"Because I in believe you / the summer skies, stars are falling / all along the injured coast"

[larryhammer]

A few things that make me happy:

• Icelandic/Danish folksingers celebrating the sun comming back for summer.
  
  
• Going through our complete Iceland trip pictures.
  
  
• A gallery of pocket sundials.
  
  
• Dark skies over Racetrack Playa.
  
  
• That there is an ICD-9-CM code for being injured while on a spacecraft.
  
  
• Yotsuba in a happi. (read right-to-left)
  
  
• Beaker and the Swedish Chef singing the "Habanera" from Carmen.

---L.

Comments

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Lovely linkage.

Thanks for pointing us in the direction of Krauka (http://www.krauka.dk/) and the various muppet renditions of classical music (I kept clicking after watching Beaker and the Swedish Chef). 8)

The pocket sundials are really, really cool & the fact that at least three of the set were identified as being shepherds' sundials completely turns my uninformed image (of the world of shepherds as being uninterested in time, or at least time in human-centric terms, rather than sun & season) on its head.

[larryhammer]

Perviously about Krauka.

---L.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I went to Krauka's MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/krauka1). The black and white video is just lovely, the images and music both. I tried downloading a couple songs (having already downloaded from their website (http://www.krauka.dk/cd_english.htm) what they allow, but you need a MySpace account for that.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

YouTube has, after all these years, confirmed for me that The Muppets were brilliant.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I knew that, but YouTube provides extra confirmation.

Actually, I'm beginning to think that the tense is wrong. YouTube confirms that the Muppets are brilliant. I have a strong suspicion that the "Habanera" video and the other videos directly linked from that page are recent and official YouTube creations by the Jim Henson Company.

[larryhammer]

They are recent and official. There's been a bunch of Statler & Waldorf material released online, the past couple years, and this seems to be affiliated stuff.

---L.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

I can definitely go with are brilliant!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

How can you be hearing The World of the Shining Prince (an excellent and very useful book, by the way, if you suddenly have to take your Warring States kappa story and make it a Heian kappa story and you want to confirm things like that women did play the biwa (p. 200))?

Are you listening to books on tape?

And I loved this (http://cache.wists.com/thumbnails/e/5f/e5fc60f7bb659d59b644bf263675f7bc-orig) pocket sundial best.

[larryhammer]

Heh. Actually, I've customized my journal to make it read "Reading" instead of "Listening." Not that this affects anyone else's friends list, but it's how I've been using that slot for years. So, no, not on tape, just ordinary pulp paper.

That is, indeed, a stunning pocket-dial. When we last visited Basel, in one of the historical museums, we stumbled across a long gallery of just clocks, with case after case in the middle of pocket watches of all manner of ornate carapaces. Including one almost devoted to pocket sundials. We've been fascinated by them ever sense. The gift shop had a reproduction of one, actually, but it was a) a bit steep on the Francs for us and b) the pegs for adjusting your gnomen by latitude were all marked with northern European cities and didn't go as far south as Arizona.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

What a concept--somehow, very appealing: timepieces that must be made to take into account where you are. Somehow that seems much more holistic a way of approaching time measurement: when depends on where.

[larryhammer]

Sorrrrt of, for that last. It's more, the instruments need to point to the right north, depending on where you are.

---L.