Descriptive Musings| Folkwolf.net
Yet again, the internets come through with an album that I’d despaired of ever finding. Kick At The Darkness (Songs Of Bruce Cockburn) is an album that I heard once at a party in the early 90s and never heard again. Used on amazon it sells for 60USD. It made a huge impression on me, not only for the cover that launched the Barenaked Ladies, but Jane Siberry and Martin Tielli’s (of the Rheostatics) interpretation of A Long Time Love Song and Bob Wiseman’s cover of Red Ships Take Off In T...| Folkwolf.net
This Video is a lovely meditation by a 49 year old minecraft player. She details why she still plays minecraft and still loves it, and plans on playing it until she’s 99. I’m 51 with a busy life and a nearly teenage boy, and I couldn’t agree more.| Folkwolf.net
Titled “Two Days into College” it’s pretty much what it says on the tin.| Folkwolf.net
I fixed an error that started showing up where emails could not be sent through https://folkwolf.net/webmail/ For those few that are using it.| Folkwolf.net
In the early 90s, on the CBC one night, I heard a Hip song that the CBC had in their vault. They had recorded a Hip show at a club in LA. It was one of Gord’s weirdest mid-song rambles. I’ve looked for that song for going on 30 years now. Not knowing the title of the song, or the date recorded, it was pretty futile, until they released the show last year. Turns out: “Highway Girl” recorded at the Roxy in LA.| Folkwolf.net
The Youtube Channel Veritasium has a fascinating little documentary on the engineer Shuji Nakamura, who, during the early 90s, invented the Blue LED, a task which was once thought impossible, and he did it while working at Nichia, a small Japanese semiconductor company. On the back of his invention of Blue LEDs, the company quadrupled in size and made nearly $400 Million in Blue LED sales alone. They gave him $170 per patent.| Folkwolf.net
Interesting Video on the causes of all the problems at Boeing. It’s a very holistic view, and gets down to the root cause of all the problems over the past 10 years. It’s fascinating for someone like me, who hasn’t been paying too much attention| Folkwolf.net
An awesome spanish translation of Institutionalized by the “Suicidal Tendencies. A punk classic reborn.| Folkwolf.net
Three things make me stupendously happy watching this video:| Folkwolf.net
This release is the result of a year’s worth of small bugfixes and features from a vast array of contributors. Go to the releases page to see all the fixes and new features, and all of the fantastic contributors that made this release possible| Folkwolf.net