MyStrands Mon Mar 05 20:13:43 CET 2007 Mon Mar 05 20:13:43 CET 2007Mon Mar 05 20:13:43 CET 2007 Here is some music played by all future stars of jazz fusion. It really shows the potential of Stanley Clark, Al DiMeola, Lenny White and Chick Corea. I had the opportunity to see them in 1977 and they were really this good.




Since embedding was disabled on this one in YouTube, I just can provide a URL to that location.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPfGvKxobfk

]]>2007-03-05 20:13:26.692765 I think the problem is that conservatives are just not a very funny bunch of guys...

]]>2007-01-23 01:51:26.083939 So if OReilly is putting on an act as he says, what is it that Colbert is doing?

]]>2007-01-23 01:45:31.891222 Why is it that whenever a TV show or movie based in the Northwest U.S. has a scene where it is raining they insist on having thunder in the background? When it rains in the Northwest U.S. (where I live) it never thunders in the rainy season. We do get the very, very rare thunderstorm in the summer, but it never thunders in the winter when we get our famously dreary rains.

]]>2007-01-12 17:49:50.083095 This is a picture of the scale model of the Clock of the Long Now. It is a clock with a 10,000 year cycle. It chimes every millenia. To find out more about the clock and the Long Now Foundation check out the URL:

http://www.longnow.org

Another interesting and related link to check out is:

http://www.inpraiseofslow.com/

This details many aspects of the "slow movement" that is gaining a lot of attention over in
Europe.

Both the Long Now Foundation and the "slow movement" promote long term thinking and basically slowing down and occaisionally "stopping to smell the roses".

I personally think that all of these concepts are good things and are becoming increasingly rare.

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