Directed by Robin Wright. With Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Campbell Scott. In the wake of a surprising announcement, everything at the White House is shaken up. A decision must be made about whether to go to war.
Day: November 21, 2018
📺 "House of Cards" Chapter 66 | Netflix
Directed by Alik Sakharov. With Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Diane Lane, Campbell Scott. As the first woman to hold the title of President of the United States, Claire faces increased scrutiny and threats. Sibling power couple Annette and Bill Shepherd attempt to influence policy.
📺 "House of Cards" Chapter 67 | Netflix
Directed by Ami Canaan Mann. With Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Diane Lane, Campbell Scott. Claire clashes with the Shepherds and Mark Usher, who pressure her to sign the Future Act. Doug makes an unexpected move.
👓 In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Trump for comment about 'Obama judge' | NBC News
The president later responded on Twitter, defending his attacks on the Ninth Circuit for ruling against him in an asylum case.
👓 Update now! Dangerous AMP for WordPress plugin fixed | Naked Security
The popular plugin for implementing Accelerated Mobile Pages returned, patched, to WordPress.org last week.
👓 Upgrade for even more smart features. | Inoreader
Upgrade Inoreader for 1 year and get 6 months free.
Considering doing this just to help support the product even though there’s a different direction I’d like to move in shortly.
👓 nPOV | nLab
Wikipedia enforces its entries to adopt an NPOV – a neutral point of view . This is appropriate for an encyclopedia.
However, the nLab is not Wikipedia, nor is it an encyclopedia, although it does aspire to provide a useful reference in many areas (among its other purposes). In particular, the nnLab has a particular point of view, which we may call the nnPOV or the n- categorical point of view .
👓 nPOV | nLab
Wikipedia enforces its entries to adopt an NPOV – a neutral point of view . This is appropriate for an encyclopedia.
However, the nLab is not Wikipedia, nor is it an encyclopedia, although it does aspire to provide a useful reference in many areas (among its other purposes). In particular, the nLab has a particular point of view, which we may call the nPOV or the n- categorical point of view .
To some extent the nPOV is just the observation that category theory and higher category theory, hence in particular of homotopy theory, have a plethora of useful applications.
👓 Ben Sasse: By the Book | New York Times
The junior senator from Nebraska and author, most recently, of “Them” says he and his wife would like their children to love books: “We want them to be addicted to reading.”
A great little hole in the wall. I snuck in for a late lunch as I was driving by. Had the chicken tamale/chile relleno combo.
I was curious where their bulk cheese originated. Sadly they didn’t have a definitive answer, but the guess was Utah though the corporate parent is in Chicago. They kindly gave me a $5 gift card for asking and waiting patiently for the answer.
Bought $15 of apples for some pie for Thanksgiving (among other things).
📺 Reunited at Christmas | Hallmark Channel
Directed by Steven R. Monroe. With Tim Bissett, Beverley Breuer, Candus Churchill, Glynis Davies. Frazzled and struggling with writer's block, novelist Samantha (Deloach), along with her boyfriend, heads home to her late grandmother's home to spend Christmas. While at home with family, her grandmother's wise words reveal the true meaning of Christmas with Samantha at a time when she most needs encouragement.
Only watched the last third of this movie. Apparently when there isn’t a clear star, these movies are even more treacly.
📺 Christmas at Graceland | Hallmark Channel
Directed by Eric Close. With Wes Brown, Kellie Pickler, Tamara Austin, Ned Vaughn. A Chicago-based business executive travels to Memphis to secure one of the city's oldest family-owned banks. While in Memphis, Laurel reunites with an old flame Clay, a local music promoter with loftier aspirations.
Yes, Mister Hatcher…
Ugh. This is not how corporate America works. And there’s probably no way she’s working out of a cubicle and about to be promoted to VP of an organization that looks like this.
It’s not frequently that one sees an actress with an accent this deep appearing in television or film.
(0:14) As I watch this I’m wondering when we get a Pickler song, but Elvis Christmas songs seem to be dominating the soundtrack.
(0:39) We had a small singing tease about 20 minutes in, but it’s taken this long to hear an actual song? And dear God! Why did they opt to overproduce the music and have her lip sync? Blech…
(0:42) I’m really very distracted by the excessiveness of Pickler’s surely phony eyelashes.
👓 Indie WYSIWYG: How I Fixed My Instagram Problem | Alex Kearney
I talk about what-you-see-is-what-you-get posting system for my #indieweb site and how it improved my post quality.
👓 Gutenberg | Colin Devroe
I’m writing this post using a new post editor that is coming in the next version of WordPress code-named, and likely named for all-time, Gutenberg.
In fact, I’ve written several of my most recent posts, including this photo post of South Iceland, using this new editor.
Gutenberg is an editor that allows a WordPress author to use an interface for writing that is much more akin to using Google Docs or Microsoft Word. You type, drag images, add headlines and quotes, and all other various things using a much more visual way of editing than previous versions of WordPress had with what is now being called the “Classic Editor”.