I mean, seriously, is the best first tweet ever. From an actual country? Do other entire countries actually tweet?
Author: fish1964
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Turkey Doesn’t Make You Sleepy
Courtesy Healthcare Triage..
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Earnings Missed Estimates
This is a funny article about crazy things people in the finance world say.
Earnings don’t miss estimates; estimates miss earnings. No one ever says “the weather missed estimates.” They blame the weatherman for getting it wrong. Finance is the only industry where people blame their poor forecasting skills on reality.
And the next one:
Earnings met expectations, but analysts were looking for a beat.
If you’re expecting earnings to beat expectations, you don’t know what the word “expectations” means.
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Auto-Awesome
I just discovered that Google+ will not only automatically backup your phone photos, but it will try to enhance them and put them together into Stories. In a burst of modesty, Google calls this “Auto-Awesome”.
It is pretty interesting. Everything below was 100% produced automatically from my phone photos.
Our recent trip to Italy for a wedding produced this story:
It took a Cape Cod sunset and produced this:
This was from an apple picking trip:
And it created this GIF automatically:
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Heavy as a Feather
With a subtitle of “Galileo was right”
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Florida Shopper Videotaped Putting Chainsaw in Pants
A headline writer’s dream…
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Landing on a Comet
317 million miles away. Seriously, this is an insanely cool accomplishment. We landed a robot on a comet the size of Central Park (a big park, a very small space object)
Enjoy the moment. Science is cool.
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Still More Net Neutrality
As a tech guy, this is obviously a big deal to me. So with apologies, another posting on the topic, this time from Fred Wilson.
Tech folks totally know who Fred Wilson is. He is one of, if not the most prominent VC guys in the industry. Some of the obscure firms he did early investments in include Twitter, Foursquare, Tumbler, Zynga and Kickstarter.
He obviously knows something about innovation. He’s been betting his personal fortune on it for quite a while.
And when you think about the net neutrality debate, ask yourself what innovation Comcast, Time Warner or Verizon has developed.
A lot of people are saying this debate is about innovation. It is. Pick your side.
And read his blog. As quoted by the most prominent Apple blogger, Daring Fireball:
This is about something more simple and more important. It is about making sure that the Internet remains open and free for innovation. It is about recognizing that the last mile of the wired and wireless internet is a natural monopoly/duopoly where scale creates massive advantages, just like the electrical grid and the water system. It is about making sure that the massive companies that operate these last mile monopolies don’t use their market power to extract rents from the entrepreneurs, developers, and companies that must go through those networks to reach their customers.
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That’s a Boom Mic
As someone who grew up in the Midwest, I often think about how much more my daughters get exposed to (good and bad) growing up in Brooklyn.
Today while I was walking Tori to school, we passed a bunch of film trailers. This has become increasingly common in our neighborhood over the past few years. It was for some NBC show called The Slap (the No Parking signs always identify what is filming). They must have been filming in a store or restaurant because nothing was happening on the street.
But Tori notices that lots of the doors on the trailers have names on them. So I explain that those are small dressing rooms and the names are the actors’ names (or sometimes the character name). But there are two bigger doors with big Lucy and Desi signs. Not taped on, these are permanent. So Tori asks me who Lucy and Desi are.
For those that aren’t aware, it’s an inside joke. Those are the crew bathrooms labeled for women and men with a tribute to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez.
I definitely did not know that when I was 7.
As we approach her school, we see another film shoot setting up (Fox – The Following). This one is going to be an outside scene and they are moving stuff around, yelling out orders, a half a block from her school.
Tori points at something and says, “That’s a boom mic”. It was, but my first question was, ‘how did you know that?”.
My seven year old knows what a boom mic is. Now if we could just teach her to spell it…
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