Miles teaches his daughter about the birds and the bees.
Oh man, I lost it at this one. This series is hilarious!
Posted 3 years ago
Classical Pieces You’ve Probably Heard but Might Not Remember the Name
- William Tell Overture- Rossini (Most famous part at 8:45, but why not listen to the whole thing?)
- Also Sprach Zarathustra- Strauss
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik- Mozart
- Symphony 94, Mvt. 2 “Surprise Symphony”- Haydn
- Toccata and Fugue in d Minor-Bach
- Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2- Chopin
- Rondo alla Turca- Mozart
- Sinfonie de Fanfares: Rondeau- Jean-Joseph Mouret
- The Four Seasons: Spring- Vivaldi (I just linked to the whole thing because it’s great)
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring- Bach
- O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)- Carl Orff
- Funeral March- Chopin
- Orpheus in the Underworld: Infernal Galop (A.K.A. Can Can)- Offenbach
- Pomp and Circumstance (You probably graduated to this)- Elgar
- Gayane: Sabre Dance- Aram Khachaturian
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wedding March- Mendelssohn
- Carmen: Les Toreadors- Bizet
- The Ride of the Valkyries- Wagner
- Für Elise- Beethoven
- Dance of the Hours- Ponchielli
- Rigotello: La Donna e Mobile- Verdi
- Night on Bald Mountain- Mussorgsky
- Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme- Tchaikovsky
- Entry of the Gladiators- Julius Fucik
- Lakmé: Flower Duet- Delibes
- Peer Gynt: In the Hall of the Mountain King- Greig
- Rodeo: Hoedown- Copland
- Peer Gynt: Morning Mood- Greig
- New World Symphony Mov. [2][4]- Dvorak
- Ave Maria (You knew this, but did you know that it was by Schubert?)
- Canon in D- Pachelbel
Add others if you want! Have fun!
- Dies Irae (from Requiem) - Verdi
- Flight of the Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov
- Finale to the 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky
- Der Holle Rache kocht in meiner herzen (aka the Queen of the Night aria) - Mozart
- Libiamo ne’ lieti calici - Verdi
- Largo al factotum - Rossini
- Overture to The Barber of Seville - Rossini
- The Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss
- Moonlight Sonata (mvmt. 1) - Beethoven
- Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven
I’m sure there are more but these were some of the first that came to mind as missing!
I think this one’s missing, one of my favourites:
Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns
This is one of the best classical music master-posts I’ve ever seen. I’m so proud of yall
Posted 4 years ago
Net Neutrality, Verizon vs. Netflix, and the Consumer
Net Neutrality, Verizon vs. Netflix, and the Consumer
Just a few days ago my roommate and I were complaining to ourselves that our Netflix streaming rates had been terrible lately. This confused us greatly, as our Verizon FIOS ISP guarantees that our download speeds are faster than anything else in the city. A simple test at speedtest.net showed that we were still getting close to the 100M download speeds we were supposed to be getting…yet the…
Posted 4 years ago
Hehehehe… This reminds me too much of my own pet turtle.
(Source: noobtheloser)
Posted 5 years ago
A Little Rant on Obamacare and Jimmy Kimmel
So my dad just sent me this link:
Jimmy Kimmel apparently doesn’t like the ACA and pokes fun at the young people that the law supposedly hurts in order to support old people and their increased health care needs. While he’s a funny guy, I think his comments miss the point when it comes to young voters and why many of us are in favor of this law. I think he (and my dad, possibly) don’t understand the mentality that pervades our generation in comparison to older ones. I sent the following reply to my dad, and thought it was worth sharing to others.
Note: There are several other reasons I didn’t mention in the email to my dad why the ACA is a good law, like preventing insurance companies from denying coverage due to preexisting conditions and the increased number of total people with access to health care.
Second note: If you were to ask me, I’d say that health insurance itself is the real beast. Until we have universal health coverage, these issues will continue to plague us. It’s about time America caught up with the rest of the world and considered health care a universal right, not a privilege.
Anyway, here’s the email I sent.
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Hahaha, those are funny!
I never noticed the overlap between the ages that the administration was expecting to enroll vs. the age that people are now allowed to stay on their parents’ insurance until. That’s kind of hilarious. "Why aren’t 24 and 25 year olds signing up damnit!!!! …oh, ‘cuz we let them stay w/parents until 26….how did we not catch that???“
But, as for the rest of the insinuations in the fake ads, I find them a little insulting. The crux of Kimmel’s argument is that the ACA hurts young people because we’re essentially paying for older people’s health coverage. Well you know what? GOOD! Because–and this is what I think a lot of older people don’t understand–there are a lot of younger people who believe in an ideal that is not inherently selfish. There’s this weird every-man-for-himself behavior pattern inherent in the old school leadership (i.e. Republicans–sorry dad, but it’s true) that says screw those people who can’t afford the things that they need. I and many younger voters don’t believe in that; we believe that if other people need something they can’t get on their own, it is okay to ask people who don’t need as much to give a little more. I’m a healthy guy for my age; all I take are two prescriptions that are relatively cheap, and all the other coverage I need is for emergencies. If older people who need a lot more and more expensive drugs can’t afford it, I don’t like that. I’m happy to have my premiums go to help them live longer and happier lives. Why is that an idea that’s subject to so much ridicule, I ask you?
Take the couple in the first fake ad. They need blood pressure medication and osteoperosis meds–great! Let them have it! Wait, what? Without younger healthier people supporting the health insurance system these older folks can’t get that meds? Why on earth should I feel inclined to say "screw them!” Hell, even the penis pump/erectile disfunction jokes–if that’s what older people need to stay healthy and happy in their relationships, and Medicare/caid/insurance deems it worthy of being covered, then so be it. I’d much rather have my money support those people than have the elderly divorce and/or depression rate go up because they can’t satisfy each other sexually like they used to (I honestly hope you and mom are still having fun! And if you’re not, I hope my insurance dollars can help you find that again!).
I did pick up a newspaper, and I still do support the ACA. Not because it’s perfect, but because it’s a good start to fixing a problem that is a) terrible and b) the rest of the world scoffs at. The laws will change, and the ACA will be modified to be better in the long wrong. But getting rid of it is the definition of anti-progress, and when the problem is this great, going backwards is just stupid–even if the first attempt at fixing it isn’t perfect.
Sorry to rant, dad, but I hope this explains a little more about why I and my generation are in favor of what’s going on.
Love you!
Posted 5 years ago
Quick Hits: Two Planets Discovered in the Habitable Zone of a Star
Very exciting news about the discovery of two planets within the habitable zone of a distant star!
New Earth-like Planets Found Orbiting Sun-Like Star
Of particular note is that the planets are roughly Earth-sized, as well. While this doesn’t have too…
Posted 5 years ago
Why Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction
MIT researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner argue that the mind-bending worlds of authors such as Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke can help us not just come up with ideas for new gadgets, but anticipate their consequences.
How will police use a gun that immobilizes its target but does not kill? What would people do with a device that could provide them with any mood they desire? What are the consequences of a massive, instant global communications network?
Such questions are relevant to many technologies on the market today, but their first iterations appeared not in lab prototypes but in the pages of science fiction.
This fall, MIT Media Lab researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner are teaching “Science Fiction to Science Fabrication,” aka “Pulp to Prototype,” a course that mines these “fantastic imaginings of the future” for analysis of our very real present.// Great stuff.
Posted 5 years ago
This question originally aired on March 12, 2012
Category: THE SPORTING LIFE
Question: In the 1980s college students were combining football & plastic throwing discs to create this “ultimate” sport
Answer: (Ultimate) Frisbee
http://www.triviabistro.com/JeopardyQuestionImage.aspx?QuestionID=225289
#& #”ultimate” #(Ultimate)
Jeopardy has no idea.
Posted 5 years ago
Quick Hits: Cephalopod Camouflage!
This is a pretty amazing video on the nature of Cephalopod camouflage. There are some amazing video captures of live Octopi in their natural environments.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/08/05/2011/where-s-the-octopus.html
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