August 2010

Learn Italian in Song: Tu Vuo’ Fa’ o’ Talebano

August 22, 2010

“Gino the Chicken” was a phenomenon in Italy a few years ago. Today a reader comment on my translation of Tu Vuo’ Fa’ L’Americano directed me to YouTube, where I ran across Gino’s version of the song, directed at Osama bin Laden: You Want to Be a Taliban Tienni la barba longa chiù d’un metro, [...]

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Give!

August 22, 2010

I’m a longtime reader of the newsletters/blog of fellow Woodstock alum Jim Taylor – who has been a professional writer for far longer than I have, and is a very wise man. This week’s “Sharp Edges” column is about the disastrous floods in Pakistan, wondering Why the reluctance to help? He shares some likely correct [...]

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Learn India’s National Anthem

August 14, 2010

Woodstock School celebrates Indian Independence Day (August 15th) in a big way, starting with a flag raising and rousing choruses of the national anthem, Jana Gana Mana. I happened to attend school assembly the day a preparatory lesson was given for students new to India. It was up to me to uphold the honor of [...]

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Rossella, Then and Now

August 11, 2010

21 years ago today my daughter Rossella was born. Now she’s grown up into an amazing young woman. Happy birthday, Ross!

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Why Film Engineers?

August 7, 2010

^ The Perf Trio: Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg, and Roch Bourbonnais In the last three and a half years, working for Sun Microsystems and now Oracle, I have produced over 300 video assets, ranging in length from 10 minutes to 3 hours. Most of this material is software engineers talking about deeply technical topics. By [...]

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In the Garden

August 1, 2010

I spent yesterday afternoon in John & Jeffrey’s lovely, lush San Francisco garden, experimenting with the camera in my new iPhone 4. I’d say the results speak for themselves; I don’t think I’ll bother carrying around my old digital still camera anymore. Most of these were taken as macro-range closeups and further cropped afterwards. I [...]

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