Paying Attention: One of the stars of the Paris Air Show was the Lockheed-Martin F35 fighter, which this year showed off it’s impressive flight capabilities in a challenging air demo. The Fine Print: Embed courtesy of our friends at YouTube and Lockheed-Martin. All rights reserved by the respective rights holders. We thank them …
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The Fastest Lap Ever at Le Mans.
Nightshift Sports: Records are made to broken, and this year at Le Mans, a Toyota Hybrid driven by Kamui Kobayashi broke the lap record at the famed Le Mans track. Even better, there’s terrific footage, great graphics, and very informed commentary. The video is just the thing to get you ready for the 24 Hours …
The Legendary Steve Jobs Commencement Address
Paying Attention: Steve Jobs started Apple and lead it to a position as the world’s largest company. Along the way he revolutionized the music industry, animated films, telecommunications, and the computer industry. He was an adopted child and he never graduated from college. He learned most things the hard way. In other words, he was the …
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Recording Sgt. Pepper's
The Hunt For New Music: In The Room With Geoff Emerick One of the key individuals in the production of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was Geoff Emerick, who was the recording engineer for the album and the sessions that produced it. Working with technology that is considered primitive by today’s digital 32-track standards, …
Weekend Concert Series: Allman Brothers Band
The Hunt for New Music: This past week, we lost another rock giant: Gregg Allman, singer, guitar player, Hammond B-3 organ virtuoso, died at age 69, bringing to a close one of the legendary careers in rock music. As one of the founders of the Allman Brothers band–his brother, the great guitarist Duane Allman was …
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The French Open 2017: Warmups-Nadal At Monte Carlo
Nightshift Sports: Rafael Nadal and clay court tennis–they are synonymous. Nadal has won the French Open 9 times–a record–and is the sport’s current reigning wizard on clay court surfaces. Although his game doesn’t always translate well to grass or hard courts, on clay is the master and there is no reason to believe that he …
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Transitions: Don Rickles (a.k.a. Mr. Warmth) 1926-2017
Editor’s Note: The Don Rickles video originally available is no longer available. Sorry about that. Paying Attention: Let’s get one thing straight: you’re a hockey puck. At least you are if you accidentally wandered into Don Rickles’ field of vision during one of his many live shows. Accept that premise and the rest of …
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How to make the iPad insanely great
Paying Attention: Apple’s iPad, which created an entirely new category of computing device, has been going through a tough market cycle. In January of 2017, unit sales were down 19% and total revenue was down 22%; even with backward leaning numbers, the iPad still accounted for 13.3 million units and $5.5 billion in revenue and …
Goodnight for Manu?
Paying Attention: The San Antonio Spurs lost their playoff series with the Golden State Warriors last night, after a very tough series in which they went full throttle despite the loss of three of their best players (Kawhi Leonard, Tony Parker, David Lee). With a little over 2 minutes left in the fourth game of …
Transitions: Ueli Steck (1976-2017)
Paying Attention: “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering. All the rest are merely games…” Earnest Hemingway… There wasn’t a Ueli Stick before he arrived on the international mountaineering scene and there won’t be one now that he is gone. He was unique, a multi-faceted alpinist with a deep reservoir of …