Learn Italian in Song: Il Campo Delle Lucciole

The Field of Fireflies*

Ligabue

Questa è la tua prossima fermatadove io t’aspetto gia da un po’dove sta tranquilla che non ci sarà nessuno

so che arriverai emozionata

e mi hai detto solo “perché no?”

voglio che mi balli una canzone nuova nuova

proprio qui

che si può

ritornello:

nel campo delle lucciole

ci siam gia detti tutto tacendo

nel campo delle lucciole

tutte le luci che vanno e vengono

nel campo delle lucciole

sotto la vigna a fare la pace con Dio

siamo proprio fuori dalla festa

ma la festa vera siamo noi

dicono che il premio lo prendiamo un’altra vita

voglio che ci ridi in questo posto

perché qui le stelle contano

e l’erba è solamente una parte del
prurito che tu hai che io ho

[ritornello]

dicon tutti che la vita è corta

basta che ti giri un attimo e capisci

che non riesci a farci stare tutto

ma questa è la tua prossima fermata

dove io ti aspetto un altro po’

dove se ti porti dietro te sarà perfetto

proprio qui che si può

[ritornello]

non va più via

This is your next stopwhere I’ve already been waiting for you for some timewhere you can relax because there will be no one

I know you will arrive excited

and you said only “Why not?”

I want you to dance a song for me new, new

right here

because you can

refrain:

In the field of fireflies

where we already said everything silently

In the field of fireflies

all the lights that come and go

In the field of fireflies

beneath the vine to make peace with God

We’re certainly crazy

but the real party is us

they say we’ll get the prize – another life

I want you to laugh here

because here the stars count

and the grass is only part of the
itch that you and I have

[refrain]

They all say that life is short

it’s enough that you turn around for a moment and you understand

that you can’t fit in everything

but this is your next stop

where I will await you a while longer

where if you bring [only] yourself it will be perfect

right here where we can

[refrain]

don’t go away again

* Lucciole is also slang for prostitutes, I suppose because they shine at night.if you find this useful and want more, let me know!

The OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit

I’m attending the OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit, held in Santa Cruz, CA, May 3-4, 2008. I’ve been working with and participating in various online communities for a long time, but I’m new to this one, and have a lot to learn about the people, technologies, history, present realities, and possible futures. This weekend is an excellent opportunity to start filling in some of those gaps.

^ top: Tim Cramer and Jim Walker

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CommunityOne: Keynote

After a busy weekend at the OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit in Santa Cruz, Lynn, Jeff, and I drove up California’s gorgeous Highway 1 to San Francisco to attend CommunityOne.

The keynote session was kicked off by Ian Murdock, who talked about open source, with help from Jonathan and illustrations from Hugh McLeod.

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This was all by way of introducing  opensolaris 2008.05.

Rich Green, Jim Hughes, and Jeff Bonwick went all Wile E. Coyote on some disk drives to prove the resilience of the ZFS file system (note the name on the anvil).

I spent most of the afternoon filming sessions (footage which will be publicly available as soon as I have time to edit it) and then… it was time to party!

Owlet Update

We now know that there are four owlets this year. I’m told this is well beyond the two-baby norm for Great Horned Owls, but the Broomfield owl pair are experienced parents who also have a good food source nearby: a colony of prairie dogs out at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitain Airport.

The two above are checking out an empty engineering office in BRM05. Sorry, kids – it’s already been promised to somebody as part of the Broomfield re-stack.

We Got Some Wild, Wild Life

Owls have been nesting on the Broomfield campus for some time, and every year (so I’m told) they have babies.

I guess it was past bedtime for baby owls.

The BRM courtyard is a protected area that attracts wildlife; I’ve seen rabbits in here as well.

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