Author: johayek
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my 2nd Christmas Eve movie: wild tales – (in German) jeder dreht mal durch – (in Spanish) relatos salvajes (Argentina 2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3011894 http://www.yorck.de/yorckplus/veranstaltungen/show/1078 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Almodóvar – he is on the board of producers of this film; it’s actually his style of film, but the episodes made up from Argentinian news / material
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“Lady and Bird” – a collaboration between the singer/songwriter Keren Ann and Barði Jóhannson, the lead singer of the Icelandic band Bang Gang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_and_Bird http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0000CGEB6 – Album: Lady & Bird (2003) http://www.amazon.de/dp/B002GNBMTW – Album: La Ballade de Lady & Bird (2009)
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first time to connect something through an “S/P DIF” (Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format) fibre optic cable with TOSLINK connectors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF http://www.logitech.com/en-roeu/product/speaker-system-z906 – a Logitech “Surround Sound Speakers” system (Z906) http://www.logitech.com/assets/36226/z906620-002920006ug403.pdf – the Z906’s User’s Guide a Samsung SmartTV Being connected to both a Mac mini and also the SmartTV, I now have to choose explicitly on the “sound system”, which input to use.
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DMOZ.org – “the Open Directory Project” – they are so useful for finding “the right” (hierarchical) categories
https://www.curlie.org What would I do without these categories??? Today I used it for categorising quite some books.
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Avishai Cohen – Dark Nights – I Fall In Love Too Easily (Feat. Keren Ann & Gerald Clayton) – YouTube
Avishai Cohen – Dark Nights – I Fall In Love Too Easily (Feat. Keren Ann & Gerald Clayton) via Avishai Cohen – Dark Nights – I Fall In Love Too Easily (Feat. Keren Ann & Gerald Clayton) – YouTube.
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Keren Ann Zeidel (born 10 March 1974 in Caesarea, Israel) is a singer, songwriter, composer, producer and engineer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keren_Ann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hrURzVLktI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) I got aware of her on 2014-12-22, when I browsed through a Facebook friend’s timeline. I 1st heard her version of the marvelous Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. http://www.youtube.com/v/7hrURzVLktI
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“everything you buy is rubbish” – well, that’s a little exaggerated, but still …
http://everythingisrubbish.co.uk Again, this graph is also a little exaggerated, but still … – I like the description anyway. The kind of PITA you always need and which is useful to “move forward”.
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now all my 4 Macs are running OS X 10.10.1 AKA Yosemite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Yosemite Actually I don’t like it that colourfull, I prefer a monochrome background, these days “Solid Aqua Graphite”.
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Cure for anti-Semitism found in France?
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.633044