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Monday, August 10th, 2009
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Super beautiful demonstration of the Pentatonic Scale by Bobby McFerrin. His last comment is especially interesting, that wherever in the world he tries this, the audience is able to sing the pentatonic ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
During regular days, I seldom stop and listen. The routine, all the other things to think about and still need to be done: "Nina, please go to bed. Now!"
Last night after a great meal and being on vacation even though it was way past her bedtime, we were hanging out ...
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Tim O'Reilly currently has 800K+ twitter followers. He liked my Wikipedia Papers idea and tweeted about it, after pinging me that I should update my blogger profile at O'Reilly with my twitter handle. Will do, it is @finnern.
You probably would like to know what is the O'Reilly factor of being ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
After I picked up Nina from her School, we picked up some bread, cold cuts and water for a hearty Vesper that we took on the big school yard playground across the street.
Little background to the bike: I got it from a garage sale, took the pedals off, so that ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
I was in San Francisco the other day and there it was, Stacey's bookstore had closed and was selling the inventory. I think that is a sad day, as this was also a place for the local community to come together.
If you look closer you can read some great quotes: ...
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
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Stumbled on a great banner this morning while looking for cheap flights to the mother country. On the Lufthansa's Top Offer page there was the banner to the right: $100 off your next booking.
Today is the July 5th and I overlooked the ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Christopher Allen took this picture while waiting for the Apple keynote today to be opened. Click on the picture to get the bigger picture.
What struck me is how everyone is looking the same, and in addition, I would totally fit in.
It may have been a Monday morning problem, ...
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
While Nina learns how to balance and coast on the walk-a-bike (bike where the pedals are taken off.) I took out my Unicycle today. Would be great to master staying in one place with it. Which is hard, as you have to go constantly back and forth, that my wheel ...
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
In the mid 80s there was a pasta scandal in Germany. No one trusted the ready made pastas in the shop anymore. During that time I once showcased how to use a Pasta Machine in a shop. We actually sold I think 16 of these machines that day. I was ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
Update: I should try this more often suggest improvements on my blog. I wrote and posted this entry on May 4th. Two days later Twitter changed their email notification. I am convinced that it was co-incidence and the change was in the works for a while. They also don't call ...
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