#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

Mr Robot Journal

Santa was good to me this year. My own copy of Elliot's journal, Red Wheelbarrow.
Inside the front cover is a note in red from Hot Carla. "It was hard for me not to burn it. The edges of the book are charred. Page 23: Elliot asks, "I wonder who's making bank on fsociety masks? Page 34: Carla inserted a page ripped from Tolstoy's Resurrection. Tolstoy writes, "A curious idea the object of revolution." Carla knows Eliot is the object of Mr Robot's insurrection. Page 78: On one side, Eliot has drawn some wheelbarrows. On the other side is a homage to Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams. Page 91: Evidence of Elliot's obsession with Carla. Page 100: Why hot Carla got arrested. Page 126: A cigarette pack with a note inside. In the end Carla is left with her Red Wheelbarrow.


epsl.91_redwheelbarrow.txt, epsl.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt, Santa,"Elliots journal", "Red Wheelbarrow", "Hot Carla", burn, "charred edges", "fsociety masks", fsociety, "Tolstoy's Resurrection", Tolstoy, revolution, "Mr Robot", insurrection,"Red Wheelbarrow", "William Carlos Williams", "cigarette pack", "sam ismail" "courtney looney"

Love The Alexa

Contains adult language: First a bluetooth speaker arrived in the mail ... I was like, fuck, I we have any bluetooth devices ... Then an Echo Dot arrived ... I was like, great, Amazon just wants cash out of my pocket. So today we set up the Echo.  Joined it to the bluetooth speaker... Alexa play some music... Alexa play the ramones ... Alexa stop ... Loved the Alexa immediately ... I went from zero to one thousand in half a second. Amazing.


"bluetooth speaker", bluetooth, "Echo Dot", "Amazon Echo", "music player", Amazon,  ramones, "wireless speaker", "Amazon Music", Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Alexa , Wi-Fi, "mobile hotspot"

Tesla Vs Prius

The prius gets 52 miles per gallon .. The Tesla uses energy equal to 89 miles per gallon .. The prius does zero to sixty in 12 seconds ... The Tesla does zero to sixty in 2.5 seconds ... Wow that's fast ... Yep, faster than a Lamborghini Hurricane ... The prius changed the way people think about economy cars.... The Tesla blew up what people think about electric cars .. A prius in the lot and you're like, geek squad is here ... A Tesla in the lot and you're like, who's the rockstar?


"electric vehicle", EV,"electric drive vehicle", "electric motors","traction motors", propulsion,"Audi A3 E-Tron", "Plug-in Hybrid", "Chevrolet Spark EV", "Chevy Volt", "Ford Focus Electric", "Kia Soul EV", "Mitsubishi i-MiEV", "Nissan LEAF", "Tesla Model S", "Toyota Prius", "Tesla Model 3", "Energy efficient", "the grid", "tailpipe pollutants", nuclear, hydro, solar, wind-powered"