Granada!

 

Video number in my collection 71
Production date:    31 July 2006
Playout date:    31 July 2006
Camera:    Logitech Webcam
Post Production:    None
Location:    Office at Jazdow
Other people featured: Antonio Salvador Bau Montoro
Genre: Duet
Soundtrack info:    Granada, a capello, Lara
Languages used:    Spanish
Animals featured:    None
Date added here: 10 October 2010
Number of days this video was up at time of posting: 1 532
Number of views at time of posting: 663
Number of views per day: 0,4
Number of comments at time of posting (don’t forget to click through to read the comments!): 3
Comments per thousand views: 4,5
Likes at time of posting: 4
Dislikes at time of posting: 7
Likes to dislikes ratio: 0,6
Votes per thousand views: 16,6
Ratio of comments to votes: 27%

 A second impromptu duet with my Spanish friend Antonio Salvador Bau Montoro, who visited me at the office one day, taking time away from his massive Aloe farm in Brazil. This version of Lara’s song was not practiced, just off the cuff, and the website with the words had them all muddled up, so once again this is far from perfect, but great fun.

Amapola a la Polska

Video number in my collection 70
Production date: 31 July 2006
Playout date: 31 July 2006
Camera: Logitech Webcam
Post Production: None
Location: Home on the terrace
Genre: Duet
Soundtrack info: Amapola, Spanish folk song
Languages used: Spanish
Animals featured: None
Date added here: 9 October 2010
Number of days this video was up at time of posting: 1 531
Number of views at time of posting: 997
Number of views per day: 0,7
Number of comments at time of posting (don’t forget to click through to read the comments!): 7
Comments per thousand views: 7,0
Likes at time of posting: 4
Dislikes at time of posting: 5
Likes to dislikes ratio: 0,8
Votes per thousand views: 9,0
Ratio of comments to votes: 78%

Fue visitado por Antonio Salvador Bau Montoro, un conocido artista y amigo mio de Espana, y cantamos juntos la cancion “Amapola”.

I was visited at the office by a friend of mine from Spain, the well-known singer and Aloe vera farmer Antonio Salvador Bau Montoro, and we sang the song Amapola for your enjoyment together, the first of three Spanish duets we did off the cuff.

Unfortunately we hadn’t had time to practice, it was all off the cuff, and we weren’t anticipating the frequent key changes in the track. We also couldn’t hear it as well as the computer picked it up, so the last verse is truly discordant on this. That is probably why more folk have disliked this one than liked it. It was fun though.

Czech and Polish climate scientists just don’t get along – so who will be the right ones and who will be the wrong?

Gulf stream map
The North Atlantic's thermohaline circulation

 

Radio Praha, on their website http://www.radio.cz, published the following piece today which I allow myself to quote in order to comment on it below.
Czech meteorologists allay fears of Arctic winter

07-10-2010 14:18 | Daniela Lazarová

In recent days Italian and Polish forecasters have released reports suggesting that this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years. The change is reportedly connected with the speed of the Gulf Stream which has allegedly slowed down in connection with the oil spill off the coast of Florida. Some scientists claim the stream will not be able to compensate the cold from Arctic winds –and according to their theory as the Gulf Stream wanes and eventually disappears Europe will have to brace for Arctic winters. Czech meteorologist Jan Pretel says this is utter nonsense: Continue reading “Czech and Polish climate scientists just don’t get along – so who will be the right ones and who will be the wrong?”