Watch carefully. There will be a quiz following the lecture…
How Your LCD Monitor Works
Bill Hammack | The Engineer Guy | 20 Mar 11
_______________________________________________________________________________ Bill Hammack is a regular commentator for American Public Media’s premier business show Marketplace, for Illinois Public Radio via his home station WILL-AM 580, and for Radio National Australia’s Science Show. Bill lives with his wife and three cats in Urbana, Illinois, where he teaches at the University of Illinois.
OK guys, ready? Now I want you to sit still and try to avoid panting or sweating excessively. Think of your favorite guitarists. Keith? Eric? Maybe Jimi? How about Taimane? Who? Tai… what? Just listen and watch. Remember now, sit still…
Taimane’s Toccata
Taimane Gardner | YouTube | 2011
_______________________________________________________________________________ Taimane Gardner was born on February 13th 1989 in Honolulu Hawaii and was performing by the time she could walk. Taimane, now 21, is attending Kapiolani Community College in Hawaii and plays regularly in Waikiki. She also travels to the neighbor islands for corporate gigs but enjoys playing at open mike’s as a ‘nobody’ around town. Don’t be surprised to see her walk in to one of Hawaii’s normal hangouts to play her heart out from time to time.
If you’ve been following the news for the past two days you have seen many horrific images and video clips of the devastation in Japan. It is hard to get a grasp of exactly what happened beyond vignettes of cars floating down streets and buildings burning. This brief clip will give you a better sense of the scale of what happened in some areas…
It used to be you took your girl out to dinner and somewhere between the champagne and the cherries jubilee you popped the question. No more. These days you have to hire Cirque duSoleil, a marching band, legions of angels. Nothing’s simple these days, even wedding proposals. But this one is pretty cute. I think she said “yes”…
Like anyone who writes regularly about what passes for economic and fiscal debate in American politics, I’ve developed a strong tolerance for nonsense. After all, if I got upset every time powerful people were illogical and/or dishonest, I’d spend every waking hour in a state of raging despair.
Yet there are still moments when I find myself saying, “They can’t really be that stupid,” or maybe, “They can’t really think the rest of us are that stupid.” And I had one of those moments reading about a recent conference on national health policy, which featured a bipartisan dialogue among Congressional staffers.