Smarter Every Day – Mind-Blowing Magic Magnets
An evening pause: Rather than post an April Fool’s prank today, why don’t we see some modern magical engineering that even engineers can’t figure out.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Rose Royce – Wishing On a Star
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan – Don’t Lie To Me
An evening pause: The lyrics speak a truth that more people should follow.
Hat tip Cotour.
Marmot Dam Removal
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar.
TruthSurge – Open Arms
An evening pause: He admits to doing some audio manipulation to his voice to get it to sound as it does, but no matter, it sounds really good.
Hat tip Cotour.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Simple Man
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
B. J. Thomas – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
An evening pause: For those people hiding under their beds.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction
An evening pause: Performed live in 2011. Somehow this seems appropriate at the moment.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Two weeks under water
An evening pause: A clever way to extend research time under water. My only question in thinking about the experiments she was doing: What happens if it gets cooler?
Hat tip Cotour.
Yes, Minister – Get some patients
A evening pause: “But there are no patients!”
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Magnetic Games – Spinning Magnets
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
Celtic Woman – Faith’s Song
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy
An evening pause: Performed live in 2008.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Santana – Soul Sacrifice
An evening pause: Performed live, August 8, 1970. A nice way to energize for the weekend.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Our House
An evening pause: A hit in 1970, this song to me was one of the nicest songs from that time, and in many ways signaled the end of the 1960s.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Hans Davis – Shadow Act
An evening pause: Fun stuff.
Hat tip Cotour.
Looking Glass – Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl)
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe
An evening pause: This is a bit long for an evening pause, and I myself did not understand a good portion of the terminology, but it is still fascinating and worth watching nonetheless, if only to give you hope for the future. As the last questioner at the end said, “I think you’ve raised the bar on what all of us should expect from our kids now.”
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Bucky Covington – Different World
A evening pause: Performed live in 2014.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, who notes that the song probably “resonates far more to you and me than the performer. The lyrics trigger vibrant memories of my life as a kid in the 1960s going to Redeemer Lutheran grade school.” I agree, as someone who also grew up in the 1960s going to public school in Brooklyn, New York. Yet, I also suspect that Covington’s childhood, born in 1977 in North Carolina and growing up in the 1980s, was not that much different. No computers, and as a kid you played outside.
And most important of all, you grew up with a mother and a father, who were committed to staying together to raise their kids. That time is sadly long gone, and the children since have suffered terribly because of it.
Three Dog Night – Easy To Be Hard
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman, who quite cogently noted, “The band looks so 70s!”