Gay people SHOULD NOT narrate wildlife films…. or should they?
I laughed so hard at this I hurt! All I learned is that the “honey badger is a hungry bastard and it just doesn’t give a fuckin shit!”
This is welcomed courtesy of Matt Clark – who should stop being a stranger and comment on this damned blog. Maybe he just “doesn’t give a shit like the honey badgerrr…”
These may seem pointless, but I have fun doing them. This was taken as 4 pictures and I scrapped the 4th picture (which would have been on the far right). I just stuck with these three. This is on the roof of my apartment in stinky, junky, dead beat, south philly back in September (I think). I was shooting toward North (skyline behind the tree, Delaware river to the right – not really visible, so don’t look for it!) Took this long for me to finally dig’m up and slap’m together. They look washed out intentionally so you can see the blended edges of the 3 photos – I feel that’s the point of making Connect-O-Pics in the first place.
DISCLAIMER: I do not do this for art! I do this for fun and my own amusement. The images don’t match up “perfectly” and that’s point. I’m just standing there, snapping with my cell phone, turning a little, and snapping again. Fun little exercise. It’s supposed to give you a cheap “cyclorama”, “sensaround”, or “panoramadingdong” perspective (or whatever the stupid trendy buzzword is supposed to be in the day of stupid internet fads). Then again, it might just be a psychological profile for my dormant madness.
In review:
Found this very interesting article about the sounds made by a failing hard drive. If I had a nickel for the times I have heard most of these (and yes… the Maxtor sounds are the most common. This is why I use Maxtor hard drives as door stops only).
Folks, if you care, it is a good thing to get a quiet moment, press your ear to your computer, reboot, and listen to the drives spin up. It may tell you a lot.
This site contains sound samples of various brands of hard drives in many different states of failure or near failure. Before you test your own computer, check out this site.
http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
And like Todd Rundgren said, “Now, if ya have a pair of headphones ya better get’m out and get’m cranked up, cause they’re really gonna help ya on this one…” The samples on this site are a bit hard to hear on external speakers.
I may even send you a 10 Gig Maxtor hard drive (probably not functioning) if you can make a hit song out of the sounds! HAHA! (Nobukazu Takemura is ineligible for this contest!)
And far enough not to be impacted by our sun’s solar winds…
Voyager 1 is now at the edge of solar system. It is amazing to think that this ship has less computing power then my cell phone, and yet it has seen things and will continue to see things that we can only imagine.
I think that Carl Sagan summed up the Voyager mission best and it makes me happy that even though he is no longer with us, Voyager is…and will be long after we have gone.
One of the best bass players EVER to grace modern music passed away on Jan 4. Mick Karn. (Also see his profile on All Music Guide).
He was the bass player for Japan, Rain Tree Crow, Dali’s Car, Gary Numan & Tubeway Army, No-Man and many others. I’m particularly fond of an album he did with Yoshihiro Hanno in 2000 called Liquid Glass. If you haven’t heard me play it once in a while, you probably aren’t listening. Mick Karn was heralded throughout music, even in the standard jazz genre’s as one of the best bass players around. He was also proficient with very odd (to my liking) implementation of woodwinds in rock music. He was very good at clarinet and bassoon. He used them a lot in the music he made in the 90’s with Jansen/Barbieri/Karn (or JBK) which was the instrumentalists from the band Japan.
Nobody sounds like this guy playing bass… NOBODY. If you don’t believe the power of this, try you tube’ing his name and look at all the people trying to play his bass lines.
This video is actually fun to watch and listen to. You can really hear the quality in the sound Mick Karn was driving at. Listen to this guy try to teach a Mick Karn bass line. He’s doing “Cantonese Boy” from Japan. Just the sound of the fretless bass played in this fashion gives me freakin goose bumps.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m gonna miss Mick Karn.
Okay I realize these are taken from the Mike O’meara show site, but they just have to be posted.
Chef Jeff liked this one and wants his own kackle dackle.
Ah Germany! Begs the question, “should Michael Vick be allowed to own a Kackle Dackle?”
This one is for Chris Peterson and Will…