by Chris Barrus
I’ve mentioned the New York City model before, but I had no idea there was a model San Francisco Bay too. Built by the Army Corps Of Engineers in the 1950s, the giant 1.5 acre model is used to study bay tides, currents, and hydraulic forces. The model is in Sausalito and is open to the public.
Who are the first passengers going into space? Lawyers apparently. From the looks of it we’ll need a lot of them, but at least you can pitch them into the sun faster from earth orbit.
“To give up a plate of pasta for a diet is, in my view, blasphemy”
Low-carb food makes it’s way to Europe and big surprise – hilarity results.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Janet Chisholm: gardener, enthusiastic rambler, and MI6 agent.
Mutter Museum director Gretchen Worden passed away a couple days ago and her obituary is as interesting as the museum itself.
Having a bad day? Be glad you aren’t landing a 747 in crosswinds at Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong.
Been listening to random play iPod in the car lately and on today’s trip out to the storage unit I got the following genius sequence:
Shocking Blue – “Pickin’ Tomatoes”
Fleetwood Mac – “I Know I’m Not Wrong”
Young Marble Giants – “Include Me Out”
Jerry Goldsmith – “You’re A Foolish Man Mr. Flint” (from the In Like Flint soundtrack)
Deep Purple – “Speed King”
“An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy.” And as they say, hilarity ensues…
The voltage regulators on Apple’s 17″ flat panel monitors have been failing and there’s a great deal of justified hand-wringing and irate anger at Apple’s inflexible out-of-warranty strategy which is to replace the monitor at a $500+ cost. If your Apple LCD is flaking out, go directly to Monitor Experts in Anaheim – they can fix them at a fraction of the price.
Not affiliated with them in anyway, just a satisfied customer with three formerly dead displays.
Yeesh. The latest AMG site redesign is quite possibly the worst site redesign ever. Browsing by genre, theme, etc. is now “subscriber content” (attention BugMeNot!), less information is now listed on an artist page and there’s this:
“Notice: You are accessing allmusic.com with a browser that is not currently supported. The appearance and functionality of the site could be impacted. allmusic.com is optimized for Internet Explorer 5.5 and above for Windows.”
Firefox and Safari users apparently have to step to the rear of the bus. Sorry AMG, I’m out – I’ll pop in for the occasional discography check, but feel free to drop dead in the meantime.