We do not like Other People

And we consider this normal behavior, in our typical environment - the Office.

Growing up an American in the last half of the 20th Century, was a painful experience. But I feel proud of one thing - I did not lose my basic goodness. It was badly battered, but I kept feeling that they were wrong.

What should I expect of Other People?

Most people would answer "Nothing!"

But I think we can expect more - although I am not sure what that is.

I am tempted to say "They should be real!" But that is probably too much to ask in today's world - where people are trying as hard as they can, to be better than real.

A person behind the steering wheel of a car, for example. Or someone watching TV.

Or even better, someone with a VR viewer.

Waiting for your Lab Results at the Hospital

I did this yeasterday - and there were times I didn't think I was going to make it.

You go through a long check-in process, where they decide what is wrong with you, and how they are going to fix it.

You may be assigned to a doctor, who does a detailed examination and decides on a plan of action. I was given an injection in the muscles of my lower back. She then asked for Lab tests to see if more work needed to be done.

This required a wait of two hours while the Lab tests were being run. I could see many of my fellow patients were in bad shape, but we all had to wait.

I should have gotten my camera out, and made a video of this scene. But my mind was not working too well.

I then went to see my doctor, who reported on the test results. There was nothing much wrong with me. All I had to do was take my pain pills, and get some exercise - but not too much!

Samsung partners with Calm for guided meditation and sleep programs for Galaxy device owners

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Samsung has now announced a partnership with Calm to give its consumers seamless access to the service by integrating Calm into the Samsung Health platform.

Mutable and Immutable

I am learning about Google's cloud (GCP) and these attributes are important there. They mean it can be changed, or it cannot be changed.

Amazon has kicked me out of its cloud (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure) has too. I am left with Google, who built its cloud to serve Google but will let other people use it - if they want to be like Google.

And they are willing to show you how this is done. They will hold your hand, all the way.

The History of the Future

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This book is the War and Peace of our time.

It has a huge cast of characters and enough scene changes to make Tolstoy envious.

It is however very technical, with computers having the best parts.

Zuk's Wife

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Zuckerberg met his future wife, fellow student Priscilla Chan, at a fraternity party during his sophomore year at Harvard. They began dating in 2003.[167][168]

In September 2010, Zuckerberg invited Chan, by then a medical student at the University of California,[169] to move into his rented Palo Alto house. Zuckerberg studied Mandarin in preparation for the couple's visit to China in December 2010.[170][171] On May 19, 2012, Zuckerberg and Chan married in Zuckerberg's backyard in an event that also celebrated her graduation from medical school.[172][173][174] On July 31, 2015, Zuckerberg announced that he and Chan were expecting a baby girl. He said he felt confident that the risk of miscarrying was low so far into the pregnancy, after Chan had already suffered three miscarriages.[175] On December 1, Zuckerberg announced the birth of their daughter, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg ("Max").[176][177] The couple announced on their Chinese New Year video, published on February 6, 2016, that Maxima's official Chinese name is Chen Mingyu (Chinese: 陈明宇).[178] They welcomed their second daughter, August, in August 2017