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I admit it. This blog is NOT consistent. What it is keeps changing. Right now, it's pretty much a place where I keep photos, videos, and links to websites that interest me. Before that, I wrote a few blogs myself and still do once in a blue moon. But most of the stuff before the links are just reprints of articles I found interesting. Email me at OlderMusicGeek(at)yahoo(dot)com.

Sunday, November 30, 2014

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY - A Vision Of Deep Space Exploration That Will GiveYou Chills

Stop what you're doing, set aside four minutes of your time, and bask in the inspirational spectacle that is Wanderers, an electrifying short film by animator Erik Wernquist that seamlessly merges breathtaking visions of humanity's future in deep space with stirring narration by Carl Sagan. Trust us – you don't want to miss this. - Robbie Gonzalez (http://rtgonzalez.kinja.com/)

This Is A Majestic Vision Of Humans Embracing Our Exotic Solar System


Riding a space elevator up from Mars. Trekking across the ice fields of Europa. Soaring in wing suits above the clouds of Titan. Base jumping on Miranda. Wanderers is a science-inspired short film imagining human exploration of our solar system that leaves me giddy and excited for a future we could one day experience.

Top image: Base jumping off Verona Rupes, the highest cliff in the solar system. Credit: Erik Wernquist


Set to Carl Sagan reading from Pale Blue Dot, this inspired future borrows heavily from the futuristic visions of NASA, Kim Stanley Robinson, Arthur C. Clarke, Chesley Bonestell, and many more. The film's creator, Erik Wernquist, sees the film as "a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds - and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there.

To read more - http://space.io9.com/this-is-a-stunning-vision-of-humans-basking-in-our-sola-1664676360/1664858837/



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Saturday, November 29, 2014

HUMOR - Black Friday - Movie Trailer

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ENTERTAINMENT - A Porno by Wes Anderson

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Friday, November 28, 2014

MY LIFE - Thanksgiving 3 years ago


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Thursday, November 27, 2014

ENTERTAINMENT - Happy Thanksgiving! - Spose - Knocking On Wood [Lyrics]

WARNING: Contains naughty language!

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HUMOR - The Confederettes - "Red State Thanksgiving"

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ENTERTAINMENT - Sam Spade Terrified Turkey Caper 1950

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

ENTERTAINMENT - The Morning After with Luke And Leia

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Sunday, November 16, 2014

ENTERTAINMENT - Christopher Lee doing a metal cover of "My Way"

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HUMOR - Winter!


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Saturday, November 15, 2014

HUMOR - Vlog Project with Dad FAIL

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POLITICS - Porn stars explain net neutrality


Porn Stars Explain Net Neutrality from Alex Chance
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MY LIFE - Flashback to when daughter got asked out

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

HISTORY - Africa, Uncolonized: A Detailed Look at an Alternate Continent

By Frank Jacobs


What if the Black Plague had killed off almost all Europeans? Then the Reconquistanever happens. Spain and Portugal don't kickstart Europe's colonization of other continents. And this is what Africa might have looked like. 

The map – upside down, to skew our traditional eurocentric point of view – shows an Africa dominated by Islamic states, and native kingdoms and federations. All have at least some basis in history, linguistics or ethnography. None of their borders is concurrent with any of the straight lines imposed on the continent by European powers, during the 1884-85 Berlin Conference and in the subsequent Scramble for Africa. By 1914, Europeans controlled 90% of Africa's land mass. Only the Abyssinian Empire (modern-day Ethiopia) and Liberia (founded in 1847 as a haven for freed African-American slaves) remained independent.


This map is the result of an entirely different course of history. The continent depicted here isn't even called Africa [1] but Alkebu-Lan, supposedly Arabic for 'Land of the Blacks' [2]. That name is sometimes used by those who reject even the name 'Africa' as a European imposition. It is therefore an ideal title for this thought experiment by Swedish artist Nikolaj Cyon. Essentially, it formulates a cartographic answer to the question: What would Africa have looked like if Europe hadn't become a colonizing power? 

To arrive at this map, Cyon constructed an alternative timeline. Its difference from our own starts in the mid-14th century. The point of divergence: the deadliness of the Plague. In our own timeline, over the course of the half dozen years from 1346 to 1353, the Black Death [3] wiped out between 30 and 60% of Europe's population. It would take the continent more than a century to reach pre-Plague population levels. That was terrible enough. But what if Europe had suffered an even more catastrophic extermination – one from which it could not recover?

To read more - http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/africa-uncolonized

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Monday, November 10, 2014

ENTERTAINMENT - David Bowie Asks Iman If They Should Just Do Lasagna Again

The man who once played the role of a pansexual alien and came to drunken blows with Lou Reed in a restaurant, looks through the fridge with his wife, a Somali supermodel.

NEW YORK—Saying he would be fine “just taking a load off” and eating in, rock icon David Bowie reportedly asked his wife, Somali supermodel and actress Iman, if they should just do lasagna for dinner again Monday.

The 66-year-old singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and producer, who once reinvented himself as a gender-bending extraterrestrial rock star named Ziggy Stardust, as well as an emotionless Aryan superman named The Thin White Duke, then looked through the couple’s refigerator and, noted they still had a jar of Mario Batali pasta sauce and a “pretty full” box of lasagna noodles in the cupboard...

Bowie and Iman, who are currently deciding whether or not they want to make garlic bread with their salad.

Sources confirmed the nine-time platinum recording artist—who claimed at one point in the 70s to have subsisted on a diet of red peppers, cocaine, and milk—then preheated the oven, started boiling a pot of water, and searched around inside the kitchen cabinets, at one point asking Iman if she had seen the “good baking pan.” In addition, Bowie, who allegedly had an affair with Rolling Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger at the pinnacle of the glam rock era, suggested that the “fridge needed a quick wipe down” while grabbing a carrot, a cucumber, and a box of organic spinach to make a quick salad. Iman, one of the fashion world’s most legendary ethnic supermodels, noted philanthropist, and entrepreneur, reportedly ripped a page off of a notepad hanging on the refrigerator door and wrote “Windex, aluminum foil, milk” below a lengthy list of items...

Sources confirmed the rock legend, recognized for mixing British mod, mime, and Japanese kabuki styles to bring art rock to a mainstream audience, pulled on a windbreaker, slipped on a pair of Asics sneakers, and reportedly spent several minutes considering his grocery list...

Hey, hon, DVR The Amazing Racenow so we don’t miss the opening,” said the man who once hallucinated that witches wanted to steal his semen to produce a child to be slaughtered in a satanic sacrifice. “And just text me if you need me to pick up anything else.”...

For the full article - http://www.theonion.com/articles/david-bowie-asks-iman-if-they-should-just-do-lasag,34097/
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POLITICS - Potty-Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism by FCKH8.com

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Sunday, November 09, 2014

MY LIFE - Flashback to planning my 50th bday

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Saturday, November 08, 2014

HUMOR - Adult Wednesday Addams



Adult Wednesday Addams - Wednesday has finally moved out of the Addams Manor. First on the agenda: Find an apartment. Second: Terrorize everyone. - Wednesday interviews to be an assistant at a cutthroat Hollywood agency. Good thing cutting throats is one of her special skills. - Wednesday discovers the perils of online dating. Her date discovers the perils of Wednesday. - The morning after a drunken hookup is always awkward, and sometimes lethal.

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HUMOR - ALL ABOUT THAT BASE

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SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY - VINYL AND STYLUS AT 1000X MAGNIFICATION

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/vinyl_and_stylus_at_1000x_magnification


Here’s a neat image of a record and a stylus at 1000x magnification. It’s pretty incredible to see the etched grooves on the record up close and how they interact with the needle. I’ve always known how record players worked, but seeing the process magnified like this is way cool. 

The photos come from Microscopic Images on Twitter.


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Monday, November 03, 2014

MY LIFE - Two work emails about a yellow liquid!



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Sunday, November 02, 2014

ENTERTAINMENT - Shatner does "Bohemian Rhapsody"

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CULTURE/SOCIETY - Police Report Spike in Violent Crime Over Weekend Due to Early Christmas Music

Shadyside, November 24 — The Shadyside Police Department reported a sharp spike in violent crime over the weekend, attributed to the early start of Christmas music in area stores.

The Department reported 7 aggravated assaults, 2 robberies at gunpoint, 3 car thefts and 24 arrests for public intoxication.

At a press conference late Sunday evening, Police Chief Jim Burgles remarked, “It appears that many subjects have been provoked by near-constant playing of Christmas carols throughout the city.”

One victim of one such a crime, Martha Vanderwhip, told of her horrifying experience. “I was shopping in Target, looking at the salad spinners on sale, and this man came up to me and started screaming,” recounted Mrs. Vanderwhip tearfully. “He was saying, ‘I can’t take it any more, I can’t take it any more,’ and he smelled like eggnog. He was holding this pink Christmas tree and waving it around like a weapon, knocking over all the candy cane displays.”

Store security staff managed to tackle the man and restrain him with strands of tinsel, according to Shadyside Target Manager Bing Whitman. The deranged man has not been identified by police.

The City Mental Health Commission also noted a rise in the volume of calls to the Municipal Crisis Hotline over the weekend. “People with fragile mental health may be driven over the edge by the unseasonably early excess of holiday spirit,” said Commissioner Luisa Gonzalez, “and they should not be afraid to seek help.”

Origin site - http://shadysideusa.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/violent-crime-spikes-over-weekend-due-to-early-christmas-music/

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HUMOR - Frankenstein’s Monster Goes Trick-or-Treating

BY MATT PASSET

You call me Frank. It just easier. People think me called Frankenstein because of doctor who make me. But me not him. Me his monster. Me get called Frankenstein so much that me make peace with it. Better though just call me Frank.

It funny story how me end up doing trick-or-treating this year with nephew Kevin. Kevin not really nephew, but he call me Uncle Frank because his dad-creator, Dave, is close friend. Frank best man at Dave’s wedding, to Tracy. Tracy sometimes a bit much to take, but Frank try to get along with her. Before Halloween, Dave say he taking Tracy out of town. Need to have day to “talk about us,” so they ask Frank to take quote-unquote nephew to trick-or-treating. “Frank already have costume,” they joke. Tracy make joke sound mean. Me agree to go, because me care for quote-unquote nephew Kevin...

At next house, nice old lady answer door and give Kevin Tootsie Roll. She say Frank’s costume good. Dave tell me this would happen because Frank’s clothes look like costume. Jacket tattered, but Frank always say comfort over fashion. So me thank old woman (maybe witch or maybe just also bad fashion sense). Kevin say thank you, too...

At last house, young couple say bolts in Frank’s neck look real. Frank smile polite but couple reach out to touch bolts. Frank get scared and kill couple. Feel sad but was only thing Frank could do...

To read full piece - http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/frankensteins-monster-goes-trick-treating

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