Downtempo Hip Hop video made entirely of stock office video. This is mesmerizing. If my boss ever had me dance in the office and apply a stethoscope to my forehead while my face melted I don’t know (more…)
Comparison of Google Plus vs Imgur vs Flickr for photo gallerys: SKY METAL edition
TL;DR – my unofficial test shows that IMGUR is easily, far and away, the simplest, friendliest, and best place to host photos and embed them to wordpress blogs. The front end set up and UI will take a (more…)
Accidental Shifts in Meaning – Bugs Bunny’s Nimrod, & Why did Constantinople get the works?
From here: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/accidental-shifts-in-meaning/ A similar transmogrification occurred with the word nimrod, a generic reference to the biblical character of that name, who in (more…)
Joe Don Baker, Mitchell, Mystery Science Theatre, Aimee Mann, David Lynch, and yeah all that.
If you are playing the movie on a telephone? THAT IS NOT WHAT THE MAKERS OF MITCHELL WOULD HAVE WANTED. Doesn’t it sound good? The best way to listen to music is on laptop speakers: BUT (more…)
The Peaceful People Are Irrelevant.
Apparently, she’s blowing up, and apparently, it’s totally controversial. I am not going to be pro- anything or pro- anyone in this article. I will say, I am generally speaking about any radicalized entity. I (more…)
Speaking of Sailing… Yachts and Stuff. =)
And lovely music. The below is Alain Thébault’s L’Hydroptère and the nautical mile speed sailing record yacht in SF Bay. Shot simply to relate unbelievable speed:
Ozymandias, by Percy Shelley
Percy Shelley’s Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown And (more…)
Sailing to Byzantium, W. B. Yeats, 1865 – 1939 (public domain)
Sailing to Byzantium That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees —Those dying generations—at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Dr. Richard Miller on Ernie, and the biggest changes in the last 125 years.
An old story…. of big changes. The impact of the auto on community, life. I will let it stand alone: “So it goes. It couldn’t last forever, it was unsafe, but it’s hard to see something like that (more…)
Wilbur Hot Springs as the first off grid non-tech “luxury” experience, our technological addictions…
The below is reprinted from an old blog I managed for Wilbur Hot Springs, which is physically a few hours north of San Francisco. It’s a 100% off grid hot springs and hotel / resort-ish / glamping / camping (more…)