YEAH BOY!!!
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I guess 911 isn’t a joke…
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This is a pretty touching story. Always cool to see today’s technology making something possible that wasn’t available just a decade ago.
Very touching. I’d like to say in the most positive way, “Oh, the humanity!”
this isn’t news. It’s just some asshole, got his rant published somehow. Meanwhile, there’s like, a website full of intelligent people who can type AND think, right here at the OKP, basically untapped.
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I can’t agree with the author whatsoever. His leftist hot girlfriend left him for a rock star I bet. What a moron. I don’t care for Jerry Garcia personally, but it was clear back at #10 that the author is an asstool. And I clicked it hoping to agree … sounded like a great headline.
The absolute worst part is probably him trying to include Santana who is generally one of the nicest guys in music and then just includes a series of career moves as though that somehow makes him a douche. I don’t know if this author even knows what it means.
Seriously, a lot of the comments say the author is trolling folks and the article is so ridiculous (and seemed purposely intent on focusing on huge icons) that it really does feel like a big troll on everyone. I kinda don’t want to comment on it further so as to not fall for it. Seriously, anyone who dislikes ALL of those artists doesn’t like music and makes me wonder how he got a job writing about it.
Yeah man. I probably shouldn’t have given it any attention, but I figured we could all be annoyed at it together.
[size=150]Tree Planted To Honor Beatle Is Killed By Beetles[/size]
by Alan Greenblatt
July 22, 2014 4:43 PM ET
Flowers may grow so incredibly high, as the Beatles once sang, but trees — not so much.
Actually, a pine tree planted in Los Angeles a decade ago to honor former Beatle George Harrison reached a height of 12 feet before succumbing recently.
To an infestation. Of beetles.
“No one I think is in my tree” — a line from the song “Strawberry Fields Forever” — wouldn’t seem to apply.
“Trees in Griffith Park have occasionally been the victims of bark beetles and ladybug beetles, among other tree-unfriendly creatures,” the Los Angeles Times reports.
A plaque at the base of the tree commemorates Harrison not only as a leading musician, but as an artist and avid gardener.
Tom LaBonge, a member of the Los Angeles City Council, said a tree will be replanted in its place, even though Harrison titled his 1970 album All Things Must Pass.
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Sadly amusing is more like it.
^^^^And yeah, I read that article when Kevin first posted it and it got me all fired up but I didn’t know where to begin and didn’t want to waste my time giving the author what he wanted. I will say though, that saying Jerry was a douchebag because you don’t like his music and because he had a devastating drug addiction only turns the douchebag mirror around on yourself.
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This is pretty awesome. This dude lays these thieves out. Footage begins around the thirty-second mark.
^Feel good story.
Alpine Valley for sale
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RIP 
I think we saw this coming with Northerly now. Plus I know the residents of that town hated the foot traffic that it brought. Even though It’s a legendary venue, It had some negatives, such as the crappy lawn, despite a nice view, it was a challenge to get to bathrooms, concessions. Not a lot of hotels around and they nixed the camping for the most part yrs ago. I know people complained about the lot being over policed. IMO unless you were a dumb ass It was not too much different from almost just every other lot scene. I would of liked to see one more run here though. The pavilion seats were money.
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^Is there a large outdoor venue where it ISN’T a pain to get to concessions or bathrooms?
And, yeah, I always meant to make the trip to Alpine (almost in 2008 but I had a bad scalper experience) but never did. Wish I could have checked it out.
^^Good riddance
Haha. But Alpine is special" you have a few porta potty’s in the waaaaaaaay back of the lawn and I believe most/bathrooms concessions are on the far back corner of the venue. A lot of outdoor venues have access on both sides of the venue.
I would think unless something bizarre happens, Phish will do one more Creek/Alpine run.
I agree for the most part, just so many good times and shows it is kind of sad to see… I remember when I first went in "96 it was the first “different” kind of venue that I had been too. So that was cool, but besides it looking pretty, I am the point where most everything else is not great, and I’ve now been to other great/beautiful venues that are better. I would still love for them to skip Northerly one yr and do one more Alpine run.
Yes, 107 million spiders. I may not sleep tonight, or go to Baltimore again.
[size=150]4-Acre Spider Web Engulfs Building[/size]
By Gwen Pearson
How many spiders does it take to creep you out? 10? 100? How many spiders make an “extreme spider situation”?
The Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant put out a call for “extreme spider” help in 2009, when a giant spiderweb covered almost 4 acres of their facility. [size=150]Scientists eventually estimated over 107 million spiders were living in the structure[/size], with densities of 35,176 spiders per m³ in spots.
Greene, A et al. (2010). An Immense Concentration of Orb-Weaving Spiders With Communal Webbing in a Man-Made Structural Habitat (Arachnida: Araneae: Tetragnathidae, Araneidae). American Entomologist, 56 (3), 146-156.
The “immense” in their title doesn’t really begin to cover it. From the paper:
“We were unprepared for the sheer scale of the spider population and the extraordinary masses of both three dimensional and sheet-like webbing that blanketed much of the facility’s cavernous interior. Far greater in magnitude than any previously recorded aggregation of orb-weavers, the visual impact of the spectacle was was nothing less than astonishing.
In places where the plant workers had swept aside the webbing to access equipment, the silk lay piled on the floor in rope-like clumps as thick as a fire hose.”
Remember, that paragraph was written by 5 mid-career professional entomologists and arachnologists. If they were a bit startled by the size of the web….it was a big freakin’ web.
light fixture
Hanging light fixture (2.44 m long) pulled out of place by spider webbing. Entomological Society of America/ Greene et al. 2010
In some areas of the plant over 95% of space was filled with spider web. The webbing was so dense that it pulled 8-foot long fluorescent light fixtures out of place.
The scientists described their estimate of 35,176 spiders/m³ as “markedly conservative” and “representing a minimum volume” of spiders, by the way.
Question: do you measure spiders in Metric ShitTons? Or in Imperial ShitLoads?
Either way, it’s an awful lot of spiders.
Giant multi-species webs actually aren’t that rare. In 2007, a huge communal spiderweb was reported in Texas, and many of the same spider species were found to be the architects. Megawebs in the United States are usually dominated by two spider species, Tetragnatha guatemalensis and Larinioides sclopetarius.
All recorded US megawebs have occurred near water. That makes sense, because spiders have to eat, and midges emerge in huge quantities from water where they breed and live.
So, we really do want these spiders around, even if the concept of them coming together to form a giant webby Spider Voltron is a little creepy.
The alternative is a plague of flies. Happy Halloween.
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/4-acre-spider-web-engulfs-building/
^Wow, that’s badass. Incredible that those tiny spiders can do all that stuff.
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap…
“threatening to kill”
Hasn’t AC/DC been doing that for years?
"and upcoming tour next year.”
Wow, AC/DC is touring? I thought for sure they were done. I’ve never seen them so this may be my last shot.
The one Young brother is in terrible stages of dementia, he is officially retired from the band.