Sancerre Jazz

Jazz on the Street-Sancerre

Chloé

left behind

World Language Speakers

From Many Eyes. Going from number 2 to number 11.

Site Name

Knobby.ws or KeepTheRubberSideDown.com?

Both and capitalization does not matter. No “www.” either, but should work if added.

KeepTheRubberSideDown.com is fun, but too long. RubberSideDown.com was already taken and still is being used by a motorcycle parts supplier.

Knobby because it is a short term associated with mountain biking. Knobs are the raised bumps on [...]

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Site name change to Knobby.ws

The domain name is changing from KeepTheRubberSideDown to Knobby.ws. The former, athough fun and descriptive, was too long for emails. The prefix ws is supposed to conjure web-site or World Site, but is really Western Samoa.

The changeover as far as the blog is concerned will be mostly transparent and either URL will [...]

The saga ends—a serious problem resolved

The trip home was necessary. Louisa had a torn retina which was laser repaired this afternoon. She’s lucky it didn’t detach in the ten days since it tore, because an untreated tear leads to a detached retina which results in blindness.

Sadly the photos of her eyes she was given in Conakry are [...]

Travel guide

To complement and/or update the information in the Lonely Planet and Rough Guides for West Africa, I’ve together some notes. Partly for us since we plan to return next year and for other travels who plan to go. I’ll update the links here as I do the pages. UPDATE: We had the 2002 edition [...]

We’re back in the US

After about 40 hours of travel, we’re back home.

Unfortunately we also displaced our cat/house sitter. We’re sorry Ethan.

We’re planning to try again same time again next year.

Ashes and Snow

We went to see Ashes and Snow by Gregory Colbert last week at the Santa Monica Pier. When I saw the initial promotions I wasn’t much interested. The images seemed too fake and new agey. Posed images of people and animals. But everyone we knew who went liked it, even after I voiced my [...]