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6Mar/100

Twitter Updates for 2010-03-06

  • I LOVE my 7" lcd 'lilliput' display! It manages to be both cute and geeky cool at the same time.<3 #
  • Girl Scouts – please amend your cookie nutritional facts to more accurately reflect reality: SAMOAS, serving size 1 box, calories 1125. #
  • @rghaid Note: the angle of the dangle is reversely proportional to the size of the rise provided that the fall of the ball remains constant. in reply to rghaid #

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4Mar/100

Twitter Updates for 2010-03-04

  • Ha! Take that Benbridge Scholars … uhhh … I mean Lowes home financing! :-p #

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3Mar/100

Twitter Updates for 2010-03-03

  • Girl scout cookies: buy reasonable numbers from MULTIPLE people … then you don't seem quite as much a glutton! :-) #

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2Mar/100

Twitter Updates for 2010-03-02

  • @amyokuda Thanks for the daily wisdom – definitely something I needed to hear. #

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27Feb/100

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-27

  • Tweeting from my new stood Eris… Nice! #
  • aww crud… droid eris takes after her namesake : goddess of discord and chaos #

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21Feb/100

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-21

  • Hmm, looks like the GTX-260 will be man enough for the job then. <drools over screenshots, graphs and FPS /> #

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16Feb/100

Its the guitar…

Both of these tracks feature fabulous guitar work by Santana and get me every time.

“Into the night” – Santana feat. Chad Kroeger

“Smooth” – Santana feat. Rob Thomas

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13Feb/100

Valentine

The summer of 1994 was eventful for Alison and I. Our first date was February 5th 1994 and on the weekend of August 5th – six months later – I proposed. On the radio that summer I remember two songs and I honestly cant choose between them so, it’s a tie for “Valentine Song”, firstly “I Swear” by the band All 4 One:

If those lyrics arent enough, there was a dance track kicking around – it was released and re-released several times over – “UR The Best Thing” by the band D:Ream. (there’s a WAY better streaming audio version on the official D:Ream website.

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13Feb/100

The Power of Love

Valentines is certainly a time for thinking (and singing) about love. Nillson my well have a song that can stop me dead in my tracks, but another that comes close is “The Power of Love.”

Dont confuse this song – there are several with the same title (and I really like the “Frankie Goes To Hollywood” song of the same title, but its a vastly different song without the emotional punch that this one has … or who can forget the “Huey Lewis and the News” song).

The definitive version comes from Jennifer Rush

Celine Dion

Air Supply

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12Feb/100

Without You

Carrying on the theme of Valentines songs, I have to visit ont that can literally stop me dead in my tracks. It wasnt until the late 80′s that I even knew who the singer was, but it’s one that pulls tears from a deep place inside. I remember walking around campus in the summer of ’89, and hearing it from one of the dorm windows. I didnt know who the singer was, but it was that song again, and I loitered randomly outside a window in Surrey Court until the song was finished!

According to Wikipedia it’s been recorded by more than 180 artists!

The definitive version that gets me every time was a hit in 1971 for Harry Nillson

For reference though, here’s a few other recordings, none of which quite live up to Nillson.

Nolwen Leroy

Kelly Clarkson

Mariah Carey

Air Supply

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