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Richard Wright

Yesterday keyboardist and founding member of Pink Floyd Richard Wright died of cancer at 65. With Gilmore and Waters taking the spotlight for most of the 70’s and on, he was a lesser publicly known figure in the band, yet a major element to their sound. He wrote both Us and Them and The Great Gig in The Sky, two of my favorite tracks from The Dark Side of the Moon, and shared writing and singing credits on Echoes – their greatest track as far as I am concerned. I have never heard any of his solo stuff, I will have to go check some out. In the meantime, here is Echoes from the Live in Pompeii video.

Echoes, part 1
Echoes, part 2

David Gilmore talks about Wright.

Pi

A little pi song for Monday.

ephemeral

A mix I made last night, for your listening pleasure.

*Consider Eruption to be a palette cleanser.

Dreams of nothing

I uploaded a mix I had made a couple of years back.. its full of moody, epic songs.

Score!

I just scored 4 of these hot Jean Prouvé Standard chairs… every architect has to have some real snobby designer chairs, yes? I love when Vitra cleans out their showroom – they were the price of the miniature versions.

Too true…

The top 15 criteria that define interactive or new media art.

Last night

Well said, Mr. Obama, well said.

You gotta keep 'em separated.

Found this on the Friendly Atheist blog, it’s up on the new student blog branch of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

I think our forefathers knew what they were doing when they came up with that one. Its getting about time to de-religion our government, and bring a clear separation back.

McNuggets

The other day I was driving past a McDonald’s on the way to get dinner with Michele, my niece Sarah and her husband Dan, and I wondered how many chicken McNuggets you could haul out of there if you had them fill a 5 Gallon bucket.
Well, after dropping them off at home later that night, Sarah texts me this:

“1134 chicken McNuggets in 5 Gallons.”

I hope she didn’t take a bucket in there to figure that out.
So that’s 113 10 piece orders and 1 4 pc. Having not been to a McDonald’s as far back as my memory works, I have no idea what that would cost. A quick check online tells me its $3.39 for the 10 pc order, and $1 for 4 pc. So we’re talking around $384.07. For FIVE GALLONS OF FRIED CHICKEN BITS.

I have to stop, thinking of this further will make me ill. You think they would be able to fill that order with the nuggets they have on hand? Scary thing is, I am sure it would be no problem.