Iran police arrest mourners in cemetery
The police forced Mirhossein Mousavi, a defeated candidate at the election, to leave the cemetery.
“Hundreds have gathered around Neda Agha-Soltans grave to mourn her death and other victims deaths … police arrested some of them … dozens of riot police also arrived and are trying to disperse the crowd,” a witness told Reuters.
via Iran police arrest mourners in cemetery memorial | International | Reuters .
Why am I doing event production?
So, I’m covering for my buddy Rocky in the Discovery HD Theatre today. Basically I’m running the booth for a large Animal Planet meeting…switching between video sources like video conferencing, DVD and computer clips, turning lights up and down, switching cameras for different angles and changing audio sources etc. I tried to tell them I’ve never done this before and not to expect much. They said, it’s just like servers and networks, just mash the buttons. Uh, Ok. So, I’m mashing buttons at the right time, hopefully. Such a crazy job I have. Pics of the booth below. Lot’s of fun toys!
The Crow Paradox
Heres a surprise: Wild crows can recognize individual people. They can pick a person out of a crowd, follow them, and remember them — apparently for years. But people — even people who love crows — usually cant tell them apart. So what we have for you are two experiments that tell this story.
Listen here The Crow Paradox : NPR.
John Mellencamp!
Willie Nelson!
Happy Birthday Slash
“I don’t see why the subject of kicking dope is such a big deal. It’s personal, really. It’s like asking how I go to the bathroom or what do I wash first when I take a shower” – Slash, Rolling Stone 01/24/1991
Had to say something about my favorite guitarist’s birthday :)
Slash musician – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
He has an autobiography out that covers childhood to present. Great read. He goes into detail about his beefs with Axl, GnR’s demise, his drug addictions and how he practices and writes guitar parts.
http://www.amazon.com/Slash/dp/0061351423
The solo really gets started about 2/3rds of the way through after the song ends…it’s an amazing solo. I saw them on this tour back in ’92:
And this one is just cool:
MCA has cancer
Sad but apparently treatable. More on the announcement and the disease at WebMD.
UK releases Medieval War Records…Interesting!
It’s really amazing to be able to search a dbase of people who fought and died in wars 600 years ago. You can search by name, see their assignment (archer, man at arms etc), and where they were stationed. Pretty fascinating.
The Soldier in Later Medieval England.
There’s a lion in my office building
Music car
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