”Life has this funny way of marching forward without any explicit consent.”
… received in an email this morning.
It does!
📝 ⌨️ 🖊️ 🖋️ Om on Why Pen and Paper are good for you.
I really don’t care if the Slayer logo is on the side of a little 🚗 driving around in circles, but their replacement by Pods suggests that there is no Marketing strategy behind the little 🚗 team.
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RIP Peter.
A Brief Briefing : Innerwear sales reveal a slowdown
Who knew that briefs were canaries?
Trump to Meet With Top Advisers to Consider Deal With Taliban
“… whether the Taliban can be trusted to meet its pledges.”
I would recommend that the Taliban talk to Iran about whether the American’s can be trusted to meets its pledges.
How YouTube Radicalized Brazil
Nuff Said.
Yowza - and then I realized.
White professor investigated for quoting James Baldwin’s use of N-word
Fox News host compares migrants entering US to Nazis
Just received an email that opens:
”Whoops! We experienced some technical difficulties this morning and the e-mail we sent you had some errors in the bill descriptions. We’re so sorry and promise not to cut-and-paste before our morning coffee.”
Technical difficulties. Got it.
I passed three people being ignored by pretty much everyone passing them the other day. They had placards and handouts and tables and everything.
Their message was simple:
The House of Lords in the UK are working with the US Deep State to over throw tRump.
Say what!
Have they looked at the state of the UK recently?
I know that you can’t make this stuff up - except they can
No need to click through - it is the drivel you might expect.
”Running for Senate Would ‘Not Be Good Enough for This Country’"
Beto O’Rourke
The arrogance of this guy is exceeded only by his lack of understanding of what it takes to win EVERYTHING - including the Senate.
2% … and falling …
It would be so much better if the new Apple podcast app allowed you to add any podcast you happen to be in to ‘a station’.
Right now you exit the stream - go to a station - edit - scroll through the podcasts to find it again - add it - and then go back to what you were doing.
People First - What Next
I have a schedule of material that I am working on, but what would you like to read about next? What drives you to read this weekly missive? What topics are you most interested in reading about. Learning about?
👁️ 🔗These Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer
Now there’s a clever thing. At least if you’re a bad person that is.
De Blasio campaign event in Iowa draws roughly 15 attendees
Roughly?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
It really isn’t that hard to count to fifteen.
I have a feeling that once all the betas are production, the new reminders app is going to be back on my home page and Things and Omnifocus will move to my ‘hidden’ folder.
FBI and DoJ launch investigations into Jeffrey Epstein’s death
”Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell.”
Now THAT is a joining of dots that had hitherto eluded me.
Listening to Dave and Jim on the the Dalrymple podcast - my summary of their views in the first 6 minutes …
Samsung is the Donald Trump Of Corporations.