Chicago could use some Metro Dogs

So in the late 50s some Russian scientists set up this experiment where they bread wild foxes for friendly, domesticated traits. Fondness for humans, lack of aggression, etc. They found that along with these behavioral traits also came physical traits that resembled puppies: shorter noses, raised tail, etc. You can read about it here .

Well not to long ago, in Moscow of all places, some scientists started studying metro dogs. These are dogs that have lived down in the subway system for years and ride the subway to find food. They actually know which stops they get on and off of the trains to look for food or go home at night to sleep. One of the new skills these dogs have is “the hunt for shawarma”. An interesting side affect of living in the metro is they have been unintentionally, selectively breeding for more wild traits: fear of humans, ability to scavenge. And have come to resemble wild dogs more then their domesticated ancestors.



They look so cute!

You can read more about them here. All he needs is a briefcase and a suite. Ja Ja Ja.

Record store day

Record store day is on black Friday this year, or maybe this is like a second record store day for the year, not really sure because I don't remember if i bought anything on record store day this year... either way I think is kind of lame its on black friday because I was hoping I would do no shopping on the craziest day of the year, but here are some records I'm excited for:

Bob Dylan, Can You Please Crawl Our Your Window? 7" box set
The inscrutable one contributes four of his classic singles to Record Store Day, all in mono mixes.

Wilco, Speak Into the Rose 10"
Liked The Whole Love? This release offers four alternate tracks, two of which are previously unreleased.

New apartment

Here is my new place!

October playlist

Auditorium - Mos Def
President Carter - Lil Wayne
the '59 sound - the Gaslight anthem
Old White Lincoln - the Gaslight anthem
The Rip Tide - Beirut
Your Gravest Words - The lawrence arms
Under Your Spell - Desire
A Real Hero (feat. Electric Youth) - College
Johny was - Stiff Little Fingers

Demo

I finished mixing some songs. Here they are!

Collinsville


Annabelle



3 strings


Pennies to Nebraska

Fold it!

So some researchers at at the University of Washington are attempting to use crowd sourcing to solve protein folding problems. Pretty sweet stuff

Move

All moved in! Once we get settled I'll throw up some pictures of the new place. Safe to say it is an upgrade.

Also I saw DRIVE the other day. It was really good.



go see it!

I'm hoping the bears win tomorrow and I can somehow beat Paul in Fantasy football. Here is my line up:


Matt Ryan

Steve Smith

Brandon Lloyd

Rashard Mendenhall

Ahmad Bradshaw

Rob Gronkowski

Deion Branch

Robbie Gould

Bears Defense


I really wish Romo wasn't injured and I'm hoping mendenhall will pick it up this week!