2.10.2018

A year???

Asteroid flying by Earth will be closer than the moon | New York Post


The manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, Paul Chodas, said asteroids this size usually don't come this close — just once or twice a year.

Even in the best of times

North Korea forbidden from Samsung's Olympics swag | New York Post


Norway's Olympians ended up with 15,000 eggs, rather than the 1,500 that they wanted, because they made a mistake while using Google Translate to place an order.

2.05.2018

Please tell me this is a joke. It’s a joke, right?

Doritos to make 'lady-friendly' chips that don't crunch for women | New York Post


"Women…don't like to crunch too loudly in public. And they don't lick their fingers."

Safer Internet Day USA

Who knew?

http://saferinternetday.us/

96 of the 100 most common English words are Germanic, and other nifty things about the language

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/08/12/ten-things-you-might-not-have-known-about-the-english-language/

All so you could watch it on your phone

NBC's 2018 Super Bowl goal: A glitch-free livestream

The SkyCams are among 106 cameras NBC will use on Sunday, more than the 70 deployed during each of the last two Super Bowls. The 106 figure also includes 38 cameras using 5K Ultra HD technology to create 360-degree replays and 20 pylon cameras ready to catch those ground-level shots in the end zone. NBC is also using seven 4K Ultra HD cameras, similar to those used in last year's matchup, said executive producer Fred Gaudelli.


https://goo.gl/zALkDL

Here, we watched the first half on an iPad streaming Xfinity because, due to snow, Russians, invaders  from space, or garden-variety gremlins, DirecTV's satellite was down. It came back up just in time for that halftime thing. 

Also, go birds. 

2.04.2018

Spoiler Alert

Tom Brady is 40.

Somebody—actually more like everybody and some of them more than once—will announce that during this evening's football game.

Try to act surprised.

Missouri school kids get a snake day

9-foot-long snake's escape leads to school early dismissal


https://goo.gl/PcrEMy