Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Sharing: When Jim CHones discovered I liked R&B, and that I had no R&B when the sun went down and Milwaukee and Chicago R&B stations went dark, he told me about WLAC, Nashvile and "The WOnderful Randy!" and then I had window into Freddie King and O.V. Wright, and Otis Clay, and stuff unknown before [to R&B in the tubes in the evening ether]. ANd it is better in the air than on the disk! Sharing is good. Hoarding: Late 60s was it WLS or WILD or WVON? Anyway, SoulShake came over the waves like Seltzer! Had an electric sitar. "Grooving with you baby really turns the soulshake on...I am awful impressed by the way you move/there is nothing about you that I dont approve/DoitDOitDoit/Turn the Soulshake on." Boom! I was there with Peggy Benson and JoJo Scott and went down to Soulville and got it. And this,like ther follow up Wild Mountain Berries, was a great depiction of my [young] sense about love . Went back to my room and jacked up the volume. And had this 45 all these years, and now its available to the world again. In a big way. CBS Sunday morning gets hip one day in 2004. I want to horard. I want to tell you about it. Will play it for you if you come over. But if someone else with influence does... well in my heart of hearts like any hoarder I blanch  ... CBS's Bill Flannagan put it better than me: "The roof-raising soul music is strung together with a loony electric sitar, played by the great country picker Jerry Reed. The fact that Reed is playing sitar on an R&B record is nonsensical at the offset, but sounds magnificent." Now it's the worlds again, I blanch, I am miffed, but still standing. Well it's out there now WLAC! Is depicted. Go! nighttrain to nashville 9:40:27 PM    comment []

Operation everything I went to a logistics society meeting once - guess it might have been put on by the Institute for Operations Research and the Managment Sciences, and was struck! This was cybernetics on a very large level - and probably operations is what cybernetics came to be. I headed out toward a special report on supply chain and ERP. The world little noted. Engines and algorithms. That seems to be what is discovered here by writer Postrel. She speaks with Irv Lustig of iLog. She shows the WWII roots of O.R. as a way of brining mathematical thought to warfare - which rings especially cause Jake and I recently watched The Fog of War with Mr. O.R. [Robert Strange MacNamara]. She shows its use in Monte Carlo bus schedules, in Walmart RFID strategies, and as a Liberal Science of the 21st Century.  By Virginia Postrel  |  June 27, 2004 | Boston Globe 9:07:15 PM    comment []

Oppy we must examine your myth Most significant scientific project to date: The Invention of the Atomic Bomb. Man at the Helm: Robert Oppenheimer [well let us not forget Leslie Groves but let us realize that the MacArthyites never got it in their loins to go after Leslie - Uniforms count!]. Anyway his 100th birthday would have been in April, and it has proved an occassion for American Heritage types to have convocations and think about what it means. Lets go to Los Alamos! SCIENCE | June 29, 2004     Oppenheimer Celebration By SANDRA BLAKESLEE   (NYT)   News   8:47:16 PM    comment []

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