Well, so ends another piece o’ crap day in the stock market. I’m going to leave for a bit to do ANYTHING except look at a stock chart. Here’s a musical interlude for the meantime.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
That Is So!
A somewhat more positive take on “things are seldom what they seem” than my prior post is the rendition below. I’ve been a lifelong Gilbert & Sullivan fan, and this particular number is a favorite; plus, I’ve never heard such an extraordinary baritone performance!
Intellectual Powerhouses
It probably will come as a shock to no one that I don’t have a pair of Beat headphones, but with the news that Apple is shelling out $3.2 billion for this firm, they’re very much in the news. I was curious what popular searches were related to this, so I went to Google……….
It’s Time to Be Immersed
One of the sweetest songs from Book of Mormon is Baptize Me, in which the nerdy Elder Cunningham finally gets an opportunity to baptize someone into the church: the girl on whom he has a crush, Nabalinga. Double entendres abound, but it’s precious. I was going to just put up the soundtrack clip, but someone sneaked in a camera into a performance of the original Broadway Cast, which I think is more fun:
