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This is great. It is the acknowledgment my one and only dance move needed. Finally, I can do the "robot" at weddings and feel cool.
Gibson had been hurt but was in the locker room receiving treatment. Lasorda would check on him between innings to see if he could hit, the response was "no" each time. Then going in to the 9th Gibson asks for Lasorda and says, "I want to hit skipper". The rest is history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO-8XRJpgIc
They won game one of the world series because of Gibson. Cool moment.
The author does a great job as "tour guide". SG's all over the map, interesting stuff.
AhimMoonchowsen · 4798 days ago · link · · parent · post: The latest from one of my favorite RSS feeds, SurvivalRealty.com
Hmm... if this is "survival", the apocalypse can take me.
AhimMoonchowsen · 4800 days ago · link · · parent · post: Inside Facebook's massive cyber-security system
This answers a lot of questions for me. Most notably, why I never got that free iPad.
Perhaps someday there will be a "machine tax". Any company that employs a machine to do what a human once did will be taxed at a higher rate proportional to the amount of people out of work. It's not too far-fetched.
AhimMoonchowsen · 4802 days ago · link · · parent · post: Remembering 1984's Red Dawn and worried about the 2012 Remake
"I've always wondered what that movie would have looked like with, say, Tony Scott at the helm instead of John Badham".
-There would be a lot more smoke!
Came back for more today. This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
AhimMoonchowsen · 4803 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute
That makes more sense than the "steve" discrimination theory I came up with.
steve this might help: http://euri.ca/2011/03/get-around-new-york-times-20-article-...
"Disproportionate spending on our military while domestic standard-of-living spending is neglected? Check. Permanently stationing our military in forward positions all around the globe? Check. Forcibly deposing leaders who don’t accede to our goals? Check. Propping up despots who turn their local countries into clients of our project? Check. Threatening military action against other nations that are not compliant with our imperial aspirations? Check".
-Spot on.
AhimMoonchowsen · 4803 days ago · link · · parent · post: Jobs Plan Stalled, Obama to Try New Economic Drive
blah, blah, blah... it's all theatre.
AhimMoonchowsen · 4803 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute
It's free for me. Maybe they discriminate against steve -Let's face it "Steve's" have had it too easy for too long.
"Architecture aims at eternity". -Christopher Wren
This is beautiful: http://thomasprior.com/photo.php?nCatID=37&nPID=530&...
Seems to be a lot of quantum levitation "floating" around Hubski today. -nothing wrong with that though. Amazing stuff: http://hubski.com/pub?id=6608
No worries, it was worth seeing twice. Very exciting science.
"cheesecake, tamale"
Thank you for this. Great way to start my day, in fact I'm watching it again.
Great storyteller. Hilarious.
Any community is a sum of it's parts. That's what I think it looks like.
AhimMoonchowsen · 4813 days ago · link · · parent · post: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview
..."more social justice, you know... "Jesus stuff". -WELL SAID!
When I was at Obama's inauguration, I saw this same fox news reporter, wearing a bow-tie interviewing idiots on the street asking antagonistic questions in hopes that someone would gaff or just sound stupid. This time he picked the wrong guy and it's a good thing that someone had the presence of mind to capture it on video.
AhimMoonchowsen · 4813 days ago · link · · parent · post: NASA Timelapse of Southern Lights from ISS
Great video, beautiful.
This led me here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0xaCYo2d6Q A good refresher course on escape velocity and orbiting velocity.
AhimMoonchowsen · 4817 days ago · link · · parent · post: U-M Plays Big Role in New Comedy "Answer This"
I'm in.
You're right. But who knows what the future delivery system is? Musical pheromones? JK.
They will be weaponized.
"You'll never see a collector have the original digital copy (on a USB drive I suppose) of an album in their gallery the way that they might have the first press of a record.". -I don't disagree with this, necessarily. But, I bet when 8track, cd's etc were released there were plenty of people that tossed their vinyl because they couldn't conceive of anyone ever wanting those "relics" ever again.
The same may be true for mp3 someday. Who knows what different consumption devices we will have? It could be that someday mp3 players seem so very "tactile" compared to whatever advanced listening system is devised?! -Time will tell
AhimMoonchowsen · 4824 days ago · link · · parent · post: New Myspace Owners Set to Finally Unveil Their Strategy Today
I think myspace has about as much of a chance to become "relevant" again as Friendster does.
Of Course! What's not to fancy?
Jim Henson was a genius. This thread could go on all day: My obsession as a child:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW23YcaBHUg
Good call, that is an amazing video. I saw it for the first time a couple years back. Great stuff. I have a daughter and I recently played her this video that I loved when I was a kid. That first long arial shot is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFLZ-MzIhM
Still think the banjo is one of the coolest instruments.
AhimMoonchowsen · 4827 days ago · link · · parent · post: Unless politicians actually do something about the world economy, be afraid
While its indisputable that gold has remained a benchmark of value for thousands of years and has almost always appreciated and while I agree that after a financial calamity abates, it will remain valuable... I'm not convinced that it would retain it's value after a MAJOR catastrophic collapse of financial markets. I feel like gold has been "grandfathered" in. If there were to be a clean slate, I don't see gold being the "standard". But it's likely this clean slate would only come at the cost of a major revolution -and the victors make the rules. If the current owners of wealth are on the prevailing side, then gold will keep it's place atop the heap of treasures. If the lower economic class prevails then it's likely to be something else. Perhaps chewing tobacco or hummels?
AhimMoonchowsen · 4827 days ago · link · · parent · post: Unless politicians actually do something about the world economy, be afraid
I agree with your assessment, land does seem the best investment. I only asked because of how absurd I think it is that people divest their assets to purchase "gold". -Makes no sense to me as far as an apocalyptic safety net goes.
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