wonderful music:

What's mine is mine

You cannot take Carolina from me,
You cannot have Hawaii,
but you can have mother fucking Missouri;

I don't want China, but the Irish is mine
You can take the cake
I'll find more in time

Red mud abounds, the poison Ivy
doesn't seem to bother me
Even so, you cannot have Hawaii

DK

I voted for Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 Democratic Primary. Here he is on the daily show last week... It is nice to see a politician with a good sense of humor about him self. I would definitely vote for him again.

Amazing

...ly dorky of me but, I think this is seriously cool:

A Whimbrel's Epic Migration

Be sure to check out the maps.

Yo La

In February I got to see one of my all time favorite bands play live. It was my first Yo La Tengo show, and it was amazing! I've been a fan since the 1990's and on a few occasions over the years missed their shows in Chapel Hill or D.C. just because of scheduling conflicts. I almost missed this show in Atlanta too. I found out about it via a facebook add two days prior to the show; it was a Friday night show and I had parenting commitments. But Thursday night my plans were switched up and Friday morning I invited a friend to take the two hour drive up I-85 and go to a show for a band she'd never heard of. We bought tickets and left work a few minutes early, just to make sure we'd get there in time with the CST to EST time change.
What a great decision, after all these years Yo La did not let me down...in fact the live show far exceeded my expectation. First of all to my great surprise, Georgia can really slap the skins (and cymbals, etc.). Their fist set was an interesting rendition of "The Sounds of Science" which is the sound track to a documentary film that they usually play live to an airing of the movie. No movie, unfortunately, but the music still demonstrated the band's ability (perhaps unmatched in modern rock) to develop complex soundscapes without being all prog-rocky. The second set was a great collection of tunes spanning their career, highlights for me were "Flying Lesson," "Pass the Hatchet, I think I'm good kind," and "We're an American Band" in the encore. As they announce the title of "American Band" I leaned over to my friend and said "don't worry, they're not about to play Grand Funk Rail Road." yet after they finished their own EPIC song, they launched right into GFRR. AWESOMENESS!

Neato!

Radar ornithology has been around for a couple decades but with more recent improvements in radar technology (what are we up to now, Doppler 7 million or something ?) you can get cooler and more useful information. The premise is that birds, like you and me, are made up mostly of water, and as they most through the sky Doppler radar, which detects water movement in the air, picks up those moving globs of water with feathered membranes. You can use this information to identify key migration habitats and perhaps move toward conserving those sites. This video is pretty cool and shows early evening bird movements from radar imagery.

Yikes

Tornado watches and severe thunder storm warnings all over the place tonight. The wind and lightening were wild! My NOAA weather radio was far more exciting than the NCAA National Championship game.