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WHITE NIGHTS
They don't say "White Nights" here - but it's in my head because a Russian classmate keeps saying it. All the same it doesn't get dark here any more. It goes just beyond the point of pretty sunset colors holds there dusky and murky for a while and then comes back to colors. It is really easy to lose track of time sitting here looking out my window. I can't say I love all this light but the plants sure do. I can see one sod roof from my sitting spot here - it is kind of brownish but the wind is blowing the grass in little ripples. Yeah - and still almost a month left until June 21st. I will try to take a picture at the midpoint between sunset and sunrise on that longest day.


BLUE TUBE (Blue the way the British at least used to use it.)
We have all visited YouTube. Dramatic chipmunk. Star wars kid. That "Leave Britney alone!" freak-out kid. All that stuff.
The little thumbnails that YouTube automatically generates when someone uploads a video come from the center frames of that video. The titles, descriptions and duh video content are all user generated. So... if you want to disseminate information that people normally avoid, disguise it as stuff that people often seek out, PORN. People (should) know that YouTube does not allow nudity or anything otherwise too offensive, but apparently they don't and the attention span of someone who thinks they are going to get to see free nekkidness is pretty surprising. If you have a five minute video on your theories about the 9/11 (fishy is fishy right?) just stick a provocative frame in the middle, give it a skanky title and description and you have an instant viewership.
Looking around I see a video (I swear I am not exposing you to porn) on abolishing the senate with like 60 million views and 3,500+ comments. There is also some DUCKROLL phenomenon getting mixed in with the political and random stuff -- it's a duck with wheels. Forget I mentioned it... more I was going to write but Abdul needed some kitchen-sitting and why am I sitting in here anyway. Going outside now.