Category: Stuff I Like
Soon, You Can Björk Your iPad.
I admit, even though I love when people take “old” media and find new ways to present it with new technology, I’m torn on this story. The iPad 2 commercials that boast about how Apple’s tablet lets you “touch the stars” and “listen to a magazine” are cool and all, but Steve Jobs could probably [...]
A Little Night Music to Take You Back: “Inchworm”
How about a video? Here’s “Inchworm”, an old Sesame Street classic. Just because. My Mom used to sing this song to me when I was young and, sometimes, I’d sing the counterpoint melody — the part with the math. I still have days and nights, even as a grizzled adult, when I want my Mom [...]
Friday Night Awesomeness Break: Five Minutes of Neil Peart
If this 5-minute (give or take) Neil Peart drum solo from last night’s episode of David Letterman’s show doesn’t give you a couple good cases of the chillbumps, then we really need to talk. A few things to note: Neil was in control of all the instruments, including the big band group at the end. [...]
Now Is the Time at The Sundries Shack When We Dance!
For reasons I can not fully comprehend, one of my local classic rock radio stations has put several songs from the Grease soundtrack into its daily rotation. It’s not at all unusual to hear Jimi Hendrix follow by “Summer Lovin”. Well, on my way home from church today, the station got me. I can’t get [...]
If the World is Devoured By A Giant Space Squid on Saturday, Blame NASA
We sent a squid into space today. Let me say that again. We sent a squid into space today. Now, when I say “squid”, I don’t mean an old sailor or some sort of WWII vintage weapon. I mean we sent a ten-armed marine cephalopod into space. Oh, and it’s not just any squid. It’s [...]
A Little Monday Music, Russian-Style
Once upon a time, I did a occasional post on Monday nights called, appropriately enough, Monday Night Music. I never made a regular feature of it (though I did consider doing so, briefly) but I do like to return to it once in a while. And so I shall today! Over the weekend, while looking [...]
Naval…Lasers? Yes, Please and On A Battleship!
Oh, United States Navy, you had me at “lasers” and “pirates”. The US Navy’s MLD system, designed and built by defense contractor Northrop Grumman, is a bit different in nature. The MLD is a 15 kilowatt laser specifically designed to handle the pitch and roll of a ship deck without losing track of its target. [...]
Fifty Years in Space, But Will We See More?
I find it amazing that the entire history of manned spaceflight can very nearly fit within my own lifetime. Today marks two important anniversaries in mankind’s attempt to explore the vast universe outside our own world. Rand Simberg gives us the details. Tomorrow will be the fiftieth anniversary of the first time a human orbited the [...]
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