Gone fishin'

Taking a few days off from posting. See you in the New Year.

Merry Christmas!

Wishing everyone a joyous and very merry Christmas! May the nativity of our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ fill our hearts, minds, and souls with joy and His Divine Love.

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Tonight's musical interlude - Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Canon Rock:

Hallelujah Chorus

Tonight's musical interlude, Alaskan grade school edition - Hallelujah Chorus - with kids from the Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat 5th Grade school, and villagers from Quinhagak, Alaska:

Puppies for Christmas

Tonight's video montage - puppies for Christmas!

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Tonight's musical interlude - Celtic Woman performs Panis Angelicus:

Hallelujah Chorus, Silent Monk edition

Tonight's musical interlude - the Hallelujah Chorus, by the Silent Monks:

Veni, Veni Emmanuel

Tonight's (bonus) musical interlude -- the beautiful Advent hymn Veni, Veni Emmanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel) rendered in the beautiful Latin:

This performance by L'Accorche-Choeur, Ensemble vocal Fribourg, conducted by Zoltán Kodály:





This more contempory performance by Mannheim Steamroller:

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Tonight's musical interlude - Celtic Woman performs Amazing Grace:

A hub of activity

Tonight's Internet infrastructure video:

From the video's description:

Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible. ...

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Tonight's musical interlude - Celtic Woman performs Little Drummer Boy:

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Tonight's musical interlude - the North Point Community Church's iBand makes music using iPads and iPhones:

Bob Hope - Christmas with the troops

Tonight's video - Bob Hope entertains the troops:

FedEx Ground dominoes

Tonight's domino video, FedEx edition:

Special effects

Tonight's special effects video collage, showing the use of blue and green screens in movies and TV shows:

Mi nombre es ...

Tonight's vocal impersonator, from the Spanish-language show Mi Nombre Es...:

Showtime

Tonight's department store Christmas display - Saks Fifth Avenue 3D video projection show at their flagship store in New York City:

Never Wet

Tonight's hydro-phobic video:

A friendly voice

Tonight's friendly voice:

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Tonight's musical interlude - Anna Burden (I think that's the singer's name) performs Lulu and the Lampshades' You're Gonna Miss Me:

Earth time lapse from ISS

Tonight's time lapse video - Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 on board the International Space Station from August to October,
2011:

When news anchors fail

Tonight's news anchor fail compilation:

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Tonight's musical interlude, a repost - from an October 2010 performance:

From the video's description:

... [T]he Opera Company of Philadelphia brought together over 650 choristers from 28 participating organizations to perform one of the Knight Foundation's "Random Acts of Culture" at Macy's in Center City Philadelphia. Accompanied by the Wanamaker Organ - the world's largest pipe organ - the OCP Chorus and throngs of singers from the community infiltrated the store as shoppers, and burst into a pop-up rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's "Messiah" at 12 noon, to the delight of surprised shoppers. ...

Never Wet

Tonight's dry innovation:

Happy Hannukkah

Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish visitors! Tonight's Hannukkah rap -- Candlelight, by the Maccabeats:

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Tonight's musical interlude - actor and comedian Michael Winslow, billed as the "Man of 10,000 sound effects" for his ability to make sound effects using only his voice, performs Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love on a Norwegian TV show:

Human slingshot

Tonight's fun-with-bungee-cords video: