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Kenny Lee Lewis Guests Guitarist for the Steve Miller Band, Kenny Lee Lewis, kicks off their Summer tour with a stop at Animal Radio. Kenny shares his Central California home with Sophie, a dog he fell in love with after he promised his daughter a pup if she got good grades. Listen Now Preventing Cancer Dr. Gerald Post is back with basic things you can do to reduce the odds against your pet. If Cancer is detected and treated early, many of our pets have a great chance at a healthy outcome. Dr. Post has the lowdown on pesticides and your pet. Listen Now Handicapped Pig Gets Wheelchair When a patient brought a deformed pig into Dr. Len Lucero to be euthanized, the doctor couldn't do it. He ended up adopting Chris P. Bacon and creating a wheelchair out of a child's Erector toys. Now the pig is styling with his new wheels and inspiring Facebook followers worldwide. Listen Now Tick Season Explodes There is no doubt that this tick season is more populated than ever. With typical spot-on chemical treatments losing their efficacy, we're turning to alternatives for fighting those little buggers. WAHL's Pat Kopischkie has great ideas when it comes to tick control. Listen Now Leash Aggression Without even knowing it, we can be training our dog to be aggressive. The tool that we rely on to restrain our dog may actually be at the root of problems. Dr. Debbie has a cure for pulling and growling issues. "It's all about thinking like a dog." Listen Now Read more about this week's show.
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We did it!! This is our 200th episode of Grating the Nutmeg! Thanks to our listeners, we have travelled across the state during every time period to bring you vivid, fascinating stories from our state's history. Become a podcast subscriber to get notified every time there's a new episode! During this holiday season, it seemed like the perfect time to bring you the story of Connecticut's biggest toymaker! Of all the toys that are enshrined in the National Toy of Fame, two stand out as having solid Connecticut connections, the Cabbage Patch doll and the Erector Set. In this episode, we're going to find out how A.C. Gilbert, a Yale educated doctor, became a millionaire with an idea he got while riding the Metro North train from New Haven to New York City. His construction toy, the Erector Set, sold in the millions and helped to educate generations of scientists and engineers. He came up with dozens of best-selling toys that were all manufactured at his factory in New Haven, Connecticut. We'll also interview Walter Zawalich, Gilbert Trains Curator, at the Eli Whitney Museum about their holiday Gilbert train show. Co-host Patrick O'Sullivan will share his information on 1965's James Bond slot car toy that helped to push the company into closing. Much of today's information comes from the book The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made, The Life and Times of A.C. Gilbert, the Man Who Saved Christmas by Bruce Watson and the website of the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, Connecticut. The Whitney Museum collects and studies the products and legacy of A.C. Gilbert and his company. Find out more here: https://www.eliwhitney.org/museum/-gilbert-project/-man/a-c-gilbert-scientific-toymaker-essays-arts-and-sciences-october The information on the Eli Whitney Train Show is here: https://www.eliwhitney.org/exhibitions/train-display-2024-25 Other museums with train shows: Connecticut River Museum https://ctrivermuseum.org/events/steve-cryans-31st-annual-train-show/ Wilton Historical Society https://wiltonhistorical.org/events/great-train-holiday-show/ To get information about how to visit Erector Square, the A.C.Gilbert Factory complex now adaptively reused as artist studios, go to their website at https://erectorsquarestudios.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- To celebrate reaching 200 episodes, we're asking listeners to donate $20 a month or $200 annually to help us continue to bring you new episodes every two weeks. It's easy to set up a monthly donation on the Connecticut Explored website at ctexplored.org Click the donate button at the top and look for the Grating the Nutmeg link. We appreciate your support! Subscribe to get your copy of our beautiful magazine Connecticut Explored delivered to your mailbox or your inbox-subscribe at https://simplecirc.com/subscribe/connecticut-explored Our current issue is on food-find out where to get the best ice cream sundaes in West Hartford. This episode of Grating the Nutmeg was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan at https://www.highwattagemedia.com/ Follow GTN on our socials-Facebook, Instagram , Threads, and BlueSky. Follow host Mary Donohue on Facebook and Instagram at WeHa Sidewalk Historian. Join us in two weeks for our next episode of Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history. Thank you for listening!
When I turned twenty-one in 1994, I embarked on a 500 mile solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail across the state of Washington. The Tread of My Soul is a memoir-meets-travelogue written from the trail. Originally self published and shared with only a handful of family and friends, I recently dusted off the manuscript with the intention of sharing it with a new generation, on the 30th anniversary of its completion. Among black bears, ravens and Indian paintbrush, I grappled with the meaning of life while traversing the spine of the Cascade range with a handful of pocket edition classics in tow. Quotes from sacred texts, poets, and naturalists punctuate a coming of age tale contemplated in the wilderness.What follows is Part 1 of the book, squared off into four long Substack posts. For this first post, I'm also exclusively including Pacific Crest Trail Soundwalk, featuring a binaural field recording captured while hiking the first few miles on the Pacific Crest Trail up out of the Columbia Gorge in Washington. (If you haven't already, feel free to tap that play button at the top of the post.) The 26-minute composition cycles a triad of parts inspired by the letters PCT: part one in Phrygian mode (in E), part two in the key of C, and part three with Tritone substitutions. The instrumentation is outlined with Pianet electric piano, and colored in with synthesizer and intriguing pads built with a vaguely Appalachian mood in mind. It's on the quieter side, in terms of wildlife, but all in all, I think it compliments the reading. It concludes with a pretty frog chorus so, like the book, I'm making it unrestricted, in the hope of enticing some readers to stick with it to the end. If you prefer, you can find The Tread of My Soul in ebook format available for free right now on Apple Books or Amazon Kindle Store (free with Kindle Unlimited, points, or $2.99). If you read it and like it, please feel free to leave a review to help others find it. Thank you. So, without further ado, here we go:The Tread of My SoulComing of Age on the Pacific Crest Trailby Chad CrouchACT 1(AT RISE we see TEACHER and STUDENTS in an art studio. It is fall term; the sun is just beginning to set when class begins. Warm light washes the profiles of eight classmates. The wood floors are splashed with technicolor constellations of paint.)TEACHERHello. Welcome to class. I find role taking a tiresome practice so we'll skip over that and get to the assignment. Here I have a two-inch square of paper for you. I would like you to put your soul on it. The assignment is due in five minutes. No further explanations will be given.STUDENT #1(makes eye contact with a STUDENT #4, a young woman. She wears a perplexed smile on her face.)TEACHERHere you go. (hands out squares of paper.)(People begin to work. Restlessness gives way to an almost reverence, except STUDENT #5 is scribbling to no end. The Students' awareness of others fades imperceptibly inward. Five minutes pass quickly.)TEACHERTeacher: Are you ready? I'm interested to see what you've come up with. (scuffle of some stools; the sound of a classroom reclaiming itself.)TEACHERWhat have you got there?STUDENT #1Well, I used half of the time just thinking. I was looking at my pencil and I thought… (taps pencil on his knee, you see it is a mechanical model)this will never do the trick. The idea of soul seemed too intense to be grasped with only graphite. So 1 poked a pin sized hole in the paper and wrote: (reading voice)“Hold paper up to sun, look into hole for soul.” That's all the further I got.TEACHER (looking at student #2)And you?STUDENT #2 (smiles)Um, I didn't know what to do so all I have is a few specks where I was tapping my pen while I was thinking. This one… (she points to a dot)is all, um, all fuzzy because I was ready to draw something and I hesitated so the ink just ran…(Students nod sympathetically. Attention goes to STUDENT #3)STUDENT #3I couldn't deal with just one little blank square. (holds paper up and flaps it around, listlessly)So I started dividing. (steadies and turns paper to reveal a graph.)Now, I have lots of squares in which to put my soul in. I think of a soul as being multifaceted.TEACHEROkay. Thank you. Next… (looking at student #4)STUDENT #4 (without hesitation)I just stepped on it.(holds paper up to reveal the tread of a shoe sole in a multicolor print.)The tread of my soul.• • • The writing that follows seems to have many of the same attributes as the students' responses to the problem posed in the preceding scene. While I have a lot more paper to work with, the problem remains the same: how do I express myself? How do I express the intangible and essential part of me that people call a soul? What is it wrapped up in? What doctrines, ideologies and memories help give it a shape? I guess I identify mostly with Student #4. Her shoe-print “Tread of My Soul” alludes to my own process: walking over 500 miles on The Pacific Crest Trail from Oregon To Canada in the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington. In trying to describe my soul I found that useful to be literal. Where my narrative dips into memoir or philosophy I tried not to hesitate or overthink things. I tried to lay it all out. Student #1's solution was evident in my own problem solving in how I constantly had to look elsewhere; into nature, into literature, and into symbology to even begin to bring out the depth of what I was thinking and feeling. Often the words of spiritual classics and of poetry are seen through my writing as if looking through a hole. I can only claim originality in where I poke the holes. As for Student #2, I am afraid that my own problem solving doesn't evoke enough of her charm. For as much as I wanted to be thoughtful, I wanted also to be open and unstudied, tapping my pen. What I see has emerged, however, is at times argumentative. In retrospect I see that I had no recourse, really. My thoughts on God and Jesus were molded in a throng of letters, dialogues, experiences, and personal studies prior to writing this.Finally, in the winter of my twenty-first year, as I set down to transcribe this book, I realize how necessary it was to hike. Student #3 had the same problem. The soul is complex and cannot fit into a box. Hiking gave me a cadence to begin to answer the question what is my soul? The trail made me mindful. There was the unceasing metaphor of the journey: I could only reach my goal incrementally. This tamed my writing sometimes. It wandered sometimes and I was at ease to let it. I had more than five minutes and a scrap of paper. I had each step.• • • The Bridge of the Gods looks like a behemoth Erector set project over the Columbia River spanning the natural border of Washington and Oregon. My question: what sort of Gods use Erector sets? Its namesake actually descends from an event in space and time; a landslide. The regional natives likely witnessed, in the last millennium, a landslide that temporarily dammed the Columbia effectually creating a bridge—The Bridge of the Gods. I just finished reading about why geologists think landslides are frequent in the gorge. Didn't say anything about Gods. How we name things, as humankind, has something to do with space and time doesn't it? Where once we call something The Bridge of the Gods it has been contemporarily reduced to landslide. We have new Gods now, and they compel us to do the work with erector sets. Or perhaps I mistook the name: It doesn't necessarily mean Gods made it. Perhaps Gods dwell there or frequent it. Or maybe it is a passageway that goes where the Gods go. It seems to me that if the Gods wanted to migrate from, say, Mt. Rainier in Washington to Mt. Hood in Oregon, they would probably follow the Cascade Ridge down to the Bridge of the Gods and cross there. If so, I think I should like to see one, or maybe a whole herd of them like the caribou I saw in Alaska earlier this summer, strewn across the snow field like mahogany tables. Gods, I tend to think are more likely to be seen in the high places or thereabouts, after all,The patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament behold the Lord face to face in the high places. For Moses it was Mount Sinai and Mount Nebo; in the New Testament it is the Mount of Olives and Golgotha. I went so far as to discover this ancient symbol of the mountain in the pyramid constructions of Egypt and Chaldea. Turning to the Aryans, I recalled those obscure legends of the Vedas in which the Soma—the 'nectar' that is in the 'seed of immortality' is said to reside in its luminous and subtle form 'within the mountain.' In India the Himalayas are the dwelling place of the Siva, of his spouse 'the Daughter of the Mountain,' and the 'Mothers' of all worlds, just as in Greece the king of the gods held court on Mt Olympus.- Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue These days Gods don't go around making landslides every time they want to cross a river, much less perform a Jesus walking on the water miracle. That would be far too suspicious. Gods like to conceal themselves. A popular saying is "God helps those who help themselves." I think if Moses were alive today, Jehovah would have him build a bridge rather than part the waters. Someone said, "Miracles take a lot of hard work." This is true.• • •Day 1.Bridge of the Gods.Exhausted, I pitch my tent on the side of the trail in the hot afternoon and crawl into to take a nap to avoid the annoying bugs.My sweat leaves a dead person stamp on the taffeta floor.Heavy pack. A vertical climb of 3200 ft.Twelve miles. I heaved dry tears and wanted to vomit.Dinner and camp on a saddle.Food hard to stomach.View of Adams and gorge. Perhaps I am a naive pilgrim as I cross over that bridge embarking on what I suppose will be a forty day and night journey on the Pacific Crest Trail with the terminus in Canada. My mother gave me a box of animal crackers before my departure so I could leave “a trail of crumbs to return by.” The familiar classic Barnum's red, yellow and blue box dangles from a carabineer of my expedition backpack As I cross over the bridge I feel small, the pack bearing down on my hips, legs, knees, feet. I look past my feet, beyond the steel grid decking of the bridge, at the water below. Its green surface swirls. I wonder how many gallons are framed in each metal square and how many flow by in the instant I look?How does the sea become the king of all streams?Because it is lower than they!Hence it is the king of all streams.-Lao-tzu, Tao Teh Ching On the Bridge of the Gods I begin my quest, gazing at my feet superimposed on the Columbia's waters flowing toward the ocean. Our paths are divergent. Why is it that the water knows without a doubt where to go; to its humble Ocean King that embraces our planet in blue? I know no such path of least resistance to and feel at one with humankind. To the contrary, when we follow our paths of least resistance—following our family trees of religion, learning cultural norms—we end up worshipping different Gods. It is much easier for an Indian to revere Brahman than it is for I. It is much easier for me to worship Christ than it is for an Indian. These paths are determined geographically and socially. It's not without trepidation that I begin my journey. I want to turn from society and turn to what I believe to be impartial: the sweeping landscape. With me I bring a small collection of pocket books representing different ideas of the soul. (Dhammapada, Duino Elegies, Tao Teh Ching, Song of Myself, Walden, Mount Analogue, and the Bible.) It isn't that I want to renounce my faith. I turn to the wilderness, to see if I can't make sense of it all. I hike north. This is a fitting metaphor. The sun rises in the east and arcs over the south to the west. To the north is darkness. To the north my shadow is cast. Instinctively I want to probe this.• • •Day 2.Hiked fourteen miles.Three miles on a ridge and five descending brought me to Rock Creek.I bathed in the pool. Shelves of fern on a wet rock wall.Swaths of sunlight penetrating the leafy canopy.Met one person.Read and wrote and slept on a bed of moss.Little appetite.Began another ascent.Fatigued, I cried and cursed out at the forest.I saw a black bear descending through the brushBefore reaching a dark campsite. I am setting records of fatigue for myself. I am a novice at hiking. Here is the situation: I have 150 miles to walk. Simple arithmetic agrees that if I average 15 miles a day it will take me 10 days to get to the post office in White Pass where I have mailed myself more food. I think I am carrying a sufficient amount of food to sustain my journey, although I'm uncertain because I have never backpacked for more than three consecutive days. The greatest contingency, it seems, is my strength: can I actually walk 15 miles a day with 60 pounds on my back in the mountains? Moreover, can I continue to rise and fall as much as I have? I have climbed a vertical distance of over 6000 feet in the first two days. I begin to quantify my movement in terms of Sears Towers. I reason that if the Sears Tower is 1000 feet, I walked the stairs of it up and down almost 5 times. I am developing a language of abstract symbols to articulate my pain. I dwell on my condition. I ask myself, are these thoughts intensified by my weakness or am I feeding my weakness with my thoughts? I begin to think about God. Many saints believed by impoverishing their physical self, often by fasting, their spiritual self would increase as a result. Will my spirit awake as my body suffers? I feet the lactic acid burning my muscle tissue. I begin to moan aloud. I do this for some time until, like a thunderclap, I unleash voice in the forest. I say, "I CAN'T do this,” and "I CAN do this," in turn. I curse and call out "Where are you God? I've come to find you." Then I see the futility of my words. Scanning the forest: all is lush, verdant, solemn, still. My complaint is not registered here.And all things conspire to keep silent about us, half out of shame perhaps, half as unutterable hope.- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies I unstrap my pack and collapse into heap on the trail floor, curled up. I want to be still like the forest. The forest makes a noise: Crack, crack, crack. I think a deer must be traversing through the brush. I turn slowly to look in the direction of the sound. It's close. Not twenty yards off judging from the noise. I pick myself up to view the creature, and look breathlessly. It's just below me in the ravine. Its shadowy black body dilates subtly as it breathes. What light falls on it seems to be soaked up, like a hole cut in the forest in the shape of an animal. It turns and looks at me with glassy eyes. It claims all my senses—I see, hear, feel, smell, taste nothing else--as I focus on the bear.And so I hold myself back to swallow the call note of my dark sobbing.Ah, whom can we ever turn to in our need?Not angels, not humans and already the knowing animals are aware that we are really not at home in our interpreted world.- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies Remembering what I read to do when encountering a bear, I raise my arms, making myself bigger. "Hello bear," I say, "Go away!" With the rhythm of cracking branches, it does.• • •Day 3.Hiked thirteen miles.Descended to Trout Creek, thirsty.Met a couple en route to Lake Tahoe.Bathed in Panther Creek.Saw the wind brushing the lower canopy of leaves on a hillside.A fly landed on the hairs of my forearm and I,Complacent,Dreamt. I awake in an unusual bed: a stream bed. A trickle of clear water ran over stones beneath me, down my center, as if to bisect me. And yet I was not wet. What, I wonder, is the significance of this dream? The August sun had been relentless thus far on my journey. The heat combined with the effort involved in getting from one source of water to the next makes an arrival quite thrilling. If the water is deep enough for my body, even more so:I undress... hurry me out of sight of land, cushion me soft... rock me in billowy drowse Dash me with amorous wet...- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself There is something electrifying and intensely renewing about swimming naked in a cold creek pool or mountain lake.I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect; "renew thyself completely each day; do it again and again and forever again."- Henry David Thoreau, Walden Is bathing, then, a spiritual exercise? When I was baptized on June 15, 1985 in the tiled pool of our chapel in the Portland suburbs, I thought surely as I was submerged something extraordinary would happen, such as the face of Jesus would appear to me in the water. And I did do it—I opened my eyes under water— but saw only the blur of my pastor's white torso and the hanging ferns that framed the pool. I wondered: shouldn't a ceremony as significant as this feel more than just wet? I'm guessing that most children with exposure to religion often keep their eyes open for some sort of spectacular encounter with God, be it to punish or affirm them. (As a child, I remember sitting in front of the television thinking God could put a commercial on for heaven if he wanted to.) Now, only ten years after I was baptized, I still keep my eyes open for God, though not contextually the same, not within a religion, not literally. And when I swim in a clear creek pool, I feel communion, pure and alive. The small rounded stones are reminders of the ceaseless touch of water. Their blurry shapes embrace me in a way that the symbols and rites of the church fail to.I hear and behold God in every objectYet I understand God not in the least.-Walt Whitman, Song of Myself And unlike the doctrines and precepts of organized religion, I have never doubted my intrinsic bond to water.And more-For greater than all the joysOf heaven and earthGreater still than dominionOver all worlds,Is the joy of reaching the stream.- Dhammapada, Sayings of the Buddha• • •Day 4.Hiked fourteen miles. Climbed to a beautiful ridge.Signs, yellow and black posted every 50 feet: "Experimental Forest"Wound down to a campground where I met three peopleAs I stopped for lunch."Where does this trail go to?" he says. "Mexico," I say."Ha Ha," says he.Camped at small Green Lake. My body continues to evolve. My hair and fingernails grow and grow, and right now I've got four new teeth trying to find a seat in my mouth. I turned twenty-one on August sixth. On August sixth, 1945 a bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The world lost more people than it made that day. When I was born, I suspect we gained a few. I'm an adult now, and I'm not sure where it happened or why. I wonder if someone had to stamp something somewhere because of it? A big red stamp that says "ADULT". It was a blind passage for me—just like those persons who evaporated at ground zero on August sixth, 49 years ago. I do feel like I just evaporated into adulthood. I am aware of the traditional ceremony of turning twenty-one. Drinking. Contemporary society commemorates becoming an adult with this token privilege. Do you have any idea how fast alcohol evaporates? I am suggesting this: One's response to this rite rarely affords any resolution or insight into growth. Our society commemorates the passage from child to adult with a fermented beverage. I wanted to more deliberate about becoming an adult. Hence the second reason (behind a spiritual search) for this sojourn into the wilderness. I took my lead from the scriptures:And he was in the desert forty days... He was with the wild animal and the angels attended him.- Mark 1:13 Something about those forty days prepared Jesus for what we know of his adult life.I also took my lead from Native Americans. Their rite of passage is called a vision quest, wherein the youth goes alone into the depth of nature for a few days to receive some sort of insight into being. I look around me. I am alone here in the woods a few days after my birthday. Why? To discover those parts of me that want to be liberated. To draw the fragrant air into my lungs. To feel my place in nature.…beneath each footfall with resolution.I want to own every atom of myself in the present and be able to say:Look I am living. On what? NeitherChildhood nor future grows any smaller....Superabundant being wells up in my heart.- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies• • •Day 5.Hiked to Bear Lake and swam.Saw over a dozen people. Eighteen miles.Watched raven fly from tree and listened.Found frogs as little as my thumbnail.Left Indian Heaven. Surprise. My body is becoming acclimated to long distance hiking. I know because when I rest it is a luxury rather than a necessity. The light is warmer and comes through the forest canopy at an acute angle from the west, illuminating the trunks of this relatively sparse old growth stand. I am laying on my back watching a raven at his common perch aloft in a dead Douglas fir. It leaps into its court and flap its wings slowly, effortlessly navigating through the old wood pillars. The most spectacular sense of this, however, is the sound: a loud, slow, hollow thrum: Whoosh whoosh, whoosh.... It's as if the interstices between each pulse are too long, too vacant to keep the creature airborne. Unlike its kind, this raven does not speak: there are no loud guttural croaks to be heard. Northwest coastal tribes such as the Kwakiutl thought the croaks of a raven were prophetic and whoever could interpret them was a seer. Indeed, the mythic perception of ravens to be invested with knowledge and power is somewhat universal. My raven is silent. And this is apt, for I tend to think the most authentic prophecies are silent, or near to it.Great sound is silent.- Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching The contour of that sound and silence leaves a sublime impression on me.• • •Day 6.Hiked twelve miles.Many uphill, but not most.Met several people.One group looked like they were enjoying themselves—two families.I spent the afternoon reading my natural history book on a bridge.Voles (forest mice) relentlessly made efforts to infiltrate my food bag during the night. I am reading about how to call a tree a “Pacific Silver Fir” or an “Engelmann Spruce” or “Western Larch” and so on. If something arouses my curiosity on my walk, I look in my natural history book to see if it has anything to say. Jung said, "Sometimes a tree can teach you more than a book can." Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha was enlightened beneath a fig tree. I read that a 316-year-old Ponderosa Pine east of Mt. Jefferson bears scars from 18 forest fires. Surely that tree taught us one thing a book couldn't. All things are clues. Everything is part of a complex tapestry of causality. The grand design behind these mountains has something to do with plate tectonics. Beneath me the oceanic plate is diving beneath the continental at twenty to sixty degrees putting it well under the coastline to where it partially melts and forms magma. This has been happening for millions of years. Every once and a while this magma channels its way up to the surface, cools and turns into igneous rock. Again and again, this happens. Again and again, and yet again until a mountain is made; a stratovolcano. Meanwhile, on top, water, glaciers, wind, and sun are trying to carry the mountains away grain by grain. Geologic time is as incomprehensible as it would be to imagine someone's life by looking at his or her gravestone. These mountains are gravestones. Plants fight to keep the hillsides together. Plants and trees do. But every summer some of those trees, somewhere, are going to burn. Nature will not tolerate too much fuel. New trees will grow to replace those lost. Again and again. Eighteen times over and there we find our tree, a scarred Ponderosa Pine in the tapestry. And every summer the flowers will bloom. The bees will come to pollinate them and cross-pollinate them: next year a new color will emerge. And every summer the mammals named homo-sapiens-sapiens will come to the mountains to cut down trees, hike trails, and to put up yellow and black signs that read Boundary Experimental Forest U.S.F.S. placed evenly 100 yards apart so hikers are kept excessively informed about boundaries. Here I am in the midst of this slow-motion interplay of nature. I walk by thousands of trees daily. Sometimes I see just one, sometimes the blur of thousands. It is not so much that a tree teaches me more than a book; rather it conjures up in me the copious leagues of books unwritten. And, I know somewhere inside that I participate. What more hope could a tree offer? What more hope could you find in a gravestone?• • •Day 7.Hiked twenty miles in Alpine country near Mt Adams.More flowers—fields of them. Saw owl. Saw elk.Wrote near cascading creek.Enjoyed walking. Appetite is robust.Camped at Lave Spring.Saw six to ten folks.Didn't talk too much. Before I was baptized, during the announcements, there was a tremendous screech culminating in a loud cumbf! This is a sound which can be translated here as metal and glass crumpling and shattering in an instant to absorb the forces of automobiles colliding. In the subsequent prayer, the pastor made mention of the crash, which happened on the very same corner of the chapel, and prayed to God that He might spare those people of injury. As it turns the peculiarly memorable sound was that of our family automobile folding into itself, and it was either through prayer or her seat belt that no harm came to my sister who was driving it. Poor thing. She just was going to get some donuts. Do you know why? Because I missed my appointment with baptism. There is time in most church services when people go to the front to (1.) confess their sin, (2.) confess their faith in Christ as their only personal savior, and (3.) to receive Him. This is what is known as the “Altar Call”. To the embarrassment of my parents (for I recall the plan was for one of them to escort me to the front) the Alter Call cue—a specific prayer and hymn—was missed and I sat expectant till the service end. The solution was to attend the subsequent service and try harder. I don't recall my entire understanding of God and Jesus then, at age eleven, but I do remember arriving at a version of Pascal's reductive decision tree that there are four possibilities regarding my death and salvation:1. Jesus is truly the savior of mankind and I claim him and I go to heaven, or2. Jesus is truly the savior of mankind and I don't claim him and I end up in hell, or3. Jesus isn't the savior of mankind and I die having lived a somewhat virtuous life in trying to model myself after him, or4. Jesus isn't the savior of mankind and I didn't believe it anyhow. My sister, fresh with an Oregon drivers license, thought one dose of church was enough for her and, being hungry, went out for donuts and failed to yield.Cumbf! Someone came into the chapel to inform us. We all went out to the accident. The cars were smashed and askew, and my sister was a bawling, rocking little lump on the side of the street. We attended to her, calmed her, and realized there was yet time for me to get baptized. We went into the church and waited patiently for the hymn we had mentally earmarked and then I was baptized. I look back on the calamities of that day affectionately.Prize calamities as your own body.- Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching Those events that surrounded the ritual decry a ceremony so commonplace one often misses the extraordinariness of it; of humanity; the embarrassment of my parents; the frustration and impetuous flight of my sister; and the sympathy and furrowed brow of our pastor. These events unwind in my head like a black and white silent film of Keystone Cops with a church organ revival hymn for the soundtrack. There was something almost slapstick about how that morning unfolded, and once the dust had settled and the family was relating the story to my grandmother later that day, we began to find the humor in it. Hitting things and missing things and this is sacred. All of it.Because our body is the very source of our calamities,If we have no body, what calamities can we have?- Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching Most religions see the body as temporal and the soul as eternal. Hence, 13th century monks cloistered themselves up denying their bodies space and interaction that their souls might be enhanced. I see it this way: No one denies their bodily existence, do they? Look, your own hand holds this book. Why do you exist? You exist right now, inherently, to hold a book, and to feel the manifold sensations of the moment. If this isn't enough of a reason, adjust. I've heard it said, "Stop living in the way of the world, live in the way of God." My reply: "Before I was baptized, I heard a cumbf, and it was in the world and I couldn't ignore it. I'm not convinced we would have a world if we weren't supposed to live in the way of it."Thanks for reading Soundwalk! This is Part One of my 1994 travelogue-meets-memoir The Tread of My Soul. This post is public so feel free to share it.Read: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Or find the eBook at Apple Books or Amazon Kindle Store. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chadcrouch.substack.com/subscribe
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In vitro brains are being used to control robots -- how scientists did it and where this bio-technology goes from here. The world's oldest cave painting is discovered in Indonesia, dating back more than 51,000 years, and on This Day in History ... Step aside Futurama, scientist build robot that's controlled by a brain in a jar Recreating the Neanderthal Brain World's oldest cave painting is at least 51,200 years old, scientists say Narrative cave art in Indonesia by 51,200 years ago Erector Set Patented – Today in History: July 8 - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project A.C. Gilbert | Lemelson (mit.edu) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Wednesday is off to a wild start with drunk teachers and shooting at a police helicopter in the Ill-Advised News. We compete for who is the laziest, warn you to not trust the travel hack, and shine a light on the dumbest groom. We debate the new iOS update plans, play another round of “Adult Entertainment”, and have a second helping of weird news with black ops and teens kicking butt. Support the show and follow us here Twitter, Insta, Apple, Amazon, Spotify and the Edge! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The kids are now in the biggest pickle they've ever been in. Listen in as Pat and Bruce critique a bunch of kids who try to get a baseball back from a giant dog instead of just knocking on the door and asking the owner to get it back. Erector sets don't work, kids in rigs similar to mission impossible devices don't work, drone rocket ships don't work, vacuum cleaner suction rigs don't work. Some of these and more, on this episode of Pat and the Fat Man.
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I read from erbium to eremurus. If you, or someone you love is dealing with erectile dysfunction, I'm sure these links and talking to a professional will help, but I am not a doctor of any kind so I am not legally responsible for your actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erectile_dysfunction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dysfunction https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/erectile-dysfunction/symptoms-causes/syc-20355776 I bet many engineers used to love playing with Erector sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set The ionosphere is so much more complicated than you even think, unless you're an ionosphereologist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionosphere The word of the episode is "erection". Theme music from Jonah Kraut https://jonahkraut.bandcamp.com/ Merchandising! https://www.teepublic.com/user/spejampar "The Dictionary - Letter A" on YouTube "The Dictionary - Letter B" on YouTube "The Dictionary - Letter C" on YouTube "The Dictionary - Letter D" on YouTube "The Dictionary - Letter E" on YouTube Featured in a Top 10 Dictionary Podcasts list! https://blog.feedspot.com/dictionary_podcasts/ Backwards Talking on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmIujMwEDbgZUexyR90jaTEEVmAYcCzuq https://linktr.ee/spejampar dictionarypod@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/thedictionarypod/ https://www.threads.net/@dictionarypod https://twitter.com/dictionarypod https://www.instagram.com/dictionarypod/ https://www.patreon.com/spejampar https://www.tiktok.com/@spejampar 917-727-5757
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Erector’s Flattop is rough stuff! We want to hear your feedback! Post a comment here or email feedback for Empire Of Rust directly to rust@transmissionspodcast.com! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Intro [0:00:00] Chapter 1 – Trash of the Titans [0:01:34] Chapter 2 – The Bigger They Are… [0:32:55] Closing [0:56:24] If you enjoy Empire of Rust, please rate us and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify! These ratings greatly help podcasts become more discoverable to other people using those services and is an easy way to help out our show. What is the Empire Of Rust Podcast? TransMissions Podcast Network presents: the world’s first and only Transformers RPG actual play podcast! Conceived, developed, and run by TransMissions Podcast producer… Continue reading The post The Rustford Files 009 – Do Transformers Dream of Rising Cranes? appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.
Erector’s Flattop is rough stuff! We want to hear your feedback! Post a comment here or email feedback for Empire Of Rust directly to rust@transmissionspodcast.com! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Intro [0:00:00] Chapter 1 – Trash of the Titans [0:01:34] Chapter 2 – The Bigger They Are… [0:32:55] Closing [0:56:24] If you enjoy Empire of Rust, please rate us and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify! These ratings greatly help podcasts become more discoverable to other people using those services and is an easy way to help out our show. What is the Empire Of Rust Podcast? TransMissions Podcast Network presents: the world’s first and only Transformers RPG actual play podcast! Conceived, developed, and run by TransMissions Podcast producer… Continue reading The post The Rustford Files 009 – Do Transformers Dream of Rising Cranes? appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.
The National Toy Hall of Fame has inducted their finalist this year, but Jovial Jay and Shua pick their choices for the Enjoy Stufftopia Discontinued Toy Hall of Fame on Enjoy Stuff! We think there are some pretty cool toys that you don't see anymore that deserve their place in a museum. Join us as we pick our favorites for the Discontinued Toy Hall of Fame. News The Hall and Oates legal drama continues Marty Krofft, co-creator of some of our wacky childhood entertainment has died at 86 Waffles? Coffee Mate? Sure, why not? We found a cool spin on Back to the Future in a comic book from a few years ago Flies? Where? You'll just have to listen to find out. Check out our TeePublic store for some enjoyable swag and all the latest fashion trends What we're Enjoying Shua has been enjoying a new novel by John Scalzi called Starter Villain. This one is also narrated by Will Wheaton and tells the story of an man who unexpectedly inherits his uncle's super villain company. Sound weird? Weird enough to check out for sure! Jovial Jay revisited the 1981 Ray Harryhausen classic Clash of the Titans. It was a groundbreaking movie in a lot of ways and a fun watch today. Sci-Fi Saturdays This week on Sci-Fi Saturdays Jay looks back at the 2000 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger called The 6th Day. Arnold is faced with a clone of himself and all the discomfort that would present. Though it was very en Vogue to feature our nearest planetary neighbor back then, this one may not have entirely hit the mark.The story is a little spoon-fed, but entertaining nonetheless. Check out his article to see why. He has also been updating locations from Marvel TV and movies, including the Loki series. Play around with the interactive map on MCULocationScout.com. Plus, you can tune in to SHIELD: Case Files where Jay and Shua break down each episode of the Hawkeye series and more. Enjoy Toys! It's the time of year when the National Toy Museum picks their Hall of Fame finalists. Once again, some iconic toys have made it into the mix. They even picked one from the Forgotten Five; a group of toys that never seem to quite make it. But here at Enjoy Stuff we believe there are some toys that are no longer around, but also deserve their moment in the spotlight. So we have set up a Discontinued Toy Hall of Fame in our town of EnjoyStufftopia. JovialJay and Shua pick some of their favorite toys from their youth that they would love to see on display. Do you have a toy that would fit in our Hall of Fame? First person that emails me with the subject line, “It belongs in a museum” will get a special mention on the show. Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com
Finey been inked, Brian's been swabbed and Kev's been sedated and dear listener you might need a valium and a lie down, because you will not believe where this episode takes you. There are no rides likes this at Disneyland. Even the footy tips are not immune to the bizarre nature of this offering from our gleesome threesome. Rock ON at your peril. Kevin Hillier, Brian Mannix, Mark Fine Subscribe in iTunes! https://apple.co/2LUQuix Listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2DdgYad Follow us on Facebook... https://bit.ly/2OOe7ag Post-production by Gatesy for Howdy Partners Media | www.howdypartnersmedia.com.au/podcasts © 2023See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Erector Square, which celebrates its 100th birthday in 2023, has always had a special place in the creative life of New Haven, Connecticut. Until 1967, it was the home of A.C. Gilbert's factory that produced Erector Sets and dozens of other toys and science kits that challenged kids' creativity and ingenuity. In recent decades, it has become studio space for over 100 artists as well as theater companies, yoga and jujitsu studios, and other creative disciplines. In celebration of these 100 years, the artists of Erector Square are opening their studios on October 21 and 22, 2023, from noon to five. Open Studios organizer Eric March spoke with WPKN's Valerie Richardson. https://erectorsquarestudios.com/
Abductor pollicis brevis; Latin for "short abductor of the thumb", Lateral surface of the radius, Base of the proximal phalanx of the thumb, Abducts the thumb Abductor pollicis longus, Latin for "long abductor of the thumb", Lateral surface of the ulna, Base of the proximal phalanx of the thumb, Abducts the thumb Adductor brevis; Latin for "short adductor", Pubis, Medial side of the first metacarpal bone, Adducts the thumb Adductor hallucis; Latin for "adductor of the big toe", Pubis, ischium, and femur, Base of the proximal phalanx of the big toe, Adducts the big toe Adductor longus; Latin for "long adductor" Pubis Medial side of the shaft of the femur Adducts the thigh Adductor magnus; Latin for "great adductor", Pubis, ischium, and femur, Medial side of the shaft of the femur, Adducts the thigh Biceps brachii; Latin for "two-headed muscle of the arm", Coracoid process of the scapula and supraglenoid tubercle of the humerus, Radius and bicipital aponeurosis, Flexes the forearm and supinates the forearm Brachialis; Latin for "muscle of the arm", Anterior surface of the humerus, Coronoid process of the ulna, Flexes the forearm Bregmaticus; Latin for "pertaining to the bregma", Frontal bone Skin of the forehead, Elevates the eyebrows and wrinkles the forehead Frontalis Carpometacarpales; Latin for "carpal and metacarpal", Several muscles, Carpal bones and metacarpal bones, Flex, extend, abduct, and adduct the fingers Deltoid; Greek for "triangular", Lateral third of the clavicle, acromion process of the scapula, and spine of the scapula, Deltoid tuberosity of the humerus Abducts the arm Erector spinae; Latin for "erector of the spine", Several muscles, Vertebral column Extends and rotates the spine Flexor carpi radialis; Latin for "flexor of the wrist", Medial epicondyle of the humerus, Base of the second metacarpal bone, Flexes the wrist Flexor carpi ulnaris; Latin for "flexor of the wrist", Ulna, Pisiform bone, Flexes the wrist and ulnar deviates the hand, Flexor digitorum profundus; Latin for "deep flexor of the fingers", Ulna and radius, Base of the distal phalanges of the fingers, Flexes the fingers Flexor digitorum superficialis; Latin for "superficial flexor of the fingers", Middle phalanges of the fingers, Base of the middle phalanges of the fingers, Flexes the fingers Flexor hallucis longus; Latin for "long flexor of the big toe", Tibia and fibula, Base of the distal phalanx of the big toe, Flexes the big toe --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liam-connerly/support
National ice cream sundae day. Entertainment from 1961. Erector set invented, Liberty Bell cracked, UFO crashes ant Rosewell New Mexico. Todays birthdays - John Pemberton, Jeffrey Tambor, Angelica Houston, Kevin Bacon, Toby Keith, Bill Crudup, Beck, Amy O'Neill. Ernest Borgnine died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/Ice cream sundae song - The Hungry Food BandQuarter to three - Gary U.S. BondsHeartbreak USA - Kitty WellsBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/I'd like to buy the world a coke - TV commercialI should've been a cowboy - Toby KeithLoser - BeckExit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/
Lion has been listening to his radio, trying to see how far his signal goes. Between that and hearing the license training videos he's been watching, I'm no more enthused about getting this ham license than I was before. I understand it can be used in emergencies. I'm right there The post Erector Set appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.
Lion has been listening to his radio, trying to see how far his signal goes. Between that and hearing the license training videos he's been watching, I'm no more enthused about getting this ham license than I was before. I understand it can be used in emergencies. I'm right there The post Erector Set appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.
Let's talk about kit homes - the original concept, where to find more information on YOUR kit home, and what the modern equivalent is - or could be. Shoppell's Modern HousesMcMansion Hell's Guide to Kit Homes Resources on Sears Kit HomesA Round-Up of Blogs about Kit HomesThe Kit House HuntersA Flicker set of the 1936 Aladdin Kit House CatalogYou can also search archive.org for various kit house catalogs Gold Country Kit Homes - Panelized kits Zip Homes Kit HousesJay Osborne's Free Farmhouse Instagram
A.C. Gilbert was a practicing magician good enough to astonish Hermann the Great at age 7, a world-record-holding athlete at age 17, and a born salesman — in the best “win-win” sense of the word. (Salem, Marion County; 1890s, 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1703d.ac-gilbert-growing-up-in-salem-436.html)
Lizalyn Smith, Author, Community Leader and Aerospace Engineer. How does growing up in Detroit, and playing with Legos and Erector sets, lead to becoming a Aerospace Engineer? What led Lizalyn to begin helping the at-risk youth? Why has Lizalyn continuously paid forward by helping the helpless, hopeless, and hurting persons...Why? What was the driving motivation for Lizalyn to pen her books? What role has God played in Lizalyn's sojourn? Join us as we walk along with Lizalyn...as she takes us thru..her humble but yet powerful sojourn...leading to being a inspirational agent of change for "all walks of life"! Lizalyn: http://lizalynsmith.com @calcyoursavings http://youtu.be/3DjWsQRoZ2g COFRP Interviews https://en.padverb.com/COFRP COFRP airs on: http://podsearch.com/listing/challenges-of-faith-radio-program.htm COFRP listed (2021-23) as one of the Top 100 Christian Podcast http://blog.feedspot.com/christian_podcasts/
Let's meet Lizalyn Smith Author, Community Leader and Aerospace Engineer. How does growing up in Detroit, and playing with Legos and Erector sets, lead to becoming a NASA Aerospace Engineer? What led Lizalyn to begin helping the at-risk youth? Why has Lizalyn continuously paid forward by helping the helpless, hopeless, and hurting persons...Why? What was the driving motivation for Lizalyn to pen her books? What role has God played in Lizalyn's sojourn? Join us as we walk along with Lizalyn...as she takes us thru..her humble but yet powerful sojourn...leading to being a inspirational agent of change for "all walks of life"! Lizalyn Smith: https://lizalynsmith.com Twitter: @calcyoursavings Youtube; https://youtu.be/3DjWsQRoZ2g COFRP Interviews https://en.padverb.com/COFRP COFRP listed (2021-23) as one of the Top 100 Christian Podcast http://blog.feedspot.com/christian_podcasts/
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Episode: 1563 Looking back at the impact of toys. Today, we play with toys.
Lexman interviews Anthony Pompliano, who has appeared on CNN, Fox Business, and other television networks. They discuss the politics and economics of health care reform.
Recovering from the Christmas holiday weekend complaining about not getting that Mercedes in the driveway, or any new Lego sets. WIZM's Brad Williams joined to talk about the Lego Masters out of Holmen and how Legos evolved but the Erector set didn't. Also ranted about how Wisconsin's DNR is politicized, somehow, and what the state is missing out on without sports gambling. Ended talking about the "free shipping" myth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Richie's Tumble Dryer has died, and he's looking for your sad appliance stories to provide you with some sympathy.
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Structural Steel building sets from the early 20th century were an amazing toy set for kids to play with and to grow their imaginations. With one Erector set you could build anything your mind could think ok. What would you build?
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An old electric football game inspired this week's StoryTime. GamerDude remembered what playing with the electric football game was like, and how unique a game it was. It also reminded him of the other activites that he used to do to pass time when he was a kid, most of which no longer exist. He talks about the spin-art machine he and his siblings had as kids, and how they would create abstract "masterpieces" with a squeeze bottle of paint and a high-speed turntable. He rememberd friends who had wood-burning kits, which were basically hot pokers designed for burning wood. He talks about how much he enjoyed making model cars, and the detail that went into completing each one. He remembers his Erector sets, and talks about why he never bought into the "build it just so you can take it apart and build something else" mind-set you had to have to enjoy Erector sets. GamerDude also remembers the home chemistry set he had as a kid, and the helpful neighborhood dad who gave him the recipe for gunpowder.
In this episode, only the best is good enough! Were you a Lego kid? Did you cut your teeth on Playmobil and Duplo? Graduate to Erector sets and Kinex? Who was enamored with Lego from an early age, and who took having a kid to get into it? What does the brand have to offer outside of a bunch of bricks, anyway? Hang out with the boys as they talk all about those automatic binding bricks from Denmark! This week's promo is for The Struggling Artist with Trev Allen. Listen to Trev have fascinating & casual conversations with loads of musicians and other creatives. Geeksploration: the Podcast is a proud member of The Geekly Grind family. They are a collective of geek-minded folks covering gaming, comics, movies, and more. Go check out the other great stuff they have going on! You can find more information about the show at GeeksplorationPodcast.com Contact us on social media: Facebook Geeksploration: The Podcast page/ Instagram @GeeksplorationPodcast / Twitter @GeeksplorePod or you can join us on Discord You can also call 916-ORC-TURD to have your questions answered, or statements responded to. Check out the cool swag at shop.GeeksplorationPodcast.com Theme song is "Cruisin' for Goblins" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Episode: 1563 Looking back at the impact of toys. Today, we play with toys.
Mark and Andrew continue their crusade to save some amount of holiday cheer, this time via CBS' 2002 effort, "The Man Who Saved Christmas." Jason Alexander plays AC Gilbert, creator of the Erector set, as he sells toys in the midst of the Great War. With the war effort happening, Christmas is threatened, which means AC can't sell toys, make children happy or belittle his unathletic son. And really, is it Christmas without those things? Listen in, how about?
Dr. Brian Arthur and I talk about how technology can be modeled as a modular and evolving system, combinatorial evolution more broadly and dig into some fascinating technological case studies that informed his book The Nature of Technology. Brian is a researcher and author who is perhaps best known for his work on complexity economics, but I wanted to talk to him because of the fascinating work he's done building out theories of technology. As we discuss, there's been a lot of theorizing around science — with the works of Popper, Kuhn and others. But there's been less rigorous work on how technology works despite its effects on our lives. Brian currently works at PARC (formerly Xerox PARC, the birthplace of personal computing) and has also worked at the Santa Fe institute and was a professor Stanford university before that. Links W. Brian Arthur's Wikipedia Page The Nature of Technology on Amazon W. Brian Arthur's homepage at the Santa Fe Institute Transcript Brian Arthur [00:00:00] In this conversation, Dr. Brian Arthur. And I talk about how technology can be modeled as modular and evolving system. Commentorial evolution more broadly, and we dig into some fascinating technological hae studies that informed your book, his book, the nature of tech. Brian is a researcher and author who is perhaps best known for his work on complexity economics. Uh, but I wanted to talk to him [00:01:00] because of the fascinating work he's done, building out theories of technology. Uh, as we discussed in the podcast, there's been a lot of theorizing around science, you know, with the works of popper and Kuhn and other. But there's has been much less rigorous work on how technology works despite its effect on our lives. As some background, Brian currently works at park formerly Xerox park, the birthplace of the personal computer, and has also worked at the Santa Fe Institute and was a professor at Stanford university before that. Uh, so without further ado, here's my conversation with Brian Arthur. Mo far less interested in technology. So if anybody asks me about technology immediately search. Sure. But so the background to this is that mostly I'm known for a new framework and economic theory, which is called complexity economics. I'm not the [00:02:00] only developer of that, but certainly one of the fathers, well, grandfather, one of the fathers, definitely. I was thinking one of the co-conspirators I think every new scientific theory like starts off as a little bit of a conspiracy. Yes, yes, absolutely. Yeah. This is no exception anyways. So that's what I've been doing. I'm I've think I've produced enough papers and books on that. And I would, so I've been in South Africa lately for many months since last year got back about a month ago and I'm now I was, as these things work in life, I think there's arcs, you know, you're getting interested in something, you work it out or whatever it would be. Businesses, you [00:03:00] start children, there's a kind of arc and, and thing. And you work all that out. And very often that reaches some completion. So most of the things I've been doing, we've reached a completion. I thought maybe it's because I getting ancient, but I don't think so. I think it was that I just kept working at these things. And for some reason, technologies coming back up to think about it in 2009, when this book came out, I stopped thinking about technology people, norm they think, oh yeah, you wrote this book. You must be incredibly interested. Yeah. But it doesn't mean I want to spend the rest of your life. Just thinking about the site, start writing this story, like writing Harry Potter, you know, it doesn't mean to do that forever. Wait, like writing the book is like the whole [00:04:00] point of writing the book. So you can stop thinking about it. Right? Like you get it out of your head into the book. Yeah, you're done. So, okay. So this is very much Silicon valley and I left academia in 1996. I left Stanford I think was I'm not really an academic I'm, I'm a researcher sad that those two things have diverged a little bit. So Stanford treated me extraordinarily well. I've no objections, but anyway, I think I'd been to the Santa Fe Institute and it was hard to come back to standard academia after that. So why, should people care about sort of, not just the output of the technology creation process, but theory behind technology. Why, why does that matter? Well[00:05:00] I think that what a fine in in general, whether it's in Europe or China or America, People use tremendous amount of technology. If you ask the average person, what technology is, they tell you it's their smartphone, or it's catch a tree in their cars or something, but they're, most people are contend to make heavy use of technology of, I count everything from frying pans or cars but we make directly or indirectly, enormously heavy use of technology. And we don't think about where it comes from. And so there's a few kind of tendencies and biases, you know we watch we have incredibly good retinal displays these days on our computers. [00:06:00] We can do marvelous things with our smartphone. We switch on GPS and our cars, and very shortly that we won't have to drive at all presumably in a few years. And so all of this technology is doing marvelous things, but for some strange reason, We take it for granted in the sense, we're not that curious as to how it works. People trend in engineering is I am, or I can actually tell you that throughout my entire life, I've been interested in how things work, how technology works, even if it's just something like radios. I remember when I was 10, I like many other kids. I, I constructed a radio and a few instructions. I was very curious how all that worked and but people in general are not curious. So I [00:07:00] invite them quite often to do the following thought experiments. Sometimes them giving talks. All right. Technology. Well, it's an important, yeah, sort of does it matter? Probably while I would matter. And a lot of people manage to be mildly hostile to technology, but there are some of the heaviest users they're blogging on there on Facebook and railing about technology and then getting into their tech late and cars and things like that. So the thought experiment I like to pose to people is imagine you wake up one morning. And for some really weird or malign reason, all your technology is to super weird. So you wake up in your PJ's and you stagger off to the bathroom, but the toilet, [00:08:00] you trying to wash your hands or brush your teeth. That is no sink in the bathroom. There's no running water. You scratch your head and just sort of shrugged in you go off to make coffee, but there's no coffee maker, et cetera. You, in this aspiration, you leave your house and go to clinch your car to go to work. But there's no car. In fact, there's no gas stations. In fact, there's no cars on the roads. In fact, there's no roads and there's no buildings downtown and you're just standing there and naked fields. And wondering, where does this all go? And really what's happened in this weird Saifai set up is that let's say all technologies that were cooked up after say 1300. So what would that be? The last 700 years or so? I've disappeared. And and you've [00:09:00] just left there and. People then said to me, well, I mean, wouldn't there have been technologies then. Sure. So you know how to, if you're a really good architect, you might know how to build cathedrals. You might know how to do some stone bridges. You might know how to produce linen so that you're not walking around with any proper warm clothes and so on. But our whole, my point is that if you took away everything invented. So in the last few hundred years, our modern world or disappear, and you could say, well, we have science, Peter, but without technology, you wouldn't have any instruments to measure anything. There'd be no telescopes. Well, we still have our conceptual ideas. Well, we would still vote Republican or not as the case may be. Yeah, you'd have, and I'd still have my family. Yeah. But how long are your kids gonna [00:10:00] live? Because no modern medicine. Yeah, et cetera. So my point is that not only does technology influence us, it creates our entire world. And yet we take this thing that creates our entire world. Totally. For granted, I'd say by and large, there are plenty of people who are fascinated like you or me, but we tend to take it for granted. And so there isn't much curiosity about technology. And when I started to look into this seriously, I find that there's no ology of technology. There's theories about where science comes from and there's theories about music musicology and theories, endless theories about architecture and, and even theology. But there isn't a very [00:11:00] well-developed set of ideas or theories on what technology is when, where it comes from. Now, if you know, this area is a, was that true? On Thur, you know, I could mention 20 books on it and Stanford library, but when I went to look for them, I couldn't find very much compared with other fields, archi, ology, or petrol energy, you name it technology or knowledge. It was, I went to talk to a wonderful engineer in Stanford. I'm sure he's no longer alive. Cause this was about 15 years ago. He was 95 or so if I couldn't remember his name it's an Italian name, just a second. I brought this to prompts. Just a sec. I'm being sent to you. I remember his name and [00:12:00] make it the first name for him. Yeah. Walter VIN sent him. So I went to see one it's rarely top-notch aerospace engineers of the 20th century had lunch with them. And I said, have engineers themselves worked out a theory of the foundations of their subject. And he looked, he sort of looked slightly embarrassed. He says, no. I said, why not? And he paused. He was very honest. He just paused. And he says, engineers like problems they can solve. It's. So compared with other fields, there isn't as much thinking about what technology is or how it evolves over time, where it comes from how invention works. We've a theory of how new species come into existence since 1859 and Darwin. [00:13:00] We don't have much for theory at all. At least. This was 10, 15 years ago about how new technologies come into being. I started to think about this. And I reflected a lot because I was writing this book and people said, what are you writing about? I said, technology that is always followed by Y you know, I mean, I could say I was maybe writing the history of baseball. Nobody would've said why, but Y you know, what could be interesting about that? And I reflected further that and I argue in my book, the nature of technology, I reflected that technology's not just the backdrop or the whole foundation of our lives. We depend on it 200 years ago, the average length of life, might've been 55 in this country, or 45. [00:14:00] Now it's 80 something. And maybe that's an, a bad year, like the last year. So, and that's technology, medical technology. We've really good diagnostics, great instruments very good methods, surgical procedures. Those are all technology. And by and large, they assure you fairly well that if you're born this year in normal circumstances, Reasonably the normal circumstance through born, let's say this decade, that's with reasonable, lucky to live, to see your grandchildren and you might live to see them get married. So life is a lot longer. So I began to wonder who did research technology and strangely enough maybe not that strangely, it turns out to be if not engineers, a lot sociologists and economists. [00:15:00] And then I began to observe something further in that one was that a lot of people. So wondering about how things change and evolve had really interesting thoughts about how science, what science is and how that evolves. And so that like Thomas Kuhn's, there are many people speculated in that direction, whether they're correct or not. And that's very insightful, but with technology itself I discovered that the people writing about it were historians associates, which is an economist and nearly, always, they talked about it in general. We have the age off the steam engines or when railroads came along, they allowed the expansion of the entire United States Konami that connected his coast and west coast and [00:16:00] so on. So they're treating the technology has sort of like an exogenous effect sent there and they were treating that also. I discovered there's some brilliant books by economic historians and sociologists add constant is one. He wrote about the turbo chapter, super good studies about Silicon valley, how the internet started and so on. So I don't want to make too sweeping the statement here, but by and large, I came to realize that nobody looked inside technologies. So this is if you were set in the 1750s and by ology certain biologists, they would have been called social scientists, natural philosophers. That's right. Thank you. They would have been called natural philosophers and they would have been interested in if they were interested [00:17:00] in different species, say giraffes and Zebras and armadillos or something. It was as if they were trying to understand these from just looking outside. And it wasn't until a few decades later, the 1790s, the time of George cookie that people started to do. And that to me is, and they find striking similarities. So something might be a Bengal tiger and something might be some form of cheetah. And you could see very similar structures and postulate as Darwin's grandfather did that. There might be some relation as to how they evolved some evolutionary tree. By time, Darwin was writing. He wasn't that interested in evolution. He was interested in how new species are formed. So I began to realize that in [00:18:00] technology, people just by and large looking at the technology from the outside, and it didn't tell you much. I was at a seminar. I remember in Stanford where it was on technology every week. And somebody decided that they would talk about modems. Those are the items that just connect your PC. The wireless internet. And they're now unheard of actually they're built into your machine. I'm sure. And we talked for an hour and a half about modems or with an expert who from Silicon valley who'd been behind and venting. These never was the question asked, how does it work? Really? Yeah. Did, did everybody assume that everybody else knew how it worked? No. Oh, they just didn't care. No, no. Yeah, not quiet. It was [00:19:00] more, you didn't open the box. You assume there was a modem who is adopting modems. How fast were modems, what was the efficiency of modems? How would they change the economy? What was in the box itself by and large was never asked about now there are exceptions. There are some economists who really do get inside, but I remember one of my friends late Nate Rosenberg, superb economist of technological history here at Stanford. Rude poop called inside the black box, but he didn't even in that book, he didn't really open up too many technologies. So then I began to realize that people really didn't understand much about biology or zoology or evolution for that matter until this began to open up or can [00:20:00] isms and see similarities between species of toads and start to wonder how these different species had come about by getting inside. So to S set up my book, I decided that the key thing I was going to do, I didn't mention it much in the book, but was to get inside technologies. So if I wanted to talk about jet engines, I, wasn't just going to talk about thrust and about manufacturers and about people who brought it into being, I was going to talk about, you know heat pumps, exactly Sur anti surge systems for compressors different types of combustion systems and materials whole trains of compressors. Oh, assemblies of compressors the details of turbines that drove the compressors. [00:21:00] And I found that in technology, after technology, once you opened it up, you discovered many of the same components. Yeah. So let me hold that thought for a moment. I thought it was amazing that when you look at technologies from the outside, you know, see canoes and giraffes, they don't look at all similar legs. Yeah. But they all have the same thing, basic construction there. And then their case, their memos, and they have skeleton their vertebrates or et cetera, whatever they are or something. And so in technologies, I decided quite early on with the book that I would understand maybe 25 or so technology is pretty well. And of those [00:22:00] I'd understand at least a dozen very well, indeed, meaning spending maybe years trying to. Understand certain technologies are understanding. And and then what I was going to do is to see how they had come into being and what could be said about them, but from particular sources. So I remember calling up the chief engineer on the Boeing 7 47 and asking them questions personally, the cool thing about technology, unlike evolution is that we can actually go and talk to the people who made it right. If they're still alive. Yes. And so, so, so I decided that it would be important to get inside technologies. When I did that, I began to realize that I was seeing the same components [00:23:00] again and again. So in some industrial system, safe for pumping air into coal mines or something, fresh air, you'd see compressors taking in their piping, it done. And and yeah. Again, and again, you see piston engines or steam engines, or sometimes turbines powering something on the outside. They may look very different on the inside. You are seeing the same things again, again, and I reflected that in biology and say, and yeah, in biology save mammals we have roughly the same numbers of genes, very roughly it's kind of, we have a Lego kit of genes, maybe 23,000 case of humans slightly differently for other creatures. [00:24:00] And these genes were put together to express proteins and express different bone structures, skeletal structures, organs in different ways, but they were all put together or originated from roughly the same set of pieces put together differently or expressed differently, actuated differently. They would result in different animals. And I started to see the same thing with technology. So again, you take some. You take maybe in the 1880s some kind of a threshing machine or harvester that worked on steam summer inside. There there'd be a boiler. There'd be crying, Serbia steam engine. If you looked into railway locomotive, you'd see much the [00:25:00] same thing, polars and cranks, and the steam engine there be a place to keep fuel and to feed it with a coal or whatever it was operating on. So once I started to look inside technologies, I realized it was very different set of things that there's ceased to become a mystery. And so the whole theme of what I was looking at was see if I can get this into one sentence. Technologies are means to human purposes normally created from existing components at hand. So if I want to put up some structures and Kuala lumper, which is a high level high rise building, I've got all the pieces I needed. Pre-stressed concrete, whatever posts are needed to create. [00:26:00] Fundations the kinds of bolts and fasteners the do fastened together, concrete, high rise, cranes, and equipment et cetera. Assemblies made of steel to reinforce the whole thing and to make sure the structure stands properly. It's not so much of these are all standardized, but the type of technology, every technology I thought is made with pieces and parts, and they tend to come from the same toolbox used in different ways. They may be in Kuala, lumper used in Seattle's slightly different ways, but the whole idea was the same. So it's technology then cease to be a mystery. It was matter of combining or putting together things from a Lego sets in M where [00:27:00] I grew up in the UK. We'd call them mechano sets. What are they called here? Erector sets or, well, I mean, Legos are, or, but like, I mean, there's, there's metal ones, the metal ones. I think the metal ones are erector sets. There's also like the wood ones that are tinker toys. Anyway, I like Legos, like, like I'm kinda like, okay. Okay. So, and that goes and yeah. And then you could get different sorts of Lego sets. You know, a few were working in high pressure, high temperature, it'd be different types of things of you're working in construction. There'd be a different set of Lego blocks for that. I don't want to say this is all trivial. It's not a matter of just throwing together these things. There's a very, very high art behind it, but it is not these things being born in somebody's attic. And in fact [00:28:00] of you were sitting here and what used to be Xerox park and Xerox graphy was invented by not by Mr. Xerox. Anyway, somewhere in here, but xerography was invented by someone who knew a lot about processes. A lot about paper, a lot about chemical processes, a lot about developing things. And shining light on paper and then using that maybe chemically at first and in modern Sarah Buffy. Electrostatically. Yeah. And so what could born was rarely reflecting light known component of marks on paper, thinking of a copier machine focused with a lot of lenses, [00:29:00] well-known onto something that was fairly new, which was called a Xerox drum. And that was electrostatically charged. And so you arranged that the light effected the electrostatic charges on the Xerox drum and those electrostatic as the drum revolved, it picked up particles of printing, ink like dust and where being differentially charged, and then imprinted that on paper and then fused it. All of those pieces were known. It's and it's not a matter of someone. I think mine's name is Carlson by the way. It's not a matter of what's somebody working in an attic that guy actually, who was more like that, but usually it's a small team of [00:30:00] people who are, who see a principal to do something to say, okay, you know, we want to copy something. Alright. But it could, you know cathode Ray tube and maybe it could project it on to that. And then there might be electrons sensitive or heat sensitive paper, and it could make her copies that way. But certainly in here Xerox itself for zero park, the idea was to say, let's use an electrostatic method combined with Potter and a lot of optics to ride on a Xerox drum and then fuse that under high heat into something that, where the particles stuck to paper. So all of those things were known and given. So I guess there's sorry. There's, there's so many different directions that I, that I want to go. One. [00:31:00] So sort of just like on the idea of modularity for technology. Yeah. It feels like there's both I guess it feels like there's almost like two kinds of modularity. One is the modularity where you, you take a slice in time and you sort of break the technology down into the different components. Yeah. And then there's almost like modularity through time that, that progresses over time where you have to combine sort of different ideas, but it doesn't necessarily, but like those ideas are not necessarily like contained in the technology or there's like precursor technology, like for example there's you have the, the moving assembly line. Right. Which was a technology that was you originally for like butchering meat. Yup. Right. And so you had, you had car manufacturing [00:32:00] and then you had like a moving assembly line. Yep. And then Henry Ford came along and sort of like fused those together. And that feels like a different kind of modularity from the modularity of. Of like looking at the components of technology, M I D do you think that they're actually the same thing? How do you, how do you think about those sort of two types of modularity? I'm not quite sure what the difference is. So, so the, the Henry T I guess like the, the, the, the, the Ford factory did not, doesn't contain a slaughter house. Right. It contains like some components from the slider house. And some components, I guess. Let's see, I think, like, [00:33:00] this is like, I, I was like, sort of like thinking through this, it feels like, like when, when you think of like the sort of like intellectual lineages of technology the, like a technology does not always contain the thing that inspires it, I guess is and so, so there's this kind of like evolution over time of like, almost like the intellectual lineage of a technology that is not necessarily the same as like the. Correct evolutions of the final components of that technology like for yeah. Does that, does that make sense? Like th th th or am I just like, am I seeing a difference where there, there is no difference which could be completely possible? Well, I'm not sure. I think maybe the latter, let me see if I can explain the way I see it, please stop me again. If it [00:34:00] doesn't fit with what you're talking about. I could fascinated by the whole subject of invention, you know, where to radically new technologies come from, not just tweaks on a technology. So we might have we might have a Pratt and Whitney jet engine in 1996, and then 10 years later have a different version of that. That's a good summer different components. That's fine. That's innovation, but it's not ready. Invention invention is something that's quite radical. You go from having air piston engines, which spit like standard car engines, driving propellers systems, 1930s, and you that gets replaced by a jet engine system working on a different principle. So the question really is so I've [00:35:00] begun to realize that what makes an invention is that it works in a different principle. So when Cox came along, the really primitive ones in the 12 hundreds, or a bit later than that are usually made up, they're made with their water clocks and are relying on this idea that a drip of water is fairly regular. If you set it up that way and about the time of Galileo. And in fact, Galileo himself realized that the pendulum had a particular regular beat. And if you could harness that regularity, that might turn into something that can measure time I clock. So, and that's a different principle that the principle is to use the idea that something on the end of a string or on the end of a piece of wire, give you a regular. [00:36:00] Frequency or regular beat. So the country realize that inventions themselves something was carrying out unnecessary purpose using a different principle before the second world war in Britain, they in the mid 1930s, people got worried about aircraft coming from the continent. They thought it could well be terminated and and bombers coming over to bomb England and the standard methods then to detect bombers over the horizon was to get people with incredibly good hearing, quite often blind people and attach to their ear as the enormous air trumpet affair that went from their ear to some big concrete collecting amplifier, some air trumpet that was maybe 50 or a hundred [00:37:00] feet across to listen to what was going on in the sky. And a few years later in the mid thirties, actually the began to look for something better and then. Made a discovery that fact that being well-known in physics by then, that if you bounced a very high frequency beam electromagnetic beam of say piece of metal, the metal would distort the beam. It would kind of echo and you'd get to stores and see if it was just to adore three miles away, made a word, wouldn't have that effect, but it was metal. It would. So that that's different principle. You're not listening. You're actually sending out a beam of something and then trying to detect the echo. And that is a different principle. And from that you get radar, how do you create such a beam? How'd [00:38:00] you switch it off very fast. Search can listen for an echo or electronically how do you direct the beam, et cetera, et cetera. How do you construct the whole thing? How can you get a very high energy beam because needed to be very high energy. These are all problems that had to be solved. So in my, what I began to see, she was the same pattern giving invention guidance began usually an outstanding problem. How do we detect enemy bombers that might come from the east, from the continent, if we need to how do we produce a lot of cars more efficiently and then finding some principle to do that, meaning the idea of using some phenomenon in the case of ear trumpets, it was acoustic phenomena, but these could be greatly amplified for somebody's ear. If you directed them into a big [00:39:00] concrete here, right? Different ways to put out high frequency radio beams and listen for an echo of that. Once you have the principle, then it turns out there's sort of sub problems go with that in the case of radar, how do you switch the beam off so that you can, things are traveling at the speed of light. I just switched it off fast enough that the echo isn't drowned out by the original signal. So then you're into another layer of solving another problem and an invention. Usually not. Well, I could talk about some other ways to look at it, but my wife looking at an invention is that nearly always is a strong social need. What do we do about COVID? The time that [00:40:00] says February, March 20, 20 oh, cur we can do a vaccine. Oh, okay. The vaccine might work on a different principle, maybe messenger RNA rather than the standard sort of vaccines. And so you find a different principle, but that brings even getting that to work brings its own sub problems. And then if with a bit of luck and hard work, usually over several years or months, you solved the sub problems. You managed to put all that in material terms, not just conceptual ones, but make it into some physical thing that works and you have an invention. And so to double click on that, couldn't you argue that those, that the solution to those sub problems are also in themselves inventions. And so it's just like inventions all the way down. [00:41:00] No great point there. I haven't thought of that. Possibly the, if they need to use a new principal themselves, the sub solutions. Yeah. Then you'd have to invent how that might work. But very often they're standing by let me give you an example. I hope this isn't I don't want to be too sort of technical here, please go, go, go, go rotate. Here we go then. So it's 1972 here in Xerox park where I'm sitting and the engineer, Gary Starkweather is his name, brilliant engineer and trained in lasers and trend and optics PhD and master's degrees, really smart guy. And he's trying to [00:42:00] figure out how to how to print. If you have an image in a computer, say a photograph, how do you print that now at that time? In fact, I can remember that time there. There are things called line printers and they're like huge typewriter systems. There is one central computer you put in your job, the outputs it was figured out on the computer and then central line printer, which is like a big industrial typewriter. And then it clanked away on paper and somebody tore off the paper and handed it to through a window. Gary, Starkweather wondered how could you print texts? But more than that images where you weren't using a typewriter, it's very hard to his typewriters and very slow if you wanted to images. So he [00:43:00] cooked up a principle, he went through several principles, but the one that he finished up using was the idea that you could take the information from the computer screens, a photograph you could use computer processors to send that to a laser. The lasers beam would be incredibly, highly focused. And he realized that if he could use a laser beam to the jargon is to paint the image onto the Xerox drum. Then so that it electrically charged the Xerox drum, right then particles would stick to the Xerox, strung the charge places, and the rest would be zero graphy, like a copier machine. He was working in Xerox park. [00:44:00] This was not a huge leap of the imagination, but there were two men's sub-problems in as well. We want to mention, if you look at it there's an enormous two huge problems if you wanted. So you were trying to get these black dots to write on a zero extremity to paint them on a zero Ekstrom. I hope this is an obscure. No, this is great. And I'll, I'll, I'll include some like pictures and this is great. All right. So you suppose I'm writing or painting a photograph from the computer through a processor, send to a laser. The laser has to be able to switch on and off fast. If it's going to write this on a Xerox Trump, and if you work out commercially how fast it would have to operate. Starkweather came to the conclusion. He'd have to be able to switch his [00:45:00] Lezzer on and off black or white 50 million times a second. Okay. So 50 megahertz, but nobody had thought of modulating or doing that sort of switching at that speed. So he had to solve that. That's a major problem. He solved it by circuitry. He got some sort of pizza electric device that's kind of don't ask, but he got a electronic device that could switch on and off. And then he could send signals to modulator for that to modulator, to switch on and off the laser and make a black or white as needed. And so that was number one. Now that kind of, that in your terms acquired an invention, he had to think of a new principle to solve that problem. So how do you, how do you write images on a computer? Sorry, on [00:46:00] how do you write it? How do you write computer images? Print that onto paper. That's required a new principal switching on a laser and. 50 million times the second required a new principal or acquire a new principal. So those are two inventions. There's a third one and another sub problem. The device, by the way, he got to do this was as big as one of these rooms in 1972. If I have my if I have the numbers, right a decent laser would cost you about $50,000 and you could have bought a house for that in 1978 here. And it would be the size, not of a house, but of a pretty big lab, but not something inside a tiny machine, but an enormous apparatus. And so how do you take [00:47:00] a laser on the end of some huge apparatus that you're switching on and off the 15 million times a second and scan it back and forth. And because there's huge inertia, it's an enormous thing. And believe it or not, he, he solved that. Not with smoke, but with mirrors. So he actually, instead of moving the laser beam, He arranged for a series of mirrors under evolving a piece of apparatus, like actuate the mirrors. Yeah. All he had to do was 0.1 beam at the mirror, switch it on and off very quickly for the image. And then the mirror would direct it kind of like a lighthouse beam right across the page. And then the next [00:48:00] face of the mirror exactly little mirror would come along and do the next line. So how do you do that? Well, that was easier. But then he discovered that the different facets on this mirror you'd have to, they'd have to line up to some extraordinarily high precision that you could not manufacture them to. So that's another sub problem. So to solve that he used ope optics if there was so here's one facet of mirror here is the beam. So directs the beam right across the page, switching it off and on as need be. Then the next facet of the mirror comes round switches. The same beam that you want to line up extraordinary. Precisely. Couldn't do it manufactured. [00:49:00] In manufacturing technology. But you could do it with optics. It just said, okay, if there's a slight discrepancy, we will correct that. He did agree and optics. He really knew what he was doing with optics in the lab. So using different lenses, different condensing lenses, whatever lenses do he solved that problem. So it's took two or three years, and it's interesting to look at the lab notebooks that he made. But for me let me see if I can summarize this. There is no such thing as Gary Starkweather scratching his head saying, wouldn't it be lovely to wouldn't it be lovely to be able to print images off the computer and not have to use a big typewriter. And and so he sits in his attic, a star of some self for three months comes up with the solution, not at all. What he did was he envisaged a [00:50:00] different principle. We're writing the image, using a highly focused laser beam onto the Xerox drum. The rest then is just using a copier machine fair. But to do that, you have to switch on and off the laser beam problem. So that's at a lower level to invent a wedge to that. And he also had to invent a principle for scanning this beam across the Xerox strung, maybe whatever it would be 50 times a second, or maybe a hundred times the second without moving the entire apparatus. And the principally came up for that was mirrors. Yeah. And so, and then I could go down to another level, you have to align your mirrors. And so, so what I discovered and see if I can put this in a nutshell [00:51:00] invention, isn't a sort of doing something supremely creative in your mind. It finishes up that way. It might be very creative, but all inventions are basically as problem-solving. Yeah. So to do something more mundane imagine I live here in Palo Alto let's say I work in the financial district in San Francisco and let's say my car's in the shop getting repaired. How am I going to get to work? And or how am I going to get my work done tomorrow? I have no car. The level of principle is to say, okay, I can see an overall concept to do it with. So I might say, all right, if I can get to Caltrain, if I can get to the station I'll go in on the train, but hang on. How do I get to the station? So that's a sub problem. [00:52:00] Maybe I can get my daughter or my wife or her husband, whatever it is to, to drive me. Then the other end, I can get an Uber or I could get a a colleague to pick me up, but then I'd have to get up an hour earlier, or maybe I'll just sit at home and work from home, which is more of the solution we would do these days. But how will that work? Because I et cetera. So invention is not much different from that. In fact, that's the heart of invention. If we worked out that problem of getting worked when your car is gone nobody would stand up and say, this was brilliant yet you've gone through exactly the same process as the guy who invented the polymerase chain reaction. Again, I can't recall his name. Getting older. I can't [00:53:00] eat there, but anyway so what's really important in invention. I think this goes to your mission. If I understand it, rightly is the people who have produced inventions are people who are enormously familiar with what I would call functionalities. Yeah. How do you align beams using optical systems? How do you switch on and off lasers fast? And so the people who are fluent at invention are always people who know huge amounts about those functionalities. I'm trained as an electrical engineer. You're, what's it I'm trained as a mechanical engineer robotics. Oh yeah. Brilliant. So what's really important [00:54:00] in engineering, at least what they teach you apart from all that mathematics is to know certain functionalities. So you could use capacitors and inductors to create, and also electronic oscillations or regular waves. You can. Straighten out varying voltage by using induction in the system, you can store energy and use that in capacitors. You, you can actually change a beam using magnets. And so there's hundreds of such things. You can amplify things you can use using feedback as well to stabilize things. So there are many functionalities and learning engineering is a bit like becoming fluent in this set of functionalities, not learning anything that's semi [00:55:00] creative. What might that be? Yes. Paint learning to do plumbing. Yep. Learning to work as a plumber. Good. A true engineer. So it is a matter of becoming fluent. You want to connect pipes and plumbing. You want to loosen pipes. You want to unclog things you want to reduce. The piping systems or pumping system, you want to add a pump you want, so there's many different things you you're dealing with. Flows of liquids, usually and piping systems and pumping systems and filtration systems. So after maybe three to four years or whatever, it would be a for rail apprentice ship in this, not only can you do it, but you can do it unthinkingly, you know, the exact gauges, you know, the pieces, you know, the parts, you know where to get the parts, you know how to set them up and you look at [00:56:00] some problem and say, oh, okay. The real problem here is that whatever, the piping diameter here is wrong, I'm going to replace it with something a bit larger. So Lincoln's whatever. And here's how I do that. So, you know, being good at invention is not different people. Like Starkweather, Starkweather new, I think is still alive. Knows all about mirrors, but optical systems above all, he knew an awful lot about lasers. He knew a lot about electronics. He was fluent in all those. So if we don't, if we're not fluent ourselves, we stand back and say, wow, how did he do that? But it's a bit like saying, you know, you write a poem and French, let's say I don't speak French. French and support them and it worked, how did he [00:57:00] do that? But if I spoke French, I might, so, okay. Yeah, but I can see, so this actually touches on sort of like an extension of your framework that I wanted to actually run by you, which is what I would describe what you were just describing as talking about almost like the, the affordances and constraints of different pieces of technology and people who invent things being just very like intimately familiar with the, the affordances and constraints of different technologies, different systems. And so the, the question I have that I think is like an open question is whether there is a way of sort of describing or encoding these affordances and constraints [00:58:00] in a way that makes creating these inventions easier. So like in the sense that very often what you see is like someone who knows a lot about. One like the, the affordances in one area, right. When discipline and they sort of like come over to some other discipline and they're like, wait a minute, like, there's this analogy here. And and so they're like, oh, you have this, this constraint over here. Like, there's, there's like a sub problem. Right. And it's like, I know from the, the affordances of the things that I'm, I'm really familiar with, how to actually solve the sub problem. And so like, through that framework, like this framework of like modularity and constraints and affordances, like, is it possible to actually make the process easier or like less serendipitous? Yeah. In, in a couple of ways. One is that I [00:59:00] think quite often you see a pattern where some principle is borrowed from a neighboring discipline. So Henry you were saying that Henry Ford took the idea of a conveyor belt from the meat industry. Right. And and by analogy use the same principle with manufacturing cars. But to get that to work in the car industry, the limitations are different cars are a lot heavier, so you could have a whole side of beef and it's probably 300 pounds or whatever. It would be for a side of beef, but for the car, it could be at 10 and a half. So you have to think of different ways. Yeah. And in the meat industry to do conveyor belts, there's two different ways. You can have a belt standard, rubber thing or whatever it would be just moving along at a certain speed, or you [01:00:00] can have the carcass suspended from an over hanging belts working with a chain system and the carcass is cut in half or whatever and suspended. And you could be working on it pretty much vertically above you both. It was that second system that tended to get used cars as, so things don't translate principles translate from one area to another, and that's a very important mechanism. And so if you wanted to enhance innovation I think the thing would be to set up some institution or some way of looking at things, whereas. They're well-known principles for doing this in area in industry X, how would I do something equivalent in a different industry? So for [01:01:00] example blockchain is basically let's say it's a way of validating transactions that are made privately between two parties without using an intermediary, like a bank. And you could say, well, here's how this works with a Bitcoin trading or something. And somebody could come along and say, well, okay, I want to validate art sales using maybe some similar principle. And I don't want to have to go to some central authority and record there. So maybe I can use blockchain to do fine art sales, in fact, that's happening. So basically you see an enormous amount of analogous principle transfer of principles from [01:02:00] one field to another. And it's we tend to talk about inventions being adopted. At least we do an economic. So you could say the, the arts trading system adopts block chain, but it's not quite that it's something more subtle. You can get a new principal or new, fairly general technology comes out, say like blockchain and then different different industries or different sets of activities in conjure that they don't adopt it then countries. Oh, blockchain. Okay. No, I'm saying the medical insurance business let's say so I can record transactions this way and I don't have to involve a room or, and I particular, I don't have to go through banking systems and I can do it this way and then [01:03:00] inform insurance companies. And so they're encountering and wondering how they can use this new principle, but when they do, they're not just taking it off the shelf. Yeah. They're actually incorporating that into what they do. So here's an example. A GPS comes along quite a while ago. I'm sure. 1970s in principle using atomic clocks. Satellites or whatever. Basically it's a way of recording exactly time and using multiple satellites to know exactly where they are at the same time and allowing for tiny effects of even relativity. You figure out you can triangulate and figure out where something is precisely. Yeah, no, that just exists. But by the [01:04:00] time, so different industries say like Oceanwide Frazier shipping and you conjure it exists. Okay. And by the time they encounter it, they're not just saying I'm going to have a little GPS system in front of, in the Bennett code it's actually built in. And it becomes part of a whole navigational system. Yeah. So what happens in things like that is that some invention or some new possibility becomes a component in what's already done just as in banking around the 1970s, being able to. Process customer names, client names, and monetary months you could process that fast with electronic computers and there most days they were [01:05:00] called and data processing units that we don't think of it that way now, but you could process that. And then that changed the banking industry significantly. So by 1973, there was a, the market and futures in Chicago where you were dealing with say pork belly futures and things like that because computation coming home. Interesting. So the pattern there's always an industry exists using conventional ideas, a new set of technologies becomes available. But the industry doesn't quite adopted it, encounters it and combines it with many of its own operations. So banking has been recording people in ledgers and with machinery, it has been facilitating transactions, [01:06:00] maybe on paper unconscious computation. Now can do that. Yeah. Automatically using computation. So some hybrid thing is born out of banking and computation that goes into the Lego set and actually sort of related to that, something I was wondering is, do you think of social technology as technology, do you think that follows the same patterns? What do you mean social technology? I, I think like a very obvious one would be like for example, like mortgages, right? Like mortgages are like mortgages had to be invented. And they allow people to do things that they couldn't do before. But it's not technology in the sense of, of built. Yeah, exactly. It's not like, there's no, like you can create a mortgage with like you and me and a piece of [01:07:00] paper. Right. But it's, it's something that exists between us or like democracy. Right. And so, so I feel like there's, there's like one end, like, like sort of like things like new legal structures or new financial instruments that feel very much like technology and on the other end, there's like. Great. Just like new, like sort of like vague, like new social norms and like, yeah. Great question. And it's something I did have to think about. So things like labor unions nation states nature. Yes, exactly. These thing democracy itself, and in fact, communism, all kinds of things get created. Don't look like technologies. They don't have they don't have the same feel as physical technologies. They're not humming away in some room or other. They're not under the hood of your [01:08:00] car. And things like insurance for widows and pension systems. There's many of those social technologies even things like Facebook platforms for exchanging information. Sometimes very occasionally things like that are created by people sitting down scratching heads. That must have happened to some degree in the 1930s when Roosevelt said there should be a social security system. But that wasn't invented from scratch either. So what tends to come about in this case, just to get at the nitty gritty here, what tends to happen is that some arrangement happens. Somebody maybe could have been a feudal Lord says, okay, you're my trusted gamekeeper. You can have a [01:09:00] rather nice a single house on my estate. You haven't got the money to purchase and build it. I will lend you the money and you can repay me as time goes by. And in fact, the idea that so many of those things have French names, more, more cash. You know, it's actually, I think the act of something dying as far as my, my school friends would go, I don't know. But a lot of those things came about in the middle ages. There are other things like What happens when somebody dies the yeah. Probate again, these are all things that would go back for centuries and centuries. I believe the way they come about is not by deliberate invention. They come about by it being natural in [01:10:00] to something. And then that natural thing is used again. And again, it gets a name and then somebody comes along and says, let's institutionalize this. So I remember reading somewhere about the middle ages. They it was some Guild of some traders and they didn't feel they were being treated fairly. I think this was in London. And so they decided to withhold their services. I don't know what they're supplying. It could have been, you know, courage, transport, and along the streets or something. And some of these people were called violets. We were, would not be valet again, very French, but so they withheld their services. Now that wouldn't be the first time. [01:11:00] It goes back to Egypt and engineered people withholding their services, but that becomes, gets into circulation as a meme or as some repeated thing. Yeah. And then somebody says, okay, we're going to form an organization. And our Gilda's going to take this on board as being a usable strategy and we'll even give it a name that came to be called going on, strike or striking. And so social invention kind of should take place just by it being the sensible thing to do. The grand Lord allows you. It gives you the money to build your own house. And then you compare that person back over many years [01:12:00] and and put that, put that loan to to its death and mortgage it. So the I think in this case, what happens in these social inventions is that sensible things to do gets a name, gets instituted, and then something's built around it. Well, one could also say that many inventions are also the sensible thing to do where like it's someone realizes like, oh, I can like use this material instead of that material. Or like some small tweak that then enables like a new set of capabilities. Well, I'm not, yeah. In that case, I wouldn't call it really an invention that the, the vast majority of innovations, like 99 point something, something, something 9% or tweaks and, you know, [01:13:00] w we'll replace this material. Well, why doesn't that count as an invention? If, if, if it's like a material, like it's a different, like, I guess why doesn't that also count as, as a new principal, it's like bringing a new principal to the thing. The word to find a principal is it's the principles, the idea of using some phenomenon. And so you could say there's a sliding scale if you insist. Up until about 1926 or 1930 aircraft were made of wooden lengths covered with canvas dope. The dope, giving you waterproofing and so on. And and then the different way of doing that came along when they discovered that with better engines, you could have heavier aircraft, so you could make the skeleton out of [01:14:00] metal, right? And then the cladding might be metal as well. And so you had modern metallic aircraft. There's no new principal there, but there is a new material and you could argue, well, the new materials, different principle, then you're just talking about linguistics. So, so, so you would not consider the, like the transition from cloth aircraft to metal aircraft to be an invention. No. Huh? Not got another, I mean, sure might be a big deal, but I don't see it as a major invention going from air piston Angeles to jet engines. That's a different principle entirely. And I, so I, I've a fairly high bar for different principles. But you're not using a different phenomenon. That's my that's, that's my criteria. And if you have a very primitive clock [01:15:00] in this 16, 20 or 16, Forties that uses a string and a bulb on the end of the string. And then you replace the string where the wire or piece of metal rigid. You're not really using a new phenomenon, but you are using different materials and much of the story of technology isn't inventions, it's these small, but very telling improvements and material. In fact jet engines, weren't very useful until you got combustion systems where you were putting in aircraft fuel. Yeah. Atomizing that and setting the whole thing and fire the early systems down. When you could better material, you could make it work. So there's a difference between a primitive technology and [01:16:00] then one that's built out of better components. So I would say something like this, the if you take what the car looks like in 1919 0 5, is it a very, is it a different thing than using horses? Yeah, because it's auto motive. There is an engine. It's built in. So it's from my money. It's using a different principle. What have you changed? What if you like took the horse and you put it inside the carriage? Like what have you built the carriage around the horse? Would that be an automotive? Well then like, like what if I had a horse on a treadmill and that treadmill was driving the wheels of the vehicle with the horse on it, then I think it would be it would be less of an invention. I don't know. I mean, you're basically say I find it very useful to say that if [01:17:00] that radar uses a different principle from people listening, you could say, well, I mean, people listening are listening for vibrations. So is radar, you know, but just at a electro magnetic vibrations, what's different for my money. It's not so much around the word principle. All technologies are built around phenomena that they're harvesting or harnessing to make use of. And if you use a different set of phenomena, In a different way, I would call it an invention. So if you go from a water wheel, which is using water and gravity to turn something, and you say I'm using the steam engine, I would regard that as you're still, you [01:18:00] could argue, well, aren't you use a phenomenon phenomenon of the first thing you're using the weight of water and gravity, and the fact that you can turn something. And then the second thing you are using the different principle of heating something and having it expand. And so I don't see, I would say those are different principles. And if you're saying, well, there's a different principle, I'd go back to, well, what phenomena are you using? So, yeah, I mean, if you wanted to be part of a philosophy department, you could probably question every damned thing because yeah. I'm actually not trying to, to challenge it from a semantic standpoint. I think it's just actually from like really understanding, like what's going on. I think there's actually like a, sort of a debate of like, whether [01:19:00] it's. Like, whether it's like a fractal thing or whether there are like, like multiple different processes going on as well. Maybe I'm just too simple, but let's start to look at invention. The state of the art was pathetic. It wasn't very good because all papers, well, all the versions of invention, I was reading, all of us had a step, then something massively creative happens and that wasn't very satisfactory. And then there was another set of ideas that were Darwinian. If you have something new, like the railway locomotive that must have come out of variations somehow happening spontaneously, and might've been sufficiently different to qualify as radically new inventions. It doesn't do it for me either because you know, 1930 you could have varied [01:20:00] radio circuits until you're blue in the face. You'd never get radar. Yeah. So what the technology is fundamentally is the use of some set of phenomena to carry out some purpose. The, there are multiple phenomena. So but I would say in this maybe slightly too loose speaking, that's the principal phenomenon you're using or the, the key phenomenon constitutes the concept or principle behind that technology. So if you have a sailing ship, you could argue, well, you know, it, displaces water it's built to be not have water intake. It's got a cargo space, but actually for sailing ships, the key principle is to use the motive, power of wind in clever ways to be able to propel a [01:21:00] ship. If you're using steam and take the sails down you're using, in my opinion, a different principle, a different phenomenon. You're not using the mode of power of wind. You're actually using the energy that's in the, some coal fuel or oil and clever ways and to move the ship. So I would see those as two different principles you could say, well, we also changed whatever the staring system or as does that make it an invention. It makes maybe that part of it, an invention, but overall The story I'm giving is that inventions come along when you see a different principle or a set of phenomena that you want to use for some given purpose and you managed to solve the problems to put that into reality. Yeah. I completely agree [01:22:00] with that. I think the, the thing that I'm interested in is like like to, to use is the fact that sort of, again, we go back to like that modular view then, you're you sort of have like many layers down you, the, the like tinkering or, or the, the innovations are so based on changing the phenomena that are being harnessed, but like much, like much farther down the hierarchy of, of the modularity. Like, like in, in S like sailing ships you like introduce like Latin sales, right? Like, and it's like, you change the, into, like, you've invented a new sale system. You haven't invented a new kind of ship. Right. So you've changed the phenomenon, but yeah, I think the distinction you're making is totally on target. When you introduced Latina sales, you have invented a new. Cell system. Right. [01:23:00] But you haven't invented a new principle of a sailing ship. It's still a sailing ship. So I think you're getting into details that are worth getting into at the time I'm writing this. I I was trying to distinguish, I'm not trying to be defensive here. I hope, but I was just, I'm not trying to be offensive in any way. Wait for me to, I haven't thought about this for 10 years or more the I think what was important in yeah, let's just in case this whole thing that said innovation happens. Nobody's quite sure what innovation is. But we have a vague idea. It's new stuff that works better. Yes. In the book I wrote I make a distinction between radically new ways to do something. So it's radically new to propel the ship by a [01:24:00] steam engine. Even if you're using paddles versus by wind flow. Okay. However, not everything's right. Radically new. And if you look at any technology, be it computers or cars the insides, the actual car Bratcher system in the 1960s would have been like a perfume spray or a spraying gasoline and atomizing it, and then setting that in light. Now we might have as some sort of turbo injections system, that's, that's working, maybe not with a very different principle, but working much more efficiently. So you might have an invention or a technology that the insights are changing enormously. But the, the, I, the overall idea of that [01:25:00] technology hasn't changed much. So the radar would be perfect examples. So be the computer, the computers kept changing its inner circuitry, the materials it's using, and those inner circuits have gotten an awful lot faster. And so on. Now that you could take a circuit out and you could say, well, sometime around 1960, the circuit cease to be. Certainly it seems to be trialed, vacuum tubes and became transistors monitored on boards. But then sometime in that deck, could it became integrated circuits, was the integrated circuit and invention yeah. At the circuit level, at the computer level better component. Yeah. So hope that, that absolutely has I guess as, as actually a sort of a closing question is there, is there like work that you [01:26:00] hope people will sort of like do, based on what you've written like, is, is there, is there sort of like a line of work that you want people to be, to be doing, to like take the sort of the framework that you've laid out and run with it? Cause I, I, I guess I feel like there's like, there's so much more to do. Yeah. And so it's like, do you have a, do you have a sense of like what that program would look like? Like what questions, what questions are still unanswered in your mind? I think are really interesting. I think that's a wonderful question off the red cord. I'm really glad you're here because. It's it's like visiting where you grew up. I am. I'm the ghost of, of books. Oh, I don't know. I mean, it's funny. I was injured. This is just, yeah. I was interviewed a month or two ago on [01:27:00] this subject. I can send you a link if you want, please. Yeah. I listened to tons of podcasts, so, yeah. Anyway, but I went back and read the book. You're like, wow, I'm really smart. Well, it had that effect. And then I thought, well, God, you know, it could have been a lot better written. It had all sorts of different things. And, and the year this was produced and free press and New York actually Simon Schuster, they put it up for a Pulitzer prize. That really surprised me because I didn't set out to write something. Well-written I just thought of keep clarifying the thing. And it went to come back to your question. Yeah. My reflection is this the book I wrote the purpose of my book was to actually look inside technologies. So [01:28:00] when you open them up, meaning have you look at the inside components, how those work and how ultimately the parts of a technology are always using some, none, you know, we can ignite gasoline and a, in a cylinder, in a car, and that will expand rapidly and produce force. So there's all kinds of phenomena. These were things I wanted to stay at. And yeah, the book there's that book has had a funny effect. It has a very large number of followers, meaning people have read that and I think of a field for technology and they're grateful that somebody came along and gave them a way to look at technology. Yeah. But having, let me just say it carefully that I've done other things in research [01:29:00] that have had far more widespread notice than this. And I think it's something tech the study of technology, as I was saying earlier on is a bit of a backwater in academic studies. Yeah. It's eclipsed. Is that the word dazzled by science it's? So I think that it's very hard to we, if something wonderful happens, we put men on the moon, we put people on the moon. We, we come up with artificial intelligence. Some are vaguely. That's supposed to be done by scientists. It's not, it's done by engineers who are very often highly conversant, both with science and mathematics, but as a matter of prestige, then a [01:30:00] lot of what should have been theories of technologies, where they come from, it's sort of gone into theories of science and I would simply point out no technology, no science when you can't do much science without telescopes crystallography x-rays systems microscopes. So yeah, it's all. Yeah. So you need all of these technologies to give you modern science. Without those instruments, we'd still have technology. We'd still have science, but be at the level of the Greeks, which would
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Brothers Phil & Warren camp out and make s'mores while deep diving into the sports comedy cult classic “The Sandlot.” Topics include: the script's real-life inspirations & the 42-day shoot (2:20), the stars of the picture (12:45), stats & accolades (26:10), best scenes & lines (33:55), Judge Bob's recasting court (51:35), and the film's legacy & lore (1:06:40), plus much more.
Brothers Phil & Warren camp out and make s’mores while deep diving into the sports comedy cult classic “The Sandlot.” Topics include: the script’s real-life inspirations & the 42-day shoot (2:20), the stars of the picture (12:45), stats & accolades (26:10), best scenes & lines (33:55), Judge Bob’s recasting court (51:35), and the film’s legacy & lore (1:06:40), plus much more.
In this episode, Dr. Diego Portela will talk about the epidemiology of the ESP technique in dogs undergoing hemilaminectomy surgery.
Nattie tells Cousin Jane about a childhood toy that she loved.
Today’s Topics:1. Sig P210 – almost ready. Which silencer for this gun? Wait for the Erector 9? Maybe not. (00:10:23)2. Centerfire pistol silencer sound signature; actual use and meeting the need. (00:36:15)3. New Sound Signature Review this week! And a Back Pressure metric update – Revision 2 release. Improving our methodology! (00:46:08)4. Welcome to new PEW Science members and thanks for your support! (01:11:30)
Dr. Rosenblum preempts his upcoming Ultrasound Guided Interventional Pain Course for Emergency Medicine Physicians on February 7, 2021 with a Journal club describing the Erector Spinae Plane Block. Subscribe for US Course Schedule, Calendar & Discounts! * indicates required Email Address * First Name Last Name February 7, 2020 Ultrasound Guided Pain Procedures for Emergency Room Physicians February 28, 2020 Ultrasound Guided Pain Procedures in the Pain Office March 14, 2020 Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia for Anesthesiologists Find out More! Private Session Register on Link (for any day)- Set Day and Time Separately with Dr. Rosenblum Sign Up and Schedule a Private Session 4 Hour CME Webinar Access 2 Hour Hands on (in Person in NY or via Zoom) Tips on Safe Integration into your Practice Billing Register Now! Reference Krishnan S, Cascella M. Erector Spinae Plane Block. [Updated 2020 Jul 4]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545305/ EnesAydinbEmreSengunaAtifBayramogluaHaci AhmetAlicibHigh-thoracic ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block for acute herpes zoster pain management in emergency department. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2019, Pages 375.e1-375.e3ErdalTekinaAliAhiskalioglubMuhammed
Dr. Rosenblum preempts his upcoming Ultrasound Guided Interventional Pain and Regional Anesthesia Course on March 14 with a Journal club describing the Erector Spinae Plane Block. Subscribe for Ultrasound Course Calendar, Discounts and Free Board Review Material * indicates required Email Address * First Name Last Name Upcoming Ultrasound Course Dates for Emergency Medicine Physicians, Anesthesiologists and Pain Physicians Learn Brachial Plexus, Femoral, Sciatic, Saphenous, Genicular, IPACK, TAP, Paravertebral, Inercostal, Sacroiliac, Peripheral nerves, Iliioinguinal, Cluneal nerve blocks and more! February 7, 2020 Ultrasound Guided Pain Procedures for Emergency Room Physicians February 28, 2020 Ultrasound Guided Pain Procedures in the Pain Office March 14, 2020 Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia for Anesthesiologists Find out More! Private Session Register on Link (for any day)- Set Day and Time Separately with Dr. Rosenblum Sign Up and Schedule a Private Session 4 Hour CME Webinar Access 2 Hour Hands on (in Person in NY or via Zoom) Tips on Safe Integration into your Practice Billing Register Now! Reference Krishnan S, Cascella M. Erector Spinae Plane Block. [Updated 2020 Jul 4]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545305/ EnesAydinbEmreSengunaAtifBayramogluaHaci AhmetAlicibHigh-thoracic ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block for acute herpes zoster pain management in emergency department. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2019, Pages 375.e1-375.e3ErdalTekinaAliAhiskalioglubMuhammed
Dr. Rosenblum preempts his upcoming Ultrasound Guided Interventional Pain Course for Physiatry and Pain Physicians on February 28, 2021 with a Journal club describing the Erector Spinae Plane Block. Subscribe for Ultrasound Course Calendar, Discounts & Board Materials * indicates required Email Address * First Name Last Name February 7, 2020 Ultrasound Guided Pain Procedures for Emergency Room Physicians February 28, 2020 Ultrasound Guided Pain Procedures in the Pain Office March 14, 2020 Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia for Anesthesiologists Find out More! Private Session Register on Link (for any day)- Set Day and Time Separately with Dr. Rosenblum Sign Up and Schedule a Private Session 4 Hour CME Webinar Access 2 Hour Hands on (in Person in NY or via Zoom) Tips on Safe Integration into your Practice Billing Register Now! Reference Krishnan S, Cascella M. Erector Spinae Plane Block. [Updated 2020 Jul 4]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545305/ EnesAydinbEmreSengunaAtifBayramogluaHaci AhmetAlicibHigh-thoracic ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block for acute herpes zoster pain management in emergency department. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2019, Pages 375.e1-375.e3ErdalTekinaAliAhiskalioglubMuhammed
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Episode: 1563 Looking back at the impact of toys. Today, we play with toys.
A.C. Gilbert was a practicing magician good enough to astonish Hermann the Great at age 7, a world-record-holding athlete at age 17, and a born salesman — in the best “win-win” sense of the word. (Salem, Marion County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1703d.ac-gilbert-growing-up-in-salem-436.html)
Check us out on Instragram @SuburbanHuntersMA. Check out our blog at SuburbanHunters.Wordpress.com. Brad, Matt and Tony discuss: * Splitting your pins. * Slapping drop-away rests. * Getting charged by a spike horn. * Is baiting legal in New York? * Brad’s First Lite base layer. * Brad’s ScentLok Reign jacket. * Super subcompact bow made from an Erector set. * Fiddle factor free climbing sticks. * Eating squirrel.
Chris Cash and Roy Scott talk about Evapo-Rust projects, Roy's vacation, assembling a "pre-fab" building, and getting back into buying tools
In the military Forward Surgical Teams (FSTs) are deployed into challenging environments to deliver "damage control surgery". They help people who have been injured, relieve the pain, stop the bleeding, 'patch the holes' and move them to a safer environment. It's from this background that our two contributors come, learn how they have been forced to innovate and what insights they can give to practitioners working in more familliar and well resourced contexts. Hear how a 25 year-old male presented with penetrating chest trauma and an Erector Spinae Block was utilized in an incredibly dramatic context. This inteview works well in tandem with this link to the paper discussed in the piece: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31247096 This piece was part of our coverage of The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) 2019 Annual Congress in Chicago, Illinois. Check out the AANA here: https://www.aana.com/ Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guests Robert Fabich, Doctor of Nursing Practice, CRNA, Veteran and Sharrod R. Greene, CRNA, Sentara Anesthesiology Specialists.
"How I Do It: Erector Spinae for Rib Fractures: The Penn State Health Experience," by Hillenn Cruz Eng, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Penn State Health, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Ki Jinn Chin, MBBS, MMed, FANZCA, FRCPC, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; and Sanjib Adhikary, MBBS, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Penn State Health, Hershey, Pennsylvania. From ASRA News, May 2020, pp. 49-53. See original article at www.asra.com/asra-news for figures and references. This material is copyrighted.
Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, yet there he was tinkering with an Erector set during his lunch hour so that he could be a better father for his children. Today, many guys are wanting to emerge from this season as good men, as change agents for their families and society. [...] The post Swiss Army Knife Manhood appeared first on GreatMan.
Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, yet there he was tinkering with an Erector set during his lunch hour so that he could be a better father for his children. Today, many guys are wanting to emerge from this season as good men, as change agents for their families and society. [...] The post Swiss Army Knife Manhood appeared first on GreatMan.
This week's featured artist is Justin Maturo of Erector Brewing. We came to connect with Justin years ago as part of the great #CTBeer Beer Share crew. He and his brother are avid beer fans and collectors who have been great resources to me personally for years. From this shared cellar diving friendship I came to learn of his story and launching of his own brewery, Erector Brewing. And prior to that he started his own print shop, Lefthand Print Shop. We used this episode to connect on his new adventure which has him splitting time between CT and Vermont while he works with Snow Republic Brewery. Justin shares his story and passion for art, creating clothes and his current love of patterns in his designs. Episodes like this are great and also tough because they are natural discussion that would have definitely happened in person, but I am glad that it has allowed us to pause and take things into perspective like family and friendship. We dedicate this episode to those who we have lost and have impacted our lives infinitely and specifically to his late father. This idea of those who we have loved and been in our lives impact who we are as people is the theme for the collaboration beer we want to do together ‘Souls of the Trees'. I can't wait to work together and bring it to life. Enjoy each day and use this time to look at the positives in life and that includes all of you, all of us. Be safe.
Wherein: Adrienne and Steve compose a mash note to their beloved Cincinnati indie band The Erector Set Scroll Down to play Podcast Inside Out at Discogs Imitation Of Life EP at Discogs Cincinnati Observer Article from 1986 about The Erector Set We Were Living In Cincinnati Compilation at Discogs Trouser Press America Underground Compilation Cassette Cincinnati Union Station Museum Website Union Terminal Facebook Page White Castle in Cincinnati
In the military Forward Surgical Teams (FSTs) are deployed into challenging environments to deliver "damage control surgery". They help people who have been injured, relieve the pain, stop the bleeding, 'patch the holes' and move them to a safer environment. It's from this background that our two contributors come, learn how they have been forced to innovate and what insights they can give to practitioners working in more familliar and well resourced contexts. Hear how a 25 year-old male presented with penetrating chest trauma and an Erector Spinae Block was utilized in an incredibly dramatic context. This inteview works well in tandem with this link to the paper discussed in the piece: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31247096 This piece was part of our coverage of The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) 2019 Annual Congress in Chicago, Illinois. Check out the AANA here: https://www.aana.com/ Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guests Robert Fabich, Doctor of Nursing Practice, CRNA, Veteran and Sharrod R. Greene, CRNA, Sentara Anesthesiology Specialists.
In this week's episode of the Spine & Nerve podcast, Dr. Nicolas Karvelas and Dr. Brian Joves discuss the erector spinae plane block. This is a science heavy chat about a procedure that first made its way into the chronic pain literature in 2016, which is brand new by medical standards! Listen in as the docs give an introduction to this cutting edge procedure and tag about ways that it may be used in clinical practice. In this discussion, the following papers are discussed: 1. Kot P, Rodriguez P, Granell M, et al. The erector spinae plane block: a narrative review. Korean J Anesthesiol. 2019;72(3):209–220. 2. Forero M, Adhikary SD, Lopez H, Tsui C, Chin KJ. The erector spinae plane block: a novel analgesic technique in thoracic neuropathic pain. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2016;41:621–7. Follow our practice on Facebook at Spine & Nerve Diagnostic Center. Please leave us a comment or review- these help us to improve and provide value to more people. This podcast is for information and educational purposes only, it is not meant to be medical advice. If anything discussed may pertain to you, please seek council with your healthcare provider. The views expressed are those of the individuals expressing them, they may not represent the views of Spine & Nerve.
It’s not about resolutions. It’s about mindsets.
"Curb Your Enthusiasm: Erector Spinae Plane Block—‘Because It Is Easy' Is Not a Good Reason to Do It!" by Vishal Uppal, MBBS, FRCA, EDRA, Assistant Professor and Director of Regional Anesthesia Fellowship Program, Department of Anesthesia Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and Vivian Ip, MBChB, MRCP, FRCA, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. From ASRA News, November 2019, pp. 8-12. See original article at www.asra.com/asra-news for figures and references. This material is copyrighted.
WPKN programmed a live broadcast from New Haven’s Erector Square on Saturday, October 19, during Artspace’s 2019 City-Wide Open Studios. Over one hundred artists exhibited during the weekend, which was part of a month-long festival of the visual arts taking place at locations throughout New Haven. On-air Hosts included Martha Willette Lewis (who also played a large behind-the-scenes role in organizing the WPKN broadcast), Valerie Richardson, and Rod Richardson. Mark Mushin provided on-site tech support and lots of heavy equipment lifting, and Del managed the controls back in Bridgeport. Thanks also to Deb Guhl who gave up her third-Saturday 1 to 4 p.m. show so that this event could take place. The following guests were interviewed, and you can see their work (or find out more about their projects) at the websites provided. 0:00 Elinor Slomba, Executive Producer of City-Wide Open Studios (Martha) www.cwos.org 18:15 Esteban Ramon Perez (Valerie) www.instagram.com/estebanramonperez/?hl=en 35:00 Collective Consciousness Theater (Valerie) Jenny Nelson, Director and Associate Artistic Director, and the actors Tenisi Davis, Stephen King, and Griffin Kulp. Their next production is "Pass Over," www.collectiveconsciousnesstheatre.org 47:35 Ebony B (Valerie) www.ebonybphotography.com 54:45 Lilly Zuckerman (Valerie) www.lillyzuckerman.com 1:05 Leila Daw (Martha) www.leiladaw.com 1:16 Janine Brown (Valerie) www.janinebrownstudio.com 1:30 Jeff Mueller, Dexterity Press (Rod) www.dexterityletterpress.com 1:38 MWL with Margot Nimirowski (Martha) www.margotnimiroski.com 1:45 Will K. Wilkins, Executive Director of Real Art Ways (Valerie) www.realartways.org
On this weeks episode we discuss the stories below. If you have any stories that you would like to share, or any feedback that you would like to give, please let us know.The Shire of Montana Strange Substance Found on the Moon Ancient Ruins Older Than The Pyramids Discovered In Canada Goldfish Swallowing Man Really Has To Poop 1950's Science KitFacebook / Email / twitterFind out more at https://outlandish-outcasts.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-284d07 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Outlandish Outcasts.
Today in the studio, we welcome Carl Schattke, who works for a leading electric vehicle manufacturer. Carl has almost forty years of experience in PCB Design and will teach us about the things he thinks about when designing very complex boards. He’ll discuss what he’s going to cover as a keynote at AltiumLive in Frankfurt, October 21st through 23rd, and he’ll tell us more about a talk he’s co-presenting with Max Seeley from 3M, in which they’ll discuss going from schematic to PCB layout and passing that baton like a champ. Sign up for AltiumLive now—space is limited! Trade In Your Outdated PCB Design Tool & Unlock 45% OFF Altium Designer today! Watch the video, click here. Show Highlights: Carl’s earliest memory of an engineering project and the first indication of his future career was at age three when he built a helicopter out of an Erector toy set. His father was a mechanical/electrical engineer, and at 8 years of age, he would help with point to point continuity checks. Seeing so many designs helped him develop his own style, good symmetry, and spacing. The advantage of having manual experience early on over someone jumping in with electronic tools is the appreciation for using the space that’s available, but today’s boards are so complicated that without that early exposure, Carl feels he would be hard-pressed to do what he does today. Carl will bring artwork he did to San Diego so that young designers can get a glimpse of history. Carl’s keynote at AltiumLive in Frankfurt will be ‘Making and Breaking the Rules’, where he’ll discuss design rules; where we’ve come from, where we are right now and where we’re going, illustrating what’s important and what we can disregard or change. Do we change the rules? In what ways do design rules help or hinder today’s designers? They’re a tremendous help—the clearance rule and the Altium Designer® shadow feature is quite awesome—but in order to remain profitable, we need to understand the gaps in our rules. One of the most important ‘tools’ designers have is the ability to communicate with their manufacturer and engineers; asking the right questions to avoid disconnects. Getting the opportunity to connect and reflect and learn, is invaluable. Carl will also be doing a two-hour breakout session with Max Seeley from 3M, both in Frankfurt and San Diego; ‘Schematic to PCB Design: Passing the Baton Like a Champion’. This will be very valuable for the audience because they will talk about aspects that we don’t see in videos or read about much. The talk will also be beneficial to the EEs laying out their own boards because several circuits will be discussed and they still have to consider all the aspects of their process. What is the difference between the thinking process of pure electrical engineers, vs PCB layout pros? Depending on experience, the problems are going to be the same, it all boils down to transition line theory, resistance-capacitance, inductance, and how those things work together on a circuit board. Where is the baton mostly dropped? Placement expectations, simple things like what side of the board is which, non-optimal layout, leaving off the timing requirements, leaving differential pairs unlabelled. Many little details can have a huge impact. These talks will be very practical in terms of authentic design review—things that are not generally dropped on a schematic and much more. Sign up now, space is limited! Links and Resources: AltiumLive October, San DiegoAltiumLive, October, FrankfurtPicture of Rick Hartley on a light table Carl and Julie’s talk at AltiumLive 2018 Trade In Your Outdated PCB Design Tool & Unlock 45% OFF Altium Designer today!
This piece is part of our coverage of The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) 2019 Annual Congress in Chicago, Illinois. Check out the AANA here: https://www.aana.com/ This link leads you to the paper in question: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31247096 Presented by Desiree Chappell and Monty Mythen with their guests Robert Fabich, Doctor of Nursing Practice, CRNA, Veteran and Sharrod R. Greene, CRNA, Sentara Anesthesiology Specialists.
This week BlUnk drops in to share his unique path through Japan. Currently a tobi, he has an interesting outlook on things and walks us through his career and adventures, which include accomplishing his goal of meeting Beat Takeshi (and talking to him for over an hour). Sit back and enjoy. Right-Click to Download the Mp3 Check out BlkUnk's Stuff -> He requested I don't link it... so go find it yourself [Follow the Show: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube] [Find a Job: JobsinJapan.com] [Discuss the show: Discord] [Support: Patreon] [Leave a Review (You Rock): iTunes] Every episode of the podcast is available on iTunes, Android, and Stitcher. Make sure to subscribe to the show so that you don't miss out on any new episodes as they're released. All ratings and reviews are also greatly appreciated. Thanks for listening! Discuss this episode with like minded people on the ALTInsider discord:
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 185, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Thyst’s Raid Guide!” This week Thyst shares the definitive guide* to the latest World of Warcraft raid in “colorful language.” Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 https://soundcloud.com/laggingballs LaggingBalls.com Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! https://Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg LB News LB T&A Applications Open! Apply here: http://bit.ly/2YwNXfH Thyst on Convert to Raid #358 – http://bit.ly/2YweNVo Congrats BlizzCon Ticket Giveaway Winners Michele & Tracy! Thanks again to Krushinator for donating the giveaway tickets! Warcraft News Thyst’s Raid Guide: Eternal Palace World First Race Recap Overwatch News Ligma…Smegma…Sigma! 2-2-2 Role Lock Impressions Current Question of the Week: What is the best thing about Battle for Azeroth in your opinion? New Question of the Week: What would you like to hear more of on LB? What would you like to hear less of? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Krushinator, The Insane! Chris B, The Insane! Arsinic, The Insane! Cowboygamer96, The Exalted! Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: The Definition of Trust: http://bit.ly/2YqiMD3 Listen to this: Lil Dicky Freestyle http://bit.ly/2YrhEyN Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com *Note: by “definitive guide,” we mean don’t you dare try to actually follow this advice or you’ll likely be kicked from your raid. Just sayin’.
Erector Spinae Plane Block A novel inter-fascial plane block first described in 2016. This technique has been used for analgesia for the following procedures: - Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) - Pulmonary lobectomy - Thoracic rib and sternal fractures - Mastectomy - Axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy - Abdominal surgery - Hip surgery - Thoracic neuropathic pain relief Unique Contraindications: - Localized active infectious process at injection site - Extensive tissue depth between skin and transverse process limiting visualization of transverse process Unique Complications: - Pneumothorax - Lower extremity motor weakness if performed at lower thoracic level Technique: - Transverse probe at midline of the spine and identify spinous process, lamina, transverse process and rib - Slide probe laterally and center view over transverse process - Rotate probe 90 degrees to parasagittal view of transverse process - Insert needle from cranial to caudal direction and contact transverse process - Inject local anesthetic aiming for pooling above transverse process and lifting of erector spinae muscle. For this video, 30 ml of Ropivacaine 0.5% was used. Tips: - Other postural positions (i.e. prone or lateral) may facilitate placement - Although the T5 transverse process had been the traditional plane of insertion, the block can be performed at any level - Rostral spread 2-3 levels and approximately 5 levels caudally - Ultrasound identification/differentiation of the target transverse process and its transition to its adjacent rib can ensure injection at the correct site - Transverse process appears as blunt and flat while the rib is seen as round on ultrasound with pleura clearly seen in close proximity - Constant visualization of the needle along its entire length until its contact to the transverse process may decrease the likelihood of a pneumothorax - Consider use of weight-appropriate dose of local anesthetic to decrease the likelihood of LAST Block Anesthesiologist: Gloria Shih Cheng, M.D. Synopsis: Jose Enrique Lagueras Garcia, M.D. Production: Sandy Thammasithiboon, M.D. / ST Film References: Altiparmak B, et al. 2019. Comparison of the effects of modified pectoral nerve block and erector spinae plane block on postoperative opioid consumption and pain scores of patients after radical mastectomy surgery: a prospective, randomized, control trial. J Clin Anesth. 54:61-65. Altinpulluk EY, et al. 2019. Bilateral postoperative ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block in open abdominal hysterectomy: a case series and cadaveric investigation. Rom J Anaesth Intensive Care. 26(1): 83-88. Ahiskalioglu, et al. 2018. Erector spinae plane block for bilateral lumbar transverse process fracture in emergency department: a new indication. Am J Emerg Med. 36(10)1927. Ciftci B, et al. 2019. Ultrasound-guided single shot preemptive erector spinae plane block for postoperative pain management.J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 33(4): 1175-1176. Elkoundi A, et al. 2019. Erector spinae plane block for pediatric hip surgery-a case report. Korean J Anesthesiol. 72(1):68-71. Ince I, et al. 2018. Erector spinae plane block catheter insertion under ultrasound guidance for thoracic surgery: case series of three patients. Eurasian J Med. 50(3)204-205. Jadon A, et al. 2018. Flouroscopic-guided erector spinae plane block: a feasible option. Indian J Anaesth. 62(10):806-808. Jones MR, et al. 2019. Confirmation of erector spinae plane block analgesia for 3 distinct scenarios: a case report. A A Pract. 12(5): 141-144. Luis-Navarro JC, et al. 2018. Erector spinae plane block in abdominal surgery: case series. Indian J Anaesth. 62(7): 549-554. Kumar, A, et al. 2018. The use of liposomal bupivacaine in erector spinae plane block to minimize opioid consumption for breast surgery: a case report. A A Pract. 10(9)239-241. Nath S, et al. 2018. USG-guided continuous erector spinae block as a primary mode of perioperative analgesia in open posterolateral thoracotomy: a report of two cases. Saudi J Anaesth. 12(3): 471-474. Petsas D, et al. 2018. Erector spinae plane block for postoperative analgesia in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. J Pain Res. 11: 1983-1990. Tulgar S, et al. 2019. Ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block: indications, complications, and effects on acute and chronic pain based on a single-center experience. Cureu 11(1): e3815.
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 184, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Sandbar!” This week we take a sandbar…Sidebar…SANDWICH. Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg LB News Thyst on Convert to Raid #356 – http://bit.ly/2XVUqRp Thyst, Cell, and Alex on Convert to Raid #357 – http://bit.ly/2XTUPDP BlizzCon Ticket Giveaway Winners Warcraft News Thyst’s Eternal Palace Raid Overview Race to World First Drama with Method & Red Bull Overwatch News Developer Update July 2019 – http://bit.ly/2XZz5qh Overwatch League News Shanghai Dragons Win Stage 3 Playoffs! Current Question of the Week: What zone or instance would you like to see become significant to the story again, and what would you like to have happen there? New Question of the Week: What is the best thing about Battle for Azeroth in your opinion? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Krushinator, The Insane! Chris B, The Insane! Arsinic, The Insane! Cowboygamer96, The Exalted! Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: Finally The Rock Has Come BACK – http://bit.ly/2YbliAT Listen to this: Wait A Minute by Willow – http://bit.ly/2Y9cb3v Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 183, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Pocket Healers!” This week we we’ll do whatever you want, master. Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 https://soundcloud.com/laggingballs LaggingBalls.com Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg LB News The Return of Convert to Raid! Thyst on CtR #355 – http://bit.ly/2Xw4IqZ BlizzCon Ticket Giveaway is Over! The Search for a New LB T&A! FNwTT #74: Revenge of the Fifth – http://bit.ly/2XCMWCl Warcraft News Gearing Up for Raid Wintergrasp Revisited 8.2 Impressions Warcraft Movie Auction – http://bit.ly/2XCMJz3 Content Release Timing MDI Summer Season: Team Applications Open Overwatch News “Healslut” Culture Article on TheDailyDot – http://bit.ly/2XvyAUw Article on Kotaku – http://bit.ly/2XBUxBo Overwatch League News Atlanta Rein Homestand Weekend Torbjorn Hammers-Only 1v1 with Dafran & Mangachu Hearthstone News Saviors of Uldum Cinematic Trailer – http://bit.ly/2XADxeK Current Question of the Week: What do you think/hope Mike Morhaime is doing now that he’s retired? New Question of the Week: What zone or instance would you like to see become significant to the story again, and what would you like to have happen there? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Krushinator, The Insane! Chris B, The Insane! Arsinic, The Insane! Cowboygamer96, The Exalted! Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: Irresistible Face – http://bit.ly/2XBPBME Listen to this: Venice Beach by Sunglasses Kid – http://bit.ly/2XxvHCr Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 182, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Good Morning Kyle!” This week we share excitement, reminiscence, and beverages. Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 https://soundcloud.com/laggingballs LaggingBalls.com Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg LB News BlizzCon Ticket Giveaway!! Ends July 8th: http://bit.ly/2IGqOTo We’re Searching for a New Tech & Assistant! Details Coming Soon™ Thyst on Convert to Raid #128 – http://bit.ly/2XgmluF “Sex Game” Idea on FNwTT #73 – http://bit.ly/2J1DiWa Blizzard News Mike Morhaime at Gamelab in Barcelona – http://bit.ly/2Xgg6Hk Warcraft News First Impressions of Patch 8.2 Sylverian Dreamer Mount (and drama) Azshara Cinematic Impression: Rise of Azshara – http://bit.ly/2XatxJ3 Unlocking Flying – http://bit.ly/2IYtgF2 New Raid: Azshara’s Eternal Palace Overwatch News “New skins are like DLC for Overwatch porn makers” – http://bit.ly/2XcyS2y Junkrat/Roadhog and hamster LEGO – http://bit.ly/2IZjTVw Most Popular Overwatch Workshop Modes – http://bit.ly/2XekKWe Overwatch League News Fissure Retires from Seoul Dynasty Rumor Mill: 2-2-2 Role Lock Decided, Coming – http://bit.ly/2IYsfNk Jonak’s New Skin – http://bit.ly/2J1mTkp Hearthstone News New Expansion Teaser – http://bit.ly/2IYRxe4 Current Question of the Week: What are you hoping to see most at this year’s BlizzCon? New Question of the Week: What do you think/hope Mike Morhaime is doing now that he’s retired? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Krushinator, The Insane! Chris B, The Insane! Arsinic, The Insane! Cowboygamer96, The Exalted! Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: Flipper, Bro – http://bit.ly/2Xgiyh0 Listen to this: Juice, by Lizzo – http://bit.ly/2UUfGdk Azeroth Public Radio: http://www.azerothpublicradio.com @APRshow on Twitter Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 181, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Welcome Back Thyst & Giveaways!” This week we welcome our very own Thyst back from world travels, new clubs, premiere viewings, and life in The Upside Down(unda). Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg LB News Thyst on Frazlcast #112 – http://bit.ly/2IGpIXM Thyst on Convert to Raid #127 – http://bit.ly/2IIDHN6 Thyst Interview Sideline Reporting on the MDI Spring Finals in Sydney, Australia Viewing the Level Up premiere at E3 in Los Angeles New Question of the Week: What are you hoping to see most at this year’s BlizzCon? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Krushinator, The Insane! Chris B, The Insane! Arsinic, The Insane! Cowboygamer96, The Exalted! Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: http://bit.ly/2IGqOTo (enter here!) Listen to this: ❤ Special Thanks to our LB T&A, TechieTaco! Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 180, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Mario Coins & Pachimaris!!” This week we sail away to the place where people are nice and nothing bad ever happens. Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg LB News 4 Year Show Anniversary 24-Hour Stream on 5/25 Thyst on Azeroth Round Table, Episode 320 – http://bit.ly/30s9IQ5 Thyst on the Mind of a Geek Podcast – http://bit.ly/30u8cNr Blizzard News Missed BlizzCon Tickets? Use the Official Exchange – http://bit.ly/2ViNb4x Blizzard President Forbes Interview – http://bit.ly/2VxwbYw Blizzard & Nintendo – http://bit.ly/2VA6Ixi Blizzard & Upper Deck – http://bit.ly/2VBRuYX WoW Classic Tops Twitch – http://bit.ly/2VB4AFA World of Warcraft WoW Classic Launch Date: Aug 27th – http://bit.ly/2VA38Dm Platinum WoW YouTube, Classic WoW – http://bit.ly/30uhIQy Recruit a Friend going on hiatus – http://bit.ly/2VeapIZ Safe Haven Cinematic – http://bit.ly/2Vwkbq8 AWC Spring Final Results: Congrats Cloud9! Overwatch Havana Map is Live – http://bit.ly/30fX072 Overwatch Anniversary Event – http://bit.ly/30ESRd1 Overwatch League OWL Season 2 Grand Finals to be held in Philadelphia – http://bit.ly/30fJSPa OWL All Stars Overview – http://bit.ly/2VxvbUg Hearthstone Chapters I & II of The Dalaran Heist – http://bit.ly/2VvKtsw Diablo III Season 17: The Season of Nightmares Begins – http://bit.ly/2VCZk4q Question of the Week: What’s the craziest thing you’d do for $1 million in-game gold? New Question of the Week: What are you hoping to see most at this year’s BlizzCon? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Chris B, The Insane! Arsinic, The Insane! Cowboygamer96, The Exalted! Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: Theory: Ash’s Dad – http://bit.ly/30B92rZ Listen to this: The Oaf by Big Wreck – http://bit.ly/30BbYV8 ❤ Special Thanks to our LB T&A, TechieTaco! Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 179, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Hearthbone!” This week we are overly excited…again! Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg Blizzard News BlizzCon 2019 Tickets – http://bit.ly/304HdIj Drama Over AXS Mobile App Requirement – http://bit.ly/2ZZwmz7 World of Warcraft Children’s Week – http://bit.ly/2UZH9FO Overwatch Bud Light, the Official Beer of Overwatch – https://cnb.cx/301QNeX Overwatch World Cup 2019 – http://bit.ly/2UZLwAF Overwatch League OWL All-Star Rosters Announced – http://bit.ly/2ZZHdsT Hearthstone Congratulations to “Hunterace,” the new HCT 2019 World Champion! New in Fireside Gatherings 2019 – http://bit.ly/30a1E6C Question of the Week: What kind of Mount Equipment would you want for your favorite mount? New Question of the Week: What’s the craziest thing you’d do for $1 million in-game gold? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Chris B, The Insane! Teddy, The Insane! Arsinic, The Insane! Cowboygamer96, The Exalted! Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: Roo – http://bit.ly/302S45c Listen to this: Kielbasa – http://bit.ly/306R3ci ❤ Special Thanks to our LB T&A, TechieTaco! Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 178, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “20-ish Questions!” This week we give you the inside track. The real deal. The hot dish. Wait, no. That’s a Minnesota thing. Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Chris B, The Insane! Teddy, The Insane! Arsinic, The Insane! Cowboygamer96, The Exalted! Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: http://bit.ly/2URjKLJ Listen to this: Juice – Lizzo http://bit.ly/2UUfGdk ❤ Special Thanks to our LB T&A, TechieTaco! Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 177, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Inconvenient Fair Foods!” This week we wring out the content rags. Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg World of Warcraft Rise of Azshara Live Stream Overview Full Rise of Azshara Blog: http://bit.ly/2Uz2vyt Overwatch Storm Rising April 16th – May 6th – http://bit.ly/2UNah8d Question of the Week: If you could wield a customized weapon in WoW, what would it be? What would it look like? What does it do? New Question of the Week: What kind of Mount Equipment would you want for your favorite mount? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Chris B, The Insane! Teddy, The Insane! Arsinic, The Insane! Cowboygamer96, The Exalted! Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: You Came to the Wrong Forest – http://bit.ly/2UIbwFD Listen to this: “Bustin” – http://bit.ly/2ULRvhd ❤ Special Thanks to our LB T&A, TechieTaco! Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 176, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “40% Less Toxic!” This week Thyst we’re less toxic than normal! By at least 40 percent! Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg Lagging Balls Updates Friday Nights with Thyst & Thorn 68: Wanna Fight About it – http://bit.ly/2Uk1hqF Convert to Raid Episode 116 with Pat Krane, Thyst & Thorn – http://bit.ly/2G2J46S World of Warcraft WoW Character Customization Darkmoon Faire update this week – http://bit.ly/2UlIE5N Warcraft & Warcraft II Now avail on GOG.COM – http://bit.ly/2U7EPRI Viewer’s Guide: Mythic Dungeon International – http://bit.ly/2U8lMGV Asia-Pacific Enters the Arena World Champtionships – http://bit.ly/2U8orjN Overwatch Overwatch Community 40 Percent Less Toxic, Says Blizzard – http://bit.ly/2Uj37Ig Overwatch League OWL Stage 2 Begins! Hearthstone Rise of the Shadows is Coming! http://bit.ly/2UnhEme Question of the Week: If you could be known for your own catchphrase, what would it be and why? New Question of the Week: If you could wield a customized weapon in WoW, what would it be? What would it look like? What does it do? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Chris B, The Insane! Teddy, The Insane! Arsinic, The Insane! Cowboygamer96, The Exalted! Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: http://whothefuckismydndcharacter.com (thanks Scell!) Listen to this: The Legend of Lofi – DJ Cutman http://bit.ly/2FYMub5 ❤ Special Thanks to our LB T&A, TechieTaco! Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
This weeks topics include: Gym Chat, Summit Lighthouse University versus Rock and Roll, Actual Cannibal Jordan Peterson, Talking Gargoyle at the Denver Airport, and more! Could I put any less effort into this description? Doubtful.
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 175, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Thyst’s Guide to PvP!” This week Thyst takes you to school and gives you a free business idea. Cheek to cheek. Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 https://soundcloud.com/laggingballs Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg Lagging Balls Updates Friday Nights with Thyst & Thorn 67: Tacos – http://bit.ly/2Fvk8WJ World of Warcraft How to PvP by Thyst Welcome Back / Free Weekend Sale: WoW & Game Services Through 3/31- http://bit.ly/2FvZfL2 Weekly Bonus Event: Battlegrounds – http://bit.ly/2Fw90sL New PvP Brawl: Comp Stomp – http://bit.ly/2FuRncG Support WoW Esports With Your Toy Purchase – http://bit.ly/2FvaSlA Trial of Style Has Begun – http://bit.ly/2HPWOV7 Overwatch Baptiste now live – http://bit.ly/2FxRswj Overwatch League OWL Standings 2019 Stage 1 – http://bit.ly/2TfAZo6 Congratulations to the Vancouver Titans on winning the Stage 1 Finals! Heroes of the Storm Hero Role Expansion – http://bit.ly/2HNRXnv Hearthstone Rise of Shadows Pre-Release Looms Over Dalaran – http://bit.ly/2HPWW73 Question of the Week: If you were a Loa, you would be the Loa of ____? New Question of the Week: If you could be known for your own catchphrase, what would it be and why? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Teddy, The Insane Arsinic, The Insane Cowboygamer96, The Exalted Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: http://bit.ly/2FsknR6 Listen to this: Ruby Falls – Guster http://bit.ly/2FntSBa ❤ Special Thanks to our LB T&A, TechieTaco! Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 174, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Choose Your Own Adventure!” This week we take a journey that we’re making up as we go along…and you’re along for the ride! Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 https://soundcloud.com/laggingballs Soundcloud (for streaming online): Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg Lagging Balls Updates Friday Nights with Thyst & Thorn 66: Daylight Savings – http://bit.ly/2TTvRX4 New Question of the Week (again, for next week): If you were a Loa, you would be the Loa of ____? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Teddy, The Insane Arsinic, The Insane Cowboygamer96, The Exalted Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: I’m Shi-thead – http://bit.ly/2TR1vEK (Thank you Platinum Monkey!) Listen to this: OGRE – The Bench – http://bit.ly/2TWKyZx ❤ Special Thanks to our LB T&A, TechieTaco! Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
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Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 173, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “ROWG!” This week we invite you to come alooooong and ride on a fantastic voyage. Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 https://soundcloud.com/laggingballs www.laggingballs.com Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg Lagging Balls Updates Thyst on CtR Battlenet News Ep 113 with Pat & Gizmo – http://bit.ly/2J3pFHM Thorn’s Solo Friday Overwatch Stream – http://bit.ly/2J4HyGm World of Warcraft New Allied Races and More Arrive March 12 – http://bit.ly/2J2KvHs Overwatch League OWL Standings 2019 Stage 1 – http://bit.ly/2TfAZo6 Women of OWL Tribute – http://bit.ly/2JdoJAC Diablo Diablo Now Available on GOG.COM – http://bit.ly/2J3t4Gz Question of the Week: Blizzard releases a Mario Kart-style racing game featuring all Blizz franchises. What kind of items can we use in the race? New Question of the Week: If you were a Loa, you would be the Loa of ____? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Teddy, The Insane Arsinic, The Insane Cowboygamer96, The Exalted Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: Dunkey, on Tetris – http://bit.ly/2J5r6pr Listen to this: Night Tempo – Shortcake – http://bit.ly/2J3kRT2 ❤ Special Thanks to our LB T&A, TechieTaco! Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
Lagging Balls: A World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch & Other Blizzard Games Podcast
Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 172, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “Clean Episode #2!” This week, we’re clean…again. And we don’t love it, honestly. There’s something kind of…off about it, y’know? Like wearing someone else’s shoes. Feedback, comments, submissions & business inquiries: laggingballs@gmail.com Find us on: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CiF0PH iTunes (for iPhone): http://apple.co/1HIw3fK Stitcher (for Android, Microsoft): http://bit.ly/1Lmppgo YouTube: http://bit.ly/2cMpTQ2 https://soundcloud.com/laggingballs LaggingBalls.com Join Us in Discord! http://bit.ly/LBdiscord Join Us in WoW! https://goo.gl/f1XYnS Join Us on Twitch! Twitch.tv/laggingballs Join Us for Friday Streams on Twitch, 10 pm EST! https://goo.gl/GZnws8 Thyst’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thyst03 Thorn’s Twitch: Twitch.tv/thornbrow LB WoW Community Link: https://bit.ly/2uTbMSg Lagging Balls Updates CtR Battlenet News Ep 112 with Pat, Thyst, Thorn “A Beefy Patch” – http://bit.ly/2ILGJBV Fri Nights with Thyst & Thorn, Episode 65: CHILLIN http://bit.ly/2IO6ba8 World of Warcraft Mythic Dungeon International PROVING GROUNDS Feb 26-Mar 12 Two Sides to Every Tale Rewards in Patch 8.1.5 – http://bit.ly/2IOkBXC Update 8.1.5 PTR Build 29558 – http://bit.ly/2IZ5oD8 New Allied Races Ahead! Kul Tiran Humans and Zandalari Trolls – http://bit.ly/2IOxXTV New Allied Race Video Overview – http://bit.ly/2ILGw1B Overwatch PTR Changes Aimed at changing GOATS meta – http://bit.ly/2IS98GG New Hero on PTR: Baptiste – http://bit.ly/2IPkfjM Overwatch League Dragons win!! First two wins for Shanghai ❤ ❤ Hearthstone Hearthside Chat: Welcome to the Year of the Dragon – http://bit.ly/2IN1UDO Blizzard Removes Two of Hearthstone’s Most OP Cards from Standard Play – http://bit.ly/2IPoBaC Diablo DiabloFans Website Says Farewell – http://bit.ly/2J32H3R Question of the Week: If you had your own personal guild IRL, what would it be called and what would be your logo and why? New Question of the Week: Blizzard releases a Mario Kart-style racing game featuring all Blizz franchises. What kind of items can we use in the race? Jazz’s Question of the Week: If Blizzard began selling merchandise that you can only buy if you’ve completed certain feats across any of their games, what would you want to be able to purchase and how would you go about unlocking it? Thank you Patrons!! And special thanks to our Top Level patrons: Mykelvan, Erector of Epic Monuments, Tamer of Libidos, Slayer of Dat Ass, Breaker of Wills, and Badass M.C.! Teddy, The Insane Arsinic, The Insane Cowboygamer96, The Exalted Become a Patron of Lagging Balls! http://www.patreon.com/laggingballs Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons: You frickin’ fricks! http://bit.ly/2Trt0Ev Listen to this: TWRP No Pants Dance (live) http://bit.ly/2TnjsdS ❤ Special Thanks to our LB T&A, TechieTaco! Music for this episode from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk http://www.bensound.com
If you missed last week's message, Birth of Beloved, you may want to listen to that one first. The messages coincide to give the heartbeat and direction that Beloved Church is aiming for.
If you missed last week's message, Birth of Beloved, you may want to listen to that one first. The messages coincide to give the heartbeat and direction that Beloved Church is aiming for.
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On this episode of Galaxy Moonbeam Night Site, we remember Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys, and Erector Sets. These simple toys were lots of fun and taught kids how to build and create all sorts of different things. The cognizant skills that were developed by these toys was valuable, all from a simpler time with no batteries, or electronics such as are found today. We also look back at the 40th anniversary of the 1973 baseball season. A season played in the midst of Watergate, Vietnam, and other events that were a sign of the times. It was also the end of an era as Willy Mays played his last season with the Mets. We look back at the pop culture of that era as well as the sport of baseball and what it meant to the nation. Our Retro-Commercial is for Pillsbury Space Food Sticks from 1969. Let's play ball before summer ends, here on Galaxy Moonbeam Night Site!
Adjust the seat setting so that, when sitting in an upright posture, your feet are flat against the foot plate and knees are slightly bent. Adjust the movement bar so that the pad lies across the shoulder blades and the body is leaning forward. Engage abdominals and pull navel in to stabilize the core. Maintain a neutral (flat to normal) spine. Exhale and contract the low back muscles, pushing back against the movement bar until the upper body is almost in a straight line with the lower body. Pause then slowly lean forward to raise the upper body back up to the starting position. Repeat.
Once again it's time for a new episode of Seibertron.com's "Twincast/Podcast". Your favorite podcast crew is back! This episode is hosted by the notorious double spy Counterpunch with editing by the talented Jon3.0. Episode #17 is titled "Hall of Fame Getting Bigger". The Twincast/Podcast crew discuss the following topics this episode: General Podcast and Seibertron.com discussion, Hall of Fame 2011 nominees sent from fansites to Hasbro, e-Hobby exclusive United Autobot and Decepticon sets, BotCon Primus package sells out in 6 days, IDW Transformers #81, and our recent Transformer acquisitions. Check it out here!
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