Hi folks. It’s that time again. Spring music making in Boston is almost upon us. I’ve been receiving a lot of mail lately about audition opportunities and upcoming concerts. Some of these I’ll repost individually later as the date of the concert approaches.
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That post is longer and will be coming up in the next day or two. But, this caught my attention as I was reading Boston.com and cleaning up my inbox today and I thought I’d share. Personally, I’m a little disappointed they didn’t get away with it.
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We managed to get all the way up to 54 degrees Fahrenheit or so today. But the temperature has already dropped down to 35 degrees now, and the low tonight will be all the way down to the teens. Tomorrow will be much colder, and starting tomorrow afternoon the chance of snow appears.
The continual adaptation of modern technology to the discovery of shipwrecks, especially historically significant shipwrecks, is something that fascinates me. So when I saw this story in Salon about the use of a 3-D sonar to reveal hidden features of a Civil War shipwreck off the coast of Texas, I just had to read it. And if that sort of thing interests you, go check it out, because I am going to babble about history geek stuff for a little while and you might as well understand what I am talking about.
Tonight I was hanging out with my friend Patricio, and we went over to Micro Center to do some shopping and browsing. Man, I love that store. Anyway, the course of the conversation led to me talking about my grandparents’ farm in Somerset, and also led to me talking about the big blizzard of 1978. That event is one that everyone around here remembers quite well. My family here in Massachusetts certainly experienced it, especially my grandparents and other family members who lived in Somerset, which was in the area where it hit the hardest, down near the Rhode Island border. I think my grandparents got about 30 inches of snow in less than 36 hours.
Yeah, the temperature today got almost up to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. That is just wrong. And I experienced a feeling of deja vu, which is appropriate, considering we went through exactly this sort of thing just over a year ago. It almost got up to 60, and I wore shorts that day and everything. And to make things even crazier, we might get snow tomorrow night and Wednesday.
Whee?
-Geoff
I already knew that the current President is a lot more science-friendly than his predecessor, but it turns out that there are some outright geeks who work for President Obama. Someone created a petition asking the government to build a Death Star, and managed to get enough signatures to warrant a response. In return, the White House response may have just won the Internet.
-Geoff
I’m sure it’s not unusual to dream of having a house with secret passages in it. I know that I had that dream all the time when I was a little girl. Apparently there are other people who did as well.
Now some of them actually live in them.
Regular readers around here know that Geoff and I are huge fans of The Bloggess. We also happen to think that Neil Gaiman is pretty awesome and that Amanda Palmer is pretty cool.
I signed up to work an event featuring Nick Flynn and Ty Burr and who was more surprised than me when Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman showed up? Bloggess? This is for you.
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Normally, cold does not affect me the way it affects many other people. It must be the French-Canadian side of me, because it sure isn’t the Portuguese side that loves cold. But tonight it is going to get really, really, really cold here in Greater Boston.
The Books are Taking Over... 