#[The name of de drink is a real drink... And by Google is the third strongest one in the world?]

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@whiskeysmulti

He pulled his hood up as he leaned against the wall, finally done with that stupid fight, Hayato wasn't even sure who they were, they just smelled trouble as the Storm fought and obviously won, but fighting with only his fists against knives sounded pretty dumb. As he got cuts and some stabbing.

He doesn't need another scar on his stomach as he slips down against the wall and finishes the first aid, soon after takes a cigarette and lit it up as he has a dark smirk. Sure he was glad that Tsuna wasn't around, apparently Reborn needed to up the new-adult training so they were away.

And Shamal wasn't around, so there was no one to actually stop the reckless Storm. Closing his eyes as he takes deep breaths.

Long hair hiding the eyes as the storms finally could shut the memories, the thoughts, how long... How long would he need to remember that guy? That guy LEFT, left for America. That was a clear sign of the breakup, so why... Why did his heart still...

No. It was just that he didn't know how to move on... Hayato just didn't know how to quiet his mind as he got up and walked towards a bar, the bartender already used to the storm, brought him a Balkan 176 Vodka, turning the shot in one go. Before having another.

His flames were his salvation and his curse, he wouldn't be able to actually be drunk with how strong the alcohol is, because his blood would burn a lot of it, but at least that way he could feel a bit drunk. As the storm gets up to walk into a side door.

That bar was already owned by Hayato, so clearly to say that as soon as he went to the side door, he was going to another that was a bedroom, falling into the bed. Usually used as a "free room". The high VIPs in that bar paid a lot of money to have a free body to do whatever they wanted, and the "free" body was him.

That way, that way he was too busy to actually give a fuck about what his memories brought him.

Say that is open to come in. He had a lot of cuts around his body, and first aid on his cheek and into the side of his abdomen, as the storms smokes. As he signals for letting the V.I.P. to get in. All he needed now was to get his mind fucked... Then maybe, maybe he would be able to sleep tonight.

[faraway-in-headspace]

I?? I searched Chicken Choice Judy on google out of curiosity because it sounds oddly familiar like there’s a similar-sounding name and I found 4 websites selling the shirt design. But the descriptions on these pages are BUCK WILD??

Written version of the descriptions under the cut (very long).

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First image states:  Long ago, when I had hair, I was an undergrad living in a house with nine other men. Near as I can tell, three of them (not sure which three) never bought food, just lived off what they stole from the Chicken Choice Judy shirt But I will love this other seven. We had several house meetings about it, but nothing changed. One day, I came in from grocery shopping. By coincidence, all 10 of us were in the kitchen. I started putting my stuff away. 1st thing I pulled out of the bag was my half-gallon of milk. I opened the carton, took a couple of drinks from the carton, then gargled some of it, and spit it back in. I opened my tub of margarine and licked the whole surface. By now, the room chatter had stopped because the other nine jaws had dropped open.) To your original question, those specific topics would take several years to build, as they depend on several layers of pre-requisites, which would require either that more advanced topics such as algebraic topology to be taught in elementary school, or that the buildup process happened blazingly fast during high school – both of which probably stretch the biological limits of what pre-teens and teenagers can reasonably be expected to accomplish. I spit on all my veggies, took the bread out of the package, and licked and spit on it, then carefully put it all back in the plastic bag. Remind teenage daughters to look through them before going on date with the boyfriend, in case they want to use one. I labeled it all and put it away. None of it was stolen. I never said a word, but I made it a point to repeat the performance anytime anyone was around to see it. Others began to emulate my approach and food theft stopped. Even I found it revolting, but it solved the problem. Works even better if you are sick or can at least make your thieving roommates think you are. While some cities are starting to reopen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, people around the country are continuing to wear masks in public and practice social distancing. Vogue is committed to staying safe, and offering hopeful, optimistic content that highlights moments of camaraderie and exceptional acts of heroism from around the world. We are all looking for a little comfort too—be it a soothing Instagram account or a stylish creator on TikTok. It reminds us of the power of little things.

Second image states:  A couple of guests informed me my office was too minimalist and that they expected more things to be hanging on my wall the Chicken Choice Judy shirt besides I will buy this next time they visited my wife’s and my home. I kinda hope they held their breath while they were waiting for our next invitation. They both went on to backstab me and my wife pretty bad a few years later. Another set of guests tried to squat. I had driven them all the way from Florida to Massachusetts under the impression that they had jobs and a place to live lined up. They offered no money for gas, hotels on the three-day trip, or compensation for the inconvenience and effort. He even tried to weasel out of the dinner he offered as a thank you by forgetting his wallet. The dude got me off the streets years ago and I wanted to pay him back in some way, but my wife and I were in no position to have extra residents in our home. We just don’t have the room or money. I made all of this VERY clear and told my old buddy that we could only house them for a couple of days max. There are MANY other details, but the disrespectful thing my former friend said was wordless. As I was kicking them out and they were angrily loading stuff into my car to bring them anywhere but here, my buddy left his gigantic knife right in the center of my wife’s desk. Like that was supposed to make us change our minds and let them stay? In the days of dial-up, I had a family call and not be able to get through because we were online. They decided to show up unannounced. They literally caught me in my underwear as they were let into the apartment before I could even react to being rudely surprised. Some of my family members have a history of abuse, violence, and stalking, something at least one of the visitors, my mother, was quite aware of since she lived through it with me. Her tagalong friend decided to put in her two cents and tell me I should get a call waiting or a second line because they were trying to call me. That did it! I suddenly forgot I was just wearing underwear and angrily asked my mother’s friend if she was paying my phone bill. My mother-in-law, stepfather and mom’s friend beat a hasty retreat and NEVER did the pop-in ever again.

Third image states:  That was why when we did get to reality shows, Etro and then Dolce & Gabbana plus Jacquemus later in France, it was wonderful. Clothes are all about contact: As a wearer, you feel them on your skin, and as a watcher, you process them with your eye. The watching part can be done secondhand, but the Chicken Choice Judy shirt in contrast I will get this impact will always be second to the real thing. I read some commentators in the U.S. saying, “Too soon” or “Wear a damn mask!” which I always did, but these opinions while valid enough lack perspective. Milan and its surrounding region Lombardy went through what New York did but earlier. Through sagacious governmental management much more effective than that of the U.S., Italy has managed dramatically to flatten the curve across the rest of its territory. These shows just like the reopening of flights, stores, factories, and restaurants were symptomatic of recovery that, far from being taken for granted, is being tended to with vigilance and cherished with gratitude. The digital Fashion Weeks were better than no Fashion Weeks at all, but as an upgrade on the real thing? Nah. Like everyone, I missed the shows in the experiential sense this season. But for the first time since I began covering the collections several years ago, I didn’t miss a single brand or designer’s contribution to Paris Fashion Week. Which is to say, thanks to the Fédération’s online platform, I was able to watch every name on the haute couture and men’s calendars. This brand on-demand convenience not to mention being spared the logistical headaches of zigzagging across the city was pretty great. Also, everything was on time, from the films to the manner in which we filed our reviews. While efficiency can be satisfying, it’s not necessarily exciting. Ultimately, we had to accept that the focus this season wasn’t going to be the clothes but rather the brands conveying some combination of identity, process, and values. And in the absence of standardized criteria as in, showing a minimum number of looks, specifying a time range, it was interesting to observe how heterogeneous these experiments proved to be quasi–ad campaigns versus short films, conceptual or fantastical visions versus raw and documentary style. A proper kimono takes nearly an hour to put on – I’m sure most Japanese girls would much rather spend a few seconds and slip on a dress. Get survey responses from targeted consumers today.

Fourth image states:  Around a decade ago, not long after he started his own label, Massimo Alba made a great mistake. A batch of shirts and T-shirts he was working on that had already been garment-dyed one color were mistakenly exposed to another. Speaking at his showroom presentation this weekend, Alba said: “It’s very interesting to me that so many good things start out as mistakes like this.” That accident was to Alba what the Chicken Choice Judy shirt moreover I will buy this mold-infected petri dish was to Alexander Fleming: a stumbled-upon eureka that led to a career-defining course of the investigation. This collection featured a series of softly tailored jackets, corduroy pants, and shorts, plus light cashmere sweaters that were hand-overdyed two, and sometimes three colors. It’s a process that led to variations in tone that included acid-trip floods of purple on purple to subtle bleeding of magenta across mustard yellow. Like most of Alba’s garments, these dyed pieces appeared at first glance conventionally prosaic. The more attention you gave them, however, the more their exceptional qualities became evident. Take a pale blue jacket, for instance, which at that first glance seemed passingly related to a surgeon’s scrubs. To the hand it was light and almost textureless in its softness: The fabric was a cotton mousseline developed for Alba by Albini. Long-sleeved, in a delicately mottled finish of washed-out sky blue, it made for an ideal mid-summer shake in pink, sleeveless, it was an impactful shirting second skin. Other interesting developments this season included a cotton pant named the Myles with acutely kinking stitched gather at knee-level on both legs and another handsome pant, baggy in white poplin, with patch pockets. A blue tropical weight jacket named the Lenny, after Bernstein, was Alba’s interpretation of a bohemian creative’s ideal piece of workwear. Collarless shirts in ripstop linen and button-up short-sleeves in terry were further finely effective coups de théâtre. Alba is a self-deprecating yet dangerous designer: Try just one carefully chosen piece and that’s it, you’re spoiled for good because nobody else quite compares. The museum in Prague where this portrait is held describes the ring on her first finger as the ring given to her at her wedding. It’s not comfortable. Maybe a lot of girls think that a see-through blouse can attract the attention of boys or they think that it will make her look much smarter. Meghan has no dress sense: no knowledge of fabrics, fit, styles that flatter, proper tailoring, Her father raised her in L.A. Enough said. Her idea of dressing for an event is “dress up” like a little girl dressing up as a princess. Shiny! Tight! Celebrity “fashion” not elegant, just flashy.

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[hagridkeeperofkeys]

May 2021 posts

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That Was the Year That Was – 2006

whale swimming in the River Thames

On 20th January 2006, people in London thought they were hallucinating when they could’ve sworn they’d seen a whale swimming in the River Thames. Their hallucinations were confirmed to be, in fact, reality when TV cameras captured a juvenile female Northern bottlenose whale who was five metres long and weighed about seven tonnes. Her normal habitat would have been near the coasts of the far north of Scotland and Northern Ireland, and in the seas around the Arctic Ocean but she appeared to have lost her way. Rescue teams attempted to get the whale (affectionately named Diana) back into the Atlantic but she later died from convulsions as she was being rescued at around 19:00 GMT on 21 January.

Saddam Hussein, was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging

On 5 November 2006 Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging. On 30 December 2006, the first day of Eid-ul-Adha, Saddam was hanged. Mobile phones captured the execution and the video was leaked to the media and posted on the Internet within hours, becoming the subject controversy across the globe. Prior to his execution he was captured by Americans in 2003 after they invaded Iraq. During this period Saddam was held in a Baghdad detention facility and was interrogated by FBI agent George Piro. In 2004 he was charged with crimes committed against residents of Dujail in 1982, following a failed assassination attempt on his life. This included the murder of 148 people, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 others. Following the execution, Saddam’s body was buried in his birthplace of Al-Awja in Tikrit, Iraq on 31 December 2006.

world’s first partial face transplant on a living human

While the world’s first partial face transplant on a living human happened on 27 November 2005, the patient, Isabelle Dinoire, appeared in public in early 2006 for a media conference with her new face. She underwent surgery to replace her nose, mouth and chin, which had been mauled by her dog. The operation on Isabelle’s face was carried out by Professor Bernard Devauchelle, assisted by Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard at the Centre hospitalier Universitaire Nord in Amiens, France. The surgery requires the patient to take the drugs for the rest of her life so that her body doesn’t reject her new face. Isabelle later bought another dog to help in her recovery after the surgery.

another year of hurt for England

It was another year of hurt for England (and it still is in 2016) when Italy came, saw and conquered the 2006 FIFA World Cup. England’s shot at the World Cup ended in quarter-finals when they lost on penalties (what a surprise) to Portugal after a goalless match. Italy won the tournament on 9th July 2006 after they defeated France 5–3 in a penalty shootout when extra time had finished in a 1–1 draw. Germany defeated Portugal 3–1 to finish in third place. It was also Italy’s first world title in 24 years, and their fourth world title overall. This made them the second most successful World Cup team ever.

Google, bought video streaming site, YouTube

In October 2006 tech giant, Google, bought video streaming site, YouTube, in 2006 for $1.65 billion. The price tag would’ve seemed massive at the time – especially as YouTube only started up in 2005 but YouTube continued to grow year after year. At that time it was Google’s second largest buy. YouTube now has 1 billion unique users using the service every month. Starting from 2010 Alexa (a commercial web traffic data and analytics service) ranked YouTube as the third most visited website on the Internet after Google and Facebook – this still continues today.

Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright: A real Jekyll and Hyde

Sick Steve Wright carried out the “fastest serial killing spree in British history” when he murdered five prostitutes in just 10 days.

The forklift truck driver strangled his victims before stripping and dumping their bodies in rural spots near Ipswich in 2006.

Wright was jailed for life in 2008 for the murders of Tania Nicol, 19, Gemma Adams, 24, Anneli Alderton, 24, Annette Nicholls, 29 and Paula Clennell, 24.

To his fellow golfers at Seckford golf club near Ipswich, he was “the most boring bloke in the world”, but Steve Wright had for years hidden a secret life of domestic violence, cross-dressing, petty theft, failed suicide bids and an obsession with prostitutes.

He had even tried to strangle an ex-wife on several occasions during a turbulent relationship 20 years before he went on to murder five women in the space of six weeks.

2006 UK Timeline

January

1 January – BBC One airs The Queen by Rolf, a documentary following artist Rolf Harris as he paints a portrait of the Queen.

3 January – Channel 4 quiz show Countdown celebrates its 4000th edition.

6 January – ITV debuts Soapstar Superstar, a singing talent contest in which soap actors compete to become series champion.

7 January – Charles Kennedy, resigns as leader of the Liberal Democrats, admitting that he has a drinking problem.

14 January – Coronation Street actor Richard Fleeshman wins the first series of ITV’s Soapstar Superstar.

15 January – The BBC announces details of Just the Two of Us, a singing contest following the Strictly Come Dancing format that will air in February and March. Vernon Kay and Tess Daly will present the series which will pair celebrities with professional singers, who will then compete to become series champion.

Debut of ITV’s Dancing on Ice.

20 January – River Thames whale: a whale is discovered swimming in the River Thames in London.

24 January – Sven-Göran Eriksson announces that he will quit as manager of the England national football team after this summer’s World Cup in Germany. Eriksson, 57, has been in charge of the England team for five years and, as a Swede, is the first non-English manager of the England team.

27 January – Chantelle Houghton, a model from Essex wins the fourth series of Celebrity Big Brother after entering the series as a "fake" celebrity. In order to remain as a contestant she was required to convince the other participants that she was a famous singer.

February

3 February – Islamist demonstration outside Danish Embassy in London in response to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.

8 February – Channel 4 confirms that its pay-per-view movie channel FilmFour will go Free-to-air from July, when it will launch on Freeview.

9 February – Dunfermline and West Fife by-election: Willie Rennie of the Liberal Democrats wins the seat from Labour.

The Government announces that the Child Support Agency is to be abolished.

10–26 February – Great Britain competes at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and wins one silver medal (Shelley Rudman for women’s skeleton).

14 February – Coronation Street bosses defend their decision to film a storyline involving a car breaking down on Saddleworth Moor, scene of the 1960s Moors murders, saying the plot has nothing to do with the events that occurred there.

15 February – BBC One debuts Davina, a chat show presented by Davina McCall. Guests on the first edition include Charlotte Church, Tess Daly and Vernon Kay. The show proves to be a disaster, with The Guardian’s Gareth Maclean noting that McCall "found herself floundering and foundering, struggling through the interviews, and exposing herself in a way from which even the hardiest flasher would recoil", while Jonathan Ross blames a poor guest line up. The 8 March edition gives BBC One its worst ever peak time ratings of 2.75 million. By the time the show ends on 12 April ratings have fallen to below 2.5 million. It is axed shortly afterwards.

16 February – the BRIT Awards take place.

18 February – The Rolling Stones give a free concert to two million people in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

19 February – the BAFTA awards take place in London.

22 February – The one billionth song is downloaded on iTunes; the song is "Speed of Sound" by Coldplay.

22 February – Securitas depot robbery: around £53 million (US$92 million) is stolen from a Securitas depot at Tonbridge, Kent, in the largest cash robbery in British crime history.

The Prince of Wales’s court case continues in the High Court against The Mail on Sunday as he tries to prevent the publication of his journals. Various revelations have been made such as that he considers himself to be a dissident, and his opinion of government officials in People’s Republic of China whom he described as "appalling old waxworks".

23 February – Just the Two of Us debuts on BBC One.

27 February – writers Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh sue Random House in the High Court of Justice claiming that the best selling novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown contains ideas stolen from their 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.

28 February – L!VE TV is moved to the adult section of Sky’s EPG, and is rebranded as "Babeworld" two days later. This is because the channel has moved to broadcasting an increasingly adult themed content.

March

1 March – the Senedd, debating chamber of the National Assembly for Wales on Cardiff Bay, designed by Richard Rogers is opened by the Queen.

2 March – Sir Menzies Campbell is elected leader of the Liberal Democrats following an election caused by the resignation of previous leader, Charles Kennedy.

Four people are injured in an explosion in a GlaxoSmithKline factory in Irvine, North Ayrshire.

3 March – Disgraced glam rock singer Gary Glitter is convicted of sexually abusing two young girls at his villa in Vietnam and is sentenced to three years in jail.

4 March – Actress Gaynor Faye and professional skating partner Daniel Whiston win the first series of Dancing on ice.

5 March – Siân Reeves and Russell Watson win the first series of Just the Two of Us.

7 March – the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, makes a state visit to the UK.

10 March – David Gilmour begins his first world tour since Pink Floyd’s 1994 world tour, in support of his On an Island album.

11 March – James Blunt, with his single "You’re Beautiful", becomes the first British artist to top the US Billboard Hot 100 chart since Elton John with "Candle In The Wind 1997".

11 March – ITV launches a CITV channel, which broadcasts during the downtime hours of ITV4, replacing the ITV News Channel.

13 March – six men taking part in a clinical trial for a new anti-inflammatory drug TGN1412 are placed in intensive care, some in a life-threatening condition, after suffering adverse side-effects.

18 March – Christopher Napier, performing as George Formby wins the fourth and final junior series of Stars in Their Eyes. The programme continues with a number of special editions during 2006, before a final celebrity special on 23 December.

19 March – the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall begin a two-week foreign tour to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India.

20 March – the British Press Awards are held at The Dorchester, Park Lane, London.

21 March – Labour’s hopes of a unique fourth successive term in office at the next general election (by which time Tony Blair says he will have resigned as prime minister) are given a boost when an Ipsos MORI opinion poll puts them 11 points ahead of the Conservatives on 42%.

23 March – 2005-2006 Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis: British peacemaker, Norman Kember, and three Canadians rescued by SAS troops.

23 March – Coronation Street bosses dismiss as untrue media reports that the child actress who plays the soap’s Amy Barlow is being replaced because her parents felt her storylines were "too harrowing", and her workload too heavy.

24 March – ITV announces plans to air World of Chat, a show on ITV2 featuring the best from chatshows around the world.

25–26 March – UKTV Gold presents its Mitchells Weekend to coincide with the return of Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp) to EastEnders. The weekend includes The Mitchells – The Full Story, a documentary about the soap family presented by actress Kim Medcalf.

28 March – Council workers across the UK strike over pension rights.

Royal Regiment of Scotland created.

April

3 April – Graham Norton will present How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, a TV talent search for an actress to play Maria in a stage production of The Sound of Music, it is announced.

7 April – 12.6 million viewers watch long-running Coronation Street character Mike Baldwin die in the arms of his long-time rival, Ken Barlow. Baldwin, played by Johnny Briggs, had been in the show for 30 years.

17 April – Peter Bayless wins the 2006 series of MasterChef Goes Large.

19 April – ITV launch ITV Play, a new 24/7 participation TV channel, on Freeview in the United Kingdom. It will launch on other platforms later in the year.

21 April – The Queen celebrates her 80th birthday at Windsor. The Prince of Wales makes a televised address in tribute.

Denis Norden announces his retirement from his two ongoing ITV shows It’ll Be Alright on the Night and spin-off show Denis Norden’s Laughter File, after 30 years with ITV.

ITV secures the terrestrial television screening rights to Casino Royale, the new James Bond film that will be released in November. The film receives its terrestrial television premiere on 19 September 2009.

24 April – Cartoon Network Too and Nick Jr. 2 are launched in the UK.

25 AprilThe BBC announces that Grandstand, its flagship sports TV programme, will be phased out within the next year after nearly 50 years on air.

5 April – discovery of a swan with avian influenza in Scotland.

7 April – Mr Justice Peter Smith delivers judgment in the copyright case over The Da Vinci Code finding that Dan Brown had not breached the copyright of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. The judgment itself contained a coded message on the whim of the judge.

12 April – Prince Harry passed out as a commissioned officer during the Sovereign’s Parade at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

18 April – Peugeot announces plans to close the 60-year-old car factory at Ryton near Coventry, which it bought from Chrysler in 1979, within the next year.

21 April – Elizabeth II celebrates her 80th birthday at Windsor. The Prince of Wales makes a televised address in tribute.

25 April – the BBC announces that Grandstand, its flagship sports TV programme, will be phased out within the next year after nearly 50 years on air.

26 April – the Duke of Edinburgh visits the Republic of Ireland.

27 April – by-election in the Moray constituency of the Scottish Parliament. Richard Lochhead holds the seat for the Scottish National Party.

May

4 May – Local government elections take place in some areas of England.

Steve McClaren, manager of Middlesbrough F.C., agrees to become the next manager of the England national football team after the World Cup.

5 May – The BBC’s local election coverage goes off air shortly before 3:00 am, due to a power failure at their Millbank studios. For the next hour coverage relocates to The Counting House pub, with results being read out using handwritten pieces of paper.

5 May – Tony Blair reshuffles his cabinet. Charles Clarke is dismissed as Home Secretary. Jack Straw is replaced as the Foreign Secretary by Margaret Beckett. John Prescott remains as Deputy Prime Minister, but loses responsibility for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

8 May – Guy Goma, a graduate from the Congo who went to the BBC to attend a job interview, appears on BBC News 24 in place of an IT expert after a mix-up. Guy Kewney had been scheduled to comment on the subject of Apple Computer’s court case with The Beatles’ record label, Apple Corps, but a producer collected the wrong man from the wrong reception at BBC Television Centre.

10 May – Former supermarket cashier Michelle Dewberry wins the second series of The Apprentice and a £100,000 a year job working for Sir Alan Sugar.

14 May – Producers of Coronation Street confirm that Debra Stephenson, who plays Frankie Baldwin, will be leaving the soap at the end of the year.

15 May – BBC High Definition Television Trial commences.

20 May – Just minutes before the live Eurovision Song Contest final begins, BBC One’s live National Lottery draw is invaded by Fathers 4 Justice protestors. The show is temporarily taken off air, leaving just a programme logo and announcer Alan Dedicoat’s voice until the problems are resolved.

20 May – Finnish monster rock band Lordi win the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. The UK entry, "Teenage Life" by Daz Sampson, finishes in 19th place with 25 points.

20 May – campaigners "Fathers 4 Justice" invade the set of the National Lottery.

Finland’s Lordi win the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with "Hard Rock Hallelujah".

22 May – BSkyB launch High-definition television in the UK under the brand Sky HD.

27 May – The BBC’s first scheduled HDTV broadcast on BBC HD.

30 May – Scottish and Grampian are rebranded as STV Central and STV North respectively.

30 May – an Ipsos MORI opinion poll shows the Conservatives back in the lead with 36% of the vote, two points ahead of Labour.

June

4 June – Coronation Street confirms that Richard Fleeshman, who plays Craig Harris, will be leaving the soap to follow a singing career.

5 June – Actress Lucy Benjamin wins The X Factor: Battle of the Stars, a celebrity version of the ITV music talent contest.

6 June – ITV announces that Central News South’s existence as a news region will end after 17 years when the eastern half of the region (the area served by the Oxford transmitter) merges its operations with Meridian West’s output, forming a new news region named ITV Thames Valley.

9 June–9 July – Live coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup is aired by the BBC and ITV.

9–11 June – the British Grand Prix is held at the Silverstone Circuit and is won by reigning world champion Fernando Alonso ahead of Michael Schumacher and Kimi Räikkönen, while local hero Jenson Button retired earlier in the race with an engine oil leak.

10 June – the England football team’s World Cup campaign begins with a 1–0 win over Paraguay.

15 June – The BBC announces that Billie Piper will leave her role as Rose Tyler on Doctor Who at the end of the second series the following month.

15 June – England beat Trinidad and Tobago 2-0 in their second World Cup group game.

19 June – BBC One Controller Peter Fincham announces that They Think It’s All Over will not be recommissioned for a new series, ending a run of eleven years on air.

20 June – The BBC announces that Top of the Pops will be axed, the final show airing on 30 July.

18.46 million watch England vs Sweden in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the highest rated programme of the year.

20 June – England go through to the knockout stages of the World Cup with a 2–2 draw against Sweden in their final group game.

23 June – An interview with Conservative leader David Cameron on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross causes controversy when presenter Ross asks Cameron whether he ever had sexual fantasies about former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a teenager. The BBC later bans repeats of the interview.

25 June – Children’s Party at the Palace held in honour of The Queen’s 80th birthday.

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, rejects calls from families of murder victims for all convicted murderers to be sentenced to no less than a minimum of 25 years in prison.

England go through to the World Cup quarter-finals for the second tournament in succession by beating Ecuador 1–0 with a goal from captain David Beckham.

29 June – Blaenau Gwent by-elections: independent candidates defeat Labour Party in parliamentary and Welsh Assembly by-elections.

Bromley and Chislehurst by-election won by Bob Neill for the Conservative Party.

July

July – European heat wave affects the UK, resulting in July 1983’s record for the hottest month in the CET series being beaten with a mean monthly CET of 19.7 °C or 67.5 °F.

1 July – CITV broadcasts its last Saturday morning regular-based show Holly and Stephens Saturday Showdown for the last time after 40 years of broadcasting Saturday morning shows on ITV until Scrambled was broadcast in 2014.

1 July – England’s World Cup quest ends in the quarter-finals when they lose on penalties to Portugal after a goalless draw.

4 July – Sheridan v News International: Scottish Socialist Party MSP, Tommy Sheridan begins legal action against the News of the World for libel at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

5 July – Actress Freema Agyeman is announced as the new Doctor Who companion Martha Jones replacing Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler.

11 July – It is announced that actress Wendy Richard will leave EastEnders at Christmas. She is one of the only remaining cast members from the show’s 1985 launch.

16 July – Sarah Lang wins one million pounds in the final of the ITV1 gameshow PokerFace. As she had also won £32,500 on the BBC One gameshow In It to Win It the previous year, this makes her the biggest known female gameshow winner in UK television history, and second overall behind Ian Woodley.

17 July – George W. Bush greets Tony Blair with the phrase “Yo, Blair”.

18 July – 180 British citizens evacuated from the Lebanon due to growing crisis between Hizbollah militants and Israel.

20 July – HMS Bulwark prepares to evacuate British nationals from the Lebanon.

21 July – James Dreyfus takes over from Ardal O’Hanlon as George Sunday AKA Thermoman in the sixth and final series of My Hero the series ended in September due to low viewing figures.

22 July – Arsenal F.C. move into the Emirates Stadium, named after the airline company as part of a 15-year sponsorship deal, after 93 years at nearby Highbury. The 60,000-seat stadium is the largest club stadium to have been built in English football since Maine Road, which was home of Manchester City from 1923 to 2003.

23 July – FilmFour is relaunched as a free-to-air channel. It had originally been a subscription service, but this had ended four days previously.

29 July – Debut of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? on BBC One.

30 July – Top of the Pops airs its final regular edition after being axed earlier in the year. However, the show returns for a Christmas special.

30 July – The last ever weekly edition of the British television chart show, Top of the Pops, is broadcast.

August

1 August – Steve McClaren is officially appointed as manager of the England national football team.

6 August – While anchoring from Israel during the Israel-Lebanon war, Sky News presenter Anna Botting famously interviews the British MP, George Galloway about the conflict. During the nine-minute heated discussion Galloway criticises Sky News, News Corporation, and even Botting herself for being biased towards Israel.

10 August – police make many arrests in relation to a transatlantic aircraft plot, and tight security measures are instigated at airports.

14 August – The One Show first broadcasts on BBC One.

18 August – Pete Bennett wins series seven of Big Brother.

23 August – ITV secures a deal to sell its 45% stake in Ireland’s TV3 for £70m.

Central Tonight presenter Joanne Malin apologises after swearing during a live broadcast from Trentham Gardens in Stoke-on-Trent. Central subsequently claims to have received no viewer complaints as a result of her description of the inclement weather, but Trentham says several people contact them offering the presenter their support.

28 August – Bianca Gascoigne and model Calum Best win the second and final series of Love Island.

August – the first modern solely Gaelic-medium school to offer secondary education, Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu, is opened at Woodside in Glasgow.

September

1 September – BBC Entertainment replaces BBC Prime in global markets.

2 September – Royal Air Force Nimrod crash in Afghanistan: fourteen personnel are killed in Britain’s worst single military loss since the Falklands war.

9 September – Helen Mirren awarded best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her role in The Queen, portraying Elizabeth II following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

13 September – Ingram Wilcox, a civil servant and quiz show fanatic, has become the fifth person to win the £1 million prize on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, it is reported. The episode showing his win, the first in two and a half years, is aired on 16 September.

16 September – Connie Fisher wins BBC One’s How Do You Solve a Problems Like Maria?. She will make her debut in the role in a revival of The Sound of Music at London’s Palladium Theatre on 14 November.

20 September – television presenter Richard Hammond suffers a serious brain injury when he crashes a jet-powered car whilst filming for Top Gear.

20 September – BBC One’s daytime soap Doctors celebrates its 1000th episode with a one-hour special.

25 September – Copmanthorpe rail crash: One man dies when the 14:25 from Plymouth to Edinburgh operated by Virgin Trains hits a car at about 20:55.

25 September – Lianna Fowler wins Cycle 2 of Britain’s Next Top Model.

29 September – Matt Dawson wins the 2006 series of Celebrity MasterChef.

30 September – It is announced that Des Lynam will leave Countdown at the end of 2006.

October

1 October – regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 comes into effect, requiring a Fire Risk Assessment for all non-domestic premises in England and Wales.

5 October – Rt. Hon. Elish Angiolini, QC, appointed as Lord Advocate in Scotland. She is the first woman and the first solicitor to be appointed to the post.

5 October – QI publishes its first book: The Book of General Ignorance. The book becomes a No. 1 best-seller for amazon.co.uk.

6 October – The BBC defends presenter Graham Norton after he admits to having taken recreational drugs, including ecstasy in an interview for Marie Claire magazine. Of Norton’s revelation the broadcaster says: "The issues that Graham discusses in this interview are aimed at an adult audience and reflect the frank and open nature of his personality".

7 October – After four and a half years, the BBC ‘Rhythm & Movement’ idents are shown for the final time on BBC One at 1:10 am, as part of a special montage (2:55 am on BBC One Northern Ireland). Their replacements, the ‘Circle’ idents, debut at 10 am.

9 October – opening of the Beetham Tower, Manchester, a landmark 168-metre 47-storey skyscraper with oversailing upper floors designed by Ian Simpson of SimpsonHaugh and Partners, the tallest building in the UK outside London, and with its penthouse apartments (above the Hilton Hotel) being the highest residential addresses in the country.

10 October – Justin Hawkins, lead singer of The Darkness announces he is leaving the band.

12 October – ITV announce that Where the Heart Is will not be commissioned for a new series.

13 October: European Home Retail plc and its subsidiary Farepak go into administration, leaving tens of thousands of people out of pocket for Christmas 2006.

15 October – Five Life is launched.

16 October – Five US is launched.

25 October – Guitarist Brian May announces on his website that Queen is returning to the studio for recording sessions. The new lineup, Queen + Paul Rodgers, features May, Paul Rodgers (the former lead vocalist of Free) and former Queen drummer Roger Taylor.

26 October – Duran Duran lead guitarist Andy Taylor once again leaves the band after a series of disagreements surrounding their latest album, which was still incomplete by the year’s end. Reasons given are his disapproval of the usage of both Timbaland and Justin Timberlake in the creation of the band’s album. The band hires an interim guitarist to supplant Taylor, with no real replacement being announced.

26 October – the Duke of Edinburgh officially opens Arsenal’s new stadium.

26 October – ITV confirms the axing of its prison drama, Bad Girls after eight series.

29 October – After a six-year absence from television, The Royle Family returns for what is billed as its final episode, an hour-long show titled "The Queen of Sheba".

30 October – the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is published by the UK government.

31 October – The Who release Endless Wire, their first studio album for 24 years.

November

5 November – 53 year old Ronald Castree arrested in connection with the murder of eleven year old Lesley Molseed in 1975. He was convicted in November 2007.

7 November – Dhiren Barot sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting large scale terrorist attacks in Britain and abroad. The Court of Appeal noted that Barot’s "businesslike" plans would have caused carnage on a "colossal and unprecedented scale" if they had been successful.

8 November – three men of Pakistani origin sentenced to life imprisonment for the racist murder of Kriss Donald in Glasgow.

13 November – BBC Parliament broadcasts in full screen format for the first time on the Freeview service, having previously only been available in quarter screen format. The BBC eventually found the bandwidth to make the channel full-screen after receiving "thousands of angry and perplexed e-mails and letters", not to mention questions asked by MPs in the Houses of Parliament itself.

14 November – Cadbury announces its intention to end its £10m a year sponsorship deal with Coronation Street after a decade. The current sponsorship contract is due to expire at the end of 2007, but Cadbury says it would end the deal earlier if another sponsor is found.

16 November – the 21st James Bond film – Casino Royale – is released in British cinemas. Daniel Craig makes his debut as Bond in the film.

16 November – Snow Patrol become the first British rock band in 13 years to reach the top five of the US Billboard Hot 100.

19 November – Home Secretary John Reid attacks the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown for being ‘presumptuous’ and ‘disloyal’ for openly campaigning to replace Tony Blair as Prime Minister.

23 November – Alexander Litvinenko dies in London having been poisoned by Polonium-210.

24 November – Loyalist Michael Stone attempts to bomb the Northern Ireland Assembly on the day nominations for first and deputy first minister are to be made. Ian Paisley indicates his willingness to serve as First Minister.

December

1 December – Matt Willis, a former member of boy band Busted wins the sixth series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.

2 December – a young woman’s body is found in a brook near Ipswich; her death is initially treated as "unexplained".

3 December – The last edition of Central News South is aired. From tomorrow the Central South region will cease to exist. The east of the region including Oxford becomes part of ITV Thames Valley, the west half of the region, covering Cheltenham and Gloucester is absorbed into the ITV West region, while Herefordshire rejoins the Central West region.

4 December – The ITV Thames Valley region, a composite of the old Meridian West and eastern part of the Central South regions, goes on air with a new regional news programme Thames Valley Tonight.

4 December – the woman whose corpse was found in Ipswich two days ago is identified as Gemma Adams, a 25-year-old local prostitute. Her death is reported to be suspicious and police launch a murder inquiry. There are also concerns about another Ipswich prostitute, 19-year-old Tania Nicol, who went missing on 30 October.

7 December – a tornado hits London.

8 December – the body of missing Ipswich prostitute Tania Nicol is found on the outskirts of the town.

9 December – police in Ipswich launch a murder investigation into the death of Tania Nicol and admit that it is likely she met her death at the hands of the same person or people who killed Gemma Adams.

10 December – a third prostitute’s body is found in the Ipswich area.

10 December – Equestrian Zara Phillips is named as this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year, following her mother, Anne, Princess Royal, who won the title in 1971.

14 December – two more women are found dead in Ipswich and it is confirmed that both are prostitutes, meaning that the police are now investigating five murders.

12 December – the Ryton car factory closes and Peugeot 206 production is transferred to Slovakia, several months ahead of the scheduled closure date. 2,300 jobs are lost.

16 December – Leona Lewis wins the third series of The X Factor, becoming the ITV show’s first female winner.

18 December – a man is arrested near Felixstowe on suspicion of murdering the five Ipswich prostitutes. He is named as Tom Stephens, a 37-year-old Tesco supermarket worker.

19 December – a second man, 48-year-old Forklift truck driver Steve Wright, is arrested in connection with the Ipswich serial murders, while police are given more time to question the first suspect.

19 December – Following the success of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, BBC One announces plans for Any Dream Will Do, a follow up series that will search for someone to play Joseph in the West End musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

21 December – Steve Wright is charged with the Ipswich prostitute murders, while Tom Stephens is released on bail pending further inquiries.

23 December – Cricketer Mark Ramprakash and his dancing partner Karen Hardy win the fourth series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Stars in Their Eyes is axed after the last special episode.

25 December – Actress Wendy Richard makes her final appearance in EastEnders after her character, Pauline Fowler, is killed off in a dramatic storyline. She had been in the show since its inception in 1985.

Launch of Emmerdale’s whodunit storyline involving the murder of Tom King (played by Ken Farrington). Tom is hit over the head and falls through a window to his death on his wedding day.

29 December – the British government pays off the Anglo-American loan made in 1946.

31 December – Hogmanay celebrations in Glasgow and Edinburgh are cancelled due to poor weather conditions.

Football in England – Season 2005–06

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101 - Welcome to EOS 10 (transcription)

101 - WELCOME TO EOS 10

Transcribed by: @akmazianisgay

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SCENE 1

SOUND: DOOR OPENING

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS

RYAN (to himself):

Huh… okay, big, uhmmm…

(outward) Hi excuse me, I- um okay. Hi, can you-

(SIGHS)

Excuse me, hi, I uh…

(loudly) I’m looking for the infirmary, can anyone-?

SOUND: COMPUTER BEEPING

RYAN (CONT’D):

(to himself) Okay, um… primary docking ring… airlock corridor C to level 10 Promenade… then take a right at the… Gimjaach stand? I don’t see a Gimjaach stand… I don’t even know what a Gimjaach stand is.

(outward) Hi, can you help me? No, of course not. Huh. Maybe that… guy, I assume, can help. Hi, uh sir, can- ma’am. Sir? Definitely sir, sorry I’m looking for the infirmary.

SOUND: UNINTELLIGIBLE NOISES

RYAN:

Great, yes, and the Gimjaach stand would be…?

SOUND: UNINTELLIGIBLE NOISES

RYAN:

Oh. So that’s Gimjaach… that is disgusting.

CUT TO: THEME

SCENE 2 (INFIRMARY)

JANE (exasperated):

No.

LEVI:

It could be Talarian flu!

JANE:

Have you been to Talarian Prime lately?

LEVI:

Not this rotation… Oxonians disease perhaps? Should I remove my pants? You can check-

JANE (forcefully cutting him off):

No. Thank you.

LEVI:

I don’t mind!

JANE:

It’s okay.

LEVI:

It will take but a second!

JANE:

Go back to the kitchen, Levi.

SOUND: DOOR OPENING, FOOTSTEPS

RYAN:

Oh! Hi, I’m-

JANE (cutting him off):

Sign in at the kiosk with your name, species ID, and station identifier, please.

RYAN:

No, I’m looking for- I’m sorry, I’m Dr. Dalias, uh nice to meet you… Johns?

JANE:

Jane. Nurse Jane Johns.

RYAN:

...Really? Really- uh, really nice to meet you, Lieutenant Johns, Nurse uh Lieutenant Johns.

JANE:

Jane is fine.

RYAN:

Okay. I’m, uh, looking for Dr. Urvidian?

JANE:

Oh! You… he’s been waiting for you

RYAN:

Is that a good thing?

JANE (laughing):

No. Not even a little bit.

TRANSITION TO: SCENE 3 (DR. URVIDIAN’S OFFICE)

JANE:

Dr. Urvidian, Dr. Dalias is here to see you.

URVIDIAN (slurred):

Dr. Dalias?

SOUND: DRINKING

URVIDIAN (CONT’D):

Doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor Dalias?

RYAN:

Uhh…

URVIDIAN:

Finally! I’ve been waiting for you… waiting for you to come replace me. Come to take my job? Come to undo my life’s work?

(CHUCKLES)

Well not as long as I’m standing here on my own feet.

SOUND: HEAVY THUD

RYAN:

He just passed out…

JANE:

Uh-huh.

RYAN:

...He do that a lot?

JANE:

Uh-huh.

CUT TO: SCENE 4 (INFIRMARY)

SOUND: HEART MONITOR BEEPING (CONTINUED)

URVIDIAN:

(GROANS)

RYAN:

Welcome back. Something hurt?

URVIDIAN:

Yes. Everything. Also… I’m sober.

RYAN:

You’re welcome.

URVIDIAN:

This is unacceptable.

RYAN:

Do you have any idea how high your blood-alcohol was?

URVIDIAN:

Is this a game? Would you like me to guess?

RYAN:

Point-six-two.

URVIDIAN (under his breath):

Child’s play

(louder) You dosed me for that?

RYAN:

Okay. Two questions: what were you drinking and how are you alive?

URVIDIAN:

Ceriliac Ale.

RYAN:

The Alliance banned Ceriliac Ale more than 100 rotations ago.

URVIDIAN:

Oh, grow up.

RYAN:

And the being alive part?

URVIDIAN:

Postnatal hepatic mutagenic resequencing.

RYAN:

You… altered your genes? Your liver?

URVIDIAN:

To metabolize more alcohol, try to keep up, Doctor.

RYAN:

Genetic engineering was banned-

URVIDIAN (cutting him off):

Yes, yes, by the Alliance more than 100 rotations ago.

RYAN:

200, actually.

URVIDIAN:

Are you always this prudish? How-

RYAN:

Sensible? Sage

URVIDIAN:

-Joyless, actually, you seem like a joyless person, very sad. And your forehead is much too large for a man of your stature.

RYAN:

Okay. I’ve neutralized the alcohol, you’re fine, so now we-

URVIDIAN (forcefully cutting him off):

No, I’m not! I’m sober, you miscreant.

RYAN (finishing his sentence):

We can finally take care of this.

URVIDIAN:

And this would be what?

RYAN:

My transfer orders commanding me-

URVIDIAN (cutting him off, again):

NOPE. No thank you. You’ve come to cast me out? Well think again.

RYAN:

Wait, Doctor-

URVIDIAN (cutting him off, yet again):

To you, miscreant, I say suck it. I’m not leaving, I don’t care what the orders say.

RYAN (fed up):

Doctor Urvidian, if you would just-

URVIDIAN (literally just will not let Ryan complete a sentence):

NO. Begone. Petulant little fly. You’re nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable. And you bother me. I will not be undone by the likes of you, especially not while sober.

SOUND: RIPPING OUT IV, HEART MONITOR FLATLINES, FOOTSTEPS

RYAN:

(SIGHS)

Well I think that went well.

TRANSITION TO: SCENE 5 (INFIRMARY)

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS

RYAN (what’s someone doing here?):

Hi…

LEVI:

Hello.

RYAN:

Sorry, I was just walking by, would you like me to close the door so you can have some privacy?

LEVI:

Oh no. Nurse Johns opened it, and she’ll be very angry if you close it.

RYAN:

I see… uh, but… you’re not wearing any pants… and you’re quite obviously from Arian-7…

LEVI:

I am Arule Delatro Levithian the Third, 82nd prince of the high command of Helinsanki, protector of the sacred Asmuthian bones, and heir to the Diamond Throne. And yes, from Arian-7. How could you tell? We look much like humans.

RYAN:

Not with your pants off, you don’t. Prince?

LEVI:

Deposed. I was toppled by insurgents from the southern continent. Ghastly creatures with no sense of decorum or appreciation for the finer things in life. Also… they have spikes on their backs. Unseemly. I’ll return to Arian-7 one day and reclaim my birthright. Until then, I live here, on EOS 10, and work in the kitchen.

RYAN:

You’re a cook.

LEVI:

Dishwasher. For now.

RYAN (slightly concerned):

How… wonderful… Ar-Arul-

LEVI (cutting him off):

Everyone calls me Levi.

RYAN:

Levi. About your pants-

LEVI:

Yes, I’m waiting for an exam from Nurse Johns.

RYAN:

...I see… until then, why don’t we close this door?

SOUND: DOOR CLOSING

CUT TO: SCENE 6 (INFIRMARY)

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS, BACKGROUND CHATTER

RYAN:

Lieutenant-

JANE:

Jane is good.

RYAN:

Jane. Uh, you have a patient in exam 3.

JANE:

I do?

RYAN:

A ‘Levi?’ ...From Arian-7.

JANE:

(GROANS)

He’s still here?

RYAN:

And he’s not wearing any pants.

JANE:

That’s typical.

RYAN:

Is he really a prince?

JANE:

Deposed.

RYAN:

How’d he end up in the kitchen?

JANE:

He arrived on a transport full of refugees one day, and the next thing we knew, he ousted the plongeur in a coup d'etat and installed himself as his own marmiton.

RYAN:

He… took over for the guy who cleans the plates and forks and made him wash pots and pans instead?

JANE:

Exactly. You know French?

RYAN:

I grew up in Paris, actually.

JANE:

The French was Levi’s doing too. Once he secured his position on the dish line he was able to use his influence to institute a strict brigade de cuisine system with the help of a newly formed coalition of bussers from food court delta.

RYAN:

The bussers are on his side?

JANE:

Just the food court delta ones. I think he promised them a place in his new kingdom…

RYAN:

In the kitchen.

JANE:

Or maybe just longer bathroom breaks. Both seem plausible.

RYAN:

What’s wrong with him?

JANE:

He’s absolutely, completely, and totally insane.

RYAN:

I meant physically.

JANE:

Nothing. He’s a hypochondriac.

RYAN:

Good to know. Can we, uh, talk about Dr. Urvidian?

JANE:

Not a hypochondriac.

RYAN:

Not what I meant.

JANE:

But also absolutely, completely, and totally insane.

RYAN:

Also good to know, how often is he drunk?

(SILENCE)

...Hello?

JANE:

Sorry, you threw me, most people just ask when he’ll be sober next.

RYAN:

I didn’t know it was this bad.

JANE:

Well…

SOUND: EXPLOSION, JANE AND RYAN GASP, ALARMS (CONTINUED)

RYAN:

What was that?

JANE:

I don’t know, hold on.

SOUND: COMPUTER BEEPING

JANE (CONT’D):

Some kind of explosion, lower plane ring.

RYAN:

Are there any people in that section?

SOUND: COMPUTER BEEPING

JANE:

Three.

RYAN:

Let’s go.

SOUND: DRAMATIC MUSIC (CONTINUED)

CUT TO: SCENE 7 (LOWER PLANE RING)

SOUND: COMPUTER BEEPING AND SHORTING OUT

RYAN:

What happened?

JANE:

Power conduit he was working on blew.

RYAN:

The computer doesn’t have his bio info, what is he?

FEMALE VOICE:

No idea, he just started.

RYAN:

He’s not wearing an ID!

FEMALE VOICE:

He just started today!

RYAN:

He’s got four arms, no one could slap an ID bracelet around one of them?

SOUND: COMPUTER BEEPING AND SHORTING OUT

RYAN (CONT’D):

Do you recognize this species?

JANE:

No. Is he… is he conscious?

SOUND (as Ryan talks): DOOR OPENING

RYAN:

(groans) I- I can’t- I can’t tell, these vitals, he- he has no vitals, so either he’s dead or… taking a nap?

URVIDIAN:

He’s not dead

RYAN (startled):

Ah! Jesus!

(confused) Where did you come from?

URVIDIAN (ignoring him):

He’s not dead, and he’s definitely not asleep.

RYAN:

You recognize this species?

URVIDIAN:

He’s a native of Sigma-Upsilon in the Perseus Arc. SQ-3 if I’m not mistaken.

RYAN:

It- it must’ve taken him forever just to get here.

FEMALE VOICE:

He said he left 3 rotations ago, hoping to start a new life in the Alliance.

RYAN (sarcastic):

Oh, well good thing we put him in a furnace and blew him up, then.

FEMALE VOICE:

(scoffs) This is a fourth generation 0-point reactor-

URVIDIAN (cutting her off):

Yes, wonderful. Now, do we actually plan to treat this man sometime soon?

RYAN:

I’d love to, if I could tell exactly how to do that. I can’t even find his heart…

URVIDIAN:

That’s because he doesn’t have one.

RYAN:

Oh. Well that explains it.

URVIDIAN:

His species enters a protective neurogenic stasis when confronted with severe injury, you’ll need to revive him to diagnose his injuries. 55 CCs of neuropeneferin.

RYAN (in disbelief):

55 CCs?

URVIDIAN:

Into the upper-right thoracic quadrant. Quick now!

RYAN:

Okay… here goes.

SOUND: INJECTION, HEARTBEAT MONITOR (CONTINUED), DRAMATIC MUSIC FADES

JANE:

I’m getting some neuro-electrical activity in the- well, we’ll just call it a brain? You can have a brain down there, right?

URVIDIAN:

He’s coming out of stasis

RYAN:

I think I’m seeing a sinus rhythm... it’s a rhythm, so that’s generally better than… no rhythm. I think.

JANE:

Looking at general percussive trauma, no real internal damage that I can tell.

RYAN:

Alright, let’s uh, let’s get him back to the infirmary and prep for a full diagnostic scan, keep him sedated until we get a full idea of what’s going on. Dr. Urvidian… where’d he go?

TRANSITION TO: SCENE 8 (DR. URVIDIAN’S OFFICE)

SOUND: DOOR OPENING, DOOR CLOSING

RYAN:

Anything interesting out that window?

URVIDIAN:

Stars. Lots and lots of stars.

RYAN:

So… no.

URVIDIAN: Can I help you?

RYAN:

You were good today.

URVIDIAN:

I’m good everyday.

RYAN (sarcastic):

Really? Yeah I thought so too, especially when you were passed out on the floor earlier? Genius.

URVIDIAN:

For your information-

RYAN (cutting him off):

When your head hit the exam table-

URVIDIAN (cutting him off):

I had- shut up- everything under complete control. No one asked you to intervene.

RYAN:

Are you, uh, familiar with alcohol poisioning?

URVIDIAN: Clinically? Yes.

RYAN:

Also personally.

URVIDIAN: Would you just get this over with?

RYAN:

What?

URVIDIAN:

Dammit man, stop… stop driving the dagger in slowly, stab me in the heart and get it over with!

RYAN:

Okay, first of all, ew. Second, will you just read the transfer orders?

URVIDIAN:

(indecipherable mumbling)

...This says you’re to become my new… chief of surgery?

RYAN:

That’s right.

URVIDIAN:

That would make you…

RYAN:

Technically, your second in command.

URVIDIAN:

I’ve… never had a chief of surgery before…

RYAN:

Well, now you do.

URVIDIAN:

You’re not here to replace me?

RYAN:

Not as far as I know.

URVIDIAN:

Why not?

RYAN:

I’m sorry?

URVIDIAN:

Why would they not replace me? I deserve to be replaced, I am a derelict, I am an alcoholic, and I have no bedside manner to speak of.

RYAN:

Well now that we’ve gone over your CV-

URVIDIAN:

I’ve also been seriously thinking of diverting prescription narcotics for my own use, would you think toridali or sicilia would have a higher street value?

RYAN:

Why would you-?

URVIDIAN (cutting him off):

It seems fun! And don’t be stupid Dr. Dalias, toridali, I think.

RYAN:

First, sicilia, obviously, and second, I wasn’t trying to… I’m not stupid.

URVIDIAN:

If they’re sending you here but they’re not replacing me with you… there must be something wrong with you.

RYAN:

What?

URVIDIAN:

It’s simple logic. I’m awful, anyone would be better than me, that leaves us with the question of what, then, is so wrong with you, Dr. Dalias?

RYAN:

There’s nothing wrong with me.

URVIDIAN:

Must be.

RYAN:

There isn’t.

URVIDIAN:

Has to be, obviously.

RYAN:

I assure you-

URVIDIAN (cutting him off):

Do you have a mental instability? Tulsian cowing syndrome, perhaps? Yes, yes, now I see it.

(whispering) The signs are… everywhere.

RYAN:

Wha- what signs?

URVIDIAN:

Like you’ve never noticed that sloping forehead in the mirror.

RYAN:

My forehead does not slope, and- and besides-

URVIDIAN (as Ryan continues):

A little bit.

RYAN:

That is not even a symptom of Tulsian-

URVIDIAN (snapping):

Then what is wrong with you!?

RYAN:

Nothing!

URVIDIAN:

Then why aren’t you replacing me?

RYAN:

Because that is not the plan!

URVIDIAN:

Aha!

RYAN:

(groans) Aha what?

URVIDIAN:

So there’s a plan.

(PAUSE)

Was I to be let in on this plan?

RYAN:

Yes… eventually. Probably…

(PAUSE)

(SIGHS)

Okay, fine.

(looking for the right words) Look I was sent here to watch you mostly, and, if absolutely necessary, yes, to take over.

URVIDIAN:

So… I was right.

RYAN:

No, no, you were not right. Central command has a lot of respect for you, and- and honestly a lot invested, your failure here would be an em- an embarrassment.

URVIDIAN:

Oh please.

RYAN:

Come on. The great Dr. Urvidian, pioneer of frontier medicine, brilliant xenomorphologist, curer of the baraat-a-athian plague, savior to millions?

URVIDIAN: That sounds like my CV.

RYAN:

Uh-huh. Special skills: egotism, egocentricity, narcissism-

URVIDIAN:

Those all mean the same thing.

RYAN:

Caught that, did you?

URVIDIAN:

... I dislike you.

RYAN: So you’ve said, look, the truth is… I think you’re scaring them. The Council. A little.

URVIDIAN:

Rubbish.

RYAN:

How quickly we forget the Pharmaceutical Micro-Xenobiology Conference on Arioka-3.

URVIDIAN:

I’ve not forgotten, it was simply… blown way out of proportion.

RYAN: Really?

URVIDIAN:

Of course.

RYAN:

Then, they didn’t find you behind a poster on the effects of simprosin on late state cybernosis unconscious and naked?

URVIDIAN:

Half-naked

RYAN:

Which half?

URVIDIAN:

Shut up. And none of your business.

RYAN:

Should I move on to the Pediatric Xenomorphologist Section Meeting on Starbase Delta?

URVIDIAN:

Now that was… not entirely my fault.

RYAN:

Did you see the video?

URVIDIAN: ...There’s a video?

RYAN:

Should I keep going, how many conferences did you go to last rotation?

URVIDIAN:

You’re not as humorous as you seem to think you are.

RYAN:

Well then why don’t I pull up the video and we can both have a laugh?

URVIDIAN:

Alright! Enough! What is it you want from me?

RYAN:

Just your cooperation.

URVIDIAN:

...What’s in it for me?

RYAN:

If all goes well, you get to keep your post and retire into bourjois senility without anyone ever being the wiser.

URVIDIAN:

That’s it? I’m nice to you and you don’t run home and tell mommy and daddy?

RYAN:

This has nothing to do with me. My job is to help you get your practice back on track so you can keep your command and not embarrass yourself and the dozens of now senior officers you’ve stood on to get here.

URVIDIAN:

And how do you intend to do that?

RYAN:

Sobriety would be a good place to start.

URVIDIAN (laughing):

No, nope, no. Are you out of your tiny monkey brain?

RYAN:

...My brain is not tiny.

URVIDIAN:

We can test that.

RYAN:

Look, in a few months, I either tell central command you’re fit for duty and I’m out of your hair, or we haul you back to earth on a shuttle, possibly in a straightjacket.

URVIDIAN:

Would there be beverage service on this shuttle?

RYAN:

...Seriously?

URVIDIAN:

...Fine.

RYAN:

Fine?

URVIDIAN:

Yes, fine. I will cooperate with you, you barbarian.

RYAN:

Good. We can start with no more Cyrillic Ale.

URVIDIAN:

Gods, man, what kind of demon are you?

RYAN:

It’s for the best.

URVIDIAN (quietly):

I suppose. Maybe it is. Bloody expensive anyway, doesn’t… doesn’t even taste that good.

RYAN:

Great, then, that’s settled, where is it?

(SILENCE)

...Doctor?

URVIDIAN:

Fine! It’s… in the drawer

SOUND: DRAWER OPENING, GLASS CLINKING, DRAWER CLOSING

RYAN:

Wow. Nice vintage.

URVIDIAN (sarcastic):

Anything else for today? Perhaps you can demonstrate your catheter insertion skills on me, that’s always fun. Seems like something you’d be into. Oh! I have a picture of my mother in my quarters, she’s drinking a glass of wine, perhaps you’d like to throw that away as well? Could be a source of temptation.

RYAN:

One step at a time, right?

URVIDIAN:

Did you happen to pick up a book of platitudes in the station gift shop or are you just that simple?

RYAN:

...There’s a gift shop?

URVIDIAN:

So what does this exactly make you? My sponsor? Gallenteur? Underwriter?

RYAN:

Why don’t… why don’t we just start with “colleague?”

URVIDIAN:

I prefer “subordinate.” I’m still your commanding officer.

RYAN:

Of course, absolutely. One who just has to… defer to my medical judgment when it comes to his own well being.

URVIDIAN:

So it’s come to this, being brow-beaten into sobriety by a central-command psychophant with a neanderthal forehead.

RYAN:

There is nothing wrong with my forehead!

URVIDIAN:

Of course not. Just be careful where you point it, we don’t want you blinding pilots heading for the docking pylons, that would be a disaster.

RYAN:

You know, it might not seem like it, but… I’m actually happy to be here. Do you know how many doctors would, like, seriously kill to have the opportunity to learn from you? I- I had to kill a few myself.

URVIDIAN (mocking):

Seriously, like, for real?

RYAN:

Okay, I’m just saying that I’ve been looking forward to meeting you for a… very long time.

URVIDIAN:

...Really. You’re not just playing to my over-inflated ego? That’s how you put it, correct?

RYAN:

My dad used to read Dr. Urvidian: Medicine Man to me when I was little. I loved the illustration of you coming down Mt. Ceberon with bushels of colenian root under your arms. The loincloth was probably over the top, but…

URVIDIAN:

It cures Hysax fever.

RYAN:

Your loincloth?

URVIDIAN:

The cole-

RYAN (cutting him off):

I know.

URVIDIAN:

That mountain-

RYAN:

Is exceptionally dangerous. You risked your life to save the colony.

URVIDIAN:

It wasn’t all so dramatic as that.

RYAN:

Uh, seemed pretty dramatic to a 6-year-old. Still does to a… well, to me.

URVIDIAN:

You’re 34.

RYAN:

...How did you know that?

URVIDIAN:

I counted the circles around your eyes.

Your father… that would be Admiral Dalias, would it not?

RYAN:

...Yes.

URVIDIAN:

Figures.

RYAN:

I know you don’t believe me, but I want you to succeed, Dr. Urvidian, I really do, so does my father.

URVIDIAN:

Well… that’s very thoughtful. Thank you.

(PAUSE)

(sarcastic) Are we going to kiss now?

RYAN:

What?

URVIDIAN:

Or do you like to snuggle first? Shall I make some room on my sofa?

RYAN (sighing):

Okay-

URVIDIAN:

You have a very nice ass, Dr. Dalias, has anyone ever told you?

RYAN:

I’m going now. I’ll see you tomorrow.

URVIDIAN:

I’m sorry, should we… share more feelings first, is that the appropriate thing, I am-

RYAN:

A horrible person?

URVIDIAN:

-New at this.

RYAN:

Have a good evening, Dr. Urvidian.

URVIDIAN:

I believe I’m likely a top, but I’m willing to experiment just so you know.

SOUND: DOOR OPENING

RYAN:

Thanks for sharing.

URVIDIAN:

Anytime.

CUT TO: END THEME

[moniqueensevilla-blog]

greetings from my siesta! Today marks my third day in Spain and consequently my first day with enough time to write something! Sunday/Monday/Tuesday ended up being some of the busiest, most nerve-wracking, exhausting days of my life as my parents and I fLew out of Boston at 5:30pm and landed in Spain at 6:00 am... We then took a two and a half hour train from Madrid to my current home in Sevilla. After dripping off my parents belongings at their hotel for the night, I used Google maps to navigate through the labyrinth of streets that is Sevilla . I awkwardly buzzed the door to my Señora's apartment and walked up their windy, long staircase and was welcomed by my mom here, Rocío. She showed me around the house and everything and was introduced to my fabulous American roommate , Madison. I was immediately surprised by the Andalucian accent that I was warned about. Much different than that of Costa Rica that I grew used to, but I was thrilled to have a 75% understanding despite my confusion. Rocio walked us to our school and gave us a brief overview of Sevilla.. at one point she referred to it as a "labarinto" or labyrinth and I don't think there's a better way to describe Sevilla than just that. Apparently , she needed to go to the bank as we approached the bank door and she said "quieren pasear un poco y reunir a casa?" So basically there Madison and I were in the Middle of this foreign city and forced to fend for ourselves and learn where we were in the city. A great learning experience to say the least. As it turns out, we live in Barrio Santa Cruz in El Centro histórico of Sevilla... A very nice neighborhood!! We each have our own room , there are three bathrooms in our house, and there are four rooms in addition to the dining room , kitchen and living room. We are just out of the tourist traps of El Centro which is nice for it is more locals yet we are next to La catedral de La Giralda which is actually the largest religious building in the world and the third tallest. I remember walking up it in high school on our school trip and it gives you an incredible view of the city, maybe some day we will do that! The downside is the fact that the bells chime every half hour even through the night , which reminds me a bit of Assumption... After our orientation, Madison and I wandered about through the city and I noticed that we were right by my parents hotel. Naturally, I texted my parents and we met for Sangria and tapas where I said my final goodbye to them which marks the longest time I'll go without seeing my family, or really anyone I know in my life... yikes! At that point I had not slept in 30 hours as our plane was a red eye and I couldn't fall asleep so it was time for bed finally! Tuesday we woke up and went to orientation and after having sardines (yuck) for lunch with our family Madison and I walked to La Plaza de España which is the most breathtaking landmark I've ever seen. We then went for some coffee and churros con chocolate, naturally before we returned to school and met our speaking partners. My speaking partner is a native to Sevilla named David and his job is to help me learn the language​and the culture of the area. I will be helping him learn English and in Spanish we call this an "intercambio" so basically an exchange program where we teach each other. David is helpful and not afraid to correct me, especially when we message on WhatsApp which apparently is the preferred mode of communication here. After this, we returned home to find that the lights wouldn't work and her two children were not home! We WhatsApped our Señora ANd she came home from her job as a real estate agent to help us. As it turns out, her kids live with the dad (actually next store) some nights and the lights were just burnt out and one just wouldn't work (still don't know how she got it to work). She showed us how to make an oven pizza and went to work and finally another day came to an end. Of course, we didn't eat until 1030 which is average for Spaniards and I'm beginning to understand why. The sun doesn't set until 930pm and it's light as day out until that time. Yesterday Madison and I actually got some sun and fresh strawberry mojitos by the guadlaivjir river at 8:00pm and it felt like it was 12:40pm... Crazy; no wonder they stay out so late at night! We returned home to no one there at 930pm which is typical of Spain and especially of Sevilla because as they say "life in Sevilla is lived in the streets" at all hours, everyone is out and about with their friends or family getting coffee or drinks or tapas. No one sits around in their house except for the siesta which is awesome and keeps us super active! At about 10pm Rocío returned and made us Ramen noodles for dinner. Interestingly enough they felt more natural than those that are packaged in the United States but still it was strange to think that's a meal that would be served here. The jet lag still has me messed up, and because of this I only got 6 hours of sleep last night before school this morning. Yesterday was the first day of classes where me and three other girls are in an advanced Spanish class with an excellent teacher who we call Sara. She is young and beautiful and the most helpful teacher I could ask for. She insists on us correctly pronouncing things and sits at a desk right next to us to teach.... Everything is a review for me but it's so nice to have it as I haven't learned any Spanish in years! The past two days Madison and I have left for class at 8:45, stopped at BuenaAbuela for caf�� which is only €1.5 and then walked to school and gotten there before 9. Our classes are 9 to 1 which a half hour "pausa" at 11-1130 where we get coffee of course. Today we had class til 11 and then went to Italica: the Roman ruins in Spain. It was so cool to be there again and see how well preserved such an ancient city is. Inside their "mini colloseum" some children had plastic swords and their teachers were dressed in ancient Roman garb to teach them about gladiator fights. They fought various rounds with these fake swords and it was hysterical to watch this all inside a building build in 100-300 BC and have children of today reannacting the events of thousands of years ago. .. life is funny! Though we are all English speakers in the program of 20 or so of us, we signed an agreement that forbids us from speaking English when we are out as a group or at the school... This is exhausting and strange as we jump back into English after conversations in Spanish. All the while, it's beneficial as we are learning so much everyday and by the minute my skills improve..... I couldn't ask for anything more! We just got back from Italica and Rocío just informed Madison and I that she is going to be back soon with food for lunch and the kids will be back soon from school. Afterwards I plan to take a well-deserved siesta and our next plan, besides homework of course, isn't until 730 tonight when we will meet Madison's intercambio to hang out in the city with! Another funny Spanish thing, they refer to "la tarde" or the afternoon as anything until the sun sets....la noche or the night isn't until much later like 9:30 and it's totally common to leave the house, like Rocío did last night, at midnight to go out for drinks on a work night. What a life this is!! Thanks for those of you who have wished me the best of luck and made sure I arrived safely! I couldn't ask for anything more in life and I've never felt so incredibly happy!! Adiós! -Mo

[componentplanet]

Why the Best Super Bowl Commercials Were All Cars and Tech

Super Bowls used to mean Tom Brady hoisting another trophy along with ads of polar bears drinking Coke on not-yet-melting polar ice caps, that and the Budweiser Clydesdales. Now the most memorable – sorry, memorably good – commercials are cars and tech. Car ads have always been part of the 54 Super Bowls, but in the dotcom boom years “tech ad” meant money frittered away. Remember Pets.com? Agillon? Epidemic.com? All goners. Maybe automakers did a better job because there really are differences among cars. And the tech guys have learned from the money-wasting days at the turn of the century.

Here are the best car and tech ads of Super Bowl 54 (that’s LIV for traditionalists) along with some that didn’t click quite as well, and the best non-tech ad. We’re linking to ads from places (mostly, automaker sites on YouTube) that don’t have ads in front of them because why should you pay (with your time) to see an advertisement in order to see an ad?

The Best Ads: Hyundai Sonata, Jeep Gladiator

Hyundai Sonata Smaht Pahk. Two car ads stood out. The Hyundai Sonata spot for Smaht Pahk was the winner because it was funny, it made fun of a socio-economic group you can always make fun (people from Boston, especially since New England departed the playoffs early), and most of all because it is going to sell Hyundai Sonatas. The Sonata is the most important new car of 2020 (see our review), it is the Extreme Tech Car of the Year, and it’s loaded with standard safety features, virtually all of which are on the base, $26,000 Sonata SE. The top-line  Sonata Limited, $34,000, includes Remote Smart Parking Assist, now being called Smart Park. Hop out, press the keyfob, and the Sonata pahks itself at Hahvahd Yahd, and backs out when you return. If you have a narrow garage in Back Bay or Chahlston, you don’t have to squeeze in and out inside the garage.

Too many Super Bowl commercials are ad agency spitting matches using client money to prove who’s more clever, with less thought given to whether the ad sells the product. The “Smaht Pahk” ad will do just that: Get customers to consider Sonata, and realize a mainstream car includes important new technology.

Jeep / Groundhog Day. This is the other spot that rose above the rest. Bill Murray reprised the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, this time in a Jeep Gladiator, the truck of the year in several autowriter / magazine competitions. It’s funny, it’s nostalgic, and if you don’t know Jeep makes a pickup truck in Punk’n Metallic orange paint and the doors and top come off (you do it yourself), now you do.

The concept of Groundhog Day the movie is weatherman Bill Murray is caught in an endless time loop that restarts each day when he wakes at 6 am to Sonny and Cher’s I Got You Babe, and has to again cover Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. It’s faithfully recreated in the ad, except no Andie McDowell this time. And to Jeep’s good fortune, the 2020 Super Bowl was played on Feb. 2, Groundhog Day. Appreciating this spot probably helped if you’re old enough to remember the movie from when it was in theaters. But if not, you should, since it’s in the National Film Registry for being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Amazon Before Alexa. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi ponder what life was like before Amazon Alexa. The spot borders on slapstick: An 1800s upper-class woman in the parlor tells the maid, “Alexxa, turn the temperature down, two degrees,” the maid takes a log off the fire, tosses it through the window to the sound of shattering glass and a man’s muffled scream. A man in an 1800s city asks the newsboy, “Alex, what’s today’s news?” and he responds, “It doesn’t matter. It’s all fake.” Then in a 1970s Oval Office scene, a Nixon-esque voice commands, “Alicia, remind me to delete those tapes.” In the next room, an admin says loudly, “Yes, Mister President,” then softly, “I ain’t deletin’ …”

Conservatives are probably fuming if they conclude the “fake news” line makes fun of rather than echoes the current administration (hmm, who runs Amazon?), and liberals find it fair recompense for sitting through a patriotism-heavy, pre-game show that did conclude with a touching moment when four 100-year-old World War II veterans took part in the pre-game coin toss, led by Charles McGee, a pilot with the Tuskegee Airman that battled both the Germans and racism.

  Google / Loretta. An old man reminisces about his life with Loretta through old pictures Google calls up, along with a clip from their favorite movie, Casablanca. If there’s a “when they cry, they buy” ad, this is it. It’s going to make everybody wish their parents scanned or at least saved and ID’d their favorite photos for you to scan. Not in the commercial but important to know is that face recognition is getting so good – too good, in China – that the thing that used to hard to do, figuring out who that is in a 50-year-old photo, can now be done automagically.

Old Luxury (Going Away Party) / Genesis. Hyundai’s Genesis division rolled out its first SUV, the GV80, using young and hip Chrissy Teigen and John Legend as they make their escape from old people, oddly shaped dogs, and an old-world mansion into the GV80. From the staircase, she looks down and says, “To old luxury: You had a good run but now it’s time to choose you up a little bit … I give you young luxury.” Teigen then gestures to the open courtyard doors and points to the GV80 that – oops – hasn’t yet pulled up (“Where were you?” she asks driver Legend. “It was supposed to be a thing and you made it not a thing.”)

Never mind that Audi did essentially the same ad – “Old Luxury” (even the same name) – in a 2011 Super Bowl commercial. In this case, yuppie inmates inhabit a faux luxury prison (a mansion in LA) filled with affluent Boomers / Millennials. They unlock the cell bars and make their way toward a waiting car. A guard releases the dogs (showy hounds). When that doesn’t work, he’s ordered, “Hit ’em with the Kenny G,” and as Songbird plays, some refuse to leave while others do. Two escapees make it the courtyard, a Mercedes pulls up (you see the tri-star hood emblem) and one says, “Lancaster, no, it’s a trap,” and Lancaster replies, “Nonsense, my father owned one.”

But the theme works, and has for ages, going back at least to 1988 and “Not your father’s Oldsmobile.” Actually, it doesn’t always work. America’s oldest car brand, the brainchild of Barney Olds, was killed off in 2004.

The Other Car / Tech Ads

Porsche did a creditable job with “The Heist”: The Porsche Taycan EV sports car is spirited out of the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. Once the heist is discovered, the guards argue / squabble over who drives which museum Porsche to track down the Taycan. That gives the viewer a chance to appreciate Porsche’s storied history and possibly begin to realize the Taycan is a continuation of Porsche history, not a bunch of greenies gone mad. The voices were a bit muffled, especially if you were watching the game with noisy friends, and works much better played on a PC with closed captions running.

A Toyota Highlander ad showed the car does indeed have a lot of room as the driver – 20 years ago this would have been a soccer mom commercial – picks up various people in comic distress from various scenes, ending with her son.

A third Hyundai group (Hyundai, Genesis, Kia) ad was for the upcoming Kia Seltos but more about the inspirational story of Oakland Raiders rookie Josh Jacobs and hard times growing up. It left some people wonder what Seltos is. Answer: The same platform as the subcompact and well-established Hyundai Kona, a bit roomier inside, and shipping this quarter.

T-Mobile and Verizon touted 5G service, which is still a ways off. T-Mobile used Anthony Anderson’s real-life, sassy, talky mom. Verizon essentially said that without 5G, emergency responders won’t get their job done as well.

Microsoft, whose Surface tablets are universally used (mandated) by the NFL, told the story of Katie Sowers, an assistant coach of the San Francisco 49ers. It’s a true story of perseverance and success, but the story was already being told in the two-week run-up to the Big Game.

Audi had an eTron Sportback spot run late in the evening after the kids were in bed, so they missed Maisie Williams singing “Let It Go” from Frozen.

GMC touted the rebirth of the Hummer as an EV in an ad with LeBron James. The Hummer is a ways off, so maybe it was okay to be low-key and laid back. This was not a call to action for hand-raisers.

Scout, the golden retriever owned by Weathertech founder David MacNeil, had his cancer cured at the University of Wisconsin vet school. MacNeil took a 30-second spot lauding the Badger vets and encouraging donations.  Wisconsin hasn’t gotten this much PR since this mentions by Wisconsin alum / Wall Street Journal sportswriter Jason Gay in his column. Nice touch – who doesn’t like retreivers? – and if MacNeil wants to spend six mil in hopes of getting at least that much in donations to Wisconsin, more power to him. Pets cure a lot of human ailments by being there for you.

Tom Brady made it to the Super Bowl (as one of the game’s 100 best players of the NFL’s 100 years) and also was a spokesmodel for a Hulu spot. Amazon promoted its drama Hunters. Quibi pushed its short video service that launches this spring (nothing more challenging than 10 minutes) and hopes you’ll start saying “I’ll be there in a Quibi.”

Best in Show (Non-Tech): Lil Nas X

The hands-down winner among non-tech or car ads was the Wild West dance moves showdown between Lil Nas X and Sam Elliott with Old Town Road playing in the background. (The guy strumming the guitar at the end was Billy Ray Cyrus.) Doritos footed the bill and reaped the rewards, as long as remembers remember it was Doritos and not Bud Light or Axe body wash. And yes, when Lil Nas rides off on a horse with cascading speakers, it pays homage to Sheriff Cleavon Little and the Gucci saddlebags in Blazing Saddles.

Fast and Furious 9: Everybody’s still trying to match Bullitt.

There also were ads that continued through the show, especially Tide Pods, the claim being that if you get a stain on your shirt before the game starts, you can much later wash – remember, wash, not eat detergent pods – and the stain comes out, at which point in the last ad, the guy gets his now-clean shirt stained again. There were plenty of ads for upcoming movies – Fast & Furious 9 (photo), Minions, Black Widow, No Time to Die – and the trailers’ special effects made people glad, or annoyed, they have surround sound speakers.

Fox ran a lot of promos for future programming, including one for the Daytona 500 where stock cars appeared to come onto and arc across the field. Conspiracy theorists will see hidden hands at work when a Super Bowl broadcast on Fox News (actually, Fox Sports, but don’t let facts get in the way) runs the Donald Trump commercial midway through the first period when everyone is watching and the Michael Bloomberg spot didn’t get airplay until late in the extended halftime. Fortunately, Kansas City and San Francisco made it close until the final minutes; three late Kansas City scores made for a 31-20 win. So most viewers stuck around all three hours of the game and J Lo / Shakira halftime.

A few ads got remade at the last minute to downplay or factor out death or helicopters (RIP, Kobe). So the death-and-resurrection of Mr. Peanut spot was pretty bland.

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(OC) Dundon DIYs the Hurricanes (An Alternate Reality)

(Previous parts of this series include: Re-Chiarelling the Oilers, Moneyballing the Sens, Covertly Tanking the Wild, and Frenchifying the Canadiens.)Part I"Okay losers listen up!"This wasn't the first time team owner Tom Dundon had greeted the Carolina Hurricanes' analytics department this way, but they did not know that this was the first time he had gotten the office number right on his first try. After a long season the marketing department and janitors were no longer taken aback by these frequent interruptions."I've just had a brilliant idea. No doubt we had a good season last year, couple sell outs, good shit all around. But we gotta bring it to the next level okay? Now answer this question: what sells in sports?"One brave analyst answered: "Winning?" "Superstars?" offered another.Dundon shook his head in disbelief. "What? No, sex, you nerds, ever have it? Sex sells. We've got eyeballs on these games now but to get people really caring about this team we need to get a full roster of real dimes. Handsome motherfuckers. What do hockey players call attractive people?"A pause."Sir, none of us have actually played hockey before.""I think the guys on Letterkenny call them rockets?"Dundon clapped and pointed at him. "Alright, there we go, we need more rockets in our locker room than fucking NASA." Then he turned around, kicked over a garbage can, and disappeared through the door.The analytics department wasted no time in devising algorithms and stats to quantify player attractiveness. Very quickly a vicious divide emerged between two measurements: the Cool or Rugged Sexiness Indicator (CORSI) and the Foxiness-Expressing Number which Indexes Cute Kings (FENWICK). It all came down to type and preference: CORSI adherents argued for strong, bearded, often Canadian players, while FENWICK fanatics extolled the virtues of prettier players, usually non-threatening Scandinavians. It was eventually acknowledged that these met at the Strapping, Handsome and Rather Pretty (SHARP) intersection, but nonetheless conflict still raged. After a day of furious debate it was decided that they would deliver Dundon a roster split between the three categories:Filip Forsberg (+6.5 FENWICK) - Tyler Seguin (+3.5 SHARP) - Brock Boeser (+4.7 SHARP) Gabriel Landeskog (+8.5 FENWICK) - Adam Henrique (+3.7 CORSI) - Leon Draisaitl (+5.6 SHARP) Tom Wilson (+4.3 CORSI) - Alex Wennberg (+7.5 FENWICK) - Blake Wheeler (+3.8 CORSI) Marcus Foligno (+3.4 CORSI) - Elias Lindholm (+5.6 FENWICK) - Andre Burakovsky (+3.4 FENWICK) Roman Josi (+7.4 FENWICK) - Erik Karlsson (+6.8 FENWICK) Shea Weber (+4.5 CORSI) - Kris Letang (+7.2 SHARP) Brady Skjei (+4.6 SHARP) - Erik Gudbranson (+3.9 CORSI) Henrik Lundqvist (+8.2 SHARP) Braden Holtby (+3.6 CORSI) Proud of themselves, but feeling somewhat uncomfortable, the analytics team printed out this list and called Dundon to come back and retrieve it.When he arrived he looked at it and smiled "Great work, alright, and this algorithm is all loaded on the computer over there?""Yes sir""Okay great, thanks guys, you're fired, best wishes"As each of the analysts grumpily gathered their laptops and Funko Pops into cardboard boxes and left PNC Arena, Dundon folded the list into a paper airplane and yelled "Hey Don! You still work for me?"The veteran manager walked into the office. "Yes, Tom, I still do."Dundon fired the paper airplane directly at Waddell's forehead and it fell to the floor. "This is a list of players, I'm gonna need you to trade for these guys ASAP, got it?"Waddell muttered through gritted teeth something like "...never in Atlanta...""Oh yeah you turtle-looking motherfucker? Well why don't you go and work for them then? You're fired, fuckface."By the end of the day, Dundon had fired everyone he could find in the building. Then he sat down at the computer that had the handsomeness algorithm loaded onto it. Google Chrome was open. These fuckers had been using the internet at work? He wished he could fire them again. But he noticed the website on the screen."What the hell is HFBoards?"_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Part IIThis site was incredible - Dundon didn't realize there were so many hockey fans. But here they all were, speculating on rumours, constructing rosters, and, most incredibly, proposing trades. He had been paying out the ass all year for front office staff and yet there were thousands of people on this website coming up with trades for free. He felt like a kid on Christmas morning - receiving gifts without having to give anything to anyone else. He completely forgot about the handsomeness list he'd asked for just a few hours before.Just then a social media intern who had been in the washroom when he dismissed the rest of her department poked her head into the room. Dundon immediately tried to fire her (he knew how to use Twitter, why was he paying someone to do it?) but it turned out she actually wasn't getting paid anything. So he recruited her to a new project."I need you to record every trade proposal our fans have made on this website this summer."And she did.1. Justin Faulk for Antti Raanta 2. James Riemer for Martin Jones (1 million retained) 3. Warren Foegele and a 2nd for Nikita Gusev "That's it? Alright well hold on, I'll get these done quick then."But when he called that lanky dork in Arizona whose name he couldn't remember and offered him the first deal, he was hung up on immediately. The same thing happened twice more."What the hell is going on?""Well," the intern started, "it seems like our fans might overvalue our players a bit.""We made the fucking third round, all our players should have value out the ass! How am I supposed to know how much I can get for these guys?""Well, there's a kind of thread on this forum called 'Value Of:' where you name a player and people tell you what they'd be willing to trade for them.""Perfect, make one of those and I'll start hitting the phones."​Edmonton Oilers @OilersNHLTRADE ALERT: The #Oil acquire D Dougie Hamilton from the #Canes in exchange for Jesse Puljujarvi and Kris Russell​Toronto Maple Leafs @MapleLeafs#Sportschek Transaction Alert: Maple Leafs have acquired D Brett Pesce, RW Teuvo Teravainen, and C Martin Necas from the Hurricanes in exchange for RW Mitch Marner​"This is so easy, no one's even trying to negotiate with me! I can't believe I kept that old fuck around for so long."​Montreal Canadiens @CanadiensMTLWELCOME TO MONTREAL @SebastianAho!#Habs receive C @SebastianAho in exchange for C Max Domi, D Cale Fleury, and a 2020 1st.Les #Habs reçoivent Sebastian Aho en échange de Max Domi, Cale Fleury et un choix de 1er ronde.​Vancouver Canucks @sabresWE HAVE A TRADE TO ANNOUNCE #GoCanucksGoCanucks have acquired RW Andrei Svechnikov from @NHLCanes in exchange for D Chris Tanev and a 2020 2nd round pick​Buffalo Sabres @sabresSabres have acquired D Jaccob Slavin from CAR for RW Sam Reinhart​Pittsburgh Penguins @penguinsThe Penguins have acquired D Trevor van Riemsdyk for D Jack Johnson #letsgopensEpilogueThat fall, the fans at PNC Arena thought they were buying tickets to hockey games, but what they got was even more impressive: a one-man show. They would hear Tom Dundon announce the starting lineups ("Why am I playing some asshole to read a script?") and sing the national anthem. ("This isn't a fucking talent show, and people say I have a great voice.") They'd see him run up and down the aisles serving popcorn and drinks, and even interact with children as the new mascot ("Look kid, you want a fuckin' high five or not? Okay, quit hugging me you fuckin' perv."). Long after the games were done, an exhausted Dundon could be found sweeping up trash. It almost wasn't worth it. But at the end of the night, when he looked at the balance sheet and the single employee expense - the NHL had refused his request to drive the Zamboni himself - he was filled with a quiet comfort.As the team tumbled down the standings, Dundon barely noticed. He didn't have much time to watch the games anyway, and he only looked at the scoreboard when one of the pixels went out and he had to fix it. But there came a point, with the season finally done, when he realized that he had barely had a second of free time all year. His hair was turning white from a lack of sleep. Worst of all, there hadn't been anyone to fire in months. But then he realized something else. As he walked into the bathroom with a mop, he stared at his gaunt face in the mirror, took a deep breath and whispered"You're fired"He suddenly felt an exhilarating freedom wash over him. Then he put down his mop, walked outside, breathed in fresh air for the first time in what felt like a lifetime, and just began to walk. He was never seen again.​Next time: Jim Rutherford decides to deal with his Tom Wilson problem once and for all. (OC) Dundon DIYs the Hurricanes (An Alternate Reality) Source

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Last week in tech: A MacBook Pro recall, the new Kindle, and Facebook’s cryptocurrency

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Last week in tech: A MacBook Pro recall, the new Kindle, and Facebook’s cryptocurrency

Do you prefer yellow or blue light on your Kindle? This one has both. (Amazon/)

The mid-2000s were the golden age for the MacBook Pro. You got a ton of port options—including an HDMI—and the keyboard didn’t die a horrible death just because you let a single Frito crumb slip beneath the keys. Unfortunately, those old machines aren’t always totally perfect. This week, Apple announced a recall of MacBook Pros sold between 2015 and 2017, citing an issue in which the battery might overheat and catch fire. You can check your serial number at this link and see if you qualify for a free battery replacement.

I checked my computer’s serial number and realized my 2014 MacBook Pro is now five years old, which seems ancient in the upgrade-everything-every-year era in which we live. I’m going to spend the weekend making memories with my elderly laptop, but you should spend your time here, catching up on the biggest tech stories from the week.

Listen to the latest episode of the Techathlon Podcast

Do you know the name of the secret project to develop the iPhone? You will once you listen to this week’s episode. Listen to us as we take a look back at reviews for now-classic video games, drink some truly horrible energy drinks, and test your knowledge of the week’s biggest tech headlines.

Listen in the player embedded above, subscribe on iTunes, add us on Stitcher, joins us on Anchor, or check us out on Spotify. You can also follow us on Twitter to talk trash and ruin our weekends with your sick burns.

Facebook’s cryptocurrency is coming in 2020

Facebook wants to be a much bigger part of your financial life. In 2020, the company plans to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra that you’ll be able to send to friends and businesses through platforms like Messenger and WhatsApp. Some heavy-hitting financial institutions including major credit card companies and PayPal are already onboard, so it looks like these Facebook bucks could get some real traction. I can’t wait to accidentally send my friends my life’s savings by pushing the Libra button in Messenger as I do with the video call button all the time.

Buying a used connected cam is a very bad idea

The secondary market is great for buying some things. You might find a vintage item that’s out of production, or you could get a screaming deal on a PS4 that an angry parent is selling to punish their kid for a bad report card (especially here in June). Buying a used security camera, however, is probably a bad call. This week, some users discovered they could still log into and see images from the Nest cams they had sold and de-registered from their accounts. The issue came from a bug in the Works With Nest platform that lets third-party devices work more closely within the Nest smart home ecosystem. Google says the issue is fixed now.

The internet got mad at an instructional video for light bulbs

Smart light bulbs—like any gadget—aren’t perfect. Sometimes you need to reset them and the app doesn’t do what you want it to do. That’s where the hardware reset comes in. Some devices have a button to accomplish such a task, but light bulbs typically require you to turn the switch on and off in a very specific sequence. This week, the internet found a Youtube video explaining this process for GE light bulbs and Twitter was off to the joke races. Is the process long? Yes. Did everyone overreact to a totally normal procedure that no one would get mad about if it were printed in an instruction manual instead of demonstrated in a YouTube video? Also yes.

Microsoft teamed up with Kano for a build-your-own Windows 10 PC kit

The Kano PC is a usable computer once you build it. (Kano/)

BYO computer kits have been around the STEM toy world for years, but Kano’s latest gadget is different. Instead of imposing its own proprietary operating system on the self-assembled machine, the Kano PC kit offers Microsoft’s Windows 10. This version of the OS only runs apps through Windows App Store—so you can’t go installing whatever you want—but it does open up the 11.6-inch touchscreen computer to common applications such as Office and Minecraft.

The new Kindle Oasis changes color

Blue light is either totally destroying your eyes or completely fine, depending on who you ask. But, if you’d prefer a Kindle that lets you choose between the familiar blue LED glow or the warmer hue of a tungsten light bulb, Amazon’s new Oasis e-reader is your ticket. This is the high-end Kindle, so options start at $249, but it’s waterproof and has a 7-inch display with 300 pixels per inch to make that novelization of Encino Man look extra crisp.

Simone Giertz made her Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck

We’re still waiting for Elon Musk to officially announce the Tesla pickup truck, but robotics expert and all-around awesome person Simone Giertz didn’t want to wait. She took her tools to a Model 3 sedan and made the Truckla. Technically, it’s not so much a truck as it is a ute, which is what they call cars with truck beds in Australia and New Zealand. Still, it’s awesome and we want one.

The retro Sega Genesis is coming in September for $80

If the space below your TV is getting crowded with tiny, reissued video game consoles, you’ll have to make room for one more later this year. The Sega Genesis Mini comes with 42 games built-in, including some heavies like Sonic the Hedgehog, Ecco the Dolphin, and Earthworm Jim.

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Two Days In Paris With Our Art Director, Annie Portelli

Two Days In Paris With Our Art Director, Annie Portelli

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by Annie Portelli

Some very fashionable paste ups on the way to the bakery! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Annie enjoying her almond croissant and cuppa tea! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

The inviting entrance to Du Pain et des Idees! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Du Pain et des Idees aka: ‘Bread & Ideas’

When in Paris, one is expected to break all diets and eat at least one croissant or baguette, right? Starting out my 2019 with the best intentions to attempt the ‘Paleo’ lifestyle  – I was hesitant to break my own pact (it WAS only January!). However, when you reach out for ‘Paris tips’, and five people come back to you with the same urgent plea to visit THIS BAKERY, then you really have to reconsider your priorities. SO I figured, if I’m going to break the paleo diet, I’ll break it well – and this must be the place where that happens.

This bakery has been around since 1889 and is as traditional as they get. The waft of cooked butter and burnt sugar will hit you from a block away, leading the way to the grand corner shop front. Well-dressed locals exit hugging large, baby blue paper bags filled with sweet treats to get them through the day.

As soon as you enter, you sense of history this place holds – it really feels LEGIT! The mirrored ceiling reflects the warm lighting and the decorative floral hand-painted walls. Glass cabinets immediately greet you, lined with fresh golden pastries that roll out of the kitchen on racks every couple of minutes!

The Pistachio croissant came highly recommended BUT they had sold out! (by 10am!)

So I instead went for the almond croissant which I will now recommend to you!

Du Pain et des Idees aka ‘Bread & Ideas’ 34 Rue Yves Toudic, 75010 Paris, France

The beautiful winter light washing over some old Parisian buildings. Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

A little nook within OFR bookshop. Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Annie checking out some beautiful mags in the afternoon light! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Out the front of Ofr. Bookshop, where you can gaze through stacks of mags and books all afternoon! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

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Here’s one for all the graphic designers out there! You’ve probably already heard of this place somewhere down the line,  but now you’re hearing it here again, and if you haven’t already – you should most definitely visit this humble little book store. It’s filled with old and new publications and magazines, art, records, posters…the list goes on!

Out the front are a large display of beautiful photography and fashion mags that you’re welcome to flick through. Once you enter, the space is packed with stacks of books and mags, random knick-knacks and vases of flower pickings scattered throughout the shop! You kind of feel like you’ve entered someone’s eclectic living room. It’s a very comforting, welcoming place to pass time!

OFR Bookshop 20 Rue Dupetit-Thouars, 75003 Paris, France

Some ‘1984’ inspired subway art captured by Annie Portelli

Beautiful garbage captured by Annie Portelli

Cute little bakery on route to the Marais district captured by Annie Portelli.

‘Just look up!’ 

Someone once told me to ‘just look up’ when exploring a new city. This advice may seem like a no brainer, but how easy it is to get absorbed into your phone screen whilst navigating Google maps when getting from A to B? So bury your phone deep into your bag and set off, one foot in front of the other and keep your eyes off the ground! Who cares if you get a little lost along the way?

Take in those little details and moments which make each city different from the next. With this approach, I realised that in Paris, even the garbage is beautiful, the cafe lights never turn off and there’s art literally everywhere!

The stationary table at À Rebours. Dream! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Another nook of À Rebours‎! Heaps of goodies in this one! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

The moment before Annie bought two very breakable glasses to bring home with her… Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

À Rebours

I would compare this very curated little store to Melbourne’s own Third Drawer Down. À Rebours is described as the ‘Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette’s commercial alter ego’ – or put simply – a small (designer) novelty shop! Inspired by Huysmans’ novel of the same name, ‘À Rebours’ actually translates to ‘backwards’.

The shop is  FILLED with unique objects from around the world. Stationery, ceramics, glassware, knick-knacks, limited edition designer products (even custom designed speakers by David Lynch!) – it is a real treat for those of you who get excited by a well-curated opportunity to purchase unnecessary items (like me)!

I bought four VERY fragile drinking tumblers here without even considering how I’d bring them home safely. If you share the same tendencies, you will without a doubt be stuck in the same situation as me after leaving this store. Worth every silly purchase!

À Rebours 46 rue Saint Crois de la Bretonnerie Paris, France

La Maison Plisson entrance and outdoor seating area. This deli is actually split in two – one side is more of a cafe and the other is more of a restaurant/evening drinks. You’re basically right on the sidewalk! Perfect for people watching whilst keeping warm from the snow. Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

The wine cellar! Enter via the terrazzo stair well in the centre of the deli. Sheesh! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Salami and terrazzo – terrazzo and salami, what more can I say! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Clearly Annie was overjoyed by the contents of this fridge. Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

La Maison Plisson

I hadn’t actually planned to go to this place. In fact, I didn’t even know it existed until I stumbled upon it while trying to find shelter from the show! This place is the absolute bee’s knees.

It has everything from delicious pastries, cured meats, organic fruit and veg, cheeses and a downstairs basement filled with condiments and wine. All of this housed inside a beautifully designed pink terrazzo haven (dream). I found this on my first day – and went back here every other day. It’s open early and closes late, and is the perfect place to keep warm and people watch, or walk by and grab essentials for the perfect day pack! Very excited about this find!

La Maison Plisson 93 Boulevard Beaumarchais, 75003 Paris, France

Catching some more afternoon winter light! This square turns into a market but in winter it closes. Look up ‘Bastille Market’ if you’re here in another season! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Front window of cute little cafe ‘Wild & The Moon’. Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Wild & The Moon

If you feel like you’ve overindulged on croissants and pastries, then Wild & The Moon will be a welcomed treat! I immediately got ‘Melbourne vibes’ when entering this vegan cafe, it’s fresh, healthy and holds a delicious range of fresh juices which I got right into! A really nice place to pop in for brekky (if it’s not to busy) or in my case, go for the takeaway option and walk it across to ‘City Park’ around the corner and enjoy in peace!

Wild & The Moon 55 Rue Charlot, 75503 Paris, France

Some winter citrus glowing on this grey winter day! Photo by Annie Portelli

Photo by Annie Portelli

Aligre Market

One of the many things I love about European cities is that they tend to have farmers markets scattered throughout the bustling streets all year round. Old cities have squares dedicated to these markets, AND they aren’t just there for the pleasure of tourists! You will mainly find locals with their dogs and baskets on wheels sorting out and packing up their fresh groceries.

Aligre Market is one of many markets you will find in the lower end of the city. It’s split between an indoor and an outdoor section. The outdoor section is only open from 9am – 12pm so this is more of a morning trip. Here you will find all the fresh fruit and veggies and flowers! The indoor market is called ‘Marche Beauvau’ where you’ll find the drool-worthy deli section, craft beer, and an unnecessary, but appreciated range of meats! Another really great market which you should visit is Bastille Market, it’s a little more central but the trading hours are a little more sporadic so be sure to check these before heading over – advice I wish I’d had myself.

Aligre Market Rue d’Aligre et, Place d’Aligre, 75012 Paris, France

When you enter through the main entrance of Merci you will come to this cute little courtyard with their famous little red Fiat! You can see the library through the window behind it. So lovely! Photo by Annie Portelli

WOW! So much linen! I had to restrain myself! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

The hallway leading from the cafe to the main store! Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

Merci

Oh boy, I get the feeling that if you’re an avid TDF reader, then you’ll probably be really into this store! Part-cafe, part-library, part-homewares store, Merci ticked all the boxes for me! It’s quite deceiving from the front – thick heavy curtains obscuring the doorway to keep the warmth in.

Once you enter, pass by the quiet chatters of locals enjoying their coffee in the softly lit cafe. You will then pass an epic floor-to-ceiling bookshelf lining the hallway leading to the SHOP! Literally, my jaw dropped!

The first floor showcases glassware, travel items, and clothing. Then your eyes are drawn up to the mezzanine, which is home to walls of beautiful french linen in every shade of ‘dusty hue’ you can imagine. Beyond that is a showroom of the incredibly considered homeware products, set up on little dreamy clusters. Needless to say – I had to purchase additional luggage for my return trip… oops

Located in the heart of the historic district of Haut-Marais, actually a block down from Maison Plisson! Fancy that!

Merci 111 Boulevard Beaumarchais, 75003 Paris, France

Incredible cheese selection at Fromagarie Laurent Dubois Bastille! Photo by Annie Portelli

The inviting entrance of the magical cheese shop! Photo by Annie Portelli

Photo by Annie Portelli

Fromagerie Laurent Dubois Bastille

I actually visited a number of cheese shops in Paris BUT this one got me really excited! It’s tiny, but the selection is generous and considered. This shop is one of three Parisian Cheese dairies with its name, and has a great reputation for their raw milk cheese, so much so that it’s gained the prestigious title of ‘Meilleur Ouvrier de France’.

It’s located on quite a busy road, but it was certainly a hot spot. I seemed to have arrived here during peak hour as locals were popping in after work and picking up an assortment of cheeses, before making their way into the busy street again.

I was greeted by a friendly lady who had extensive knowledge and allowed me to try basically every cheese they have available. Some were so intense that they were hard to swallow(!) – BUT in most cases, she had me left speechless.

Fromagerie Laurent Dubois Bastille 97-99 Rue Saint-Antoine, 75004 Paris, France

Annie’s favourite house on Rue Cremieux. Photo by Annie Portelli

Rue Cremieux

This residential street is another place that I accidentally stumbled upon whilst a little lost in Paris. If you find yourself in this area, it’s worth making a little detour and stopping by this 144m long cobblestone street. Although the buildings aren’t your usual Haussmann style apartments, the street gleams with joy and works as a great backdrop for every photo opportunity! Look at this beautiful hand-painted wisteria on the front of 21! Very cute.

Rue Cremieux Located between Rue de Lyon and Rue de Bercy

A snap of the grande Gare de Lyon! Photo by Annie Portelli

Annie probably doing something on instagram. Photo – Victoria Zschommler for The Design Files.

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EXPLORE: Louis Vuitton Foundation

This exhibition building was designed by Frank Gehry and to put it simply – it’s wild! Inside you’ll find the impressive art museum, which showcases bigshot names all year round. I went to see Jean-Michel Basquiat along with thousands of other people, and despite the crowds, it was still breathtaking.

If you time it right, etch out a spare afternoon, pack yourself a picnic, get on the bus and head on over! Check your lunch in at the cloak rooms before gallery gazing, then enjoy the rest of the afternoon in the surrounding gallery gardens and eat cheese, drink some wine and talk about the art you just experienced.

How very French of you!

Louis Vuitton Foundation 8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, 75116 Paris, France

EAT: Miznon

Okay, so I was a little reluctant to share this one as it is already so damn busy BUT I will be a friend and pass on the tip because food like this NEEDS to be shared. Like most of my trip, this moment happened too quickly and with zero expectations. Another recommendation from a good friend, this suggestion came with a warning that it WILL be busy – and they were spot on. Despite this, curiosity got the better of me and I had a minute more than usual to spare, so I went for it. Best. Decision. Ever!

I packed myself into this already crammed restaurant (literally standing room only). It was loud. It was hot. It was smokey. But it was amazing! I ordered their classic falafel pita and a cola before I knew it the handwritten order receipt was tacked onto the production line in the open kitchen. I peered over the ledge to watch them effortlessly prepare my little pocket of flavour. When they called my name, they showed me to the self serve sauce stand and added the finishing touches. It’s weird how often I think back to that moment of taking my first bite. You must go here!

Miznon 22 Rue des Ecouffes, 75004 Paris, France

SHOP: The Broken Arm

Part concept store, part cafe,  this place is bustling with well-dressed locals. Grab yourself a window seat and a bite to eat, and gaze out to the beautiful street whilst you eavesdrop on the indistinguishable French chitter chatter around you.

Once you’ve digested and regained sustenance, build up the courage to brave the concept store just a door frame away. Comme Des Garcons, Jacquemus, Lemarie… Oh my… I pretty much moped around this store for a good half hour before ushering myself out. I loved this place, but I am not sure it’s a good idea for me to visit again – unless I win the lottery.  It was almost too good! BUT you should go! You’ve been warned of the possible consequences.

The Broken Arm  12 Rue Perée, 75003 Paris, France

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Uncocktail Uncorked: Pop Wine

I was reading my “wine” tab on Google News the other night and was struck by the opening paragraph of one of the articles (more than the article, which I can’t find anymore). The author brazenly stated that 20 grapes make up the majority of American wine consumption. Much like Claudette’s notorious “I definitely have breast cancer” line from The Room, the assertion didn’t have much to do with the rest of the article and wasn’t brought up again.

I frantically got to work on my phone’s Notes app trying to see if I could list the twenty most popular grapes from memory and experience. The order they came into my head is how they’re listed below.

There are some omissions that might be controversial. I left a few of my favorite grapes intentionally out of my initial twenty because I knew the demand wasn’t quite there for them except among hardcore oenophiles (sorry, Chenin Blanc). However, keeping with the stream-of-consciousness nature of the list, I’ve decided to elaborate on the initial varietals I came up with using my initial reaction to each grape. If I have fun, maybe I’ll do the same with the runners up and extra credit grapes.

Sauvignon Blanc - So you graduated from Cloudy Bay to mediocre Sancerre but you think asking for Pinot Grigio will make you look like a real housewife. This grape is currently synonymous with the bitter, mass-produced expression from New Zealand that tastes like grass and grapefruit. Its popularity in this form hinges on its predictability. An average customer knows exactly what to expect from a $13 bottle of Marlborough Sauv Blanc because they all taste exactly the same. Uniformity at its finest. Sancerre is for the hoity-toity crowd but only because of the price tag that comes with it. Nobody asks for Bordeaux Blanc, which is often dirt cheap and conveys a more amped-up expression of SB’s signature aromatics.

Merlot - This grape is all over the place. Velvety and spicy in some expressions, reeking with pyrizines and tasting more like Cabernet Franc in others. Despite its unpredictability, the demand is still there, but usually only in Yellow Tail or hidden in Bordeaux blends. Ask a wine seller about the “Sideways effect” if you want a 20-minute lecture on the rise of California Pinot Noir.

Cabernet Sauvignon - The king grape of the world’s two most famous wine regions: Bordeaux and Napa Valley. Fun notes of juicy cherries and blackcurrant at its cheapest and most basic makes it an easy gamble for producing a crowd pleaser. The better expressions shed more and more of the sweet cherry notes with every extra $5 you throw at a bottle. A frequent victim of over-oaking, cheaper California expressions risk overdoing it on the vanilla. Thanks to global warming, the grape is growing out of favor with Bordeaux producers whose crops are growing overripe from the extra heat. This would make CS-based Bordeauxs fruity and jammy in a way that the French simply can’t abide by.

Malbec - Look at this trendy little slut. Everyone seems to love you these days, Malbec. Cheers to you, Malbec. Sure, everybody thinks you’re native to Argentina (lol) and sure, you’re only exciting when you’re expensive, but at least you’re not Torrontes. There is something fundamentally wrong with Torrontes and nobody will acknowledge it but Argentina needs to cut it the hell out. Like from the ground. Rip up those vines. They can keep the Malbec. Let’s hope for Argentina’s sake that nobody finds out about Uruguayan Tannat.

Chardonnay - Fruity and bright, bland and mineral, buttery and viscous; there are so many expressions of the noblest of grapes, perhaps the most legendary white of all. The basis of some of the finest wines in the world, most Americans’ first exposure to Chardonnay was through Kendall Jackson (vigilant crusaders for #whitewineemoji justice) and that’s probably why most people think they hate Chardonnay. Sure, exciting unoaked counterpoints to Kendall Jackson’s supremacy do exist, but they’re outnumbered by humdrum Chablis knockoffs.

Pinot Grigio/Gris - If Pinot Grigio were put on a Dungeons and Dragons moral alignment chart, it would be Lawful Neutral. People looking for the cheap Italian stuff just want water-flavored wine. People looking for more potent and complex expressions are still looking for something completely inoffensive and easy-drinking. Sometimes you’ll get funky, weird-ass orange versions from Eastern Europe that defy logic by exhibiting infinite depth.

Pinot Noir - Ohhh yeah, baby. You’re a hot, sexy one Pinot Noir. Someone decided you go good with fish one day and your profile skyrocketed. No grape, however, has a more direct price-to-quality correlation. Even then, while there may be a Pinot for everyone, no singular Pinot style can fill the role entirely. The austere, cold-climate Pinots of Burgundy, Oregon and New York’s Finger Lakes are great food wines, but the riper, concentrated styles of California and New Zealand are more fun and approachable. Cheap Pinots that hide their warm climate origins are often so fruity that they no longer taste expressive of the varietal. If not a total fruit bomb, cheap Pinot can be bitter and bland.

Gamay - Most Americans experience Beaujolais in its “nouveau” variant at Thanksgiving thanks to a bizarre tradition that confounds me. Maybe this is all a lie, since I’ve never seen anybody consume a bottle of the stuff, which amounts to dark, shitty rosé. Entry level and premium expressions alike adhere to the signature “carbonically macerated” style that gets progressively less spicy and more supple with each increase in price point. Some of the most high-quality Gamays out there are still dirt cheap compared to their Cab Sauv and Pinot Noir counterparts. Fun, fruity, easy--it’s basically what people expect Pinot Noir to taste like before they discover the reality.

Gruner Vetliner - I’m biased to include Gruner in my list because I work in Brooklyn where I routinely see the stuff outsell Sauvignon Blanc. Gruner’s popularity comes from three things: its Pinot-Gris-rivaling neutrality, relatively low cost and the packaging (most popular in liter bottles, German and Austrian Gruners give New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc drinkers an extra third of a bottle at the same price). Best served cold, like the German temperament.

Sangiovese - The most ubiquitous Italian red, far better known in the states as “Chianti” Maybe you know it as “house wine” or “table wine” in its Super-Tuscan form at your nicest local pizzeria. Sangiovese is an easy sell to anyone asking for something to pair with a tomato-based Italian dish. Or most other Italian dishes for that matter. The trinity of premium tuscan Sangioveses (Chianti Classico, Vino Nobile de Montepulciano and Brunello di Montalcino) are renowned the world over--but are consistently overshadowed by the premiums of Piedmont to the North.

Tempranillo - Tempranillo is synonymous with Rioja, and Spanish wine in general. It comes in many forms, but retains its inherent character regardless. Most other grapes have unique and anomalous expressions that defy the varietals and taste like something else altogether. Tempranillo, on the other hand, is surprisingly consistent, and only has three things you need to look for: concentration, age and oak. Spaniards have a weird, almost German approach to the production of the stuff, inadvertently making it one of the most accessible wines for beginners. The classifications of Rioja and Ribera del Duero have oak and bottle aging standards that add distinctive characteristics which are easy to decipher for novices. Knowing which style of Tempranillo is for you is an easy segue into other red wines of the world.

Grenache/Garnacha - Grenache is pretty much the perfect grape. Few other varietals have as drastic an array of expressions. Light and ethereal, robust and structured, fun and fruity; The grape is the backbone of two of the world’s bougiest wine regions: Priorat and Chateauneuf du Pape. A temperamental grape for sure, the beauty of Grenache lies in its vast possibilities. A delicate lavender-colored expression from Oregon for Pinot Noir drinkers that don’t like tannins? A hearty Rhone expression to give your Barolo-glugging dad for Father’s Day? An approachable $9 Spanish value wine? Grenache can do it all.

Syrah - Best known in the States in the overripe form of “Shiraz,” Syrah may not have the same versatility as its Rhone cousin Grenache, but what it lacks in that it makes up for in depth. Where Grenache can be ethereal or robust, Syrah is by its nature a big wine. Granted, it’s a tough sell when merely labeled by the name of the grape. Warm climate stuff can reach 16% alcohol and taste like drinking fruit juice in contrast to the legendary, overwhelmingly structured and almost fruit-deficient expressions of Syrah’s most famous regions: Côte-Rôtie, St. Joseph, Cornas and Crozes-Hermitage. None of these are ever fun or cheap, but they’re always “good” by expert standards. Syrah finds a happy medium with California expressions that more resemble the jammy fruit of South Africa and Australia, but with enough structure to give them depth, just nowhere near as much depth or structure as the Northern Rhone (Washington Syrah, on the other hand, straddles the line between the two styles effectively).

Zinfandel - It’s fascinating. Walk into any basic-bitch liquor store and somewhere close to the Dekuyper and Veuve Cliquot, you’ll find the Zinfandel section. It won’t be labeled that way. In fact, it’s probably just the store’s California Domestic section. But make no mistake, 80% of those flashy-labeled, $20 Cali red blends are made mostly of Zinfandel and Mega Purple. And then we have White Zinfandel, the sugary sweet “most popular rosé in America” which doesn’t merit much discussion. Cheap red Zinfandel is almost cloyingly fruity, making it a great pairing for food slathered in barbecue sauce or just about anything else that combines sweet and savory. High-end $50 expressions from centenarian vines produce some of the deepest, most rewarding reds out there, but the hypothetical customer for these Zins would rather drop their dollars on an inferior Cab Sauv.

Moscato - Sure, there are bone-dry, hyper-floral expressions of moscato out there (usually from France or Spain and going by “Muscat”), but the average Moscato drinker only cares about one thing: that their wine is sweeter than drinking juice. Oenophiles will regularly pooh-pooh the most famous expression, Moscato d’Asti, as too sweet for their palates, but there’s still a lot of flavor to be had from this delicate and easy-drinking “wine soda.” The alcohol content is comparable to beer, so you risk diabetes if you try to get drunk off the stuff.

Riesling - Riesling is “that bitch.” She bridges the divide between the experts and the novices. She can be dry, she can be sweet, she is a true hooker that can be whatever you want her to be. Wine critics are inherently addicted to good acidity that isn’t “vinegar-y.” Dry Rieslings have it in spades, as do the sweeter, over-sulphured, age-worthy expressions that eventually develop enough to balance out their sugar altogether. Riesling stands alone in this regard, making it the favorite grape of about half the experts you’ll talk to. Bartenura Moscato may have dethroned Riesling as the sweet white wine du jour, but any sweet white drinkers over the age of 50 are probably still Rheinhessen Auslese devotees and clever product placement on urban radio has kept certain sweet Riesling brands relevant in the age of Moscato.

Nebbiolo - More bitter and tannic than its Barbera counterpart, yet not as tannic or heavy as Dolcetto. The “middle ground” grape of Italy’s Piedmont region, Nebbiolo is good for one thing: food-pairing wines. Since Italian wine is all about food, that effectively makes Nebbiolo the king of Italian grapes. Sure, Chianti Classico and Amarone de Valpolicella have their place, but nothing gives a wine boner to an Italian vino bro quite like a Barolo or Barbaresco.

Barbera - Barbera is the Michelle Williams of Italian red grapes, perhaps with Sangiovese as Kelly Rowland and Nebbiolo as Beyonce. There’s so much potential there, but it’s consistently overlooked and rarely taken as seriously. Ironically, Barbera works in a more vast array of climates and soils than its counterparts.

Montepulciano - Sorry, am I getting lazy with the Italian grapes? Maybe that’s because of boring predictable stuff like Montepulciano d’Abruzzo. Synonymous with inherently inoffensive red Italian table wine, people love ordering this juice at restaurants because it’s easier to pronounce than “Sangiovese” (San-jo-vay-zee? San-geo-vay-zay?). Also, people associate Chianti with Hannibal Lecter, it’s just out there in the zeitgeist.

Glera/Prosecco - It has bubbles in it. More than half of Americans will believe what they are drinking bears some resemblance to Champagne. Many of those Americans will buy a bottle at a liquor store after asking where the Champagne is. Prosecco is not Champagne and you don’t know to ask for Franciacorta or Cava. Go home, Prosecco, you’re drunk.

Runners up: Viognier, Albariño, Gewurtztraminer, Verdejo, Chenin Blanc, Pinotage, Mourvedre, Cabernet Franc, Touriga Nacional, Picpoul, Melon de Bourgogne, Pinot Blanc, Nero d'Avola, Cinsault,  Dolcetto, Carignan, Malvasia

Extra Credit: Pinot Meunier, Semillon, Marsanne/Rousanne, Lambrusco, Garganega, Corvina, Ugni Blanc/Trebbiano, Bobal, Aligoté, Airen, Viura, Xarel Lo, Parellada, Pedro Ximenez, Palomino Fino, Godello, Mencia, Petite Sirah

Photo by John Jennings on Unsplash

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CES 2018: Robots, AI, massive data and prodigious plans

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This year’s CES was a great show for robots. “From the latest in self-driving vehicles, smart cities, AI, sports tech, robotics, health and fitness tech and more, the innovation at CES 2018 will further global business and spur new jobs and new markets around the world,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CTA.

But with that breath of coverage and an estimated 200,000 visitors, 7,000 media, 3,000 exhibitors, 900 startups, 2.75 million sq ft of floorspace at two convention centers, hospitality suites in almost every major hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, over 20,000 product announcements and 900 speakers in 200 conference sessions, comes massive traffic (humans, cars, taxis and buses), power outages, product launch snafus and humor:

AI, big data, Amazon, Google, Alibaba and Baidu

“It’s the year of A.I. and conversational interfaces,” said J. P. Gownder, an analyst for Forrester Research, “particularly advancing those interfaces from basic conversations to relationships.” Voice control of almost everything from robots to refrigerators was de rigueur. The growing amount of artificial intelligence software and the race between Amazon, Google and their Chinese counterparts Alibaba and Baidu to be the go-to service for integration was on full display. Signs advertised that products worked with Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa or both, or with Duer-OS (Baidu’s conversational operating system) but, by the sheer number of products that worked with the Alexa voice assistant, Amazon appeared to dominate.

“It’s the year when data is no long static and post processed” said Brian Krzanich, Intel’s CEO.  He also said: “The rise of autonomous cars will be the most ambitious data project of our lifetime.” In his keynote presentation he demonstrated the massive volume of data involved in the real-time processing needs of autonomous cars, sports events, smart robotics, mapping data collection and a myriad other sources of data-driven technology on the horizon.

Many companies were promoting their graphics, gaming, and other types of processors. IBM had a large invite-only room to show their Quantum Computer. Their 50-qubit chip is housed in that silver canister at the bottom of the thing/computer. Not shown is the housing which keeps the device super cool. IBM is making the computer available via the cloud to 60,000 users working on 1.7 million experiments as well as commercial partners in finance, materials, automotive and chemistry. (Intel showed their 49-qubit chip code-named Tangle Lake in a segment in Krzanich’s keynote.)

Robots, robotics and startups

Robots were everywhere ranging from ag bots, tennis bots, drones, robot arms, robot prosthetics and robot wheelchairs, to smart home companions, security robots and air, land and sea drones. In this short promotional video produced by CES, one can see the range of products on display. Note the quantity of Japanese, Chinese and Korean manufacturers.



One of the remarkable features of CES is what they call Eureka Park. It’s a whole floor of over 900 startup booths with entrepreneurs eager to explain their wares and plans. The area was supported by the NSF, Techstars and a host of others. It’s a bit overwhelming but absolutely fascinating.

Because it’s such a spread-out show, locations tend to blur. But I visited all the robotics and related vendors I could find in my 28,000-step two-day exploration and the following are ones that stuck out from the pack:

LiDAR and camera vision systems providers for self-driving vehicles, robots, and automation such as Velodyne, Quanergy and Luminar were everywhere showing near and far detection ranges, wide, narrow and 360° fields of view, and solid state or other conventional as well as software to consolidate all that data and make it meaningful.

Innoviz Technologies, an Israeli startup that has already raised $82 million, showed their solid state device (Pro) available now and their low-cost automotive grade product (One) available in 2019.

Bosch-supported Chinese startup Roadstar.ai is developing Level 4 multi-sensor fusion solutions (cameras, LiDARs, radars, GPS and others).

Beijing Visum Technology, another Chinese vision system startup, but this one uses what they called ‘Natural Learning’ to continually improve what is seen by their ViEye, stereoscopic, real-time vision detection system for logistics and industrial automation.

Korean startup EyeDea displayed both a robot vision system and a smart vision module (camera and chip) for deep learning and obstacle avoidance for the auto industry.

Occipital, a Colorado startup developing depth sensing tech using twin infrared shutter cameras for indoor and outdoor for scanning and tracking.

Aeolus Robotics, a Chinese/American startup working on a $10,000 home robot with functional arms and hands and comms and interactivity that are similar to what IBM’s Watson offers, appeared to be focused toward selling their system components: object recognition, facial/pedestrian recognition, deep learning perception systems and auto safety cameras which interpret human expressions and actions such as fatigue.

SuitX, a Bay Area exoskeleton spin-off from Ekso Bionics, focused on providing modular therapeutic help for people with limited mobility rather than industrial uses of assistive devices. Ekso, which wasn’t at CES, is providing assistive systems that people strap into to make walking, lifting and stretching easier for employees and the military.

There were a few marine robots for photography, research and hull inspection:

Sublue Underwater AI, a Chinese startup, had a tank with an intelligent ROV capable of diving down to 240′ while sending back full HD camera and sensor data. They also make water tows.

RoboSea, also a Chinese startup, was showing land and sea drones for entertainment, research and rescue and photography.

QYSea, a Chinese startup making a 4k HD underwater camera robot which can go to a depth of 325′.

CCROV, a brand of the Vxfly incubater of China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University, demonstrated a 10-pound tethered camera box with thrusters that can dive more than 300′. The compact device is designed for narrow underwater areas and dangerous environments for people.

All were well-designed and packaged as consumer products.

UBTech, a Chinese startup that is doing quite well making small humanoid toy robots including their $300 StarWars StormTrooper showed that their line of robots are growing from toys to service robots. They were demonstrating the first video-enabled humanoid robot with an Amazon Alexa communication system touting its surveillance capabilities and Avatar modes for this little (17″ tall) walking robot. It not only works with Alexa but can also get apps and skills and accept controls from iOS and Android. Still, like many of the other home robots, they can’t grasp objects, consequently they can’t perform services beyond remote presence and Alexa-like skills.

My Special Aflac Duck won the CES Best Unexpected Product Award for a social robot designed to look like the white Aflac duck but also designed to help children coping with cancer. This is the second healthcare-related robotic device for kids from Sproutel, the maker of the duck. Their first product was Jerry the Bear for diabetic kids.

YYD Robo, another Chinese startup, was demonstrating a line of family companion, medical care robots (although the robot’s hands could not grasp), which also served as child care and teaching robots. This Shenzhen-based robot company says they are fully-staffed and have a million sq ft of manufacturing space, yet the robots weren’t working and their website doesn’t come up.

Hease Robotics, a French mobile kiosk startup, showed their Heasy robotic kiosk as a guide for retail stores, office facilities and public areas. At CES, there were many vending machine companies showing how they are transitioning to smart machines – and in some cases, smart and robotic as the Heasy robotic kiosk.

Haapie SAS, also a French startup, was showing their tiny interactive, social and cognitive robots – consumer entertainment and Alexa-like capabilities. Haapie also integrates their voice recognition, speech synthesis and content management into smartphone clients.

LG, the Korean consumer products conglomerate, showed an ambitious line of robot products they called CLOi. One is an industrial floor cleaner for public spaces which can also serve as a kiosk/guide; another has a build-in tray for food and drink delivery in hotels; and a third can carry luggage and will follow customers around stores, airports and hotels. During a press conference, one of the robots tipped over and another wouldn’t hear instructions. Nevertheless all three were well-designed and purposed and the floor cleaner and porter robots are going to help out at the airport for next month’s Winter Olympics.

Two Chinese companies showed follow-me luggage: 90FUN and their Puppy suitcase and ForwardX and their smart suitcases. 90FUN is using Ninebot/Segway follow-me technology for their Puppy.

Twinswheel, a French startup, was showing a prototype of their parcel delivery land drone for factories, offices and last-mile deliveries.

Dobot is a Chinese inventor/developer of a transformable robot and 3D printer for educational purposes and a multi-functional industrial robot arm. They also make a variety of vision and stabilizing systems which are incorporated into their printers and robots. It’s very clever science. They even have a laser add-on for laser cutting and/or engraving. Dobot had a very successful Kickstarter campaign in 2017.

Evolver Robots is a Chinese developer of mobile domestic service robots specifically designed for children between the ages of 4-12 offering child education, video chat, games, mobile projection and remote control via smartphone.

Although drones had their own separate area at the show, there were many locations where I found them. From the agricultural spraying drones by Yamaha, DJI and Taiwanese Geosat Aerospace to the little deck-of-cards-sized ElanSelfie or the fold-into-a-5″ X 1/2″ high AEE Aviation selfie drone from Shenzhen, nothing stood out amongst the other 40+ drone vendors to compete with the might of DJI (which had two good-sized booths in different locations).

Segway (remember Dean Kamen?) is now fully owned by Ninebot, a Beijing provider of all types of robotic-assisted self-balancing scooters and devices. They are now focused on lifestyle and recreational riders in the consumer market including the Loomo which you ride like a hoverboard and then load it up with cargo and have it follow you home or to another place in the facility. At their booth they were pushing the Loomo for logistics operations however it can’t carry much and has balance problems. They would do better having it tow a cart.

Yujin Robot, a large Korean maker of robotic vacuums, educational robots, industrial robots, mobility platforms for research and a variety of consumer products, was showing their new logistics transport system GoCart with three different configurations of autonomous point-to-point robots.

The Buddy robot from Blue Frog Robotics won CES’s Robotics and Drones Innovation Award along with Soft Robotics and their grippers and control system that can pick items of varying size, shape and weight with a single device. Jibo, the Dobot (mentioned above) and 14 others also received the Robotics and Drones Innovation Award.

[The old adage in robotics that for every service robot there is a highly-skilled engineer by its side is still true… most of the social and home robots frequently didn’t work at the show and were either idle or being repaired.]

Silly things

A local strip club promoted their robotic pole dancers (free limo).

At a hospitality suite across from the convention center, the head of Harmony, the sex robot by San Diego area Abyss Creations (RealDoll), was available for demos and interviews. It will begin shipping this quarter at $8-$10,000.

Crowd-drawing events were everywhere but this one drew the largest audiences: Omron’s ping-pong playing robot.

FoldiMate, a laundry folding robot, requires a human to feed the robot one article at a time for it to work (for just $980 in late 2019). Who’s the robot?

And Intel’s drones flew over the Bellagio hotel fountains in sync with the water and light musical show. Very cool.

ABC’s Shark Tank, the hit business-themed funding TV show, was searching for entrepreneurs with interesting products at an open call audition area.

Bottom Line

Each time I return from a CES (I’ve been to at least six) I swear I’ll never go again. It’s exhausting as well as overwhelming. It’s impossible to get to all the places one needs to go — and it’s cold. Plus, once I get there, the products are often so new and untested, that they fail or are over-presented with too much hype. (LG’s new CLOi products failed repeatedly at their press conference; Sony’s Aibo ignored commands at the Sony press event.)

I end up asking myself “Is this technology really ready for prime time? Will it be ready by their promised delivery dates? Or was it all just a hope-fest? A search for funding?” I still have no answer… perhaps all are true; perhaps that’s why I keep going. It’s as if my mind sifted through all the hype and chaff and ended up with what’s important. There’s no doubt this show was great for robotics and that Asian (particularly Chinese) vendors are the new power players. Maybe that’s why I copied down the dates for CES 2018.

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Frank Holmes Exclusive: Bitcoin Needs Electricity, Gold CONDUCTS Electricity

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Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at US Global Investors. Mr. Holmes has received various honors over the years, including being named America’s Best Fund Manager for 2016 by the Mining Journal. He is also the co-author of the book The Goldwatcher: Demystifying Gold Investing and is a regular guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business as well as right here on the Money Metals podcast. Frank, welcome back and thanks for joining us again. How are you today?

Frank Holmes: Excellent. Thank you, my friend. Thank you.

Mike Gleason: Well, to start out here, Frank, I know you recently attended and spoke at the Denver Gold Show and I always like to talk to insiders like yourself following those sorts of events because you can always glean some good insights on the mood of the industry and how things are really going in the precious metals community. Now the mining industry has taken a pretty good beating over the last few years and it continues to struggle a bit even as we seem to be in a new bull cycle that began in late 2015. You’ve got your new gold fund now, GOAU, so you’ve got lots on insights into the mining industry and know lots of gold bugs. So, what did you glean from the conference Frank? What was the mood in general? Give us some highlights there if you would.

Frank Holmes: Well I think my presentation was well received when I explained how the quant world and data mining, and these other what they call alternative investment research companies, are providing new insight the way investing is taking place. Understanding the paradigm shift on that data collection and that analysts love their old reports on mid asset value, are irrelevant. They’re not relevant to picking stocks today. And you have to go with the forces of physics either as electromagnetic rebounding to the mean is a cheap stock and math says it will rebound or has strong momentum. And you can take a universe of 88 gold stocks and take it down to 28 and far outperform the GDX or GDXJ.

Using data that was foreign to a lot of these analysts and recognizing … the other thing I think worth commenting on was gold and this whole thing on Bitcoin, is it a competition for bullion? It is not. First of all, without electricity Bitcoin is not worth any money. It needs electricity. Gold is always gold. It conducts electricity and it will always have its materiality for currency in addition to being jewelry. But I think that’s really important is to recognize that it’s so much easier, this idea of crowdfunding, to go and open up an exchange and trade 24/7 all these different currencies all around the world than it is to open a brokerage account. And I think that this excessive regulations is basically seeing people migrate over to angel investing, crowdfunding such as into cryptocurrencies, et cetera. And I think that’s the bigger danger is to overall investing in trading in the capital markets. So, they’re the comments that I made and that seem to have come back with many written messages to me regarding the quants and how they’re changing the landscape.

But I think the other part that’s important for your listeners is that there were 1,100 people there. Now they don’t allow investment bankers in. Research analysts, traders, CEOs, gold analysts from the buy and sell side, they’re allowed to participate and there were 1,100. The week before there was a big event for the juniors (junior miners) but this event is the premiere event of the world. And I was impressed with it. The conversations looking for companies that are going to be taken over. What’s the probability? Because the seniors are desperate for future production and where is that growth going to come from because they’re just not finding the gold as fast as they’re mining. So, the Newmonts of the world have to go and strike deals like they did with Continental in Columbia to get a foothold into high grade big geographic footprints. So, I thought that was interesting. I think that in the next 12 months there’s going to be lots of M&A work. And the other part was the royalty companies seem to get a new sort of respect for how their positioned in the capital markets in that gold space.

Mike Gleason: Yeah definitely. Sounds like there is a wave of optimism there and some good things ahead. Now I wanted to get back to some of the cryptocurrency conversation here. Your firm, Frank, US Global Investors, recently made an investment in HIVE Blockchain Technologies and you have been appointed chairman of the board there. Given you are heavily involved in the cryptocurrency space now, we’d like to get your take on a topic of growing interest in the metals community. You alluded to this a moment ago but cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin in particular, have been seen by many as another form of honest money. You’ve obviously maybe shot a little bit of a hole in what it is that is needed in order to continue the cryptocurrency world, that being electricity. But since you’re a fan at least in part of both metals and blockchains. What are your thoughts on how metals might fit in with this emerging technology, Frank?

Frank Holmes: Well let’s just focus on this emerging technology. We go back to the internet and it was actually very boring when it first come out because it was very slow and it used to be a joke that it was just porn and dark things. And now it’s fast porn. No, I’m kidding. But the real catalysts for the internet exploding in usage were emails, AOL. And long before Yahoo came out to give you free email. And then people saw the incredible capacity for this channel of distribution of information. Well I think that the Bitcoin and Ethereum are doing that for blockchain technology and that there’s a huge scramble to be able to apply this so that you’ll be able to trade stocks 24/7.

And when I was doing my research and I went to the largest cryptocurrency event, that used to be where the gold show used to be held in New York at the Marriott. I was just shocked to see how many young people were there. Many more than ever when gold was peaking. And two is that they weren’t drinking scotch and whiskey at the bar and beer, they were drinking Pepsi and coffee. That really threw me off to just watch those young people and how they’re looking at it. And then to find out that the keynote speaker was a CEO of Fidelity. Fidelity is a massive multi-trillion dollar asset management company and they have all their employees on Bitcoin. They have a wallet and you can buy goods in the store. And seeing that she’s the keynote and that the New York Stock Exchange when it was launching GOAU they were commenting that they had put money into Coinbase along with USAA in San Antonio.

So, at Coinbase you can open an account so easily and they will now let your 10,000 or 50,000 or 100,000 of coins show up as an asset over all in your portfolio. USAA and all that should do that at Fidelity. So, I said well it’s something really that’s not mainstream and then in the summer it came out in the Wall Street Journal that Fidelity is doing it. But really it didn’t seem to captivate a lot of people’s interest. And I think that the big part with the New York Stock Exchange is just their worry of being Uberized the way taxi cabs were with having stock trading 24/7 and a lot cheaper.

So, I think that that’s the big trend and along I was trying to launch a cryptocurrency, ETF, or a product with that and I just kept bringing up cul-de-sacs. Had to back that car out, back that truck out. It didn’t matter if it was the U.S., the SEC, or Canada with the OSC. They’re just so consumed that AML (Anti Money Laundering) supersedes, even though you can track Bitcoin, supersedes anything else. So that’s why you’ve not seen anything come out directly where you can trade Bitcoin into an ETF.

So, I’ve been working on this and then all of the sudden I hear from my friend Frank Giustra saying, “Look, we have this deal. Do you know much about this space?” And I said “Oh, yes. I’ve been working on it. And I just keep running into cul-de-sacs.” And he said, “Well, why don’t you explore it” and explored it and I said, “You know what, I’ll be come your third biggest shareholder, and I will go on the board,” because I think that HIVE is so special and unique because it’s the mining business.

And the company behind HIVE is Genesis Mining and Genesis Mining is the largest cryptocurrency miner in the word. They have a million people give them 500 bucks a year and one of the things I learned was that if you want to do mining of cryptocurrency you need to have cheap energy like two cents a kilowatt hour. So, you find that a lot of these big dealer centers are in Iceland where it’s cool and you have cheap electricity. Google is there. Facebook is there and so is Genesis. And you need to have computer graphic cards because the processing power to validate a transaction. So, you found that NVIDIA stock has taken off because the cryptocurrency companies like Genesis have been massive buyers of their computer graphics cards.

And so, with that, I said, “You mean, we’re going to be investing in a company that’s mining and validating transactions all over the world, and we create new coins, fresh coins, mint coins, virgin coins” … however you want to characterize them. We are not trafficking on the silk road. We are not buying and selling a coin that could have been painted et cetera. No. We’re the creator because we validate transactions and you get paid every time you validate a blockchain transaction. So, I became extremely excited about this opportunity and so far, we’ve made for our shareholders more than 500% on their money.

Mike Gleason: That’s fantastic. Now I’d like to get your take on the U.S. dollar. The dollar had a miserable performance through the first eight months of the year and bottomed in early September at 91.5. The greenback then bounced and has enjoyed a very good rally since then. What is driving this rally in your view and are you expecting the dollar to keep moving higher in the months ahead, Frank?

Frank Holmes: Well, historically it does get a bit of a rally going into the year end. That’s one. Two is the 5-year government bond. The 5-year government bond is positive now, the yield. So, the CPI number is 1.9 and you just take whatever the government is trying to entice you to buy their 5-year government bond, subtract the CPI number… it recalibrates every month and it gives you a good idea for where fund falls are going for real rates return. And whenever the five year government bond and the two year government bond are negative, gold is positive. And so, we went from a 1.4 to 1.5 5-year government bond to a 1.93. Now it’s just slightly positive but that was enough to sort of have the dollar rally and gold come off in the past month.

But I think that unless you really get change, you get fiscal change, trying to get the tax code streamlined and trying to get other parts of the legislation body in its Beltway to streamline regulations. We need to have the TSA preferred, how you can fly much more quickly now, rather than those two hour waits to fly and to go and catch your flight. You know most people in San Antonio were driving to Houston rather than going to wait two hours for an hour flight. And so, you’re seeing now this TSA preferred. That’s just streamlining processes and this has to be done for the movement of money, for opening a trading accounts, for opening up investment accounts, et cetera. If we don’t get those things, we’re going to have to have negative real interest rates to keep the economy going. Or you’re going to have to a very weak dollar to drive exports.

And I think that Trump has been a master disrupter. He’s so disruptive to the Beltway Party, which is the regulatory regime that’s been their professional regulatory. I’ve listened to other people like Bernanke spoke about the difficulty for Jimmy Carter and Trump to take on the Beltway Party. But he’s different and so he’s trying to push for the streamline of regulations. If he can, rates can trade higher and I think that the dollar will just trade with the real interest rates relative to the rest of the world.

But I remain very positive on gold. It’s amazing to see how well gold has done this year. The gold stocks have had a great run until the GDXJ blew up. Basically, they captured 95% of all fund flows. Therefore, they had to be concentrated owning more than 20 companies 20% means they had to do a force takeover. They had to back out of that one and they blew out three billion dollars. They brought in five billion dollars over 12 months and then they did an exit in only a matter of weeks of three billion dollars. And that really damaged the bid side and bruised people. It’s like getting hit by Mike Tyson. You just don’t heal quickly when he hits you and it’s the same thing with the gold stocks. But I think there’s some just fabulous gold stocks out there that are ripe to be taken over, that have very strong positive cash flow. The weaker dollar in the U.S. and the higher gold prices, there’s very strong margins for companies like Klondex.

Mike Gleason: Yeah, certainly can be interesting as we go towards the latter part of the year here to see what might be sustained in this correction in gold or if it can rebound and get back to where it was maybe a month ago or so. We did have a good first half of the year in the metals but the markets obviously have hit some of those headwinds here recently, a rising dollar and so forth that you alluded to. If you would, give us your bull case for metals in near term and then also if you would maybe a bear case as well and then kind of expand more on which side you’re betting on, as we begin to wrap up here.

Frank Holmes: Well, there’s the two drivers for gold: love trade and fear trade. And the fear trade dominates the psychic of Americans and the same thing with Europeans in that’s predominantly negative real interest rates. So, whenever the government has to monetize most of their debt, and basically negative real interest rates are losing money and buying their government bonds, gold does well. I don’t think that they can raise rates significantly without a massive streamlining of regulations and the government is doing everything to try to stop Trump from doing that. So, I think we’re going to end up still living with negative interest rates.

Now, the other positive part, for the U.S., is that the dollar is down but the exports are up. So, we have our strong industrial base. And it’s showing up in PMI, that’s Purchasing Manufacturer’s Index, which is a forward looking index. It’s not like GDP, which is looking out the rear view mirror. This is like looking with headlights looking down six months. And the one month is above the three month, and that’s really positive for global growth. So, I remain positive and constructive towards it. What could derail it? North Korea could derail it. China’s policies could derail it. And I think that if rates were to surge dramatically in the U.S., that could derail it.

But I don’t think that’s going to happen. We’re in a very constructive mode and it’s a great opportunity for stock picking. I just spoke at a conference in Vancouver yesterday, and I commented on … By the way, I commented on HIVE. I was asked and I said, “You know, if you’re a value investor, HIVE is extremely overvalued.” But if you are a first mover advantage in the first public company where funds can go by and get exposure to crypto-mining. It is not. It’s like Tesla, it’s like Amazon. They will always trade at lofty valuations. And so, it’s extremely attractive that way when you look at it as being first mover advantage.

Mike Gleason: Well that’s great stuff as usual. Thanks as always for joining us. It’s a real honor to hear your thoughts and we appreciate your time as always. Now before we let you go, please tell our listeners a little bit more about your firm and your services and then also mention the Frank Talk Blog so people can learn more about that if they’re not already checking it out.

Frank Holmes: Well, we are USfunds.com, makes it so easy, just go to USfunds.com, sign up for investor alert. It’s right in the middle of the page. And we write every week and we do a game film analysis, three strengths or weaknesses for last week and opportunities and threats that can come out next week. Sort of forward looking like game film and looking back.

And the Frank Talk is my global travels and I try to be insightful and learn about how we’ve applied quant math. What’s called quantamentals to stock picking. And especially we launched our GOGO Canadian gold ETF and we’ve launched one here in the U.S., which we’re really proud of because the ten year index based on those smart factors, both performs of GDXJ say 94% of the time are rolling 12 month periods. So, we think that GOAU, we’ll write about it, we’ll tell you about the changes. And we also have unique products like JETS which is also an ETF listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Mike Gleason: Yeah, it’s great stuff. Certainly, the Go Gold fund is looking very good from what I’ve been reading about. Obviously performing just as you were hoping it would and continued success there. We always appreciate it and good luck with the other endeavors that you have going on and keep up the good work on those market commentaries and we’ll certainly look forward to our next conversation. Take care, Frank.

Frank Holmes: Take care, my friend.

Mike Gleason: Well that will do it for this week. Thanks again to Frank Holmes, CEO of US Global Investors and manager of the recently launched GOAU Gold Fund. For more information, the site is USfunds.com. Be sure to check out the previously mentioned Frank Talk blog while you’re there for some of the best market commentary you will find anywhere on gold and other related topics. Again, you can find all that at USfunds.com, and you can also go to GOAUETF.com for more information on that new gold fund.

Mike Gleason is a Director with Money Metals Exchange, a national precious metals dealer with over 50,000 customers. Gleason is a hard money advocate and a strong proponent of personal liberty, limited government and the Austrian School of Economics. A graduate of the University of Florida, Gleason has extensive experience in management, sales and logistics as well as precious metals investing. He also puts his longtime broadcasting background to good use, hosting a weekly precious metals podcast since 2011, a program listened to by tens of thousands each week.

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[toddmichaelrogers]

928 Days Later

This post originally appeared as an update across various social media for Spell Saga.

~pre Eh, ya’ll know I ramble. I don’t fucking like it when people who are too old use new language as if it’s their fucking language, but there is a tl:dr (god, I had to google that) at the bottom of the page if’n yer only interested in the sweet stuff (shipments, deck 2 & the like). But I like stories, and I am--if not old, getting older, so my stories take a long time to wind up and spill out. Longer than they did when I was a kid, anyhow. And much slower than these new youths and their dang emotiji’s or whatever.

all the kids’ talk in hieroglyphics It’s good for feelings but not specifics

~1 It all comes down to choices, really. I remember when I was younger--I was very newly 20, and barely 13 in most of my head--I remember I was homeless, not like, starving homeless (though sometimes I was) and not like, sleep under a bridge homeless (I had the couches of friends, and their friends, and my barely-met acquaintances, though no one seemed to own an air conditioner that Summer. One dude shall remain nameless, as I’m fairly certain he might be a super bad guy. He was never around anyway so I used to listen to his CD collections and spread my Star Wars figures around his house (13, remember, 13). I remember he had a box set of Joy Division, and I became obsessed with this one really fast version of “Love Will tear us Apart”. I used to listen to that in the Summer heat and walk around the house naked looking for something to eat. It was really years later that I realized I had lost my mind.

I had made the choice to stop taking my meds regularly. And then some other choices, as my mind spiraled without that ketracel-white. After what some would say was an alarming series of ordinarily dysfunctional life, my parents made the choice to kick me out. I have had to make a lot more choices since then.

here is a pic of me from around that time with original french toaster: Paxson of Ashgarden.

~2 Where are your fucking packages?

~3 I know that there are some people who keep in touch with me regularly and have a better idea of what’s been going on. And I also know there are others who backed this project 2 and a half years ago and think it’s dead, or i’ve been trolling everyone with shipping dates.

~4 I was at a restaurant. I was not a customer. I had just spent three days straight and about 30 hours running around mopping up drinks. By Sunday, I’m usually on my third double, and it hurts to stand, or run up the stairs with trays of food. (who puts stairs in a restaurant)? But I was feeling pretty good about myself, having made it through one more death sentence of a weekend. I took the job to pay for Spell Saga when some other stuff fell through (like, uh, all our plans, & people abandoning the project). Each Sunday usually ends with me depositing a wad of cash into an ATM and then passing out on my couch surrounded by boxes of a fantasy card game. It is not a bad life, if not a little embarrassing. Also this particular Sunday it was tornado weather and I got to watch an entire porch of rich people get fucking destroyed. I was soaked and running around collecting plates being thrown on the wind. Inside I sat down next to people my age, and before long it came time to tell them why I was serving them and not doing something with my life, which is what I always do if I like a table. As it came out, these people were super into games, and Kickstarter, and anything I could possibly like. I had a used deck in my car that I grabbed for them and they thanked me and told me I was doing great. It was a real moment for me. What was most important though, was the stories they told me about other crowdfunded projects, and how much keeping backers up-to-date mattered to them.

~5 Most of my choices about Spell Saga have been insane. Whether good, or bad (there have been both) the choices have been the work of a mad man. That goes for game design as well as business wise. I do not apologize for the game, but man I am fucking trying you guys. And you will have all your shit this year. But it’s taking forever and here’s where we’re at now:

In 2016 I made a plan with my main man J Rizzo to fund a shipment of 300 units, so all of you would get your shit before we finished with all the printing (there were delays due to packaging changes and etc).

Also that year, J Rizz* dropped off the face of the earth, as did most everyone involved with the project, due to various reasons. I took a second job or two and funded the shipment myself. They arrived in July of that year.

*J Rizz and I are cool. We had a very long talk recently that lifetime asked if they could film.

here is a pic of me & paxson of ashgarden & his son! (we are cool too)

I started sending packages out almost immediately, but I had to wait on the mail myself (autographed boxes take some damn time). By the end of the year everything was going smoothly and every. Single. Package. was about to go out by December 31st. What a fucking relief that was.

Then I lost two jobs in a month, and so did my wife. That was around the time the comments started to crop up, “where is my shit” and etc. Which I get. I mean, I don’t leave comments like that, but I get why someone would.

I scrambled and pulled together jobs and money and started sending out packages again. But now there was a problem: It was 2017 and we needed to start thinking about our patient, angelic manufacturer. Right now, they are waiting for us to upload the art to print Deck 2 and pay the deposit on it. Panda Games has been amazing with us. And I’m not saying that I’m paying for everything by working a restaurant--I have other sources of income for this project. But I am putting most of my personal funds towards it this month, just to get it finished quickly.

So in the last month I had to make another choice, in a long line of choices, and not send as many packages out. Everyone in the US who pledged over $25 should have their shit. I sent out a few Internationals, but not many. My ever-shifting goal is that by July everyone has their stuff. But again, I’ve lost two jobs before--shit happens. I used to not want to leave ANY updates because I didn’t want to get anyone’s hopes up. I think looking back that was a bad choice. It was probably also a bad choice to air ship any units over here. The cost alone would have covered the printing of Deck 2. But I like all’a you. Even if you leave a mean comment every once in awhile. And I want everyone to have their stuff. Most of my e n t i r e life revolves around it right now.

~6 More choices have been made since the last update. We are printing new packaging for deck 1 and the prelude deck (which means everyone will at least have a fancy zero edition package from those we air-shipped last July--only 301 ever made)! We are also printing deck 2 AND it has it’s very own super-cool holofoil sleeve. But that’s not even the most exciting shit for me.

Cousin Lauren and I are finishing it up. That’s right. It’s happening. She is illustrating a picture for the front of deck 2’s box (I have been dreaming for years it would match the minstrel/lover pic we use on deck 1) and then she’s illustrating a picture for deck 3’s box.

We aren’t printing deck 3 at the moment. But it’s going to happen. So in the meantime, she’ll be spending the next month getting all the art for deck 3 and the ending finished (as soon as I finish writing her an art list).

And THAT’S NOT ALL. Lauren is going to be working on the art for the a new realmwalker deck you may remember called The Discordant Shore. It is the deck that includes copies of all the homemade Paladin Cards you will be receiving this year.

I don’t want to get too into details on this one just yet, but you play as a girl named Brell, who is also named Scaradh. And it’s an adventure so unlike the highlands you will be surprised at where it takes you. Here is a pic of some character descriptions I sent Lauren:

~7 When I’m not trying to NOT vomit because I am cleaning up a table, or worrying about you, or reading wonderful or disparaging comments in between cleaning up tables and worrying, I have been very hard at work on the next Spell Saga release: 1.5 The Under Sky. This DECK is like 2 games in one. You can use it between decks one and two, or use it as a new deck one. The design of this thing has destroyed me. I had to Photoshop the cards as I was making it because the ideas became so complex. It’s all about The Last Minstrel, but it’s also about how this process of making the game has been. Everything has taken so long, and a part of me is sort of dead inside. But I think maybe that part was supposed to die. In it’s place I have found a new type of strength to make things no matter what.

~8 This December is the 8th anniversary of when I first designed Spell Saga. In my head, there is a sort of countdown clock (198 days as of this posting). When the clock in my head strikes zero, my plan is that everyone will have everything. every. Thing. And then I’ll never work in a restaurant again.

~epi Spell Saga continues to dominate my life. As do other things. My band just finished recording everything except the vocals on our first LP, another project that took longer than expected. And I wake up nearly every morning and try to spend at least an hour working on The Novel that has consumed a decade of my life. My plan is that once everyone has their shit, I will pay to have decks 3 and the ending printed, and then we will Kickstart them to recover costs and make sure everyone who wants one sees it. I don’t give a shit about money. I don’t care if I ever make a goddamn cent on this game. It’s all going to end up going back into it anyway. Ii just want to finish the story. And now we can. I hope, regardless of how you feel or think about me, you will want to finish it to.

-mE. 913 days since the kickstarter started.

TL:DR

-packages still going out -no you have not missed yours -deck 2 the forest being printed with holofoil sleeve -deck 3 the caves being illustrated / finished -deck 4 the ending being illustrated / finished -deck 1.5 the under sky nearly finished -realkwalker ~ the discordant shore being illustrated / finished -paladin level cards part of discordant shore -everyone will have everything this year -most will have everything by july -life is hard but good