Happy Birthday Dad

You Are Missed.

AI is now best player of Go

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/27/tech/go-master-google-intl-hnk-scli/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3IT7ylFulxppEgw3a04bw9Ctmpc-Tl7GqsBVbuQywENBz6N3bcrReXT_U

I confess that I am much more impressed by this achievement than most (such as winning at chess)

Absinthe Lovers Gift Guide

https://www.meandannabellee.com/absinthe-lovers-gift-guide/

Dems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4mZqqpBlL4&feature=emb_share&fbclid=IwAR2IxOIzotu57pXwi-esiTLlDb2RTXvHhzdSOT62Ljm4X_W8_1A6y7qcOj0&app=desktop

Interesting speculations about the MIB phenomena

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/11/men-in-black-possessed-and-well-dressed/?fbclid=IwAR2CvG8SPJfRv5RZaJmbZYek_rjAg-GIL6zjQqCmC4NEZPRozfDxHCiBN9U

Happy Thanksgiving!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)

Art Buchwald's Thanksgiving Column

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/le-grande-thanksgiving/2011/11/18/gIQA2nerYN_story.html

Deceased columnist Art Buchwald would always post this column every Thanksgiving, and it would appear in the his "home base, the Post.  They stopped doing so with his death, but I continue the Tradition.  RIP, Art.

Project Blue Book documents on display at the National Archives

https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/11/21/a-new-exhibit-at-the-national-archives-explores-government-ufo-documents/

Vintage gas station

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/vintage-texaco-gas-station-draws-growing-number-of-visitors/article_afe57dc9-11ed-5676-83a6-6dc59f03346b.html?fbclid=IwAR3omDhcSzovluW9HbUl7idQjcgAAZvCUG6kxAOCSGRb1anPPXlQAGp2tRM

Neat-O!  I love the old glass enclosed gravity feed gas tanks!  The first and only time I got to see one in action was also in Wyoming, in the little village of Medicine Bow, back in June of 1971.  I knew then that I was seeing a lost bit of history.

A nice article about Tom Lehrer

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03922-x?fbclid=IwAR2x02QTSDPPOny6XOgMB0JfZm1WkT8vn9JM4mMiyqTDsY86V_J9cDx4krk

Horror Ornaments

https://horrornaments.com/

New Sam Cooke box set on the way

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/abkco-sam-cooke-complete-keen-years-box/?fbclid=IwAR3PH1i6icUvczjGLsnigKuxKaKNl5FF27k04XiD43mPtTtCAAAJaphuENQ

RIP Gahan Wilson

https://gahanwilson.net/

Alan Lomax music archives available online!

http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/alan-lomaxs-massive-music-archive-is-online.html?fbclid=IwAR3w4-PoombSduwrCB456sv2PVdYMulPRz5CWh3_CKOKyAj5jVSqU1h0SaU

The largest secondhand book market

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kolkata-book-market-under-threat?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fb0bee6203-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_20_Not_Chicago&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-fb0bee6203-64536349&mc_cid=fb0bee6203&mc_eid=9337bd4ceb

Wow!

Artist makes Trolls!

https://www.healthyfoodhouse.com/artist-makes-giant-wooden-trolls-and-then-hides-them-throughout-the-belgian-forest/?fbclid=IwAR1VWyvDZkHFAQ18Sb1zJYyKVsKMdEiq5bnEUt6tGWiYeiXOizfOj3fDcTg


Fun stuff!


(Thanks for the link, Margrete!)

A footnote from the war about some very brave Dutch women in the Resistance

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/nazi-germany-dutch-resistance-freddie-truus-oversteegen-hannie-schaft-a9188306.html?fbclid=IwAR0RM-3ITcdN1cLhm5v2q7tk_MrqPSWpQ4mf4-IueKsn5U_L4eurBNdE6sc

Glitches in the Matrix

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/11/strange-wilderness-glitches-in-the-matrix/

For beer?

https://www.hammacher.com/product/campfire-beer-caramalizer?CAWELAID=120310520000027786&Source=FB&cm_ven=ProspectingDABA&cm_cat=ProspectingDABA&cm_pla=ProspectingDABACar&cm_ite=Dynamic&utm_source=FB&utm_medium=ProspectingDABA&utm_content=ProspectingDABACar&utm_campaign=ProspectingDABA&fbclid=IwAR2oJ8sKIcAvfev5f1_awemfad5SI2359bime2ObCbP88hR4xeqZImGZK1Y

I have never heard of this before!

A nice article about Rockpile

https://web.musicaficionado.com/main/article/how_rockpile_tried_and_failed_to_save_rock_and_roll_by_mitchellcohen?fbclid=IwAR2GJAcOJ1DYgfvlN4ndJnU6UuhquargYSi0WHbp7gDFIMqirTqegQhXtxk

one of the great under-appreciated rcok'n'roll bands.

Happy Beaver Moon!

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/beaver.html

Contacting the dead through the psychomanteum

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/11/the-mysterious-psychomanteum-a-forgotten-method-of-contacting-the-dead/

A nice article about supermarionation

https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/09/05/the-marvellous-mod-world-of-sci-fi-supermarionettes/?fbclid=IwAR27__jeJLWYyCqGMAs_hlbLFpqNfr8c_BDsQf0_fxWneYjQYNRUB5Jaxco

Nils and Ringo

https://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/nils-lofgren-first-all-starr-band?fbclid=IwAR2A7gzgM6Z_U2v-_UHqKZ0fXu0n2ZXNWmJW7owBb074EJcZ0FFa27HtMog

A nice article on UFO phenomena

https://ufocon.blogspot.com/2019/10/ufos-paradox-of-closeness-by-jose.html

This strikes me as quite similar to what researcher John Keel had come up with about 30+ years ago.

Calamity Mugs!

https://calamityware.com/collections/plates/products/calamityware-mug-1-things-could-be-worse

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

The Led Zeppelin Ouija Board Demon!

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/10/the-very-strange-tale-of-zozo-the-ouija-board-demon/


I think some folks are having fun here....