About the time Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart was saying goodbye to the music business in favor of painting I was discovering this artist. Born a child genius sculptor he had a TV show in the 50's when he was only 5 years old. I have not been able to get people to listen to his music more than a few minutes. My old bunch of musician type friends loved him not surprisingly. My ear hears the musical genius although. America has never before and probably never will produce such a visionary

Don't order anything
you want to get high on
in a frosted glass
because of the tension

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Waiting for this in the mail

Don Henley must die
I don't like this guy so no matter what he has to say doesn't mean a rats ass to me.

"Artists are finally realizing their predicament is no different from that
of any other group with common economic and political interests. They can
no longer just hope for change; they must fight for it. Washington is
where artists must go to plead their case and find answers"

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Wireless FM transmitters
I've long wanted to devise something that would let me hijack the awful music sometimes heard in Bars and Public places with my own music. Well this wont let you do just that but it lets you connect a mobile device such as an iPod or a CD player without having to use a cassete adapter.
myirock - mp3 player encoding technology

Another week going on
Well it has been a few days since posting. Nothing to say really. Had an unfortunate skiff in my car again. Let's say I've been a little reckless but have only done minor damage and the car still drives alright. The quote from Clint Eastwoods' Dirty Harry ,"A mans gotta know his limitations Briggs", comes to mind. I think the mind sometimes goes off on a self destruct pattern to test it's own powers. The mind pushes itself to the limit in spite of itself sometimes.
It's only a matter of months before everything gets green and the weather is nice. Even though it’s been a relatively mild winter; each passing year makes me regret living in the flatland midwest. I used to enjoy winters as a kid. Now they just make me mad. Back to the drudgery of software testing.

Growing Tomatoes Upside-Down
I haven’t grown anything in quite a few years. This looks like fun especially because it's unorthodox
Growing Tomatoes Upside-Down: Gardening Tip

I've long since loved this bootleg clip of a great but obscure early Pink Floyd soundtrack of a 58 minute film by Peter Sykes made in the late 60's. The clip is 17 minutes and is all that exists since it first appeared in a 1985 bootleg. Want list :a release of both film and soundtrack. The Committee: Pink Floyd - film soundtrack music
also a link to the clip in crummy .wav format
shear weirdness

Now this took some real balls kids.
Barrie police Chief Wayne Frechette told a news conference Monday morning

Woke up disoriented. Yes I was out at the bar from lunch till dusk again. Don't like getting like that. Rode in to the village on my mountain bike at 6a.m. in ass frigid cold but it felt good somehow. Running off the road when a cop car goes by and then getting the horn by a motorist that needed to warn me of crossing the intersection on a red light. I must remind myself to get on the exercise resolution I made the first of the new year. Keeping the body in motion really clears the mind and I have forgotten how that feels. It seems that the past 10 or 12 years have been set in total lethargy. All things must change however. All that really makes me happy is when I am immersed in music or thought. Nothing matters when you loose yourself in a flow such as singing or creating abstract images on a computer. I like the Zen like state these activities put me in. But life is about suffering no matter how I like to avoid this fact. A society that constantly shields itself against any form of unhappiness makes one somewhat confused about their path. Don’t we have a constitutional right to be happy after all? Don't we deserve to be free of any suffering or discomfort? No, we just hurtle along at the ever-increasing pace of modern life without really thinking about what it is to be alive. What it is to be afraid in life. What it is to be alive. I don’t just want to be a dead person that stumbles thru life without really taking in all these questions and doubts. But the trends I see show that humanity wants its instant gratification and lust for youth. What does the awake and feeling individual do in these times? Well it certainly helps to be aware and know yourself. The only people I can relate to anymore are individuals with real self awareness and genuinely luminous souls. But these individuals seem to be far and few between as I age. Life goes on as they say.
Grey and listless day today. Looks like holeing up most of the day sort of thing.

got the Bob Dylan Blues

NRAOGB Home
Green Bank is radio astronomy's crown jewl. Over the years the telescope has played a key role in understanding the behavior of pulsars, searching for extraterrestrial life, and probing the halo of hydrogen that surrounds the Milky Way galaxy. It's one of the few facilities on the planet where astronomers can make observations at most points along the electromagnetic spectrum.