That Music

I have been following the Piano Guys on YouTube. And all I can say is wow. I am not sure of what ll they use to play and ampify. I may have seen a vox ac30 as well as other things that I know of. These guys take music and make it great. I love watching the videos. Here is a video of them playing.

Google Car

The better question may be whether it will ever be ready for the road at all? The car has fewer capabilities than most people seem to be aware of. The notion that it will be widely available any time soon is a stretch. From the article: "Noting that the Google car might not be able to handle an unmapped traffic light might sound like a cynical game of 'gotcha.' But MIT roboticist John Leonard says it goes to the heart of why the Google car project is so daunting. 'While the probability of a single driver encountering a newly installed traffic light is very low, the probability of at least one driver encountering one on a given day is very high,' Leonard says. The list of these 'rare' events is practically endless, said Leonard, who does not expect a full self-driving car in his lifetime (he’s 49)."

How it gets started

Did you know that health care insurance started during WWII as a result of the FDR policy of no wage increases. Companies to attract the most qualified people had to offer more. So started health insurance paid for by the employer. This has effects to everyone including such places as allred insurance and many others. It just amazes me that we take something small and move it into a huge mountain.

Well i hope you have a greatday

A cool news mini series

It seems that Elton John is working on mini series that will focus on music from the 1700s. I cannot wait for this. It will remind me to get some new stuff from musiciansfriend.com. I love history and music so this series will be awesome. I hope you have a really good day.

Cool New Miniseries

It seems that Elton John is working on mini series that will focus on music from the 1700s. I cannot wait for this. It will remind me to get some new stuff from musiciansfriend.com. I love history and music so this series will be awesome. I hope you have a realy good day.

Installing in the Car

SO I was working on some electronics in my car to install an iPad. Well I needed to buyheatshrink.com to set the wires in correctly and nice and smooth. I have to say that it works great. Now my iPad goes into my car and just snaps in well. I am just amazed at how well it works and how awesome it works. I will have to get pictures and post them. Have a good day.

Looking Down

I learned recently that if you go through downtown Charleston, South Carolina that you look up and see these balconies without doors. They all have windows. Wierd. Why? Well I learned this while getting a couples massaging with my wife. I asked the person giving it the most odd bit opf trivia they know. They told me this. But more important was the reason. Ready wait for this. There was a tax on doors. So there were only windows for the balconies. Imagine that people making choices based on avoiding taxes.


Have a great day.

Balcony-DELTED

I learned recently that if you go through downtown Charleston, South Carolina that you look up and see these balconies without doors. They all have windows. Wierd. Why? Well I learned this while getting a couples massaging with my wife. I asked the person giving it the most odd bit opf trivia they know. They told me this. But more important was the reason. Ready wait for this. There was a tax on doors. So there were only windows for the balconies. Imagine that people making choices based on avoiding taxes.


Have a great day.

balconiesDELETED

I learned recently that if you go through downtown Charleston, South Carolina that you look up and see these balconies without doors. They all have windows. Wierd. Why? Well I learned this while getting a asked the person giving it the most odd bit opf trivia they know. They told me this. But more important was the reason. Ready wait for this. There was a tax on doors. So there were only windows for the balconies. Imagine that people making choices based on avoiding taxes.


Have a great day.

Dueling Banjos

I really like movies. One of the movies that I like is of course Deleveriance. Some things are really bad about it. Others are not so much. So earlier today when I was out goofing off in the music store, some one decided that they were going to play on All of sudden dueling banjos started playing. I was rather impressed with the quality of the playing. Well I hope you have a most happy day.

She sort of blinded me with science

This is really good news:

 "John Ioannidis, the epidemiologist who published an infamous paper entitled 'Why most published research findings are false', has co-founded an institute dedicated to combating sloppy medical studies. The new institute is to focus on irreproducibility, waste in science and publication bias. The institute, called the Meta-Research Innovation Centre or METRICS, will, the Economist reports, 'create a "journal watch" to monitor scientific publishers' work and to shame laggards into better behaviour. And they will spread the message to policymakers, governments and other interested parties, in an effort to stop them making decisions on the basis of flaky studies. All this in the name of the centre's nerdishly valiant mission statement: "Identifying and minimising persistent threats to medical-research quality."'"

Lists

One of the things that you really need as time has been going on is the people who give us stuff like real estate agent checklist. I mean the more things I do the more I find that I like check list. At one time I made a great checklist for buying a used car. However, that list has joined the great files in the sky. I wish I could find.

 I hope you have a great day

Well this is fine.

"The implants being deployed were once reserved for a few hundred hard-to-reach targets, whose communications could not be monitored through traditional wiretaps. But the documents analyzed by The Intercept show how the NSA has aggressively accelerated its hacking initiatives in the past decade by computerizing some processes previously handled by humans. The automated system – codenamed TURBINE – is designed to 'allow the current implant network to scale to large size (millions of implants) by creating a system that does automated control implants by groups instead of individually.' In a top-secret presentation, dated August 2009, the NSA describes a pre-programmed part of the covert infrastructure called the 'Expert System,' which is designed to operate 'like the brain.' The system manages the applications and functions of the implants and 'decides' what tools they need to best extract data from infected machines."

Jam Jams

So my friends were looking looking at some new drums. Wondering around they looked at the One of things is that I love hanging with this band is they will just play and start jamming in stores. What is really fun is that we will hit the piano stores and have lots of fun. One place has asked us not to do it to return. The other two love us there and have sold pianos. Well I hope you have a great day.

And here we go

I have been waiting for this for quite a long time.

"In a report released today, Gartner predicts that the time is drawing near when 3D-bioprinted human organs will be readily available, an advance almost certain to spark a complex debate involving a variety of political, moral and financial interests. For example, some researchers are using cells from human and non-human organs to create stronger tissue, said Pete Basiliere, a Gartner research director. 'In this example, there was human amniotic fluid, canine smooth muscle cells, and bovine cells all being used. Some may feel those constructs are of concern,' he said. While regulations in the U.S. and Europe will mean human trials of 3D printed organs will likely take up to a decade, nations with less stringent standards will plow ahead with the technology. For example, last August, the Hangzhou Dianzi University in China announced it had invented the biomaterial 3D printer Regenovo, which printed a small working kidney that lasted four months. Apart from printing tissue, 3D printing may also threaten intellectual property rights. 'IP will be ignored and it will be impossible or impractical to enforce. Everything will change when you can make anything.' said John Hornick, an IP attorney."

Loving Music

With all of todays high tech gadgets in music such as We have music for the last 400 years but prior to musical notation we have scant little surviving music.

Think of that in relation to Greece and Rome. To places that we study in history greatly. But we have no known music. We have lyrics, just not music.

Have a great day.

Oops

Well this is a real oops, maybe.

"A recent study of hard drive reliability by Backblaze was deeply flawed, according to Henry Newman, a longtime HPC storage consultant. Writing in Enterprise Storage Forum, Newman notes that the tested Seagate drives that had a high failure rate were either very old or had known issues. The study also failed to address manufacturer's specifications, drive burn-in and data reliability, among other issues. 'The oldest drive in the list is the Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB drive from 2006. A drive that is almost 8 years old! Since it is well known in study after study that disk drives last about 5 years and no other drive is that old, I find it pretty disingenuous to leave out that information. Add to this that the Seagate 1.5 TB has a well-known problem that Seagate publicly admitted to, it is no surprise that these old drives are failing.'"

9th Circuit

"Reuters reports, 'A blogger is entitled to the same free speech protections as a traditional journalist and cannot be liable for defamation unless she acted negligently, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. Crystal Cox lost a defamation trial in 2011over a blog post she wrote accusing a bankruptcy trustee and Obsidian Finance Group of tax fraud. A lower court judge had found that Obsidian did not have to prove that Cox acted negligently because Cox failed to submit evidence of her status as a journalist. But in the ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Cox deserved a new trial, regardless of the fact that she is not a traditional reporter. "As the Supreme Court has accurately warned, a First Amendment distinction between the institutional press and other speakers is unworkable."... Eugene Volokh, [a] Law professor who represented Cox, said Obsidian would now have to show that Cox had actual knowledge that her post was false when she published it. ... "In this day and age, with so much important stuff produced by people who are not professionals, it's harder than ever to decide who is a member of the institutional press."' Further details are available at Courthouse News Service"

Running into someone I know

I was talking with one of my kids today. And well I went down memory lane. When getting married in in the late 80s I was working in Santa Monica and this guy who called himself dance doctor was getting started. Well my wife and I took lessons from him for our first dance.

What can I say good days. I really do miss Santa Monica and those times.

Have a great day

Well I think this is a good thing

Amazing all the little problems with eliminating incandecesent light bulbs. 

"A new budget deal reached today by the U.S. Congress walks back the energy efficiency standards that would have forced the phase out of incandescent bulbs. 'These ideas were first enacted during the Bush administration, via the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Incandescent bulbs were unable to meet the standards, so they would eventually be forced off the market in favor of LEDs and compact fluorescent bulbs. But Republicans have since soured on the bill, viewing it as an intrusion on the market and attempting to identify it with President Obama. Recent Congresses have tried many times to repeal the standards, but these have all been blocked. However, U.S. budgets are often used as a vehicle to get policies enacted that couldn't pass otherwise, since having an actual budget is considered too valuable to hold up over relatively minor disputes. The repeal of these standards got attached to the budget and will be passed into law with it.'"

Ancient Rome and Plumbing

One of the things that still amaze me about rome is how advanced their plumbing was. While they could not dial up reid supply co and order the most amazing things. Rome had public toliets and more besides the aquaduct. Imagine brining in fresh water with only using gravity. It is just amazing.

 Well I hope you have a great day and wonderful future.

Can I say wow

"Retail giant Target continues to drastically downplay the impact of the massive data breach it suffered during December, even while admitting the number of customers affected is nearly twice as large as it had previously estimated. Target admitted today the massive data breach it suffered during the Christmas shopping season was more than twice as large and far more serious than previously disclosed. A Jan. 10 press release admits the number of customers affected by the second-largest corporate data breach in history had increased from 40 million to 70 million, and that the data stolen included emails, phone numbers, street addresses and other information absent from the stolen transactional data that netted thieves 40 million debit- and credit-card numbers and PINs. 'As part of Target's ongoing forensic investigation, it has been determined that certain guest information — separate from the payment card data previously disclosed — was taken during the data breach' according to Target's statement. 'This theft is not a new breach, but was uncovered as part of the ongoing investigation.' The new revelation does represent a new breach, however, or at least the breach of an unrelated system during the period covered during the same attack, according to the few details Target has released. Most analysts and news outlets have blamed the breach on either the security of Target's Windows-based Point-of-Sale systems or the company's failure to fulfill its security obligations under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)."

I wonder

I wonder what people in the future will think when they look back at us in the USA and the political system. I think in 200 years it will be called the era of ill-will. This assumes that there are still US History classes. I think I might be better off going to austin mattress stores and take a nice nap on nice bed.

Have a nice day