So before muzak, Seeburg was the old piped in “radio” channel of big band and classic jazz, bossa, and lounge music that was in hotel lobbies, restaurants, bars, etc. IT IS SO GREAT: http://seeburg1000.com/ Someone (more…)
A history of electronic music through my times…..
So, I was talking with a buddy about the fact that most people, at this point, are “electronic music natives”, in that electronic music isn’t that interesting as it has already been around. However, (more…)
Reframe your ideas of meaning & purpose. =)
Meaning and purpose isn’t quantifiable like mass or gravity. It can’t be measured…. it’s completely human defined, and as subjective as that makes it, it’s totally individual. I think I stopped (more…)
It’s not about the right or left. It’s about extremism, and boy, you can’t get anyone talking about that.
It seems unbelievable to me that every time a SJW video goes viral, you have people on the right saying “SEE? The far left are the intolerant, want you to believe like they do; they are fascists”. Then (more…)
The need for Critical Thought in a time of fake news and uneducated electorate….
Post election, I properly “twitter ranted” about critical thought in relation to this election, our country, and the issue with it being taught… or *actively* not being taught. Here’s a bunch of tweets, (more…)
So what’s on the table with a President Trump?
Snowcrash, Neuromancer, Daemon and Freedom, Blade Runner / Do Android, Minority Report. All super non-fiction now. But is it doomsday? What do we know? What is Trump, what can we predict, and what is (more…)
A plea for our National Parks, President Trump.
I am inconsolable and can’t work. I am not afraid to admit I am crying as if I have lost my dearest friend. ****I am unabashedly asking all of you to share this.**** The Republicans are going to rip apart (more…)
Republican Platform 2016 regarding Public Land Use.
I started to read the Republican Platform, for what it’s worth. I think we all should. I never would have, but in my concern, my pop suggested we look at what it has to say. So I put my research here…. (more…)
Why Mars?
Carl Sagan said it best: https://vimeo.com/108650530 tl;dr – we’re finite, the earth is finite, and we’ve evolved to survive at all costs. It may look like an odd step, going to another planet in our (more…)
We will spread like a virus, slingshot across the depths of space time….
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/emdrive-news-rumors/ Spacecraft equipped with a reactionless drive could potentially make it to the moon in just a few hours, Mars in two to three months, and (more…)