Stray Hawkeye

This makes me happy.  John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek slug out their opposing theories of macroeconomics in a rap dual (don’t worry, it’s not actually that long, the last minute or so is credits):

The full lyrics and a download-able version of the song are available on the video’s site.  Not only a great intro the two opposing theories, but one of the more fair juxtapositions I’ve seen on the topic.

Also, the comments on the video on youtube are both strangely civil and informed (for the most part), which I’m pretty sure means it broke the internet.  Though, at least currently, it still features an incendiary political ad and the top related video has a thumbnail featuring a woman bent over on her hands and knees from behind while clad in a suggestive outfit touting “tight buns”, so I suppose the internet is at least trying to reassert itself:

Ahhh, youtube

Via Boing Boing

In an effort to keep this blog one step cooler than your grandmother, I made a Facebook account for Stray Hawkeye, located here (let me know if the link doesn’t work, it should be visible to everyone).  Okay, so it’s possible your grandmother is still cooler, but I’m trying here.

There’s not much on the Facebook page yet.  Like basically nothing.  However, I do have a couple ideas for it when I get some time, and I’ll point it out here when I get those set up.  More organizing a couple of events and that sort of thing than moving any actual content over there.

On the off chance you were one of the people who came across the page I had set up on Facebook for the site before, I deleted that one because a few things weren’t set up the way I wanted and it wouldn’t let me change it.  Sorry about that.  You can fan the new one now though.  And I think (not sure) that you can share photos and links and stuff on it too.  Again, let me know if you have trouble.

Also, as you may have been able to tell from my last post, I set up a YouTube channel for Stray Hawkeye as well, located here.  I know the video quality isn’t particularly great – they were all taken with the video mode on my seven or eight year old digital camera, which is old enough that having video on a camera was a pretty cool new feature.  Plus, I don’t have a lot of experience with shooting video, so basically what I’m saying is that they’re about what you’d expect on YouTube, minus the really horrible comments sections full of hatred and typos, at least so far.  I have a few ideas for some more videos, but admittedly they’re near the bottom of the priority list and will be pretty time consuming, so they might be quite a while.