Finding New Music

So one of the things my son wants is a and I am just not sure he is ready. However, he has money and it is burning a hope in his pocket for a new guitar. As I mentioned earlier, this is the son that liked to play with me and we have a great realtionship and we still enjoy playing together. Though I think I like it more than he does. I hope you have a really good day.

More cool news

This is really really cool. I love when this stuff happens.

The BBC reports that researchers have discovered a huge pool of meltwater beneath Greenland's ice sheet, trapped "in the air space between particles of ice, similar to the way that fruit juice stays liquid in a slush drink." From the article, based on research published in Nature (Paywalled; here's the abstract): "The scientists say the water is prevented from freezing by the large amounts of snow that fall on the surface of the ice sheet late in the summer. This insulates the water from the air temperatures which are below freezing, allowing the water to persist as liquid all year long. Other researchers believe this discovery may help explain disparities between projections of mass loss by climate models and observations from satellites."

Black hole fun

Well I found this to be neat.

"NASA's WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) satellite was looking at a distant galaxy, some 3.8 billion light-years away, and saw something rather unusual. At first they thought that they saw a galaxy was forming new stars at a furious rate, but upon closer checking, they found that they were seeing two supermassive black holes spiraling closer and closer to each other. The dance of this black hole duo started out slowly, with the objects circling each other at a distance of about a few thousand light-years. As the black holes continued to spiral in toward each other, they were separated by just a few light-years. Supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies typically shoot out pencil-straight jets, but in this case, the jet showed a zig-zag pattern. According to the scientists, a second massive black hole could, in essence, be pushing its weight around to change the shape of the other black hole's jet. Visible-light spectral data from the Gemini South telescope in Chile showed similar signs of abnormalities, thought to be the result of one black hole causing disk material surrounding the other black hole to clump. Together, these and other signs point to what is probably a fairly close-knit set of circling black holes, though the scientists can't say for sure how much distance separates them."

Around and Around

I remember the early days, for me at least, of mixing tapes. I would sit there and record LP to cassasstte tape. I loved doing things that other kids could not do becasue their dad did not have the equipment. Now today
Well I hope you have a good day.

Moores Law

Moore's Law says that every 18 months speed doubles. Well that seems to be coming to an end.

"Broadcom Chairman and CTO Henry Samueli has some bad news for you: Moore's Law isn't making chips cheaper anymore because it now requires complicated manufacturing techniques that are so expensive they cancel out the cost savings. Instead of getting more speed, less power consumption and lower cost with each generation, chip makers now have to choose two out of three, Samueli said. He pointed to new techniques such as High-K Metal Gate and FinFET, which have been used in recent years to achieve new so-called process nodes. The most advanced process node on the market, defined by the size of the features on a chip, is due to reach 14 nanometers next year. At levels like that, chip makers need more than traditional manufacturing techniques to achieve the high density, Samueli said. The more dense chips get, the more expensive it will be to make them, he said."

Play it Loud

So as I struggle to understand some of the new music stuff, esp the lyrics and when to use I find myself getting perplexed. I know how I used turntables to play my favorite songs now the kids are playing music in a new way that I do not understand. I have to confess I mught be getting older.

Well I hope that you have a great day. and as one of my all time favorie LPs starts, PLAY IT LOUD!

Bitcon and BOA

Well this is fun

"Bank of America has issued a research report suggesting that the crypto-currency Bitcoin could become 'a major means of payment for e-commerce' on its way to emerging as 'a serious competitor to traditional money transfer providers.' The bank attaches a 'maximum market capitalization' of Bitcoin at roughly $1,300, based on its position as a 'major player in both e-commerce and money transfer' as well as 'a significant store of value with a reputation close to silver.' Bitcoin has come close to exceeding that theoretical ceiling in recent weeks, although its valuation dove today after the People's Bank of China decided to declare it a volatile 'currency' without real legal status; that financial institution is also concerned about its use in money laundering and black markets. Bank of America sees Bitcoins' advantages as low transaction costs, its finite supply (which will protect its value), and its increasing attractiveness as an alternative to 'traditional' cash. As with the People's Bank of China, however, the bank sees the currency's extreme volatility and lack of legal backing as a bad thing, and frowns at the possibility that regulators could step in and increase transaction costs. 'A 50 minute wait before payment receipt confirmation is received will prohibit wider use,' the report adds. 'This is less of an issue for two parties that know each other because they trust the other will not double spend, but when dealing with an anonymous counterparty this creates a high level of unhedgeable risk.' Without a 'central counterparty' to verify transactions and thus mitigate that risk, Bitcoin could fail to break into wider use."

Stepping Up

So the place where I work at . . is looking for a some new sound equipment. After several years of putting off it is time to buy some new mics and speakers. And let me tell you it is time. I as amazed at how bad they were. So I was suggesting some for the music to sound good. I am really looking forward to the next event with music to sound great. Have a good day

BOOOOO

"Google is beta-testing a program that uses smartphone location data to determine when consumers visit stores, according to agency executives briefed on the program by Google employees. Google then connects these store visits to Google searches conducted on smartphones. If someone conducts a Google mobile search for 'screwdrivers,' for instance, a local hardware store could bid to have its store listing served to that user. By pairing that person's location data with its database of store listings, Google can see if the person who saw that ad subsequently visited the store.It is easiest for Google to conduct this passive location tracking on Android users, since Google has embedded location tracking into the software. Once Android users opt in to location services, Google starts collecting their location data as continuously as technologically possible."

Wedding Time

A good friend just bought the wedding band sets and has been ready since being engaged for a few months. What amazes me is how much he spent vs what I spent. We spendt about the same and his looks better. I would expect that inflation would make mine better. Well I hope you have a good day.

Uhm becasue I would rather have chocolate cake with mustard than a Windows machine "Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror is trying to figure out why the battery life for devices running Windows is so much worse than similar (or identical) devices running other operating systems. For example, the Surface Pro 2 made great strides over the original Surface Pro, increasing web-browsing battery life by 42%, but it still lags far behind Android and iOS tablets. The deficit doesn't get any better when Windows is run on Apple hardware. Atwood says, 'Microsoft positions Windows 8 as an operating system that's great for tablets, which are designed for casual web browsing and light app use – but how can that possibly be true when Windows idle power management is so much worse than the competition's desktop operating system in OS X – much less their tablet and phone operating system, iOS?' Anand Lal Shimpi is perplexed, too. Atwood is now reaching out to the community for answers: 'None of the PC vendors he spoke to could justify it, or produce a Windows box that managed similar battery life to OS X. And that battery life gap is worse today – even when using Microsoft's own hardware, designed in Microsoft's labs, running Microsoft's latest operating system released this week. Microsoft can no longer hand wave this vast difference away based on vague references to "poorly optimized third party drivers." ... I just wish somebody could explain to me and Anand why Windows is so awful at managing idle power.'"

Hippie music

I have been conned into playing, well not really conned it just took some convincing. Sone kids at the school who are wanna be hipster want me to go with them to the coffee place and play on open mic night. They want to do old hippie songs that I play. So I am in need of some new for my ole tennesse flat top box. Well maybe I should post some video of this. I am sure there will be some on youtube. Have a great day.

Now if we could get the govt to agree

"Nissan today said it will begin demonstrating autonomous vehicle technology on its all-electric Leaf this year, and plans to begin selling multiple models of self-driving cars by 2020. Nissan said it's already building an autonomous drive proving ground in Japan. Its goal is availability across the model range within two vehicle generations. The car company, which is among several others and Google in developing autonomous driving tech, is currently working with top universities, including MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford and The University of Tokyo, to develop its self-drive technology."

Uhm yeah.

So some of my students are looking at taking up instruments this year. So some are looking for beginner flute. The ones who are really wanting to do it . . . they have to work at concessions. They want an easy way out and play in the pep band. Well I hope you have a good day.

Almost funny

Well if this is not a barrel of monkeys.

"An outbreak of measles tied to a Texas megachurch where ministers have questioned vaccination has sickened at least 21 people, including a 4-month-old infant — and it's expected to spread further, state and federal health officials said. 'There's likely a lot more susceptible people,' said Dr. Jane Seward, the deputy director for the viral diseases division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ... All of the cases are linked to the Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, Texas, where a visitor who'd traveled to Indonesia became infected with measles – and then returned to the U.S., spreading it to the largely unvaccinated church community, said Russell Jones, the Texas state epidemiologist. ... Terri Pearsons, a senior pastor of Eagle Mountain International said she has had concerns about possible ties between early childhood vaccines and autism. In the wake of the measles outbreak, however, Pearsons has urged followers to get vaccinated and the church has held several vaccination clinics. ... 'In this community, these cases so far are all in people who refused vaccination for themselves and their children,' [Steward] added. The disease that once killed 500 people a year in the U.S. and hospitalized 48,000 had been considered virtually eradicated after a vaccine introduced in 1963. Cases now show up typically when an unvaccinated person contracts the disease abroad and spreads it upon return to the U.S."

What we find.

I ama amazed at how some of the changes can get people. One of my really good friends who is the the business of appliance packages has had made lots of changes. He has been getting help from others on these business changes. However, it all makes me wonder how easy it will be for future people to enter a new business. I hope that you have a really good day

Vay-Kay

One of things I have been looking forward to us going on vacation I have always thought that a couples massage chicago would be really nice. I mean just laying there together. THen go shag like crazy in the hotel room. That sounds like fun to me.

So I wonder what else to do esp next weekend as that is my last till Thanksgiving. And that one is already taken up. So I need a good weekend trip starting on Thursday night.

Oops

If China punishes olympic athletes for failing gold. What will this say?

"MIT Technology Review reports that APT1, the China-based hacking group said to steal data from U.S. companies, has been caught taking over a decoy water plant control system. The honeypot mimicked the remote access control panels and physical control system of a U.S. municipal water plant. The decoy was one of 12 set up in 8 countries around the world, which together attracted more than 70 attacks, 10 of which completely compromised the control system. China and Russia were the leading sources of the attacks. The researcher behind the study says his results provide the first clear evidence that people actively seek to exploit the many security problems of industrial systems."

Really wonder about some things

Ok how does this work

"After a link to VLC showed up in one of HBO's DMCA takedown requests, I recalled how often I've linked to VLC in my own copy, and how often I've seen that app noted across traditional-media outlets — even though you could make the same arguments against linking to it that Judge Kaplan bought in 2000. Now, though, even the House's own IT department not only links to this CSS-circumventing app but endorses it. Question is, what led to this enlightenment?"

Running Quicker

Well one of the things that one of my friends restraunts had a serious computer issue. Well I went in the next day, with my Iolo disk defragmenter and a few other tools. After a couple of hours of work on his system is working so much better and running fast. He is quite happy and I bet the servers will be even happier.

 Well I hope you have some great computers.

Everything that flows to one to another

THanks MS and google

"Lucre from Microsoft's newly minted bug bounty program is lining the pockets of Google researchers. Two Google employees earned the distinction of receiving some of the first (official) monetary rewards under the company's bounty program. Fermín Serna, a researcher in Google's Mountain View, California headquarters, said he received a bounty issued by Microsoft this week for information on an Internet Explorer information leak that could allow a malicious hacker to bypass Microsoft's Address Space Layout Randomization (or ASLR) technology. His bounty followed the first ever (officially) paid to a researcher by Microsoft: a bounty that went to Serna's colleague, Ivan Fratic, a Google engineer based in Zurich, Switzerland, for information about a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 11 Preview. Serna declined to discuss the details of his discovery until Microsoft had a patch ready to release. But he said that any weakness in ASLR warranted attention. 'Mainly all security mitigations in place depend on ASLR. So bringing that one down, weakens the system a lot and makes it easy the exploitation of other vulnerabilities,' he said. As for his bounty, Serna (whose resume includes work for Microsoft on the MSRC Engineering team) said it was 'way less' than the maximum $11,000 bounty for a full, working exploit that bypasses all the Windows 8 mitigations (which includes ASLR as well as the Data Execution Prevention or DEP technology). 'But still nice!'"

Everything that flows to one to another

"Lucre from Microsoft's newly minted bug bounty program is lining the pockets of Google researchers. Two Google employees earned the distinction of receiving some of the first (official) monetary rewards under the company's bounty program. Fermín Serna, a researcher in Google's Mountain View, California headquarters, said he received a bounty issued by Microsoft this week for information on an Internet Explorer information leak that could allow a malicious hacker to bypass Microsoft's Address Space Layout Randomization (or ASLR) technology. His bounty followed the first ever (officially) paid to a researcher by Microsoft: a bounty that went to Serna's colleague, Ivan Fratic, a Google engineer based in Zurich, Switzerland, for information about a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 11 Preview. Serna declined to discuss the details of his discovery until Microsoft had a patch ready to release. But he said that any weakness in ASLR warranted attention. 'Mainly all security mitigations in place depend on ASLR. So bringing that one down, weakens the system a lot and makes it easy the exploitation of other vulnerabilities,' he said. As for his bounty, Serna (whose resume includes work for Microsoft on the MSRC Engineering team) said it was 'way less' than the maximum $11,000 bounty for a full, working exploit that bypasses all the Windows 8 mitigations (which includes ASLR as well as the Data Execution Prevention or DEP technology). 'But still nice!'"

Fourth of July

I am looking forward the fourth of July this week. We always have a big feast with lots of grilling and of course corn and more. I love the grilling and we do dogs and burgers. We recently obtained a aluminum picnic table that goes so well in out fenced in backyard. Of course then we are lucky in that we live in a place where you can actually do fireworks without a problem.

Being safe

I am amazed at the usefulness of many things. For example, a key chain which is actually a kubaton can be useful in a tight situation. IT is the single best close contact weapon when you are not having any other choice of what to do and will be well used.

Well I hope that you have a great day.

Blackmail and more

"A Franklin, Tennessee man has been indicted for his attempt to blackmail Mitt Romney. Michael Mancil Brown allegedly claimed his intent to release some of Romney's pre-2010 tax documents unless one million dollars was converted to Bitcoins and deposited into an account which he specified. Demand letters were sent to Republican and Democratic Party offices in Tennessee, and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (whom he claimed to have stolen the documents from). Pricewaterhouse Coopers denies that he ever obtained such documents. Brown was also attempting to "sell" the documents to others (presumably the Democrats or other interested parties) for the same amount. And yes, he was apparently well aware of the Dr. Evil reference."

Cyber Spys

Well this is some fun news. "Cyber espionage, crime, and warfare are possible only because of poor application or system design, implementation, and/or configuration,' argues a U.S. Air Force cyber security researcher. 'It is technological vulnerabilities that create the ability for actors to exploit the information system and gain illicit access to sensitive national security secrets, as the previous examples highlight. Yet software and hardware developers are not regulated in the same way as, say, the auto or pharmaceutical industries.' 'The truth is that we should no longer accept a patch/configuration management culture that promotes a laissez-faire approach to cyber security."

Looking Forward

Well I am working on having a garage sale. One of things that I would really to do is buy some serious wholesale yard signs so that I can advertise. I have never had much luck with garage sales. They have been problamatic for me and not making much money and having lots of hard work. So I am trying one more to see what is going one with everything. HAve a most happy day.

Well this is fun

I am amazed at the level of iphone intergration.

"the reporters of the Chicago Sun-Times are being given training in iPhone photography, to make up for the firing of the photography staff. From the CoM story: 'The move is part of a growing trend towards publications using the iPhone as a replacement for fancy, expensive DSLRs. It's a also a sign of how traditional journalism is being changed by technology like the iPhone and the advent of digital publishing.'"

Printing Food

How in the world does this work??

"According to Quartz, '[Anjan Contractor's] Systems & Materials Research Corporation just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA tocreate a prototype of his universal food synthesizer. But Contractor, a mechanical engineer with a background in 3-D printing, envisions a much more mundane — and ultimately more important — use for the technology. He sees a day when every kitchen has a 3-D printer, and the earth's 12 billion people feed themselves customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store. Contractor's vision would mean the end of food waste, because the powder his system will use is shelf-stable for up to 30 years, so that each cartridge, whether it contains sugars, complex carbohydrates, protein or some other basic building block, would be fully exhausted before being returned to the store.' No word yet on whether anyone other than the guy trying to sell the technology thinks it'll make palatable food."

Part 2 Of the old Mom in Law House.

So now that my son is all set up out there with his own sound proof studio and all the Pro Tools he could want with his band. He now needs to attract people to pay him to use the sound studio. I keep remembering seeing the Buddy HOlly story movie that they had a cricket in the studio they could not find. It provided several things in the movie and eventually the name of the band.

I do miss Buddy Holly, Ricky Valance, and the Big Bopper since they went down on the day the music died. I wonder how music would have changed.

Can yahoo make it??

My thought it no.

 "Fresh off purchasing Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Yahoo has moved to the next stage of what's becoming a company-wide reboot: fixing Flickr, the photo-sharing service that it acquired in 2005 and subsequently allowed to languish. Yahoo boosted Flickr accounts' individual storage capacity to one free terabyte, revamped the Website's overall look, and launched a new Flickr app for Google Android, among other tweaks. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer clearly wants her company to fight toe-to-toe on features with Google and Facebook, but she faces a long road ahead of her: not only does she need to streamline Yahoo's cumbersome corporate structure and product portfolio into something that resembles fighting shape, but she needs to reverse the general perception that Yahoo is teetering on the edge of history's trash-bin, with an aging customer base and unexciting features. The question is, could anyone actually pull it off? Is Yahoo capable of an Apple-style turnaround, or are its current actions merely delaying the inevitable?"

Avoid Migraine.

Well not only has my son taken over the Mother in law house on my property he is now using it for his band and has outfitted it with all the best tools likeDERP DERP DERP HERP and has managed to mostly sound proof it. He now has the only sound proof recording studio in town and now seems to be making some money. Granted it is not the best recording studio but it is the only one in town. The good news is that he and his band can not practice out there without giving me a migraine. Have a good day.

What else would you expect

What else would you expect from the government. "CNN anchors Erin Burnett and Carol Costello have interviewed Former FBI Counterterrorisim specialist Tim Clemente. In the interviews he asserts that all digital communications are recorded and stored. Clemente: 'No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not.' 'All of that stuff' — meaning every telephone conversation Americans have with one another on U.S. soil, with or without a search warrant — 'is being captured as we speak.' 'No digital communication is secure,' by which he means not that any communication is susceptible to government interception as it happens (although that is true), but far beyond that: all digital communications — meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like — are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. To describe that is to define what a ubiquitous, limitless Surveillance State is."

Warm?

Well It is not time to pull the DERP off and time to hit the lakes. The real problem is the weather has been so cold lately that I am afraid I might hit an iceberg on the lake. Okay it is not that cold . . . but it really seems it. Well I am ready for the season to start now if mom nature would be so kind to warm up a little, or spring, as Al Gore calls it: "absolute proof of global warming" Have a great day

Good question

I am thinking this is a good question.

"These days, when something in the world goes very wrong, it seems as if everybody learns about it first on Twitter and Facebook. In the minutes after homemade bombs turned the finish line of the Boston Marathon into a crime scene, terms such as #BostonMarathon shot to the top of Twitter's Trends list; across the country, office workers first learned of the attack when someone posted a message on a Facebook page. Social networks have become this generation's radio, the default conduit for the freshest information. As first responders treated the wounded and the minutes ticked past, news organizations began vacuuming up Twitter and Facebook posts from around Boston and posting it on their Websites, along with 'regular' text updates. A Vine video-snippet of a bomb going off near the finish line, knocking a runner off his feet, ended up embedded into dozens of blog postings. When a disaster strikes, and many of those same news Websites post 'live updates' that incorporate tons of social-networking posts, they face accusations of exploiting the tragedy in the name of pageviews and revenue. That's not surprising—long before 'yellow journalism' became a term, people have charged news organizations with playing up humanity's worst for their own gain. In the immediate aftermath of the Boston bombings, online pundits lashed out against Mashable, The Verge, Wired, and other publications that had posted live updates, accusing them of stepping outside their usual coverage areas for cynical gain. In the following piece, a number of tech editors-in-chief, including The Verge's Joshua Topolsky and Mashable's Lance Ulanoff, talk about their approaches to covering the tragedy."

Changing outside

I am working on doing some new changes around the property that I would like to change and fix around here. In my pool I am thinking of luminaire lighting to brighten things up again for the outdoors. We are also considering some new out of doors furniture. I am sure my wife has many other ideas of what she wants. Well I hope that you have most happy day.

Sweden is at it again

Well this does seem off.

"Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, a.k.a. 'anakata,' co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has been indicted by a Swedish court on charges of computer hacking and fraud. The prosecuting attorney said, 'A large amount of data from companies and agencies was taken during the hack, including a large amount of personal data, such as personal identity numbers of people with protected identities.' According to Ars, 'The first count of hacking involves allegedly unlawfully using another person's username and password to search Infotorg, a well-known massive privately held commercial database of "private individuals, companies, properties and vehicles." The second count, as previously reported, involves an alleged hack dating back to 2010 of Logica, a Swedish IT firm that contracts with the Swedish tax authority. In March 2012, Logica was hit by an online attack that resulted in around 9,000 Swedes (Google Translate) having their personal identity numbers and names released to the public. ... The third count of hacking, allegedly taking place between July and August 2012, accuses Svartholm Warg of unauthorized access of major Nordic region bank Nordea's computers. The fraud charges accuse Svartholm Warg of allegedly transferring and attempting to transfer money from Nordea to other unauthorized bank accounts.'"

Selling Back

I love buying and selling textbooks. My daughter likes to sell books at becksbooks.com. I mean buying, use and sell always works so well for me. I also suggest that people use older editions of text books as they seem to be cheaper and seldom have that much which is noew. Well I hope that you have a happy and joyful day.

Self Driving Cars

Well what do you know self-driving cars are not near?

"Technology Review has a piece on the reality behind all the hype surrounding self-driving, or driverless, cars. From the article: 'Vehicle automation is being developed at a blistering pace, and it should make driving safer, more fuel-efficient, and less tiring. But despite such progress and the attention surrounding Google's "self-driving" cars, full autonomy remains a distant destination. A truly autonomous car, one capable of dealing with any real-world situation, would require much smarter artificial intelligence than Google or anyone else has developed. The problem is that until the moment our cars can completely take over, we will need automotive technologies to strike a tricky balance: they will have to extend our abilities without doing too much for the driver.'"

A good time.

Not sure what to make of everything. I have a friend who is a teacher who enjoys honey cigars in his off time. HE manages to enjoy several things that are really nice. Granted he is really really smart in all that he does. We have one really good cigar place in town that allows people to smoke fine cigars and serves good food. Well I hope that you have a great day.

Green stuff from mercury

Now this is fun.

 "The green rock found in Morocco last year may be the first known visitor from the solar system's innermost planet, according to meteorite scientist Anthony Irving, who unveiled the new findings this month at the 44th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. The study suggests that a space rock called NWA 7325 came from Mercury, and not an asteroid or Mars."

Courts and Text Messages.

"The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that text messages are private communication (Official Ruling) and therefore police are required to get a warrant to gain access to the text messages of private citizens. The CBC reports: '[Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman] Abella said the only practical difference between text messaging and traditional voice communications is the transmission process. "This distinction should not take text messages outside the protection to which private communications are entitled," she wrote.'"


Good job for Canada

Get that music right out of my head

Well how do we get the song out of our head.

"Richard Gray reports that scientists have found a way to help anyone plagued by those annoying tunes that lodge themselves inside our heads and repeat on an endless loop — when snippets of a catchy song inexplicably play like a broken record in your brain. The solution can be to solve some tricky anagrams to force the intrusive music out of your working memory allowing the music to be replaced with other more amenable thoughts. 'The key is to find something that will give the right level of challenge,' says Dr Ira Hyman, a music psychologist at Western Washington University who conducted the research. 'If you are cognitively engaged, it limits the ability of intrusive songs to enter your head.' Hyman says that the problem, called involuntary memory retrieval, is that something we can do automatically like driving or walking means you are not using all of your cognitive resource, so there is plenty of space left for that internal jukebox to start playing. Dr Vicky Williamson, a music psychologist at Goldsmiths, University of London, says that the most likely songs to get stuck are those that are easy to hum along to or sing and found that that Lady Gaga was the most common artist to get stuck in people's heads, with four of her catchy pop songs being the most likely to become earworms – Alejandro, Bad Romance, Just Dance and Paparazzi. Other surveys have reported Abba songs such as Waterloo, Changes by David Bowie or the Beatles' Hey Jude."

A Fix

My stove at home is really kind of well how do say . . . odd? tempermental? annoying? Well I bought some machine leveling mounts and it took away all my problems. I know that sounds trite. But it took away the vast majority of my stove issues. I am just so glad to have my stove back. The odd part is that the fix for the stove was somewhat of an overkil but still quite worth the money.

I hope that you have a great day.

No to google glasses

Well here we are. We have the first person saying no to google glasses.

"A popular Seattle bar and restaurant has posted a notice on its Facebook page warning patrons that wearing Google Glass will not be tolerated. "Ass kicking will be encouraged for violators", wrote Dave Meinert, owner of the 5 Point Cafe, perhaps in a mock aggressive tone. GeekWire reports that Meinert raised privacy concerns in an interview with a local radio station: 'People want to go there and be not known and definitely don't want to be secretly filmed or videotaped and immediately put on the Internet.' A subsequent FB post includes more Meinert musings on Google Glass: 'They are really just the new fashion accessory for the fanny pack & never removed Bluetooth headset wearing set,' along with unflattering photos of a pair of early adopters."

Emotions and Andriod

This is fun "At a SXSW panel titled, 'Android's Principles for Designing the Future,' Helena Roeber (who headed up Android's UX research from 2007 through 2012) and Rachel Garb (who leads interaction design for Android apps at Google) discussed the complex philosophy behind Android's design. Roeber went back to the very beginning, recounting Google's Android Baseline Study, in which the team made in-home visits to study how people use technology. 'We saw the profound effect that technological design has on people's lives,' she said. 'Technology had become so pervasive that people had started to schedule and enforce deliberate offline moments to spend time with their family and friends.' From that study, the team learned that users were often overwhelmed by their options and 'limitless flexibility,' leading them to consider how to design a mobile operating system that wouldn't beat those users over the head (at least in the proverbial sense) on a minute-by-minute basis. Instead, they focused on an interface capable of serving features to users only when needed. That meant creating an interface that only interrupts users when needed; that does the 'heavy lifting' of the user's tasks and scheduling; that emphasizes 'real objects' over buttons and menus; and that offers lots of chances for customization. All those elements— and many more — eventually ended up in Android's trio of design principles: 'Enchant Me, Simplify My Life, and Make Me Amazing.'"

Good Job Texas

Go Texas Go. "The Supreme Court may have approved the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens for just about forever, but the good old state of Texas isn't going to take that lying down. Texas lawmakers don't believe that cell phone location data is fair game for law enforcement, and a couple identical bills filed in Texas's House and Senate would provide sweeping protections for private cell users."

Frazzle

Life seems more random then ever. I seldom know which end is up and which is down. I really and frazzeld and more.

McVodaka

Went to a really good bar last night. There was a great band and the amount of stuff they had was amazing. I talked with them during the breaks between sets. They were talking about they save on mackie srm450. It was amazing at how they good they were playing. They talked about how they were in the groove all night. Well I hope that you have a great day.

Needing Future

I like going out to eat and having some really good food. We are needing some more money so I can to some better places. Well I hope that you have a great day.

49ers and Falcons and Commercials

I am in the middle of watching the championship game on fox. I have a real problem with the 49ers. I am afraid they are going to be down by three at the end. Starting in the second quarter it has turned into a defense game. Well I hope that you have a freally good day.

Watching an LP being cut

I like listening to music and watching it being made. I have a friend who is just cut a studio LP last night. I went to watch and support him. When he pulled out the mxl 990 at music123 and starting singing he was even more amazing then I thought. and rememberd. He has a small tour with his band. I am really proud of my former student. I will include a link soon. Have a most musical day

Love FB Playoff season

I really like football playoff season. I manage to go out to eat way to much just to watch football. I kinda like doing this.

Today I am rooting for the 49ers. I love their qb and the way that moves and escapes. Seems like they never really know what he is foinf to be doing. I have to confess the one things I do not like are the commercials.

have a great day.

Starting Business

One of the things I have found over time is that when starting up something you really need the right look which if you do not have the right look you can forget all about sales. So I do suggest cheap letterhead printing at zooprinting.com for your letterhead. As long as things look good. Cost to you do not matter.

I have sen people spend lots and lots of money with little results.

so do it right the first time and do not undermine yourself.

Have a most happy day.

Ahh for another day of food

I went out today with the fam and had the worst service. One of the odd things is that target stores are willing to match prices from amazon.com but people want better service. And I am afraid this is not going to happen with this genration of kids. Have a happy day.