The lineup for the 2nd Annual Louisiana Cajun & Zydeco Festival in New Orleans has been announced:
http://www.jazzandheritage.org/cajunzydeco
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Another Music Fest
Best Beaches in US Named
A beach in Florida, Caladesi Island, is #1, according to the new ratings from "Dr. Beach". Number 2 is Hanalei Beach on Kaua'i. Hamoa Beach on Mau'i came in at #7.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/05/22/best.beaches.ap/
I took this picture of Hanalei Beach on Lei Day in 2003.
VOG Damage
A new committee will explore possible volcanic smog damage in Hawaii:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004430577_webvog21.html
The Incredible Shrinking New York City
A geographer has determined that the Big Apple is 17 square miles smaller than previously calculated.
Brooklyn shrank the most. Brooklyn borough President Marty Markowitz's reaction? “Now is clearly the time to annex Governors Island,” he said. “In the meantime, maybe I should get one of these sophisticated measuring devices to use as my scale at home — I might find out I’ve lost more weight than I thought.”
More calculations here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/nyregion/22shrink.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Music Digest for Thursday
Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters to honor The Who
http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=4982
The Beatles on the Tom Snyder "Tomorrow" Show-now on DVD
http://eclipsemagazine.com/dvd/john-paul-tom-ringo-the-tomorrow-show-with-tom-snyder-john-lennons-last-tv-interview-plus-paul-mccartney-wings-ringo-starr-and-huh-angie-dickinson/5512
A look at the Qatar Symphony
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=May2008&file=Local_News2008052243232.xml
A Canadian punk band is investigated by the Mounties
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=8e2a562c-37eb-46cc-9a7a-062899dcfcf4
A crawfish and music fest in Texas. Tasty!
http://www.theexaminer.com/npps/story.cfm?ID=2173
Review of a new Nokia Bluetooth headset:
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/tips/Nokia-BH-503-Bluetooth-Stereo-Headset.htm
And the Ohio Senate wants to give fake "name" bands the hook
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/05/21/truth_in_music.html?sid=101
Tomato Road Trip Update #3
Auwe!
My tomato plants left Louisville at 4:06 AM this morning, and instead of trucking as in years past from Kentucky to Massachusetts, they were put on a UPS jet, arriving at MHT (Manchester NH) at 5:59 AM. They left MHT at 6:37, arrived at UPS in Laconia at 7:45, and are now on their way to Saddle Hill.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
All in the Family
The Brown family of Maui in concert:
http://www.mauiweekly.com/aenews/story6865.aspx
Continuing Education
Attend a free class at M.I.T. by going online! Course 16.72, "Air Traffic Control", looks interesting...
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
How Coffee Changed the World
The bean with the buzz...
http://www.livescience.com/history/080519-hs-coffee.html
It's About Time...
"The Associated Press reports that the major US carriers, desperate for any idea that will conserve fuel, are cutting flying speeds on some routes.
Jetblue claims that extending each of its flight by two minutes saved $13.6 million last year. Southwest Airlines, despite a fuel hedging program in place that leaves it in better shape than most of its competitors, will save $2 million a year by adding one to three minutes to each of its flights."
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/05/to-cut-fuel-cos.html
A Star Explodes
Credit: NASA/Swift Science Team/Stefan Immler
"While peering at her computer screen four months ago, astronomer Alicia Soderberg expected to see the small glowing smudge of a month-old supernova. But what she and her colleague saw instead was a strange, extremely bright, five-minute burst of X-rays.
With that observation, they became the first astronomers to catch a star in the act of exploding.
"For years we have dreamed of seeing a star just as it was exploding, but actually finding one is a once-in-a-lifetime, event," said Soderberg, a Hubble and Carnegie Princeton Fellow at Princeton University."
Don't Fly This!
PHOTO CREDIT: RUNE SOLNØRDAL, Aftenposten
"The airport serving the southern coastal city of Kristiansand wasn't among those hit by Norway's recent airport strike, but it was nonetheless disrupted on Tuesday – by a moose running along the runway."
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2436211.ece
Tomato Road Trip Update #2
1:07 PM EDT
Tomatoes have arrived in Louisville. From here, as I recall from years past, they truck it the rest of the way, which will take them to the final UPS staging area in Chelmsford MA by Thursday afternoon...
Tomato Road Trip Update #1
My tomato plants left the nursery in Springfield, OR Tuesday evening at 6:53 PM local time, and arrived in Portland OR at 12:40 AM this morning.
After more processing, the UPS plane took off at 6:10 AM local time, or 9:10 AM Eastern. As I recall, they fly non-stop to Memphis...no, Louisville!
Owl City
Here on Saddle Hill the barred owls have been partying all night lately-what a racket!
Here's what they look (and sound) like:
http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Strix&species=varia
Smart Bird!
"TOKYO - When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught — recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080521/ap_on_fe_st/odd_japan_parrot_returns
New York City Waterfall Art Update
More on the project, which will include four giant man-made waterfalls:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24332
Hawaiian Music Mini-Digest
Not a daily feature, maybe a weekly one...
It's Waikiki Hula Fest time:
http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/6653/40/
And some school kids got free ukuleles and a visit from slack key man John Cruz...
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080520/GETPUBLISHED/80520053/-1/SPORTSFRONT
Wednesday Music Digest
FUSE tv on cable will telecast the Bonnaroo Festival in June
http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2008/05/19/daily16.html
Yamaha rolls out a new "digital music instrument"
http://www.physorg.com/news130580446.html
Joe Cocker sighting
http://www.ticketnews.com/Joe-Cocker-embarks-on-four-month-tour5821234
Sir Paul McCartney wants a "celebratory" funeral
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/5571
Pink Floyd wins Sweden's Polar Music Prize
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hu9LWNkpUXZZ47s6DiOQonnS8xgAD90Q22I00
Samsung introduces a "personal trainer phone"
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/21/review_samsung_adidas_f110_micoach_sliderphone/
And there are Led Zeppelin Canada dates rumored:
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/05/21/led_zeppelin_set_for_canada_dates_
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