”The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend. B.B. King was born a sharecropper’s son in Mississippi, came of age in Memphis, Tennessee, and became the ambassador who brought his all-American music to his country and the world. No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.
Three years ago, Michelle and I hosted a blues concert at the White House. I hadn’t expected that I’d be talked into singing a few lines of “Sweet Home Chicago” with B.B. by the end of the night, but that was the kind of effect his music had, and still does. He gets stuck in your head, he gets you moving, he gets you doing the things you probably shouldn’t do – but will always be glad you did. B.B. may be gone, but that thrill will be with us forever. And there’s going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight.”
– President Barack Obama
The blues are not about depression. The blues are about finding joy and life in the face of sorrow. And BB King sang about life and love. In honor of his life, a night owl chat.
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Sweet Little Angel
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The Thrill is Gone
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Guess Who
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Sweet Sixteen
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Live in Stuttgart
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Share your favorites, night owls.
The Obama Diary 
😯 pas moi!
Oui, vous!
Merci buckets for the honour! 😀 Now I can go catch up on this afternoon’s posts.
C’est moi! :hock: 😯
Bonsoir, tout le monde! It feels odd to walk in the gate and look around ‘all by myself’.
Open up a smartphone, tablet application, or a website these days, and you’re likely to see an odd icon slung somewhere up in the top corner of the screen.
Three horizontal lines stacked on top of one another, looking like an equals sign gone wrong. Tap or click on the lines, and then you realise, it’s a menu.
These three lines have gained a personality, and a name – the hamburger button, because stripped back to its constituent parts, it looks slightly like a hamburger inside two halves of a bun.
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The button has its benefits, he says. “The biggest one is you can put a lot of information inside it, and at the same time provide a consistent way to find this extra information. Facebook is a great example of this.”
However while the button may provide a consistent way to find extra information, research suggests it is not as functional as some might like to think it is.
“I did multiple tests,” says James Foster, a web developer based in New Zealand, who has surveyed users’ interactions with the button over the course of many months. “The results all came out the same – the icon is not as clear to some users as developers and designers think it is.”
Adding the word “menu” underneath the three lines increases the button’s use by 7.2%, according to Foster’s tests.
Putting the hamburger inside a box, so it looks like a button, increases use by 22.4%.
Switching the lines for the word “menu” makes 20% more people click, Foster found.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31602745
A liar, a swindler and a republican walk into a bar.
But then, I repeat myself.
#smh
I have been hoping all day/week to catch up, and yet again, I am beyond weary and bid you all adieu. Big hugs all around. ❤
Adieu, MP, and sweet dreamsI I’m only behind for this afternoon and I still haven’t caught up yet. Of course, it would help enormously if I didn’t wander off after each link.
GE TODville.
Thank you LL from emerging from “night owl” retirement to offer tribute to the last of the great bluesmen. I know very little about music, so please, TODville, correct me if I’m wrong…
Before I ditched my TV last year, I didn’t watch many shows, and never late night shows (way past my bedtime), so don’t know if this is sadly true (or not):
R.I.P. Mr. King. I was blessed to see him perform at the 2007 Newport Jazz Festival. Just noticed, I’m in the clip at the 0:14 second mark. That’s me in the white shorts, shell, and visor.
How fabulous! What a memory.
and there you are again at 2:49! what a great concert, and what a beautiful day!
Thanks, didn’t notice that one!
Night you all – have to get up early-ish yet can’t come online then, as I promised offspring to give him a ride to a friend’s wedding ceremony which happens to be out of town. I think I’ll drop him off at the church then go shopping for plants….maybe.
Sweet dreams!
Goodnight, TODville!
gid gawd, this dood is dumber than that pizza guy.
lol! What an utter moron!
GOOD EARLY SATURDAY MORNING TO THOSE WHO HAVE THEIR EYES PROPPED OPEN IN THIS WEE HOUR….ENJOYING THE LORD’S BEAUTIFUL COOLING RAIN AND READY FOR A DAY FILLED WITH A ‘MUST BE DONE’ LIST!…HOPE ALL OF YOU HAVE AN AWESOME DAY AND THE ENERGIZER………….PEACE AND A HUGGED HEART!…LATER KIDS…STAGE LEFT!
Morning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/05/16/early-bird-rise-and-shine-50/