This is Gaia and her cousin dancing to Clarence Clearwater, a navajo singer who plays the traditional songs in a non-traditional way. It's pretty good stuff. I shot this video at Indian Summerfest on Friday night.
One of the songs Clarence played was a song called "Skip Dance," which he described as a "ladies choice" dance wherein a girl would ask a boy to dance, and if the boy did, he is obligated to give the girl a quarter. Thats a prett sweet deal for the girls.
I explained to Gaia what "Ladies choice" meant and invited her to go up and dance. She grabbed a girl-- a stranger from the audience-- and they both went up to the front of the stage then and danced their little hearts out. Clearwater seemed to think it was pretty neat, too, because he vamped a little bit in the middle of the song and pointed the girls out to the croud. Check out Clearwater's stuff. He's got samples on his Web site.
Gaia then danced with her cousin Aurora as well as with her daddy. It was a great capper to a great summer.

The internet is a-twitter with news of the re-branding of the superb telephony aggregator, Grand Central as "Google Voice." I actually use Grand Central as my primary phone number. I've been silently nurturing a fear that, in the name of tight economic conditions, Google was going to shutter or impose a fee on Grand Central users, which, up until this point, are free to those who have been lucky enough to ferret out a invitation. I can't remember where I got mine. I think it was from Kevron.
Regardless of what you think about the service, subsequent upgrades, or the Google-ized look and feel of the interface of the new Google Voice, (which, frankly, is an improvement, but not quite a complete integration with Gmail, yet) you have to love the sample blog they've posted on the settings page as an example of how you might employ a GoogleVoice widget.

Ain't it great? The Awesome Blog! Authored by Jay, enjoy frank discussion about Cats and Alien Life forms in the 'fridge. Also, Jay is the very modicum of single-branded synergy: He Blogs on Blogger, Calls on Google Voice, all while using Google's Browser, Chrome.
I wish I was Jay. Jay's super awesome! Awesome blog, Jay!