GeekOfTheWeek

Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Alabama Jubilee 

The silly season gets an early start! Doesn’t Moon Pollution Count? A Florida company plans to have Moon based cloud server — It’s a dumb idea. Yes, I know we have wireless charging for our devices, but no one has tried to send electricity to the Moon since Nicola Tesla.

Bernie Sanders, senator from the nation’s only (Peoples Republic) Vermont, former Democrat Curmudgeon, and media darling of 2016 will be inducted into The Fast Food Hall of Fame.  The honor granted to Bernie Sanders will include a lifetime "conditional" gold burger pass, (drinks & fries not included) which may be difficult for him to use. Montpelier VT. the only state capital in The United States not to have a Mcdonald’s.”

Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church recorded live by iPhone.

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US Commerce Secretary goes to Ukraine to organize a country-wide bake sale to fight the Ruskies.'

Bikes are wonderful, but there are three main problems with bicycles as transportation in America:

First, our country is large, unlike the Netherlands or even Belgium, which are both small and relatively flat. 

Second, there are two things you positively can’t do on a bicycle — stay warm & stay dry.

It’s just like our modern e-bikes, novice riders are going places they shouldn’t go without a “backup” plan. 

We must remember it’s like a wag once remarked — “the country tilted up, and all the loose nuts fell to one end…”

Opening Paino music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian, "Here I Rise My Ebenezer" -- Btianjo music courtesy of. Banjo HangOut "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee".

Memo to NewsFiveNashville — give each homeless person a check for $1400 & a one-way bus fare to NYC We have $55/M to spend.

With 2.2 Billion iPhones sold (as of 2018), Wikipedia estimates they represent 15% of the global smartphone market. Bravo Sierra!Wikipedia has apparently invaded NYT territory “it’s over for Apple…”. The Times didn’t know what they were talking about & neither did Wikipedia. That was five years ago and since then 248,000 Chinamen have been joined by 47,000 Indians busily building iPhones.FYI/More Asians build iPhones than live in Nashville Tennessee & that’s a fact, Jack!

Banjo Music. courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Civil War Medley -- Batteries are stone age technology & they certainly do not represent “clean energy”, depending on their electrodes, they may be hazardous waste.

FYI/for a brief period in the nineties EverReady claimed to recycle dry-cell batteries. It didn’t last too long because only the metal cases were. Automobile batteries on the other hand have been recycled except for the plastic cases.

They are only permanent in the sense that many of the materials used in their construction are permanent ie stainless steel. The killer for any battery is “charging cycles”, that is the reason we have 48-month devices.

Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas, Nashville,  Tennessee used with permission Jingle Bells (20-22) Carol of the bells (20-17) recorded live via iPhone.

Last night I watched Parish, a movie set in the tobacco country of the Connecticut River Valley released in 1961. A drama starting, Claudette Colbert.  I may have to revise my list of great beauties of the twentieth century. She deserves a nomination.   She,  also starred in Cleopatra (1934) before Elizabeth Taylor was born. 

Connecticut shade-grown leaf is prized as a cigar wrapper as much as Havana is for as a "filler".

Join me on Wizard of iPhone Speaks on 01-30-20-23

Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas Nashville, Tennessee 2022, used with permission.

Breaking News — A Family survives after Tesla drives off Cliff — today on News Four (01-03) Nashville - Another headline which doesn’t deliver.

No one rode that Tesla off the cliff to destruction! 

In addition to my review of the performance of the West Point band, I will review of the National Geographic WW-II Atlas & we’ll talk about the best Weather App for your smartphone.

 

At the same time, the rest of the nation endured cancellations & delays of more than 10,000 flights. Southwest owned only 2400 of those flights or less than 5% of the total, representing 100% of their schedule. As usual in the news world, no one bothered to crunch the numbers as I did. Maybe it’s because they don’t know how! Or perhaps it's more tabloid journalism, creating that scary headline.

Music from Tuba Christmas, Nashville, Tennessee (20-22) used with permission.

Of course, you may fight some homonyms in notes by engaging emojis ie sea (ocean) when you meant see (vision).  Speaking of emojis why is it we have flags of many nations & no flags of our 46 states & five commonwealths?

There’s trouble ahead for the global warming crowd

In case you missed it Last week's Christmas storm named Eric is number five on the weather hit parade & it’s only the third day of winter.

Another headline that doesn’t deliver. Newsweek writers don’t know beans about asteroids.

Creating sensational headlines used to be the province of your neighborhood checkout lane think Super Market Tabloid.  

We continue with music from Nashville Tuba. Christmas 20-22 recorded live by iPhone, used with permission.

Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas Knoxville, Tennessee (opening) & Tuba Christmas Chattanooga (2017) used with permission ----

The revelations coming out of the new Twitter management may shape the future for words like plutocrat — ballot harvesting (see mail fraud) malfeasance, voting fraud & finally hologram (see Joe Biden)

My advice from last week still stands to be wary of “stock images”.

This week a local LinkedIn connection posted a quote by George Orwell and once again she was let down by “poor graphics” George Orwell was identified as an “American Novelist”…. Eric Blair aka George Orwell was born in the UK and to the best of my knowledge never visited the United States.

FYI/avoid that site known as quoteHD dot com — they don’t know their business.

Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, 

Earlier this year during weekend weather programming on FNB the mouth of the Hudson River was identified as “Hudson’s Bay” (in the crawl). 

FYI/in TV terms that’s the name for information that scrolls across the bottom of your screen (not to be confused with closed captioning). 

 This same sort of thing is happening in the movie synopsis. On POSTIV TV Stalag 17, for example, depicts life in a POW (Prisoner Of War)camp, not a ‘Nazi Death Camp’. There is a difference. 

The same problem exists over at TCM, which presumably should know better. The opening scenes of Giant occur in Maryland which is not a New England state. 

The family depicted in Friendly Persuasion are humble Quakers, not poor. Those words are not synonymous.