Ron's home page http://ron.ozrock.net Just somewhere I post stuff Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:57:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 This year’s “Mindset List” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ozrock/OtNv/~3/rt7ak16WEyM/ http://ron.ozrock.net/2009/08/this-years-mindset-list/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:57:23 +0000 Ron http://ron.ozrock.net/?p=1829 Every fall, Beloit College makes up a “Mindset List” to reflect the world of the new incoming college students (born in about 1991, this year) — what their life has included, and what it hasn’t. Understandably, reading it makes those of us over, um, thirty feel old and alienated. And who doesn’t like that? So check it out; here’s a few of my favorites from this year:

  • 5. Salsa has always outsold ketchup.
  • 6. Earvin “Magic” Johnson has always been HIV-positive.
  • 9. Rap music has always been mainstream.
  • 15. Babies have always had a Social Security Number.
  • 22. The European Union has always existed.
  • 30. There has always been a Cartoon Network.
  • 32. Their folks could always reach for a Zoloft.
  • 34. Women have always outnumbered men in college.
  • 38. Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Latvia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Estonia have always been independent nations.
  • 68. Official racial classifications in South Africa have always been outlawed.
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What if Democrats behaved more like Republicans? (This Modern World)]]> http://ron.tumblr.com/post/165684220/feed/ 0 http://ron.tumblr.com/post/165684220 J.P. Patches and Archie McPhee http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ozrock/OtNv/~3/eLJQT2dgoC8/ http://ron.ozrock.net/2009/08/j-p-patches-and-archie-mcphee/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:52:52 +0000 Ron http://ron.ozrock.net/?p=1762 The coolest thing I brought home from Seattle? Clearly the JP Patches Bobblehead from Archie McPhee.

J. P. Patches

]]> http://ron.ozrock.net/2009/08/j-p-patches-and-archie-mcphee/feed/ 0 http://ron.ozrock.net/2009/08/j-p-patches-and-archie-mcphee/ My dad and the electro-assist bicycle http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ozrock/OtNv/~3/oPpBmlGBViM/ http://ron.ozrock.net/2009/07/my-dad-and-the-electro-assist-bicycle/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:45:50 +0000 Ron http://ron.ozrock.net/?p=1755 In the 60’s and 70’s, my dad worked off and on on building one of these things in the garage; he called it the “Friction Compensator”. (eROCKIT electro-assist bicycle)

I’m not kidding. He was an electrical engineer by education, and also converted a 1947 Crossley to electric power with a big rack of lead-acid batteries in the back. Drove me to kindergarten in it a few times.

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Fox News:What’s the difference? Ain’t they all A-rabs?
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Fox News:What’s the difference? Ain’t they all A-rabs?
]]> http://ron.tumblr.com/post/152395274/feed/ 0 http://ron.tumblr.com/post/152395274 Live from CRUMBS Cafe http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ozrock/OtNv/~3/DSjb6mLwJng/ http://ron.ozrock.net/2009/07/live-from-crumbs-cafe/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:38:38 +0000 Ron http://ron.ozrock.net/?p=1753 Check out the excellent new local music CD Live from CRUMBS Cafe, a compilation of songs from the CRUMBS Cafe Radio Show spanning from 2007-2009.

Believe it or not, back in a past life, before the internets were converted to tubes and were still made of tin cans and string, I had something to do with CRUMBS.  Trust me, it’s much cooler now.

]]> http://ron.ozrock.net/2009/07/live-from-crumbs-cafe/feed/ 0 http://ron.ozrock.net/2009/07/live-from-crumbs-cafe/ Bobby McFerrin and the Power of the Pentatonic Scale http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ozrock/OtNv/~3/1Avcd_6xlKY/ http://ron.ozrock.net/2009/07/bobby-mcferrin-and-the-power-of-the-pentatonic-scale/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:56:48 +0000 Ron http://ron.ozrock.net/?p=1751 Embedding is disabled on this video, so you have to go over to YouTube to see it.  But it’s worth it:  The awesome  Bobby McFerrin “demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale” at the World Science Festival 2009.

YouTube: World Science Festival 2009 — Bobby McFerrin

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Nice Article Skimmer by The New York Times]]> http://ron.tumblr.com/post/150857072/feed/ 0 http://ron.tumblr.com/post/150857072 Abstinance-geared “sex-ed” causes pregnancy & syphilis http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ozrock/OtNv/~3/ag22c14kh4A/ http://ron.ozrock.net/2009/07/abstinance-geared-sex-ed-causes-pregnancy-syphilis/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:43:05 +0000 Ron http://ron.ozrock.net/?p=1745 Imagine my surprise:  We’re now reaping the “rewards” of Bushies’ Jeebus-driven anti-sex health “education” policies.  A new CDC report has both of these  “rising sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush’s evangelically-driven education policy”.  (US teen pregnancy and syphilis rates rose sharply during Bush’s presidency)

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