Monthly Archives: November 2016

Why I Love People, Part 2016. Or: It Ain’t Enough To Fire A Bad Guy, Ya Gotta Find A Good Guy To Take His Place (see: Syria). :::::::: ‘Monkey attack’ on girl sparks deadly ethnic clashes in Libya – BBC … Continue reading →

Whoever did this research should stick to paper. == PT Begin forwarded message: From: Bird Subject: Did You know ?

The sad end of William the Conqueror. ::::::: http://www.delanceyplace.com http://www.delanceyplace.com/?utm_source=William+I+79-81&utm_campaign=11%2F16%2F16&utm_medium=email == PT

Apple’s speech-to-text dictation feature is excellent on my iPad. But it’s a little difficult when somebody else is nearby and you’re talking to your iPad. Or iPad picks up extraneous noise (although this happens rarely). Lipreading is the next obvious … Continue reading →

First, my usual complaint: The soundtrack dialogue wasn’t nearly loud and clear enough. The Wife did not agree. Second, I couldn’t follow the plot at all. In fact I got lost in the first scene. Again, The Wife did not … Continue reading →

I am not sure it justifies adding another gadget to my toolbox, but the video nicely shows that the product apparently works as advertised. https://goo.gl/wzh5Ye == PT

I will see this one! 1. BBC – Culture – Arrival is the smartest big-budget sci-fi film in years https://goo.gl/R0gyNp 2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity == PT

(16:00) ::::: bookofjoe: World history visualized — from the dawn of civilization to the present day http://www.bookofjoe.com/2016/11/world-history-from-the-dawn-of-civilization-to-the-present-day.html == PT

With the latest update to iOS 10 for my iDevices, I turned on Siri. Now when I want Siri to do something all I have to do is say, “Hey, Siri.” There are a couple wrinkles. For one thing, it … Continue reading →

I found a rather alarming email supposedly from Amazon in my spam folder this morning. I forwarded it to Amazon and got a reply that included the following. I always wondered how this part worked… So that’s how they found … Continue reading →