Frustrating and confusing is trying to keep track of ALL the different USB ports.
USB-A and USB-B were confusing enough.
USB-C is no better.
Du Hast by Rammstein Performed by Kids
Girl with baseball bat is my favourite. 😀
O’Keefe Music Foundation (OMF) is a non-profit from Ohio, USA.
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Thanks Val.
Here’s the original by Rammstein from 1997.
“Be a warrior not a wokester.”
Professor Galloway — like many of us — is turned off by out-of-control political correctness.
People are increasingly afraid to say what they think for fear of online backlash.
Similarly, I’m embarrassed by people outraged that William Shakespeare (for example) was racist. You shouldn’t judge people in the 1500s by today’s standards.
Instead of complaining, take ACTION.
Do something REAL.
Be a warrior for social justice.
Listen to Professor Galloway‘s podcast here.
… Structural racism is real, and our economic system is tilted, if not rigged.
The most accurate predictor of your opportunities isn’t your intelligence or work ethic but where you’re born.
But playing the victim decreases your capacity to be a warrior against these injustices. …
Reacting to every slight and demanding satisfaction from every insult is what the system wants you to do. Joining a Twitter mob seizing on a hapless middle manager or an out-of-touch English professor may feel like justice, but it’s just a cheap drip of dopamine ….
Be a warrior.
Advice to Grads: Be Warriors, Not Wokesters
Michelangelo’s David
I was much affected seeing David in Florence when I was a teenager.
Ever since, sculpture has been my favourite art discipline from the past.
Unveiled 1504.
Leonardo da Vinci was the great master at the time. Michelangelo the young upstart genius. it’s said the two were very competitive.
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Smoking Causes Lung Cancer
End of story.
See more Our World in Data smoking charts.
The best commentary on the Big Tobacco lobby was the 2005 film Thank You For Smoking.
I loved how the lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart doesn’t smoke.
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Loving my Apple Watch 6
A significant improvement to the 5 in so far as the features I use most.
Of course it’s BLOODY expensive.
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Vincent van Gogh was a Genius
Though I’ve visited many of the best art galleries and museums around the world, I’m not actually much of an Arts buff.
What I like most is sculpture.
Also the Impressionists and post-Impressionists (Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Seurat.
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The Lighthouse Land by Adrian McKinty
I love the McKinty books.
But his stab at science fiction young adult novels somehow doesn’t work for me.
The Lighthouse Land was first in the trilogy. I got through it — but won’t continue with the next two.
They would be great for young teens.
The Mosquito Coast – season 1
The Mosquito Coast is based on the novel of the same name by Paul Theroux published in 1981.
It also loosely adapted from the 1986 film which starred Harrison Ford. It premiered on Apple TV+ on April 30, 2021.
The series stars Justin Theroux, nephew of Paul …
As with many of the Apple TV shows, it’s very well done.
I recommend it. But many find the plot unnecessarily confusing with too many twists and turns.
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Season 2 will take the family to some place like where Harrison Ford ended up.
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In the Cart by Anton Chekhov
One of the great short stories, “In the Cart” was published 1897.
The author was aware of the dire conditions which teachers had to live in rural Russia.
I listened to a lecture on the tale from a book by George Saunders, professor at Syracuse University — A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
