Yes! I love seeing the smile in someone's eyes while wearing a mask. We really communicate with our eyes now, more than ever.
Glad you got a morning laugh today.
@lovendures I am one of those people with a natural "resting b.... face". It's been nice being able to just let it rest under the mask instead of forcing a happy look.
Wow, okay, @deetoo and @lovendures! A whole new perspective on masks. At some point, psychologists are going to come out with studies on the many reactions to mask-wearing.
After hearing that COVID will be controlled by this Fall where people can go out, I was wondering will we expect herd immunity by then? Even though there are anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, and anti-vax areas, do you see these people and places negatively affected even after COVID is no longer a concern?
Climbing up here on the roof on this beautiful night.
OMG, Joe Biden tonight!
He was so humble and he spoke to us in a whisper, like a spirit guide speaking into our hearts, to our consciences. I teared up a few times. A friend commented that she didn't think it was possible to feel cared for by our government. He really really cares, doesn't he.
And what the hell is wrong with Ted Cruz? Falling asleep? Intentionally closing eyes. I'm going to answer that question: He was under attack because he is sponsored by dark forces and evil was under attack tonight. When Joe Biden was talking about gun control and the cameras focused on Ted Cruz, all I could think of was all the money Ted Cruz gets from the NRA and Kremlin representatives. And how he knows his sponsors are watching him closely during the speech. And his dark money consultants were working out how they were going to spin his response to Biden's speech.
But Ted Cruz aside, Biden's speech was wonderful because he comes from the heart and I believe him. I know he cares mainly about doing the right thing. There is no ego there. Only care. He wasn't to relieve suffering.
So I know tonight that for a little while I can sit back and look up at the stars. He's got this.
@dannyboy said he wants to keep Google out of his life. I would like that too.
This made me remember that long before the Internet and that gigantic company ever existed, my post-college love and I would use that name to express the magnitude of our love for each other. We'd say, "I love you a google!"
Am I the only one who ever used that term that way?
A google is just the largest number that is imaginable. It was coined by a nine year old math genius and it's a 1 followed by one hundred zeros: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
I just know that no one is going to want to"like" this post because too dumb. But I don't care. It's the rooftop lounge and I wanted to remind people that the company called Gooxxx stole a perfectly good word.
@jeanne-mayell I seem to recall hearing that once upon a time , long ago, in a land far away!!! Everybody knows tho... that really the answer is 42!!!!! ;-)
remember "I love you a bushel and a peck and hug around the neck"?
@jeanne-mayell well, technically they didn't steal that word, because the mathematical term you're referring to is actually "googol", not google.
@jeanne-mayell well, technically they didn't steal that word, because the mathematical term you're referring to is actually "googolnot google.
@tgraf66 yeah I realized that right after I posted and hoped there weren’t any geeks out there who would notice. But given the geek culture of Google I bet they WERE stealing googol. They just changed the spelling so it would sound just the way googol sounds which is google.
Okay I just googled Google. And they did steal the word. They were going to call it Backrub but decided googol fit all the bytes they needed. So does everyone already know this?
Okay just googled it. The origin of the name Google. They were going to call it Backrub but then decided that wasn’t grandiose enough so they grabbed from googol because it fit how much data they were going to be working with, ie the largest number people think of which is a googol.
@jeanne-mayell Okay I just googled Google
i love this game. "Siri, please ask Alexa to wikipedia Wikipedia.
@journeywithme2 hey! i am a guy thing, and i can totally hear you ?
@tgraf66. yes, Backrub was going to be their name, not Google.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-true-story-behind-googles-first-name-backrub-2015-10
Google was originally named "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number one followed by one hundred zeros. Originally, Google ran under Stanford University's website until it burst through their bandwidth.
@unk-p. ? ? ? uh huh.. I can totally "see" them now... a bunch of "geeks" eating Subway/Buffalo's Wings n things and Pizza and drinking beers with all their devices sitting around in their t-shirts and sweatpants and converse shoes frat boy style creating "Backrub" aka Google LOL
Now I am laughing even harder!!! Just "Googled" them and yep!!!
Sergey Brin and Larry Page met at college (Stanford) became grad school buddies and the rest is history!!
I'll explain my Google stance this way - work uses Google Apps, as does almost every other school district out there because it's free (go figure!) - so I'm pretty locked in there for the most part.
But in my personal life I try to keep myself as in Apple's ecosystem as I can because of the giants they're the least evil when it comes to data. Everything is anonymized - we didn't even go "smart speaker" route until the HomePod Mini (and now we have 3) - I like that you have to opt IN to data sharing by default (I have opted not to do that)
But it all started with Chrome. It eats all your memory and system resources. When I browse on my MacBook in safari, I get the 9-11 hours they advertise. When I browse in Chrome I get about 2.
Go away Google, you're drunk!