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Sunday diversion: the Hallelujah chorus

no, not that oneThe music ministry in my parish does wonderful music. Including, adding in the past year, an adaptation of Leonard Cohen’s always haunting Hallelujah. I drove my wife a little bonkers a while back after using The Google

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Sunday diversion / London in 48,000 images, 320 gigapixels

big city, HUGE photoFrom one metropolis to another … I can’t remember where I saw this link, but it is a cool story and a visual treat for you folks who know London well. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2282054/320-gigapixel-interactive-picture-London-lets-20-MILES-zoom-people-street.html (Countdown … 10 … 9

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Sunday diversion is a B&B special that does not involve an overnight stay

one is timely and eternal, one just eternalI have commented before that Grantland has a wonderful collection of writers with a focus on sports but a wonderfully broad range of interests. In re-filling my Instapaper reader the other night I

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today in big sports news

of course the anticipation is risingWhat with the earliest reporting dates for pitches and catchers to baseball’s spring training sites as early as February 11. (Full schedule here.) Only the Cubbies and the Rockies have the earliest dates, with most

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another pictorial diversion is probably bigger than you can imagine

a Manhattan Loft Guy diverting trend continuesThis makes the fourth pictorial diversion in the new year on this blog. I started the year with a collection of very many very diverting photos of Manhattan lofts (January 1, some diverting loft

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Sunday diversion is about love (birds, bees and young people) and staying out late

a matter of personal indulgenceThrough the miracle of the inter-tubes, and the confidence of the principals and the editors of the Old Grey Lady, we got home well after midnight to find that the wedding we had just come from

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weekend diversion on social media as tool to get a puppy

the key is the dadFascinating piece from The Atlantic that I hope is tearing up the inter-tubes involving 5 cute kids who want a puppy, Facebook, and a set of parents who were trying to delay the arrival of the

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birthday diversion / Machu Pichu up (very) close

celebrate, ‘cuz it’s picture weekend!It is fruitless to try to compare incomparable photos of spectacular scenes. But even if you clicked around in other galleries than Manhattan of that Russian 3-D guy (January 12, weekend diversion / Manhattan as you’ve

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weekend diversion / Manhattan as you’ve never seen it (until this week, when you saw it everywhere)

burning up the inter-tubesThe Russian guy with a helicopter, a camera, and tons of technology took the World Wide Web by storm this week, with one particular photo of Central Park appearing pretty much everywhere on the net. The New

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Sunday diversion / is it baseball season yet?

no joy for Met fans (of course), but some solaceForgive me, not for talkin’ baseball (to be encouraged 365 days a year) but for picking at a scab of New York Mets fans. They won’t have the reigning Cy Young

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