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Friday
Work. Rather uneventful. Finished Children of Dune just before quittin’ time. (Mental Note: Remember to d/l a new book for next week.)

NPR/PRI Stories

• Thursday
  Talk of the Nation: September 11^th Observances
  Talk of the Nation: Obesity: ‘Fast Food on Trial’
  Talk of the Nation: Eating in Your Car
  The World: Aborigine Land Rights
  The World: Youth Orchestra of the Americas
  All Things Considered: Estrogen: ‘Marketing Menopause’
  All Things Considered: Funeral Sets
  All Things Considered: Suspended Surgeon (left in the middle of surgery)
  All Things Considered: New, Computer-enhanced BMWs

• Friday
  TotN – Science Friday: ‘Conjoined Twins’ and ‘Agriculture and Sustainability’
  The World: Tasmanian Aborigines
  The World: Growing Up Bi-Racial in Japan
  The World: Geo Quiz (answer at the bottom of this post)
  All Things Considered: WorldCom
  All Things Considered: Shaw University (N.C.) Mosque
  All Things Considered: Re-Segregation in Schools?
  All Things Considered: Koop

  Michelle Mercer reviews a new CD by the duo Koop. The group is from Sweden, though they sound at times that they are Brazilian, or from the 1960s or perhaps even Japanese. Their music is stolen from both these sources but what they do with those sources is truly a new blend of what Mercer calls “Ikea Soul.” The CD is Waltz for Koop by Koop on Jazzanova Compost Records. See http://www.k-o-o-p.com/

Miscellany…
Rana IM’ed me Thursday night (wee hours of Friday morning). It was the second time that I’ve talked to her since I heard about the military jet crash at a Ukrainian air show, but it was the first time that I remembered to ask her how far that was from where she was (at that time). She told me that she was either in Prague or on the way back to her village (‘good thing’) and that she was doing well (also, ‘good thing’).

I talked to my father at least four or five times today. I think that we have talked more in the past 36 hours than we have talked in the past month! And, for the record, I am not saying that this is a bad thing. I just find it amusing. For some as-yet-unknown reason, he didn’t get the file that I was working on and sent to him this morning.

I had to get Jess to resend it this evening. It worked that time! I’m not sure if there was something wrong with the email profile/account that I was using to send it or if it can simply be chalked up to “It just needed a woman’s touch.” But, either way: It got there. He called me to inform me that he looked at the preview and that he liked it. Hoo-AH! He downloaded the file and took it to Kinko’s for processing and printing. And it was good. Amen.

“Move Along Home” was Thursday night’s episode of the Sisko Show. Another first season episode, but it was worth watching if for no other reason than to see Sisko playing a hopscotch-like game while reciting a rhyme and doing the accompanying gestures. Who says that station commanders never take time out for fun and games? “Repression” was Thursday’s Janeway and the Barbie Borg Show ep. It’s a decent episode, but this was the payoff. 24^th Century tech; mid-20^th Century retro-cool.

Peace.

Answer to Friday’s Geo Quiz