Well, we’ll try this again – I wanted to have the index page display the flags and countries of visitors, but apparently all the plug-in can do is display flag and town/city, meaning a whole bunch of American flags, some Canadian, a fewBritish, and other countries’ flags in descending order. Yes, yes, I know that a good chunk of the “visitors” are either robots or spammers, but whats the hey, ya? I’d still really rather have just the one flag per country represented. Oh, well. I’m working on the next couple of entries for the travel journal (JEEZ, this is…
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Here’s what was under today’s fractalicious Google nameplate: http://www.google.com/images?q=gaston+julia I always enjoy the fun Google has with commemorating holidays and events with its nameplate graphics. I wonder who the designers are? A Musical Group I’d Really Like To Hear: Reptile Palace Orchestra This group contains one of the only Balkan rock cellists in the world – possibly THE only Balkan rock cellists: Seth Blair The band’s bio tries to explain it all, but I think I’ll have to buy a CD on faith. Seth Blair used to appear every year at Seattle’s Folk Life Festival, and my friends and I…
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I have this feeling that choir practice will be cancelled again tonight. They Who Must Be Obeyed (a loose conglomeration of older ladies who really run things) usually cancel if there’s a light dusting of snow (the “coverlet for a hobbit’s toes” kind). I can’t blame them – if one of them fell, it could be catastrophic. Our previous vicar was from Virginia and never did get hardened off to winter, ice, snow, and that sort of thing, but she’s moved back there now and no longer has to deal with the issue of “to cancel or not” when the…