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Nicholas Winton who rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia dies at 106

Anyone considering the third party bands on Amazon? Some are getting decent reviews.

Have a great one Greg/g.

Some Mingus while experimenting with Apple Music

Oops... http://www.core77.com/posts/38467/%5B-BREAKING-NEWS-%5D-Uh-Oh-Beats-Teardown-Apparently-Used-Beats-Knockoffs

Patrick Macnee RIP

Mmmm

On Beats... https://medium.com/bolt-blog/how-it-s-made-series-beats-by-dre-154aae384b36 "In these headphones, 30% of the weight comes from four tiny metal parts that are there for the sole purpose of adding weight."

Another opportunity to post a Damnation Alley clip!

Well, same here. Just canceled my subscription before another month of charges. Man, in theory artist focused, CD-quality music sounds great, but I just couldn't deal with the interface. Discoverability dropped near zero for me - it's just using search for everything. Stuff I already knew. If any algorithm was learning my tastes I didn't see any evidence of it. Scrolling through videos and playlists I didn't care about every time to get to albums got old quickly, etc. Funny, the new Tidal (which admittedly hasn't existed long enough to reform experience) was about taking back control from the 'tech companies', but the tech failures are the problems at least for me. Admittedly for someone with different aims, including singles and newer artists-focus or simply finding already known music, it may work much better. Beats was about perfect for me on mobile - one-click access to a multitude of relevant albums (nice mix of known and unknown), though I'm sure Apple Music will unfortunately shift in days away off this. Lost MOG. Losing Beats. Time to review the options again. Will give Apple Music trial a try, but eyeing Rdio once more. One thing I have to give props to Tidal is their triple streaming quality settings. Great to separate Wifi streaming, cellular streaming and download quality. Wish more services did this.

Always enjoy the use possibilities of 'essential.'

Wait, you have vampire cockroaches?

Strangely the iPhones voice recognition is awful compared to the Apple Watches. At two weeks I've now used SIRI more on the watch than all the iPhone models in the last four years (since SIRI introduced) combined. I will say the original Moto X (which had a slightly modified Android version - to constantly listen for instructions) voice recognition system being trained and locked to a single individual probably has advantages in most situations (including accuracy), but not all. As a secondary phone (web testing) family was excited to use it as an Amazon Echo-like, or [we were really thinking] 2001-HAL/Alien-Mother-like, always on fun answer machine. Then we realized it only worked with a single persons voice. Then again things didn't work out so well for most of those using HAL or Mother.

Another CEO is out.

Will you have wifi on the plane? If so just stream this...

Speaking of killing - came close to doing so to a drone whose pilot evidently thought he'd improve his remote piloting skills (was several hundred yards away and obviously using a camera) flying low under, over and around play structures in a populated childrens park. Dude? Also had fun at a park.

If Irish steakhouses cover every inch of the walls with baseball players watching their balls head to the sky next to starving cowboys bowed, panning to eat, then maybe.

Father's Day Filet.

I suggest releasing frogs in the house as a natural enemy of the roaches. If the frogs get out of control add snakes. If snakes take over bring in the mongooses. Etc.

Have a great day dads and fathers (Kurt Cobain reference). Holiday tip: if you receive a card that says "I love you more than candy and I love candy a lot!" don't you follow it up with "Wow, you really love me more than candy?" Second place is good!

Not for the fighters...

2015 The Year of Pluto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2ae4kKEZV4

Hope it was a great day!