HA!

To me this is signature song, but my mom has a Christmas record of his, so I know what you mean. "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...."

(Maybe this Xmas I'll post that video. And Nat King Cole's too.)

Some of my parents records that I liked:

-Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream (I can't tell you how many hours I stared at that album cover)
-Nat King Cole
-John Denver
-Kenny Rogers
-Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water - I practically memorized every word to every song on that album, because it had the lyrics on the back
-LOTS of traditional Irish music records. My dad's parents were both from Ireland. The Irish Rovers were one of his favorites.
-Dean Martin

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Ditto! Just replace Styx with Jethro Tull and Kansas with Motorhead, Maiden, and Priest. Prior to that it was my parent's records, Fats Domino, Beachboys, and Johnny Cash.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Did you ever have an extension cord for those big puffy cans? I had a 25-foot extension cord for my phones, so that I could wander all over my bedroom while I rocked out on "Glass Houses", my very first vinyl record. Followed by:

2. Styx - Paradise Theatre
3. AC/DC - Back In Black
4. Styx - Grand Illusion
5. Rush - Moving Pictures
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
7. Van Halen - I
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
9. Pink Floyd - Meddle
10. Kansas - Leftoverture
11. Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here
12. Rush - Permanent Waves

And the rest are kind of blur after that, but those were my first 12 disciples. I'll always remember.

You may be right, I may be crazy.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Nor did I fall asleep every night wearing big puffy headphones with the curly cord listening to an 8-track copy of Songs From the Attic that I bought at Bradlees with my lawn-mowing money. If you ever hear this rumor it is a complete fabrication.

*promote

So is Nat Geo saying that Peter Parker could beat up Bruce Wayne then?

Nice.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
1. Norah Jones - "Feelin' The Same Way"
2. Van Halen - "Intruder"
3. Sir Edward Elgar - "Enigma Variations for Orchestra, Op. 36 'Nimrod'"
4. Def Leppard - "Don't Shoot Shotgun"
5. Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Kathy's Waltz"
6. Nat King Cole - "Fly Me To The Moon"
7. George Thorogood & The Destroyers - "I Drink Alone"
8. The Donnas - "Is That All You've Got For Me"
9. Yes - "Long Distance Runaround"
10. Pink Floyd - "Signs Of Life"

And I'm not ashamed of a single damn one of them.

This is fun. We should do this once a week. Lindsay Beyerstein used to have a Friday Random Ten for a long time, but discontinued it over a year ago. Too bad. Let's not let it end here.

1. Norah Jones - "Feelin' The Same Way"
2. Van Halen - "Intruder"
3. Sir Edward Elgar - "Enigma Variations for Orchestra, Op. 36 'Nimrod'"
4. Def Leppard - "Don't Shoot Shotgun"
5. Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Kathy's Waltz"
6. Nat King Cole - "Fly Me To The Moon"
7. George Thorogood & The Destroyers - "I Drink Alone"
8. The Donnas - "Is That All You've Got For Me"
9. Yes - "Long Distance Runaround"
10. Pink Floyd - "Signs Of Life"

And I'm not ashamed of a single damn one of them.

This is fun. We should do this once a week. Lindsay Beyerstein used to have a Friday Random Ten for a long time, but discontinued it over a year ago. Too bad. Let's not let it end here.

looks like it's a nat & fly sanctuary also - judging by a clip at the end of the video. Pretty cool though, I'd love to go there.

hey! awesome docu!

i couldn't help but feel a little hoodwinked though. Nat'l Geographic's title (and beginning) suggested that it would be about the habits of the common housecat (beyond the obvious nap/eat/chase tiny things routine), but apart from the obligatory "housecats are like Big Cats...'cept they're smaller" nod, it was more about the cat's adaptation to the human influence, and the subsequent impact on the areas they are introduced into, and how the humans are responding.. i think i would have preferred it named "Cat Owner Ethics and the Cats That Adapt" or something like that....i'll get right on that letter to National Geographic as soon as that box of Tuits i have on the way gets here.


i'm still not knocking it, though.. but it seems like a dirty trick to get people (rather, Cat Owners,) who otherwise wouldn't have watched to give it a look... very.... un-National Geographic of them in that respect.

One time when I visited Grand Teton Nat'l Park (which is immediately south of Yellowstone National Park, in case you didn't know) about 10 years ago, my girlfriend and I stopped on the side of a little dirt road to take some pictures. Unbeknownst to us there was a female moose no more than ten feet away from me when I stepped around a bush on the side of that road. It grunted, we ran, drove off, then laughed about it later. It never chased us, but we still considered ourselves lucky.

The NEXT day, in the SAME god damn park, I stepped out of my truck to take some more pictures. I walked into a clearing, and lo and behold there was a male moose, this time about 75 ft. away. Unlike his female counterpart, when he saw me he immediately started running right toward me. I ran, drove off, did NOT laugh, and cursed every motherfucking moose in existence.

Ten years later I'm still not sure if I'm ready to forgive them. Big homely assholes.

I'm gonna take a wild guess that the first two bytes of your internal IP addresses are 192.168. It's a standard subnet which is reserved for local networks.

I think you have a problem with your router setup, probably with NAT or the firewall.

Have you tried connecting your son's computer directly to your cable/dsl/whatever connection, bypassing the router?

Surprisingly downvote worthy. Is Nat Geo becoming the new Hitlery Channel?

I just tried to submit a video from a host not officially supported, testing my new diamond powers, and it was rejected. Here is the embed code...:



Am I missing something?

edited to add: Yes, I am missing something, like a knack for paying attention to the rules. I was gently reminded that one must have 250 published posts to earn the shiny bauble privileges. Sigh, that's a long way off. Some diamond member may find it interesting enough to post. It's about the Nat'l Musuem & HP printing masterpieces and posting them on the street...cool!

Before I knew about the Aral Sea, when I was years younger, I always wondered what the deal was with the occasional Nat'l Geographic picture of rusty boats sitting in the desert (also before the internet really became a good place for researching that sort of thing). The story of the Sea and how the Soviets plundered it is mind-boggling, as is the story of how the Central Asian republics' bickering is allowing the catastrophe to continue rather than be slowed or stopped. I suggest "The Devil and the Disappearing Sea" (link below, and you can read the first few pages):

http://www.amazon.com/Devil-Disappearing-Sea-Ecological-Catastrophe/dp/1551927373

BTW, in the best-selling FPS game "Half-Life 2", the same imagery of boats stuck on the sand recurs fairly often around the middle portion of the game; the setting is also the former USSR.

St. Louis Blues... Just saw this movie last night and it's incredible. The plot and acting aren't great but Eartha Kitt, Pearl Bailey (who looks and sounds just like Queen Latifah) and of course Nat King Cole as W.C. Handy make it well worth a looksee for the music alone. Ruby Dee is in it too as the "good girl" foil to Eartha's wickedness!

There are two people who's voices I envy. Orson Welles, and is thundersome booming voice , and Nat King Cole when singing.
Love it. It's like velvet on butter or something.

That is the funniest siftbot comment ever. Who knew you could rile up ol' sifty.

I love the mayor's comments. Not that the police state shouldn't have been firing on innocent women and children who clearly were not a threat.. But that he should have stopped those comments by the cops on camera. We have militarized our police (formerly illegal) and given them "non-lethal" and "less-lethal" weapons.

Every rubber bullet stand a good chance of killing you or at least permanently injuring you. So there is no excuse to be using them unless you would have shot your 9mm at same person. The cops have been desensitized and convinced that protesters deserve it, and are hippy cockroaches, and they think they are doing good. They think people shouldn't protest. Idiots on here think people shouldn't protest, or bring their kids to protests. Hey, assholes, how do you think this country got started?! Go read some American Rev history.

Bush can now send Nat'l Guard if he feels like it. Not only is habeaus corpus history, but so is posse comitatus. Enjoy your free speech zones. The end times are near.. soon you can witness the birth of the Corporate States of America. Maybe they won't change the abbriviation. The Unincorparted States of America... yeah, that's more Orwellian.