Technology is not my friend

Rob is trying to clear the laptop of a virus that has rendered it unuseable.

Our home wireless network keeps going down--unrelated problem. Attempts at diagnostics come up with the tentative answer "our signal is too weak." What the hell does that mean? And why can't Comcast fix it, with all the times they've been out to our house? Naturally, since we use Vonage for our phone, everytime our network goes down, so does our home phone number. This is infuriating.

And now (even more infuriating) my cell phone also decided to die this morning. Is it the battery? Didn't I just go through this?

I think the heavens are trying to cut me off from everybody. Bad timing, when we're just about to leave for Portus.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

I'd posted links to the previous videos that Matt did. This new one makes me smile even more; it just makes me hopeful and happy about the human race, and this beautiful world in which we live. The clip from Gurgaon, India, in particular, just slays me every time:

There was an article about this video in the Star Tribune recently, because the vocalist on this video (a Bengali immigrant by the name of Palbasha Siddique) goes to Fiona's high school!

Here is Nobel Prize-winning Rabindranath Tagore's English version of the lyrics to this song, titled "Praan" (you can buy it both at iTunes and at Amazon):

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.

It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.

I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

Lyrics adapted from the poem "Stream of Life" Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore. He also has written the national anthem of India.

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