If you want to see women walking while talking on the phone, most with dogs, some pushing strollers, get out of your house and walk around the neighborhood at 7 am.
I dropped a container of imported parmesan cheese flakes on the floor the other day and swept it up and put it back in the container and now the dog gets a little cheese with her food. She’s asking to see the wine list too.
I stopped briefly on my walk yesterday to fiddle with my iPhone, and this beautiful cat came out from behind some bushes to say hello. After pausing a moment to make sure I wasn’t going to do anything violent, she flopped at my feet. 📷
Epic Games' assertion that there's an iPhone market that Apple monopolizes, distinct from the smartphone market that includes Android, looks like bullshit to me.
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Apple kicked Epic’s Fortnite out of the App Store for terms of service violations. Fortnite immediately sued. Thomas Claburn at The Register: Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, filed a lawsuit against Apple on Thursday accusing the iGiant of illegally monopolizing iOS app distribution and app payments. The game biz earlier in the day announced a promotional initiative called Fortnite Mega Drop to allow Fortnite players to purchase in-game virtual currency and in-game items directly from Epic, at a price 20 per cent below their iOS App Store in-app purchase price.
The bizarre dimming of bright star Betelgeuse caused by giant stellar eruption [Space.com]: Betelgeuse farted.
Simulate driving through dozens of world cities while listening to local radio. driveandlisten.herokuapp.com Johannesburg driving is scary.
If you start reading a book and it’s not grabbing you, how long do you give it until you give up? Or do you always read through to the end once you start?
Facebook is refusing to remove a doctored Nancy Pelosi video. Factcheckers put ‘partly false’ label on video that has been circulating since Thursday and viewed more than 2m times www.theguardian.com/us-news/2…
When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well. www.nytimes.com/2020/08/0…
Photorealistic portraits of Roman emperors, generated by machine learning and Photoshop. medium.com/@voshart/…
Trump has had more nice things to say about a woman arrested for sex trafficking than he has about John Lewis.
How to spell “entrepreneur:” It’s got more Rs than you think.
Wilford Brimley was once a bodyguard for Howard Hughes. twitter.com/rstephens…
Clashing privacy laws between the US and Europe spell trouble for big tech
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
“If you’re a U.S. subsidiary of a big U.S. firm and you’re based in Europe, whom do you obey? The European law that says you can’t hand it over because of GDPR or the American laws that say they have extra judicial control and you’ve got to hand it over?" siliconangle.com/2020/08/0…
Mirrors only became commonplace and inexpensive in the 19th Century. Until then, almost everybody had no idea what they looked like. They had never seen images of themselves.
I saw this regal gentleman at Lake Murray. 📷
Drive-through communion at the church up the street from us. 📷
Communion was no longer running when I saw the sign while out walking yesterday. That’s a good thing because I would have hopped in my car, driven up and asked for a grilled cheese burrito and chalupa supreme with a pineapple twist freeze and then I would have gone straight to hell.
The church is Baptist but often hosts other denominations.
Too often I try to get just a couple more shaves out of an old blade. That’s a metaphor for something.