Cafe Helix
Wednesday, September 20, 2000
Here's a Job Title Generator.
As a musician, I was: Executive Creative Specialist
Now I am: Master Look and Feel Diva
Woo hoo!
Monday, September 18, 2000
Friday, September 15, 2000
My friend Javier from Minneapolis is in San Francisco as I write this! Hooray! I am really looking forward to seeing him!!
The Bay Area Creative Music Calendar is very cool! It always lists interesting musical events around the Bay Area.
Thursday, September 14, 2000
Here's an article on a new pill that can limit a woman's period. Personally, I think the idea of no cycle to be unnatural and unappealing, but that's just me. Read and learn.
See what kind of religion you resonate with best with this religion selector. My top five:
New Age (score=100) [heh]
Mahayana Buddhist (score=80)
Unitarian Universalist (score=79)
Neo-Pagan (score=73)
Liberal Quaker (score=69) [that's more like it]
Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 13, 2000
Monday, September 11, 2000
Thursday, September 07, 2000
Here's news about the historic exchange between UC Berkeley and Cuban Libraries.
"Libraries at the University of California, Berkeley and Cuba are building a unique archive on the troubled history between Cuba and the United States, striving to give scholars access to materials made difficult to circulate during four decades of a U.S. embargo's trade restrictions."
Thanks to a tip from my friend Holly Golightly, I just heard an audio clip of local Minneapolis band 12RODS. Great stuff! They are playing tonight for the City Pages 21st Anniversary Party. Have fun tonight, Holly!
Wednesday, September 06, 2000
I am totally envious of a certain group of Cal students that will be discovering Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" for the first time. It's an incredible piece of music. The Gardiner recording is the best one, too, IMHO.
Earlier I mentioned that this society encourages us to live beyond our means. That includes credit cards. Working at a public university, I see plenty of credit card companies with tables on campus, waiting to get students to use their cards. I think it's terrible! It really does encourage students to get into debt early. Senator Dunn introduced SB 796, where "lawmakers passed a bill in the last days of the legislative session that asks officials at public and private colleges to re-examine their policies on how credit card companies solicit on campus". Here is an article on the bill, and here is the language of the bill. I hope Gov. Davis seriously considers this and passes it.
Tuesday, September 05, 2000
A very important event happened this month: I paid off the loan I took out to buy my harpsichord. And I did it all by myself. I am no longer in debt to Bank of America and the harpsichord is mine! One more step toward being debt free, a great goal in this society that encourages us to live beyond our means. This feels good!
Sunday, September 03, 2000
I'm reminded this morning about how great this radio show is - To The Best of Our Knowledge. Here in the SF Bay Area, it plays on KALW on Sunday mornings. It's a terrific show, hosted by Jim Fleming, that covers a variety of topics. Take a listen! Wisconsin Public Radio in the beautiful midwest, produces it.
Last night I saw a performance of Cannibals at High Tea, an improv group at College of Marin. They are AWESOME!!!! Very, very talented group. I'm so impressed. Check them out.
Saturday, September 02, 2000
