Same. They strait told us coming up anyone that had flight line related occupation can just pencil in minimum 20% hearing loss, even with all the PPE and so forth.
Hayseed Dixie redid a bunch of AC/DC songs as bluegrass and they work. Bluegrass being the traditional music of us mountain people I find an appreciation of it used this way.
I can understand the "itch" as you call it. My natural inclination on any topic is skepticism and to immediately go the opposite way of the crowd on general principle. But you have to balance such impulses with being a truth-seeker. Granted that is very different intellectual exercise, maybe even a spiritual one in some ways, but it is the barrier that keeps you from going too far down the rabbit hole of "there is no truth" which is where you wind up if everything is a conspiracy.
I get the impressions that it really is this sort of pseudo-intellectual rebellion thing. Challenging science, or existence of God, or whatever else you want to place highly is just ok, so let me really challenge the most basic principal and go after "the earth is round". Silly, but I guess if you want a unique hill to die on that is one.
I agree I appreciate creativity such as turning pop songs into jazz-era swing tunes, or roots/bluegrass covers of metal songs. Something like Hugo Rock covering Jay-Z's 99 problems as an almost alt-country thing, and Ice-T doing Motorhead. And a full symphony doing anything is just wonderful when done right.
As far as Christmas music goes I get more traditionalist the older I get. Bing, Dean, and Nat, etc-hold the new stuff.
Covers are really their own animal now. YouTube is full of them, Spotify and Pandora are full of them, Sirius XM has a whole covers channel. My children actually know some songs far better from the covers. Its almost its own genre at this point.
You point made me realize how silly it was to not include Patricks excellent piece of a few weeks ago as part of this post. He talks about the problem with using blanket statistics such as spending rankings. I'll include the link here but have also updated the post with links and pertinent pull quotes.https://ordinary-times.com/2018/04/30/public-education-in-the-united-states-part-i/
That is the best/worst accounting of recent music history I've read in a long time. It's glorious in its unabashed bastardization of popular music. Well done.
I like...the lyric is sort of Arlo Guthrie channeling Howard Dean (Minimum Waaaggggee, YAAAWWWW). I mean, its fine for what it is, but it lacks the intricate drumming of My Pal Foot Foot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY
Lets talk about "I Wish It Would Rain" as made famous by The Temptations.
Sunshine, blue skies, please go away
A girl has found another and gone away
With her went my future, my life is filled with gloom
So day after day I stay locked up in my room
I know to you, it might sound strange
But I wish it would rain, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
'Cause so badly I wanna go outside (such a lovely day)
But everyone knows that a man ain't supposed to cry
Listen, I gotta cry 'cause crying eases the pain, oh yeah
People this hurt I feel inside
Words could never explain,
I just wish it would rain, oh let it rain, rain, rain, rain, ooo baby
Let it rain, oh yeah, let it rain
Day in day out my tear-stained face
Pressed against the window pane
My eyes search the skies desperately for rain
'Cause rain drops will hide my tear drops
And no one will ever know that I'm crying
Crying when I go outside
To the world outside my tears
I refuse to explain, ooo I wish it would rain, ooh, baby
Let it rain, let it rain
I need rain to disguise the tears in my eyes
Oh, let it rain
Oh yeah, yeah, listen
I'm a man and I got my pride
'Til it rains I'm gonna stay inside, let it rain
Rodger Penzabene wrote a large part of it, and committed suicide not long after it's release. That's a sad song.
To this overall point of what inside the world of Amazon pays for what. By Bezo's own words, Amazon is first and foremost a logistics company, before everything else. So when discussing them and how they lay out their profits view it as they do: Logistics is their business, profit is in the margins, and everything slots into place below that. Video keeps you "in-house" for literally hours at a time. Think of it in the same mode as putting sit down restaurants, movie theaters, and spa's inside a large casino. Its not "on brand" (gambling) but its part of the overall strategy. You are integrated into the Amazon eco-system, so those margins are going to make out eventually either in direct purchase, advertising, or residual revenue such as the subscription.
They became incinerators (Balad got the hi-end incinerators out of Germany in late 07 not sure about other sites) but in the beginning they are just what they sound like, pits of dirt you burn garbage in. Google will quickly bring the images up, think on fire-landfill, with bulldozers moving the piles to give you an idea of scope and scale.
I worked a few hundred yards downwind of the Balad burn pit for nearly a year, and often-without exaggeration-it was like walking in fog. I do have the letter in my VA medical record, but like similar things over the years it will probably be decades before the full extent was known. I know what all went into those pits, and no doubt the smoke did all sorts of not good things. Everyone knew at the time, and it was annotated on your records that you were there and near them. They knew.
This is very much in line with the reasoning that Boeing put forth for why they moved their corporate HQ out of Seattle. Reading through the material for the post there were lots of reasons Boeing did it, but philosophically there is one that goes toward what you are getting at here. The one linked op-ed from Gates, who has covered Aviation forever, talks about breaking "the 100 years of inertia" that Boeing made planes in a certain way at a certain place. For a company that is locked for the foreseeable future in a one-on-one fight with Airbus, HQ in Chicago and building manufacturing plants in South Carolina and facilities in Texas and elsewhere was a necessary step to being more globally minded. Leverage on the unions, taxes, the then-CEO wanting to live elsewhere-all that played a role. But there is blunt, brutal truth to a company admitting as Condit did they felt they needed to physically separate from the area to make sound strategic decisions that otherwise would be formed by emotional attachment.
I was just talking to my dad about this on the phone. For a kid like me who grew up wanting to be Chuck Yeager reading the Right Stuff once I was old enough was just amazing. I didn't realize at the time it was just good parenting, my father using something I was already interested in to backdoor me into reading really good authors like Wolfe. I had posted a tweet about my father giving me some of the books from his library and one of those happened to be the original cover "The Right Stuff" I read as a kid, complete with the funky plastic dust covers they used to do back then. Definitely be getting that one out and sharing with my own children.
Respectfully disagree with this point. Amazon has some of the best analytics folks to be found. Granted they could be applying there data wrong, but they purposely get that data. They spend millions knowing exactly who does and does not have prime, what those customers want, and how to expand it to other market gaps where it fills a need and can thrive.
On “Morning Ed: Health {2018.05.16.W}”
Same. They strait told us coming up anyone that had flight line related occupation can just pencil in minimum 20% hearing loss, even with all the PPE and so forth.
"
One of those things you just never thought about at the time. Even though you know logically its bad, you just don't think about it.
On “Policing the Predators”
*shouts @jaybird previous mumbling* Police Unions. Take to heart the term "policing your own" would be a good start.
On “Morning Ed: Society {2018.05.17.Th}”
I'm a West Virginian by birth, flatness is a foreign concept
On “Science Says Our Music Is Getting More Depressing”
Hayseed Dixie redid a bunch of AC/DC songs as bluegrass and they work. Bluegrass being the traditional music of us mountain people I find an appreciation of it used this way.
On “Morning Ed: Society {2018.05.17.Th}”
I can understand the "itch" as you call it. My natural inclination on any topic is skepticism and to immediately go the opposite way of the crowd on general principle. But you have to balance such impulses with being a truth-seeker. Granted that is very different intellectual exercise, maybe even a spiritual one in some ways, but it is the barrier that keeps you from going too far down the rabbit hole of "there is no truth" which is where you wind up if everything is a conspiracy.
"
I get the impressions that it really is this sort of pseudo-intellectual rebellion thing. Challenging science, or existence of God, or whatever else you want to place highly is just ok, so let me really challenge the most basic principal and go after "the earth is round". Silly, but I guess if you want a unique hill to die on that is one.
On “Science Says Our Music Is Getting More Depressing”
Not in a house full of Taylor Swift fans it isn't :) but I take your point.
"
I agree I appreciate creativity such as turning pop songs into jazz-era swing tunes, or roots/bluegrass covers of metal songs. Something like Hugo Rock covering Jay-Z's 99 problems as an almost alt-country thing, and Ice-T doing Motorhead. And a full symphony doing anything is just wonderful when done right.
As far as Christmas music goes I get more traditionalist the older I get. Bing, Dean, and Nat, etc-hold the new stuff.
"
Covers are really their own animal now. YouTube is full of them, Spotify and Pandora are full of them, Sirius XM has a whole covers channel. My children actually know some songs far better from the covers. Its almost its own genre at this point.
On “North Carolina Teachers March on Raleigh”
You point made me realize how silly it was to not include Patricks excellent piece of a few weeks ago as part of this post. He talks about the problem with using blanket statistics such as spending rankings. I'll include the link here but have also updated the post with links and pertinent pull quotes.https://ordinary-times.com/2018/04/30/public-education-in-the-united-states-part-i/
On “Science Says Our Music Is Getting More Depressing”
That is the best/worst accounting of recent music history I've read in a long time. It's glorious in its unabashed bastardization of popular music. Well done.
"
in fairness it was better during the reunion...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3uNm6hltpQ
"
I like...the lyric is sort of Arlo Guthrie channeling Howard Dean (Minimum Waaaggggee, YAAAWWWW). I mean, its fine for what it is, but it lacks the intricate drumming of My Pal Foot Foot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY
"
Lets talk about "I Wish It Would Rain" as made famous by The Temptations.
Sunshine, blue skies, please go away
A girl has found another and gone away
With her went my future, my life is filled with gloom
So day after day I stay locked up in my room
I know to you, it might sound strange
But I wish it would rain, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
'Cause so badly I wanna go outside (such a lovely day)
But everyone knows that a man ain't supposed to cry
Listen, I gotta cry 'cause crying eases the pain, oh yeah
People this hurt I feel inside
Words could never explain,
I just wish it would rain, oh let it rain, rain, rain, rain, ooo baby
Let it rain, oh yeah, let it rain
Day in day out my tear-stained face
Pressed against the window pane
My eyes search the skies desperately for rain
'Cause rain drops will hide my tear drops
And no one will ever know that I'm crying
Crying when I go outside
To the world outside my tears
I refuse to explain, ooo I wish it would rain, ooh, baby
Let it rain, let it rain
I need rain to disguise the tears in my eyes
Oh, let it rain
Oh yeah, yeah, listen
I'm a man and I got my pride
'Til it rains I'm gonna stay inside, let it rain
Rodger Penzabene wrote a large part of it, and committed suicide not long after it's release. That's a sad song.
On “Amazon Prime Is A Luxury Good”
To this overall point of what inside the world of Amazon pays for what. By Bezo's own words, Amazon is first and foremost a logistics company, before everything else. So when discussing them and how they lay out their profits view it as they do: Logistics is their business, profit is in the margins, and everything slots into place below that. Video keeps you "in-house" for literally hours at a time. Think of it in the same mode as putting sit down restaurants, movie theaters, and spa's inside a large casino. Its not "on brand" (gambling) but its part of the overall strategy. You are integrated into the Amazon eco-system, so those margins are going to make out eventually either in direct purchase, advertising, or residual revenue such as the subscription.
On “Morning Ed: Health {2018.05.16.W}”
They became incinerators (Balad got the hi-end incinerators out of Germany in late 07 not sure about other sites) but in the beginning they are just what they sound like, pits of dirt you burn garbage in. Google will quickly bring the images up, think on fire-landfill, with bulldozers moving the piles to give you an idea of scope and scale.
"
I worked a few hundred yards downwind of the Balad burn pit for nearly a year, and often-without exaggeration-it was like walking in fog. I do have the letter in my VA medical record, but like similar things over the years it will probably be decades before the full extent was known. I know what all went into those pits, and no doubt the smoke did all sorts of not good things. Everyone knew at the time, and it was annotated on your records that you were there and near them. They knew.
On “Taxing in the Name Of: Seattle “Head Tax” Approved”
This is very much in line with the reasoning that Boeing put forth for why they moved their corporate HQ out of Seattle. Reading through the material for the post there were lots of reasons Boeing did it, but philosophically there is one that goes toward what you are getting at here. The one linked op-ed from Gates, who has covered Aviation forever, talks about breaking "the 100 years of inertia" that Boeing made planes in a certain way at a certain place. For a company that is locked for the foreseeable future in a one-on-one fight with Airbus, HQ in Chicago and building manufacturing plants in South Carolina and facilities in Texas and elsewhere was a necessary step to being more globally minded. Leverage on the unions, taxes, the then-CEO wanting to live elsewhere-all that played a role. But there is blunt, brutal truth to a company admitting as Condit did they felt they needed to physically separate from the area to make sound strategic decisions that otherwise would be formed by emotional attachment.
On “America, the Awesome”
well made point
On “Taxing in the Name Of: Seattle “Head Tax” Approved”
They are already building HQ2 and a slew of other facilities so it would be very easy for them to play with the numbers of who actually "works" where.
"
I appreciate it thank you.
On “Tom Wolfe Dead at 88”
I was just talking to my dad about this on the phone. For a kid like me who grew up wanting to be Chuck Yeager reading the Right Stuff once I was old enough was just amazing. I didn't realize at the time it was just good parenting, my father using something I was already interested in to backdoor me into reading really good authors like Wolfe. I had posted a tweet about my father giving me some of the books from his library and one of those happened to be the original cover "The Right Stuff" I read as a kid, complete with the funky plastic dust covers they used to do back then. Definitely be getting that one out and sharing with my own children.
On “Taxing in the Name Of: Seattle “Head Tax” Approved”
Thank you Oscar
On “Amazon Prime Is A Luxury Good”
Respectfully disagree with this point. Amazon has some of the best analytics folks to be found. Granted they could be applying there data wrong, but they purposely get that data. They spend millions knowing exactly who does and does not have prime, what those customers want, and how to expand it to other market gaps where it fills a need and can thrive.