tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916Wed, 06 May 2009 06:23:55 +0000An exploration of the nature and quality of happiness.http://caribe777.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)Blogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-7164061282614021828Mon, 04 May 2009 04:52:00 +00002009-05-05T23:23:55.860-07:00Pallet ManNightmare NevadaDark SkiesMojave DrumsJuniorDNAGurrwolfHarvestersFire Arts FestivalSpace Pirate GreetingThe gate was down a dirt road deep into the old growth Joshua tree forest of Mojave Drums. We were greeted there, next to the Porno Pyro Pirate Dome. Got a slap on the butt, a map and a blue black Dark Skies 2009 sticker. Took a swig of spicy dark rum and became a space pirate! The Pirate Queen found us a spot. It overlooked much of the city, being near the top of the road http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2009/05/dark-skies-fire-arts-festival.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-866024002056797403Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:55:00 +00002008-10-24T16:25:40.772-07:00Makin' BaconSoCalDeCom 2008Makin' Bacon on Mars.SoCalDeCom was a Mars themed playground. Community Liaisons, Rangers, artists and camp leaders had the event ready.LandingMatty, ChewToy, Mike and other greeters hugged arrivers on a bridge over a sand wash. They gave them wrist bands and guides with a map superimposed on a satellite image of the grounds. The flip side of the map was the What Where When of the art, camps and http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/10/socaldecom-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-1593269599092469627Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:41:00 +00002008-10-01T20:55:16.640-07:00SpaceX RocketOn Sunday September 28, 2008, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) launched its Falcon 1 rocket. "This is a great day for SpaceX and the culmination of an enormous amount of work by a great team," said Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, "The data shows we achieved a super precise orbit insertion -- middle of the bull's-eye -- and then went on to coast and restart the second stage, which was http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/10/spacex-rocket.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-2801350464506282680Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:31:00 +00002008-09-29T23:31:39.195-07:00Star Spangled BannerStar Spangled Banner | Funny Jokes at JibJabhttp://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/09/star-spangled-banner.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-5270880063041407256Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:15:00 +00002008-09-06T01:29:12.392-07:00Burning Man 2008.Monday Night.At sunset Monday burners waited into the night to be let through the gates. A dust storm swirled on the playa ahead. Cars stopped. The waning moon had not yet risen. People cut their headlights, even their parking lights. The Milky Way glistened above. "Bon soir," Calico said to the French guys standing on their rented van. They had heard about Burning Man from a http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/09/burning-man-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-5832829592065586290Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:47:00 +00002008-09-03T09:54:34.574-07:00Jimmy Jean-Louis ( heroes)Ari Gold (groove)Adrian Grenier (entourage)Chi Ling Chiu (kung fu hustle)Adventures of Power is a comedy about a mine worker named Power who journeys across America to save his hometown using his talent for air-drumming. On his journey he gathers an assortment of outcasts who believe that their obsession could change the world.http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/09/adventures-of-power.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-6979452755564369506Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:05:00 +00002008-08-04T22:43:43.454-07:00Burning Man False ProfitFire art on the playa is often designed to awe and to overwhelm, burning industrial quantities of flammable gas. In contrast, The Hydrogen Economy is a very intimate, human-scale piece that is less about awe than about wonder.Our goal is to create an interactive sculpture that produces hundreds of hydrogen bubbles. The bubbles explode when participants touch them with ignitor wands. These http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/08/hydrogen-economy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-4286363572665243308Fri, 30 May 2008 01:36:00 +00002008-05-29T18:37:37.337-07:00A beautiful cast of characters send their love from the Burning Man playa. Exploding self expression, sweet kisses and wild play.http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/05/kisses-from-burning-man-2007.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-8528313088295346183Tue, 27 May 2008 04:26:00 +00002008-05-26T21:30:30.509-07:00Video captured by traffic camera in Ohio some time before January 22, 2008.A 75 year old driver in a PT Cruiser runs a red light and into a Subaru, which causes the Subaru to roll over a pedestrian, who was going there even though the crosswalk signal was red. It's a miracle that everyone survived. The pedestrian was saved by the imprint that the PT Cruiser left in the driver's side of the Subaruhttp://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/05/accident-recorded-by-traffic-camera.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-5369040023427535599Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:24:00 +00002008-04-03T23:25:10.732-07:00It is a song by Weird Al done completely in palindromes.http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/04/palindromes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-4859318479976275590Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:19:00 +00002008-04-03T23:23:20.492-07:00When acclaimed documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker filmed Bob Dylan during a three week concert tour of England in the Spring of 1965, he had no idea he was about to create one of the most intimate glimpses of the rock legend ever put on filmhttp://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/04/bob-dylan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-2146800170928862288Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:51:00 +00002008-04-01T22:05:59.037-07:00Thanks to the central positioning of the batteries and motor, the Enertia handles winding roads with ease. Its wide rear tire keeps the wheels on the ground even when accelerating through turns. One thing is missing — the roar of the engine. The ride is surprisingly peaceful without it.To stretch battery life, the bike is preset to draw only 150 amperes, or 60 percent of the maximum power. That http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/04/brammo-motorsport-enertia-electric.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-1856600127461831101Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:32:00 +00002008-03-19T21:35:03.344-07:00John McCainJohn McCain's poor grasp of foreign policy and military strategy make him a dangerous choice for the role of commender-in-chief.http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/03/john-mccain-dangerous-choice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-2726759016186991826Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:23:00 +00002008-02-09T16:24:55.204-08:00Head TrackingDesktopWiiRemoteVR DisplaysHead Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemotehttp://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/02/head-tracking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-5215030491424358204Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:50:00 +00002008-01-15T18:25:07.730-08:00Ocean Blue Hibachi Grill & Sushi Bar30125 Agoura Rd., Suites I-JAgoura Hills, CA(818) 735-9711Location: In Agoura Hills Town Center (near Reyes Adobeexit off of 101, across from Renaissance Hotel)http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/01/good-resturants-meals.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-5580692215105949091Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:48:00 +00002008-01-01T23:57:06.051-08:00Crude AwakeningExplosionBurning ManOil DerrickThis is one of many videos of the explosion of the Crude Awakening art installation at Burning Man 2007. The blast was preceded by a massive fireworks display. I felt an intense heat from it a 1/4 mile away. There was a mushroom cloud of smoke!The explosion demolished a 100 foot high oil derrick, but left standing giant worshipers. Later a tree was placed amid the ruins of the derrick.http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/01/crude-awakening-explosion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-3583647538847422423Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:53:00 +00002008-01-01T15:02:21.505-08:001. Pleasantville, Pleasantville is a New Line Cinema film first released in Canada on September 17, 1998 starring Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, and Jeff Daniels. Don Knotts, Paul Walker, Marley Shelton, Jane Kaczmarek and J. T. Walsh are also featured.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasantville_(film)2. Into the Wild3. Hoax4. Bourne Ultimatum5. March of the Penguins6. http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2008/01/updated-best-movies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-4030191174437945106Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:56:00 +00002007-12-30T12:01:15.883-08:00TVOfficeThe Office is an award-winning American television comedy which deals with the daily lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictitious Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Although fictional and scripted, the show takes the form of a documentary, with the presence of the camera openly acknowledged.Based on the British series of the same name, it was adapted for U.S. http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2007/12/tv-shows.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-7967690719634104173Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:14:00 +00002008-03-21T23:43:49.511-07:00TachyonsTachyonsTracking the elusive faster-than-light particleIn 1962, a group of physicists made the provocative observation that Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity does not actually prohibit matter from traveling faster than light, only from being accelerated to faster-than-light speeds. This may seem like an irrelevant distinction—and perhaps it is. But suppose there were a particle that came http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2007/12/faster-than-light-particles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-4921518160566003190Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:42:00 +00002007-12-30T12:38:56.316-08:00bankingtechbubbleA funny video from the richterscales.com.It is hard not to listen to more than once.Here Comes Another Bubblehttp://caribe777.blogspot.com/2007/12/here-comes-another-bubble.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-1290659109005969086Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:40:00 +00002008-03-21T23:46:13.286-07:00absintheBanned for a century for inspiring madness and murder, absinthe is legal again. So pour yourself a glass and get to know the real Green Fairy.Perhaps you already have your own absinthe story. You drank it in New Orleans one foggy night, too full of fumes to remember much aside from the cloudy green swirl of the drink as water drip-dropped into the glass. You smuggled a cheap bottle back from http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2007/12/everything-you-know-about-absinthe-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-8350770881356504381Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:52:00 +00002007-12-19T23:53:35.481-08:00Ron Paul Ranthttp://caribe777.blogspot.com/2007/12/ron-paul-rant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-4360872285007310970Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:48:00 +00002007-12-16T12:54:15.801-08:00Best movies of all time. Extra points are given for movies seen recently. 1. Hoax 2. Bourne Ultimatum 3. March of the Penguins 4. Sicko 5. Primeval 6. Little Miss Sunshine 7. Capote 8. About Schmidt 9. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle 10. Garden State 11. Seabiscuit 12. Catch Me If You Can 13. The Talented Mr. Ripley 14. Fast and Furious 15. Fahrenheit 911 16. Roundershttp://caribe777.blogspot.com/2007/12/best-movies-of-all-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-3647594208021099772Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:40:00 +00002007-12-30T12:43:16.843-08:00We are blogging more now, and so have more blogs!The name of this blog has been changed to Zeitgeist 2008 and will focus on the spirit of our times.We blog about Art and Artists on the new Art and Artist Blog.We blog about poker on the Scoby Poker Blog, and about the development of poker robots on the Poker Robots Blog.http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2007/12/blog-blog-blog-blog-blog-blog-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685916.post-110153483341060609Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:53:00 +00002004-11-26T21:53:53.410-08:00Scoby the Poker Robot: "Scoby"http://caribe777.blogspot.com/2004/11/scoby-poker-robot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jonathan)2