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In 1911 Bobby Leach, originally from Cornwall, declared that he wanted to cross Niagara Falls closed in a barrel The widely publicized event occurred on July 25 at Table Rock: Using a cylindrical steel drum with wooden bumpers at each end, Leach, tied to a tight harness, was drifted to the...

Never woulda believed it if I hadn't read it on the internet: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/antidepressant-microbes-soil.htm "Prozac may not be the only way to get rid of your serious blues. Soil microbes have been found to have similar effects on the brain and...

From the immortal Broken Barricades album 'nother band that could rightfully have claimed some "progressive" credentials.

Just because. Don't recall ever seeing this one before. Dig Ilya Kuryakin MC-ing.

I'll never listen to dum solo the same way again. Or a bass solo, for that matter. Hell I might not even trust my ears to know whether I'm hearing an archtop or a solid body anymore. The thrill is gone. https://scitechdaily.com/decoding-the-geometry-of-music-70-year-old-math-problem-solved/

Do you know where your bunnies are? @davismanLV : If you ever get the yen to own a horse but are squeezed for space maybe this could work for you?

"Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice." - Unknown

When I see a name like this on audio gear I gotta wonder if our own @walrus has been holding out on us: https://www.walrusaudio.com/products/kangra-filter-fuzz?variant=16491585962030

So my sweetheart (and #1 fan/videographer) Xiaobing surprised me yet again the other night when she flipped for Jimi's "Dolly Dagger". (The last time it was for Alvin Lee at Woodstock, 😧:LOL:). And by golly it was something I'd never seen before, a "real music video" for "Dolly..." from...

My holiday theme. Don't recall if I posted this version before, seems like it, but didn't find it on a search just now. Anyway, came up on the jazz station this AM and it's a masterpiece of elegance, deserves a listen Backed by McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, and Bob Cranshaw. A supergroup of jazz.

2" of rain in one hour yesterday. Lotta flooding.

My aunt, who's been doing some family genealogy, sent me this pic titled "Your grandma, circa 1919??" I s--t you not. Lesseee...predates Bonnie Parker by about a dozen years....suspect the uniform's daddy's own genuine items. By the time I met her she was a schoolmarm, true story. :ROFLMAO...

I am cursed with this tendency to wonder whether subliminal symbolism is at play in our reality. I can't help but think the sculpture in fromt of Google's headquarters resembles the Trinity test, the first 6 milliseconds in.

Just stumbled over this: He's in "Wild On The Beach" this AM. Wondering if he was related to Tony Randall, looked him up. Sorry, my bad. Great one-liner in that flick from '65, though, when young co-ed Sherry Jackson shows up at the beach house being used by Randall. She's the owner's niece...

It's programmed to try to contain the constantly leaking hydraulic fluid needed to keep it running... if too much leaks out, it will "die" it, so it's desperately trying to pull it back to keep fighting for another day. The saddest part is that they gave the robot the ability to do these "happy...

OK, this is the kind of stuff I've been on about for years: those "Air Fresheners" that diffuse chemicals into the air that are in fact bad or our health. Turns out they're even worse for your cat, according to this Quora poster Tom Grimshaw: "Caution To Cat Owners I wanted to share the...

Embarked as a mascot on the battleship Bismarck, when it was sunk by the English on 27 May 1940, he was rescued by sailors of HMS Cossack who found him perched on a floating plank, many hours after the sinking. Having passed unknowingly into the ranks of the Royal Navy, he adapted to the new...

Dang, If only I needed a new name for a band. I gotta get me some-a these:

Thanks to @Rocky for the idea Try to deal with the patter, right? :cool: