Another #winter #sunset in West Bumfuque #nashville
OK, That’s Enough
I’m getting ready to go on a two-week road trip – business, family, etc. – back to my old NJ/NY/CT stomping grounds. Before I depart, I’ve been thinking about: what do I really need...
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My Week on ‘The Socials’
As I suspect many readers have gathered by now, I dipped a toe back into “the socials” last week. Most notably, I reactivated the Facebook account that I deactivated for a variety of...
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This One Is Kind of A Big Deal
Everybody fire up yer radios! Wednesday night – well, actually, Thursday morning – I will be a guest on the Coast to Coast AM radio show with host George Noory. Coast to Coast “…airs on...
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The Future Is Prologue:
Cosmic Summit 2024
Some of you know that for the past couple of months I have been ‘laser focused’ (I actually hate that expression, but it does seem to express the ADHD way I go at some things) on the...
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Available Now on Audible!
As Philo-The-Third told me, his father – Philo T. Farnsworth The Second – had ‘two major cases in his life. The first was electronic video. You wouldn’t be looking at this if he...
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Links For My ACA Friends
So that I could just put it all in one place… Little Green Boat – the poem I mentioned I wrote that describes how everybody in the neighborhood knew what was going on except us kids...
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Eulogy For Harvey Schatzkin
Arthur, Harvey and Paul ca. 1953. The kid on the right is the only one still living. Not shown: mother Ellen, sister Dorothy aka Dotsie _________________________________ September 30, 1958 Ellen has...
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20 days into a chocolate & sugar fast, just walking past this section triggered a major #sugarjones
Check this out:
I can’t tell from the YouTube page what the software is, but it’s the most impressive portrait (and video?) retouching software I’ve seen yet.
Wait a second… maybe I’m the one being deceived here.
In mean, I can’t even tell for sure if this is software… maybe it’s just a music video for a band called “Boggie” and this is their song “Parfum.” Maybe the vocalist is singing to us (in a language I don’t recognize) about the evils of photo-retouching.
For once, Google wasn’t much help.
I know… I’ll go check The Onion…
If annybody else who knows the secret… post a comment, please.
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Update 140126: I know the answer now. Popular Photo has disclosed that the video is, indeed, a music video for a Hungarian pop singer named Boggie. So me – and the friend who sent me the link in the first place, among the the fools.
You would think that if such software actually exists, I of all people would know about it by now.
This album by Pat Metheny is perfect “whistling while you work” music:
I’ve been listening to it via Spotify because, well, that’s what I listen to mostly these days – because their library is so much larger than my own (by several orders of magnitude) and because the embed codes Spotify supplies make it easier to share what I’ve been listening to than, say, iTunes.
The fact of the matter is, I purchased this CD long and have it already burned into my iTunes Library. So the good news for Pat Metheny is that I’ve already paid for the CD, now he’s getting more cash from me to listen to the Spotify stream. Fractions of a penny, I know, but still, it’s more than he would have gotten if I was just listening via iTunes.
Oh and, yes, I know all about the new BeatsMusic service and I’m anxious to try it out, but Beats is built on the old MOG service; I was a paid MOG subscriber until about a year ago, but my free account still exists, and it’s entangled with the Beats login protocols. It recognizes my User ID – it even let me reset the password – but Beats crashes when I try to log in. Maybe I’ll have something to say about it if they ever figure out how to let me in the door.
This story about the guy who wound up dead after texting in a movie theater made the rounds of the social media networks last week. I let it go by the first couple of times I saw it. It seemed implausible at first, but now that I have digested the heart-wrenching details, it seems all too familiar.
I don’t know how you feel about people who light up their cell phones in a darkened theater, but my first thought was: “that coulda been me…”
Not the guy getting shot. The guy doing the shooting.
Because I’m the one who has too frequently had to ask the asshole sitting near me to put their cell phone away during a movie. Read More
Yes, it’s a #chicken. I bake one like this for Ann almost every week. #stilltesting #food
This is for the vast legion of subscribers to my e-mail list.
A couple of months ago, you started receiving an e-mail notification whenever I’ve posted something new to this blog/site – typically once a week.
Starting now, I intend to post a lot more to this site. Rather than giving all of my best stuff away on Facebook, etc., I’m going to post it here first, and then distribute to my social media networks.
So starting at about noon today – Wednesday January 22, 2014 – you’re going to be receiving one weekly missive from me with links to the seven or so best things I have posted in the previous week. Some of the items will be links and comments; hopefully there will be a weekly ~1200 word essay, you’ll get some photos, and maybe a link to some new music. Whatever strikes my fancy during the week and makes it through the Wednesday filter.
If you are unclear what you are subscribing to, read this.
Frigid #Sunset in West Bumfuque #Nashville
The answer to all your web-integration prayers #ifttt
LIstening to this excellent discussion of the issues around “Net Neutrality. It’s amusing to hear the guy from VerizonCast going through verbal gymnastics to make the case that more corporate control of the web is in the end-user’s interest. His organization is called “Free State Foundation.” A loving nod to Orwell…
http://ift.tt/1heemUM