‘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…
Tag: America
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…
America
Today is a bad day in the neighborhood. A shooter, or set of folks, decided that they would gun down at very short range a congresswoman, a judge, a 9 year old girl, and others outside a supermarket in Tuscon, Arizona. Assassination is never…
A Few Tasty Links for Your Fourth of July Enjoyment
It is 12:41pm here in Seal Beach, California, socked in with the dreaded ‘June Gloom’, aka the Marine Inversion Layer, and it is chilly for a mid-summer day at 66F/18C and there is a bit of wind. The Sun has made no effort to…
Tomi Ahonen on Fire! Two Rants on the State of American Mobile Carriers!
My fave quote from Rant #1, US vs Them? American wireless industry, come meet me at Camera 3: But no, Americans consumers get crippled versions of the cheapest lousiest phones you can find. Why is it that an Apple ‘innovation’ of a Forward Facing…
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…