🖋️ LongForm
Want to reduce the noice and just focus on things with a little more meat - the this category is for you. Like so much on this site we have a ‘WIP’ as i take some out - and put some in - but safe for at least starting in 2026.
Hello
Posting from my iPad - and simultaneously using IFTTT to drop my posts into DayOne - which (BTW) is rather a neat app for journaling.
'T' In Mediation Helps Keep Balance
Just realized that having some 't' in the middle of a 'mediation' will result in 'meditation'.
Larry Just Used Oracle To Pay Himself $3.5 Billion
Oracle just bought a company Larry Ellison mostly owns, entitling him to $3.5 billion in cash - #STUNNED
well - actually not. Is anyone?
Laszlo Bock Moves On ....
This is big news …. be interesting to see what he does next.
A lot of unemployment evolves from information asymmetry, meaning I have a taxonomy of skills and abilities that are hard to articulate, and resumes don’t do a good job of capturing them. Employers have a set of jobs, but are terrible at both articulating what they need, and actually filtering candidates.
If you can somehow bridge that information gap, and better match people with jobs, in the short term you can get a lot of people jobs that don’t have them. But in the medium term, you can do really interesting things. If you’re a welder in Detroit, we can say you should go to nursing school and move to Atlanta, and this is the program you should go to, because this nursing school is correlated with people getting jobs. And Atlanta has the most growth in that area.
It’s very interesting stuff. But that’s all a little in the future.
BB Shows How It Is Done
It is extraordinary to listen to this. But then when you watch it and realize for half the song he is changing a string on his guitar - no beat missed ... well, I sit in awe.
The Vision Of Central Park
I like this analogy.
Comparing the growth and infrastructure of New York to The Internet.
And The Winner Of 'The Most Popular Product Of All Time' Is ....
Apple took about 2,450 days to sell the first 500 million iPhones and only 836 days to sell the second 500 million iPhones. That’s some growth curve.
Of course - Apple is doomed to fail. This was a poignant reminder ...
A billion iPhones in 9 years, built on a foundation of constant doubt. That’s one hell of a thing.
Jobs? What Jobs?
Apple's secondary manufacturer, Pegatron, is following in the footsteps of Foxconn and beginning to automate its factories — and cutting back on new hires as a result, according to the company's chairman.
Remember how Trump talks about 'bringing back the jobs' .... even the jobs we can't do in this country wont be coming back - the jobs we could do were automated a loooong time ago,
Anyone can now print out all TSA master keys
Since the hackers didn't have a photo of the last key, they bought as many Safe Skies locks as possible, took them apart and examined their innards. Anyone with access to a 3D printer can now reproduce all eight keys.
seriously - imagine if their 'partners in crime' had the back door 'keys' to all of our online security.
#IncompetenceWritLarge.
The Aisles Will Be Full When The Ailes Trial Happens.
I never really thought that the Cosby saga would have gone this far. Now I see that Ailes is in the spotlight, I have high hopes that finally someone will put him into his box. And I can't wait until they subpoena Mr. Trump.
Read All About It.
Lest We Forget ...
Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) led the push for Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Following a disappointing election in November 1998, he announced he was stepping down as Speaker and resigning from Congress.
Gingrich later admitted that, while he was pushing for Clinton’s impeachment, he was engaged in an affair with a Congressional aide. “There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them”, Gingrich said in 2007.
He later said the situation was ‘complex and, obviously, I wasn’t doing things to be proud of.
You mean like now ?
Steven Wilson Dedicates Lazarus to Prince and Bowie
From The UK
Following Opeth at their best would be a tall order for any accomplished musician and whilst Steven Wilson doesn’t quite manage to match them, the former Porcupine Tree frontman makes a damn good fist of it. With the majority of the set made up of songs from his fantastic fourth solo album, Hand. Cannot. Erase. he was never going to pale into insignificance and the material from that record sounds particularly transcendent, with Routine and Home Invasion both being solid highlights. The new material especially benefits from the surround sound and given that it’s an experience the majority either can’t afford or simply do not have space for in their own homes, it’s mad to think that more artists aren’t employing its use as a means to get people to live gigs. The crowd here are treated to four Porcupine Tree songs, including Lazarus (dedicated to David Bowie and Prince) and Sleep Together, but it’s a testament to Wilson’s dynamic latter work that most of the best moments come from his material away from that band. Everything from the agitated industrial stomp of Index to the gorgeous, heavenly, transcendent closer, The Raven That Refused to Sing remind us that, incredibly, Wilson’s best work may still be ahead of him.