Napa wine samplings

Sterling Vineyards

2011 Napa Sauvignon Blanc
2010 Napa Charonnay
2009 Napa Valley Melot
2009 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
2010 Cellar Club Malvasia Bianca

Sutter Home


Bubbly Pink Moscato
Among several others

Radio song

Heard on 88.9 FM KXPR out of Sacramento, CA:

Alan Hovhaness: Prelude and Quadruple Fugue Opus 128 - I Fiamminghi; Rudolf Werthen, conductor; Label: Telarc; Number: 80392 . Audio.

Laugh

Bumper sticker:

"Laugh at your problems. Everyone else does."

Memories linked to scents

Mud and humidity remind me of lake shores.

Cypress hedges remind me of the Grand Canyon.

Grill smoke reminds me of family get-togethers.

Every cell in your body is over 3 billion years old

http://www.quora.com/Life/Why-do-living-things-die

Radio songs

Heard on 89.3 FM KQED out of San Francisco, CA (rebroadcast out of North Highlands, CA):

Memphis, Tennessee-based The Memphis Horns' "Flame Out," from their 1992 album "Flame Out," on the Lucky Seven Records label. Great horns. :o)

Heard on 88.9 FM KXPR out of Sacramento, CA:

Gabriel Pierne: Concert Piece for harp & orchestra (Concertstucke) in G# major Opus 39 - French Radio and Television Orchestra; Jean Martinon, conductor; Lily Laskine, harp; Label: Erato; Number: 88069. Audio

Smart Car tow hooks

Saw tow hooks on the back of a Smart Car last week and wondered about various usages. People use them for storage racks, extra wheel, bumpers, and so forth.

Fall 2012 Electric Smart Car:
http://www.smartusa.com/models/electric-drive/environment.aspx

ACM Turing 100 event webcast

Had to cancel our physical attendance due to communication/scheduling issues, but they plan to webcast the event:

http://turing100.acm.org/index.cfm?p=webcast

Also, on Saturday, June 16, The Computer History Museum, www.computerhistory.org, invites all ACM Conference attendees to enjoy a free day at the museum: http://bit.ly/Iv98SV .

Life intervenes

Fixed a smashed window on our car today. $40 at Pick 'n Pull, a local auto dismantler, for a new driver-side window, plus about five hours to clean-up the glass, pull the part, install the part, wash/vacuum the car, and travel to/from these places. Also tested the car's emissions.

The opportunity allowed me to pull several other minor interior plastic parts, so, all-in-all, the car functions a bit better than before.

The person who smashed the window made off with about $10 in quarters we keep in our glove box to plug parking meters. ; o ) Otherwise, they left everything, including the food bars.

We had a very windy evening on Saturday, so we heard nothing. Our neighbor said a person rode up the driveway unannounced, asking for plastic bottles. She requested he leave immediately--so, possibly, the person came back out of spite or desperation? Seems like an opportunistic robbery.

I love walking around the cars at the auto dismantler; the crunch of gravel underfoot, the heat of the sun, the great variety of vehicles in all manor of disrepair, the parts lying strewn about, the voyeurism of finding hints of the previous owners' lives, tearing apart things without worry of breaking anything--educating myself in the process, and paying next-to-nothing for what amounts to a perfectly great part.

I have a mean red tan line, now, on my arms and neck; Dawn put some aloe on me . : o ) I do not burn easily, though, given my darker complexion, so, hopefully all will be well.

RHCP - Most frequent tour songs

Statistics on all RHCP tour songs played:

http://www.setlist.fm/stats/red-hot-chili-peppers-13d68969.html

Kind of bummed they do not seem to play more of their newer stuff on tour (only five songs at Bonnaroo), but I understand the need for balancing it out with their hits.

Edward Conard and Jon Stewart

Highly recommended.

Part 1
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-7-2012/exclusive---edward-conard-extended-interview-pt--1
Part 2
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-7-2012/exclusive---edward-conard-extended-interview-pt--2
Part 3
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-7-2012/exclusive---edward-conard-extended-interview-pt--3

Via: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/why-the-conard-interview-matters-or-why-the-democrats-need-karl-rove/258303/

Struck me as a very good back-and-forth. Also--neither seemed to know Sergey and Larry started Google at Stanford; Mr. Conard argued they (paraphrased) "probably came from Microsoft or somewhere."

Wind

Beautiful:

http://hint.fm/wind/

The Meaning of Death: How do we know someone is no longer alive?

http://io9.com/5915339/the-meaning-of-death-how-do-we-know-someone-is-no-longer-alive

Paul Krugman, Jedi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-AKruzmkk

29/31

: o )

LOVE IT!

Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci play the same woman at 31 and 29, respectively.
(Not Safe For Work — explicit lyrics. Also, Riki is a yeller.)
http://www.youtube.com/embed/H-gfxjAaZg0 

Via: http://thedailywh.at/2012/05/29/garfunkel-and-oates-music-video-of-the-day-2/

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