Today’s The Last Day To Register To Vote In Many Key States
In case you didn’t know .. and you have a car … because a lot of the convenient registration places are closed … at least in the South.
Also on the click through .. a picture of trump giving us all a fist bump.
How to delete your Google+ account.
… before they do it for you in the middle of next year.
If you read something on Kottke and about an hour later, the exact same thing again on a different site … what likliehood is it that the second site saw it on Kottke first.
Asking for a friend who often experiences this and notes that Kottke is rarely credited in the second post.
SVT’s Data Chief Helena Bengtsson seeks social justice through spreadsheets
… well, not quite. Interesting article describing how one journalists uses data to get to her stories.
Can you miss something you never use?
I first heard about Indigenous People’s Day this morning … and I thought ‘interesting’.
I just spotted this in my calendar
Apparently it is already a thing.
Note to self - get out more.
Sometimes Decisions Are NOT So Black and White
Do you pay Medium to read their … sorry our … stuff?
Do you get alerts from Medium as to what is available?
Is it always for paid stuff?
Is there ever a promotion of free stuff?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Teething Problems at Starbucks, or ….
Super Dooper new one opens, you know the kind - with the beer, wine and couches. BUT a few teething problems …
Used the phone to redeem my free drink - which they managed to take off and charge me for … I know that because they wanted more money than I had stored … took the manager to resolve that one.
As they gave me the drink, the barista sneezed all over the cup. No ‘sorry’. No ‘excuse me’. No, ‘let me get you a fresh one’. They did after I asked.
Which I returned after I sat down, since it was a Mocha, not a Latte.
Meanwhile - the locals are settling in … looks like a table to me … but it is obviously confused with a foot stool.
Note to self - don’t eat off this table … If I come back.
Well knock me down with a feather - it isn’t just me, here’s the NYT …
and yes - I am angry … but in a cold ❄️ way (thankyou @ajay )
People: Jan
Jan knows the UK and lives in Texas now, but the journey from one to the other allowed her to see the rest of the world.
She lived in Mildenhall. I’d heard of it. Used to live near there myself.
She joined the USAF to get trained, qualified and see a world ‘outside of the 50’. She left after just three years because she met and fell in love with the man who became her husband (best-laid plans and all that!). Training and Qualifications put on hold, but still traveled and saw the world. After all - her husband was still in the forces.
Now she is an antique dealer and her husband works at the nearby USAF facility. Well not just the USAF, turns out it is the only joint USAF and NATO training facility in the world.
Who knew?
People: Alex
“I spent the day with my dog.”
"What kind of dog is it?" "A Boston Terrier."
"Oh wow, do you have pictures?"
"I did, but I lost my camera and so all my pictures.""Oh no, you know these days it’s so easy to keep your photos backed up in the cloud, so you’ll never lose them."
"I know. I have Google storage and Verizon cloud, but I just never get round to doing it, because it isn't important.""Well maybe you will now."
"Maybe. But now there’s an opportunity to create a set of new memories."The differences in people are revealed by the smallest truths. I live in a world of online back ups, local back ups - duplicated and a system that allows me to recover files lost just a minute ago. Anything less would make me nervous.
There are also those people that never back up because they simply don’t know. Or they have never lost their phone, and with it their only copy of photos, phone numbers and notes.
And then there are people like Alex. He knows all about that. He just doesn’t care. He is not driven by the same triggers that drive me. He lives in the moment. For the moment.
“What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
A.A. Milne
Thinking Allowed
This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.- More about People First
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(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
Winner Of The The Nobel Peace Prize
Unless you track it, this kind of news can scoot past you before you even realize what is going on.
The 2018 winner was just announced.
"The Nobel Peace Prize 2018 was awarded jointly to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."
It’s extraordinary how people contribute to society for the better good, and you think - what can I do to be more like them?
Which reminded me of last year.
One illegitimate president helping another illegitimate president
… the proof will be in the pudding … unless something else happens first. Not that I expect it to - but you know - just as Trump says … ‘accidents happen’.
Got to say that little Dark mode extension that came out for Safari …. is making me spend more time in Dark Mode.
Daring Fireball: Microsoft Surface Event 2018: The 5 Biggest Announcements
”They all look nice.”
….Gruber
Is it just me?
I pay for stuff I pay for, that is useful to me and smooths my work - not somebody else’s.
"SoftBank is changing the tech landscape by investing massive amounts of money in startups. Increasingly, that money is coming with more strings attached."
Alfred Lee
… there is no such thing as a free lunch …