I was astounded today to see that there is actual evidence that humans exist in outer space.
Here’s what happened. I was looking at this photo of the Horsehead Nebula on the NASA web site.
Psychoactive bison
Yes, this is for real. It’s a sign posted on the fence at the Bison Paddock in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco CA USA). At least it was there last year.
No, I have no idea why the sign is there, although I suppose it makes sense to avoid giving bison psychoactive substances. Except maybe when prescribed by their vet?
The bison have been there since 1930, before San Francisco had a zoo. This small herd has remained in the park rather than relocating to the zoo at the south end of The Great Highway.
Now that I know everyone
I have several “threads” on LinkedIn. First, I’m a computer science guy, so I know lots of CS people. Next, I’ve been involved in peace activities with The Dalai Lama Foundation and The Metta Center. Another group of people. Then recently as a musician+composer. On LinkedIn I’ve been looking at the “People You May Know” links and recently I’ve been adding a lot of musicians because LinkedIn usually does get it right and it shows me names and photos for people I do indeed know. For every 8 or so people it suggests, I know one or two people.
But a week ago I noticed that it’s not giving me as many names or people I know. Maybe I know one in a hundred of the people it’s presenting. I wonder if their algorithm is confused by my change of orientation and can’t figure out who to present as possible links? Uh, yes, I do know that it’s basing its recommendations on my own contacts, but it seems to have reached some kind of event horizon.
Embedding a smaller SoundCloud player
Soundcloud has easy ways to embed music players in a web site, especially WordPress sites. However, these players can use up a lot of screen space on a page, especially the players for “sets” (several tracks per set).
So here are two special configurations that I particularly like. The top one puts the track image behind the entire player, while the bottom one puts the track image on the left side like an “album cover.” The upper player requires a height of at least 140px to look good; the lower requires 110px.
<iframe src=”https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/240383307&auto_play=false&hide_related=false &show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false &visual=true” width=”100%” height=”140″ frameborder=”no” scrolling=”no”></iframe>
<iframe src=”https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/240383307&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false &show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”110″ frameborder=”no” scrolling=”no”></iframe>
<iframe src=”https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/240383307&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true &show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”140″ frameborder=”no” scrolling=”no”></iframe>
<iframe width=”100%” height=”110″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”no” src=”https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239028147&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false &show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”></iframe>
New strings, guitars, dances
Preparing for a three-week composition marathon writing “dance” and performance music. I have put up a lot of new composition work on SoundCloud. See “Strings” “Classical Guitar” and “Dakini Dances” for the new material. As always, it’s still drafty, but good enough to listen to and get the idea. Listen online at SoundCloud.
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