotillard won the Oscar for best leading actress
a dusty evening cleaning finally a little my house while watching the Oscars on the TV not bad ending for a rainy Sunday
now i have yet another 10 or 15 films to watch ah sigh! there's more movies than time...
and an early start for me 8.15 am and me, already munching down some pancakes and doing some Hausaufgabe at a local Denny's
nothing like an early breakfast on a raining morning with some pancakes on the side sidewalk-staring drops falling hot coffee and pretending to read... die deutsche Sprache
das Erste-Hilfe-Mittel First-Aid kit Botiquín de Primeros Auxilios
the more you cook the more chances of getting burned this past weekend, a too hot casserole
the best home-made remedy that i have used since my childhood is my grandmother's, Mami Pera, recipe: rinse with cold running water the burn and then apply
das Eiweiß egg white la clara del huevo
it is nourishing... and refreshing! also good for
der Kratzer some scratches pequeños rasguños
and to stop the bleeding from a
Messerschnitt mit Küchenmessern cut with a kitchen knife cortadas con cuchillo de cocina
die sentimental Streberin the sentimental geek la nerd sentimental
that would be me technology and objects drive me to emotional tears the magnificence of object creation so today i thought that...
probably the most caressed object in this modern times is... (keep on reading please)
'cause… we have all hold one with a warm or cold hand? and there is a high very high chance that your are caressing or holding one just right now!!
beacause Haven't we all grabbed one passionately? With high hopes and or with impatience? To check if we got that expected e-mail, or to confirm if the deposit went through in our electronic bank account
We have treated these objects fondly! but also there are times when we want to smash them against a table or a wall, or just step on them… especially when it comes to download large files or if the little ball got hairy, dusty or too stuck with pieces of french fries there is always that chance
it seem to me that there is at least one in every house-hold And in the offices they reproduce freely, and in large amounts! Yeah, like rats…
Such an common object victim of nerdy virtual mouse & cat jokes certainly a controversial object that millions of humans touch every day probably way more than you touch your own body and surely more than most people touch their husbands or wives
so for today I am a sentimental geek Who wrote this little Ode to the mouse
inspired by my own curiosity today i asked myself... and who invented the mouse? probably you couldn't care less but here i tell you
it was this very clever man Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart who created the first virtual son of a rat just a little later the hordes of cyber mice came to life!
Here the 1st computer mouse ever! in a little wooden box... and this is what i call a prototype!
hope today if you read this you stroke softly and carefully your rolling, fun, little mousy-pal
collections my sound-soulful accumulations my petit musical plastic agglomeration
i roughly counted tonight
i own about - 600 cds (originals) - 200 vinyl records mostly LPs but some 45's too
when i moved to USA i left my about - 70 tapes and in México
apparently an advocate of the recording industry am i but mostly a soulful aficionado of the notes the tempos and the silences that rhapsody-me from netherworlds to utopia faster than an instant
cassandra wilson's sankofa a sample among what i have if not this, then what?
hören Sie bitte please listen escuche Usted por favor
it took me a while to figure out this code to feed dynamically a combo box with a query on SQL (another language i am trying to learn) and well, my boss "spoon-feed" me some of the code
but it is just so nice when things start to make sense
here here the simple html for a combo box is
-select- -option value ="a"-a-/option- -option value ="b"-b-/option- -option value ="c"-c-/option- -/select-
to create this
but the dynamic one with ColdFusion is -cfoutput- -select- -cfloop query = "getAgencyNames"- -option value ="nada"-#agencyName#-br--/option--/cfloop- -/select- -/cfoutput-
notice i had to replace the opening and closing brackets (<, >) for - to be able to display the html here
now i just have to study for my Deutsch Test am Dienstag don't know what is harder if learning a programming language or German seems that i am setting myself for failure with the choices of learning
wish me luck i am going to need it! with these choices...
Oh that little thing called LOVE in February 14 we celebrate the romantic kind of love That one that brings us beautiful moments in the clouds But sometimes followed by intense sorrow and disappointment
But such is life, and even more capricious than life is romantic love it sweeps you to the sky and the drops you strong on the floor
Valentine's Day is an old old tradition coming all the way from Europe from the Romans and getting more popular during the Middle Ages In 496 A.D. Pope Gelasius set aside February 14 to honour St. Valentine and then it became official even Shakespeare mentioned it, by Ophelia in Hamlet "Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's Day", she said To her attemptive lunatic lover Hamlet And now and since the roman times, lovers have been handing chocolates And flowers to their beloved ones
But as usual I like the darker side of things I have always find the date a little overwhelming Borderlining ridiculous, maybe I am just a little "sour" But I have always been like that…
For me the story that fits perfectly this day Is the one of Charlie Brown with the little red-hair girl Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown Oh dear Charlie Brown with his collection of disappointments and failures Always reminds us that tragedy can fun Here a clip of one of my Favorite episodes Poor Charlie, always hopeful, waiting for a card from the cute little red hair girl Again, disappointed, yet… he got at least a used Valentine's
And here how Lucy deals with The Tortures of a Memory of a Lost Love hilarious! and good to see I am not the only neurotic woman around here
So regardless of your love state Regardless of Hamlet and Ophelia's non-existent love story And the jealousy of Charlie Brown while seeing Snoopy dancing with the little red hair girl
I hope your sweetheart gives you a big kiss today! or a little remainder of love... and that you have a lovely Valentine's Day!
and the German phrase of the day:
"Schön ist eigentlich alles, was man mit Liebe betrachtet" "Beautiful is everything, which is regarded with love" -Christian Morgenstern
fact 1:mogwai is one of my favorite bands of all times fact 2: i respect iggy pop (even though i am not a big fan...) fact 3: mogwai used an iggy interview as intro to this superb song punk rock fact 4: a good man synchronized it all and uploaded it on youtube fact 5: if you punk or if you rock (verb form) then watch, and read below
"...I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dillitante's and ah... and ah... heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it and give everything they have to it and it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt, it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism and everything that's rotten about rock'n'roll.
I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure... I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius, myself.
And that music is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control and ah... when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever felt like that? When you just couldn't feel anything and you didn't want to either. You know? Like that? Do you understand what I'm saying sir?..."
-Iggy Pop
and for avid listeners of what i think is the most beautiful music in the world here another Mogwai song
"...'cause this music can put a human being in a trance-like state, and deprive them of the sneaking feeling of existing, 'cause music is bigger than words and wider than pictures. If someone said that Mogwai are the stars, I would not object. If the stars had a sound, it would sound like this. The punishment for these solemn words can be hard, can blood boil like this, at the sound of a noisy tape that I've heard? I know one thing, on Saturday, the skies will crumble together, or something, with a huge bang, to fit into the tape."
so if you are one and if you love books here is a lovely recommendation by miss d
i am tired and a little more sick today and not very animated lugubrious light thru the late window and an OFF TV claiming for me... yet i cannot stop turning pages seems that books about books are just delicious! distilling passion for literature in a funny and very clever way i would say almost like adult-fantasy let your soul get lost on the pages of Bookholm and other wonderful realms it is like being a kid again... and the illustrations are great do not miss it! i go back to mine now...
ahhh but i cannot open my mouth over a centimeter i cannot chew anything yet, my left cheek is very swollen and certainly cannot eat too much fat or spicy foods even less pizza after this oral surgery
but i would give away my "kingdom of nothingness" for a nice warm, crunchy, delicious piece of
Kiyo, the fish finally recovering from Popeye to my surprise and relief he spent many days on a "hospital tank" under a 150 watts lamps and 2 antibiotics Maracyn-Two and CopperSafe
i put a thermometer and he adopted it as his home
but today i finally set him up in a new 2 gallon tank with heather, some nice rocks a cave, and a pirate skull it seems that mister Kiyo after surviving strong sickness has decided to sail to more dangerous adventures now he lives a life on the edge he's Kiyo, der Korsar, der Pirat Kiyo, el corsario, el Pirata! beware... and my smiling final again after a long week and another one to come as wisdom teeth surgery awaits for me this coming Wednesday... to confess i just don't want to deal with the whole thing but i guess it is not option anymore here, to cheer-up a bit this is not a love song from the wonderful album Nouvelle Vague just covers of post-punks classic songs in bossa nova versions this one originally by Public Image Ltd. who remembers them? i guess i did tonight
