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Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
Two great music shows
Watched two great music shows on Tivo tonight.
First there was Mike Scully's profile of NRBQ on A&E's Breakfast with the Arts, from last Sunday. It was a nice, deep profile of the band, with interview footage with the band and lots of comments from Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, and Bonnie Raitt. I like the way the show took the time to tell this band's long story right. I put in a Season Pass subscription to this show into my Tivo, looking forward to seeing more of it.
Then there's Beck's performance on Austin City Limits from a couple weeks ago. I'm still watching this, and it's loads of fun. Early on he does a nice solo of J.J. Cale's Magnolia and follows it with a great version of Hank's Lonesome Whistle Blues. Sometimes with the Tivo, you don't get around to watching these things for a while, and it sure makes you glad you captured them.
8:24:43 PM Permalink
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New online James Joyce project.
The University of Buffalo has just received funding to develop an online scholarly edition of James Joyce's Ulysses. The online edition will include all manuscripts from the writing of the book (about 11,000 pages) and a set of annotations graded by difficulty level. More information at: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/fast-execute.cgi/article-page.html?article=60560009 [David Harris' Science and Literature]
Oooh. This is almost unspeakably exciting!
The final "Digital Ulysses" will consist of two sections. The first will present all extant manuscripts of "Ulysses" in a genetic structure, which demonstrates the growth of the novel from the earliest notes to the first edition. The second section will present the 1922 text from two points of view: "reading the novel out of the geography of Dublin, and reading the geography of Dublin out of the novel."
8:08:51 PM Permalink
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A Gift
Here's a really purple paragraph from Peggy Noonan in this morning's Wall Street Journal:
A steady hand on the helm in high seas, a knowledge of where we must go and why, a resolve to achieve safe harbor. More and more this presidency is feeling like a gift.
Jeez, next she'll be saying W was ordained by God. But the gift, though, was from the Supreme Court to Bush.
11:53:49 AM Permalink
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SQLObject. SQLObject 0.2 is an object-relational mapper for Python.[From the Orient]
I'm skeptical, but the Python examples look very very interesting.
9:00:13 AM Permalink
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Why there are four gospels
Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.11.8 (Ante-Nicene Fathers): "It is not possible that the Gospels can be either more or fewer in number than they are. For, since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the Church is scattered throughout all the world, and the 'pillar and ground' of the Church is the Gospel and the spirit of life; it is fitting that she should have four pillars, breathing out immortality on every side, and vivifying men afresh. From which fact, it is evident that the Word, the Artificer of all, He that sitteth upon the cherubim, and contains all things, He who was manifested to men, has given us the Gospel under four aspects, but bound together by one Spirit."
Great site on old gospels, lots of good research, with texts in both English translations and the original Greek. One of the reasons the web is so great is that we get tons of stuff like this. [via goodshit]
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