cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Looking outside a window of the ruins of Scorpion Gulch, a home in south Phoenix built in the 1930s of local rock. southmountainhistory.blogspot.com/2009/05/scorpion-gulch-… Okay I admit the colors have been super scooched with Vibrancy and Saturation for a false color effect on the Palo Verde tree Words are […]

On a daily basis, life presents me metaphors. cc licensed flickr photo shared by Frosted Peppercorn When I stepped in the shower this morning, I notice a medium sized, non threatening black spider in the bath tub. My first, and normal reaction is to quickly grab a tissue, so I can squash the bugger, toss […]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Supposedly businesses are getting more "green" and focused on not wasting resources. Supposedly. In my postal mail were two examples that say to me, that it is far more "efficient" for them to waste paper, postage, delivery time to send me irrelevant crap. Magazines, in some sense maybe […]

I wish I could remember that light bulb turning on moment when I realized succeeding in the school game had little to do with studying, knowledge, or intelligence– but learning how to score on multiple choice exams. My skills carried me through many standardized tests and college exams where I can really say I got […]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog On a recent flight I got to playing around with the TiltShift iPhone app, a really fun way to do convert normal photos to something that looks like a miniature train set like model by a clever blur that imposes a false depth of field, and yanking up […]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I went to the local Chili Cook Off contest today wearing my Open Education 2009 conference t-shirt with this logo. One local guy dishing out his chili looked at it and asked me, "What language is that written in?" I was stunned a moment, trying to sort out […]

My daily routine is regularly interrupted by half baked ideas for sarcasm I think might be funny, knowing full well the standard deviation for who else might think it is funny is about 0.5 people. Oh well. I had a moment today where I might have ended up creating the laugh roaring graphics from scratch, […]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by antonio.tombolini We just closed one of our NMC Two Minute Surveys– these have been fun to do over the last few months; we set them tightly as 3 questions, all with multiple choice answers done in Google Forms (makes it easy to us the generated chart summaries, though I […]

With all I love about expression in digital media, all of tis forms, I’ve never found the way to formulate what’s bubbled as a thought– that at the root of the best stuff is really, simple good writing, the clever use of words, shades of meaning, etc. Yep, plain old text.

I was reminded of it over the weekend when I had a flashback trip to recasting of my first high school music love- getting turned onto The Who, primarily via The Kids are Alright. I rekindled it by putting the retrospective Amazing Journey DVD on while I took care of some house tasks.

And talking about “Can’t Explain” it was always something about the opening of The Kids are Alright with The Who’s 1967 appearance on US network TV on the Smothers Brothers show, ending their first big US tour. I listened to that opening shtick to “My Generation” so many times it was burned onto my cortex at a level exceeding Monty Python Holy Grail levels.

Sure it was scripted (“yeah, that was bowling”), but there is a moment I think is so subtle (I may be the only person in the universe that thinks this is important) on an interplay between host Tommy Smothers and lead singer Roger Daltrey

Smothers: “Roger from Oz, what’s the next song you’re gonna play?”