Sunday, December 11, 2016
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Pay the Piper
Stanford University band suspended after being accused of 'systemic cultural problem'
By Rong-Gong Lin II, Contact Reporter
By Rong-Gong Lin II, Contact Reporter
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-stanford-band-suspended-20161209-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Band
http://www.wsj.com/graphics/college-rankings-2016/
Twinkies?
From the New York Times -
How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer
By MICHAEL CORKERY and BEN PROTESS
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/business/dealbook/how-the-twinkie-made-the-super-rich-even-richer.html?action=click
How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer
By MICHAEL CORKERY and BEN PROTESS
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/business/dealbook/how-the-twinkie-made-the-super-rich-even-richer.html?action=click
Quote
From the Huffington Post - (Bold is mine)
Patton Oswalt
6 hours ago
This fucking election. Fucking Trump.
These newest revelations, that Russia hacked the election. Piles of evidence, teetering up to the sky. That Russia ALSO hacked the RNC and are holding them over a barrel because of what they know. Which would be hilarious if it wasn't so frightening.
And the boiling chaos that's resulting from it. I've got conservative friends actually DEFENDING Russia on this. I've got progressive friends gloating that we've finally had done to us what we've done to other countries. That Hillary somehow deserves this. That WE somehow deserve this. That infuriating cliche about, "It's actually GOOD ifTrump destroys everything it'll start a revolution BLAH BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH..."
And in the middle of it all is Trump -- bloated, grinning, oblivious, wearing his cheap baseball cap and ruining people's lives with his Twitter. While all around him -- smarter, better, exhausted people scramble around, trying to sweep up a china shop he keeps stumbling through, laughing the whole time at these stupid nerds picking up the broken pieces on the ground. Losers. Weak.
Trump doesn't spread evil. He doesn't even spread chaos. Evil and chaos are beyond his abilities. He spreads MEDIOCRITY. And anyone who gets near him gets dragged into the same sloppy, tossed-off, first-draft shitscape he lives in.
Except this time, it's the entire country who got too close to him. We're about to become, as a nation, as garish and pathetic as one of his hotel suites. Balsa wood under gold spray paint. A chandelier over a toilet. Knock-off Haviland and Parlon china on which to serve a Big Mac. And the people MAKING the Big Macs getting screwed, stripped and exploited while the predators high-five on their private jets.
In nine days the electors make their choice. Let's hope they choose to save us from our grope-y, racist uncle who just won $50,000 playing scratch-offs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/patton-oswalt-donald-trump-no-holds-barred_us_584c6e5ee4b0bd9c3dfd1efa
Patton Oswalt
6 hours ago
This fucking election. Fucking Trump.
These newest revelations, that Russia hacked the election. Piles of evidence, teetering up to the sky. That Russia ALSO hacked the RNC and are holding them over a barrel because of what they know. Which would be hilarious if it wasn't so frightening.
And the boiling chaos that's resulting from it. I've got conservative friends actually DEFENDING Russia on this. I've got progressive friends gloating that we've finally had done to us what we've done to other countries. That Hillary somehow deserves this. That WE somehow deserve this. That infuriating cliche about, "It's actually GOOD ifTrump destroys everything it'll start a revolution BLAH BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH..."
And in the middle of it all is Trump -- bloated, grinning, oblivious, wearing his cheap baseball cap and ruining people's lives with his Twitter. While all around him -- smarter, better, exhausted people scramble around, trying to sweep up a china shop he keeps stumbling through, laughing the whole time at these stupid nerds picking up the broken pieces on the ground. Losers. Weak.
Trump doesn't spread evil. He doesn't even spread chaos. Evil and chaos are beyond his abilities. He spreads MEDIOCRITY. And anyone who gets near him gets dragged into the same sloppy, tossed-off, first-draft shitscape he lives in.
Except this time, it's the entire country who got too close to him. We're about to become, as a nation, as garish and pathetic as one of his hotel suites. Balsa wood under gold spray paint. A chandelier over a toilet. Knock-off Haviland and Parlon china on which to serve a Big Mac. And the people MAKING the Big Macs getting screwed, stripped and exploited while the predators high-five on their private jets.
In nine days the electors make their choice. Let's hope they choose to save us from our grope-y, racist uncle who just won $50,000 playing scratch-offs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/patton-oswalt-donald-trump-no-holds-barred_us_584c6e5ee4b0bd9c3dfd1efa
Ask My Buddy - Amazon Alexa skill as seen on QVC with Bret Hamilton & Da...
This works.
I set up my Alexa with it and she heard the command while I was playing this video and called everyone on my Ask My Buddy lists. Freaked my family. I hadn't given them heads up that I had set this up.
Bad news - false alarm for my guys.
Good news - we know it works.
Hacking For the Greater Good
An excerpt from the LA Times -
These Stanford students are hacking the government to try to solve the world's problems
By Tracey Lien
They’re some of the brightest students in the country — a group of wunderkinds known for hacking their way through any problem thrown at them. So what could possibly stump a Stanford University student?
Government bureaucracy, it seems.
In a lecture hall nestled in Stanford’s Environment and Energy building, dozens of engineering, science and arts students were put through the bureaucratic wringer this year when they took Hacking 4 Defense and Hacking 4 Diplomacy.
The courses — taken for credit and taught by Stanford instructors — let teams of students choose from a list of real problems plaguing the government, paired them with sponsors from the Defense or State departments, and tasked them with not just finding a solution, but coming up with a viable product that the government would actually use.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-hacking-4-diplomacy-20161206-story.html
These Stanford students are hacking the government to try to solve the world's problems
By Tracey Lien
They’re some of the brightest students in the country — a group of wunderkinds known for hacking their way through any problem thrown at them. So what could possibly stump a Stanford University student?
Government bureaucracy, it seems.
In a lecture hall nestled in Stanford’s Environment and Energy building, dozens of engineering, science and arts students were put through the bureaucratic wringer this year when they took Hacking 4 Defense and Hacking 4 Diplomacy.
The courses — taken for credit and taught by Stanford instructors — let teams of students choose from a list of real problems plaguing the government, paired them with sponsors from the Defense or State departments, and tasked them with not just finding a solution, but coming up with a viable product that the government would actually use.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-hacking-4-diplomacy-20161206-story.html
Lost Luggage Lands Here
An excerpt from Thrillist -
WHERE DOES LOST AIRLINE LUGGAGE GO? TO AMERICA'S GREATEST THRIFT STORE.
By MATT MELTZER
Is that guy next to you on the subway REALLY wearing your one-of-a kind “Topher’s Bachelor Blowout 2014” T-shirt? He can’t be! It’s impossible! You lost that shirt on the return flight from Vegas two years ago. And now it's with THIS dude?
Well, if you never got your suitcase back there’s a decent chance your new nemesis made a trip to the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama. Part lost-and-found, part thrift store, this 40,000sqft superstore takes literally every lost suitcase in America, sifts through it, and puts the best stuff on its shelves. This is the story of how wayward luggage finds its way to the afterlife.
The store 45 minutes east of Huntsville has been around since 1970, when part-time insurance man Doyle Owens got the idea to purchase unclaimed bags from a local bus station, then sell the contents from tables a couple days a week. Eventually he expanded this practice to airlines, and 46 years later the store is stocking millions of items that Americans have lost on flights.
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/unclaimed-baggage-center-scottsboro-alabama-thrift-store-lost-airline-bags-clothes-luggage
WHERE DOES LOST AIRLINE LUGGAGE GO? TO AMERICA'S GREATEST THRIFT STORE.
By MATT MELTZER
Is that guy next to you on the subway REALLY wearing your one-of-a kind “Topher’s Bachelor Blowout 2014” T-shirt? He can’t be! It’s impossible! You lost that shirt on the return flight from Vegas two years ago. And now it's with THIS dude?
Well, if you never got your suitcase back there’s a decent chance your new nemesis made a trip to the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama. Part lost-and-found, part thrift store, this 40,000sqft superstore takes literally every lost suitcase in America, sifts through it, and puts the best stuff on its shelves. This is the story of how wayward luggage finds its way to the afterlife.
The store 45 minutes east of Huntsville has been around since 1970, when part-time insurance man Doyle Owens got the idea to purchase unclaimed bags from a local bus station, then sell the contents from tables a couple days a week. Eventually he expanded this practice to airlines, and 46 years later the store is stocking millions of items that Americans have lost on flights.
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/unclaimed-baggage-center-scottsboro-alabama-thrift-store-lost-airline-bags-clothes-luggage
Friday, December 9, 2016
New Orleans Travel Guide
From Thrillist -
THE ULTIMATE NEW ORLEANS TRAVEL GUIDE
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/destination-new-orleans-travel-guide
THE ULTIMATE NEW ORLEANS TRAVEL GUIDE
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/destination-new-orleans-travel-guide
This Little Piggy . . .
From the LA Times -
This little piggy is cheering up passengers at San Francisco's airport
By Mary Forgione
Many U.S. airports have brought dogs into gate areas to soothe stressed-out travelers. San Francisco International Airport has gone one step further with a touring pet pig named LiLou, who made her debut Monday.
The airport now claims to have the first known airport therapy pig in the United States.
“She’s so unique and such a charming sweetheart,” spokesman Doug Yakel says. “Her personality is outgoing and willing to greet people.”
http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-tr-san-francisco-airport-therapy-pig-20161207-htmlstory.html
This little piggy is cheering up passengers at San Francisco's airport
By Mary Forgione
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| This is #LiLou, the first #TherapyPig! She's stationed in San Francisco and calms down nervous flyers! http://ow.ly/LjnW306S5Mz #aww - Daily Dish |
Many U.S. airports have brought dogs into gate areas to soothe stressed-out travelers. San Francisco International Airport has gone one step further with a touring pet pig named LiLou, who made her debut Monday.
The airport now claims to have the first known airport therapy pig in the United States.
“She’s so unique and such a charming sweetheart,” spokesman Doug Yakel says. “Her personality is outgoing and willing to greet people.”
http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-tr-san-francisco-airport-therapy-pig-20161207-htmlstory.html
For Love or Love of Money?
From the LA Times / Quartz Africa -
Uganda is worried about the number of Chinese men marrying their women
Contractors, petty traders, investors, and entrepreneurs from China have been pouring into Uganda for the past decade. China is a top investor in the east African country, accounting for as much as half of total foreign investment between 2014 and 2015, according to the Uganda Investment Authority.
But according to Ugandan immigration officials, there’s one major downside: an increasing number of Chinese men are marrying Ugandan women to gain residency and continue their business interests in the country.
Officials told a parliamentary committee in late November that they are seeing more and more Chinese-Ugandan couples, often in sham unions. Couples are normally interviewed before spousal status is granted and Chinese men involved in sham marriages are deported.
http://qz.com/857156/uganda-is-worried-about-the-number-of-chinese-men-marrying-their-women/
Uganda is worried about the number of Chinese men marrying their women
Contractors, petty traders, investors, and entrepreneurs from China have been pouring into Uganda for the past decade. China is a top investor in the east African country, accounting for as much as half of total foreign investment between 2014 and 2015, according to the Uganda Investment Authority.
But according to Ugandan immigration officials, there’s one major downside: an increasing number of Chinese men are marrying Ugandan women to gain residency and continue their business interests in the country.
Officials told a parliamentary committee in late November that they are seeing more and more Chinese-Ugandan couples, often in sham unions. Couples are normally interviewed before spousal status is granted and Chinese men involved in sham marriages are deported.
http://qz.com/857156/uganda-is-worried-about-the-number-of-chinese-men-marrying-their-women/
God Help Us
From the Washington Post -
Donald Trump is going to get somebody killed
By Paul Waldman
We in the media are sometimes told not to write stories about Donald Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum, and that’s often good advice. But the latest one shows something incredibly troubling, and which is likely to be an ongoing feature of his presidency. We’ve long known that Trump is so petty and insecure that he can’t stop himself from lashing out at anyone who criticizes him.
But now we have to seriously ask how long it’s going to be before his vindictiveness gets somebody killed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/12/08/donald-trump-is-going-to-get-somebody-killed/?utm_term=.97befcc73c0a
Donald Trump is going to get somebody killed
By Paul Waldman
We in the media are sometimes told not to write stories about Donald Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum, and that’s often good advice. But the latest one shows something incredibly troubling, and which is likely to be an ongoing feature of his presidency. We’ve long known that Trump is so petty and insecure that he can’t stop himself from lashing out at anyone who criticizes him.
But now we have to seriously ask how long it’s going to be before his vindictiveness gets somebody killed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/12/08/donald-trump-is-going-to-get-somebody-killed/?utm_term=.97befcc73c0a
Consider This When Deciding on College Majors
From AOL -
The highest-paying college major in every state
http://www.aol.com/article/finance/2016/12/07/8-private-college-presidents-raking-in-more-than-2-million/21622577/#slide=4247278#fullscreen
The highest-paying college major in every state
http://www.aol.com/article/finance/2016/12/07/8-private-college-presidents-raking-in-more-than-2-million/21622577/#slide=4247278#fullscreen
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Best Companies to Work For 2017
From Thrillist -
THE 50 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN 2017
By TONY MEREVICK
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/the-50-best-companies-to-work-for-in-2017-according-to-glassdoor
THE 50 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN 2017
By TONY MEREVICK
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/the-50-best-companies-to-work-for-in-2017-according-to-glassdoor
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