AdamSmith

Meant to say: That is the best description of his performance I have seen anywhere!

Someone tweeted "Trump is sniffling because he's allergic to the Constitution."

There is no hope. The only salvation, for some of us, is that the species extinction certainty from anthropomorphist climate change will come [complete this computation based on your own age].

Cawfee Tawk was one of the best bits on SNL in that era. Turn up the O2 concentrator knob!

...in 2015 humans had consumed a full year’s worth of natural resources by August 13. Well, guess what? This year we beat that date by five days. Unfortunately this is not golf and the lowest score does not win. Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) is the date in each year when the Earth’s population has consumed the total amount of resources that can be regenerated by the planet and produced more CO2 than can be sequestered by it in that year. Making the analogy to a bank account, if EOD occurs after 365 days, then the account is perfectly in balance, with debits and credits canceling each other out. If it occurs before 365 days, then humanity is consuming resources and producing CO2 faster than the earth can replenish or sequester them — essentially debits outweigh credits in the earth’s bank account, depleting the underlying capital balance.The concept of EOD was conceived by Andrew Simms of the UK think tank New Economics Foundation and the result of a subsequent partnership with the Global Footprint Network. Put another way, we are consuming resources at a rate that would require 1.6 Earths to replenish. Alarmingly, the trend with EOD is that it generally occurs earlier with each passing year. This means we are consuming resources at an ever increasing rate. With business as usual, by June 28, 2030 we will need 2.0 Earths to satisfy our demand on the ecosystem. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-earth-problem-breakthrough-energy-systems-rob-harwood?trk=hb_ntf_MEGAPHONE_ARTICLE_POST

His thing for penguins and all that.

Review of what sounds like a riveting new bio of the great, and farsighted, naturalist Von Humboldt: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/10/22/very-great-alexander-von-humboldt/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR FDR Palmyra Humboldt&utm_content=NYR FDR Palmyra Humboldt+CID_ab2301d16d41d31b197a0166c951e597&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=The Very Great Alexander von Humboldt

Or else they find they favor this scent... ...over this one!

Those liberties that the movie took with the real-life occurrence sound similar to the movie 'Apollo 13.' More than enough drama in the real thing, but they had to gussie it up anyway. Not too satisfying, to me, compared with all the accounts of what really happened.

That was my experience of it too. Boston (Cambridge) where I lived was not directly affected, but felt somewhat connected as I myself had, many times, taken that very American Airlines Flight 11 (Boston to LAX) that Atta crashed into the north tower. My original post above reflects what I, and friends in Boston -- none of us with direct involvement or friends lost, thankfully -- felt that day and the next few days. Just shock and emptiness, waiting to see what it would come to mean, for daily life, for the country, for the world.

I was in the office at work. A coworker browsing cnn.com saw the news of the first tower strike and told everyone. The boss let us go home around 11am ET.

Brava. As if the other site didn't contain enough words about itself already.

You know, if Tim Cook is such a genius, why did he let them make the 7 waterproof? Will cut way into their replacement business.

Heh! I shook all the water out of mine that I could, then tried the famous cure of putting the phone in a ziplock bag full of rice overnight -- no good. Then I replaced the rice with little drying-out pellets from my hearing-aid dessicator device. Still dead. The Verizon store said water short-circuits and fries the electronics so that even dried out, they're still toast.

Thank goodness I just upgraded to the iPhone 6. (Because of dropping my 5 in the toilet! ) That will hold me at least until the 8.

Ehem. Earth to Apple: wireless Airpod headphones are like a tampon without a string Consumers are perplexed by Apple’s new iPhone 7 AirPods because of one obvious oversight: that string is there so they don’t get lost https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/07/apple-airpods-launch-problems-with-wireless-headphones

I just know I would lose one and then the other of those wireless earbuds within 48 hours of purchase.