50 years ago this month, a lanky 23-year-old young man from the small town of Kilgore, Texas went on Soviet soil and conquered an entire nation–truly winning their hearts and minds–at the height of the Cold War, a mere six months after the Soviets launched Sputnik I to start the space race–not with military might, […]
¡Bienvenidos a Guadalajara, Jalisco, México! I will be your host and guide through this week’s best of the medical blogosphere. This is the second time I have had the privilege of hosting, and for that I’d like to thank Dr. Nick Genes who has seen fit to give me the nod for this week’s edition […]
One of my recent projects was coming up with some audio/music to use for my daughter’s sleep. White noise is ideal to block out unwanted din, especially living here in Mexico in a closed off gated community (coto) where everybody insists on living their lives outside. You can’t really tell the neighborhood to “shut […]
It’s after midnight, and I was doing a slow shutdown of things at my desk when the news bulletin was found in my inbox: Luciano Pavarotti, unarguably one of the greatest voices of the 20th century, has passed away, having lost his battle to pancreatic cancer. Many famous, even history-making musicians have died in […]
I am shocked and appalled, I tell you, that my account was cancelled due to DMCA copyright violations. FOR CLASSICAL MUSIC VIDEOS. In every case, I was just posting what was publicly broadcast on TV at some point, not “bootleg” or other content that would understandably cause a problem since those watching didn’t […]
Mother Nature’s calling card is symmetry. Even Father Physics can’t fool Mother Nature (remember the old “Parkay” margarine commercials? Ok, I’m dating myself…), because entropy and chaos/fractal theory still render patterns of inexplicable symmetrical complexity. Music is no exception. The symmetrical time signatures of 4/4 (most things), 2/4 (polkas, marches), and […]
My wife and daughter left back for the States yesterday, and it’s just kinda hitting me how much I miss them, especially my Niblet. Several times yesterday I caught myself hearing a baby crying from outside the window (Mexican houses are very close together) and I’d reflexively tense up and stop what I was doing, […]
This is true–although their existence has been known for some time now, the data is finally confirmed that these two entities are indeed black holes, the most powerful physical phenomenon in the known universe. The gravitational force exerted by a black hole is so massive, that not even light traveling at velocity of over […]
It seems that every so often, life beats me down with a spiked club enough so that I disappear to all but my closest friends and family, sometimes even to some of them. The last 2-3 weeks have been one of those times. Honestly, it’s not that I’ve had nothing to write about […]
What follows is the God’s-honest truth regarding my current iTunes data. Like that old ad campaign when iPods first came out, it says a lot about someone about what’s on it; unfortunately, as you’ll see, my music library is WAAAY too big for my 20G iPod. Here’s the damage:
Genre
Time
Size in GB
Rock/Pop/Metal
5d 9h 1m […]