Musings, Commentaries, Photos and Reviews

These guys are great, thanks to my cousin for the link: Filip Jaślar  | first violin Michał Sikorski  | second violin Paweł Kowaluk  | viola Bolek Błaszczyk  | cello They are all well educated instrumentalists who graduated from prestigious Academies of Music in Warsaw and Łódz, but they decided to play classical music in a humorous way. They created a worldwide unique musical cabaret, where the music, not the words are the source of joy and laugh. Take a classical composition as canvas, analyze its structure and theme, surround it with musical associations, brilliant, unbelievable ideas and while listening to the final product the listener is constantly surprised, amazed, laughing and moved to tears. The musicians of the MozART GROUP have been playing together since 1995. At the beginning, they presented short musical jokes on Canal Plus Television. They gave their first debut in 1997 at the PAKA competition of young Polish cabarets in Krakow. In the same

Top Gear Reliant Robin I have to thank my son for sharing this with me. A clip featuring the Reliant Robin .

Those who know me realize what a fanboy I am for Google. My co-workers told me today they could have a drinking game based on how many times I mention Google. In spite of the teasing, Google has a winner with Google Music. Sure iTunes has been around for a while but I see some great things here. What are they? Sample plays are 1 1/2 minutes instead of 30 seconds You can share a full play with your friends Free Music Upload 20,000 songs of your own for free to stream Listen via the cloud Integration with Google+  (the vast wasteland that I like) Independent artists can post their music and collect 70% of revenue Catalog seems deep enough, I found the Stanley Brothers (see image)

Any cat videos? There are plenty.

The Perennial Plate Episode 78: Eating Insects from Daniel Klein on Vimeo . Make perfect sense to me. We eat Lobster for example, that is just a bug.

Even Bigfoot knows his rights! The ACLU will be suing the the State of New Hampshire on behalf of this sledding celebrity.

From Profile Photos Happy Veterans day everyone and thanks to all the vets for their service to our country. As I write this and looking at the clock (East Coast) I see that in less than an hour it will be 11:11:11 on 11/11/11. Make a wish! Let's make a wish for Peace and an end to war. Check out my Navy slideshow on my other blog. Next year we get a 12/12/12 to play with.

Marcus John Henry Brown - Thanks for being on G+

As the holidays approach, many of us will be taking photos and videos. This is a nice instructional video on lighting techniques. I don't have a soft box, but I do try to move the flash off to an angle, or bounce it to avoid that washed out red-eyed shot.

PBS Tease_Give Me The Banjo from The Banjo Project on Vimeo . Tony and Bill Ellis -- "Jesse James" from The Banjo Project on Vimeo . Leroy Troy: "Grandfather's Clock" from The Banjo Project on Vimeo . Abigail Washburn: "Song of the Travelling Daughter" from The Banjo Project on Vimeo . Needless to say, I'll be watching this!

Note that the "pilot" is not controlling this craft, he is merely a passenger. Love the exercise ball landing gear.

Have you ever seen a word cloud ? This is one I created for the blog blog.poltrack.net . They are created by linking the frequency of words in a document to the font size, boldness and sometimes color of the words. Obviously SNOW   has been a prominent noun in my blog. You can create your your own from the website wordle.net . You can create one from pasted text, or any website that has a RSS feed  (try musings.poltrack.net ). I recommend you read the FAQ on this website, it's very entertaining especially the question about the "Sexsmith" font . This cloud tells a bit about my use of words, but has no information about their importance to my readers. I get a vague idea if I get a comment or a +1 check mark, some analytic data about page hits and time on page but it is a hit or miss exercise. Google+  recently added a new feature called Ripples  showing how public posts are shared (on Google+). Presumably if your post  is interesting and compelling it will be