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X2 Coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain

This is the entrance to X2, one of my favorite coasters.

Here I am in front of the metal and the danger sign.

So here I am a jamband aficionado getting off on Kanye West's new album:


Oh, because it's good. That's all.

So, one time back in the 80s, the son of a slave who wore no shoes was having a conversation with me on a porch in Sapucaia, RJ. We were talking about the moon, which was shining in the sky. I asked him if he knew that man had gone to the moon and he laughed and said that was impossible.

This post is for him. :-)

Here are the landing sites of the manned missions to the moon:
This is David Gans singing "Back to Eugene".

Thanks to Stan Weis.

All Songs Considered is one of my favorite musical blogs:

This is a great place to find new music that you may have missed.

This is my favorite coaster at Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure. THE INCREDIBLE HULK!

An interesting lesson about discrimination:

The American military is in 70 countries as of June 30, 2009. Isn't that a few too many?

Finally got to see The Heavy Pets

The Heavy Pets.
The universe is a hologram concept was conceived to explain how information that is sucked into a black hole can perpetuate. Consider this. You are next to a black hole. I am beside you. You get sucked inside. I know you are inside because I am outside and you are inside. That's real, right?

No. I cannot know because when you or light or anything disappear into a black hole so does the information about you. It's like a Jasper Fford novel. You've been edited out of existence.

So, this is an experiment to see if there is another possible explanation, a hologram one. It relies on measuring these things that are 10 quadrillionth times smaller than the width of a proton.

Vote: "The price good men (mg: & women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -- Plato
Saw Phish again. First time in 6 years.

Quantum Information Technology Gets a Hand From String Theory

The same math that is needed to describe the interaction of Qubits that are quantum entangled is found in the description of black holes in string theory. Synchronicity.

The front leg of a Dytiscus water beetle. The structures on left and bottom are hair and the "large" structure top-right is a suction cup.

"Peacebone" by Animal Collective

I really think this is hilarious. Breakfast at Sulimay's review Kids.

And this is what really happened.

What is the genotype and phenotype variation in humans? Here is a study to sort it out:


Eddie Hazel killing "Maggot Brain". Parliament Funkadelic from 1980 live.


How to make gnocchi...

I'm in Italy. That's the Mediterranean Sea.  (near Cinque Terre)

Graham Chapman's funeral, quite possibly the first British Memorial Service to utter the word 'Fuck' in the eulogy.


This is in the Serra in Brasil, RJ, Teresópolis

These were actually taken in Dec 2009.

Sooooooo... What is this place anyway?

Since the message that describes the blog is limited to 500 characters I thought the first post should be a summary of what I intend to do in this nice shiny place. There seems to be a lot of room here, so let's get right to it.

I am a citizen of Earth who currently lives in a small part of Florida, in the United States. I've lived in California and BraSil (meu Brasil é com 's'), and I spend a lot of time in Europe, especially Switzerland, which has the answers for the question, "How should we govern?" and "How should we run a business with integrity?" More about Switzerland later.

Before I talk about what I'm going to talk about, let's spend some time talking about what I'm not going to talk about:

(1) I have family, but I don't plan to mention them much here, because I respect their privacy. If they want to talk about what they think, post pictures, whatever, they have at least a dozen ways to communicate their message better than …