Month: September 2018

  • Five Points – 44

    Hurricane Flo & Mangkhut Update  – Most importantly, all friends and family affected by the hurricanes Florence and Mangkhut are safe.  No one is seriously hurt.  That is good. Mangkhut did not affected those connected to me all that bad.  Power and communications went down for several hours in most places, but was restored in short order.  […]

  • Five Points – 43

    Life – I recently watched several episodes of Life, narrated by David Attenborough, by the BBC on Netflix.  The cinematography and his narration make for a spell binding experience. https://www.netflix.com/title/70225722 Cabling at Woodstock Festival 1969 –  Sex News – The robot sex trade is about to get hot!  The infamous “Teledildonics Patent” that prevented the development of […]

  • Five Points – 42

    Hurricane Florence – I grew up in Raleigh, NC and my father’s people are from down east, as we say.  More specifically, Burgaw – Pender County.  This little town sits about 30 mins due north from Wrightsville Beach/Wilmington on the North East Cape Fear River.  After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington […]

  • Five Points – 41

    Shepard Tone – Anxious when watching Dunkirk?  You’re not alone and there is a specific reason why – the Shepard Tone. A Shepard Tone creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower.  The tone is a sound that comprises multiple sine waves separated by an […]