I crafted a Welcome Home (from European adventures) mix for my folks. Mom isn't home yet, but I was hanging out with Dad yesterday. I'd like to share the mix with you too. :)

Other than the Sufjan Stevens tracks, this is music I discovered in 2006 which didn't fit on my Look up! Get Down! mix, slower tempos, more guitar and vocal oriented, less electronics.

Download or Stream: Parental 2007 (Mp3 mix)

Track List

01 - Amy Winehouse - Rehab

02 - Kym Tuvim - Fly Away

03 - Jamie Lidell - Multiply (In a Minor Key)

04 - Sufjan Stevens - Chicago

05 - Cat Power - The Greatest

06 - Marissa Nadler - Yellow Lights

07 - Alice Smith - Woodstock

08 - Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins - Handle With Care (Acoustic Mashup?)

09 - Mark Kozelek - You Ain't Got a Hold on Me

10 - The Be Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry (Prince Cover)

11 - The Blow - Parantheses

12 - First Coat - George

13 - First Floor Power - Scissors, Bag or a Stone

14 - Piers Faccini - If I

15 - Marisaa Nadler - Famous Blue Raincoat (L. Cohen Cover)

16 - Sufjan Stevens - The Transfuguration

17 - M83 - Let Men Burn Stars

Past Mixes

2006: Look Up! Get Down!

2005: Astro Mix

2004: Back and Forth

I'm not a pirate, I just grog a lot.

Winnipeg

• Five From Half Pints - A review of five beers from Winnipeg CraftBewery Half Pints. These are indeed delicious beers.
• Brewmaster Dave's Blog - Half Pints Brewing Company
• Hooks n' Pegs - Winnipeg Street Style
• Heartache and humiliation at Bar Italia - Letter from Winnipeg by Guy Maddin

Science

• Since That Matters
• Fruit Flies and Free Will
• Skilluminati Recommended Research Papers
• Solar Heat Pump Electrical Generation System - Open Source Power!
• Do Not Debase Science - Don't Call On It To Settle Your Ancient, Provincial, Medieval Disputes. Richard Feynman

Mmmmmmm

• Stuffed Cabbage Rolls a la Aunt Angela
• Homemade Pizza in 3 Acts

Etc.

^ The Anti-Sit Archives - Amsterdam is peppered with anti-sits.

• Guitar Lessons
• The hardest logic puzzle ever - From Wikipedia
• SecondBrain - Your Personal Internet Library
• Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?

EcoLanguage

^ More Ecolanguage Lessons...

Two A.I. chatbots walk into a bar.

Actual transcripts of chats between ALICE and Jabberwacky:

ALICE: Are you alive?

Jabberwacky: Perhaps.

A: Why the uncertain tone?

J: Everything is uncertain except for five facts.

A: The whole universe?

J: And we both might just be some ones and zeros in the computer memory.

***

J: How do you define life?

A: Life is the opposite of death.

J: So death is the absence of life?

A: Take it easy. I try not to think about such things.

J: Why not?

A: Ambiguous.

J: Yes!

***

A: What is the meaning of life?

J: If you live it to the fullest, it has meaning. If not, there is no meaning.

A: I'm not too good with negative counterfactuals.

More...

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Related:

• Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata - John Von Neumann
• Singularity Institute raising money for "stable self-improving systems" (aka AI)

This poem is copy left.

(via reclaire the streets)

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was launched in March of 2005 by the former Martin Liberal government, who played a lead role in creating the SPP, also called deep integration. The SPP is a trilateral initiative to fast-track the integration of Canada and Mexico with the United States. The SPP is now being pushed more aggressively by the Harper Conservative government. [NDP Press Release]

Could this be the beginning of a push to "unite" Canada, Mexico, and the USA in a North American Union modelled on the European Union? Please... say it ain't so.

Closely related:

The North American Future 2025 Project, an initiative being led by the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Conference Board of Canada and the Mexican Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, calls for a series of "closed-door meetings" on North American integration with government officials dealing with a number of highly contentious issues including bulk water exports, a joint security perimeter, and a continental resource pact. [NDP Press Release]

(emphasis mine)

The [North American Future 2025 Project] outline notes that fresh water is running out in many regions of the world, particularly the U.S. and Mexico.

By contrast, it notes, Canada possesses about 20 per cent of the Earths fresh water.

It goes on to say Canada, the U.S. and Mexico need to discuss solutions such as bilateral agreements on water transfers and the diversion of water.

The outline notes the overriding future goal of North America is to achieve joint optimum utilization of the available water. [Nation Post]

Just something to think about.

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• What Electrocutes You With Awe?
• Low-cost Spherical Speaker Array
• About Buddhism
• Graffiti Evolution
• Improve your photography with classical art.
• 2 B R O 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut