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If You’re Scientifically Literate the World Looks Very Different to You …
“At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps awaiting the arrival of a clever thinker, an ingenious experiment, or an innovative space mission to reveal them. We might further ponder how those discoveries may one day transform life on Earth.” -Neil Degrasse Tyson
7 Reasons the 21st Century Is Making You Miserable
Scientists call it the Naked Photo Test, and it works like this: say a photo turns up of you nakedly doing something that would shame you and your family for generations. Bestiality, perhaps. Ask yourself how many people in your life you would trust with that photo. If youre like the rest of us, you probably have at most two.
Even more depressing, studies show that about one out of four people have no one they can confide in.
The average number of close friends we say we have is dropping fast, down dramatically in just the last 20 years. Why?
Captain Beefhearts 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing
1. Listen to the birds.
Thats where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they arent going anywhere.
2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar is a divining rod.
Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If youre good, youll land a big one.
3. Practice in front of a bush
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosent shake, eat another piece of bread.
4. Walk with the devil
Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the “devil box.” And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employerin terms of who youre brining over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.
5. If youre guilty of thinking, youre out
If your brain is part of the process, youre missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.
6. Never point your guitar at anyone
Your instrument has more clout than lightning. Just hit a big chord then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.
7. Always carry a church key
Thats your key-man clause. Like One String Sam. Hes one. He was a Detroit street musician who played in the fifties on a homemade instrument. His song “I Need a Hundered Dollars” is warm pie. Another key to the church is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin Wolfs guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty-making you want to look up her dress the whole time to see how hes doing it.
8. Dont wipe the sweat off your instrument
You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.
9. Keep your guitar in a dark place
When youre not playin your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you dont play your guitar for more than a day, be sure you put a saucer of water in with it.
10. You gotta have a hood for your engine
Keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house, the hot air cant escape. Even a lima bean has to have a piece of wet paper around it to make it grow.
13 Old School Gamer Tees
Retro gaming tees are hot right now – on the streets of NYC, across the surgically enhanced chests of celebs in LA, on alt-rock band members, and even baby doll T-shirts for the ladies.
And since according to the Entertainment Software Association the average age of the modern-day gamer is thirty-three years old not 12 like your girlfriend keeps insisting, its perfectly acceptable for a grown man to show a little gamer pride. Especially if youre gonna rock the classics from back in the day. So here are a few thatll show youre a proud level seven geek. With style.
