Among all the other mind-blowingly awesome things about 2020 has been a new product named the iPhone Pro Max.
I fondly hope next year we can have an iPhone Pro Max Premium, and maybe the year after that, an iPhone Pro Max Premium Deluxe.
And so on, until someday somebody breaks the chain with a totally innovative new name like, who knows, maybe TelePhone.
…and Minnesota plays Iowa, which makes it a double-unlucky day for the Gophers, I fear.
Tomorrow Indiana plays Michigan State, both of which teams have recently upset Michigan, although scoring a win over Michigan is looking less and less like an upset every week. So in spite of everything—a zombie election, a nutso lame duck, the raging plague, and a month-long Black Friday—it might be a good weekend for watching football, at least.
Also there's some team in Ohio that seems to be doing well.
One system, Proctorio, uses gaze-detection, face-detection and computer-monitoring software to flag students for any “abnormal” head movement, mouse movement, eye wandering, computer window resizing, tab opening, scrolling, clicking, typing, and copies and pastes. A student can be flagged for finishing the test too quickly, or too slowly, clicking too much, or not enough.From a Washington Post story by Drew Harwell which is behind a paywall but available on Apple News.
The New York Times always—I mean, invariably—refers to Joebiden thusly:
"WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.…"
It literally makes me giggle. Every time.
If it weren't for everyone else in the media sphere, how would anyone know who they're talking about?
“It used to be called sewage surveillance,” says Pepper. “Now the preferred term seems to be wastewater-based epidemiology.”
Woke up this morning to an otherwise routine Associated Press story that contained this sentence:
"As the storm blew toward the town, Martin rushed out into her yard to carry her 85 show chickens to safety. "Whaaat?
From the American Poultry Association's website:
"If you like beautiful, responsive, animals, then the world of “Exhibition Poultry” may be what you have been looking for."
So the day can begin.
The hunter said he plans to mount the two together “in a fun taxidermy piece.”
Which is good, on balance. But confusing at times, as well. Take, for example, the word "populism."
Here's an article from the Los Angeles Times, dated 1985, retrieved from Wikipedia.
