#DeleteUber?

Uber is in trouble with the human rights community. Why is that? Uber lowered rates at LaGuardia when Taxi drivers struck to protest the Trump Muslim travel ban. Wait, you're pissed cause Uber was charging less? Twitter users rallied with #deleteuber. I have deleted the Uber app. You don't even use Uber. Rival Lyft pledged $1 million dollars to the ACLU. And Uber pledged to create a $3 million legal fund for Uber drivers. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is a member of Trump’s economic advisory group. Travis is urging the government to reinstate U.S. travel rights for residents, whatever their country of origin. Uber's website was flooded with complaints. “You work with Trump, I’ll work with Lyft,” read one complaint. So you downloaded the Lyft app, and will never use it. Give me that. I'm not working with Trump. You're not working with anybody.

Uber "human rights" LaGuardia "Taxi driver strike" "Trump Muslim travel ban" Twitter #deleteuber "Uber app" Lyft, ACLU, "Uber CEO Travis Kalanick" "Travis Kalanick" "Uber CEO" "travel rights" #Science #ScienceMarch #sciencematters #DeletingUber #AlternativeFacts #TrumpLies "Trump Lies" "Fake news" #fakenews #proPeace #proAmerica #proTrump #antiGlobalism #TrumpSupporter

Doomsday Clock

The 2017 doomsday clock has been reset to two and a half minutes to midnight. It is the first time since the cold war in 1960 that the clock has had less than three minutes to midnight. The Trump white house's denial of climate change, their promise of nuclear escalation, their embrace of falsehoods pawned off as alternative facts, and their cyber manipulation of our democratic process, have led editors at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to take time off of their Doomsday Clock. Scientists at the Bulletin stated, "It's almost the end of the world and we have to say things like "Facts are Good". The ironic thing is their Doomsday clock is not based on science or fact.
 
"Trump Whitehouse" "nuclear escalation" , falsehoods , "alternative facts" "cyber manipulation" "cyber warfare" "democratic process"   "Doomsday Clock" "the apocalypse" "nuclear proliferation" Armageddon "Cold War" "climate change" "nuclear escalation" "Donald Trump" "cyber warfare" "global warming"  #climatefacts #AlternativeFacts #TrumpLies "Trump Lies" "Fake news" #fakenews "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists"

Haunted Circus Cemetery

In 1918 a Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train got rear ended by another train. Sixty one circus workers in the rear sleeping cars were instantly killed. Four days later they were buried at Wood Lawn Cemetery. Five elephant statues mark the boundaries of Showmen's Rest. On the gravestones, the dates of death are all marked June 22, 1918. Beneath is a mass grave containing the remains of clowns, trapeze artists, strongmen and other circus performers. Legend has it that the elephants were buried where they lay. Locals claim to hear the haunted cries of the elephants at night.

"Woodlawn Cemetery" "Circus Train Wreck" "Showmen's Rest" "Hagenbeck-Wallace circus" "Secret Clown Cemetery" clowns, "trapeze artists", strongmen "circus performers" "haunted cries" gravestones "mass grave" "haunted cemetery" "paranormal experience" "The Greatest Show on Earth" "Ringling Bros" "Barnum & Bailey"

Whitehouse Zillow

So I was driving home from the store, thinking about yesterday's video / blog posting. I decided to change the name of the YouTube video to Whitehouse Zillow. That's mostly what the video is about. I did throw in a little snarl about politicians, referencing the meme I threw in at the end of the video.

People are so hung up on their guy getting in or not getting in that they miss the big picture. I'm just saying. Do you think Donald is that much better or worse than Barack? I don't. But that's not really what the video is about, now is it?


Zillow , Whitehouse , "Donald Trump" , "Trump Tower" , "Trump Penthouse" , "Trump White House" , "Obama Renting" , "The White House" , "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" , "Same as the old boss" , "The Who" , "Won't get fooled again" , "Who's Next" , "Drop the Mic" , "Obama Mic Drop" , potus , "white house cost" "white house price"

Meet The New Boss

Zillow has a listing for The Whitehouse. Four hundred fifty million. That's an upgrade for Donald. His penthouse in New York is only worth 100 million. Obama's renting a DC house worth only 6 million. Quite the downgrade for Barack. But he won't miss the Whitehouse. I'm sure he and Michelle are happy to leave.


Zillow , Whitehouse , "Donald Trump" , "Trump Tower" , "Trump Penthouse" , "Trump White House" , "Obama Renting" , "The White House" , "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" , "Same as the old boss" , "The Who" , "Won't get fooled again" , "Who's Next" , "Drop the Mic" , "Obama Mic Drop" , potus , "white house cost" "white house price"

Machine Dream

Respected / Protected. Dream in the machine. Wormhole consciousness. Shiny lens time. Data factory line. Shattered glass. Cyber motor fast. Fatal drive chimes. ( drop the mike )


"Machine Dream" "stream of consciousness" time "Data factory" "Shattered glass" "Cyber motor" "Fatal drive" cyberpunk , poetry , poet , futuristic , Nueromancer , parallels , rhyme "poetry slam" "drop the mic" inceptionism , "neural network" "DeepDream" morph , psychedelic , abstract "Looking Glass" "light cycle" tron , "solar sailer" "open slam" "Dead Poet Slam"

Super 8 Revival

Kodak first manufactured the Super 8 in 1965. Super 8 defined amateur movie making for 30 years. But then came the 80's and video replaced film. And now Super 8 has had a bit of a resurgence. Danish Company Logmar released a new Super 8 camera in 2013.  Specialty companies are selling refurbished Super 8's. Prices for Super 8's are rising on EBay. They must be selling some film cause Kodak is once again coming out with a Super 8 camera.

Kodak , "Super 8" , "amateur movie making"  Logmar , EBay , "Super 8 camera" ,
CES  "LCD screen"  C-mount  Ricoh  Focus "Nikon lens adapter"  Kodachrome  "micro USB"  tripod  "8 mm film"  "Logmar Camera Solutions" "Kodachrome II"  Ektachrome Tri-X  "Vision 3"  "Fuji Velvia 50"  camcorder  "video camera"  videotape 

Let Sleeping Birds Fly

Tall buildings and birds do not get along. A friend volunteers as a bird collision monitor. She goes downtown early and picks up casualties. I see the posts on facebook. Mostly dead thrushes and sparrows. Occasionally she'll pickup a live one and keep it in a box. German scientists have proven that frigate birds sleep during flight. Well I've got news. It ain't only the frigates that are sleeping and flying.

"Tall buildings" , birds, "bird collision monitor" , thrush, sparrow, frigatebirds, "nodding off" , "Max Planck Institute" , Germany, seabirds,  Fregatidae,  roost, "Nature Communications" , “flight data recorder” , "Galápagos Islands" , "black box recorder" , "rapid eye movement" , "REM sleep" , "animal sleep" , biology, "bird flight" , "bird sleep" , "modern mysteries", "natural world" , Science , sleep , sleeping

Express Train

Footage of the Chicago Botanic Gardens Wonderland Express interwoven with Chicago landmarks. All aboard the Vlog Moskow Express. Next stop, The United Center. You're riding Thomas the Train. Millennium Park is next. Doors open on your right at the Bean. Doors closing. Next stop, Northwestern university. Doors open on your right. Doors Closing. The Bahai Temple is next. Doors open on your right. Doors closing. Chicago Botonic Gardens is your last stop.

"United Center","Michael Jordan","Chicago Bulls","Thomas the Train","Millennium Park","Cloud Gate","Anish Kapoor","the Bean","Northwestern university","Bahai Temple","Chicago Botanic Gardens","Wonderland Express", CTA, "Orient Express",
"G Scale","G Gauge","railroad gauge","Model trains", Lionel, locomotives, rolling stock, streetcars, tracks, signalling