Celebrating five years in space for NASA’a Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA produced this video of the detailed images of the sun produced.
Nothing to say other than wow.
Author: fish1964
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Baby Journee Arrives Saturday
Regular readers will recall pictures of our niece Journee, who is around 1. She is staying with us for almost a week starting Saturday. Danielle and Victoria are very excited.
I haven’t changed a diaper in six years. Wish us luck…
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Dave Winer Version of Previous Post
If you don’t know who Dave Winer is, you can go to Wikipedia or more interestingly, just follow his blog.
Lately he’s been into smaller “snack” type projects that serve an immediately useful small function.
For example, if you want to just type a long post and have it turned into a tweetstorm, use Little Pork Chop.
Today he built a simple way to publish in a style like medium.com. All you need is your text formatted in json format. Yes, that’s a little technical.
But it took me a couple of minutes to turn my previous post into this:
http://myword.io/?url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/285aigg7j3e23j3/post.json?dl=0
Is it better? I don’t know. My blog template is a little old fashioned. I’ve been using it for many moons. But with no blogging platform at all and a free Dropbox account, you could produce stuff like this in no time.
Very cool stuff.
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It’s a New World
One of those “master of the obvious” statements, but I’m next to my daughter who is doing her homework on her Chromebook saying “OK Google” to get information about Bedouins in the Middle Ages from Wikipedia.
Holy crap, the things our kids take for granted…
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Ten Trains
As a New Yorker, I’m a mass transit fan. But today may have been excessive. My commute (with a meeting in Washington D.C.) consisted of ten trains:
- NYC Subway: A Train – Hoyt Schermerhorn to Penn Station
- Amtrak Acela: Penn Station to Union Station (D.C.)
- D.C. Metro: Red Line: Union Station to Metro Station
- D.C. Metro: Silver Line: Metro Station to Smithsonian Station
Then reverse those four trains coming back, except taking the A Train to Jay Street to pick up Danielle at school. Walk to my office in Dumbo (that could have been train #11, but we felt like walking the 3/4 mile), drop Danielle off at an art class. Then pick her up and head home:
- NYC Subway: F Train – York Street to Jay Street
- NYC Subway: A Train – Jay Street to Hoyt Schermerhorn
For all that train time, it was relatively nice. The Acela is always civilized. The D.C. Metro is very quick, though strangely dark. Are we saving money on electricity? The NYC subway is dirty and crowded, but does an amazing job of moving people around.
Trains, trains, trains…
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Brooklyn Greenmarket Wheat
Yum.
If you are a wheat beer fan, I would highly recommend this beer. But if you aren’t in NYC you won’t see it.
Brooklyn Greenmarket Wheat Beer is brewed from 70% New York State-grown wheat and barley. Drinking this lovely beer helps reinvigorate the state’s grain industry and benefit GrowNYC’s mission to support family farms, farmers markets, gardens, recycling and education. Greenmarket Wheat is as bright and refreshing as a sunny day. The Raw wheat gives this beer its zing, barley malt brings depth, and Belgian yeast lends complexity. Accented with orange peel, local honey and a dash of coriander, the beer is naturally carbonated by re-fermentation in handsome 750ml bottles.
For now, Brooklyn Greenmarket Wheat is only sold in New York City.
Sorry, rest of world, it’s delicious…
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Let’s Go Knicks?
Through work, my wife got 4 nice tickets to the Knicks game last night. Our girls have never been to an NBA game (Victoria had never been to Madison Square Garden) so it sounded like fun, even if the Knicks are horrible.
And these were very nice seats.
The seats came with $20 per ticket to spend on stuff. At first that seemed really odd to me. Why would any normal person buy tickets like that? When we got there it was obvious. Normal people don’t buy these seats.
These seats were on the same level as the fancy suites. We weren’t in a suite, but we had nice cushioned seats with a TV screen and we could walk back to a big area that had a ton of free food. Booze was extra but the girls could get hot dogs, popcorn, lemonade, cotton candy, etc. (which they did).
These tickets are designed to be corporate give-aways and with the crazy prices for stuff at The Garden, they solve the “these free tickets will end up costing me $200” problem. And for that target audience, it makes total sense.
Anyway, it was a fun night. The Knicks were playing Golden State so of course they lost (lots of Stephen Curry jersey in the crowd), but everyone had a good time.
May have turned my girls in Warriors fans though…
The pre-game view…
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Boom
Here’s a fascinating account of a British gang robbing ATMs with explosive gas. US next?
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Best RMIS
RMIS is an insurance technology acronym for Risk Management Information System. It refers to risk management in the insurance sense (as opposed to the finance world). It’s a small market and there are a small number of key products.
I am biased, as I helped start one of them, Origami Risk. I obviously think Origami Risk is the best RMIS.
Search engines, however, are neutral. Here are the top results from various searches on “best RMIS” (for some searches, ads are at the top):
Bing:
I’ve always said Origami Risk was the best RMIS. Now every search engine says the same…
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