My old computer programming colleague, Jeff, brings to my attention this video, done in our old neighborhood and dealing in part with Anthony Lakes Ski Resort (one of our very earliest website customers). More backstory here.
SIDEBAR: I remember so well how then-four-years-old-or-so Ivi cried and cried as we drove past the Anthony Lakes exit, returning from a trip to Boise, distraught because she wanted so badly to go to Anthony Lakes (a place she had never been before, incidentally).
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The previous post made mention of how an overnight wind and snow storm brought down our residential internet connection. Here, we see the repair team — a grizzled gray-hair and what appears to be a wet-behind-the-ears trainee — attack and resolve the problem, tracing the outage from our house to cabling extending across the street to a utility pole connection.
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And in the evening, high winds bring down our residential internet — a near-catastrophic event. (But my workplace fiber optic internet was intact, of course.)
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Bill reworks and retitles my earlier evening image of Kim walking (also here), clearly demonstrating a significant difference in our personalities:
For more on this Bill guy, see this page on HHR.
The evening Marketplace report has long been a regular household tradition for us, in keeping with a belief that understanding business and finance and markets is an important key to understanding how just about everything else works in our society and world.
Marketplace is a nonprofit production of American Public Media, and presents several podcasts and newsletters in addition to the daily program we hear throughout the week. One of the weekly Marketplace podcasts we faithfully follow is “Make Me Smart With Kai and Molly”. Tonight’s episode is a must-hear, in my opinion, dealing with social media and the use of technology and data to influence minds. Here’s a quote from the site:
“Remember Cambridge Analytica? You probably wish you could forget. But 10 and a half months from the next presidential election, Brittany Kaiser says there’s still more we all need to know about Big Data and how companies like her former employer are using it to steer democracy. She used to work at CA, and after writing a book and appearing in a documentary about it, she’s publishing a bunch of internal documents showing how the company worked and its reach beyond the United States. For our first episode of the new year, we talk with Kaiser about election interference and her new Own Your Data Foundation. Plus, we’ll catch up on some of your emails and voice memos from the holiday break.”
Listen at here or here, or find and check out the podcast using your favorite app.
Learn more about all of Marketplace here.
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