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Saturday May 23, 2009
. . . .Doesn't it seem that Memorial Day weekend is about a week early this year?
. . . .I've turned the playlist back on. If you want to watch the videos below, you've got a couple of choices. (1) Hang around, read the last 10 posts and let it play through, it's great music, and it will give you about a half-hour to kill. (2) If you want to pause it, go up to the upper left hand corner and look for the narrow bar in the player labeled "Podbean". Look to the extreme left hand side, and there are three buttons. The middle button is the play/pause button. Just push it, and you can halt the music and go ahead and watch the two videos embedded in yesterday's post, both of which are really good. Now, if you want my recommendation, catch up on your reading, let the playlist play out, then watch the videos. Best of both worlds!!
. . . . .OK, so it's the weekend, and even I get cheesy. This week's Time has an good feature called "In Case You Missed It", a quick overview by Paul Slansky of just about everything that has happened this preposterous week. You really should check it out at the jump here.
. . . .And over at Tina Brown's Daily Beast, they serve up this little piece that covers this week in culture: music, books, movies, the arts. Another good quick overview. You can catch it at the jump here.
. . . .And over at Politico, you can catch up on the week in video, or you can just catch up on this week in Politi-quotes; the week in one-liners.
. . . . .Over at Wired, they're reporting in the Threat Level blog on an intriguing one that ties into the piece below. Last year, the Fermi National Accelerator Lab received a 2 sentence coded message sent anonymously in a hand-addressed envelope through regular mail that now has the scientists at the Lab and even outside crypto-coders that have had a look at it stumped. They're asking for public help on it.
. . . .Which ties in perfectly with yet another "unsolved mystery". You do realize that the Kryptos sculpture commissioned several years ago and placed outside CIA headquarters in Langley, VA has not been cracked yet, don't you? And that includes the Agency's top crypto guys and the NSA guys.
. . . . Well, the folks at Morgan Stanley figured out a way around the bonuses restrictions on TARP money, they're just doubling their salaries next year. Along with Bank of America and UBS.
. . . . I am going to give Colin Powell more props and recognition. He's taking to the airwaves to answer his critics within the Republican Party, (read Dick Cheney & Rush Limbaugh). Colin is not one to back down from a fight, and those two windbags should have known better than to try and knock him publicly and not be willing to say it to his face.
. . . .And speaking of Cheney, who is at best an annoyance, irrelevant to today's world and political scene and someone who is definitely pursuing his own agenda. Mr. Cheney isn't making the noise he's making for the singular purpose of his own paranoid delusions and bitterness at losing power, no, this whole thing has been a shill for his "book". But he wants a hefty advance up front to "write" it. (read that dictate to a ghostwriter).
. . . .It's Memorial Day weekend, go thank the veterans in your life for their sacrifice, kiss your kids, tell the ones you love out loud that you do. Seize the precious moments, before they slip through your hands. This rodeo is a one-way ticket, and no one gets out alive. We don't get to negotiate the terms and circumstances of how the ticket gets punched. It's not about yesterday, or tomorrow. It's about right here, right now, this ain't no dress rehearsal. Change your world, and in so doing, change the world around you.
. . . .Got your back, out there in the night.
The Desolation Angel
[where: Hell, Michigan]
. . . .Doesn't it seem that Memorial Day weekend is about a week early this year?
. . . .I've turned the playlist back on. If you want to watch the videos below, you've got a couple of choices. (1) Hang around, read the last 10 posts and let it play through, it's great music, and it will give you about a half-hour to kill. (2) If you want to pause it, go up to the upper left hand corner and look for the narrow bar in the player labeled "Podbean". Look to the extreme left hand side, and there are three buttons. The middle button is the play/pause button. Just push it, and you can halt the music and go ahead and watch the two videos embedded in yesterday's post, both of which are really good. Now, if you want my recommendation, catch up on your reading, let the playlist play out, then watch the videos. Best of both worlds!!
. . . . .OK, so it's the weekend, and even I get cheesy. This week's Time has an good feature called "In Case You Missed It", a quick overview by Paul Slansky of just about everything that has happened this preposterous week. You really should check it out at the jump here.
. . . .And over at Tina Brown's Daily Beast, they serve up this little piece that covers this week in culture: music, books, movies, the arts. Another good quick overview. You can catch it at the jump here.
. . . .And over at Politico, you can catch up on the week in video, or you can just catch up on this week in Politi-quotes; the week in one-liners.
. . . . .Over at Wired, they're reporting in the Threat Level blog on an intriguing one that ties into the piece below. Last year, the Fermi National Accelerator Lab received a 2 sentence coded message sent anonymously in a hand-addressed envelope through regular mail that now has the scientists at the Lab and even outside crypto-coders that have had a look at it stumped. They're asking for public help on it.
. . . .Which ties in perfectly with yet another "unsolved mystery". You do realize that the Kryptos sculpture commissioned several years ago and placed outside CIA headquarters in Langley, VA has not been cracked yet, don't you? And that includes the Agency's top crypto guys and the NSA guys.. . . . Well, the folks at Morgan Stanley figured out a way around the bonuses restrictions on TARP money, they're just doubling their salaries next year. Along with Bank of America and UBS.
. . . . I am going to give Colin Powell more props and recognition. He's taking to the airwaves to answer his critics within the Republican Party, (read Dick Cheney & Rush Limbaugh). Colin is not one to back down from a fight, and those two windbags should have known better than to try and knock him publicly and not be willing to say it to his face.
. . . .And speaking of Cheney, who is at best an annoyance, irrelevant to today's world and political scene and someone who is definitely pursuing his own agenda. Mr. Cheney isn't making the noise he's making for the singular purpose of his own paranoid delusions and bitterness at losing power, no, this whole thing has been a shill for his "book". But he wants a hefty advance up front to "write" it. (read that dictate to a ghostwriter).
. . . .It's Memorial Day weekend, go thank the veterans in your life for their sacrifice, kiss your kids, tell the ones you love out loud that you do. Seize the precious moments, before they slip through your hands. This rodeo is a one-way ticket, and no one gets out alive. We don't get to negotiate the terms and circumstances of how the ticket gets punched. It's not about yesterday, or tomorrow. It's about right here, right now, this ain't no dress rehearsal. Change your world, and in so doing, change the world around you.
. . . .Got your back, out there in the night.
The Desolation Angel
[where: Hell, Michigan]
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