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Just updated Provence Winter 2007 with shots of Nice and Villefranche today. This is a fav:

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This was our walking trip today. We’d taken the bus from Nice to Vence, had coffee, then a bus from there to Tourette sur Loup. After walking around town, we ended up at the old entrance, and walked down a half km of footpath to what I think is an old roman bridge, and back the 5km to vence, just in time to catch a bus.

Yuka took this test in Japanese and again in English, and I decided to do it too, though I can’t say I’m much of a Jungian. This is a more well worked out test than the usual ‘which TV soapstar are you?’ but how many of you could call me a Fairy Tale Prince? Not too many.

Online test based on Jung - Myers-Briggs typology Results? I’m a Healer Idealist with a funky INFP Profile

Introverted - 33% - moderately expressed introvert
Intuitive - 50% - moderately expressed intuitive personality
Feeling - 75% - distinctively expressed feeling personality
Perceiving - 33% - moderately expressed perceiving personality

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On tuesday yuka and I saw Sankai Juku perform Kagemi in Toronto. Sankai Juku is my favourite dance group, and the video in that link will show you. Yuka knows one of the dancers online, and it was a joy to see someone you have talked to move like that. Ichi is the dancer second on your left.

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This is a 2 minute video of the Mighty Q: Prince of Softness. He’s the Blooferlady’s cat. And we were over for a visit, and we put stuff on him. And this is our video. And for people who have computers made by silly people, here’s an XP readable youtube.com version.

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Yuka asked me to spread the word about: Culture From the Ground Up - Nuit Blanche that the Toronto Public Library is running this weekend!

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No, this is not something from some conservative think-tank, but is noted in a course outline (below) as a description of what interested children in the 17th C. Something timeless going on here perhaps?

And as to how we got here, Yuka sent me to Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology
Southern Connecticut State University and particularly Mary E. Brown’s course, A Brief History of Children’s Literature, as we were talking about the new hire in English at Ryerson, Andrew O’Malley, who will be teaching Children’s Literature, among other things. Since many of our ECE students take the course, I’m very interested in the shape it will take. One quote that

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This is from one of Yuka’s Mixi friends. Mixi is a popular BBS style social tool in Japan, and one of her anonymous friends posted this as a way of indicating the personality of someone he met. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen really personalized cellphones like this in my neck of the woods.

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Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read is a great site that yuka told me about. It gives greater context as to what people were reading, vs what we think they might have read.