Wow.... What a memory to come up today. I believe this was my first visit to Silicon Valley. And now I'm back showing Aliya around. Full circle.
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The Maldives
** Discovery spoilers **
1. I thought all the signals appeared at once at the beginning? Did we just ignore that?
2. If control is killed (ONBOARD THE SHIP) then why does discovery need to be sent into the future still?
3. The characters (especially Spock and Michael) are all going on about faith and logic but none of it made ANY sense
4. The visuals were absolutely gorgeous
5. Just make a Pike enterprise series already
6. Prequels suck - there are never any stakes
Browner....er Than Usual
Me: “Baby are you tanned?”
Her: “Yes!”
Me: “How can you tell?”
Her: “Because I’m brown....er than usual”
lol
Warning For People In The Startup Community
A warning for people in the startup community:
This guy has been relentless in tracking me down on multiple platforms demanding I mentor him. His messages we’re a bit “off”. So I apologized and told him I was a bit busy with some personal life things right now. He said he understood.
Now, a few days later, he sent me a similar spiel asking for help again as if we had never talked. He is obviously just spamming everyone with the same stuff. So I blocked him (something I do rarely).
And now this…
Musicals
Tickets booked for Hamilton (SF - thx Parker), Wicked, Lion King & Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Broadway). Culture here we come!
The Most Thoughtful Wedding Gift Ever
My brother Mitchell gave us the most thoughtful wedding gift ever.
This is a custom made replica of the flute from a “Star Trek The Next Generation” episode called “The Inner Light”.
It’s one of my very favorite episodes and one of the best episodes of the series.
In the episode, a character (the captain of the ship) goes through an experience that takes only a few moments in real time, but feels like an entire lifetime for him.
In his real life, this character is guided by logic, reason, stoicism and duty. He’s addicted to his career. An influential and important life - but ultimately lonely.
In this alternate reality, however, he gets to live out an entire, rich, life filed with the love of a wonderful wife, children, grandchildren, music (with this flute) and so much more.
In the end, when he wakes up back to reality, the only artifact left from this imagined alternative life is the Flute.
The flute represents a life well lived and loved - with family at the center.
It brought a tear to my eye.
Love you bro #brobanter
How Lord & Miller Make Bad Movies Good
MCU Supercut - The Road to the End
Cory Booker: 'radical love of all people'
This is the most epic answer to the question of faith I’ve ever heard.
American's Don't Care About The Russian Probe
This says so much about the Media and the US electorate. While the media and politicians are obsessed with the Mueller report, people don’t care. They’ve made up their mind and 40%+ are with Trump no matter what. The media and politicians don’t get it and citizens don’t want to hear it.
And then they report on this survey seemingly oblivious to their own impotence and tone deafness.
The Internet Needs New Rules
As the founder of the Data Portability project - a project that coined and popularized the concept - I have to say, having Mark Zuckerberg call for data portability regulation is a pretty amazing development.
Chromecast It Is!
Auto-update to AppleTV has now made Beamer Airplay support inoperable. So I switched to Chromecast. One less reason to stick with Apple.
How Pete Buttigieg Wants To Stand Out
Obstruction of Justice
JFYI for those who believe there can’t be obstruction without an underlying crime:
There are plenty of ways and reasons there can be obstruction of justice without the underlying investigation proving the crime.
Obstruction of Justice is, in and of itself, a separate crime.
There are also many reasons why one might commit such a crime (as Trump did in plain sight).
Some examples
1. He might have thought that what he or his people did with Russia WAS criminal (even though Mueller ultimately decided he couldn’t prove that).
2. Maybe it WAS criminal but the obstruction made it impossible to Prove.
3. Maybe they were trying to cover up other crimes.
4. Maybe he was just doing it because he’s a psychopath.
In any case, lying to the FBI and witness intimidation is a crime. Even if the investigation you’re screwing with turns up nothing.
Otherwise, as a criminal, all you have to do is obstruct well enough to ensure your crime doesn’t get proven.
That’s how the law works contrary to the proclamations of his stooge Barr.
Life is Becoming Increasingly Transactional
With an increasing number of software mediated products, services and communications are we bleeding away opportunities for empathy in everyday interactions? Life is becoming increasingly transactional.
Porshe 911 GT2 MS MR
Republicans Call For Rep. Schiff's Resignation
Things are truly broken when all the world got was a 4 page summary of a 300 page report written by a stooge of the target of the investigation.
Things are truly broken when the standard for Trump is that he didn’t break the law when each and every unethical thing he’s done - in isolation - would normally result in a politician stepping down or at least being isolated from making serious decisions.
Things are truly broken when a basically honorable man needs to defend himself against character attacks and calls for resignation by a man and a party that make dangerous lies every. single. day.
The farce and double standard boggles the mind.
All this while the media and others act like this is serious, substantive debate.
As Colbert says - Nothing matters anymore.
People Are Dying: AOC Delivers Fiery Speech
Finally someone who speaks with a passion and exasperation appropriate for the moment
A Plurality Actually Love Him
I think everyone has put way too much emphasis on the Mueller investigation when Trump’s corruption, high crimes and misdemeanors are being done in plain sight.
He admitted, on TV, to firing Comey because of the Russia investigation. Then he invited Russians to the oval office and gloated about it.
He’s undermined the investigation (and faith in democratic institutions) and tampered with witnesses for the last two years with endless streams of Tweets, bullying, political pressure and even firings. And that’s only what we’ve seen in public.
He’s already been named in public indictments as “individual 1” and as an unindicted co-conspirator.
What else do the American people need to rise up? What else does the spineless congress need to impeach?
They won’t even rebuke his desecration of a dead war hero or the abuse of a gold star family - clearly immoral actions that anyone with a brain can see as disgusting and corrosive. So how can we believe they would act to redress abstract machinations from years ago?
The Democrats have already said that impeachment is probably not appropriate. What’s worse, is they might not even be wrong. Trumps political ideology needs to be thoroughly rebuked at the ballot box by the American electorate.
Unfortunately, though, a plurality of them actually love him. And, that, my friends, is the real tragedy here.