Or not…
Author: fish1964
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Merry Christmas
Santa’s Privacy Disclaimer (read it all).
What Information Do We Collect?
We obtain information from a variety of sources. Much of it comes from unsolicited letters sent to Santa by children all over the world listing specific items they would like to receive for Christmas. Often these letters convey additional information as well, such as the child’s hopes and dreams, how much they love Santa, and which of their siblings are doodyheads.The letters also provide another important piece of information—fingerprints. We run these through databases maintained by the FBI, CIA, NSA, Interpol, MI6, and the Mossad. If we find a match, it goes straight on the Naughty List.
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How Do We Secure This Information?
We secure your information by keeping it at the North Pole, one of the most remote, inhospitable and uninhabitable places on earth. It is stored in a secure gingerbread facility deep in the Candy Cane Forest, behind an impassable barrier conjured by Elven magic. The facility is guarded by a full brigade of life-size wooden toy soldiers armed with Nerf Blasters and Super Soakers. The area is also patrolled by ravenous polar bears and the Winter Warlock. -
SpaceX Nails It
This was amazing.
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Um, Math? Numbers? Bueller?
From a political web site that I won’t link to:
Trump’s favorability has also grown. He’s rated at 51 percent favorable, 37 unfavorable; an improvement over his 51-37 split in November.
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Long Form Reporting Done Right
This is totally tl;dr. But sometimes you have to read something that takes longer than a minute.
The title is “An Unbelievable Story of Rape” (by Pro Publica and The Marshall Project). Not an inviting topic, but there’s a reason several of the people I follow via RSS and Twitter recommended it today.
Just read it.
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NYC to LA: Really?
Today was a normal day in NYC. Not so much in LA.
The reaction from NY?
In New York, Mayor Bill DeBlasio and Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said at a news conference that there was nothing to suggest that the threat was credible, and plenty to suggest that it was not.
“It was so generic, so outlandish, and posed to numerous school systems simultaneously,” Mr. de Blasio said. “Kids should be in school today. We will be vigilant. But we are absolutely convinced our schools are safe.”
Stephen Davis, the top spokesman for the New York Police Department, said, “After an analysis, we have determined that the emails were the exact same wording with the exception of putting in the cities’ names and changing the number of people who were supposed to be participating in it,” meaning the threatened attack on schools. “Other than that,” he said, “it was a cut-and-paste job.”
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Brooklyn is Gorgeous
I only wish I took this picture of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden…
Click to make more bigger…
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Christmas Music
The Amazon Echo/Alexa is great for Christmas music mixes. But regardless of how you play it, there’s still one album that beats all others.
If you have Amazon Prime, you can stream it for free….
The kids like this one (all acapella)…
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