[Aberlour10]

#PEPE#FALLIN'#LOL

[y66]

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist

Estimated reading time: 12+ minutes

[gwnn]

 Aberlour10, on 2016-May-29, 12:48, said:

#PEPE#FALLIN'#LOL

I like Real Madrid but I hope they make an example out of him, and next season they punished all the offenders properly. If they could punish Dida pretending to be hurt by a pitch invader, why can't they punish blatant play-acting? I predict this whole phenomenon would be well-nigh eradicated in a few months if they gave 4-5 games suspension for every single "grab my face when they touch my elbow." Someone might say that a play-acting would be still worth it in a final. Very well, then punish those players for 3 months.

PS: I'm just talking about very blatant off-the-ball incidents. A striker falling easily shouldn't be as harshly punished maybe.

[kenberg]

 y66, on 2016-May-31, 13:27, said:

How Technology Hijacks People's Minds — from a Magician and Google's Design Ethicist

Estimated reading time: 12+ minutes

Actually, he is listed as a Ex design ethicist. I am not sure what to make of that fact!

The Washington Post is doing a series on the Z-generation.
http://www.washingto...ls-and-longing/

The beginning of the article

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She slides into the car, and even before she buckles her seat belt, her phone is alight in her hands. A 13-year-old girl after a day of eighth grade.

She says hello. Her au pair asks, "Ready to go?"

She doesn't respond, her thumb on Instagram. A Barbara Walters meme is on the screen. She scrolls, and another meme appears. Then another meme, and she closes the app. She opens BuzzFeed. There's a story about Florida Gov. Rick Scott, which she scrolls past to get to a story about Janet Jackson, then "28 Things You'll Understand If You're Both British and American." She closes it. She opens Instagram. She opens the NBA app. She shuts the screen off. She turns it back on. She opens Spotify. Opens Fitbit. She has 7,427 steps. Opens Instagram again. Opens Snapchat. She watches a sparkly rainbow flow from her friend's mouth. She watches a YouTube star make pouty faces at the camera. She watches a tutorial on nail art. She feels the bump of the driveway and looks up. They're home. Twelve minutes have passed.

Actually, it is pretty interesting. It turns out that she is a straight A student, taking an online algebra class, more advanced than what her school offers, from Johns Hopkins. It's a new world out there! I have not yet made my first tweet and I don't know what snapchat is, at least not really. And I see that Facebook has now come and gone, or on the way to gone, without me ever much using it.


But sometimes the past echoes. I was out front yesterday with a shovel and an axe, clearing out some space, a couple of kids came down the street with a basketball and we chatted a bit. No cell phone in sight. My world has not yet vanished, not completely.

[jjbrr]

Ken, snapchat is a service the kids use these days that was made popular, at least partially, as a platform to send each other pornographic images of themselves. This may sound ridiculous to you, and it is. No adult has any reason to use snapchat.

What a time to be alive!

[y66]

Reviled by Many Russians, Mikhail Gorbachev Still Has Lots to Say

[kenberg]

 y66, on 2016-June-01, 15:34, said:

Reviled by Many Russians, Mikhail Gorbachev Still Has Lots to Say

Huh, and huh again. I had no idea he was still alive. No doubt the same is sometimes said of me. I'll send him a belated birthday greeting.

[Aberlour10]

Summertime is a garden time. I tried this weekend a receipt from www, which I would really recommend here. Fast, easy and.... so refreshing italian style drinks...Negroni Sbagliato

https://www.youtube....NU_0g&index=134

[kenberg]

 Aberlour10, on 2016-June-05, 13:24, said:

Summertime is a garden time. I tried this weekend a receipt from www, which I would really recommend here. Fast, easy and.... so refreshing italian style drinks...Negroni Sbagliato

https://www.youtube....NU_0g&index=134

This might every well get used. ! We are having peopke over on July 4th, I may try it out on them. Of them is from Portugal, but it won't kill him to drink something from Italy.

[Aberlour10]

 kenberg, on 2016-June-05, 14:00, said:

This might every well get used. ! We are having peopke over on July 4th, I may try it out on them. Of them is from Portugal, but it won't kill him to drink something from Italy.

I used orange slices and blue wine grapes for garnish. If you give it a try, top this all with sparkling wine just a moment before you serve it.

[Al_U_Card]

 Aberlour10, on 2016-June-05, 14:05, said:

I used orange slices and blue wine grapes for garnish. If you give it a try, top this all with sparkling wine just a moment before you serve it.

From the looks of it, Ken already tried it....several times lol

[kenberg]

 Al_U_Card, on 2016-June-05, 16:30, said:

From the looks of it, Ken already tried it....several times lol

I see what you mean! I think I will leave it unedited.

All of this stuff with typing is new to me. In high school I used, if forced to do so, a Royal typewriter that my parents had, probably manufactured around 1930. My thesis was typed by someone else (later my wife) on a Selectric. (That thing with the balls. I refer to the Selectric here.) After that there were secretaries, if anyone remembers what they were. But now I type in LaTeX. This gives many more options and much more control, but good grief. I suppose I will someday try to text on a smartphone but it is likely to be indecipherable. Current political dialogue would make it sound like bragging to mention that I have thick fingers, but I do. And clumsy. And proofreading gets tougher as I get older. Oh woe is me, woe, woe.

[y66]

From Sam Sifton's cooking newsletter:

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Good morning. "If one wanted to get scrod this evening," the tourist asked the Boston cabdriver, "where might one go?" The cabby turned around and stared at him. "You know, I've probably heard that question a thousand times," he said, "but never in the pluperfect subjunctive."

[Zelandakh]

 y66, on 2016-June-06, 12:38, said:

From Sam Sifton's cooking newsletter:

It would be nice if the writer had at least used some form of the pluperfect (had + PP) or subjunctive (infinitive without to) in the story. For example: If a man had wanted to <do something> this evening, where would you suggest he go? It is not "the pluperfect subjunctive" but it does at least use both forms within a sentence. Sadly incorrectly, since the timeframes are incompatible, but at least it shows some sort of effort in making the grammatical humour work.

[mike777]

God Bless Ryan White.

His suffering changed the entire world.

[Winstonm]

http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.2687929

[1eyedjack]

 Winstonm, on 2016-June-26, 11:51, said:

http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.2687929

Candidate for Darwin award?

[Zelandakh]

 1eyedjack, on 2016-June-26, 14:03, said:

Candidate for Darwin award?

Looks like a major news story to me - American police shoot someone who is white! And in Texas too! I am thinking she probably did not have big enough hair to fit in.

[kenberg]

error, so deleted.

[y66]

Why Facts Don't Unify Us