Just priced some high altitude research balloons that expand up to 35 feet for $395, on sale.
They didn't give a maximum altitude or payload capacity.
And I don't know how much or where to get Helium. But anyone in China could probably get all for half the price.
02/13 - Happy World Radio Day
~~ Radio Telefunken
Join us on the last week of our Mexican vacation. I hope you've enjoyed this exploration of the Mexican Yucatan. This week we're visiting Celestun and the white city, Merida. Celestun is home to flocks of pink flamingos with a nice beach facing the bay of Campeche. Merida is the capitol of the state of Yucatan. It is a cultural center with lots of museums, music, and foods.
Afternoon folks!
This week I've uploaded a bunch of quality stuff. There's an album of harmonica blues from Carey Bell and a compilation of a bunch of Johnny Shines and Robert Lockwood's early singles on the JOB label. In the blues rock category, there's an early not-too-common album of live recordings from Roy Buchanan and albums from Rory Gallagher and Blue Cheer. There's some 70's west-coast bluegrass/rock from Muleskinner a band with Clarence White (guitarist from the Byrds and earlier the bluegrass band The Kentucky Colonels), David Grisman (mandolin player who played on some Grateful Dead material and projects with Jerry Garcia), Peter Rowan (bluegrass singer and guitarist from Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys through Seatrain to Old And In The Way and great solo stuff), Richard Greene (fiddler extraordinaire) and Bill Keith (accomplished, widely recorded Banjo player). Finishing off is a Richard & Linda Thompson album.
Enjoy!
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso
Authors note: The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. What is that? Greed. [1]
One may wax philosophically about that which ails man, especially in this day and age of policrises. An argument can be made that our current dilemma is caused by a myriad of causes, such as dwindling resources, or overpopulation, or climate change, or war, or economic collapse, or global health. Any one of these can be considered existential. Here we are in the third decade of the new millennium, confronted with all of these crises at the same time. Is it by chance that this has happened or is there an underlying causal phenomenon at work? It is tempting to lay blame at the feet of overpopulation as the root of all our current emergencies. That may very well be true. This piece is not about the temporal aspects of the policrisis, but more about the philosophical tenets of the existential fork(s) in the road. In other words, that component of the human psyche that has brought us the point of no return.
In my simplistic and humble opinion it all boils down to one human trait: greed.
Social Isolation:
I know I'm getting old, I know that I don't know how everything works all the time anymore; not that I ever did. I know that I don't watch TV so I'm not right onto things, I get it. But still... This article on the Plague of Social Isolation by Chris Hedges really hit me in the gut (listen to it here).
