I suspect many of us are spending some more time online, and finding ourselves going down strange Internet Rabbit Holes.
I thought it would be fun to share some of them.
This was mine from yesterday
- I was reading about national parks being closed
- From there I started looking at images of Yellowstone National Park, which I visited when I was a teen, and think it is just an amazing place
- From there I googled Jellystone for some reason
- From there I started reading about Yogi the Bear
- From there i read the history of Hanna Barbera
- Which led me to browse through the entirety of all the shows they created, my gawd, what a bunch of junk. Yeah they hit on some, but they just churned out oodles of garbage, and a fair share of stuff that would seem highly culturally insensitive.
That last item ended up being a good 90 minute rabbit hole, reading about the shows, googling clips, and so on.
I didn’t go as deep but I had been researching VPNs, which led me to researching routers with VPNs installed, which lead me to wifi 6 routers, which lead me To buying a high end router with no VPN installed which led me to looking into taking apart my old Apple time capsule to get out the hard drive which Lead me looking at Network Attached Storage systems and now I want a Synology NAS system and I still don’t have a VPN client installed.
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Most of the time these little trips route me through spastic clicks on Wikipedia.
Museum of Modern Art in NYC for a possible trip
Starry Night
Vincent van Goth
van Goth Museum
Amsterdam
World Heritage Sites
Korean Buddhist temples
South Korea
The Dmz
Joint Security Area
At that point a shiny nickel had distracted me and I closed my laptop
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I suspect many of us are spending some more time online, and finding ourselves going down strange Internet Rabbit Holes.
I thought it would be fun to share some of them.
This was mine from yesterday
- I was reading about national parks being closed
- From there I started looking at images of Yellowstone National Park, which I visited when I was a teen, and think it is just an amazing place
- From there I googled Jellystone for some reason
- From there I started reading about Yogi the Bear
- From there i read the history of Hanna Barbera
- Which led me to browse through the entirety of all the shows they created, my gawd, what a bunch of junk. Yeah they hit on some, but they just churned out oodles of garbage, and a fair share of stuff that would seem highly culturally insensitive.
That last item ended up being a good 90 minute rabbit hole, reading about the shows, googling clips, and so on.
I mean who can forget the likes of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey, The Herculoids, or Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse.
What's your most recent rabbit hole?
Not so much a rabbit hole that jumps me to related topics, I think was searching 1985 All Star game, which lead me to “Tears are not enough”, (the player sang it post game and fans behind them in the Dome swayed as part of the video) first the two versions of the video, then the making of it, chopped up, but then finding then full documentary.
Then from there doing a deep dive on some of the artists and people on that group for famine relief, artists I wouldve heard of back then and as growing up (I was 9 at the time) being now nearly in my mid 40s. You took them for granted I guess and Canadian music wasn’t cool back in the 80s for us that watched CBC Video Hits and the early Much Music days.
From David Foster and his subtle but clear ego at the time as a very young producer, to Bruce Allen a high profile manager, Anne Murray, who Allen hated before this benefit occurred, but the took over as manager years later (and Allen is still around), Loverboy and Lou Blair as manager, finding out Lou was doorman at bars here in Calgary but then opened the now defunct Refinery night club which was a Calgary hit spot for rock in the 80s, and Loverboy came from Mike Reno meeting his band mates at that club.
To Burton Cummings and his fantastic voice, to going back further with Neil Young, and then looking up backgrounds on randoms in the video like Andy Kim and Kim St John. Terry David Mulligan from Good Rocking Tonight and then Much Music was on there too and peicing together how he would’ve gotten to be in that video.
To the kissing in the lips of fans outside the studio from the dude from Platinum Blonde. Bruce Cockburn, known for his humatarian efforts and folksongs, who originally didn’t want to be part of the project, and said so to the guy who flew over there to record his single line, until he was convinced otherwise.
That benefit was a big deal back in the day, after the US and Brits had done it. Don’t think this would ever happen again, physically assembling all isn one place, with technology, and social media as the ability to raise money and cause awareness. Nevermind egos.
All in all, fascinating to take a closer look at some of these people involved in shaping Canadian music in a simpler time.
Anyways, here the video, both the studio one then the commercial one, and part 1 of the 4 parts in the documentary ( some odd Philippine credits on this version for some reason), and Good Rocking Tonight which gives a brief synopsis of the project.
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Not so much internet rabbit holes but one thing that I get sucked into is google earth. I spend inordinate time tracing highways, rivers, railways, or just looking at maps and images of various cities. Thinking of places I’d like to see, road trips to take, or even reminiscing about places I’ve been. I find it very immersive and relaxing...but when I snap out after an hour or two I can’t believe how much time has passed.
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I go down a lot of rabbit holes everyday, mainly because I have the attention span of a gnat.
Just putting together the wrestling lists today was a rabbit hole.
I started out looking up wrestling themes and storylines. Then you see the names and wonder what happened to them, then you research their names and end up reading about Buck Zumhofe's trial.
Or I'll be doing some research on something history wise, and end up diving into technologies of war, and then end up reading about German super weapons that were hideous failures.
Look up the Maus and P1000 Ratte tanks if you're bored, I also learned that the Germans were clearly interested in sonic weapons, maybe because Hitler believed in the legendary brown note and wanted to see Churchill poop himself.
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Not so much a rabbit hole that jumps me to related topics, I think was searching 1985 All Star game, which lead me to “Tears are not enough”, (the player sang it post game and fans behind them in the Dome swayed as part of the video) first the two versions of the video, then the making of it, chopped up, but then finding then full documentary.
I totally did the same thing with 80's music and landed on We Are The World behind the scenes videos, This one is funny. They realize what the background chatter noise is at about 3:20...
Daryl Hall looks like he's about to kill someone. Kenny Loggins looks like he's just happy to be there. And Michael Jackson just sings the cues instead of recording them. So crazy.
Not so much internet rabbit holes but one thing that I get sucked into is google earth. I spend inordinate time tracing highways, rivers, railways, or just looking at maps and images of various cities. Thinking of places I’d like to see, road trips to take, or even reminiscing about places I’ve been. I find it very immersive and relaxing...but when I snap out after an hour or two I can’t believe how much time has passed.
I followed the irrigation canal that goes to Chestermere, and much further. That's a neat one. Check it out if you haven't yet.
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Have you tried Wikipedia races? You and a friend (assuming you have one) each pick a random topic. One of you pick a starting topic, one of you pick an ending topic and you "race" to the end topic using only the links in the body of the articles.
A few days ago me and my wife started with Cologne Cathedral main article and the end topic was vitamin B12.
I go down a lot of rabbit holes everyday, mainly because I have the attention span of a gnat.
Just putting together the wrestling lists today was a rabbit hole.
I started out looking up wrestling themes and storylines. Then you see the names and wonder what happened to them, then you research their names and end up reading about Buck Zumhofe's trial.
Or I'll be doing some research on something history wise, and end up diving into technologies of war, and then end up reading about German super weapons that were hideous failures.
Look up the Maus and P1000 Ratte tanks if you're bored, I also learned that the Germans were clearly interested in sonic weapons, maybe because Hitler believed in the legendary brown note and wanted to see Churchill poop himself.
Jesus, I dont' know why but I'm the same way. And I'm not even a wrestling fan. Couldn't name you more then 2 current wrestlers these days who aren't from the 90s (if they are even still around). Last time I really paid to wrestling was the attitude era before I eventually faded away from watching.
Now for whatever reason, I find myself following old school WWF accounts on Instagram. I downloaded a torrent file with a bunch of PPVs from the late 90s/00s and have them in the background as I cook in my kitchen. Any big feuds during that time I've been reading about.
And I have no idea why I'm doing it lol. Just....interests me for some reason during this time.
Youtube is a time suck. A coup,e of weeks ago I fell in a giant snooker rabbit hole. I watched a pile of summary matches, “top clearances of 20xx”, “best escapes of 20xx”, funniest moments, controversies, Steve Davis trick shot shows. Youtube then suggested Minnesota Fats competition from the 70s or 80s.
Somehow that led me to watching the breakdown of famous chess matches and that got me to watching some New York chess club speed games with these trash talking players:“Brooklyn Dave” “Boston Mike” etc.
I also went down a poker hole about some controversial player Mike apostle who everyone thinks is/was cheating.
I really miss sports...
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Oh man, this latest has taken me down so far that I tracked down an obscure book: My Thirty Year War by Hiroo Onoda
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
WWII in Colour
Wikipedia and various sources on the pacific theater
the name of the last WWII Japanese soldier to surrender
Hiroo Onoda's memoirs
Unbelievably fascinating account of a soldier who spent 30 years surviving in the jungle completely convinced that WWII was still going on, and that he and his men were surrounded by the enemy until he finally surrendered in 1974.
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