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Being the blog of Finnegan Hopkins.
A place for me to comment on folk music of varying forms. Thursday, 1 September 2011. Shrewsbury Folk Festival - The Open Mic Highlights. One of the real highlights of the Shrewsbury Folk Festival this year for me was the superb open mic competition. Winning after defeating Kaleidoscope, Tri.
Rachael McShane is a cellist, fiddle player and singer based in the North East of England. An original member of folk big band Bellowhead. As a permanent member of his band. You can keep up to date with the band at the Tony Bengtsson Band Facebook Page. Rachael was also a part of the Darwin Song Project. As well as performing, Ra.
My orchid photography seems to have found a new home. Also known as The Phoenix Orchid, or the Tree Orchid, is a small pendulous cymbidium. Species found from Japan to Thailand where it grows low down on tree trunks in evergreen lowland forests. The name comes from Greek, psyche. Meaning butterfly, and opsis.
To discuss books like 1984. Their authors and trends that contribute to such stories. Wednesday, March 11, 2009. For me, it all started with Halting State. The novel is a near future piece that points out the growing threats inherent in cyber-technologies. Spying, hacking, all the usual privacy and control issues are brought to bare. However, in typical Stross fashion, i.
Past reports of our sailing adventures on board Darwin Sound, plus some of our land-based adventures too. Wednesday, December 20, 2017. We flew home from NZ, leaving summer for winter in Whistler. Saturday, December 09, 2017. We enjoyed the panoramic views over the hills to the sea, as well as the exercise. Wednesday, December 06, 2017.
Is very small non funded research laboratory that is best known for pushing the envelope of low-cost air and space exploration. Max altitude was 111,159 feet. The balloon is now over 100k feet. We got the signal back. Dropped some weight and we have successful liftoff.
An attempt to understand the power of rising technologies on social and economical interactions. Yourofsky was sponsored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Showing him giving a speech at Georgia Institute of Technology. A nurse has recorded the most common regrets before dying.