Aberlour10 Posted May 29, 2016 Report Share Posted May 29, 2016 #PEPE#FALLIN'#LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist Estimated reading time: 12+ minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 #PEPE#FALLIN'#LOLI 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 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 articleShe 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted June 1, 2016 Report Share Posted June 1, 2016 Reviled by Many Russians, Mikhail Gorbachev Still Has Lots to Say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 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 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 From Sam Sifton's cooking newsletter: 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." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandakh Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 God Bless Ryan White. His suffering changed the entire world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted June 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-mother-killed-cops-fatally-shooting-daughters-article-1.2687929 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.2687929Candidate for Darwin award? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandakh Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 error, so deleted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 Why Facts Don't Unify Us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted September 16, 2016 Report Share Posted September 16, 2016 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talkes to David Remnick about politics and mortality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 so quiet in this thread that I am able to hear how potatoes are growing in Idaho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiros Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 It's been that way in the whole water cooler with the exception of one topic. For the last 14 months and the next four weeks, the American people are charged with choosing a new Chump-in-Chief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted October 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 Why is it when I'm having a nice time getting along someone on t.v. always has to explain his escape from tragedy by claiming that god has a plan for him? Really? I don't bother you telling you my inane beliefs - why must you pester me with yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted October 30, 2016 Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 Happy Divali to all those celebrating the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, hope over despair. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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