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This is messed up.

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:37:25 -0800

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McJesus

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Tue, 15 Jan 2019 03:28:21 -0800 last edited: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 03:49:37 -0800

This is probably hyped up for the media. But Ronald MacDonald on a cross is amusing.

In 2008 a photographer friend David Eisenberg did a spread for Playboy magazine, some article about Catholics. There were photos of statues. No nude humans. They started this rumor that the Catholics in Rome were pissed, that the phones were ringing off the hook by upset Catholics complaining about the Playboy article. This story was repeated all over the world and was even mentioned on Jay Leno show., Etc.

The truth was that not one person actually complained. But magazine sales hit a record. It was free advertising.

I can guess this is a similar situation. Probably nobody is actually complaining. But its a nice story.

David has nothing to do with McJesus, but it sounds to me like a similar story. Maybe there are photos of the playboy article, i did find one recent religious person writing about it.

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Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Sat, 12 Jan 2019 18:01:54 -0800 last edited: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 18:04:22 -0800

I am totally not into the 'info wars' stuff, but a friend of mine pointed out this video of firemen talking about the paradise fires. It seems that metal was burning, like cars melting. Temperatures like 3000 degrees. But plastics and wood were not. One explanation is some sort of micowave type weapon. That only targetted metal objects. Ok it sounds nutty i know but if you check out the photos from legit news media, the buildings and cars are levelled but trees all around are not touched.

Theres plenty of photos like this.

Anyone know of a reason the buildings would burn but the trees are still green?

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Mike Macgirvin

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 18:25:06 -0800

Buildings are destroyed most often by ember attack. Trees have a smaller attack surface.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 18:50:14 -0800

Thats a point. I do like realistic explanations.

It just looks odd that all the buildings are totally levelled but many trees aren't touched. The claim is that anything touching metal was destroyed. Closeups show puddles of glass and aluminum from burnt out cars but woiden fences next to them untouched.

Anyway, it struck me as odd.

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Adam Robertson

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 21:15:34 -0800

My friend near here lost his house in the Butte Fire a couple of years ago. The house was completely leveled, just like those photos. There were several trees still standing all around the house.
Everything in the house was either ash or melted metal blobs.

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 23:25:48 -0800

That sucks for sure, sorry your friend lost it all.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:23:38 -0800 last edited: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:30:34 -0800

As kids on a school trip, the fire department explained that with the advancement in fire hose nozzles, a tea-cup sized amount of water can become misted water by the nozzle, and when this mist is bursed through the front door, this can be enough to put out a fire in a house, because the surface area of millions of tiny droplets can more easily interact with the fire than a beam of water.

Trees do burn. However, all trees breathe, some have a very large surface to breathe through, because of their gnarly bark, and they can store large amounts of moisture, unless they have spent it all due to drought to keep alive. None of that is true for a metal car or building. Aluminium melts at 660 degrees Celcius, alloy even less, e.g. 450.

My hypothesis: I think trees can protect themselves by releasing millions of tiny droplets over their large gnarly surface area, the more gnarly the better, if they are properly hydrated when the fire comes, and the fire is not sustained around them for too long.

Edit: bark thickness seems to be key to surviving fires, see research https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/02/19/how-some-trees-can-defend-themselves-against-fire-and-worse/ylRq5uRDX8axqUa1IK0U2N/story.html

Manuel

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:36:56 -0800

@Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum) Oh, how interesting!

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:49:41 -0800

Trees are cool.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:58:44 -0800

It is bit hard to tell from the photos, but these look like pine trees, and these are tough. Each needle also add to the surface area of tree. As a scout, when building a fire, we would find and collect dried twigs and needles at the bottom of the pine trees, which burn easily, but healthy twigs and needles must be dried first, or all you got was smoke.

ivan zlax

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 02:07:09 -0800

@Waitman Gobble Inside the tree trunks goes sap flow. The foliage and bark have time to burn out, but the living trunks and branches simply dry out. Dry wood, of course, burns. This is one of the likely explanations.

In soviet forestry, three types of forest fires were divided: higher, bottom and soil (peat).
If the fire was just a bottom (forest floor/litter also burned) - such an explanation is very likely.
If the fire was a higher - this explanation no longer so likely, but also probably.

ivan zlax

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 02:10:20 -0800

@Waitman Gobble

woiden fences next to them untouched.

It is very strange. With any kind of fire, dry wood fences would catch fire. Unless they were painted with special high-tech paint that prevents burning.

ivan zlax

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 02:19:34 -0800

@Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum) Even fresh needles burn well at high temperatures (because there is no sap, as in a maple, but resin). Especially if there is wind.
Fresh foliage (hardwoods) does not burn well and creates smoke.

Как горит хвоя?
by Валерий Гриценко on YouTube

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 03:29:23 -0800

Thank you, Ivan! Very interesting!

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:58:25 -0800 last edited: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:02:56 -0800

Here is a good interview with a music producer, seems like a real artist. The title of the article isn't actually representative of the article. In my opinion. Yeah, Courtney Love's solo album sucked and he didn't produce it. But the interesting stuff is his thoughts on the music industry today.

I almost didn't bother reading it because of the title.

These musicians are – a lot of them are in their early 20s. I think they suffer from the fact that in their schooling system, there wasn’t really that type of discipline that you and I experienced. I don’t know whether they’re as willing to take instructions.

“The thing is that if you put something to that to an artist or a musician who has basically developed a skillset based around a genre as opposed to the need to express oneself, you essentially have to walk them back or forward, depending on where they’re coming from, and have them re-examine their priorities.

https://www.alternativenation.net/courtney-love-soundgarden-collaborator-reveals-quit-terrible-album/

Fair Warning

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:01:53 -0800

I still think this is their best album, although it had the worst sales of their albums. :)

Interestingly, Esquire Magazine lists this as one of the 75 Albums Every Man Should Own. lol
(i think it's true, every track on here is killer)

It's Friday, let's have some Mean Street.

Van Halen Mean Street
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el veciet

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:40:26 -0800

I think too

Peer-Reviewed Physics Wikipedia Pages

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Fri, 11 Jan 2019 06:19:03 -0800

Peer-reviewed physics for Wikipedia: PLOS ONE Topic Pages | EveryONE: The PLOS ONE blog

We're excited to introduce PLOS ONE Topic Pages in physics, which are peer-reviewed review articles written with Wikipedia in mind.

Actually.

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Wed, 09 Jan 2019 20:05:26 -0800

I can guess more weird stuff will continue to happen. This restaurant has been automated for a few years. There are very few employees. You make your order on a big touch screen and your food arrives on a conveyor.

So somebody walking in with their bloody dead pet roadkill racoon would not be noticed by employees. Maybe they will get drones.

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sun, 06 Jan 2019 08:08:57 -0800

The Norwegian art of the packed lunch

Could we all learn something from Norway's culture of ‘matpakke’?

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Klaus

Sun, 06 Jan 2019 12:35:11 -0800

Oh I loved this in Norway! Also remembering "mellommat".

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Sun, 06 Jan 2019 22:30:36 -0800 last edited: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:34:10 -0800

Matpakke is a very affordable lunch where you get what you like each day at school or work. However, there are a number of things wrong in the article, mainly how strict it is - that is myth making. People use their favourite bread, most use their favourite butter or margarine as base for their favourite "pålegg" or topping if you like. The point is you bring your own lunch in your bag, so you do not want something that will leak and stain the content of the bag, as well as not destroy the wrapping and food if you did not use a small lunch box. As a kid, I switched between plastic wrapping, paper wrapping or lunch box as needed. When using a box, it typically is only large enough for what you bring along - one, two, three or four slices. I preferred a topping of either black sliced sausage, coarse liver paste, jam or chocolate spread, more than cheese. The pålegg described in the article is wrong. Yes, some people eat the cheese described, except that it is the wrong cheese. Brunost or G35 is our export item, but it is quite bitter as well as sweet. Most people do not eat that. We eat Fløtemysost made from cow milk. It is a mild caramelized brown cheese. We do not cut cheese, we use wafer thin slices made with a "ostehøvel", if not brunost is too much. The fish in tomato sauce has a number of slur names to describe how much people dislike being served it or being near its smell, e.g. "plane crash" or "menstruation on a slice of bread". The liver pâté is mild and annoying, mostly eaten by kids, many add cucumber slices on it. It needs to be said that many schools and work places do offer both cold and warm lunches, but matpakka is still cool.

It even has its own song, but that is another tale.

el veciet

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 07:35:29 -0800

It is always good to have an "original" (in this case @Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum) ) to know how things are

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:48:35 -0800 last edited: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:34:43 -0800

"Matpakkevise" by Lorentzen/Dolmen or freely translated by me as "The Ballad of The Wrapped Lunch" is a kindergarten and lower elementary favourite folk song or ballad by children comedy song writers and actors "Knutsen og Ludvigsen" or the late Gustav Lorentzen and Øystein Dolmen (living) as they are really called. Everyone in Norway know at least one song by Knutsen and Ludvigsen who lived in an abandoned train tunnel, most know many of their absurd and funny songs. A personal favourite is "There is a cow in the tunnel".

Anyway, back to "Matpakkevise", which is sung in a mock lament voice about how difficult it is to eat your wrapped lunch, every two lines have a simple end rhyme, and it goes like this:

Det er ikke morsomt å spise sin mat
når den ligger i pakke og ikke på fat.

Den øverste skiven var med syltetøy,
Det satt fast på papiret som med vinden fløy.

Så skulle jeg starte med nummer to,
men den var spist fra før, fordi den var så god.

I to halve hadde jeg delt skive tre,
da den ene var spist, var den andre falt ned.

Den fjerde var med majones og tomat
majonesen var klemt ut, tomaten var flat.

Den osten jeg hadde på skiven til sist
satt fast under den forrige, som jeg hadde spist.

Nei, det er ikke morsomt å spise sin mat,
når den ligger i pakke, og ikke på fat.

The Ballad of the Wrapped Lunch, badly translated by me.

It is no fun when food is to be ate, when it is in a wrapper and not on a plate.

The first slice was with marmalade, it got stuck on the paper and flew far away.

I was looking forward to number two, but it was eaten before, because it was too good to be true.

In two halves I had split slice number three, when the first one was ate, the other fell down on my knee.

The fourth was with mayo and to-ma-to, the mayo was squeezed out, the tomato was flat, aw.

The cheese I had on the slice saved for last, got stuck under the last one, which I ate too fast.

No, it is no fun when food is to be ate, when it is in a wrapper and not on a plate.

The original and best.

Knutsen og Ludvigsen - Matpakkevise

Matpakkevise fra Albumet "Knutsen Og Ludvigsens Beste"

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:16:35 -0800 last edited: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:57:19 -0800

I actually grokked elementary fraction division from listening to one of Knutsen and Ludvigsen's other songs, Perhaps the King will Come.

I will have to explain my lack of understanding first. Intuitively, dividing something makes each part smaller, right? However, 1/3 divided by 2/3 equals 1/2. So something small - 1/3 - divided by something bigger - 2/3 becomes something bigger than it was originally? That made no intuitive sense to me for a very long time. Too long to be truthful. The algorithm we learned in school worked, but muddled my lack of understanding further. It was to turn the the last fraction on its head and multiply it with first fraction, then shorten it, i.e. 1/3 x 3/2 = 3/6 = 1/2. Now, why would I want to do that in the first place? It was a mystery.

The surreal Perhaps the King will Come to the rescue!

The song is about Knutsen and Ludvigsen hoping the King will come to dinner today, because why shouldn't he with all the great food they have prepared?

However, a bit into the song, they sort of remember that he might not come. No worries, then there is more for the two of them.

Eureka! That was it! If you prepare food for three people, they get one third each. However, if one of them does not show up, like the King, then his third is split equally between the other two, and now they get more than before - one half each. So if you and a friend have 12 buns and are waiting for me, and you divide those into three equal piles of four buns in each pile, and I do not show up, then you and your friend gets six buns each. That's a bit more obvious than turning a fraction on its head, right?

For kids (and... some slower adults), taking the time to find the language that unlock understanding is key.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:02:57 -0800 last edited: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:18:38 -0800

I digress, but the language for multiplying fractions is just as bad, right? When we multiply something, intuitively we get more, right? So how come 1/4 multiplied by 1/4 is 1/8, which is less? The obvious answer is multiplied by actually never meant that we get more, it means something else and what is that? Can we say it differently? Half of a half is smaller than a half, right? A quarter of a quarter is obviously smaller than a quarter, right? In fact, it is one fourth of a quarter, right? A quarter is one fourth to begin with, right? So a fourth of a fourth, right? 1/4 of 1/4, right? So how come we say 1/4 times 1/4 or 1/4 multiplied by 1/4,? That's not obviously right, is it? Now we have to bend our minds to grasp the special significance of times even before we understand how times work, but we are not allowed to say times, we are supposed to use proper Mathematical language and say multiplied by. If you try to look up times, you will be hard pressed to actually find the easy answer, it is not explained in by Wordnet or Oxford Etymology online - they point to multiplication as the answer to times. Times is repetitions or copies or duplicates or even echos. Let us try multiplying fraction with one of those. Half a repetition of a half - nah. Half a copy of a half - yeah, works for me. Half an echo of half. Not much of an echo, is it? The answer is something ... less, right? And that is part of what multiplied by means, and yet it is even easier without words - just look at the pattern.

16/1 x 16/1  = 256/1
8/1   x 8/1   =  64/1
4/1   x 4/1   = 16/1
2/1   x 2/1   = 4/1
1/1   x 1/1   = 1/1
1/2   x 1/2   = 1/4
1/4   x 1/4   = 1/16
1/8   x 1/8   = 1/64
1/16 x 1/16 = 1/256

As you have probably guessed by now, I flipped between doing really well and doing really badly at Maths, going off on a tangent like this. It is supposed to be a precise language, but I do not think it is more precise than other languages. It requires a mature understanding of pretty specific nuances to not fuck up by 5th grade, and I think that is asking a lot of a kid. I remember teaching 8th or 9th graders to write a short story with a turning point, which is similar. I said something like "Often in a short story, when the main character gets to the turning point of the story, in that moment, they realise something that changes how they think about someone they have met or something that has happened earlier in the story. Okay, ready to try that?" No. "He had a beautiful face, then he had an ugly face". Not really. "Let us try this again, but this time the change is inside, in their mind or in their heart". "She was stupid, then she was smart". Wow. Sigh, I am lousy teacher. Or, they were too immature. Or both. It sorted itself by 10th grade.

There are two more low level stumbling blocks in Maths where the available language needs to work for more people.

The equals sign. 1 + 1 = 2. The good teacher says 1 + 1 is 2, just as 2 is 1 + 1. The bad teacher turns it into a question with an answer. "What is 1 + 1? The answer is 2". The answer is 2, but what was the question? There never was a question. What is on the left side is what is on the right side. When your kid gets to the tenth grade, this is really important. There is no question when you see =, only balance. The = sign is a seesaw or teeter-totter seen from above. Most kids have used one many times, or if they have not, they have seen it used by others. They know how it works, they have felt balance when a friend of equal weight has been on the opposite end, and they felt lifted into the air when a heavier parent sits on the other end. They may have joined forces with many siblings and friends to bring the parent into the air. If you get that, = means balance, or that what is on the left is what is on the right, you will not need four rules(!) down the road when getting to equations - so stupid.

Multiplying negative numbers. First, try to see the pattern without saying anything.

2 * (-2) = -4
1 * (-1) = -1
0 * 0 = 0
-1 * -1 = 1
-2 * -2 = 4

You see the pattern, right? You just do not get it when you say it out loud. Do you say negative one or minus 1 in English? I think you say negative 1, so I will drop that because I can. Minus one multiplied by minus one equals one. Shouldn't it be minus one? Minus two multiplied by minus two equals four. Shouldn't it be minus four?  What happened? What did I miss? Well, you go to your friend two times and borrow two dollars, you owe four dollars, you have -4 dollars. However, if you go one time and borrow one dollar, you owe one dollar, you have -1 dollar. If you never borrow any dollars you owe zero dollars. If your friend goes once and gives you one dollar, you have one dollar. You can also say it is once you did not go, and you did not borrow a dollar that time you did not go, so you saved a dollar. If your friend goes twice, and gives you two dollars each time, you have four dollars. You can also say it is twice you did not go, and you did not borrow two dollars each time either, so you have save four dollars.

#statingtheobviousforeveryonebutme #math

Waitman Gobble

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 08:04:32 -0800

25 percent of 10 percent?

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 09:56:30 -0800

Excellent example, @Waitman Gobble .

I wonder if it was @Klaus who linked to an article about a pedagogical study on learning statistics recently? The study found students have an easier time figuring out examples like yours in their head if they turn 10 percent into "one in ten" or "10 out of a 100" and 25 percent into "one quarter of", i.e. for your example "a quarter of one in ten is not someone you want to be".

Waitman Gobble

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:18:13 -0800

for some reason percents are more intuitive to me.. 1/4 of an 1/8 i don't visualize, but 25% of 12.5% is totally clear to me.

el veciet

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:04:38 -0800

for me the cake is simpler (a cake of eight slices I take just one) :))

Image/photo

el veciet

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:05:59 -0800

I got a fu...ng hungry. LOL

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 23:09:31 -0800

Once confusion has been replaced with understanding you get the pleasure of doing it any way you like, @Waitman Gobble . These word crimes are for the stage before that, the state of confusion. A nice acronym for the path to enlightenment from confusion-understanding-pleasure is CUP. I like that, you hold enlightenment in a cup, Waitman.

#CUPThePathToEnlightenment #CUPConfusionUnderstandingPleasure #wordcrimes#^"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official Lyric Video)

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Bachata

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Sun, 06 Jan 2019 04:48:09 -0800

Here's some music from Dominican Republic. Bachata has a unique sound, rhythm and people dance to it in a specific way.

Bolivar Peralta was a significant artist here, he died a few years ago. But was influencial in the music.

BOLIVAR PERALTA ** MUJER DE MIS SUEÑOS **.
by JUNIOR RODRIGUEZ on YouTube

Manuel

Sun, 06 Jan 2019 05:01:17 -0800

Bachata belongs to the prolific family of the Cuban "son" and this is intertwined in its origin with African and Andalusian rhythms... It is impossible to hear it and stay still

Waitman Gobble

Sun, 06 Jan 2019 17:26:12 -0800

This is the modern highly commercial Bachata from Dominican Republic.

Romeo Santos - Eres Mía
by RomeoSantosVEVO on YouTube

Building a web app in Osada (article)

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sat, 05 Jan 2019 17:49:27 -0800

i don't usually get many reads from the Medium, but I put an article about building a basic web app in Osada. Probably works in Hubzilla too but i haven't tried that.

Build your web app on top of Osada – Waitman Gobble – Medium

Osada is an MIT Licensed “ActivityPub server based on the conversational interaction style. Includes groups, access control, events, and…

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 13:19:55 -0800

I added a section to the bottom of this article "storing and retrieving user data" (instead of a new article)

So I added a second "app", which is a currency converter ... to show saving user preferences. I think there's already a good $_POST var fetcher function in Osada, i think it's called x() but i need to research that.

Build your web app on top of Osada – Waitman Gobble – Medium

Osada is an MIT Licensed “ActivityPub server based on the conversational interaction style. Includes groups, access control, events, and…

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:07:53 -0800

Thank you, @Waitman Gobble - this is a really great article!

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 19:24:01 -0800

i need to work on money stuff next, like shopping carts and payments and etc.

Amusing calls from space

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:51:18 -0800

Hello, have I reached planet Earth?

Astronaut accidentally dials 911 from International Space Station - SlashGear

A Dutch astronaut accidentally dialed 911 from the International Space Station, according to a Netherlands news report. This wasn’t a butt dial, but instead the accidental omission of one number while attempting to dial for an outside, and then international, line. The process requires astronauts to dial the number “9” for an outside line, fo...

Waitman Gobble

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 01:10:24 -0800

I don't need to dial extensions on my server, so all calls go outside. I don't have to dial a number for an outside line. :)
Nasa probably needs people dialing between extensions lol

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Thu, 03 Jan 2019 19:19:09 -0800

Never Mind The Baubles - Christmas '77 with The Sex Pistols
by Jeff Worm on YouTube

Siri's Hebrew Voice Sues Apple Because She Doesn't Like The Way IPhone Owners Are Using Siri

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Thu, 03 Jan 2019 18:57:01 -0800 last edited: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 19:01:22 -0800

Hmmmm. She is suing because Apple's users are making her voice say nasty things.

Hey Siri, tell me what Howard Stern is saying on his radio show. I want to hear it in your voice.

Siri's Hebrew Voice Sues Apple Because She Doesn't Like The Way IPhone Owners Are Using Siri

We cover a lot of weird and pointless lawsuits here at Techdirt. This one, filed by Israeli radio broadcaster Galit Gura-Eini, is one of the weirdest. At first brush, it seems like she might have a legit legal complaint on her hands.

Israeli radio...

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Thu, 03 Jan 2019 01:56:30 -0800

CAPTAIN & TENNILLE ❖ love will keep us together (official video)
by samuel matthews on YouTube

Manuel

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 02:18:25 -0800

IoI

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 04:25:40 -0800 last edited: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 05:09:46 -0800

The Captain died.. i remember them on tv or something, when i was very young :)
It is an amusing video

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 04:55:26 -0800

Daryl Dragon, Captain and Tennille’s Captain, Dead at 76

Keyboardist behind “Do That to Me One More Time” and “Love Will Keep Us Together” dies of renal failure in hospice

At&t releases 5G to the world

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Wed, 02 Jan 2019 09:40:50 -0800

It was easy, all they had to do was change the 4G / LTE indicator to 5G. Now their customers have 5G.

AT&T Attempts A Head Fake With 'Fake 5G'

We've already gone over how fifth-generation "5G" wireless, while a notable improvement in network speed and performance, has been obnoxiously over-hyped by hardware vendors and cellular carriers. We've also noted that in reality...

FAANG

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:21:56 -0800

It’s time to dump FAANG investing in the trash

Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet/Google

FAANG investing is absurd in the era of rising interest rates. It's time to stick it in the trash can.

Sophie

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:33:39 -0800

So Yahoo says it is time to dump its competitors. I like the irony

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:09:50 -0800

lol yeah

Contest to recycle public domain content

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:56:35 -0800

Buster keaton and charly chaplin films, f scott fitzgerald stories, etc.. Gaming Like It's 1923

A game jam from 2019-01-01 to 2019-02-01 hosted by Randy Lubin & copia. 2019 is the first year that new content is entering the public domain since 1998. Works published in 1923 are now free to share and remix. This game j

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 05:05:01 -0800

https://law.duke.edu/sites/default/files/centers/cspd/1923_works_renewed.xlsx

Crime spree?

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Tue, 01 Jan 2019 19:40:05 -0800 last edited: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 19:41:03 -0800

Fortunately there are an unlimited supply of really awesome avacados here. And very inexpensive. I would ship them to you but i'm not sure they would make it. DHL would cost a fortune anyway.

Hawaii avocado industry expects growth as exports begin

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii – Shipments of Sharwil avocados from Hawaii and their resulting profits could expand exponentially in coming years, industry officials said. Hawaii's avocado industry opened in earnest in early December with weekly shipments of about 3,000 pounds of avocados to two Seattle-based wholesale produce companies, West Hawaii Today ...

el veciet

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 19:59:55 -0800

abacate
... we have a lot here ;)

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Tue, 01 Jan 2019 19:15:33 -0800

Here's a fun copyright exercise. Clothing co uses a photo without permission, claims its fair use because the photographer published it. (If its on google images its free right?)

Clothing company tried to get him banned from the venue and band in retaliation. Except they are apparently feeling the heat.

Thunderball Clothing Shuttered Due to Outrage from Arch Enemy Photo Ban

Photographer J Salmeron of Metal Blast sparked a huge outpouring of support from other photographers and creatives last week after he shared how he was

ivan zlax

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 22:27:20 -0800

@Waitman Gobble Heavy metal bussiness: few people listen to such songs in our time, they trying to earn money on merchandise.

muppeth

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 02:12:38 -0800

Given archEnemy image its funny they took this route in order to solve the issue.

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:45:02 -0800

I think the photographer was acting appropriately in this case. He was not being a jerk. He asked them to donate to a cause, and acknowledge his ownership of the photo.

People post comments that because he posted on Instagram he surrendered his copyright, which is not true.

The company should have asked permission in this case.

Feliz años

Waitman Gobble

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Map), Mon, 31 Dec 2018 18:33:52 -0800 last edited: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 18:34:50 -0800

Manuel

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:30:01 -0800

¡Feliz año, Waitman!

Waitman Gobble

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 04:16:39 -0800

Happy New Year @Manuel

el veciet

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 12:02:12 -0800

parece bastante Brasil