Awfully quiet...

Someone is slacking off around here...

Spring Break

You want to attract talent? Offer Spring Break for the workplace. Give staff a week off, maybe subsidize a trip to Florida. All other things being equal, would be nice... Sigh.

AIs generating surreal content for children -- what could go wrong?

Fascinating analysis of those weird kids' videos on YouTube Kids:

Awesome 80's cyberpunk-ish ad for a GE casette player

The summer of COVID

We are all living in a science fiction novel now, a grim dystopia of worldwide pandemic mixed with corporate malfeasance and government monitoring, where the masses are brainwashed by both corrupt media manipulation and dark memes from "social" platforms.

And yet the sun still shines, there are deer in the farmers' fields across the way, and hummingbirds in my window each day.

And while live music is a rarity (though I did see Elvis across a campground, and a local band playing a Tommy Conwell cover in that same space a week earlier), there is still music to be played, our personal setlist in headphones on short walks or car speakers on short drives. We will find our way through this, too.

UFO and Blue Oyster Cult, Nov. 1, 2019, Penn's Peak

UFO

• Mother Mary
• We Belong to the Night
• Venus
• Lights Out
• Burn Your House Down
• Only You Can Rock Me
• Cherry
• Love to Love
• Too Hot to Handle
• Rock Bottom
• Shoot Shoot

Blue Oyster Cult

• The Red & the Black
• Before the Kiss, a Redcap
• Career of Evil
• Burnin' for You
• Harvest Moon
• The Vigil
• Hot Rails to Hell
• Buck's Boogie
• Then Came the Last Days of May
• Godzilla
• (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Encore:

• Cities on Flame With Rock and Rol

Thanks to SetList.fm: UFO BOC

Alice Cooper setlist, July 17, 2019, Allentown PPL Center

It was nice that he changed up the setlist somewhat...

• Feed My Frankenstein
• No More Mr. Nice Guy
• Bed of Nails
• Raped and Freezin'
• Fallen in Love
• Muscle of Love
• I'm Eighteen
• Billion Dollar Babies
• Poison
• Roses on White Lace
• My Stars
• Devil's Food
• Black Widow Jam
• Steven
• Dead Babies
• I Love the Dead (band vocals only)
• Escape
• Teenage Frankenstein

Encore:

• Under My Wheels
• School's Ou

Thanks to setlist.fm.

Loudon Wainwright III Setlist, Opera House, Jim Thorpe PA - March 23, 2019

Another great show at the Opera House, with a great opening set by Jessy Tomsko (check out Wild and Good).

Loudon's setlist:

• One Man Guy
• God's Got a Shit List
• You Can't Fail Me Now
• Between
• I Knew Your Mother
• Heaven
• The Sum of Recollection Just Keeps Growing
• Bein' a Dad
• Grammy Chronicles
• In C
• The Picture
• OGM
• Motel Blues
• New Paint
• It Ain't Gaza
• White Winos
• Hank and Fred

Encore:

• Middle of the Night

Setlist courtesy SetList.FM, as I didn't know the names of all the songs. Loudon's website.