Music for Fridays; Massive Attack "Teardrop"

Friday becomes Saturday again..... which works out as today is the first day of spring.... well not quite spring yet as quick research shows it to be 8 pm which is still an hour away as I write this. This week, a celebration of springtime in all it's human glory, in a video by Jordi Pons, set to the song "Teardrop" by Massive Attack.

Spring on your sunglasses from Jordi Pons on Vimeo.

Race Committee in the Rain....Again!

Last October I was Vice Chair for the Lightning Frigid Digit Regatta.... at SSA.... in October. We had an unusually cold weekend, temps just barely climbing into the 40's and constant, constant rain, and solid breeze. Conditions were so bad that a regatta that normally attracts 40+ Lightnings only got 18 to actually show up to the club, and a reduced 11 or 12 making it out to the starting line. It was most miserable for the RC folk. I have a mishmash of old foul weather gear and my selection for that weekend was woefully inadequate. My 30 year old Line 7 vinyl top was not up to the task, eventually transmitting enough moisture by a mystery osmosis to keep everything wet underneath.

I, the cheapskate that I am, did reluctantly open my wallet over the offseason for some new Henri Lloyd foul weather gear. Luckily, it seems, as I volunteered for the US Navy Collegiate Women's Regatta this weekend. Saturday, solid rain in the morning (Annapolis was to end up with 2.3 inches), temps slightly higher in the 50's, solid breeze in the morning giving way to erratic and light winds in the afternoon. Sunday, the rain threatened but never delivered and the breeze remained subdued. The Henri Lloyd worked well.... thank you, thank you! modern waterproof fabric technology. But my hands.... I have an old set of Gill neoprene gloves with leather palms.... wet and stayed wet. I guess I'll have to revert back to those old style rubber gloves that all the sailors in-the-know seem to be using now.

There was a strange meterological phenomenom that I can't recollect seeing. It happened on Saturday afternoon. Wind was predicted from North to North East, typical of a low pressure system off the coast. And that is what we had for most of Saturday until a low cloud bank appeared to the South and pushed it's way North against the prevailing wind. When it pushed through, the wind switched about 150 degrees to the South for about 20 minutes. When the cloud bank ended up north of us, the wind reverted back to the original direction. I need to talk to one of my meterological friends about that micro-weather puzzle?

I did have my small digital camera out with me and, where I felt I could sneak it in, I did some filming. Small digital cameras and their so-so lenses make grey days even greyer... but I'll give you some of the random clips from the Race Committee perspective.

PRO for the regatta was Lieutenant Ben who did an excellent job.

Music for Fridays; Kruder and Dorfmeister; Lamb Trans Fatty Acid

The last snow from Snowmageddon has disappeared from my lawn. I should feature some snow in a music video to memorialize the record snowy February the Mid Atlantic hath endured. I have also been remiss in featuring cute dogs and cats doing cute doggie and cat things; a surefire way to attract the Internet hordes to my blog.

Haha! One video to satisfy both of these requirements;

USPS fail!

Ever wonder why every so often you get a piece of mail that seems to have taken it's good sweet time getting to you and, to boot, is creased and folded every which way.

The video don't lie.........

Why Lasers are so popular.......

Every once in a while I feel like tweaking the Laser class just a bit.

YouTuber "LaserD8" has conjured a short mashup video which makes me smile.

Music for Fridays: OK Go, This Too Shall Pass

I don't think I've featured a band more than once on "Music for Fridays". But I couldn't resist putting the band "OK Go" up a second time for their Rube Goldberg video featuring their song "This Too Shall Pass". Mind boggling the complexity and the amount of man hours that went into creating this.



I first spotted this on Boingboing .

Some Pics from 2010 Classic Moth Midwinters

All pictures taken by Len Parker. As usual, click on picture to get high resolution image.

Post race kibitzing around Jeff Linton's Mousetrap.



Joe Bousquet in 102 Mousetrap.



John Z (the fast one out of Team Annapolis) winning a race. John finished a close 2nd in the regatta.



Mike Parsons, the winner, and Mark Saunders, 3rd place, rounding the weather mark.