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Only 127 years til annihilation

2009-08-13T00:36:00.002+08:00

2009-02-05T07:01:00.000+08:00

2009-01-10T23:17:00.003+08:00

Venomous mammals? Who knew? They all seem to be in the shrew family.

The male platypus has a venomous spur on his hind leg. Really?

Hispanolia dwelling critter caught on film.

2009-01-03T21:56:00.002+08:00

Fellow Earthlings, our interstellar representatives may not be showing out best sides...

Insane messages we're actually sending into deep space by Robert Brockway at Cracked

2008-12-16T19:26:00.000+08:00

From Cracked.com - the 6 deadliest creatures that can fit in your shoe

2008-12-09T19:25:00.001+08:00

Ancient Earth- Meteor Babies in Ammonia and Water

2008-11-27T19:01:00.000+08:00

Turtle shell evolution

2008-11-13T18:48:00.001+08:00

Charlie Taylor - Women Are Just Like People (Video)

2008-10-13T21:28:00.001+08:00

Geckos inspire new adhesive experiments (video)

2008-10-11T21:28:00.001+08:00

master of its ecosystem / bbc story

2008-09-09T06:15:00.001+08:00

The Hadron Particle Collider and the End of the World? Coming Wednesday.

2008-09-08T02:16:00.003+08:00

Being Human (short film)

2008-09-01T09:42:00.000+08:00

New GIANT CLAM species discovered.

2008-08-31T22:39:00.000+08:00

Wind turbines make bat lungs explode.(short video)

2008-08-31T22:29:00.002+08:00

The Physics of Baseball (video)

a talk by Dr. Porter W. Johnson

RIP George Carlin

2008-06-24T07:44:00.000+08:00

Carlin on death

2008-05-16T18:32:00.000+08:00

Caesar bust found in the Rhone.

2008-04-30T16:51:00.000+08:00

History's most overlooked mysteries.

2008-03-21T11:16:00.000+08:00

News Flash: Crucifixions are bad for you.

3.14

2008-03-15T09:50:00.001+08:00

Pi Day yesterday.

Leonard Cohen

2008-03-13T06:49:00.002+08:00

Leonard Cohen to do world tour at 73.

I love this version of Who By Fire with Sonny Rollins.

2008-03-13T06:43:00.001+08:00

'Hobbit' remains found in Palau, 2,000 miles from Flores Island.

Flores Man in 2004 shortly after the news broke.

Dribdas Reunion

2008-02-27T08:32:00.002+08:00

89K, Feb. 15th. Their first show in 4 years, according to Wade. Saw all the old timers out for this one. Lineup was rounded out by .22 and newcomers Moss...

It was my first show in I can't remember how long. Glad I made it.

This is some kinda improv jam on the heels of the storyteller...

DRIBDAS REUNION
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2008-02-21T06:50:00.000+08:00

The G spot revealed.

Kimchi

2008-02-14T08:56:00.003+08:00

Whenever I've met Koreans travelling, no matter the country, they always seem to be well stocked with provisions from home. Namely, kimchi. I was always incredulous that the Koreans I met wouldn't want sample the local flavours. You know, explore a bit. Nope, instant noodles and kimchi.
Years ago, in Korea, a Canadian colleague of mine spent hours preparing what she described to the boss as a traditional Canadian Thanksgiving dinner. It was a nice spread. There was the requisite turkey, veggies and stuffing, dinner rolls and all.
Mr. Chae walked in, sat down and immediately asked, "Where's the kimchi?"

Korea's first astronaut will be no different. Kimchi heading to the International Space Station.

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While I'm mentioning Korea, too bad about the Namdaemun Gate in Seoul. I used to go to that market to eat some kick ass Korean meals.

2008-02-12T07:48:00.000+08:00

The Science of Fairy Tales - Rapunzel's locks, silencing mermaids and vibrating carpets.

Hyoid Bone and Larynx Drop

2008-02-08T12:30:00.000+08:00

The only bone in the human body not connected to any other bone - The Hyoid Bone

Without it and the larynx drop we would still be grunting.

2008-02-04T06:32:00.000+08:00

First consignment of DOOMSDAY seeds hits Norway's Svalbard Islands.

.22 - Fuck No Techno

2008-01-22T06:50:00.000+08:00

It's that time of the month again. Classic .22 at Nuno's, Spring '04

2008-01-13T14:25:00.000+08:00

Boomerang Nebula

Polaris Dust Nebula

2008-01-12T20:16:00.000+08:00

Free Documentaries. Huge site. Hope I get some time to watch some of em.

2008-01-11T10:05:00.000+08:00

Ngugi on Kenyan violence.

2008-01-10T08:18:00.000+08:00

Milky Way ancestors - ancient spiral galaxies

2008-01-06T10:56:00.000+08:00

more on Antarctic Explorers - R.F. Scott v. Ernest Shackleton.

69 Across - Seed the Clouds

2008-01-04T19:23:00.000+08:00

2008-01-03T08:21:00.000+08:00

DIY Star Wars film made in garage.

New Year's Ballgame

2008-01-02T23:39:00.000+08:00

1/1, Factory Cats v. a local Taichung team.
John played a solid first, had a couple of hits, the last one a line shot gapper into left center. Les Arthur (top) played Center. Drew 3 walks, scored a couple of runs. Stole third but was called out by HP ump.

2007-12-28T08:49:00.000+08:00

John Kuhel's Tainan Factory Cats to play in Taichung on New Year's Day at noon.
I assume the opposition will be a local team.
Game to be played on one of the ball diamonds near dirty town.

Have a peek at Factory Cats baseball.

Have a look at Ah Fu's game.

2007-12-28T01:00:00.000+08:00

Captain Kidd's abandoned Quedagh Merchant found intact

70 feet off Dominican Republic in 10 feet of clear blue water.

Garrrgh!

2007-12-27T08:52:00.000+08:00

Poohat's back! Click for other worldly reading!

Adding link to sidelines.

2007-12-25T08:22:00.000+08:00

Jazz legend Oscar Peterson with Herb Ellis and Ray Brown performing A Gal in Gallico, 1958

I love these old black and white jazz vids

RIP Oscar

2007-12-23T08:40:00.000+08:00

Missing land link to the whale found . Hippo remains closest living land relative.

2007-12-22T21:54:00.000+08:00

.22 - LA Nightmare - Nuno's

2007-12-22T18:28:00.000+08:00

.22 live at Nuno's on Dong Hai in Taichung, spring 2004 -

Poisoned

2007-12-21T21:04:00.000+08:00

Chalk penguins drawn by Captain R.F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton have been found in a basement at Cambridge.

"This is a penguin?", is noted on Shackleton's drawing.

What was with the question mark?

2007-12-21T19:34:00.000+08:00

Top Twelve Astronomy Pics of 2007 from APOD. Some gorgeous shots.

2007-12-19T09:39:00.000+08:00

New Scientist has more than 200 vids up on youtube.

This one caught my eye - Zombie Cockroaches, Prisoner to the Jewel Wasp!

2007-12-19T09:33:00.000+08:00

New Scientist has a short video report on Jerboas in the Gobi

2007-12-18T08:46:00.000+08:00

The War on Democracy by John Pilger (documentary 94 min)

2007-12-11T08:47:00.000+08:00

More from the Nuno's show, 69 Across' Wo Xi Huan...

2007-12-11T08:32:00.000+08:00

The Jerboa - Dumbo of the Mouse World filmed for the first time

2007-12-10T18:21:00.000+08:00

69 Across live at Nuno's - Dirty Water

2007-12-08T15:20:00.000+08:00

I know Imagine is over played but it is the anniversary of John's death and this video just looks so cool... live in NYC, 1971, acoustic...

2007-12-08T14:58:00.000+08:00

John Lennon and Bob Dylan drunk in a taxi in London, ca. 1966. Part I and Part II.

This is a shorter, subtitled clip.

2007-12-08T14:49:00.001+08:00

John Lennon - Working Class Hero

2007-12-06T23:52:00.000+08:00

Halifax Explosion, 90 years ago today, most powerful non volcanic explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb.

and Explosion survivors are few these days.

2007-12-04T22:58:00.000+08:00

69 Across - No, I Haven't Nuno's May '04

2007-12-04T08:37:00.000+08:00

69 Across live at Nuno's May 2004 - Seed the Clouds

2007-12-02T10:22:00.000+08:00

Evel Knievel's life in pictures

2007-11-29T07:48:00.000+08:00

On Tuesday singer Kevin Dubrow of Quiet Riot fame died in Las Vegas at 52.

When I was in 7th grade, Quiet Riot was the shit. I searched for some QR vids and watched a couple. No disrespect to Dubrow but, man! these are hard to watch without laughing. The spandex, the hair, the posturing, everything a 12 year old boy needs to confuse the hell out of him...

This is Mama Weer All Crazee Now...

2007-11-29T07:40:00.000+08:00

Aerial views of Antarctica released.

69 Across Live

2007-11-29T07:31:00.000+08:00

Finally! Some 69 Across videos up on the net!

The first of a series from Nuno's Live House back in May '04... opening for .22

Here's Snowjob.

2007-11-25T09:40:00.000+08:00

Antarctic cruise ship retracing Shackleton's voyage strikes iceberg and sinks. Passengers and crew rescued. After years in the tropics, I don't know if I could have withstood the cold.

I definitely wouldn't want to really retrace Shackleton's true journey

and another, more modern looking trailer for a documentary called Endurance

2007-11-25T09:13:00.000+08:00

Wolfgang's Vault packages live music concerts from the ages with a big nod to the Bill Graham era.

2007-11-24T20:15:00.000+08:00

The Medusa Nebula by Dan Goldman

2007-11-24T10:44:00.000+08:00

Though the she-wolf that supposedly suckled Romulus and Remus was probably just a euphemism for a woman of "low" moral character, I came across this wiki article on feral children in fiction and mythology

2007-11-23T15:03:00.000+08:00

Italians say they've discovered the mythical cave where the she-wolf suckled Romulus & Remus.

2007-11-22T23:27:00.000+08:00

Scientists have evidence of Ancient Giant Sea Scorpion. Watch the video when you get there. Scary sea creature day continues.

2007-11-22T22:31:00.000+08:00

in news of the freaky, Jellyfish attack and destroy Fish Farm

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and in case you hadn't heard the US beat Cuba 6-3 for the gold on Sunday.

Asia Cup starts next week. Games in Taichung.

Pool B games, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong and Pakistan play a round robin Tues to Thurs. I'm blown away that Pakistan has a team. That's definitely Cricket counrty over there. The winner gets to play in Pool A with big dawgs Japan, Korea and Taiwan over the last weekend in November.

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Finally, .22 Superfan Zillafag figure skates to Dry Humpin. Hilarious. Gut wrencher of the week.

2007-11-17T21:37:00.000+08:00

Finals set. Cuba v. USA. Cuba downed Japan 5-3 and the US handled Netherlands 5-0.

World Cup Quarterfinals Set

2007-11-16T10:31:00.000+08:00

Well, the Thais aren't any better than the Filipinos, near as I can figure anyway. They gave up more than 100 runs over 7 games. Good on em for tryin though, eh? Maybe they should put kick boxer at third for, you know, intimidation purposes. South Africa stunk it up too, as did Germany, Spain and Venezuela. Italy actually beat the U.S., the only team to do so, but did not advance. Panama made it but then got tossed when some players were declared ineligible. Mexico took their place.

Canada's out. Korea's in and plays the U.S. tonight in Taipei. Both Canada and Korea finished with 4-3 records but Korea would the head to head and I imagine that's the decider. Taiwan vs. Netherlands at noon. Australia vs. Japan and Cuba vs. Mexico in other bracket. Semis tomorrow and the final is on Sunday. I'll keep you posted.

Leon Redbone

2007-11-16T10:25:00.000+08:00

We've been listening to a lot of Leon at my house lately. He keeps me calm before I go out into the madness. Here's Melancholy Baby...

2007-11-07T07:50:00.000+08:00

2007 World Cup Baseball Tourney has begun in Taichung. They're playing at both the new Intercontinental Stadium and the old stadium downtown. Chinese schedule here. English PDF here is kinda hard to read.

Highlights this week - Mexico vs. the US tonight at 6 pm ... Taiwan vs. South Africa Thurs at 6 pm and Japan vs. Mexico... Taiwan vs. Japan Friday night... Saturday noon Taiwan vs. Mexico and Saturday night the US vs. Japan. Sunday games Taiwan vs. Mexico at noon, evening games Spain vs. the US or Japan vs. Panama.

The US plays Taiwan next Wednesday the 14th...

The Taipei division includes Team Canada as well as traditional heavyweights Cuba, Korea and Holland. Germany has a team and so does Thailand! Who knew the Thais played baseball! Hope they're better than the Philippines.

2007-11-05T00:03:00.001+08:00

Jerry Seinfeld rips Larry King a new one. Awesome. Larry King asks such stupid questions.

Jon Stewart was on once and Larry asked him, due to the nature of his show (a news show), did he almost want bad things to happen, you know, for material.

To which he replied,

"Are you asking me if I want things to be bad?! I have kids Larry!"

2007-11-01T23:14:00.000+08:00

Overseas readers.

Re last post. To be clear here in Taiwan kids don't trick or treat. If they happen to go to an after school cram school that teaches English, it's likely they'll have a Halloween party complete with costumes, games and candy, the appropriate seasonal decor, witches, skeletons and pumpkins and such. It's can be a sweaty affair dressed up in a costume surrounded by screaming sugar fed 6-10 year olds. I haven't done one in a while but Sandy did last Friday. I stopped to get the car (in order to pick up the boys from preschool) at couldn't find her for the throbbing throng of kiddies all shouting a random mixture of English and Chinese - English to the teachers in order to correctly answer the question and thereby be rewarded with a treat, and Chinese amongst themselves when congratulating each other and bouncing to the next candy filling station. Parents watching from the street. Good way to promote a small cram school competing with the much larger Hess English Franchise directly across the street. The great interloper. The Wal Mart of Bushibans, to this neighbourhood anyhow.

My students were surprised today when I told them that Halloween was not a holiday in North America. People go to work, kids go to school. After their initial outrage, they pulled themselves together and informed me that it used to be a holiday here.

"Yes Teacher. Our first president's birthday. But not anymore."

And I thought, yes, of course ol' Peanut Head himself, thug and gangster, general(issimo) and born again dictator asshole Chiang Kai-shek. Born 10/31.

The Taiwanese are methodically removing Chiang from view everywhere around the island and have been for some time. When I got here he was on the 1000 NT bill. No more. The high school where I've been teaching for the last four years removed his statue and put in more parking for the staff.

This is an excellent summary from the daily telegraph.

Halloween Music

2007-10-31T08:58:00.001+08:00

Top 5 Jazz Halloween Songs

and the the top 5 bound to scare the shit out of any trick or treaters wandering to your door in search of goodies tonight.

2007-10-23T08:20:00.000+08:00

from Taichung based brandknewme

Cool Milk Video

Boogie Chillin' at the now defunct 89k

2007-10-14T09:53:00.000+08:00

Pangea Ultima. In 250 million years the Earth's tectonic plates will once again fuse into a giant super continent! I'd able to walk home from Asia!

Factory Cats Baseball

2007-08-30T07:54:00.000+08:00

Tainan baseball part II starring John Kuhel - video by Les Arthur

2007-07-05T21:25:00.000+08:00

Beastie Boys Off The Grid - instrumental Beastie Boys exclusive to Daily Motion

2007-06-24T10:16:00.000+08:00

Mimie Chan, live at Spring Scream 2007

PEAS IN THE MOUTH

2007-05-15T22:12:00.000+08:00

IVO watching himself in the camera display and answering some of Papa's silly questions... taken in March when Grammie was visiting from NB...

2007-04-24T06:56:00.000+08:00

check out John Kuhel playing baseball for the Tainan Factory Cats in a new video by Les Arthur...

2007-04-05T11:19:00.000+08:00

Spring Scream starts today down south and for the first time we're not going to be there. We thought about going but in the end it just made more sense to stay home and be with the kids here than carting them all over the concert grounds. I'm good with it. I've got a fantasy baseball team to look after I need to catch up on my sleep anyway. I'll miss some great acts, I know, like the new version of Rocketgirl, Miracle Saru, Mimie Chan, .22 and Charlie Taylor and who knows who else, but hey, such is life. If anyone gets some good video this year, I'd love to see it on down the road. Cheers and have a great time everybody!

simpsons evolution intro

2007-03-28T07:36:00.000+08:00

first part is your standard simpsons intro but then it gets pretty interesting....

Milk - SS Monkey

2007-03-19T23:41:00.000+08:00

Milk covering Rage Against the Machine. That's Pete on drums and vocals. The crowd really got into this one. Great show. Very fun. Fantastic energy. My fav Milk vid.

Milk - SS monkey
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.22 SS Monkey

2007-03-19T23:33:00.000+08:00

the Mormon Show, left to right Elder Skelter, El Dorado and Elder Fudd...

.22 SS Monkey
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Miracle Saru Spring Scream Monkey

2007-03-17T00:03:00.000+08:00

Miracle Saru Spring Scream Monkey
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Banjovi Spring Scream Monkey

2007-03-17T00:00:00.000+08:00

april 2004

Banjovi Spring Scream Monkey
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LTK Spring Scream Monkey

2007-03-14T08:29:00.000+08:00

Balls out Taiwanese rock! This was an awesome show!

LTK Spring Scream Monkey
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Mimie Chan Spring Scream Monkey

2007-03-13T23:02:00.000+08:00

I've had these guys linked on the sidebar for forever. This was in April 2004 in Kending... A real crowd fav... better vid of them coming soon...

Mimie Chan Spring Scream Monkey
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Spring Scream Run

2007-03-06T20:24:00.000+08:00

Spring Scream is coming soon! Double Pig over Tomb Sweeping weekend April 4th-7th...
And it's at a different site this year, up around Jia Le Shui as far as I understand...
I hope little Burl will be strong enough to make the trip... we'll see...

As usual, I haven't published any where near the number of videos I'd planned to publish of past performances... youtube's got me kinda frustrated lately... and
I just haven't put in the time, but I'm gonna try to get as many up as I can this month... I know what your thinking - if I didn't find the time with one kid, there's no way I'm gonna find it with two - and you're probably right... I'm opening a new account with Daily Motion, which seeming a little less busy than the tube...

Introducing Burl

2007-03-05T06:50:00.000+08:00

Burl was born last Wednesday, Feb 28th, at 6:14 pm in Da Li City.

Check out Honeybees for more details...

chimps just mushrooms short of civilization

2007-02-24T22:09:00.000+08:00

Still no baby yet... the waiting, hopefully, is the hardest part... was due the 22nd... we await his arrival imminently...

I just read on the BBC that chimps have been observed using spears (they sharpen them with their teeth) to hunt other primates. I knew they could use sticks to fish out termites and rocks to bash nuts. They've also been observed standing in apparent awe at the sight of a wonder of nature, say a rainbow over a waterfall, perhaps the makings of a spirituality of sorts... just wait till they find magic mushrooms (see Terrence McKenna), then they'll really be showing us evolution in action... story here.

2007-02-12T20:47:00.000+08:00

Here's a link to a new Charlie Taylor video - Too Drunk To Drink

I did a little video for Rock when Charlie was on stage at last year's Spring Scream.

Look for a shot of IVO below the stage that they put in the video...

2007-02-11T14:46:00.000+08:00

I don't know why but this last blip tv post has saddled me with a much too large thumbnail of Ivo... trying to work out the kinks in the relationship between blip and beta blogger...for now you can just click the pick to watch the video...

IVO DRUMMING! "NO PICTURE!"

2007-02-11T12:34:00.001+08:00

Click to Play

Ivo loves drumming and drums on all manner of things.

I'm thrilled he's learned to say "No picture!"

Living in Taiwan he tends to attract a lot of unwanted attention, which drives ol' dad nuts...

Norwegians to Build 'Doomsday' Seed Vault

2007-02-10T10:26:00.000+08:00

This just caught my eye. The Svalbard International Seed Vault is being planned to house all the known seed variations of world in the deep Arctic...

Sounds like the prologue of a science fiction epic... "In the year 2007, before the great calamity, the Norwegians had the foresight to deposit a vast and complete seed catalogue in the far reaches of the Arctic...with the nuclear winter dissipating and sunshine breaking through for the first time in centuries, a small band of survivors makes their way to the legendary vault, unsure of the validity of the claim, but pressing on, they alone mankind's last hope..."

or something like that...

Death of a Gold -Digger

2007-02-09T10:14:00.000+08:00

Last week I was teaching a lesson on people watching and in the dialogue there was an older man walking with a young girl. The friends assumed she was a 'gold-digger'. I told my students the story of Anna Nicole Smith and her marriage to the billionaire oil man in the 90's to better explain the idea of 'gold-digging'.

And now she's dead at 39. Too strange.

update

2007-02-07T15:46:00.000+08:00

This is my first day of vacation. Finally. That was a long ol' semester. These last two weeks have been pretty hectic getting ready for the new baby. Sandy is heavily pregnant. We feel that the delivery could come at any time now. My mom flew in from NB last week to help out with everything. She's been a tremendous help already. Ivo's getting to know his Grammie a little more every day and seems to be aware that there's a baby in mama's belly and he's going to come out soon...