If you Journal - and get stuck… don’t we all? …🔗 some ideas for you.
If you are a DayONE user - you can scroll through and add the prompts to DayONE by a simple click - or as it turns out 40 simple clicks - but then there are well over 500 of them.
In a world in which the creator of the Oculus headset claims to have invented a new virtual reality system – called NerveGear – that kills players for real when they are bumped off in a game, it is clear that Black Mirror has its work increasingly cut out.
💬 Lucy Mangan
🔗 Parcast and Gimlet Layoffs Reflect a Bigger Spotify Podcast Pivot
Maybe Podcasts will survive?
🎵 What would a modern equivalent to Jefferson Airplane performing two songs from Surrealistic Pillow on ‘American Bandstand’ and ‘talking; to Dick Clark whilst surrounded by lots of ‘young things’ be …. do you think?
It’s not a good look Bill.
Then again Harvard … neither is this.
🔗 Harvard morgue manager charged with theft, sale of body parts.
🪦 Goodbye Glenda … miss you already, but a great run.
One of the conundrums of life.
.. how are you?
.. ok .. great .. how are you?
.. good thanks.
And life moves on, with nobody knowing anything more .. and in some ways .. much less.
🔗 Beyonce concerts blamed for Sweden’s inflation
Really? Beyonce?
President Biden will meet with executives from companies like SeatGeek, Live Nation, and Airbnb today about getting rid of surprise fees and highlight new commitments being made by some of them to make prices more transparent.
As someone with English origins, who has lived in the US a long time … even today I am constantly surprised by the lack of transparency - at every turn.
Example
The restaurant advertises your drinks and food at a total cost of (say) $60.
When the bill arrives (state by state it varies but in California), it will come in at around $64.35 - with an expectancy of you ‘voluntarily’ adding a further 15 to 30% (the range I often see on restaurant recommendations).
Lets call it the ‘minimum … 15% - adding another $9.
For a total of $73.35 - fully 22% more than the advertised price.
22% of surprise fees that will not be part of Biden’s discussion.
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Anyone else noticed how many companies are borrowing more and more Apple phrases to promote themselves? I’m looking at you …
“We can’t wait to …”
🔗 Republican official appears to have moved $1.3m from non-profit to own law firm. … well, this was two days ago …do we know yet?
A sign of the times, or time to sigh?
An Adam Sandler movie producer joins forces with an heir to Wrigley to buy the assets of company on a blacklist that sells ‘spyware’.
Sure. Why Not?
🔗 Andrew Tate served legal papers after allegations of rape and sexual assault.
One by one.
Step by step.
Little by little.
Shared Notes are the bane of my life …. stemming from how I think and manage my notes measured against the method (loose term there) Jax uses.
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.. because I shouldn’t say more. 🤣
If you find it hard to find a lawyer to represent you, it tells you something.
If you find it hard to keep the lawyers you have, it tells you something.
Clients in the intersection of the two parts of the Venn diagram are going to be - shall we say - problematic?
Perusing - as you do - and came across this compilation :
📚 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams (sorry - Amazon link - couldn’t find this edition on MicroBlog)
It reminded me of a much older ‘trilogy’, penned by one Spike Milligan - who around book 5 wrote something like
Number 5 in the increasingly misnamed ‘War Trilogy’.
A week ago, CNN would have wanted to host the orange one’s rambles on Tuesday, but they didn’t even give air to the ‘event’. The Licht CNN is already becoming a thing of the past - but how large are the self inflicted wounds - and will they heal before the memorial service?