Covered this week; Trump’s for and against, a lot more similar than either side wants to admit… how Apple engineered its watch to push you towards peak performance… Facebook is in the surveillance business and YOU are the product… Gene Michael dies at 79… Hall of Famer Randy Johnson is a pretty good photographer these days… Jerkface does a Milwaukee Avenue mural… Hurricane Irma begins to wind down…
September 4, 2017
“Thus the protesters were flummoxed. It seemed cruel and strange to yell “Nazi” to a pair of grandparents in yellow polo shirts, or at a trio of Eagle Scouts, and so given the chance to say something directly to Trump supporters passing by them, mere inches away, much of the time they said nothing.”
Oh my, we are living in strange times…
September 5, 2017
“Our lab has collected more data on activity and exercise than any other human performance study in history,” says Jay Blahnik, Apple’s director of fitness for health technologies, in a rare interview. “Over the past five years, we’ve logged 33,000 sessions with over 66,000 hours of data, involving more than 10,000 unique participants.”
Look for some sort of Apple Watch announcement at Apple’s upcoming event… otherwise, why else would they be revealing this?
September 6, 2017
“Facebook is in the surveillance business. Facebook, in fact, is the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind. It knows far, far more about you than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens. It’s amazing that people haven’t really understood this about the company.”
September 7, 2017
Gene Michael, a Yankee for nearly a half-century, rising from sure-handed shortstop to general manager and building teams that won four World Series championships, died on Thursday at his home in Oldsmar, Fl. He was 79.
September 8, 2017
“While attending USC in Los Angeles for three years ’83-’85 on a baseball scholarship, I majored in photojournalism. At that time, I got hands-on experience in the art and craft of photography, shooting for the “Daily Trojan”, our college newspaper and a small rock n’ roll magazine in Los Angeles. While baseball became my occupation for over two decades, photography remained my great passion.” I had no idea that ex stud pitcher Randy Johnson was such a great photographer… check it out…
September 9, 2017
A giant and mischievous Cheshire Cat watching over the street, courtesy of New York City-based street artist Jerkface, has brought a burst of color and nostalgia to Milwaukee Avenue in Noble Square.
September 10, 2017
The 2nd biblical-level hurricane to hit the US mainland in the last 2 weeks downgrades from category 4 to 2 and begins to wind down… no worries on that whole myth of climate change, move on, nothing to see here…
