Author: Rauf Aliev

a Friday song for your feed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0RV0kgdqJU

Have a good day everyone 🙂

Jeff Healey (1966—2008)

Born in Toronto, Ontario. His biological parents abandoned him.

When Healey was eight months old, he lost his sight due to a rare tumor—retinoblastoma. His eyes were surgically removed and replaced with prosthetics. However, this did not prevent him from learning to play the guitar, which was given to him by his adoptive parents. Healey placed it on his lap and played using the tapping technique, which he essentially reinvented.

He died at the St. Joseph’s Medical Center in his hometown of Toronto in 2008, at the age of 41, from lung cancer. After a series of surgeries to remove two sarcomas from his leg, and then from his lungs, the cancer finally caught up with him. He is survived by his wife Cristie, and two children—a daughter and a son.

Here’s a video of his duet with Stevie Ray Vaughan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HmLFyvFxTc

The guys are having a blast

they definitely got lucky with their neighbors)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgXWCaCHA0k

Slowly but surely, I’m quietly teaching myself all sorts of things. The sound is terrible because it mixes the sound synthesized by the cheapest combo amp with the noise from triggers, which shouldn’t be there at all. It sounds much cooler with decent headphones. Someday I’ll record it properly. Making noise by the local standards late into the night

Academics being academics

An interesting interview with Dan Ariely. And his channel too. The guy is really smart, I’ve read three of his books. Just that he repeats himself quite often. You could practically skip dozens of pages.

Would you share your podcasts to listen to?

It seems like the same idiots who wrote iTunes also wrote the podcast app for iOS. Everything is ass-backward. Are there better alternatives?

At least these ones admit it honestly

Great advertisement for Subway