Tuesday, December 2, 2014

A Nice Place to Visit ending.

Do you remember Sebastian Cabot from A Family Affair?  Before that, he played in an episode of The Twilight Zone, some of which I have been watching again.  A small time crook is killed by a police officer, and he arrives in a place where he gets everything he ever wanted.  He thinks that he is in Heaven, but he quickly gets bored with having everything he could ever want ...


Creepy.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Danny MacAskill's Imaginate

This is a strange video.  I only share it because it is amazing what some people can do athletically.  The clips at the end make it clear that the stunts are real and not fake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv3xVOs7_No

Goldie Hawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDF6FA_iM7E

A long time ago I had seen Goldie Hawn do the first 3 minutes of this act before.  The big punch line comes 3 minutes into it.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Fractals The Hidden Dimension HD 1080p / Nova

I saw this video a few years ago on television.  I found the first 35 minutes to be very interesting.  The last 20 minutes not so much...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmxJ1KDR_s0

I learned about Fractals and the Mandelbrot set in the 1980's.   Back then I had friends who were experimenting with drawing the Mandelbrot set on computers.  In those days it would take a really long time to draw a single picture on a computer.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Steve Jobs Insult Response

In 1997 Steve Jobs saved a near bankrupt Apple by canceling many of their projects in order to focus on just a few things. His response to an angry engineer was measured and thoughtful...

He often said that success is saying no to a thousand things.

http://youtu.be/FF-tKLISfPE

25 Quotes By Infamous Leaders And Dictators

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/i2Vuib3G7FM