Roses

There are no subtitles.....just watch this 1 min film, it will make sense at the end.

https://twitter.com/AmmarAliQureshi/status/1210100234271023105

Got problems?

Anyone having a tough day today?.....watch this then STFU.

 :)

https://twitter.com/farbodsaraf/status/1211010257058750464

French scrabble champion doesnt speak French

Old article but came across this ......

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378/winner-of-french-scrabble-title-does-not-speak-french?

What a phenom and shows the skills actually required in scrabble. Really interesting read.

The next billion netziens

Really interesting article about the law of large and growing numbers of netziens in India.

Wonder if this will change the internet in a similar way to how Chinese theater ticket sales have changed Hollywood movie stories
- https://yourstory.com/2019/12/google-searches-india-article-370-ayodhya-narendra-modi

Also adds an additional data point to Jack Dorsey's decision to move to Africa for 6 months of the year.

RIP Anissa

I just found out today.

RIP .....too young, too soon.

Bawling over here this morning having found this in an email.

lol the only thing making me smile though is feeling like she's laughing her ass off at me playing "AFP  - Lost"  on repeat over and over. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEdVMGNF9W8&list=PLlUAuXIwQ7uE0Ic3vWDd8b2QQUOerGl6M&index=12



Finishing my personal pity party with Nina Simone which we both loved to wallow in so much when blue. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5FjvWWsH-c

Re-Usable rockets wins the day?

A win for re-usable rocket designs? 

eg if this wasnt re-usable you would have to imagine the cost of this failure would have been much higher?

 - https://www.barrons.com/articles/boeings-starliner-landed-successfully-51577028548?

*Of course actually getting it into space and docking properly in the first place would have been "optimal"  :)

Sofi Tukker - Mood music of the week

Have you heard of Sofi Tukker? - https://amzn.to/2PwRYQn

 A friend of mine put my on to them recently and really been loving their Treehouse and Soft Animals cd…..pretty much been playing it continuously for a week.

Makes an easy choice for Mood Music of the week. I put a few tracks into the player on the left.

End of year "Melt Up"

RIP Danny Aiello

For those of you hearing about the passing of Danny Aielo ....dont forget his greatest role in Hudson Hawk .....and away we go 3...2...1.

He would think that was funny :)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000732

American Vs Brazilian farmers?

Am i wrong in thinking that the USA will always have a cost advantage over Brazil?

 Not in labor costs obviously but in technological capabilities? eg. the tech in those john deere tractors mean that USA farmers will always be more productive?

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/global-times-says-china-doesnt-need-us-pork-ensure-domestic-pork-supply?commentId=0664eb10-9dd2-4925-b4f3-8d4f4fc3d28b

Art Basel

Lol about the banana possibly being reformed into its original shape and then re-taped to the wall in 3 days after he poops it out 

- https://twitter.com/VAJIAJIA/status/1203447362993217536

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/see-you-after-jail-guys-art-world-stunned-after-man-eats-120000-banana-duct-taped-wall?commentId=ef464efd-2e7a-4711-b9a1-7e4f18a7700c