Monday, August 31, 2020

Las Chicas del Cable

Continuing Spanish lessons on Netflix tells about the lives of telephone operators in Madrid during the 1920s. The onset of computerized lines threatens to make them redundant. Watching out its development.

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Lesson Learned

The first black person in Greenland had this story: bitten by a snake while up a coconut tree in his native land, he heard that Greenland had the lowest temperature not tolerated by snakes. (BBB World News)

Saturday, August 29, 2020

Royal Rants

Meghan and Harry's pining for privacy was compared to Diana's. The latter bared her soul and insecurities as a result of personal history. Her younger son and his wife sounded like whining brats despite all the privileges and entitlement.

Friday, August 28, 2020

Applying the Law

Helen Johnson of Alabama was caught for stealing 5 eggs at the supermarket. Telling the police officer that she intended those for her hungry children, he took her back to buy groceries. "Someimes, you must apply the humanity."

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Fred Rogers

Chanced upon an excellent film on Netflix, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, about this kindly man on and off the television screen. He was a vegetarian, saying he did not eat anything that had mothers.

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Hara Masahiro

At the Denso factory in Japan, he found the barcode being used then as having limited capacity for data. From his board games came the inspiration for the QR code with up to 200 data. 

And in his magnanimity, kept its patents open for future inventions improving on it.

Nancy Pelosi

She is the model for senior women- transforming from running a house to Speaker of the House and tangling with the President at the White House.(CNN)

Monday, August 24, 2020

Staffed Up

Isabelle Diaz gives her household staff feedback forms to fill in regularly on how to improve her relationship with them. Meghan Markle has been called behind her back Me-gain and Duchess Difficult.

Sunday, August 23, 2020

Readiness

In the USA, they are presently scrambling for mailed votes to be counted in November.

In PH, Deped had to be put in the spot of its unpreparedness for online lessons to postpone the opening of classes from August to October.

Saturday, August 22, 2020

What Do They Want Exactly

A movement seeking to establish a revolutionary government to be headed by the current president aims to effect charter change. Lawyers are trying to understand it- like going against oneself to change itself or a dog chasing its tail.