The Mandolorians are a race of people repeatedly almost decimated by genocide who now live scattered across the galaxy. These rootless cosmopolitans sometimes blend into their new societies. More often, however, they’re forced to support themselves by turning to professions their societies despise.
— Is The Mandalorian a Space Jew?, by Nathan Abrams on JewThink. Abrams is quoting Charlotte Gartenberg in The Tablet.
Harrison Ford is Jewish? If I knew that, I forgot.
Gentleman on Twitter posts his “sleep stack”—12 products and three practices he uses to sleep. Ryan Broderick is befuddled:
The “sleep stack” tweet has really thrown me. The fact the user tagged all the products he’s using. The fact he called it a “stack,” as in a “tech stack”. The fact other people in the replies are sharing their own “sleep stacks” as if this is totally normal. I think there’s a growing subset of people — especially in America — that want to both optimize and also commodify every part of their lives. I think some of these people feel a genuine discomfort when they do something that doesn’t involve spending money or buying products. Anyways, the best “sleep stack” I ever heard was from Steve Harvey back when he used to host a morning radio show and it was “a Benadryl and some silk underwear.”
The tweet..
jwz: Welcome to year four of 14 days to flatten the curve..
The pandemic is still killing 11,000 people per month in the US alone, but supposedly it’s over. I guess that’s what “over” means now.
If you choose to stand around inside a crowded room without wearing a mask — I think you’re a fucking idiot.
Turns out, nearly every person I know is a fucking idiot.
I do not claim to be smarter than anybody else about this. I’m no more careful than anybody else. I stay home more than most people, but that’s my nature.
At last we have a definitive answer to the question of whether masks work.
That answer is “maybe.”
Ars: Do masks work? It’s a question of physics, biology, and behavior
Just now I was unsuccessful trying to eat lunch and I realized after multiple failed attempts that I was holding the spoon upside down and that’s how thing are going lately.
I saw these ducks in a puddle. Not to be confused with snakes in a plane. 📷
Our story opens with a Mandalorian Bar Mitzvah.
We were at Lake Murray, about a mile from home. It came on in seconds, and hit hard, a barrage of pellets the size of BBs. Uncomfortable for us both. We took shelter in the lee of the snack bar adjacent to the Kiowa Street parking lot.
The storm passed in 10-15 minutes and we moved on, both pretty wet. I hadn’t worn rain gear, because the forecast called for rain in the morning but not the afternoon.
I’m continually impressed by what a tough little dog Minnie is. She can’t have been happy being hammered by ice BBs—I know I wasn’t—but her attitude was, “All right, we’re doing this now I guess.”
I was taking this photo of the lake at the precise moment the storm hit. When I took my phone out of my pocket, no precipitation. Seconds later: heavy hail.
That white stuff on the ground in the second photo is hail.
Father of cellphone sees dark side but also hope in new tech (AP / Kelvin Chan)
94-year-old Marty Cooper, credited with inventing the mobile phone in 1973, sees dark sides but also hope in new technology
Cooper talks with the Associated Press about the mobile industry’s current and future directions and challenges.
As for his own phone use, Cooper says he checks email and does online searches for information to settle dinner table arguments. > However, “there are many things that I have not yet learned,” he said. “I still don’t know what TikTok is.”
Cooper received a lifetime achievement award this week at the international Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the industry’s biggest conference.
MWC attracts 120,000+ people. Imagine going to an event like that and knowing all those people are there because of you.
Do you have a Zoom shirt?
When was the last time you laundered it?
