Only my second week writing this and I'm already a day late. Hopefully that doesn't set the tone for the future.

‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails

One of the recent objects that passed though our solar system had some weird properties. This is more about those and some speculation about the object. It occurs to me that a robotic probes should be fairly common so maybe this is just the first to come?

Do you know about The Algorithmic Trap?

This is an important concept for choosing restaurants, travel locations, and basically anything delivered via algorithm. Once you see this for what it is, you will get so much more authentic experiences and interesting experiencess. My proof for this is to ask yourself could you really tell the difference between a 4 star or a 4.5 star yelp restaurant. Go off the recommend path and see where it brings you.

The Federal Reserve Board is Understaffed

There are three seats open for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. This is an unusual state as you can see referenced by the WSJ last year. I only found out about this because I was looking something else up about the Fed on wikipedia. I wonder why more people aren't talking about this or mentioning it. Most of the articles about this seem to be from 2017. It seems just as dangerous as letting the Supreme Court be understaffed but maybe I don't understand why this isn't significant.

Original Star Trek - This is my second watch though and it is still amusing on multiple levels. It's curious to see how much has changed since this was made. There is both a culture difference element and also just the technological difference. It holds up well and I still recommend it.

Ready Player One - This movie is bad. I haven't seen something this bad in a while. If you want the story, go read the book which is at least tolerable.

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj - This is more ranting late night. It's too simple, too one sided to be my cup of tea but I would expect that this does quite well compared to other Netflix attempts to start a late night show.