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Sunday, Jul 22 2007

Alonso

Two-time defending Formula One champion Fernando Alonso passed Felipe Massa of Ferrari on a slippery track late in the race Sunday to win the European Grand Prix in Nuerburg, Germany. The McLaren driver closed to within two points in the standings of leader Lewis Hamilton. The rookie was ninth, finishing out of the top three for the first time in 10 races this season. Massa was eight seconds behind in second place with Mark Webber third for Red Bull to equal his career best. Hamilton, who also drives for McLaren, leads Alonso 70-68. He started 10th on the grid following his crash in qualifying Saturday. Kimi Raikkonen, who started from the pole, pulled out in the 34th lap due to a problem with his Ferrari.

Saturday, Jul 21 2007

El noi de la mare

My mom was talking about this charming old Catalan song a few days ago. I did a search, and sure enough, I found it:

El Noi de la Mare

The melody is a 16th century traditional Catalan folk song that is a Carol. The literal translation of the title is "The Son of Mary." The first known arrangement for classical guitar is by Miguel Llobet (1878-1938.) This beautiful melodic song was a favorite of Spanish guitar Maestro Andres Segovia, and the sheet music was left open on Maestro Segovia's stand on the day of his passing, and may have been the last piece he played.

The particular rendering you can download here is by the Escolania (choir) de Montserrat, which is one of the oldest boys' choirs in Europe.

New desktop

I am experimenting with a new desktop wallpaper. I've played with different versions of this on my laptop for a couple months now. The selection of a wallpaper is not a process I take lightly. Usually, whatever I pick, sticks for years. You can count the desktops I've had in my lifetime with the fingers of one hand.

I am calling this wallpaper "Sexy Girl". The girl was designed by a good friend of mine, and excellent graphic artist, Todd, years ago. He gave it to me in a PSD file. I used that in a layer on top of a hi-res Mac dekstop to create this, playing with an additional hue layer to achieve the right color. I have versions in red, olive green, ligh and dark blue, and various shades of silver, with the girl in a variety of locations. Of course the OS interface colors have to be in sync - too much or too little contrast and it's distracting. This is pretty close to what I was looking for, clean and not too saturated, so it doesn't bother me.

If I do keep it, I will post the image and a few variations.

Albert's new desktop

Summer 07 Apartment Improvements

Here we go, finally got around to taking a few pics of my apartment improvements for this summer - courtesy of my parents - and posting them. Check out the cool contemporary mirror in my entry way. Click for more:

Cool contemporary mirror

SYTYCD

And on So You Think You Can Dance, Anya and Hok were eliminated yesterday. Both did great on their solos, but still, the other contestants are more versatile, so it was probaby an appropriate elimination.




Anya - So You Think You Can Dance Season 3

Hok - So You Think You Can Dance Season 3


The only thing I see as an issue is that only the Top 10 goes on tour, and these 2 were cut and they are both quite spectacular and crowd pleasers. I bet some sort of arrangement will be made, at least for Hok.

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