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The Bergsberg boat: the Infant, Male, Pollock, Francis.

2017/11/04

     “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” -Epicurus, 33 A.D.

Here’s the recording* of last night’s (2017-11-03) KNYO (and, three hours in, also KMEC) Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show ready to download and enjoy.

Or, thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost, you can get it this other way, which you might like better because it offers an instant-play option and isn’t surrounded by confusing flashing ads.

Furthermore, here are links to a few not necessarily radio-useful but otherwise worthwhile items that I set aside for you while putting the show together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right:

“A generative adversarial network combines two neural networks engaged in a zero-sum competition. The result is a form of unsupervised machine learning that can produce imaginary celebrities like the ones shown in this one-hour video.” (This is what I read you the long tech article about.)
https://boingboing.net/2017/10/31/hypnotic-video-of-imaginary-ce.html

Nature red in tooth and fin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zOarcL1BSc

That’s a flat ceiling, there. (Click on image to enlarge. And again.)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_ignazio_ceiling.jpg

The fabulous Filter Queen “massage” vibrator (vacuum cleaner hose attachment).
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/filter_queen_vibrator

The Forte Handbell Quartet.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-forte-handbell-quartet.html

The silence of Dr. Phil.
https://boingboing.net/2017/10/30/dr-phil-with-all-the-talking.html

In space no one can hear you scream.
http://extrafabulouscomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SPAAAAACE-e1509550088826.png

Beautiful radio dials of old.
http://www.johngrimwade.com/blog/2017/05/25/radio-displays/

Behold the Peter Frampton of 1958.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHlmsMhcdrM

Those are high-voltage neon discharge display tubes from old Russian nuclear power plant controls. I declare this the coolest wristwatch ever, even though you have to take it off and charge it up every seven minutes of actual use.
https://theawesomer.com/nixie-horizonte-watch/451965/

The latest People Are Awesome compilation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKBbT1ciGR4

God of lies. (This covers eight pages. Look for the next-page button.)
http://oglaf.com/godoflies/1/

A new kind of waterslide. What could possibly go wrong?
https://theawesomer.com/slidewheel-water-slide/452065/

A new kind of bullfighting.
http://bitsandpieces.us/2017/11/bull-flighter/

It’s like a dream. This is real.
https://theawesomer.com/1945-dashcam-footage/452447/

It’s like a nightmare. This too is real.
http://www.truth-out.org/art/item/42466-everything-is-terrible

Video games are different from the way they started out with Pong and like that.
https://theawesomer.com/detroit-become-human-trailer/452294/

Here’s the guy in 1909. I saw him last week in Cloverdale; he has a pushwagon and a lop-eared dog with a bandanna for a collar. It’s the same guy, though. Think of the things he must have seen in his long life, in this world and the spirit world.
https://imgur.com/Wb1ofm5

The 1939 RCA TRK-9 is my favorite. Or the 1948 Crosley Spectator. Or the 1949 Sonora “The Sphinx” with magnifier. Or the 1953 Zenith G2355. I’ll stop now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY

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