11.27.2020
A cautionary note
The movie, Apollo 13, currently heading our movie list, comes scarily close to a kissing scene in the early going and may include an episode of baby-kissing as well (by that time I had lost focus on the canoodling question), but it is definitely worth taking a chance on anyway because it's a brilliantly good film.
Also they had to squeeze It onto those Verizon smartphones
Live spectators at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade wish they’d just stayed home
"This year’s parade was a deeply compressed made-for-TV live event — stretching just one block, in front of the iconic department store’s Herald Square headquarters."
499 bottles of beer on the wall…
Woman smashes 500 bottles of booze in British supermarket
The woman entered an Aldi supermarket in Stevenage, England, and began breaking 500 bottles of alcohol that caused around $130,000 in damages, according to local reports.
"Robots are having a moment"
Robots on the rise as Americans experience record job losses amid pandemic
They can check you in and deliver orange juice to your hotel room, answer your questions about a missing package, whip up sushi and pack up thousands of subscription boxes. And, perhaps most importantly, they are completely immune to Covid-19
11.26.2020
Dreary-cold and rainy here…
…but maybe more pleasant where you are—whatever the momentary conditions, happy Thanksgiving to all.
On a slightly less momentary note, somebody on Twitter this morning inquired how many of us have been on the internet since the long-ago year of 1993 (when the internet was still spelled with a capital I). I was.
I also, for the faded record, had a blog before the word "blog" was invented, and it was not that much different from this one in spirit, if not in execution. According to the internet (which, of course, knows everything now) "blog" became a word in 1998. I have no tangible record of a blog before that year, but I do have one from that year—November 11, 1998, to be exact. Its skeleton still exists on the Wayback Machine, here. (None of its links work, of course—link rot carried to its ultimate conclusion.)
11.25.2020
Seriously? Does anybody use mousepads any more?
(Found on Amazon.)
If you'd asked me, "What if your zoom crashes?"…
What if Zoom crashes on Thanksgiving? These video meeting choices can save your virtual family gathering
…even a year ago I would have had no freakin' idea. Now I understand the question, at least, which may be easily mistaken for progress.(Within this article is a link to yet another article about the technical aspects of arranging a proper 2020 Thanksgiving—video lighting, special microphones, etc. No, Bunky, just a little cranberry sauce is no longer enough.)
11.24.2020
To [somebody] belongs the spoils
‘People are pissed’: Tensions rise amid scramble for Biden jobs
“The Obama staffers are now cutting out the people who got Biden elected,” said a senior Biden official channeling the feelings of the old guard of the Biden campaign, who requested anonymity for the obvious reason. “None of these people found the courage to help the VP when he was running and now they are elevating their friends over the Biden people. It’s f----- up.”
11.23.2020
11.22.2020
Regardless of whatever whatever…
(Or irregardless, if you prefer, a word listed enthusiastically by Merriam-Webster and noted, albeit somewhat snootily, by Oxford)
…of what you may be reading somewhere else, this from the Associated Press:
What does emergency use of a COVID-19 vaccine mean?
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