Lauren’s first day of school
She’s so excited! First grade here she comes!
Arcade Ambience Project
The new agers dig their beach and forest sounds. But if your teen years occurred in the 80’s, arcade noise is where it’s at. Take an aural journey back to your childhood courtesy of the Arcade Ambience Project.
Download hour long ambient mp3s from 1981, 1983, 1986, and 1992. It’s interesting to hear how the sounds changed over the years.
1981 is what does it for me.
Palin? (!)
Rumblings this morning are that McCain will select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.
I hope so. What a breath of fresh air this would be. I’ve been supportive of this idea since I heard her name floated 6 months or so ago. Young, attractive, mother of 5, pro-life, pro-gun, with an approval rating north of 80%. What’s not to like?
Anyone else would be more of the old, stodgy, politics as usual.
This is getting interesting.
Update - Not interested in Tom Ridge. Less interested in Meg Whitman, although she does have an edge as a political outsider.
Update2 - Everyone’s confirming…it’s Palin! Very cool.
Biden?
Kind of have to laugh a bit about the Joe Biden selection as Obama’s running mate.
I mean really. (Youtube video)
Part of me sort of wants Obama to win. Of course it’s the petty part that is sick of listening to the 8 years of liberal whining.
It also would probably put one-note “talent” like Olbermann and Stewart out of business. They’ve made their careers by ripping Bush. Without him as a foil, they’ve got nothing left.
Radiohead tonight!
Diane and I are going to see Radiohead tonight at the “Susquehanna Bank Center.” We’re in section 202, Box 53, which is pretty much right in the center of the amphitheater bowl.
Opening is a band named “Grizzly Bear”. I’m not familiar with them, beyond this weird video. Desert shenanigans…
UPDATE - We’re back…and exhausted, but it was a mind-blowing show.
Set List
15 Step
There There
Morning Bell
All I Need
National Anthem
Videotape
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
The Gloaming
Where I End and You Begin
Faust Arp
No Surprises
Jigsaw falling into place
Idioteque
Climbing up the walls
Nude
Bodysnatchers
Encore
House of Cards
Lucky
Go Slowly
Just
Street Spirit(Fade Out)
Encore 2
Reckoner
Planet Telex
Everything in it’s right place
Here’s some video I shot…
(15 Step)
(All I Need)
(Faust Arp)
Dark Knight
Diane and I went to see “The Dark Knight” last night, and we both really enjoyed it. It’s very highly rated, and that rating is well deserved.
The first half of the movie was flawless. Heath Ledger was compelling, and Christian Bale was wonderful again (despite the distracting mole.) The only problem I had with the film was that it was overlong. When Joker was captured, the thing could’ve come to a graceful end right there and nobody would’ve complained. Instead they chose to take the film off on a much weaker direction - mostly the story of Two Face Harvey Dent. It’s a minor “niggle” and doesn’t mean that I think that the Dark Knight is a bad film.
I’m just saying that the second half was softer than the first.
A productive Geoday
True…
Star Wars Art
Penguin Crisis
On the heels of Al Gore’s nonsensical “challenge“, from the AP comes the alarming news: Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil
With a headline like that, you just know what’s coming:
But biologist Erli Costa of Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University suggested weather patterns could be involved.
“I don’t think the levels of pollution are high enough to affect the birds so quickly. I think instead we’re seeing more young and sick penguins because of global warming, which affects ocean currents and creates more cyclones, making the seas rougher,” Costa said.
As I mentioned a few days back…climate change has become TRUTH. Any behavior we don’t understand can now be attributed to climate change, without the inconvenience of actually doing the science.
