Soft Canyon – “For You”
Broken Spirit, I Will Mend Your Wings
The last song on this album, as I noted in my original review, nearly knocked me out of my chair. Unfortunately, since that time, the band has broken up, leaving Broken Spirit as their sole album.
Luckily it’s a great album. Sounds like it just came out of a time capsule. The first track is a great example of this. There’s really nothing that places this album past 1975.
Circular polarization is something I’ve always wondered about but never knew was real. If electromagnetic waves have amplitude in one direction, why not two? or three? After all, there are compression waves, too.
So I would think, some nights when I couldn’t sleep: if a wave moving along the axis Z had a wavelength W along the perpendicularY axis, and a similar wavelength along the doubly perpendicular X axis, wouldn’t it propagate in a helical fashion? And if you change the phase, won’t it change the handedness of the helix? As it turns out, yes it does. I only just found out it’s an established phenomenon (as I might have guessed) while researching stereoscopic methods for a post.
Of course, it doesn’t have to be circular. The more general form is elliptical polarization, but that doesn’t look as cool.
These time-lapse ship videos entrance me every time. Here’s another glacier by the same guy. Probably best to go to YouTube and watch in HD.
…Like as the ink-fish, they say, eludeth his pursuers…
Mr. Titmouse did, to a great degree, bedizen his back – at the expense of his belly; whereas, the Corinthian exquisite, too often taking advantage of station and influence, recklessly both pampers his luxurious appetite within, and decorates his person without, at the expense of innumerable heart-aching creditors. I do not mean, however, to claim any real merit for Mr. Titmouse on this score, because I am not sure how he would act if he were to become possessed of his magnificent rival’s means and opportunities for the perpetration of gentlemanly frauds on a splendid scale. -But we shall perhaps see by and by.
It’s a social disorder, it’s a conversational disorder, the fact that we can’t apply enough pressure to these ideas, that it’s taboo to do so. And there’s the fact that there is a core of truth to religion that we should be interested in. There’s the fact that people do have transformative experiences. If Jesus really was who they said he was, or Buddha likewise, it’s possible perhaps to be the Tiger Woods of compassion.
This is a better, longer version of the robot arms I posted on CrunchGear some time ago. I like the throwing and catching of the cell phone, and the high-speed target acquisition (moving the white ball around). Of course, it means we’re all dead once they deploy these as weapons, but hey.
Content with poverty my soul I arm,
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
