Clickspring – Ancient Tool Technology: The First Hardened Steel
An evening pause: Most of us know that steel in some variety is made by adding carbon to the iron. This video shows how it was done in ancient times.
Hat tip Cotour.
Tag: entertainment
Wartime Radio Revue – Bei Mir Bist Du Shein
An evening pause: A modern rendition of the classic Andrews Sisters wartime hit.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Ashley Campbell – Remembering
An evening pause: On Glen Campbell’s birthday, I think it appropriate to post Ashley Campbell singing a song written for her father in his declining years.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Claire Crosby – Can’t Help Falling In Love
An evening pause: A wonderful cover of one of Elvis Presley’s most beautiful songs. From the comments: “Elvis Presley looking down from heaven with tears in his eyes and his hand on his heart.”
Hat tip Tom Biggar, who wrote, “This is why we need to fight for our freedom – for them.”
I personally pray that she will be free, and that we will have the guts to make sure that happens.
The Knack – My Sharona
Disney to furlough 100K employees because of government-imposed shut downs
The beatings will continue until morale improves: Disney is stopping the salaries of hundred thousand employees this week due to the shut downs imposed upon it by our panicked government over COVID-19.
The company says it will still provide full healthcare benefits for those employees, for the moment.
Once again, the shuttering of the Disney theme parks ripples out into the entire local economy. It isn’t just these employees who are now out of work, it is the hotel, transportation, and restaurant employees whose businesses served the same tourist customers.
Will the theme park entertainment come back? Unknown, I’d say, because the fear being pounded into everyone to “social distance,” to an absurd level, might mean that tourists will no longer feel comfortable visiting such venues.
The beatings will continue until morale improves: Disney is stopping the salaries of hundred thousand employees this week due to the shut downs imposed upon it by our panicked government over COVID-19.
The company says it will still provide full healthcare benefits for those employees, for the moment.
Once again, the shuttering of the Disney theme parks ripples out into the entire local economy. It isn’t just these employees who are now out of work, it is the hotel, transportation, and restaurant employees whose businesses served the same tourist customers.
Will the theme park entertainment come back? Unknown, I’d say, because the fear being pounded into everyone to “social distance,” to an absurd level, might mean that tourists will no longer feel comfortable visiting such venues.
Chop with Chris – Hand Carved Wooden Bowl In C Major
Pat Metheny – So May It Secretly Begin
An evening pause: Hat tip Rex Ridenoure of Ecliptic Enterprises.
Katica Illényi – Once Upon a Time in the West
An evening pause: Music by Ennio Morricone, played on the theremin with the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Eagles – New Kid in Town
Atom – The Great Gig in the Sky
Respighi – Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite 2, movements 3-4
An evening pause: The first two movements are wonderful too, so if you want, start this from the beginning. I begin it at movement three only because that movement is to me one of the most powerful pieces of music I have ever heard. The mix of low and high notes I think creates vibrations that touch the soul. And the melody ain’t bad either.
Sean Altman – They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat
An evening pause: To put it mildly, there is practically nothing in this song that is correct about Passover, except the title and the humorous indomitable spirit of the Jewish people.
For tonight, the first Passover Sedar.
Duo Siqueira Lima – Tico Tico no Fubá
R. E. M. – Everybody Hurts
Oscar Peterson Piano Lesson
Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time
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.
Rose Royce – Wishing On a Star
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan – Don’t Lie To Me
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
B. J. Thomas – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction
An evening pause: Performed live in 2011. Somehow this seems appropriate at the moment.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Yes, Minister – Get some patients
Magnetic Games – Spinning Magnets
Celtic Woman – Faith’s Song
Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy
Santana – Soul Sacrifice
An evening pause: Performed live, August 8, 1970. A nice way to energize for the weekend.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.