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My Eartha Kitt Post

December 28 08

My life is beautiful because every day is a wonderful experience.  I can’t stand still spiritually or intellectually.  Every day I want to feel as if I had more to give than the day before.

-Jet Magazine Word of the Week November 2, 1967

There have been so many posts and news stories about Eartha Kitt all over the place since her death that have said so much. So, I am writing this really for my own benefit so I can bookmark the info below. I would like to say that the thing that I always loved about Eartha Kitt was how fun she was to watch. She always brought so much energy to everything she did and she genuinely seemed like she was enjoying herself while she was performing.

Here are a few performances:

C’est si bon

I Want to be Evil

I went through and found a bunch of articles about Eartha on Google Books, until they accused me of being a virus and blocked my access.  There were so many short paragraphs through the decades about scholarship funds and outreach projects she was a part of. She was an interesting lady for sure. The articles below are some of the interesting longer ones.


I love digital archives. I am glad that this information exists in a medium where it can be accessed so easily. For serious. RIP Eartha. You will be missed.

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Guinea and the Internet

December 23 08

I love Google News. It is actually an addiction I think. On all of my computers (except for my work one), it is set as my homepage. I have been following what is happening in Guinea through the English and French Press, and today decided to try and dig a little deeper with the coup talk and all.

I tried to get to a news site from Guinea and was unable to connect. However, there is a cached version (on google of course) from Dec 23, 2008 03:59:19 GMT so I can’t help but wonder if that is just me. I also can’t get the Government site to load either. The last cache of that was from Dec 16, 2008 09:52:24 GMT. Anyway, I am still searching for a news site from Guinea that has updates. Maybe the best I will do is AllAfrica. This whole situation is interesting to watch, and this little internet blind spot is something I want to overcome. It is like a repeat of what happened before, only with new technology to keep people more up to date.

During the search I found a cool video. TheInstitut National de L’audiovisuel(an amazing site btw) has a video called Guinée : un an après (Guinea: one year later) that aired on FR3 - 04/04/1985. I won’t get too into my thoughts on the slant of the video but I will say my favorite part of the video is when the reporter asks “For the Guineans, is it important to have good knowledge of French?” It just seems so out of place when they are talking about trying to rebuild their country/culture after 26 years of dictatorship for the rest of the video.

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Hatphones, Jiang Yuyan and My Mac

July 27 08

I needed new shoes, so I headed out to the Nike outlet.  My feet are *strange* and the Nike Free shoes are the only shoes that make it so I don’t get foot cramps.  While at the check out they had something called hatphones that normally sold for $55 (now$29.90 at the footlocker link provided), foronly $1.97.  Now, I am pretty sure I don’t have a use for them, but…  Yes. I hadto buy a hatphone.  I should have bought all three of them and sold them on ebay for $10 + shipping and made a profit.

Now then, News.  I am so surprised that there has been no news about the Olympics, at least, nothing amazingly eye catching like there usually is.  No huge McDonald’s campaign with pictures all over the windows… First there was the bars banning black people and mongolians confusion, since the underground crime in China is largely mongolian apparently and they consider mongolians to be black.  Now there is  Jiang Yuyan, the supposedly 14 year old gymnast who is magically old enough to compete because she has a passport that says she is.  I must say, China is making this interesting with all the speculation about what is really going on… it’s just a shame that this is the most exciting thing about the olympics and they are starting in less than a month.

Now, on to my Mac.  I have an iMac G5 iSight.  Needless to say it is old.  However, for those two months apple was making the iMac G5 iSight, it was the best compter they were making.  So, now it has 1.5 gigs of RAM and the updated OS, but still no intel chip.  It is 2.1Ghz, with a 250gig hard drive, etc etc.  It is a good computer.  They still sell computers that are slower than it for $1000… refurbished from apple.  It just can’t do a lot anymore all because of the silly Intel chip.  That makes me… very very sad.  Needless to say, I can’t use the SDK and make iPhone apps… that was to be my hobby for the rest of the year, and now I need to come up with a new one.

Knitting costs too much.

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