april-2014
April 2014
Arts:
Yamaha(!?!) piano recital @ TSRI
Movies:
Rififi & Journey to Italy: how Paris & Naples compare 60 years ago
Documentaries:
The telengits, tubalars and chelkans of Altai, courtesy of RT
ARTE Extreme Cities
having to adjust our cuisine's recipes to a new kitchen range
Our pictures of the month:
(with a clean sensor & fixed lens)
Spring around Cuyamaca Peak
Incident of the month:
slow recovery from october 2007 wild fires
What caught our attention:
lost in translation no more!
What did we learn:
the power of R applied to shiny
What did we discover:
Ethiopian grain teff
What did we achieve:
load OziMapper and Androzic apps for world wide maps access even offline!
Book of the month:
a few from the new DM "little free library"
yet, the birds are back:
Lazuli bunting (Passerina amoena)
and this one, for the cloud appreciation society
(somehow a bit disappointing that they are pre-made)
Course of the month:
The barbarian empires of the steppes: heard of the Xiongnu or the Turkic Kaghan Bumin Qaghan?
