Website: http://www.myspace.com/robertlauri
Music: http://www.robert-lauri.com/music/god-bless.mp3

Robert Lauri's new release United Souls is supported by a mass-market campaign. The first 10,000 participants will be able to download one track for free on Robert Lauri's site with Reverbnation or by joining his radio station on Jango Airplay. A unique 2010 calendar, created by Sylvia Ganancia can also be downloaded. Further information on Robert Lauri's "Myspace".

In "United Souls", Robert Lauri lets us discover all the richness and diversity of his creative melody-making force and offers five titles that could be described as "new sound". He reveals new musical moods that have a "French touch" while delivering vibrant classical, pop and rap rhythms - all in harmony and blending together.

"United Souls" is available from the major download stores. For discovering the songs:

http://www.reverbnation.com/robertlauri

11:11 @servermonk lolz #

11:11 @anditron that sucks #

13:42 is knitting. #

13:43 @anditron the cabs don't take credit? #

13:45 @bennyCrampton lol it's been broken since I started working there then left... So at least 5 years. #

16:10 .dll files are stupid and annoying. Especially when they won't register and don't give ta reason. #

23:35 @fynflood me too :P #

23:36 @ivynova holy crap! That's sime serious wind! #

23:38 @jjscharf lol awesome #

23:39 @jjscharf klassy, with a k #

23:41 @mcmama nope! I agree #

23:42 @robot_trouble I'll teach @fynflood so he can knit one for you :) #

23:42 @anditron yeah, I suppose they do #

23:43 @anditron pics or it didn't happen? #

Wanting to get some exercise and ride a bit I set out on my bike at about 8:30pm. While originally intending to ride around the neighborhood and just see how well the Nokian Hakka WXC300 tires perform in real snow, I found they worked well and instead headed towards River Bends. Taking the usual routes I logged 11.39 miles over 1:17:39, for an average of 8.8 MPH. That’s slow, but considering the super-studded tires and riding through 3″ of powder over packed snow and ice, I don’t think it’s too bad. (In case you don’t know we’re actually in the middle of a snow storm; one which is potent enough that riding a bike is almost easier than driving.)

The tires work out really well, and their large knobs do a very good job of sticking in snow. When riding on somewhat-packed residential roads they felt a bit squirrly, but that’s to be expected as there wasn’t much for them to bite into, but it was too deep for the studs to be of any use. While on the paths/sidewalks and on the trails where the surface was snow/ice they were outstanding and I’m really glad I purchased them. While they are of obvious limited utility being for one particular season, it would be much more difficult to ride now without them.

One of the other interesting events of the night was getting made fun of. It’s been a while since I was last shouted at by people in cars, but maybe the snow brings out odd people. While riding along, just as I was crossing some train tracks on the path, someone in a black Chevy Avalanche driving slowly past yelled something out the window. Later on when heading back home it passed again, the driver honked at me. Further on still while waiting for a it passed another time, slowing so the passenger could yell “nice light, yo yo”. This whole time I was 20′ – 30′ from the road, on an adjoining path.

I get made fun of in the strangest places. Flipped off from the road which I’m 40′ above on a pedestrian bridge… Yelled at from people below me on a highway while I’m in a bridge… People are strange.

Anyway, here’s some photos from tonight. Any cloudy bits (such as seen above) are condensed breath and sweat from my arms hanging in the air, as it wasn’t windy enough to carry it away:

· My Specialized hard tail, in River Bends, while riding in the middle of a snow storm which had already dropped 2-3″.
· After a bit of riding I stopped in the park pavilion to eat a gel. Riding in 3″ of snow is hard work.
· My bike after getting home snowing snow packed into the rims and other bits.
· Rear triangle showing snow packed into the cassette, chainrings, etc.
· Another view of the rear triangle, this time from a higher angle. Lots of snow is packed into the bike. Note how clean the tires from riding in snow.
· Detail of the bottom bracket / front derailleur area showing packed snow.
· The fork, front wheel, and brakes showing how much snow is packed into this end of the bike.

09:45 drank too much rum last night :/ #

09:46 @bendingoutward lulz #

15:16 these chocolatey rice cakes remind me of count chocula #

15:18 @ivynova lol dive! #

17:43 i like my women like i like my coffee...covered in bees! #

18:06 has tessa's box in her hand lulz #

18:07 @Severinoscopy dragged across the jungle in a burlap sack? Lol #

20:01 I'm at Sugar Mom's (225 Church St, Philadelphia). 4sq.com/2NxnpM #

20:40 is full of pierogies. Gonna die. $.50 pierogie day @sugarmom's is great but makes my belly too full! #

With Google’s release of the Nexus One it worked out very well for me to give my G1 to Danielle and pick up a Nexus One for myself. Thus far I’m quite happy with this phone. The AMOLED is absolutely outstanding and the phone is simply faster overall; the occasional quirky slowdowns when using many apps at once are gone.

It even comes with a cute logo’d neoprene case, as seen here!

I still have some service plan shuffling to do, including moving myself to an employee discount plan (via my workplace) and possibly another service plan. While I am out of contract and should be able to move plans at will, it appears that T-Mobile has a $35 fee to change plans via their website and I don’t want to pay that. We’ll see how that goes… Until then, the phone still works great, just like my old G1 but even better.

(Photographing a phone with active screen and having both parts look nice together is a very difficult task. More photos of the phone unboxing can be found here. I’m not bothering with measurement / thickness / whatever shots, as those are thoroughly addressed elsewhere.)

23:24 I will now stop mocking people in Florida for whining about the cold, as it is apparently 45 in Miami. That's cold! Not our cold though. #

14:52 I'm such a child. Super excited over the Hello Kitty candy necklace that was in the free stuff box. And tiny stuffed bean bun! #