I was studying the Patriots' defense, they were decent in points allowed at 21.4 points per game, 15th in the league. That's their theory, points are what matters. One of the players I was looking up stats for was Patrick Chung, the Chinese-Jamaican safety for the Pats from Kingston and the Oregon Ducks. He missed 7 games this season and then came back for the playoffs. His return has helped that defense to look sharper since.
I mention he's from Kingston only because, during my research, I stumbled on the fact that Chung's mother is the Jamaican singer Sophia George who had a Top-10 hit in the UK with the track "Girlie Girlie" in 1985. Not only that, the song "Girlie Girlie" was the theme song to Adam Sandler's very first star vehicle, 1989's "Going Overboard."
A struggling young comedian takes a job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy. The film was shot entirely on a ship filled with beauty queens from all over the United States. The camera crew forgot to bring a box of extra lenses on the ship so the DOP was forced to shoot with a single lens.
Question...Adam Sandler is a Jets fan but he was raised in New Hampshire for a time-- who must he say he wants to win Super Bowl 46?
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If you ever watch Pawn Stars you have seen this painting. It has been seared into my memory. It now might be one of the most recognizable images in the entire history of art. The show gets 5-7 million viewers per episode.
You probably know but what that is is a painting of Jim Morrison done by the "speed painter" Denny Dent who died in Denver in 2004 of complications from a heart attack.
What speed painting is was him rapidly creating a painting on black canvas with multiple brushes and his bare hands to a musical accompaniment.
His work was usually done onstage in front of an audience or at a gathering. In fact, he got his start at a vigil for John Lennon in 1980. John Lennon died in New York City in 1980 from multiple gunshot wounds.
Well, the NFL season is over but it won't leave a huge whole in my life this time for I do have other interests. For one: I plan to re-watch most of the 6 seasons of the Rockford Files.
I love that character. There's probably no other TV character that I still feel as warmly about even though they aren't, never were or will be, real. Maybe Hawkeye from M*A*S*H, I haven't watched that in a while. The shit just found him. He would take a case about some little thing and it would turn into a big mess. Rockford would just chug ahead doing mostly the right thing, often against his own instinct of self-preservation, until he solved the case by doing the unglamorous legwork. I like the show because the "good" people in it are usually 65/35 good-bad, practically real.
He never ranted about "common pond scum, how it blocks the sun and strangles the depths of the pure waters"-- he wasn't a creep or a vigilante.
His fee was 200-a-day plus expenses.
Someone asks him:
Q: Don't you trust anybody?
A: My father...but he's bonded.
Visually it conveys a pastiche of run-of-the-mill Los Angeles, there's a lot of driving, people eating tacos and drinking beer. It was the time when Prop 13 just was kicking in. Rockford lived on the beach in Malibu in a trailer, that spot must be worth a billion now. I wonder if he held onto it? (...I've been informed that Rock didn't actually own the land at 28128 Pacific Coast Highway or at 29 Cove Road-- he just parked his trailer there and paid rent on the spot or something. I did find a real estate listing in that area going for about $3.9 million, however.) He was neither naive nor casually cynical but understood well the humanity of others, for him empathy was not a weakness. I suppose it was something like a Chandleresque update but since it was TV all the dots got connected in G-rated fashion.
And that theme song, it was a radio hit. That arrangment really influenced me in a deep way. The TV-jingle chamber group of drums, bass, harmonica, dobro and electric guitars, flutes, French horns, trombones with a Minimoog as the lead voice. Real instruments. It featured a faceless guitar solo that I later found out was done by Larry Carlton who played on records by Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, and the Partridge Family, among others.
As much as I like knowing details about commercial music recordings I sometimes wonder if I don't like hearing music better when it is unattached to any specific ego or story. That could be why I never really enjoyed the music video era. Not very Rockford of me, though, to be so bitter and judgmental.
I watch more Canadian football than hockey or American college football, I admit it. When I was very young you could find it on TV. So it's in the happy memory vault near the Guess Who and Tim Horton's doughnuts; filed under exotic tastes. Planning ahead by forging these obscure flashes into future nostalgia pays off yet again. Nowadays the NFL network broadcasts the CFL so I am set.
The CFL (an eight team league) had two teams with the same name for a while. They had the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Even though the "spelling" was slightly different it was confusing and attracted general ridicule.
The Ottawa Rough Riders went out of business in 1996 but a new Ottawa team is supposed to be up and running in a couple years. Falling attendance and financial mismanagement were blamed for their demise.
Example: in 1995, Ottawa drafted Derrell Robertson of the defunct Las Vegas Posse with a fourth round pick in a dispersal draft of teams that folded after the CFL attempted to expand into the United States. Unfortunately, Derrell Robertson had died the previous December in a car accident.
I like the CFL: its humanity, the open-field free kick, the front-center goal posts, the positioning of two kickers in the end zone to defend a field goal attempt, three downs, the kicker advancing the ball, and the forward motion of the backfield. It's a different game, really; not a substitute or alternative.
The Howling Hex, new recordings, "Wilson Semiconductors"-- OUT NOW.
Click the image here to jump to Drag City's page for downloads and other availabilities.
Cable, there's nothing like it, the last 15 minutes of "No Country for Old Men" and then a new episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." I don't have the DVR system so I am at their mercy. Sometimes they come through.
I'm going to split the website into 3 things, so ".COM" will stay the usual stream of opposites and bullsh&t, while ".NET" will be just pictures and audio ETC not words, and there will also be "thehowlinghex" which will be a little note each day leading up to next years' election.
I am finally out of the desert so I have a lot of energy. The Howling Hex has another batch of recordings coming out in December with Drag City, recorded in El Paso over the summer. If you're driving and need a place to sleep in your car go to the empty house at the corner of nickel and 2nd off of I-10.
Yes...Green on Red:
[apparently they have called it quits after 30 years] sorry, that's from alternate timeline where the CERN particle accelerator had been built 20 years earlier.
Our goal is to develop algorithms that narrow the learning gap between humans and machines, and enable autonomous systems to "learn" the way humans do: through practice.
Rather than being programmed with detailed instructions, our systems will learn from experience. Like baby birds leaving the nest, they will be clumsy at first. Over time, however, they will become capable of sophisticated, coordinated maneuvers.
Unlike humans, these systems won't make the same mistake twice. And, when networked, they have the added advantage of being able to learn from each other's successes and failures. The result is an impressively steep learning curve.
From CANADA via iPolitics: MPs and House of Commons staff found themselves cut off from the electronic world Friday after a mysterious outage took down e-mail, blackberry service and the Parliamentary website. While some e-mail access was restored partway through the day, by late afternoon visitors to the Parliamentary website were greeted by a message saying there was an internal server error or by a message saying the service was unavailable.
It's hard to miss the message as you enter the grounds of AU Optronics' newest fab in Houli, Taiwan: The driveway winds through a plantation of 34,000 slender saplings. The company, Taiwan's biggest producer of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, has gone green. Really green.
The young forest of camphorwood and cedar trees is one of the more visible parts of the world's first fab to meet the strictest global green building standards, earning a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification...read more at IEEE Spectrum
6 large tomatoes
6 eggs
½ cup extra-virgin olive oil
6-8 romaine or boston lettuce leaves
1 garlic clove
¼ cup fresh parsley
½ tsp sea salt
3/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Begin by making the pesto. Tear the romaine leaves into small pieces. Add the romaine, garlic, parsley, salt, pepper and olive oil to a blender or food processor. Process well until you obtain a pesto consistency.
Preheat your oven to 400 F.
Remove the core of tomatoes by cutting out a large cone from the top of each one with a paring knife. Using a spoon, remove all the pulp and seeds.
Place the tomatoes, face up, in a 9" baking dish. Fill each with the same amount of pesto; however, be sure to leave enough room for the egg as well. Crack an egg into each tomato.
Season with additional salt and pepper to taste, place in the preheated oven and allow to bake for approximately 20 minutes.
NIST researchers fabricated and tested numerous nanotube interconnects between metal electrodes. NIST test results, described at a conference this week, show that nanotubes can sustain extremely high current densities (tens to hundreds of times larger than that in a typical semiconductor circuit) for several hours but slowly degrade under constant current. Of greater concern, the metal electrodes fail-the edges recede and clump-when currents rise above a certain threshold. The circuits failed in about 40 hours.
The Eyes on the Solar System interface combines video game technology and NASA data to create an environment for users to ride along with agency spacecraft and explore the cosmos. Screen graphics and information such as planet locations and spacecraft maneuvers use actual space mission data.
Are insiders more of a threat to patient privacy than outsider hackers?
That seems to be the finding of a (limited) survey by Veriphyr, a security company that finds unauthorized access to personal information that resides in IT systems, applications or databases(...)
When my cravings for meat loaf began, I immediately faced the challenge of finding ingredient(s) that I would be able to use that would act as the bonding agent for the loaf. In traditional recipes, these ingredients would most commonly be flour and eggs. As we know, there are many healthy substitutes to wheat flour that we could use successfully like almond or chestnut flour for example; however, I try as often as possible to avoid this, especially since I'm limiting my nut consumption. What I chose to use instead was mushrooms and it was quite successful! An egg and mushrooms was all that was needed to prepare a delicious and juicy meat loaf that would hold well together.(source)
