@ChaosEngine @Buck

My dad was in the Air Force. He was chosen for a particular program -- to be a Range Safety Officer on launches.

Once he got his Masters in Engineering at MIT on the government's dime, he was stationed at Cape Canaveral.

His job was to have his hand on the key that would blow up a missile when it went off course. The course was set so that if it went bad, the pieces would fall safely into the ocean. If it started to veer off course, you had to blow it up quick.

He was stationed at Cape Canaveral from something like 1958 to 1966. About that time frame. Early days, when they didn't know quite how to do a successful launch -- and he blew up a lot.

More than any other person -- and no one will catch up with his record, because it is no longer early days.

He got a Saturn. He blew up a Titan. He blew up a lot of Missilemen missiles.

He mostly worked on the unmanned launches. Only one launch (that I know of) was manned -- and he almost had to blow it up. He was sweating that one -- because of the stakes of blowing early or blowing late and no good result if you make the wrong choice. There was a wobble ... and he waited ... and it corrected.

But yeah. A Saturn.

After Cape Canaveral, he was stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base, NW of Santa Barbara. The west coast equivalent of the Cape.

PM me your email, and I'll send you a SERIOUSLY cool cartoon that was a gift when he left the Cape. Sitting astride a rocket that has obviously been launched from Florida, with silhouettes of all the missiles he blew up -- with HASHMARKS for how many of each.

It is seriously cool.

So i was trying to figure out where these places were. If anyone knows speak up.

:08
:25
:34
:37 Glamis/Imperial Sand Dunes
:42 Convict Lake
:48
:51 Catalina Island
:56 Stearns Wharf (Santa Barbara)
1:11 Lovers Point (Monterey)
1:16 Emerald Bay (Lake Tahoe)
1:33
1:41 Napa Valley/Castello di Amorosa
1:48 Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay
1:55 San Francisco
2:13

I saw that tour as well. Santa Barbara. Wow! >> ^harpom:

I had the pleasure of seeing his first solo tour. I have always loved early Genesis and Peter Gabriel's solo work. He still sounds very good after all these years.

Hey! I used to live in Lompoc! Say hi to Lucky for me.

>> ^cooolllll:

Sweet! I live in Santa Barbara and I'm going to go say hi to lucky. Dont really care for the shoes.

Sweet! I live in Santa Barbara and I'm going to go say hi to lucky. Dont really care for the shoes.

From Thom himself.

hey everyone

ok so in April the other band.. that i got together to do the eraser and other stuff u know .. Mauro, Flea, Me, Joey and Nigel is going back out to do some shows in the US.. ending with playing with Coachella. we had too much fun to just leave it there...

it has been decided that we call ourselves Atoms For Peace. hope you like the name.. it seemed bleedin' obvious.

these are the shows & Flying Lotus is opening for us -
New York Roseland Ballroom 5th & 6th
Boston Citi Wang Theatre 8th
Chicago Aragon Ballroom 10th & 11th
Oakland Fox Theatre 14th & 15th
Santa Barbara Bowl 17th

for further details follow this link

all warmth
Thom


No mention if they will write anything together or not.

I stumbled upon one of these near Santa Barbara right after I moved there. Was just taking a walk along the bluffs, and *bam* all of the sudden everybody was naked. The nudity didn't bother me, but there was one dude sitting there openly masturbating. Nasty.

BA in Communication - University of California, Santa Barbara with a minor in history

Bachelor of Theology as well with emphasis in Greek.

too bad we reached 386.7 off santa barbara about 12 months ago , look at the readings off svalbard from this winter.
It brings to mind that george carlin quote "i'm just watching us circle the bowl and cheering for that comet."
plant a garden , purchase a firearm ,
tuck your head between your legs and kiss our collective sweet ass goodbye .
gee i guess gotterdamerung capatalism really wasnt such a good idea .
better luck next time.
gee i hope i'm wrong , and i wish i hadnt read as much to make me think i'm right .

LOL the cameraman's voice was annoying the hell out of me throughout the whole thing. Sounds like a surfie from Santa barbara

The thing is, to get 50 megabits in Japan costs the equivalent of only $30 a month.

$30 a month in DSL from my provider (a middleman provider between Verizon and I that charges maybe $5 a month extra for unlimited bandwidth + more) gives you a 1 megabit connection!

$25 a month for a 1 megabit connection is bullshit. It's utter garbage.

I live in a city in California between Santa Barbara and LA where Verizon and Time Warner Cable have both rolled out fiber. But the cost for FIOS is ridiculous, and gets you only 5 megabits to start.

TWC offers a 10 megabit line for $40-some a month, but is interested in metered bandwidth. That's unacceptable, and I refuse to support it.

The low end broadband speeds haven't changed in 10 years or so. There shouldn't even be a .766 megabit option available at all.

I understand that there's an infrastructure problem with doing this, and that these companies need to recover their losses. Thus, they want to keep shitty DSL and whatever speed $30 solutions available.

But someday the low end options need to be upgraded. 5 megabits should cost $20 a month.

*ban

Looks very self-linky, and this dude was banned before:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Santa-Barbara-Sedation-Dentist-93101

And how is a probationary member able to submit TWO videos:

http://www.videosift.com/video/NYCE-BILLY-Feels-So-Good-PT-1-of-2

>> ^Payback:
Anyone remember the news programs in Robocop? I remember one where the talking heads were reporting about a satellite destroying half the Brazilian rainforest (or something similar) and how enviromentalists are calling it a disaster of huge proportions. The one talking head turns to the other and facetiously says, "but don't they always?"
Fox News, right there. Paul Verhoeven got it right, way back in 1987.


Well, not exactly. Not to take anything away from Mr. Verhoeven, but the story was that of the Star Wars missile defense satellite laser cannon misfiring on Santa Barbara where it hit several homes, causing the deaths of 2 retired US Presidents (the needle on the trusty IronyMeter was buried with them).

But there wasn't any Fox-esque tactics to taint these fictional stories. Maybe you're thinking of RoboCop 2, which I do not know nearly as well.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'santa, barbara, sedation, dentist, dentistry, in' to 'banned, redacted' - edited by Zifnab

Five different shows for me. Santa Barbara - First tour with Fripp, Fast, Levin, et. al. Berkeley twice. Oakland and San Francisco once each. Superlatives do not capture the atmosphere of a Gabriel show. Great post!