Passing clouds of inconsequential observations
Whilst one should try not to gawp at the car crash that “home education” (whatever that is) has become…
A popular meme amongst the faithful followers is the quote “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” which is often attributed to [wikipop search=”W. B. Yeats”]William Butler Yates[/wikipop].
According to the Quote Investigator the quote should be attributed to [wikipop]Plutarch[/wikipop]
Ray Collins November 19, 1936 – December 24, 2012
Once upon a time there was a band called The Soul Giants. After their guitar player quit the band’s vocalist, [wikipop search=”Ray Collins (rock musician)”]Ray Collins[/wikipop], asked a guy called [wikipop]Frank Zappa[/wikipop] to join the band. The band’s name was subsequently changed to [wikipop]The Mothers[/wikipop] and the rest is history…
Collins had been working as a vocalist during the late 1950s and early 1960s adding his high backing vocals to I Remember Linda by Little Julian Herrera and the Tigers…
He had featured on recordings made by Paul Buff at his [wikipop]Pal Recording Studio[/wikipop] which Buff would later sell to Zappa, who renamed it Studio Z, and the rest is history…
Here is Collins singing Deserie…
…which he would later record with The Mothers (having frequently been in and out of the band) for Cruising with Ruben and The Jets…
It was the How’s Your Bird that he recorded as Baby Ray and The Ferns…
that Zappa was promoting with his performance on bicycle on [wikipop]The Steve Allen Show[/wikipop] in 1963…
So you find yourself in bed on a Sunday morning and you have flicked through Flipboard on the iPad when you remember that the new [wikipop search=”EPUB”]ePub[/wikipop] edition of Programming in Objective-C by Stephen Kochan is on the iMac downstairs. Phew! Downstairs! No problem. We have Prompt with which we can log into the sleeping iMac and [wikipop]mv[/wikipop] the book into the iMac’s Dropbox folder from which automagically it appears in the iPad’s Dropbox and then opens in iBooks.
Of course you could just get the iBooks version 😉 but where’s the fun in that?
Lazy Sunday = Small Faces…
…and thence Stanley Unwin.
Dave Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012)
A 1964 video of Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello performing Take Five (written by Desmond) which had been a recent visitor to the “pop hit parade” as presented by Steve Race in those distant black and white days when presenters, performers and audience wore shirts and ties.
The 1971 fight (or is it sex?) between the piano and drums at the Newport Jazz Festival from The Last Set At Newport is a favourite version…