”This is COVID 19 folks .. not Covid 1 …”
Good Grief
”Because nothing says ‘no surrender’ like the Confederate Flag.”
Stephen Colbert
”The only investment strategy, portfolio, or retirement planning any person needs is the following: Buy the stocks of firms that are unregulated monopolies and nothing else. I’ve followed this dictum for a decade, and it’s worked … well."
Scott Galloway
It is clear that some users broadcast into MB but never visit here. Result - any comments/questions you make will never even be received, much less replied to.
A bit like most of my posts.
A while back someone in the community mentioned the new templates in Keynote. All good - but have you seen the new templates in Pages?
SPECTACULAR
The big news over in New Zealand is that there are now more people that have recovered than there are active cases and still the lockdown continues, may extend and even when it does end - it won’t fully open.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to push to reopen America.
UK Border Force told US woman to go home because visit was ‘non essential’.
Right? Wrong? Stupid? Human? Illegal? Different Times?
What do we all think?
R.I.P. Wunderlist
What goes around comes around.
Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (ca. 1353).
”… a bingeworthy collection of tales told by seven women and three men who’ve fled the city and confined themselves in an empty villa in the countryside.
I really should unsubscribe from Gotham Girl … but I don’t. I guess it’s my ‘Bachelor’ or ‘Love Island’ or ‘Real ‘Housewives’ secret pleasure … come to think of it - I think she’d fit right in to a twist on ‘Real Housewives of New York’.
It’s curious to hear the argument - from intelligent people - that the lockdown strategies aren’t neccesary. This is their rough statement of logic:
‘Look how small the numbers are, they are nothing like what they were predicting, so why are we locked down?’
I mentioned Palast in some dialogues yesterday - here he is in Salon ..
I wonder if they thought about this …
Nobody Should Adopt Social Distancing.
Now 'Physical Distancing', That's Different. Definitely Do That.
Eamonn Holmes under the hammer as daytime TV’s fiercest sleuth goes rogue.
I linked to this story yesterday.
In less than 24 hours he has retracted. But apparently it’s the fault of the audience. Not his.
COBOL, Programming, and Coding
”There are a lot of self-described coders out there who couldn’t program their way out of a paper bag.”
John Gruber
Solving the wrong problem really well.
The financial markets are rallying because they can feel that companies are soon going to be back at work.
They should really be asking when the buyers will go back to buying.