Furthur 10/4/2011 The Joint, Las Vegas, NV

I: China Cat Sunflower > Minglewood Blues, Maggie’s Farm, Cosmic Charlie, Welcome to the Dance > China Doll, Like a Rolling Stone > Casey Jones

II: Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion > Viola Lee Blues > In the Midnight Hour > Viola Lee Blues > Why Don’t We Do It in the Road > Viola Lee Blues, Weather Report Suite Prelude/Part 1 > Let It Grow, Stella Blue, Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain

E: Liberty

Phish, August 8th at the Hollywood Bowl.

SET ONE
Down With Disease
Cavern
Possum
Cities
Peaches En Regalia
Kill Devil Falls
Lawn Boy
Tube
Back On The Train
Wilson
Axilla I
Split Open and Melt
Backwards Down The Number Line
SET TWO
Carini >
Crosseyed And Painless >
Twist
Piper >
Mike’s Song >
Joy
Weekapaug Groove
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
Hold Your Head Up >
Weekapaug Groove
Character Zero
Quinn The Eskimo
ENCORE
Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan
Julius

Phish, 6.3.2011

Friday, 06/03/2011
DTE Energy Music Theater, Clarkston, MI

Soundcheck: The Joker [unconfirmed and possibly incomplete]

Set 1: Wolfman’s Brother, Funky Bitch, Sample in a Jar, NICU[1], Mike’s Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Tela, Chalk Dust Torture, The Wedge

Set 2: Down with Disease[2] -> Fluffhead > David Bowie, Waste > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Cavern

Encore: Good Times Bad Times

[1] Happy Birthday teases from Trey.
[2] A Love Supreme jam.

Nevada Supreme Court ruins Sandoval’s budget proposal

According to the Las Vegas Sun:

A ruling Thursday by the Nevada Supreme Court opened a $656 million hole in Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed budget, a problem roughly 10 times what had been originally anticipated, according to new figures from his administration.

NSHE in the Chronicle of Higher Ed

Gotta love it when the Nevada System of Higher Education is in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Is Higher Education the next bubble?

This blog in the Economist suggest while higher education is expensive, it may not be a ‘bubble,’ contrary to some beliefs.

“Education is being swept away in a tsunami of ignorance, a lack of foresight, and a love of the dollar”

This is such a great letter I had to share it. It’s from yesterday’s Las Vegas Sun.

Haight Ashbury, April 2011

127 Hours

The message from 127 Hours is

 Don’t buy a cheap made-in-China multi-tool

So I bought a Leatherman Juice XE6