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Subject: Stream of Consciousness: a thread that cannot be hijacked


Date: Tue Aug 15 14:34:37 2017
User: Klepp
Message:
I'm not currently part of the base, though I'm also currently not not part of the base.

Date: Tue Sep 5 13:00:18 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I guess I could have stuck this into the "old music" thread, or the "new music" thread, but somehow this transcends all that. To me it's an awesome expression of the human spirit:

Link: How to make it rain inside? (and more)

Date: Tue Sep 5 13:08:03 2017
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Yikes. I actually prefer it to the original.

Date: Tue Sep 5 13:15:49 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Me too. And now, from that inspiring crescendo.......back to the humdrum of statistics. Pay attention to the section on lucky numbers. Pretty stunning. This is a subject that intrigues me, because I have a hundred or two fortunes saved (from MANY years, and only my own), and I once contemplated an art project using them - but it'll likely never happen.

Link: one of Nate Silver's guys analyzes fortune cookie fortunes

Date: Mon Sep 18 13:26:29 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:
This isn't all that exciting, but it is pretty cool. Couldn't find another appropriate thread in which to place it (although I do think one exists). Just when you think the universe in general, or the animal kingdom (among many other things) in specific, can't be any more stranger......another curve comes at you.

Link: A cockatoo squid? What will 'they' think of next?

Date: Tue Sep 19 09:07:00 2017
User: Snowguy
Message:
I hate to say this about any squid, but this one is indeed beautiful. It's avian counterpart should be proud to have it is the "family."

Date: Tue Sep 19 13:11:44 2017
User: Ginxi
Message:
thanks for posting this discussion conversation. I appreciate the different thoughts and love the stream. the differences in observations are what makes me celebrate different observations about the same topic. Enjoying the take on the same subject without discrediting the original along with spurts of humor also necessary. thanks for posting itl

Date: Tue Sep 19 19:05:15 2017
User: Snowguy
Message:
I have to admit, Ginxi, that it was I who accidentally deleted the first thread of this name. And a magnificent thread it was, too! Again, my Bad... (Discussion on this in the first couple or so posts in this thread, page 1.)

Date: Tue Sep 19 20:10:07 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:
And boy isn't the very first post in this current version of the thread even more apropos now, 3 years on?Sadly.

Date: Wed Sep 20 00:44:08 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Despite there being several earthquake threads already extant, I'm going to post this video here, because it's more about the power of such a quake in a demonstrable way, rather than the death and destruction that has accompanied it in Mexico. I'm sure most of you have seen it by now, but if not...........

Link: rather remarkable footage of "riding" an earthquake

Date: Wed Sep 20 20:11:00 2017
User: Snowguy
Message:
Apropos of nothing, regarding earthquakes, I was just watching "The Sting," an old classic starring Redford and Newman. Early on in the film, an elderly black grifter scores, with Redford, a major hit against a number racket, in a con. Because of this, Luther Coleman is offed. His death leads to a revenge Sting against the head of the numbers (and a number of other) rackets. However, when I saw that Luther Coleman was portrayed by Robert Earl Jones, that was just too much of a coincidence. Sure enough, Robert (a prize fighter and an actor with a pretty broad resume, was the father of James Earl Jones. Who knew.

Date: Wed Sep 20 22:22:16 2017
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Just a few years before the release of "The Sting," James Earl Jones starred in "The Great White Hope," with Jones playing champion boxer, Jack Jefferson. (You may have been assuming that everyone knew this, Snowy, but it was worth pointing out.)

Date: Thu Sep 21 16:33:21 2017
User: Snowguy
Message:
True. And, thanks, Buzz. And for the very few left who don't know this, James is also the voice of Darth Vader and "This is CNN"

Date: Thu Sep 21 17:05:37 2017
User: The_Interpreter
Message:
Fake News Voice.

Date: Thu Sep 21 21:30:08 2017
User: BuzzClik
Message:
... but Darth Vader is real. The original Rocket Man.

Date: Sat Sep 23 18:55:44 2017
User: hotnurse
Message:
Not sure where else to put this and I don't have time to search/find...but...I just happened to check my "scores" page to see how many tournaments that I have won over the years and it shows that I have won a Masters. To my knowledge, I have never won one but it looks nice under my scores. Just curious if anyone else has seen this happen.

Date: Sun Sep 24 09:25:09 2017
User: Snowguy
Message:
I would be more likely to win a Masters at Augusta than to win one in here. Basically, Zero-Zero. (Somebody let me know when everybody else can't show up?) Just too damn slow to win a contested tournament...

Date: Sat Oct 7 20:44:22 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:
This doesn't really belong in the "old music" or "new music" threads, I don't think. I just think it's pretty good. And the follow-up/background (just below, non-hyperlinked) is Byrne doing it from Jonathon Demme's movie; and it's for ix. And it's, uh, same as it ever was....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pacPzbOZ_Dk

Link: Cyrus and Fallon in a lip-sync battle

Date: Mon Oct 9 12:34:15 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Fun with ferrofluids.... No, this is not some sort of computer animation; this is real 'science'. There are many cool videos on gootube showing all sorts of "tricks", etc. This is just one example.

Link: Fun with ferrofluids

Date: Mon Oct 9 18:49:14 2017
User: BuzzClik
Message:
I'm going to loop back to the post two back concerning Fallon, Cyrus, Byrn, and (true to the title of this thread) Demme. I was spending Spring Break in NYC and took advantage of the opportunity to visit the Blue Note one evening to see a budding young jazz trumpeter, Christian Scott. It was an inspiring performance; Scott weaves a good tale in addition to coaxing fantastic music from his horn. A few tunes into his first set, Scott introduced a friend who had included one of his compositions in a recent movie. Jonathan Demme stood briefly from his seat at a table next to ours and waved. It was a thrill considering Demme directed two of my favorite movies of all time: "Silence of the Lambs" and "Stop Making Sense." I own both movies in multiple formats, and the cassette of "Stop Making Sense" was my very young son's inspiration to pursue music as a career. What a day that was.

Date: Fri Dec 1 13:07:16 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I would have put this in the "Welcome back, summer...." thread, but FAST's "sky jump" video is "no longer available". This is pretty impressive. Have I ever told you all that once upon a time I was part of a couple of projects with a guy who was developing these wind suits well before they were "a thing"?

Link: And now........for my next trick......

Date: Sat Dec 2 11:42:37 2017
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Don't try this at home....

Date: Sat Dec 2 12:34:43 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Even if one's home is Switzerland? Seems like that should be ok...

Date: Sat Dec 2 14:13:29 2017
User: Snowguy
Message:
(Speaking of "the Switzerland of Pennsylvania"): I saw a sign last week, outside a church in Jim Thorpe, PA. "RESERVED FOR PASTOR. 24 HOURS A DAY. 7 DAYS A WEEK." Covering all bases pretty nicely? (Although 'RESERVED FOR PASTOR" would have accomplished the same thing, but less explicitly.)

Date: Sat Mar 31 13:24:30 2018
User: BuzzClik
Message:
I couldn't in good conscience put this in the Interesting New Music thread because it's four years old and mimics the 80s UK import styles. This is as good a place as any, and this thread gives me the latitude to digress endlessly in describing how I found this song and what I think about it. This morning, I was streaming yesterday's The Carles Show (formerly Hipster Runoff) from SiriusXMU. Carles is a strange human being subject to emotional wanderings and headache inducing though quiet rants about the world we live in. His favorite subject is complaining about the pathetic state of indie music. He became so despondent that he sold his Hipster Runoff blog on eBay and was forced to change the name of his XMU show. Carles was in a real funk yesterday. His signature shotgun series of inane questions lacked their normal playfulness, and he sounded ready for a long stay in a comfortable, padded room. Song three on The Carles Show was by Lust for Youth, a Swedish group (made of one person, Hannes Norrvide) founded in 2009. His 2014 studio album (recorded with a collaborator) was entitled, "International," and the opening track was Epoetin Alfa. I really like the song, but never explored the lyrics. I didn't even know what Epoetin Alfa was (it's a red blood cell enhancing drug): He spins the wheel forth Wrapped in [?] flowers Imagine some to Paris to acquire His seventh title His seventh title, for people to admire Time, design, persistence He crossed the line This time, crossed the line Time, design, persistence He crossed the line This time, crossed the line You left the room graced Wrapped in [?] flowers He takes the last chance In the final hours He spins the wheel forth Spins the wheel slow Champs-Elysées, to acquire His seventh title His seventh title, for people to admire Time, design, persistence He crossed the line This time, crossed the line Time, design, persistence He crossed the line This time, crossed the line I guess Carles has been mourning the moral collapse of Lance Armstrong and wanted his listeners to share in his misery.

Link: Lust for Youth, "Epoetin Alfa"

Date: Sat Mar 31 17:02:26 2018
User: The_Interpreter
Message:
Lance Armstrong is sooooo yesterday.

Date: Sat Mar 31 19:57:12 2018
User: julia
Message:
Tenn ole buddy, I checked out your inside rain thing, which somehow led me to "Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk." It is so great! (Well I thought so anyway.)

Date: Sat Mar 31 20:14:32 2018
User: Dipper
Message:
thang. inside rain THANG

Date: Sat Mar 31 20:52:35 2018
User: julia
Message:
HA HA (hahaha)

Date: Wed Apr 18 03:27:38 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Well........I've searched in vain for much about last year's eclipse on this site; I thought it had been discussed. But no matter..... I made a very interesting discovery today, and, not surprisingly, I'm very late in doing so. I don't use many stamps, preferring to pay my bills in person, online, or with buckcoin (patent pending) or CroninKronen (patent pending) (and clever, huh?). But.........whilst visiting a local USPS establishment to 'communicate' with the U.S. Treasury, I noticed some stamps I hadn't been aware of. Excuse my geekiness, but check out the link below. These stamps come in a 4x4 array, and the utterly cool thing about them is the moon is printed using thermochromic ink. The moon covering the sun looks black - until you put your finger (or other body part or heat source, I guess) on it, at which point it changes to show craters, etc. I.e., like the moon looks when it's opposite the sun, and illuminated. VERY cool. I still have a sheet of thermo-sensitive film I ordered from Edmund Scientific, way back when I was going to do a science project (maybe in junior high school, or even elementary school?). But I never used it. Well, I came across that a couple of years ago, and it still works! But anyway, these stamps are fairly exotic, in a geeky way. Simple things for simple minds, I guess. (And julia, you didn't provide a link to "Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk". I guess I could ask mr. google, but come on.....make it easy for us.)

Link: thermochromic eclipse stamps

Date: Thu Apr 19 10:19:33 2018
User: skylark
Message:
This topic is an entirely different topic than the stream of consciousness thread and the comments I've browsed, but I recognize some of your names as having been on freecell awhile......any idea of where to go to get an email address that is not connected to the 'data-gathering' monsters of our current reality? Or where to go to find info?

Date: Thu Apr 19 11:32:30 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I had been looking at one based in Iceland, called "unseen". But got interrupted before I could finish analyzing. However, it's only *totally* secure if the other party is also using the same email. Meaning...... If you, a sender, sent an email to someone who had a hotmail, gmail, etc.-type eddress, then your communication would/could be 'observed' thru the recipient's system. But, as per your request, unseen is "not connected" to "the monsters" - at least as best as I could tell on a cursory examination. If the whole world would suddenly, *en masse*, go to this system, the world would be a WHOLE lot better place, imo. Again, I haven't fully examined it, and it's quite possible I'm off here in some of my comments. There are likely other systems, too, but they cost money. I won't provide a link, but I think you can follow your nose and locate it easily. Perhaps you could report back to us if by chance you go that direction and let us know how it is. I would most certainly change my eddress if something like that truly 'worked'. We've GOT to fix this system as it is, tho. Supposedly, the "internet 2.0" is going to be much better, but I really haven't followed those developments closely.

Date: Fri Apr 20 23:35:09 2018
User: julia
Message:
Tn - really? You could ask Mr. YouTube too. Fine.

Link: Old Movie Stars

Date: Sat Apr 21 12:22:45 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Yeah, really - but tongue in cheek, too. I mean, most of us are bombarded with stimuli and have to make choices what to click on and what to pass on. Sometimes the line is very thin, and 'easiness' is the deciding factor. That said, thanks. It's very clever, yet still suffers from the "Broadway musical" malaise. But truly, thanks. It was very well done and I'm glad you 'made' me watch it. I think at the next cellstock some of those scenes should be reenacted, no?

Date: Fri May 11 16:54:20 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
This is pretty amazing video. Asthma sufferers may want to avoid watching.

Link: "Pollination" gone to an extreme

Date: Tue May 22 02:32:21 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Edwin Moses.

Date: Tue May 22 14:03:08 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Edwin Moses.

Date: Tue May 22 21:28:24 2018
User: BuzzClik
Message:
One of my heroes.

Date: Thu Jun 14 15:36:05 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
To late-comers to this thread, I refer you to my earlier post above on Tue Sep 5 13:15:49 2017, about "lucky numbers" in fortune cookies being winners. I guess it works.

Link: Using fortune cookies to win the lottery

Date: Mon Jul 30 11:49:19 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
This is long, but pretty interesting. I'm pretty sure hotnurse's sister was not involved. (And that part's an inside joke here.) And it 'sort of' dovetails with my last post above about "lucky numbers".

Link: rigged McD's Monopoly games

Date: Mon Aug 13 13:59:17 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I almost posted this in the "speaking of tired old rockers...." thread, but there really wasn't that much Aerosmith content there. This is really pretty minor, but it *is* a cool vehicle.

Link: Aerosmith's original tour van discovered

Date: Mon Aug 13 14:07:03 2018
User: The_Interpreter
Message:
What is interesting about the picture is that the van is totally roached except for the Aerosmith logo which is almost pristine. What kind of paint do you think the Pickers used?

Date: Mon Aug 13 14:14:19 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I noticed that, too...…...altho one *could* allow for the (decent?) chance that being under trees part of the time, but mostly due to it being a vertical surface, would have helped preserve that logo. Not to mention, the paint of the logo itself would have allowed some extra protection. That said...….being semi-"reality" television, who knows?

Date: Mon Aug 13 14:22:44 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
That said………….shouldn't "The_Inquisitor" be asking that question?

Date: Mon Aug 13 15:45:07 2018
User: The_Inquisitor
Message:
Sorry, I have no question about this one, rhetorical or otherwise.

Date: Mon Aug 13 15:49:30 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
OK - but it's just alarming(?) how often(?) The_Interpreter is not living up to his/her handle. We need more interpretation nowadays in this complex world - not yet more questions.

Date: Mon Aug 13 16:36:20 2018
User: The_Inquisitor
Message:
Sometimes, an interpretation can be effectively delivered with a properly framed question, no?

Date: Mon Aug 13 19:40:12 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Well, sure.......in the context of Socratic dialogue. I would seriously doubt that was where The_Interpreter was heading. (Of course, not for me to know, but without the pickers here to engage.........just seems a stretch.) This apparent defense of The_Interpreter by The_Inquisitor almost smells of collusion, altho I'm sure that would only be "fake news", even if true. That said (again).......yes, the question was not totally void of an interpretive angle - but this type of potential deception by a national television show surely begs more for an inquisition than a mere interpretation. Or soeth it seems to this reader. We just can't exist in a world where reality TV is not real, can we?

Date: Mon Aug 13 20:37:26 2018
User: Rudy_Giuliani
Message:
NO COLLUSION! And, I have advise both The_Interpreter and The_Inquisitor not to talk to the Special Counsel.

Date: Tue Aug 14 10:15:00 2018
User: The_Revelator
Message:
Keep talking, Rudy.


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