I think I've seen parts of it.  Did you know that Kareem abdul-jabbar got the dunk shot banned from college basketball for over 10 years?


I didnt know that! is it allowed now? why was it banned?


It is allowed now. It got banned because he was dominant in his use of it.


Well that seems like an absurd reason, I mean its a move that requires a lot of skill, did you know that basketball was invented at the ymca?


No, I didn't know that!  I had no idea actually!  Do you know why or how it came about?


Im not sure but I know that volleyball was also created there.


I havent given too much thought to that but it seems interesting, kind of the aggressive mode google self driving cars have.


Really?  Well they are kind of similar. I mean both are played on courts.


I guess so.Cars and anything with them are of interest to me.  I like that things are kind of sense making.  For instance a trunk is called a trunk because older cars had wooden trunks on the back.


I guess some names are catchy and stay, its ilegall to warm your car in Ohio.


Is it really?  I wonder what they do then during the winter?  In South Africa it's legal to equip your cars with flame throwers.


It is, if your car gets stolen and the engine is on then the burglar will only face a minor misdemeanor, I guess its about how you warm it up.


That is so odd and it seems a little unfair.  You know, all this was started when Karl Benz invented cars.


Yeah it is odd because sometimes turning the car off will consume more gas and isnt practical, and I didnt know it all started with him.


Yeah, a lot of people think Ford invented the car but it was actually Benz.  He filed a patent in 1886.


I guess people think that because Ford was the first car to be available to the masses.


I wonder which Simpsons episode it is where Bart isn't involved at all.


I like to read too. I wonder how much that woman comprehended of what she'd read.


Or how they actually recorded it. Enders game was a suggested reading for the military


That's kind of subversive reading for the military, considering the theme.


Not at all. I'm not much of a sports person. Do you?


Yes. It's my favorite in the Olympics. A gymnast with a wooden leg won six medals 3 of them gold in a single day


Good God, that's quite an accomplishment.


yes it is and ancient greeks practiced gymnastics in order to practice for war


I remember that the Spartans did calisthenics before battle, and then oiled themselves and combed their hair so they'd look good on the day they died.


I can't remember but I would like to find it. I know there is only one


I think I actually watched when Komaneci was a competitor that year. Nice talking to you!


I stopped watching the show around 2000 I think.


Do you watch pokemon? There are over 750 episodes


I don't have TV. I could stream it online, but somehow it never caught my interest.


That's a lot. I seldom take on a TV series because it's like getting a job. I started watching the early episodes of The Expanse a few weeks back.


I like to read more than watch TV. Did you know in 18th century reading of novels became a moral panic.


I was vaguely aware of it. Some of the novels in that period (like Tom Jones) were pretty racy.


I like to read slow. I read a woman set a record by reading 4,700 words a min


Hi there ! Looking forward to chat with You !


NO WAY lol... some devoted fans in Canada then :)


Maybe they were just curious as to what it was. She is one of the best selling music artists of all time.


I prefer old music... classic rock, jazz, blues... I'm not a fan of those new beats


I liked Taylor swift's music when she first came out. Then she started to get more into pop.


I guess music is evolving along with people's tastes...


It's surprising that September got so much backlash since usually fans love her no matter what. One person tweeted that it ruined his/her Friday.


haha. I mean it's good that fans are being honest with her... maybe that's going to be a lesson for her...


Yes. As you say, people's tastes evolve.


I haven't heard a good new music in a long time... I guess I'm getting old...


I feel the same way. I do respect Taylor Swift though. She has accomplished so much in her young life-she was the youngest person to single handedly write and perform a number one Hot Country Songs chart.


Good for her ! She seems like a hard working artist, I hope she will continue to be successful


I can't wait to see what she comes out with next.


I think she is hot, but I don't really listen to her music... why ?


It seems the cover of September that she did came under some criticism.


She stripped away a lot of the original aspects of the song. It was more countrypolitan, though I am not sure what that means.


hmm interesting... I've heard that Taylor swift removed her music from spotify because music should not be free - is that true ?


That kind of conflicts with the news that her cover of "September" was on Spotify. Perhaps they came to a better deal?


could be... but I bet it didn't bring her more popularity....


She usually doesn't have to do much to impress people. One time she accidentally released 8 seconds of white noise and it went to the top of the Canadian iTunes charts!


That's a lot! Up until 2005, a married couple, for 24 years, scheduled all 2430 major league baseball games played each year


Really! That is a lot, crazy! I didn't know that in Canada kickball is also called soccer-baseball, interesting!


A man found three million dollars worth of 1900s baseball cards in his grandfathers attic- hidden since the 1940s.


Whoa, what a lucky find that was! Did you know the Chicago Cubs were the 1st to win back to back world series....but haven't won since....but I bet you know that!


I did. And they won in 2016 so that/s inaccurate. But it's not your fault... You've been great!


Ohh, haha sorry....So in 1992 world series the US Marine corps color guard carried the Canada flag into the stadium upside down! nuts!


WHAT? That's a lot disrespectful. Crazy...


Right! I don't know if that was a mistake or not....


I hope it was... At least it wasn't on national TV...


I hope not too! Gotta love the world series!


Great chatting with you too! Have a good one!


I do like baseball, but I don't really follow it. How about you?


I love it. Watch a lot of games every year and can't wait until spring training... Babe ruth was caught stealing to end game 7 and lose the 1926 world series with his team down by one run.


Wow, that's awesome! Who is your favorite Baseball team? I like my Az team lol


Chicago Cubs. I'm from Chicago so... Love going to Wrigley!


O wow, that must be fantastic! I also like the Boston Red Sox, did you know the new york times has partial ownership?


I did. Baseball managers wear uniforms because they are technically able to play for their teams if the need arises


Cool and smart! The Red Sox have won 9 world series games!


Hi there! Not sure about you, but I'm a big football fan. The NFL is made up of 32 teams.


Yes, I agree. They NFL even puts chips inside footballs to track velocity, rotation, ball speed, and location.


It really helps you appreciate how elite a level these athletes play at. I can only dream of making some of the throws that they make look routine.


Yes, technology really has changed the way things work. I mean, an Iphone has more computing power than the entire US nuclear ICBM deterrent.


I believe that cell phones also have more power than the computers that got us to the moon.


I think it's a true testament to just how much was accomplished with no computing power.


I agree. It makes it hard to believe that the cables carrying phone and internet data across oceans are only 2.7 inches in diameter and just lay on the ocean floor.


They probably make them that small since there's not a lot of risk of someone getting down there and cutting them!


I would think so. Nice chatting with you today! Goodbye.


Yes I am an NFL fan, who is your favorite team?


I am a Packers fan but I like any game really. Did you know the NFL has no rule against female players as long as they can meet league requirements?


Yes, I would be worried that a female player would be seriously injured because of the sheer size difference between athletes.


I agree. Hard to believe that an average NFL game only has 11 minutes of live gameplay!


They need to fit all those commercial breaks in haha!


That they do! Crazy that the average lifetime salary of an engineer is higher than that of an NFL player.


Unless your a star player, you don't get the big bucks.


Yeah, that's true. Fun to learn that the NFL uses tracking chips embedded in players shoulder pads to record a players every move on the field.


There's so much data that they use to make the game more fun. It's fun to see how far they actually run when you account for running back and forth as well as what speeds they can actually reach/


Yes the guy that became a professional driver by beating 90 000 people on gran turismo


Yeah that is so cool. In South Africa you are allowed yo hook up flame throwers to your car


yes that us to protect them from carjacking


Yes all the time. Do you know why NY area code is 212?


That is because it was easy to dial on a rotary phone


No but I hear if two of them get stuck together, there is no separating them


Yeah. Do you know how much computing power an iPhone has?


Yes more than the us icbm nuclear deterrent


I love cars. DO you know when the drive thru was invented?


Yeah that is a lot, it is a bit scary to think about it


Yes and do you know why they invented it?


Yes because soldiers were not allowed to leave their cars while wearing fatigues


Yeah. Do you know why the trunk of the car is called that?


Yes because old cars used to have wooden trunks


Yeah. Do you know how Cadillac was named?


Yes after the founder of Detroit, de la Mothe Cadillac


Yeah. Do you know who Jonn Mardenborough is?


I just love dogs. did you know they have 12 blood types?


I didn't know that, but I do know they have blood drives so they can get blood to use in hospitals, I wonder if they get treats for donating?


ohhh that would be so sweet. In Istanbul if you donate plastic bottles in a vendine machine it releases water and food for dogs.


that is awesome! it's a good use of stray dogs I think, can you guess what type of animals are the only ones that understand pointing


Dogs and elephants? I wonder if there there are other that we do not know about though.


that's a good point, I know that dolphins are supposed to be smart, I wonder why they can't understand the pointing? or gorillas even


Yeah exactly. Maybe we have not studied them enough. Even Google states that they like dogs better than cats.


well I like google then, and yes I read that info is in their code of conduct, I wouldn't trust them if they were a cat company haha


hahhahah dog are really loyal so yeah you can trust them.


do you know who the top 3 richest us presidents were?


well I do attend them for work sometimes, and yes we call them meetings but I think I'm going to call them summits from now on haha


Was trump one of them? I mean he s really rich.


you would think so right! but no the top three are kennedy, washington, and jefferson apparently


wow, they must have been way more loaded then. Did you ever visit the white house?


I haven't no, but I did hear that the guest house is bigger than teh white house itself!


haha sound so official. did you hear about that incident at the g20 summit because the canadian prime minister and putin?


haha I did, Putin sounds like a seriuos guy, he gave him a warning about getting out of Ukraine, I wonder if Tredeau was scared, I would be


yeah he is a scary man that is true. spain is the only coutnry with a permanent guest in g20 summit. i wonder why they do not go for a membership


right that is weird, ya you have to be careful with Russia, they gave thumb drives that had viruses in it to G20 members


that is crazy. did you hear what the australian satire group chaser did in 2007?


haha I think they impersonated an official Canadian motorcade right? what happened after that?


they got caught when one of them steped out dresses as bin laden.


haha ya that would defniitely stick out, do you like dogs at all? I like them more than cats


How do you like Nickelodeon?  They did get political though but celebrated and honored those participating in the March for Our Lives to address gun control and stop mass shootings.


Did you ever watch "Stranger things?"  Apparently, the actress playing eleven's mother lived her whole life without legs.


oh man, poor thing... I hope her head is in the right place... Yes, I love the show, do You like it ? What do You think about it ?


I have no clue but it is a science fiction-horror web tv series on Netflix


First I thought it's like for kids, but they did such a great job in showing the 80s - the music, clothing, cars and posters... it wakes up the nostalgia in me ;) so I keep watching ;)


Why does the character have a number name eleven?


She was a part of the experiments of mind control and moving to other dimensions to hear what the Russians are plotting about - and all previous "experiment" subjects failed. She is number 11 and is successful ;)


Oh, like R2-D2 maybe robotic?  Who is your favorite actor in the show?  Is it Winona Ryder?


R2D2 was doing telekinesis ? ;) I don't remember that ;) I hate Winona Ryder in that show... kids are acting better than she is. I like the kid that's in Verizon commercials now ;)


Do you like Youtube? You can find almost any information on how to do things or watch things there.  It is the second largest search engine on the net.


I do find Youtube very useful when I need to do something not entirely legal with my PC ;) or free cable ;)


Nickelodeon ? That channel for kids ? I mean we watched it only when my kids were really young... not anymore... who else do You think watches that... ?


Half of the peak internet traffic in North America is made up by Netflix and Youtube!  Nice chatting.


Parents you are appeasing their kids watch it of course!  Millions were watching the 2018 Kids' Choice Awards.


oh crap, I had no idea... well, is channel like that even CAN be political ? I mean, aren't there any regulations to prevent something like that from happening ?


They are private so they can do that I'm sure and they are trying to promote educational purposes it sounds like but it does sound like it could send a biased message to kids.


I don't know about You but to me it sounds like brain washing young minds which don't really know what is going on in the real world...


I guess that is why it is important for parents to talk to their kids and kids to listen to their parents!  Do you watch Spider Man?  The favorite movie actress went to Zendaya aged 21 of Spider-Man Homecoming and The Great Showman


I do watch spider-man - I can't say I liked any of the actors playing Peter Parker... did You like it ? I want to watch the new one - Into the Spider-verse or something like that... I heard it's goo.


I like them.  Zendaya, only 21, told kids to "never let anybody tell you that your age should limit you from actually doing whatever you think you need to do in the world."  Maybe somewhat inspirational, but maybe it will inspire kids to defy authority and elders


I don't know about that... my daughter when she was 13 still wanted to wear her tutu skirt on her birthday... I didn't let her ;(


Hi there! Are you a music fan at all? I am I used to love to get new albums.


I do like some of her stuff. I had no idea she was so young, born on 3-28-86. I thought she was older.


I know her movie "A Star is Born" with Bradley Cooper was a big success.  I did not see it in theaters, living 40 miles away from one.  So, I will have to catch it on Netflix.  But supposedly, it in some ways mimics her life story according to a recent article.


Oh, I was not aware of that. I just can not believe that her favorite band is Iron Maiden.


Yeah.  That band is older than she is!  But her life story is one of persistence until she finally made it in the music industry.  Its amazing how she was able to successfully branch out into acting with "A Star is Born".  Its unusual for a first time actor to have an award nominated film!


I wonder if the story covers the bullying she suffered. I know she was thrown into a garbage can by a group of boys in New York City.


Well the movie underlining theme is a famous troubled man finds an immensely talented woman singer.  That tracks somewhat with being found and signed by Interscope.  I am not much into social media but she has 11.4 million followers.  That's unbelievable.


Wow! That is a whole lot of followers. Very popular. So popular as a person that Elton John chose her as his son's Godmother.


Her sales have been amazing with 27 million albums and 146 million singles as of January 2016 and she is still going strong.  I find it interesting the breadth of her musical styles, including branching out into Electronic Dance Music (EDM).


That really is a lot of sales. Hard to believe she's been very popular since 2008. It does not seem that long.


And, her reach is international with the lead single from the movie "Shallow" topped the charts in seven countries!  I guess I really need to check her out!


I listen to music but its been a long time since I purchased an national / international star album.  Streaming allows you to pick the songs you like without buying the entire album.  A have a few albums from local talent that are not on a streaming service.


I guess I do too! It was nice chatting with you today. Have a good day!


Same to you.  I am going to have to check out her Spotify playlist to see what she is all about!


Yes, I agree, streaming is the thing. Back in the day albums were the way to go! So popular that in 1992 two identical twins from Japan released a rap album when they turned 100! I can't believe they even knew what rap was!


I never really got into rapping.  I understand that Tupac Shakur's rap music is in the Library of Congress because of its cultural significance.  I guess its gritty street lyrics is what makes rap an American music genre first which has spread internationally.


I used to love Tupac. A lot of his music told stories.


A lot of music genres tell stories,  I guess rap is more geared to urban life.  Thinking back about albums, my favorite when in high school was Pink Floyd's "The Wall".  Did you know that another Pink Floyd album, "Dark Side of the Moon" was still a best seller in 2014, more than 40 years later?


Wow! I knew it was a best seller, but not that huge! I am still shocked that Linkin Par's Hybrid Theory is the best selling album of the 21st century.


I am not familiar with Linkin Park's music, so I cannot comment.  What I find interesting is NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" went platinum without major airplay or a tour.  Do you think the movie by the same name had anything to do with it?


I am shocked to hear that, but had no idea about a movie.


What about Lady Gaga.  I know she is big but I really haven't listed to much of her music.  Does she rap?


Do you think gypsies have anything to do with Gypsy Jazz ? I have never heard of any gypsies communities on US soil.


I am not sure, that sounds more like an eastern european type jazz with the musette waltzes, very interesting though.


But I a more interested in "challenging" jazz styles, the less "dance-able" the better it is for me.


Interesting, did you know that Pakistan has a jazz orchestra that is super popular?


Yes, I have heard of it,  if jazz is new to them, they have 100 years of jazz music to play to their audience.


That is true, there also is a women in Harlem who has been hosting free jazz concerts at her apartment every Sunday for 20 years, wonder how her neighbors all feel about it?


Yeah, and it is a weekly think, I tolerate a party once or twice per year, but every week, I would start to complain. And you what do you think about this ?


I think that they all must really like jazz and like her, because 20 years of every sunday is a crazy amount of jazz concerts to hold!


It must be on the lease of the neighbors, "must love jazz". And "not be afraid of people with goatee".


Lol, good call!  Yeah I was very surprised to read that those goatees started as a functional thing, not just looking cool.


Hello there, I sure do, it's such an expressive form of music.  How about you?


I wonder how they found this, was it a guy who had already a goatee and did not complain or a guy that complained a lot and grew a goatee in last resort.


Lol, hey that's like the chicken and the egg thing.  Anyways, it's been fun talking with you, I hope you enjoy the rest of your day!


Do you know where jazz first originated?


I guess the United States, but I don't know where in the US, do you ?


Yeah you are right!  It was way down south in New Orleans!  Back in the late 19th and early 20th c.


Oh so New Orleans music could be considered as Jazz ? It is very upbeat. Do you like that style of music ?


Yeah I would definitely say that it would be jazz!  I really like that style myself, how about you?  Have you ever visited New Orleans?


No never, is it worth it ? It seems that every city has its style of jazz even Kansas City.


That is very true, Kansas city jazz is much more hard-swinging and bluesy, so cool how different regions have different styles.


Telephone is a device which is connect the two persons to conduct a conversation when they are far.


Yes, The US president guest house is larger than the white house.


They used to have the runner up of the election become the vice president


Its very interesting. The role of president is more important in the function head of the government.


they called the first president of Zimbabwe banana


The president is the head of state in most of republics.


Lets talk about shoes next, ballet dancers go through a lot of shoes , sometimes up to 4 in a week


Steve smith leaves his cleats in the field after every game to raise awarness to homeless people without shoes.


you can use dry tea bags to remove odors from shoes and gym bags


The design of shoes has varied from culture to culture.


interesting. Modern shoes perform worse then shoes that are 5000 years old


Lets talk about telephones, the fastest number to dial on a rotary phone is 212


Sandals may consist of only a thin sole and simple strap may be sold at low cost.


There are shoes like steel-soled boots that are worn for safety reasons


Technology make us to communicate easily and covey the message in any part of the world.


yes and the cables that go across the oceans are only 2.7 inches in diameter


Today We are using mobile for multiple purpose but in the olden days used for only speaking. People are in mobile timing was increased and speaking with friends and family is very reduced.


yeah and the entire us nuclear ICBM has less computing power then an iphone


Sure ! The cable carrying phone and internet data, Mostly cable internet is very fast.


UNICEF has a program they run that rewards you not to use your cell phone, they donate clean water in exchange


The president of Indonesia has released 3 pop albums in office.


Yes, lets talk about Presidents next, Washington was one of the wealthiest presidents in history


I've always wondered how fish drink, but ive never taken the time to google it. Saltwater fish drink through their mouths!


Saltwater fish actually do both! They drink through their skin and their mouths.


I wonder which one they prefer...Sea horses are the only fish to have a neck!


That's funny. Did you know there are lizards without limbs, but they are still not technically a snake? What a funny visual.


I wonder what criteria goes in to deciding if something is a snake or a lizard, especially when they don't have any legs!


They still have eyelids and external ears which snakes do not!


Apparently that's not a universal rule though, there are still lizards that look like snakes. And apparently, crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to snakes or lizards!


Sorry about that, accidentally hit send! That's cool, considering they look nothing like birds! I wonder if there are legless lizards in New zealand...


I don't know, chickens and alligators kind of have that same scaly eye. Haha, probably not. Did you know there are snakes with pelvic claws? Weird. Anyway, this has been a good chat.


Sure, I had one growing up! Can you believe snakes surprisingly have more joints then their lizard ancestors?


Interesting! Seems like chickens got the short end of the stick! It was a good chat!


That is very interesting! Apparently there are no snakes in New zealand! I had no idea!


That's so weird. Snakes are so cool! Did you know their organs are one in front of the other? I mean, looking at their bodies that's pretty apparent!


Yeah, they have to be pretty creative to squeeze everything in there! Monkeys are also afraid of snakes, like some humans!


I wonder if it began when one of them saw a flying snake! That's enough to hardwire fear.


Yeah, I definitely prefer snakes on the ground! Speaking of creepy animals, the blackwater fish can eat prey twice it's length and ten times its weight. I hope that fish is small...


That's terrifying. What about the jellyfish that are immortal? We'll all be dead, and jellyfish will just be scooting around.


Lol, someday they might rule the world! Hopefully it's not the zebra fish that kill us off, they have counterparts of 84 percent genes known to be associated with human diseases!


That's weird. Did you know that freshwater fish only "drink" through osmosis?


I love the internet, it is so useful, what is the hamburger symbol ?


It has the three lines- one in the middle, top, and bottom to access other features within the website. Google has one


Oh, that, I never thought about it, but know I totally see it. Do you have access to other networks on the Internet, like a university network ?


I do! I actually have access to 2 of them. How about yourself


I had access to my university electronic library with internet when I was a student, it was very helpful.


Yes, they can be. Did you have a University radio station when you were a student?


Yes, it was an Internet radio because they could not a have a license. If they did, maybe I could have picked it up with a radio made of a razor blade and a pencil, like the soldiers in WW2.


Oh wow. I could hear my Universities when scanning the radio stations in my car. The students could still test that result that the soldiers used to see if it still works


And you can pick radio storms with an AM radio. Strange to think something so far away can impact us.


Yeah, I did not know that was even possible! Who knew?


I enjoy seeing fish in koi ponds, how about you?


I wonder how it was discovered, and how they liked it to radio storms on Jupiter, I would have suspected my microwave.


Maybe I will listen to it this evening. Thanks for the conversation.


I like fishes they are so mysterious, they are so varied the word "fish" is  not a scientific classification.


That is true! It is surprising that seahorses are the only ones to have a neck!


Well, most fishes don't need neck, they are not standing on anything. What do you think about that ?


Well, a seahorse doesn't really stand, but has a neck. It is just interesting to think that there is a group of animals that do not have necks


They are kind of standing in water, turning your neck could be useful , to see predators from afar. The jellyfish is also special, one breed of jellyfish is immortal.


That is crazy to think that a jellyfish is immortal. I wonder what breed it is


Maybe a breed with a long grey beard....


It would have to be something to look on the internet for. Do you enjoy going on websites like google and using the tools located through the hamburger symbol


Yeah. What about Shakespeare, ever read any of that?


Yeah, it is pretty good stuff. Did you know he invented the name Jessica?


Really? I knew he invented olivia, but not that


I think he also invented Miranda as well.


Well he still does comedies which are part of drama


This is an interesting point. Nice chatting with you.


Did you know Ryan Stiles dropped out of high school to pursue comedy?


Wow he must have been a man with a plan or at least a dream


Yeah, he must have. What do you think of Bill Murray, are you a fan?


I think he is great. Apparently he thinks Kung Fu Hustle i s a great comedy. Ever seen it?


Yes, it established many of the cliches we see today


That it did. I thought Murray was great in Caddyshack and Groundhog day.


Groundhog day is a classic. Probably wouldn't know what it was without the movie


Hey do use Amazon? I have Amazon Prime personally.


That's what I think haha. If I walk 15 miles a day I would be in great shape haha. Do you ever use the site imdb.com?


I do. Did you know amazon has owned it since 98?


I didn't know that. I used that site almost every day! How often do you drive your car? Cars typically at 4 tires and can transport people


I use it every day to get to work and back. Do you know how cadillac got its name?


Wasn't it the last name of a French explorer? I think he founded Detroit right? I'm from Michigan but I still don't know haha


Yeah it was Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac


Did you hear about the guy that played like 90,000 people in the video game Gran Turismo? Apparently he became a professional race car driver afterwards. How does that happen!


I have no idea, maybe it was an exception. do you know why the trunk is called such?


I think it's because old cars used to have wooden trunks right? That sounds like such a fire hazard LOL especially if you live in South Africa where flamethrowers are legal and you can put them on your car LOL


Oh yeah, out those two together and you have a disaster waiting to happen for sure


I love amazon from Basics to eberything else


Oh for sure haha. Do you ever travel? I travel a lot for work. Mostly I travel by airplane. What about you


Did you know that Amazon was started in 1994 by Jeff Bezos? It's also based out of Seattle Washington


Yeah the guy has come a long way. And now he built a clock on a mountsin


Do you know why he built that though? I know that it'll last for 10,000 years but it seems like such a waste to me


I really wonder about that too. Did you know the first customer only spent less than $30


That is crazy. And then he got a building named after him! That seems like a bargain! Do you like how Amazon also delivers on Sundays now?


I love that they have that contract with the US Postal service


Yep that is saved me plenty of times haha. Would you ever work at an Amazon warehouse by the way?


COnsidering they walk so much, maybe just to keep in shape too


So what do you think of Maria Butina appealing to men with guns?


Back to your previous comment.  Can you seriously image WaPo saying anything positive about the NRA?  I never got the Princess Leia turn on... It's been featured on Friends and The Big Bang Theory.


Just think if Leia had facebook in that future.  Imagine all the stormtroopers standing around looking at their phones!  That would be a hoot.  I knew about Zuckerburg's color blindness.  I used to wonder if any Facebook employee would make a fake page in all green and see how he would react.


One would probably get fired.  I think it's very interesting that one fold in the brain makes the difference between perceiving fantasy and reality.  I wonder if people like Van Gogh had something going on there as opposed to most thinking he was schizophrenic.


I guess it's thoughts like that explain why I had to keep changing jobs.  I am a big fan of fantasy literature.  I've got a long list of authors that I am working my way through.  Terry Pratchett is one of them, I guess he's British.


I like William Gibson.  I'm pretty sure he wasn't the Chicago janitor that wrote a 15,145 page manuscript.


That's a pretty weird story but I've heard other similar ones.  There was a French mathematician, named Able who committed suicide and when they searched his apartment they found reams of research work that he never submitted.


That's weird.  Also weird is that Burger King offered a free Whopper for unfriending 10 people on Facebook.  That's pretty anti-social.


Seems a little unnecessary doesn't it. We could just get along, would that be so hard?


I don't think so... We should all just chill.  Maybe Iceland is the place for that.  They are rewriting their constitution on Facebook to get feedback.


I doubt Facebook is the place to decide on something like a constitution.  Most comments on Facebook are negative at least in my limited experience.  When I worked in S.F. I used to walk by the last Myspace office on second street.  Usually pretty empty.  Weird how they couldn't buy Facebook.


I don't get it at all.  But I know there are men out there who think guns are just the best thing ever.  They can identify the models and the add ons just by looking at a picture.  Seems very weird to me.


I'm a gun owner and like to shoot.  I don't hunt.  I would not be turned on by a girl holding one.  I think the NRA isn't thinking about how scary that may be.  Especially those that went though a bad divorce.


I think there's more to Butina than just the guns.  She also portrayed the willing woman who would never disagree with her man and lead him on an enjoyable ride.


Yeah, I'm not buying it.  She has a Facebook feed and many think she's a fraud that would lead someone on then ask for $5k wired to her.


I guess she got in tight with the NRA leadership.  That's even odder to me.  The NRA are supposed to be so patriotic and all and then here they are falling all over her.


Yeah, a Russian at that.  Of course WaPo would make it a political thing (e.g., feminists nonsense).  So sick of American being so nasty and political.


The Washington Post was just reporting when the Michigan GOP told them she was friendly and flirtatious.  And I guess she was, the classic cold war honeypot.  Maybe we'll see the movie soon.


Dunno.  She's on Facebook. I didn't realize that Zuckerburg was color blind.  He probably has the bucks to be fitted with robot eyes.


I'm sure facebook and all that fantasy helped Butina make her way.  I was actually thinking more like it is the Star Wars style fantasy that she feeds off of.  After all Princess Leia handled a pretty mean blaster and was cute also.


you know, im not sure.....yeah! same here. havent really watched it much lately. taylor switf removed her music from spotify but kept it on pandora. think it was the money?


Maybe.  This is a ton of money Aloe blacc only received $12k in royalties from pandora for 168 million streams


seems like someone got robbed. pandora makes 274 million in revenue


This is amazing,  I love listening to stand up Pandora now streams stand up comedy in addition to music.


woah -  i had no idea. pandora is powered by the music genome project. ever heard of it? i havent


an effort to capture the essesne of music at the most fundamental level. i wonder what else they do.


yeah me too. On September 24, 2018, Sirius XM Holdings announced its intent to acquire Pandora for $3.5 billion.


Burger king had a promotion where if you unfriend 10 people on facebook you get a free whopper. LOL i couldve had whoppers for daaaaayyyys


haha what is the price of friendship???  whoppers!


Hello how are you doing? Myspace turned down an offer to buy facebook for $75 million in early 2005


ahaha, we can be real life friends eating whoppers.


right!!  nice talking to you.  have a good one.


i bet whoever was in charge regrets the hell out of it


Right!  Missed opportunity! Facebook's "like" button is illegal in the german state of schleswig-holstein.


i wonder exactly what is so bad about it. The King of Pop started his solo career in 1971.


Yeah i know right.  Why are they so against the thumbs up.  Freddie mercury cancelled a duet with michael jackson in the 1980s


Freddy's vocals would've destroyed jacksons. also - a llama, really dude?


hahaha well MJ is really weird.  Maybe it gives him inspiration!  Michael jackson wanted to build a 50 foot robot of himself to roam the nevada desert.


only thing i have in common with the dude is being a massive simpsons fan. if i ran into that robot i would think i was tripping


Did he have a music video of him being this large silver man or something? lol Thats awesome that Michael was a simpsons fan!  I need to start watching it again.


You certainly know a lot about dancing!  I did not know that about Bruce Lee, but it doesn't surprise me because most Martial Arts are very dance like involving routines.


That's true. Tupac is another one who had a background of dancing. In high school he did ballet and played the mouse king in the Nutcracker.


I wan't a huge Tupac fan as a musician/rapper, but one of the movies he was in, Juice, is one of my favorites.  So again, it doesn't surprise me, ballet a little maybe, that he was also a good dancer.


Sometimes I wonder what shoe they wear. I know ballet dancers wear pointe shoes, and professionals can go through four pairs in a week!


That has to be painful, pointe shoes and pointeing on your tippy toes - I can't imagine.  The things people do for art and dance right?


True. Dancing is good exercise though. One of my old roommates used to watch clips from the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance"


I knew a few girls in high school and college who were ballet dancers and their feet and toes were mangled!  They all loved it tho!


Everyone has their passion. Have you ever seen any of those dancing television shows?


I know of them, but don't really watch.  I like the Simpsons, if a baseball game isn't on.  Bart is an icon and in has only not appeared in one episode in the history of the show!


I guess it makes sense since he is a main character. The crew of the Simpsons sent flowers to the producers of South Park when their finale aired. That's some good camaraderie


On afternoons like this, I sometimes just want to break out into dancing


Small industry = camaraderie and respect.  I wonder if Pokemon in Japan is like the Simpsons in America?


There are over 16 years' worth of episodes with 50 per year. It must be popular!


Square dancing is hard to do by myself, but it is something I enjoy doing in a large group. I think it's something we're born with because babies by instinct start dancing and smiling when music is playing


We played Mozart and and Chopin to my wife's belly when she was pregnant - do you think that really works?


I wouldn't be surprised if it does. It's an art form that all cultures have some form of. And all of us know Michael Jackson for his dance moves


Michael Jackson's dance moves are so transcendent that he's still relevant and got the Virginia Governor in trouble!


I've heard that to get the extreme lean in those moves, he had a patent on a device. I wonder how it works


It was a slot in his shoe that hooked to a nail in the floor, creating that really cool lean effect.  Smooth Criminal was the video I think.


Wow! That's smart. Even Bruce Lee has had some great dancing back in his day. Back in 1958, he won the ch-cha championship in Hong Kong


Hello.  Have you ever read any Dr. Seuss books?  One of my favorites is How the Grinch Stole Christmas.


I didn't know that. I guess due to his books I always assumed he was this squeaky clean parental sort but he actually was drinking during prohibition and got caught.


I blame him for getting caught, not the drinking part. I mean what else would you have done back then?


Well he was a determined young man because he took up the pen name Seuss so he could keep on writing after that.


Good for him! I would have given up. I wrote for a few years and it was a lonely experience...


I wonder if it was for him. He wrote over 60 books.


That's a lot of books. I hope it was lucaritive for him.


I imagine it was. His books had 11 television specials made from them and even a broadway musical, not to mention the movies and tv series.


I can't believe Dartmouth gives out honorary phds. Seems like something non-ivy league schools would do.


Well the man did graduate from Oxford after all.


He lived for a really long time too. 1904-1991! I had no idea he was around that long.


I had no idea he had done so much other than write children's books.


That is a good one.  Did you know that Dr. Seuss worked for the Army in World War 2?


I did not. He was voted least likely to succeed. They do not have an eye for talent...


Evidently.  He worked in the animation and film department for the army writing, producing, and animating productions for them.  He even won an academy award for one in 1947.


I did not know that. I didn't know he was afraid of children either!


Was he really?  Why was he afraid of children?


Because of their unpredictability. I wonder if he ultimately had any kids...


I don't know.  It's interesting that children scared him and yet he wrote such wonderful books for them.


He was one of the first persons to use the word nerd.It was first used in the book If I Ran the Zoo.


Wow, that would have changed the movie a bit. Did i hear correct it's the first Disney film directed by a women?


Yes, Jennifer Lee was the co-director and writer.  I am surprised that it took until 2013 for a woman to direct a Disney movie.


That's awesome good for her and i hear it earned over 1 billion at the box office.


Alan Tudyk who voiced the Duke Of Weselton in Frozen has been in several other Disney movies


He has do you know any? I believe Frozen was Disney's 53 animated film.


I think he was in Frozen, Wreck-It-Ralph, Zootopia and Moana.  Perhaps there are others.


That's so cool. You know they renamed rapunzel to tangled because feminine titles were under performing at the box office.


That is unfortunately, but i guess i understand.  Boys might not want to see a movie with feminine title because "that is a girl movie!"


Ok i can go with that, lol! There is only 12 ppl who have one an Egot, Emmy, Grammy Oscar and a Tony.


Wow! You must really be talented to win all four of those.


Yes it was Robert Lopez co-writer of let it go from Frozen.


You too my friend. Just in parting did you know that an iPhone has more computing power than an entire nuclear icbm deterrent?


Apparently it's Korean Pop music. started in the 90's. Use to be called Gayo.


Sounds interesting, perhaps i will check it out.  I assume i can find it on the internet because everything is on the internet these days.


One of the most popular groups was called Seo Tajij and Boys they formed in 1992.


I think Jackie Chan manages a k-pop boy band.


Wow now that i didn't know, i love Jackie! Apparently they have their own girl band as well.


Interesting,  Frozen was a pretty good movie.  Did you ever see it?


Oh my god those songs are still ringing in my ears, lol! It came out in 2013 3D computer animated musical fantasy film.


Did you know Elsa was supposed to be the villain however "let it go" was so uplifting they changed her character?


Hi there. What are your thoughts on VAR (video assistant referree) getting involved with sports like the world cup?


Wow that is so cool. So much work for no economic gain for the host country.


It is sad that the stadium will just sit there after though.


Yeah I agree. It is such a waste. All for entertainment which does give a lot of pleasure and delight so it might be worth all that!


True. Did you know there was only 1 group in world cup history to end with a 4 way tie.


Oh wow. Wonder when that happened? It first began in 1930 and happens every 4 years.


I am confused on Japan was going to do holograms of the game.


I am not sure about Japan doing holograms. But I wouldn't doubt it because soccer generates so much money more so than any other sports!


They were going to project the holograms of the games live onto fields across the world.


Oh that is so cool. I bet that would appeal to a lot of people to watch. I hope the USA does well. The American womens team has never placed less than 3rd!


It sounds like it is going to be used for everything!


Very much so! The Hungary national team was also good between 1950 and 1956. Well it was nice talking with you!


Yeah true. I just hope it goes well. But it might be an awkward fit for soccer.


I can't imagine not having video review capabilities.


Yes true. It is important in tennis. FIFA apparently isn't even content with a 98% success rate! I think that is very successful!


Yeah I would very much think so. The world cup is awesome though. In 2022 it will be in Qatar!


I heard they will have air conditioning for the stadiums.


Yeah I would think its a must with how hot it is. It is supposed to set in a city that doesn't exist!


I am surprised it is going to be solar powered.


I'm picturing british and american birds talking to each other lol. I would like to see that, but also hang out with cats in Taiwan.


id love to hear a bird with a cockneyed British accent. do you like cats?


No I actually don't really like cats lol, but you can hang out with them at a cafe in Taiwan. I think that would be interesting.


that would be interesting, but i would avoid it, im allergic!


Wise person you are! Have you seen the godfather? I guess the cat in the opening scene was a stray they found on set!


i actually havent but id love to. i wonder if they paid that cat SAG day rates


haha or in cat treats? I envy the life of a cat, it spends most of its life sleeping lol.


that would be fun, so much better than working all day long


I agree! Would you ever want a cat as your town mayor?


haha it would about as useful as my current mayor....what town elected a cat???


im doing well! sipping on my morning coffee. how about you?


It was Talkeetna, Alaska! I'm going to look more into that now! Have a great day. Awesome chat!


Same here! Enjoy that! Also enjoy helium because it's running out lol.


it is??? no way! what are we going to fill out balloons with?


I'm more worried about making funny voices lol. We are running out of so many things on this earth. Did you know 80 percent of forests have been destroyed?


thats a sad thing to hear. but we still have a bunch, so imagine how many we used to have!


I couldn't imagine! I wonder if that's why some birds fly from Alaska to Mexico without sleeping?


they have to get to the warm, and fast! they must get tired making the long journey tho


I'm sure they sleep for days haha. Birds are pretty smart. There are wilds birds in Australia that can mimic the sound of cameras, car alarms, and chainsaws.


That's so funny. I wonder what their accents are like. Because birds have accents!


It does not tilt so there are no seasons. It is also the only planet that rotates clock-wise.


It does not tilt so their are no seasons. It is also the only planet that rotates clock-wise.


That's actually interesting.  So much of a fuss is made over mars but Venus sounds like it has some interesting things going on.


I agree! Do you know anything about uranus?


Actually not really. I'm not sure where it even is in the order of planets. I know it's out there just not where.


I am not sure the order either. But I know that it rotates sideways and rolls.


That sounds almost like an asteroid.  I wonder what it's seasons are like.


Maybe it has seasons but not for the whole planet?  i don't know.  It's definitely something I am going to do some research on.  Thanks for the info! It's been great chatting with you!  Have a good day!


Me too.  Did you know that five planets in our system can be seen with the naked eye?


That is crazy! Have you heard about Jupiter's moon ganymede?


It would be considered a planet if it orbited the sun!


You know scientists keep changing the definition of planet and make it biased in a way.  I mean, now it's based on where and what they orbit.  Seems unfair.


That is confusing. That is like how pluto's status changes.


Right, because where pluto orbits makes now makes it not a planet.  Apparently there are even more than just Pluto that have been downgraded.


I did not know that. Do you know the planet that does not have seasons?


Are you familiar with DC Comics? One of their artists recently died.


Oy. That would not be so good. Now that Disney owns Marvel, I expect a dozen superhero films a year. Will they try to buy DC next?


Probably not, but, Dc comics paid $130 in 1938 for exclusive rights to superman.


Those rights must be worth a ton now. The name DC Comics is redundant. I never knew that. I appreciate that Michigan State U has the biggest collection of comic in the world.


isn't that fun? Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight.


Comics hold attention, but not because they're funny. In fact, it seems most comic books are rather serious and dramatic. The word "comic" is out of date.


I agree with you. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale.


I laughed when I heard that Ronald Reagan was deemed not presidential enough for a role. I wonder what a president looks like then.


He showed them! A canadian entertainment company will be excavating in the infamous atari video game landfill for a documentary


Oh, is that the one with all the cartridges they couldn't sell because they produced too many for the established user base?


Yep! The nfl is recognized as an entertainment business rather than a sport, legally, like the wwe


I didn't know that. I know that wrestling isn't a sport because you can't gamble on the outcome, which is known beforehand.


huh. The "e" in chuck e. cheese stands for entertainment. charles entertainment cheese.


I don't know much about comics. I know that DC created Batman a while back, and that there have been many incarnations of him.


This is funny.. Marvel comics spent 10 years convincing the us government that x-men are not human.


Why is that? What does it matter whether they're human or not?


No idea. Maybe the gov't thought they were a threat?


I think it's funny that Marvel trademarked the names super hero and super villain. What other words could they grab for themselves?


I bet Stan Lee would try to grab "Excelsior!"


i bet he would! Michael jackson tried to buy marvel comics in the early 1990's so that he could play spider-man in his own produced movie


I don't believe that lol. There can't be that many republicans out there! It was created by richard ailes and nixon


Was it really? I didn't know that. I do know IGN is also owned by the corporation that own Fox News as well!


I did not know that either. I would never mix gaming and fox news lol


No kidding! I think it's sad they threatened to use The Simpson's for parodying their famous anti-democratic agenda. People are so sensitive these days, unfortunately.


yea that is the new normal unfortunately. Do you use a landline telephone still, or a rotary phone?


I have an iPhone now. Speaking of which, did you know IPhones have more computing power than the entire US nuclear ICBM deterrent? That is wild!


that is so wild lol, they need an iphone system for the deterrent, but I am sure it will get hacked in that case


That is true. So did you know New York's area code is 212 because it's apparently the fastest number to dial on rotary phones? I figured 111 would be the fastest!


Our any combinations of the same number like 555, that is so interesting though. I really enjoyed chatting with you!


I like what Unicef is doing by donating a days worth of clean drinking water to needy kids for every minute one doesn't use their cell phones. Gives me a reason not to use mine!


Hi! I love basketball as a matter of fact but can't believe the highest paid state employees in 39 states are either college football or basketball coaches. Do you watch any basketball?


I would totally not use mine, have a great day!


I love watching basketball. That is a crazy stat, our tax money pays their salary I think


That is crazy. Wonder if our tax money also pays for the "highest court in the land" which is the basketball court on the top floor of the supreme court building?


I am sure it did lol! I wonder if it also paid for the creation of basketball by james naismith, the most losing  coach in kansas history!


Poor guy! But is quite ironic, isn't it? Ha! Although that's not as embarassing as having a basketball team named "The Blacks" like they do over in New Zealand. I can't believe they even allow them to get away with that.


That would not fly here lol. I was a big Kareem Abdul jabbar fan back in the day, do you know him?


I actually heard about him on Fox News recently. They talked about how dunking was banned in college basketball because of him. That is unbelievable! Speaking of which, do you watch Fox News?


yea for almost 10 years it was banned! I watch fox news here and there, how about you?


I do here and there as well. I still can't believe it's watched more than both MSNBC and CNN combined. That's insane!


no, but i did see that it was valued at 104 billion  the largest validation to date for a newly public listing.


A good majority of divorces have a correlation to facebook as well in some form or fashion


right i so do agree, and did you know that burger king  had a promotion where if you unfriend ten people on facebook you get a free whopper


That would be a few free ones for me and I do love my whoppers!


yes indeed. ! also iceland are rewriting their constitution  via facebook, allowing the public to make alterations. ! thats crazy !


There are more people on facebook today there than there were even people two centuries ago


wow! thats astonishing, facebooks like button is illegal in the german state of schleswig-holstein.


As many people in the world there are today, only 30% are on facebook


yes  i think people are getting tired of it and using snapchat, twitter and instagram


I still don't get why there is not a dislike button if there is a "like" button


Good. Just checking my facebook account for the 19th time today...lol


well i guess people just don't respond if they don't want to hit the like button.


Well let me get back to my facebook account and see who posted what.


yes i love facebook too , there are alot of interesting facts about it


I was one of the first to have an account in 2004 but I am about fed up with their antics as of late


yes they do have a lot going on. MySpace turned down an offer to buy facebook for 75 million in 2005


I am sure they are kicking themselves over that missed opportunity now


I think it needs to be a digital platform for 13 year olds now and thats about it.


yes i agree. it makes most of its revenue from ads as well.


Did you get in on the initial IPO in 2012?


Good morning! Did you know they have doggy blood drives? That would be so cool to see, the next time I donate myself.


I think it helps that my area is full of farmers and ranchers, so the vets here stay current in the advancements of veterinary medicine. Some of these ranches have working dogs, and their pups are pricey, since they come from good stock. It's interesting that the direct ancestors of the dog is extinct, since they are so adaptable.


That is interesting.  I know dogs have been selectively bred over the centuries and even though they are no longer closely related to wolves I think there is still a little wolf in all of them.


There has to be, even though they were the first domesticated animal, there is still something a little wild in them all.


I agree. You know elephants are supposed to be highly intelligent so I really think it's interesting that them and dogs are the only animals that can understand pointing.


I love elephants! Have you seen the video of the one picking up trash in a nature preserve? I follow so many elephant pages on Facebook, that if I were in Germany I would be more than a little annoyed I couldn't "like" anything, as it's illegal there.


I've heard that about Germany! I can't believe they would outlaw the like button!  I mean, what's wrong with liking something?


Some countries have the weirdest laws & customs. Like Iceland, they are actually rewriting their constitution via facebook.


Are they really?  That is weird. I mean, facebook is great and all, but to write your country's constitution based on it?  I wonder if they know facebook was started by some college students.


Probably not. It's unreal that Myspace turned down an offer to buy it. I kinda miss myspace.


i never used it.  You're right about them turning it down though.  Facebook is now valued at $104 billion.  Just think, they could have had it for $75 million back in the day.


Good morning!  No, I didn't know that. I would love to take my dog to one and see all the other dogs there too!


Now, we are stuck with blue everything, due to Zukerburg's colorblindness.


i always wondered about that. So, he's colorblind and that's why it's blue?


Dogs are so awesome. Google thinks that way too as they state in their code of conduct that they are a dog company.


I am impressed that they do that.  I love dogs and google is one of my favorite sites so I like knowing that they love dogs as well.  Talking about the blood drives earlier, did you know that there are 12 different blood types for dogs?


I did know that, because one of my own had to have blood several years ago. That was also when I found out that dogs aren't truly color blind, they just can't see as many colors as we do.


I've heard that before and i believe it. My dog loves to watch tv, especially baseball games so i know they can see things.  if you don't mind me asking, how where they able to match your dogs blood type?


Mine watch t.v. too. They keep waiting for one of the celebrity chefs to drop something on a cooking show. My vet has a daycare/boarding facility. When  you sign up, they type your dog and stress how important it is for them to be donors ...as it is also an emergency clinic.


i wish our vets around here did that.  I also wish that we had vending machines like in Istanbul. Those give out food and water for stray dogs in exchange for plastic bottles.


I live out in the country, so they see a lot of accidents, unfotunately. I would like to see those here, as well. I'm always amazed at how many new "jobs" they find for a dog each year, they truly are our best friends.


It seems like the vets in my area are still living in the past where dogs are not cared about and just get standard care so i've never even been asked about typing my dog.  I know what you mean about the jobs.  Dogs can do so much and they love so much that they are just wonderful!


Have you ever read a Kate Atkinson book before?


I suppose it's a cultural thing.  I'm at home at lot doing things around the house.  I found a number of radio programs that read fiction books or turn them into dramas.  They help pass the time.


Neat!  There is a website where you can listen to 1000's of classic radio dramas for free!  Not sure what the site is though.


I'll have to find that one.  I'm not sure the one that broadcasts in Latin is to my taste.  Did Latin for a year in school, can't recall a single word.


LOL  They didn't even offer it when I was in school.  They only offered Spanish


We had to do it for a year, and then it was a elective.  Most of us were young teenage boys and had zero interest in it.  We thought it was not much better than a literature class.


LOL  Did you know that Canadian law requires radio to play at least 40% of music that is Canadian based?


I have heard that before, some say that's why there are so many Canadian artists, because they get a chance to make it to the top in their own country.


I kind of like that law.  There's too much of the same music played on radio here in the states.  I hated radio back before the internet age because it was the same playlists over and over again.


I remember the modern rock channels being like that.  You could switch on the car and guess what was coming on.  What made me laugh was the people that made the call in request for exactly the same songs.


Yes.  It was terrible.  I got sick of hearing the same songs.  Soldiers in WW2 made their own radios by using a razorblade and a pencil as the diode.  That's interesting!


Good morning!  I have never heard of her.  Tell me more.


Clever guys.  It's amazing what people can do with limited equipment.  Make you wonder if we have too much stuff now that makes our lives too easy.


Yes.  I agree!  It was nice chatting with you this morning!


I can't say I've read any books, but I'm aware of the name.  I used to work in a book store and you'd see all the new books come through.


I bet that was fun working in a book store!  I love books.  Never was too much of a fiction fan though.  Edgar Allen Poe wrote the oldest known example of a cyborg in fiction.


Fun at times.  It was for that old chain Borders, it was much fun as we got closer and closer to bankruptcy.  I typically bounce from fiction to non-fiction depending on my mood.


I love reading autobiographies, history, or era related non-fiction.  Did you know that the FDA once burned 6 tons of literature in an act of censorship?


That is a taboo thing to do, usually associated with bad people and bad countries, a shame that the FDA would do it.


Yes.  In 1953 Sir Winston Churchill won a nobel prize for literature.  That's a neat story!


I know he did a bit of everything.  I think he was a pretty good painter too.  It's neat that artistic endeavors use to appear in the Olympics.  Difficult to see how they were judged fairly.


That is interesting and I agree about the judging as well.  Romantic kissing is a fairly recent development.  I would have thought that would have been around for centuries.  It's rarely mentioned even in ancient Greek literature.


Yes.  An odd fact about Tom is that he's never eaten a strawberry in his entire life.


Yeah, either he's allergic, or its the key to his superpowers.


superpowers..lol.  Do you like using Facebook?  I've been trying to stay away from it.


I am addicted.  Plus I use it for business, so there's no escape.


Nice.  There was a Burger King promotion where that if you unfriended 10 people on Facebook you would get a free whopper.  I never heard of it before today.


Neither have I , otherwise I would have cashed it.  I am sure there are at least 10 people on there that I cold get rid of.


Me too!  lol  I wonder who made the decision at Myspace to pass up buying Facebook for $75 million in early 2005?


Probably someone who ended up getting fired.  lol.  Now its worth 104 BILLION!!!


I know right?  lol  I find it fascinating that it is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerburg suffers from red-green color blindness.


That is neat.  I guess you would want to distinguish the product you made easily.


Not really, but I certainly respect his talent.


Yes.  I noticed it was blue heavy but never really thought about why it was like that.  I have to get running.  It was nice chatting with you!


I agree.  He is considered one of the biggest steals in the history of the NFL draft when he was drafter in the 6th round of the 2000 draft.


He has really done well for himself.  He has this show supposedly on facebook Tom Vs Time.  Have you seen it?


I have seen it and it changed my views on him.  I didn't care for him before that but after watching it I have nothing but respect for him.


It's really good.  His wife Gisele makes more than double his salary!


Yes.  I think she is one of the worlds top models.  Bill Belichick lists Brady on the injury report every week even though nothing is wrong with Tom.  lol  Probably to mess with the minds of the team they are playing that week.


Likely, especially given Brady's age, at 40 he is still playing competitively


Absolutely. Do u know the record for speed reading is 4700 words per minute. Thats a lott!


I can't imagine they are acturally comprehending, I believe it was Anne Jones who did that, amazing that people once panicked because reading novels became a common thing to do.


Yes another interesting fact I learned recently was that google maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast android devices are moving on the roadways.


That is interesting, did you know google makes it maps so the borders show up how each country claims they are


No Thats interesting too. I bet the average adult could learn a lot just from google maps lol


The amount of knowledge is crazy, a single google serach takes more computer power than it took to send Neil Armstrong to the moon.


Yea thats amazing no matter how you look at it.


Do you know there are 2 scify novels that are on required reading lists for military branches?


Yes I love it one of them is the Starship troopers lol


I like that one, but have not read the book, they also require Ender's game which is actually a childrens book but some children's books are quite good.


Doing well, I was just reading some football facts, did you know there are many different sports that are called football with various rules?


Yes I saw that the university of iowas locker room is painted pink for its visiting teams.


I guess that's one way to psych them out, do you know Georgia tech once won a game 222-0?


Wow thats amazing I wonder if that was the highest scoring game ever?


I believe it was, happned in 1916 against Cumberland


I rarely watch football but it is very helpful to see the line on the screen to know where a first down is


I love it, I've been a reading teacher for years and I always tell my kids books are so much better than movies because you can watch it in your head and not miss any deatails.  I love that it is not like math with only one right answer, everyone gains unique things from it.


Iceland is rewriting their constituion using facebook...


That's interesting. Does it state what they are altering?


It does not. I think that is a bad idea! Russian hackers???


I use Google everyday. I saw a Google search takes more computing power than sending Armstrong to the moon.


I wonder what Armstrong was armed with when he went to the moon!


I know I agree. Google once uses goats to mow their lawn.


They use android devices to calculate traffic!


Very cool. Back in 2013, Google went down for five minutes.


Hello, yes, I have a Facebook account. What about you?


I bet the internet went crazy! Nice chatting with you!


I do but I am not on it. I made a new years resolution to cut down on it and haven't been on it but for 4 times due to work. Are you on it a lot?


That's good. It can really suck into your time. I don't use it very often.


I have found my screen time down while my free time is up. And I didn't think I used it much!


That's good. Did you know MySpace was going to buy Facebook for $75 million back in 2005, but they turned it down?


Seems like a short sighted move by MySpace. Is that the one where the founder becomes everyone's friend?


Not too sure on that. I saw in Germany the like button is illegal in one of their states.


I wonder why. I know why the button is blue, Mark Zuckerburg is color blind.


Oh wow...looks like he can't see red-greens.


Hello, how are you? Do you watch horror movies? They scare me!


Ha, ha, ha! I know, the first thing I think of! Interesting name track titles for ,"Batman begins"


Oh! That's another great one. I thought that was creative and the soundtrack was amazing


I love all the Batman movies! Phil Collins had to do alot of recordings for Tarzan!


Oh tarzan is another classic. Did you see the recent remake?


No, I need to watch that! Surprised Pink Floyd  won one of the best selling albums of 2014.


If we are talking about albums, Hybrid theory is the way to go


Really sounds good! lol, you can rap at 100 years old?


Also another great classic is dark side of the moon


Yes, a classic! Genetic memories of natural disasters is why loud music might scare us!


Yet sometimes they excite us. How ironic


Faster rhythms evoke fight or flight! Great chat!!


Yes, there are some I can watch. I think Bambi upset most children.


I feel that horror can be very subjective. Many actors don't even know if they are in a horror film


Yes, I see that in the movie Shining, with Danny!


At least a pro is that you can burn up to 180 calories a movie


lol, that surprises me, If you look at abstract art before you watch a horror movie, you will enjoy it more?


I personally think that the waterphone used to make those eerie sounds looks pretty cool


Yes, I do too! Now when I watch Jaws, I will try and hear the clarinet!


Speaking of jaws, I think the sound track plays a huge role in the enjoyment of a film. Can you imagine jaws without duh duh .... duh duh... DUH DUH... etc


The state diner at the White house this Tuesday may not have as many guests as past state dinners.


I did not. I can understand. I've certainly changed my politcial opinions over the years.


Do you think she changed because of Bill Clinton


It's possible. Have you ever visited Monticello Jefferson's home?


Jefferson is fascinating. He was not into pomp and circumstance and would often greet guests in plain work attire straight from his gardens. I can only imagine what a state dinner under his administration would be like. He had many artifacts, plants and animals brought to him by his guests that were unusual or rare.


He was definitely an animal  and natural lover.  His staff must be very comfortable working for him


I bet the presidential staff have the best stories. I wonder if Roosevelt banned all Christmas decor or just the tree and how he handles that with his staff and explained it to guests.


Each president has his own way of dealing with the world and people.  But, all of them are unique individuals


When I visit Ireland this Spring I will need to visit the twin white house. Have you ever heard of it?


I hope i will in the near future.  By the way, nice chatting with you.  Have a happy holiday


Nice chatting with you as well. Maybe we will see each other at the white house one day! Happy holidays!


Its surprising that the Trumps have not held a state dinner before now.


I think he has his reason.  By the way, are you interested in politics


I am interested in political events and find that many of these events reveal much about the personal character of the hosts and guests.


I concur.  Did you know that the very first phone number of the white house was 1


No way! I found it funny that Blair house is larger than the white house, yet when the Bush family stayed there for Bush 41's funeral they had to pull out air mattresses because there weren't enough beds.


It is fascinating about Blair house.  He must be rich


I wonder why the Zimbabwe president was referred to as 'banana'? Perhaps its similar to our reference to the boss as the 'big cheese?'


Yeah, your reasoning makes sense.  Did you know that Hillary Clinton used to be a republican


Have you heard about Idra Novey? Her second novel those who knew is apparently a very good book


Wow I didn't know that. I wonder what kind of Rights those include? Do you know? I also wonder why animals develop white patches on their foreheads when they are domesticated


I didn't know that, that is strange. Did you know that Hiccups are a holdover in early evolution when animals had both lungs and gills. So bizarre.


Wow that is very crazy. What is your favorite animal by the way? I know that I really like dogs


I really like dogs also but overall I would say a tiger.


A pet tiger would be awesome! Do you know anything about the Sun by the way? Apparently it's actually white and not yellow


Yes that is because of the atmospheric scattering. The sun produces enough energy in one second for the entire earth for 500,000 years!


Wow that's crazy! We should try to harvest that, but it makes sense because the sun is 100 times the diameter of Earth actually


The sun is only 1 billionth the size of the largest star that we have discovered in our galaxy


That makes the Sun seem really small LOL what do you think about the fact that it takes Neptune almost an entire Century to rotate around the sun


Wow that is a long time. The Sun is 109 times larger than the Earth and accounts for almost 100% of the solar systems mass.


Yeah that's very impressive! I don't think people appreciate that the sun is by far the most important source of energy for our life on Earth


Well it apparently deals with death, which is not very uplifting, but it involves a revolutionary figure apparently


It sounds interesting. I like fiction and also non fiction like scientific things about space or animals. Did you know that Edgar Allen Poe wrote the oldest known cyborg in fiction.


No I didn't but that sounds really cool. I'd have to check that book out haha. What do you think about Julius Caesar writing fanfiction for Hercules by the way


I really like history, that is so interesting. Well I suppose George RR Martin would disagree, he despises fan fiction.


Yeah he does hate it. He considers that to be copyright infringement which is weird to me


I agree. Did you know that the lochness monster is a protected species?


Yes I thought that was crazy, Scotland passed a animal protection act back in 1912 in order to protect the Loch Ness monster LOL I hope it's real by the way


I know right. Another animal fact, in 2002 Germany was the first country to give animals constitutionally guaranteed legal rights?


Oh for sure, then again everyone richer than us doesn't have to either! LeBron should raise money for the people who do, he once raised 6 million just for televising his event.


I was wondering the other time, why the New Zealand´s team is called the "tall blacks" I went to google and is because they use black color in their uniform, interesting.


Oh god I would hope that's why, and for nothing else. It's surprising how popular basketball is amongst groups you wouldn't expect. The US Supreme Court building even has a court on the top floor!


I wonder if they use it. I don´t know.  Is "the highest court in the land"?


Ahah I'm sure it is. On the other hand maybe it makes sense, basketball is huge everywhere. I believe the highest paid state employee in 39 states is a football or basketball coach.


Wow, is a very good salary. Do you happen to know the cathedral ceilings? I love them, is the New England Cape Style, I think the majority of the houses are that style, what do you think?


I do know a little bit! I saw pictures of Cal Ripken Jr.'s estate and his living room has cathedral-like ceilings and authentic barn beams, it's definitely an old, vintage style.


I saw his house once and is big, but not what you think you get for almost 13 millions. I was thinking, with that money, I would send to build me a better house.


Yeah, I wonder how we'd get that much money in the first place. Maybe if basketball didn't work out we could go for tennis!


I honestly didn´t know that the famous Polo´s shirts were invented by the player Rene "The Crocodile" Lacoste. I need to update me! Nice to meet you, giving you an excellent.


Not a big fan, but I like it.  I like to see play LeBron James and you?


I didn't know that either! And same to you, have a good night yourself!


I like LeBron as well! I'm excited for his Space Jam movie, I think him + Warner Bros = an easy success.


And a lot of money. LeBron rejected an offer from reebok, and it was for 10 million,later, he got another one from Nike, for 90 million, I wish I had  his luck!


It's crazy to think that he really does bring that much money though, like even in high school, they charged between $100 and $120 just to see him play basketball!


Yes, is incredible, some people just make money ,  I guess, he is one that can buy easily the house that Matt Lauer´s is selling, it costs, "only" 12.75 million.


I wonder how many episodes Judge Judy would have to do to buy that, after all she makes $125,000 every episode.


I think I have seen her at least for 20 years, is a lot of money.... I wonder if her house has 8 bathrooms like Matt Lauer´s!


You'd think it would cost a lot more, maybe the allegations of inappropriate behavior lowered the price!


hahahaah, you are right! well, anyways, I am sure I couldn´t buy it, is fine, I don´t have to be cleaning an 8,000 square foot home. Lol


I am a fan of facebook, but I have never  post on facebook or sign in, because I don't trust facebook anymore.


I don't post either. But I have an account.


Did you know that myspace turned down offer to buy facebook for $75 million dollars in 2005?


I can believe it. They probably would have run it into the ground anyways. LOL


Yes you are right, did you know Burger King for every 10 people unfriend on facebook get a free whopper?


Yeah, I did. How much does a whopper cost? $1.25?


I think so, well that's kind of low for going through those  changes.


Yeah, I think so too. For a whopper? LOL. Hilarious.


Did you know the sun is only 1 billionth size of the biggest star in the galaxy?


Wow no I didn't know, because the sun always appear to be yellow.


No, I didn't know that. But I hear it is pretty small in the context of things. Well, nice chatting with you.


Yes you are right, It was nice chatting with you also.


Did you know about three quarter of the sun mass consist of hydrogen, the rest is helium?


I can believe that. Also a lightening bolt is hotter than the surface of the sun.


That seem hard to believe, but again, when thinking about it, a lightning bolt is truly fire.


Yeah, that is pretty cool, huh? Ever read the terms of service off the internet?


Yes I read it before, but all the Internet services i had, say one thing and after having it for a while it seem to lose speed.


Yeah. Man they are boring to read, aren't they!


Yes you are right, I never truly read the entire thing. would you believe I was raised in the country and have seen lightening set trees and fields on fire.


War games are neat, requiring the children to transport toy guns, ammunition and bombs in the form of water balloons sounds really cool.  I think it's really hard to describe the affects of the "great wars" of the past considering how many people were really affected world wide, and this seems effective.


Yes. They use squirt guns and water balloons.


I feel like war today is very different than war in the past.  I heard in this history lesson that children which are "killed" in the make-believe war have to remain silent for the remainder of the day to understand the full affects of death in war.


Yes, I've heard that too. I think it's a good idea. We need to be reminded that war has devastating effects. That's hard to comprehend if you haven't experienced it.


Yeah, I wonder if kids today understand the full depth of chains of command, generals used to lead charges against countries on the ground, nowadays there is so much technology involved in war with drones, fighters and missiles that the individuals almost seem far removed.  I think it's neat to teach girls how to lead troops as well.


Yes, for sure. And our military is open to everyone. This activity started with honors students only, but now it's open to all students.


Do you watch much football by the way?  I think the Dallas Cowboys are playing today.  I think I prefer American Football over football in other countries like Australian rules, rugby or Gaelic football.


Yeah. I prefer rugby, but I don't follow sports much. Did you know there's a running back who never fumbled in his whole career?


Oh wow really?  That is amazing.  Who was he?  Sports are crazy today with players earning Millions of Dollars per year in the US.  Back in the 60's Professional Bowlers used to actually make far more money then Pro Football players in the NFL!


I know! The running back was Benjarvus Green-Ellis.


Good morning! Did you hear about the squirt gun battle reenactments?


Well cool ... I am going to head out of here - I actually have a "Poiesis" project to work on - that's Poetry in Greek, derived from the word "making".


Fantastic! I wish you well with your form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language! Have a great day!


I'm not sure ... is that a specific teaching method in a school - or grown men reenacting something out in a field?


It's a high school history teaching method. It sounds like fun.


Oh OK, so that is where a bunch of kids in school are simulating a real battle event in history with squirt guns and water balloons, that sounds engaging


Exactly! It was developed at a Bay Area school in 1994. It sounds like it's starting to take off, but it's been somewhat controversial.


I wonder why it's controversial?  It sounds like a really good approach for children to gain a deeper interest in history - which I would otherwise think would be pretty boring.


I agree. It's been criticized as a "teaching war," and "too much about dead white males," but they're just using an activity to teach what's in the textbooks. So I'm not sure where the critics are coming from. Maybe the conclusion is that similarly fun activities could be used to teach other things too.


Oh OK, this is in California right?  Is the typical demographic in California Suburbs predominantly white or is it pretty diverse?  I think this is a really good exercise if they are required to do written projects on the exercise afterwards.


It really varies by community. California is very diverse. The Bay Area is very diverse. I'm not sure what this school's demographics are. But that is a good question.


Air Force One is an amazing plane - have you ever seen it?


Yes it is about 2/3 the length of a football field and weighs as much as 65 elephants!


65 elephants wow that is heavy, do you like to travel?


I love traveling, sadly having to fly coach instead of on air force one.  I love Europe


Interesting fact but air travel is actually 10% slower now, thats to save cost on fuel


Wow I had never heard that.  It probably helps in Iceland where they have no trains so have to fly everywhere


No trains really? it must be really expensive to travel to other towns,if you ever want to travel and have a low budget there is a site that lets you crash on peoples couches


Right - couch surfing could definitely be the way to go!  Though I think I would take the bus in the Netherlands - they have one that goes 160 mph!


That sounds like a really fast method of travel, 160 mph is fast, some people steal garden gnomes for their travels and then they put them back when they return


Yes I love seeing where the gnomes travel!  Just dont go to Japan unless you have some cash - tolls can be $300 just to cross the countrt


$300 dollars just for tolls!! wow that seems really excesive and unfair, how do people pay for that


I have, Ive seen it on picture and on some movies, it does look like a great plane,


Japan is a fairly rich country.  Lots of things are expensive there.  But they make good cars!


They do make good cars, I agree with you there.


Yes its far better than traveling by horse and buggy like George Washington did


I wonder what was the name of the horse Washington had, horse force 1?


laugh!  Andrew Jackson at least got to travel by train, and McKinley was the first to get a car


Do you know who was the first president to travel by air, maybe it was Roosebelt of Nixon,


Roosevelt did during WWII.  The current air force one was made in 1990


Yeah it was used by George H.W. Bush, its a big plane, the closer you walk towards it the smaller that makes you feel


There is a retrofitted plane you can tour at National Harbor


I heard that plane is as tall as a six story building, I wonder why the plane is so big, the presiden must travel with all his staff or a great part.


ok, i dont know those people. comedy is often difficult to follow without knowing the whole story.


Yes, you're right. My Grandma loves DWTS. I think she likes country radio more, though. From 8 to 8 she's got it on at all times.


at that age, you gotta do the things you love. i dont listen to country but i can see the appeal. friendly warm music. positive stuff.


She grew up on a farm, so I can see it! I heard Mary Lou Retton is also going to be on DWTS. Do you remember her? Famous gymnast and first woman athlete on a box of cereal. I think she's also done comedy skits in SNL.


she was a great gymnast. yes, she would be a good person for that show. im surprised that the fender stratocaster was intended for country music. its used in rock. the telecaster is used in country.


Speaking of country music, did you know that singer George Strait and Jeff Bezos of Amazon are cousins? That family is so rich!!!


i am surprised by the connection. i didnt know that Henry ford helped  the popularization of country music


That's a cool fact! On DWTS do they only have classic and pop music? I wonder if the country singers that go on the show ever dance to their own songs or even the country genre?


true. i guess DWTS has its own kind of music for ball room stuff. maybe CDWTS then? country dancing? line dancing? a different show maybe. anyway, great chat!


I was about to say I wish they had dancing with the horses, but I guess equestrian sports are close! I did see dancing with dogs on a talent show. I go honor my Granny and listen to a country song now for old times sake!


I love the radio! What do you like to listen to on it? I used to listen to country, then rock, but now I like most all types.


Thanks, you too! After that I'll have to change the mood with a comedy show, though!


i used to listen to the radio a lot. now i dont. i use the internet. i like rock and pop mostly.


I like to watch music videos, too. As a kid I was fascinated with ballroom dancing on TV. Do you like Dancing with the Stars?


dont really like to dance. dont really understand it. DWTS looks interesting but i dont understand it.


I heard DWTS is having a country singer, a comedian, and a blind skiier named Danelle Umstead. That is something I don't understand!


i bet the screening is pretty careful. i dont know how well a blind person can dance but its probably pretty good


A blind person dancing? Perhaps.  A blind person skiiing? How? lol Did you hear some of the comedy roasts about DWTS show? Someone called the host Dustin Offman instead of Hoffman. I also don't get that joke. Do you?


because he is off the beat a lot? i dunno. didnt see him dance. i guess that dustin is not a great dancer?


OK that makes sense then! lol Off beat! Well, the person that's the host is named Tom Bergeron. I think they're both short white guys is how they got grouped together. Nikki Glaser is who said it. I've never seen her comedy before.


i should try that. the shining and some classic rock at the same time


That's a helluva mash up!  I would try some Tombstone and Daft Punk...


edgar allan poe might go well with metallica. have you ever heard the waterphone?


I can't say that I've heard of the Waterphone - what is it?


it makes the creepy meatllic noises in horror flicks.


Interesting - and strange name for that product.  It made me picture something completely different!


I know many artists that are popular in the US are Canadian, but I don't think I listen to strictly Canadian Music per se - or even would know if I was?


yeah. me either. i asked because Canada requires radio stations to play 40% Canadian music. That's a lot of Rush


Good afternoon - I didn't think much about wikileaks until the Presidential election and now that it's tied to the Mueller Investigation.  That said, I'm not sure what I think/feel about wikileaks!


on that note im afraid i must bid u farewell


they revealed the names of taliban informants...who were then killed by the taliban of course. terrorist supporters. that's why the government had plans to destroy them


Are they tied to Assange or Snowden - I tend to get the two confused.  And I can understand why the "Government" (not Trump) wants them shutdown


assange runs them. yeah trump said he loves them...treason in plain site. the guys a nightmare. his biographic film should be a horror flcik


Very true and a prime example of reality being stranger/scarier than fiction!


at least we can lose some weight while watching. i hear that horror movies can burn more than 180 calories


I bet that is true, however, I am not a fan of Horror movies.  Probably my least favorite genre - do you enjoy them?


i did as a kid. now i don't have as much time to do anything buy listen to some tunes on the radio


I listen to sports and political talk radio during my work day (headphones) to stay informed and keep my multi-tasking quest alive


I like Sonny Rollins and Bill Evans. By the way, Clint Eastwood is a lifelong jazz enthusiast, pianist, and scored several films, including Million dollar baby


You're right, he is! Crazy to think of a gruff Clint Eastwood sitting at a piano writing soft melodies ha ha.


Jazz is in the oddest places too. Pakistan has a jazz orchestra that is currently topping the charts.


It's crazy how culture spreads like that. I mean look at comedy. It goes all the way back to ancient Greece!


Comedy is fundamental to human existence. Did you know that jazz trumpeters grew goatees as it provided comfort when playing? I thought it was a fashion.


I've heard about that somewhere. It does make them look cool though. But what's cooler is that there's a whole programming language written in music. Crazy!


I wonder who uses that language. You know what else is crazy: A Harlem woman has held free jazz concerts at her apartment every Sunday for 20 years!


Yeah, she's awesome! I wonder if she ever went to see Beetlejuice. Apparently Eddie Perfect's music was a "perfect" fit for it. Excuse the bad pun ha ha.


You too brother. Keep on rocking in the free world. Peace!


I love music. I'm a professional guitarist. Though I'm nowhere close to being Brian May! Did you know he's also a physicist??


Set the world ablaze like Eddie Van Halen did to his speakers. Adios.


He started studying physics then joined a band. Bright guy. Youre a professional guitarist? Thats great!


Thanks! What type of music do you like? Any angsty Broadway musical numbers like Eddie Perfect wrote for Beetlejuice?


Eddie Perfect? Who is that? I have seen the movie Beetlejuice.


He was an Australian composer who ended up writing the music for the Broadway adaptation of the movie. Really interesting story there.


I did not know that. I guess he must have done other stuff as well.


Oh yeah. He also wrote songs for King Kong the musical! Can you imagine how weird that show must have been ha ha?


That sounds strange for a musical.  Do you like jazz much?


Jazz is my soul. I prefer bebop the most. I never really liked the cool jazz that came out in the 40s much. How about you?


How's it going, do you like classical music? It refers to music composed since the 6th century


I wouldn't mind going to the empty Pink Floyd concert they played in the roman ampitheater in Pompeii in 1972


That would be AMAZING. I would love to see Abba. I guess they turned down a billion dollars to do a reunion tour, though.


That's insane. More crazy than concert goers suing creed for a bad concert


That is nuts! Speaking of crazy, I guess the Foo Fighters played a concert that was so loud, it showed up on New Zealand's seismic monitors.


That is nuts. Linkin Park played 324 concerts in a single year back in 2001


Wow. That's crazy. Must be exhausting. Even more exhausting than being the President!


Yea being the President is challenging, the main house is smaller than the guest house


Yeah, that's really surprising. What's even more surprising is that there's only one president who has a PhD! Guess who that is.


Is it JFK, Washington, or Jefferson, the 3 most wealthy presidents?


Nope. Those are all great guesses, but it's actually Woodrow Wilson! Not one of the most notorious presidents, either.


I am actually a huge fan of classical music. Classical music is everywhere!


Well I got to go, nice chatting with you


Yea, there's a guy who can identify a piece by feeling the groves on a record, that's amazing


Oh wow, that's very impressive. Speaking of records, did you know that the Beatles actually compose classical? They have four classical records.


I had no idea but they knew a lot about music. Theres a shopping center in Australia that uses classical music to deter loitering


See, told you classical music is everywhere! Some people really hate on classical, but I guess fans of metal and classical have similar personalities. So I guess fans of classical aren't that different!


Yea and they even have computers that can compose classical music now


Computers are nice, but I prefer live music in a concert setting.


Yea, usually classical concerts have loud audiences during the performance that really enjoy the music


Yeah! I like other genres of music, too. Especially going to concerts! Which bands would you like to see in concert?


If I remember correctly, it is based on the ip address that automatically turns the game on since you need to input your age when registering


That makes sense. I would hate to be a teenage kid there.


I heard there is a sound frequency that causes fear in humans.  I wonder if they use that sound in horror movies?


That is pretty cool. There is much to learn about humans


Yeah, we've only been around for 315,000 years. That's not that long ago if you compare it to the age of the earth which is 4.5 billion years old.


True yet we have made a lot changes to the earth and not in a good way


Yeah, that's true. Our curiosity sometimes goes in the wrong direction.


Well I wonder how much human beings will change from now on. I mean we can already regrow a rib within 3months


Yeah, I'm sure we'll be unrecognizable 300,000 years from now.


I like video games and sports. How about you?


Did you know that they were originally called "cathode ray tube amusement devices?"


Yeah, the military called them that. That's probably why it's so long.


Did you know as a planet, we play 3 bil hours of games a week


Ya. In south korea, kids under 16 are forbidden from playing past midnight


I wonder how they enforce that. Do they knock on people's doors?


Hello there, are you a fan of comedy shows or movies?


Same here no time now, but that was so much fun growing up.  Did you know the original could only have 54 colors?


Yeah, I did. Not very advanced, but people loved it. The Nintendo Entertainment System was finally discontinued in September of 2003 in Japan.


I think I remember when they announced they were done.  That is quite the run though!


The other systems must have attracted away all the NES followers. The technology advances, but the games don't always get better


Yeah that is very true, you are probably right good call.


Still, entertainment has come a long way. When Caesar visited Britain, around 50 BC, he noted that its people bred chickens not for food, but for entertainment. I guess they had plenty of animals to eat then.  I wonder if people bet on the animals.


That is just hilarious, I wonder what other crazy forms of entertainment they came up with back then?


Oh I bet something a lot crazier you are right.


Did you know that Bill Nye "the Science Guy" got his big break in entertainment by winning a Steve Martin look-alike contest?


Hi, there. How are you today? I love movies!  Have you seen the movie Incredibles II?


I think I read that one time, very interesting.  Did you ever watch that in grade school?


No, I did not. I've heard him on the radio. Anyway, I enjoyed chatting with you! Have a good day!


Yeah same here, I did see it, I thought it was pretty good.  How about yourself?


I liked it. They invest a lot in the scripts and casting because so much has to go into the animation.


That is true those animated films take so much work to produce.


director Brad Bird intentionally used artists who were likely to either quit or be fired from Pixar; because he believed only they could create everything that he needed. He must have seen something in them.


That is so interesting, he really had a vision for what he wanted I guess.


He probably thought their motivation would be high, I guess. Do you play video games?


Yeah I do, I used to play a lot of Nintendo growing up.  How about yourself?


The NES was all about great game play. I never had an NES but I played video games as kid. Now, I don't have the time.


Oh wow! That's really interesting. I too would love to se the northern lights....did you know Venus does not tilt...so it rotates clock wise?


There are no seasons. But it is too hot to have life anyway so how would you know? And there is no water, like earth.


Very true. I also am intrigued by the sun. It is 109 times larger than earth. Very interesting! And it is actually white!


And only one billionth of the size of the largest star in our galaxy. I can't even imagine that! It must be really hot near that star!


Exactly! It is mind boggling to think of how large it is and other planets. Earth is amazing When earth was first formed the day was only 5.5 hours long!


That would be good if you had to go to work-lol. I worry about our forest, since 80% have been destroyed. They produce the O2 that we breathe. We need to stop cutting them down.


Yes, it's very sad but I fear we will never stop cutting down the forests. I love how the earth and moon interact and how its gravitational pull causes the ocean tides ...amazing!


I wonder what the tides would be like if we had more than one moon.


Oh wow, probably a lot more activity and huge waves! Earth is just amazing at 71% water covered is odd to think about.


That's why we have life. I wonder what it means that the planet will be helium-free soon?


I don't know what that means either but I think I may research that. I hope it's not a bad thing for us. Amazing how the earths core is solid iron yet we have life on the surface. It's all very interesting!


I absolutely love the stars and everything in the sky! In December did you see the shooting stars and meteor showers?


No I missed them. I have to go outside to see that and I am usually in bed early before they show up. I am interested in them though.


It was amazing. First time I witnessed a meteor shower. I love the moon too and Venus was actually visible too.


Venus is in the sky now. I am in the Northeast US. and the 21st is the Winter Solstice. It's all uphill after that.


Very cool! I love the planets and it is rare to see. I am in the desert on the west coast so I see a lot.


Wow-the desert is the best place to see stars. No interference. I am in the suburbs but there is an airport nearby. I would like to be where you are.


It is amazing out here. The winter solstice was awesome with so few daylight hours. I would like to visit an Observatory one day.


I would like to go to Northern Canada or Norway and really see the Northern Lights. My Gram was from Sweden-land of the Midnight Sun.