Tidbits for Monday, or the Week, Reading…

‘Roma’ star Yalitza Aparicio is so much more than her Oscar fairy tale Cory Doctorow: Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me Technological disruption is everywhere from AirBnB to Uber to… Mr. Doctorow hits the nail on the head on the Silicon Valley’s obsession…

So, I fell down on the NaBloPoMo job… and thinking of endings.

Wed. 11.30.16 – 2016 seems to be the year of endings. After the US Elections, I saw several folks on Twitter calling 2016 ‘anno horribilis’. I am not quite ready to call it a horrible year, as we still have another month to the…

Yesterday.

. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Video from last night’s Daily Show of Jon Stewart speaking of yesterday’s South Carolina church shooting, watch it. ‘Honestly, I have nothing, other than just sadness. That once again that we have to peer into the abyss of depraved violence that we…

The Temple Begat the City: 11,000 Year Old Temple, and Vice Versa with the First American Heretic or Independent

Be you a-theist or a theist, three great links were found on the Inter-Tubes today, one is on Anne Hutchinson and the other two are on the recent archaeological find of an 11,000 year old Turkish temple complex. It appears that religion started before…

I Miss My Nokia, Or Why Nokia Should Have a Finance Plan in the US

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with a Nokia N97. Lauren and Dave are getting married on Saturady in Seattle and I am a bridesmaid. This afternoon I drove up to Glendale to meet up with Felicity Lao and Kim Ray for a trial wedding…