Happy New Year
Posted: December 31, 2010 Filed under: Deep, Videos Leave a comment »As Vernon Reid tweeted earlier:
Happy New Year to those parts of the world already in the future!
Grateful Dead – Althea 03-28-81
Posted: December 29, 2010 Filed under: Videos 2 Comments »Check out this video on YouTube:
Freshly Tuned Piano
Posted: December 28, 2010 Filed under: Recording 2 Comments »I had the piano tuned today — and learned that the recommended interval between tunings is only six months! Not quite what I was expecting. Jordan Kitts offers a “health plan” for pianos: $464 for four tunings. Yeesh. Here’s what they say in their literature:
Improper or irregular maintenance can cause problems that will become progressively worse, causing your piano to develop an unpleasant tone and an unresponsive touch even if it sounds in tune.
Yeesh.
Here’s the piano, in tune.
More Judt on Trains
Posted: December 27, 2010 Filed under: Deep, Transportation Leave a comment »The railways were and remain the necessary and natural accompaniment to the emergence of civil society. They are a collective project for individual benefit. They cannot exist without common accord (and, in recent times, common expenditure), and by design they offer a practical benefit to individual and collectivity alike.
Snow Day
Posted: December 26, 2010 Filed under: Photography 1 Comment »I’ve got nothing this evening. Here’s a picture of a greyhound lying in bed.
A Good Spot To Ride It Out
Posted: December 23, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Via Treehugger today, I read the Guardian’s piece on the conversion of this English coastal watchtower into a residence. Sounds nice. The comments thread on the story is also high quality. I liked this one:
If there’s one place to ride out the zombie apocalypse…
40 Percent
Posted: December 22, 2010 Filed under: Deep Leave a comment »I have to say I was shocked by this one, via Political Wire:
A new Gallup poll finds that 40% of Americans believe God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago, while 38% believe God guided a process by which humans developed over millions of years from less advanced life forms. Just 16% believe that humans developed over millions of years, without God’s involvement.
