When it was released in 1959, Beh Hur became the second highest grossing film in history (behind Gone With The Wind) - saving MGM from bankruptcy. It won an astonishing 11 Academy Awards, including best musical scoring by composer Miklós Rózsa.
It's good music for Easter. I hope that you (like we) are enjoying it with family.
The Queen Of The World's son is visiting for Easter, along with his best buddy Mario from Basic Training. The weather was perfect, and so we met up with one of his High School buddies who happened to be here:
Man, I love Florida.
Sure, NASA spends taxpayer money like a drunken sailor. Sure, Congress is using this program to throw taxpayer money at favored corporations.
But today, no other country can do what we are doing, just like what Old America did half a century ago. And no other country has a SpaceX waiting in the wings to drop mission cost by a factor of 40.
Considering the epic amount of fraud from California's (and other states) Medicare programs (not to mention Learing Centers), all I can say is that this is waste I can get behind.
The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, the only nuclear powered carrier outside the U.S. Navy, is en route to the Mid-East as part of the French response to recent events in the region. As it is sailing into harm's way, security would understandably be high. The exact location of the ship would be classified.
Strava is a fitness app athletes use to record their activities running or cycling. It's very popular and can be used to allow athletes on training equipment paired with the app to compete with one another or share their individual results with friends or interested fans. Results can be published in near realtime.
The French officer that was getting in a 7 kilometer run on the deck of the ship is was a Strava user. The GPS coordinates of his run pinpointed the location of the flagship in real time. The location was confirmed with publicly available satellite photos.
A French armed forces spokesman said the reported incident did "not comply with the current instructions" and appropriate measures would be taken.
Holy Week calls for the Big Guns of classical music. Hector Berlioz was one of these, and his Messe Solennelle is one of the great works of religious music. Astonishingly, Berlioz was only twenty years old when he wrote this, and then destroyed the music for Messe Solennelle (except for the Resurrexit portion).
A copy of the entire work was discovered in 1991.
Wow. And just plain-jane iOS, too. Out of the box.
As someone who ran across (into?) "Secure Operating Systems" more than once, this is a big deal.
Rest in peach, sir.
The Eyes of the Ranger Are Upon You (Songwriter: Tirk Wilder)
In the Eyes of a Ranger, the unsuspecting Stranger,
had better know the truth of wrong from night
Cause the rule of law and order starts at the Texas border,
with the lone Star of the Ranger shining bright.For the Eyes of a Ranger are upon you;
Any wrong you do, he's gonna see.
When you're in Texas look behind you;
for that's where the Ranger's gonna be.In the Heart of a Ranger he'll never know the danger;
from desperate men with nothing left to lose,
the Ranger keeps on coming; so there ain't no sense in running,
cause he's bound and sure to make you pay your dues.
For the Eyes of a Ranger are upon you;
Any wrong you do, he's gonna see.
When you're in Texas look behind you;
for that's where the Ranger's gonna be.
When a Ranger's on your Trail, he won't know how to fail,
and you can't buy him off at any price;
so if you decide to ramble, and with your life you'd gamble,
know where you are before you roll the dice.For the Eyes of a Ranger are upon you;
Any wrong you do, he's gonna see.
When you're in Texas look behind you; for
that's where the Ranger's gonna be.
If you see him coming' round the outskirts of town,
never take that Ranger for a ride.
For the Eyes of a Ranger are upon you;
Any wrong you do, he's gonna see.
When you're in Texas look behind you; for
that's where the Ranger's gonna be.
Yes, that's sung by Chuck himself.
But this is the song that I associate the most with him. R.I.P.
This is not surprising, but it is pretty interesting, especially the guy in Dubai where Google Maps puts him in the middle of the straight. The discussion about why the Iranians probably have not mined the straight is also pretty interesting.
