🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
In just one week - another domain in my life is not renewed and the work there archived … not to the 🔗 BIG archive … no … 🔗 right here
🔗 The Real Republican Debate Winner Was Clear, in One Sense (Apple News)
Prior to the debate, his name recognition was so low among voters that he offered $20 gift cards to anyone who donated a dollar to his campaign to meet the threshold of 40,000 individual donors needed to earn him a spot in the debate.
Hashtag #Winning !
🔗 Subway sold to Arbys and Dunkin owner Roark Capital (Apple News)
Roark Capital, which has $37 billion under management, specializes in franchised businesses and owns multiple restaurant chains. Its brands include Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin', Jimmy John’s and Sonic.
Why is this allowed? Isn’t this the exact consolidation of power in a market that the FCC is meant to be watching?
If you were in need of a new source for good quotes … well, I just stumbled over 🔗 this.
Weasel Insurance
If your laptop is ruined by rain pouring in from a hole in the roof, you can get reimbursed. But if it’s ruined by floodwaters, your renters policy won’t cover it.
( 🔗Apple News)
🔗 Simon Cowell sells London home for £30m below asking price.
He was asking 45 million - he took 15 million. Now that’s a discount!
🔗 Someone Paid Almost $2 Million for the Rusted Shell of a 1954 Ferrari
Puts that $2.5 million electric sports car that Marques was testing the other day into perspective.
They used to be ‘deplorables’ Is ‘listless vessel’ a promotion?
🔗 Ron DeSantis calls Trump supporters ‘listless vessels’ in Republican broadside.
🔗 In photos: Tropical Storm Hilary unleashes flooding and mudslides California - The Washington Post
I guess WaPo had a photographer on hand in Coachella Valley. Hardly anything about LA.
That riverbed is normally dry.
David Merfield and Blot Once More Deliver. Simple Solution - but QUITE BRILLIANT
Blot Delivers. Again.
🖇️ Back in 2020 I wrote this. Then just a few days ago 🔗 I asked again … this time I also pinged David.
The nub?
How it would be really useful when on a public page on a blot site - e.g. this one - to be able to have a single click that takes you to the file in dropbox - which you could then edit and save, so updating the site.
The current method is to take note of whatever the content is - open up dropbox and navigate to the file, which may - or may not - be as easy as it sounds. For me - because of how I structured my dropbox - it is generally a pain in the neck.
No More.
Thanks to David I know have a bookmark that he wrote for me.
Now I can click on that book mark and voila - there is the dropbox file.
Let me know if you would like the code.
🔗 AI bots are better than humans at solving CAPTCHA puzzles
… well, they could hardly be worse - if I am any measure.
A lot of people look at Italy as a great place to go for a low cost vacation.
Meanwhile ….
I first read about DEW being ‘the cause’ of the fire the day after the fire started (and I rarely see crackpot stories, unless I am searching.) … more than a week later ….
🔗 🌺 Hawaii fires: spread of conspiracy theories reveals tech firms’ failings.
.. and a quick search will reveal the distraction from the real problem that is developing.
🔗 😂 Top jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 - British Comedy Guide
… don’t let the date fool you. STILL FUNNY.
I think the ‘🔗 start page’ is there, though I still need to fill in some of the pages on the click through.
I get what Doug Belshaw writes at a big picture level, but thinking of income without the context of cost of living is not useful and maybe misleading.
To quote his quote …
People at Income Level 4 earn more than $32 a day. At this Income Level, we find thee richest billion on the planet, who work in jobs that typically require at least 12 years of education – something those on the lower Income Levels cannot currently aspire to.
If you earn $32 each and every day in the good ol' USA - you are earning $11,680 per year - $1,000 per month which is not going to go too far by my calculations.
🔗 Jeopardy! - What’s changing amid writers' strike
What’s changing? Nothing. Same old same old - just repeated and remixed. Sounds like a recipe for massive success.
BUT - in light of this - I wonder if writers will want to return to the format when we are all done and dusted?