Sadly, this tribe of extras no longer exists.....

I can somehow, 

very easily,

screw up anything---?

Want to see which state your state hates the most...?
All states hate some other state--usually, but not always,
a neighboring state..?
This is really interesting..
(see the link for a much bigger graphic)
Like what has California done to all these other states...?
Jesus..!
But New Jersey hating every state 
is easily understood...?
every-states-least-favorite-state

What the fuck is wrong with us--?
Just what the fuck...?
Why hassle this poor kid over his hair...?

black-texas-teen-told-cut-his-dreadlocks or no graduation

When are we as a nation going to fucking grow up---?
This is happening in Texas...
of course...

That there is still good in the world...
That there is still hope for the world...
That there are people that think like me...
I know this now,
after seeing and hearing this...
you must watch the link all the way through...
Phillip Agnew's.."with these hands"

terry-jones-monty-python-founder-and-life-of-brian-director-dies-aged-77

I remember being 17 years old prowling PBS

looking for episodes of Monty Python..

Our PBS station never ran it at the same time..

I will miss Terry Jones, just knowing he was

there made the world feel better.

Altered Carbon 2
is coming to Netflix February 27th--!
Altered_Carbon

I ordered an Octave Pedal..
This pedal raises or lowers the pitch
of specific strings...
I am planning on using this,
 on my pedal board
 to increase the sonic 
depth of the bass strings on my
Acoustic electric guitars,
during gig finger picking.

In February Lego will be releasing their 
International Space Station kit...

legos-international-space-station

I soooo want one of these for 
my nerd cave..er...eh..command center...!

Finally arrived---
and worth the wait...

That was supposed to make us sad, right?

Life has felt complicated lately--?

I recently came across an article in Wired Magazine

focused on Clifford Stoll..

Whom I had never heard of previously,

but was soon in awe of....

Clifford_Stoll

Stoll 
was educated, PHD, as an Astronomer, but who
is also a mathematician and a Physicist..
Stoll
actually developed the methodology to track, and trap
Internet hackers..
in fucking 1986..!

In fact his anti-hacker procedures and methodology is
considered the bible of computer security...
It was his interest in computing and the developing web
and a missing .75 cents in a computer account,
that initiated his hacker hunt...
meet-the-mad-scientist-who-wrote-the-book-on-how-to-hunt-hackers

He's left the computing world now preferring 

to work on and sell 

non-orientable surfaces...

Klein_bottle

So Astronomer, mathematician, physicist,

first hacker hunter...

I absolutely had to order his book..!

(did i mention he built his own robot

and drives it around under his house?)

Former 1%er....

Elizabeth Holmes is finally going to court...

facing 11 counts of Fraud and attempted Fraud..
You may remember she was the darling of Wall Street,
for a time...?
Brilliant financial minds compared her to Steve Jobs, 
for fucks sake,
right up until her, supposed revolutionary,
 blood testing company
was found to be a total, complete fraud...?
Disgraced-Theranos-founder-Elizabeth-Holmes-35-arrives-San-Jose-court

Apparently her lawyers are bitching and wanting out of defending her
 because
"the new Steve Jobs",
says she's broke..

This diagram stunned me when I examined it..
go to the link for a larger visual...

the distribution of the worlds-wealth-2019

I had been very worried about my upcoming gig this past Friday...

I had been worrying that I might be too old now
to continue gigging..
I was really riddled with doubt...
did i still have it to play for an audience..?

Things turned out well..the audience seemed 
pleased and everybody
left happy..including me...!
It's insane what we musicians do to ourselves...
I guess I went through the torturing part of the
tortured artist..?

Since i ceased writing on our dysfunctional political system,
and our corporate overlords...
readership on the blog has dropped significantly...
I don't fucking care...

If Bernie doesn't win the Presidency,
I am creating plans on how to isolate myself from 
any news on our system...
I just won't care at all, in any manner, any longer...?
It's good to have a plan...

This was too good to watch just once...