🔗 Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?
… who knows … but it sure doesn’t look good.
📺 Happy Valley
Finished the third series this past week. One of those ‘little’ shows from blighty that I do enjoy. Not sure if it was me, the soundtrack balance seemed off … OR … those Yorkshire accents have got a little thicker. Either way, if you are a fan of those off beat English murder mysteries … give it a whirl.
📺 Silo
Sooooooo good. Series 2 on the way, which will be a must, because this is only 1 of 2 shows I have seen recently where the finale closes the show and leaves you hanging and ready for the second. Definitely did not predict the ending.
2023 | 07 | 03
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🎵 Today I learned that Glenn Hughes was named for Glenn Miller. #BridgingGenerations
2023 | 07 | 02
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An ice rink in the desert? What were they thinking? This isn’t Dubai.
It’s over 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the day here. At the moment it’s only 85 F, but then, it is 2:30am .. so of course, what else are you going to do? Start researching ice rinks.
If you know me, you won’t be surprised to learn that I’ve only just discovered that there’s a brand new Ice Rink just up the road, providing the new home for the Firebirds Ice Hockey team. (Who? No - I didn’t know of them either … but in my defence my Ice Hockey knowledge starts and very quickly ends with Wayne Gretzky … and only because of the ‘puck quote’)
Anyway, having discovered that we have an Ice Hockey Team in the ‘hood .. I quickly moved on to the inevitable question … ‘what the hell were they thinking?). I asked my friend who was waxing lyrical over this super, state of the art, ice rink - come - performing arts center …
The idea of an ice rink in the desert didn’t seem to phase her at all. But it does phase me and so I started down the track of what this thing costs, what’s is it’s Carbon footprint .. you know ‘climate changey’ stuff, that I presume people somewhere thought through?
Still no answers. Maybe someone reading this will have an idea. Maybe more research is needed when I am more awake.
Here’s what I did find.
An ice rink in the desert? How it was built, how it stays frozen and the main man behind it
And yes Dubai has not one but two indoor ski slopes. So why shouldn’t the Coachella valley have its own ice rink?
Answers on a postcard ….
🔗 Get it, got it, good. … Gallagher reminding us that brevity is the soul of wit.
🔗 Jack Dorsey Says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘Can and Will’ Win Presidential Election., or to put another way ‘one nut job says another nut job can and will win Presidential election’.
“Kennedy is also a strong proponent of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency for which Dorsey has long been an evangelist.”
…aaahhh …
THAT explains it.
🔗 Delaware House OKs Measure Allowing Big Corporations to Vote in Local Elections.
… because you know - corporations are people too.
“If you already have iCloud Photos enabled on all of your devices, you don’t need to do anything else — your photos already sync to iCloud,” Apple explained.
Is that really right?
Anybody else having to close and reopen the Mac’s micro blog client because all you see is a blank window?
A couple of useful help links that I am dropping in here to revisit.
🔗 How to Recursively Find All Files in Directories/Subfolders by Wildcards
🔗 How to Remove Amazon Kindle Ebook DRM in 2023 … thankyou @pcora
You know that thing about ‘owning your own server’ and if not at least ‘owning your own domain’? How you should think about managing and controlling your online presence as part of your identity?
Turns out that it isn’t just corporates that can screw you over. Turns out that Harvard has done exactly that. To their Berkman alumni no less and one of the URLs caught out in the move is a listserve and blog that talks about the importance of identity.
Aaaah the irony.
About Apple's Latest Milestone - The THREE BILLION ONE
Noting that Apple just passed the THREE TRILLION Market Cap this past week - I remember all the hoopla when It passed the ONE TRILLION Market Cap threshold - but I hadn’t realised that it was as recent as 2018 - just slightly less than 5 years ago. Seems like just ‘yesterday’.
Tripling Market cap in three years is impressive enough. Doing that when you are the largest Market Cap in the world …
On Aug. 2, 2018, Apple (AAPL) made history by becoming the world’s first publicly traded company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion.
Somehow I also didn’t know that ‘the return’ was as close to Cook’s starting date as this;
- September 1997 - Steve Jobs returns to Apple
- March, 1998 - Tim Cook joins Apple as senior vice president for worldwide operations
But I do remember some older history, because I am old enough now and close enough then to recall ‘the noise’ at the time.
October 6, 1997: Michael Dell makes an infamously bleak appraisal of Apple’s fortunes. Asked what he would do with the struggling company, the founder of Dell Inc. says he would “shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
(Who’s Michael Dell again?)
March 1997 : 🔗 Ellison still wants Apple
This a headline after Steve’s close friend Larry J Ellison suggested to Steve that he just buys Apple outright - award Steve 25% of the stock - and ‘get Apple back to its rightful position.
Steve talked him out of it.
I am going to guess (we will never know) that had Larry bought Apple - it would not have become the company it is today.
Date wise, this time also marked the end of LJE’s baby sitter’s (literally) rise through the ranks of Oracle - his last position running the division responsible for putting Oracle on the Mac (pause for a moment while you contemplate that idea). Marc Benioff then went on to start Salesforce. I wonder if he would have rejoined Apple had Larry bought the company?
About those rising tides … this from today’s Guardian ….
The EA’s own guidance also says the barrier should not be closed more than 50 times a year. If 50 becomes the norm, it says, the barrier could fail.
The barrier was closed
- 4 times in the 80s
- 35 times in the 90s
- 75 times in the 00s
- 74 times in the 10s (50 times in 2013/14 alone)
So far this decade we seem to be around 20 - but we haven’t had any ‘peak years’ yet. (Wikipedia)
🎥 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, 2023 - ★★★½
Nothing wrong with a good Marvel … and this was a good Marvel … not a great one mind, good.
The continuing Marvel arc of the ‘multiverse of multiverses’ ( I wonder if they got their inspiration from the first episode of the latest Black Mirror?) sets the reset expectation and of course no sets needed … a few shots in San Francisco and the rest CGI? (Caveat .. I am no expert).
I know behind the scenes, there is a focus at Marvel of ‘getting back to story .. very apparent from the various series they launched that connects some dots and introduced back stories … but the movies still tend to be ‘Big’. I believe that this is changing soon. Can’t wait.
2023 | 07 | 01
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🔗 Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over ‘appalling lies’.
.. see how it works America?