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Just about a year ago, rather than vent about the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, I chose to write about the virtual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and all the new electronic crap that would change our lives.

How do we rationalize the “Work From Home” phenomenon? The easy answer is that covid showed us that just about any job could be done from the safety, comfort and sweat pants of home. Except, of course, the essential businesses like grocery stores, landscapers, liquor stores and gun ranges.

(Video Link) https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd22vUaT/ 

Thought Experiment:

A man stood for an entire flight from Anchorage Alaska to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Why did the man do this? Because his seat mate was extremely obese, took up both arm rests and half the seat next to him.

What is the “best” thing to do in this case?

An intriguing recent trend in online publishing is based on an old stand-by in the print business: newsletters. These new online newsletters are published for exactly the same reason as the old newsletters….because there’s just too much information out there and we need somebody to curate the information, squeeze it into a digestible format and send it to me where I live.

Last Saturday, the staff of WCSF held our annual fundraiser: the popular Mega Music Rummage Sale. This was the station's first sale since the COVID-19 lockdowns since we could not host the event in 2020.  The shoppers were so eager to purchase our donated media and music-related items that the station realized a record amount of money from our fundraiser. 

Well, for all of the pandemic dashboards you can find, no one started a national Covid-19 countdown clock.  It is not like the Iran hostage crisis (Google it if you need to …) when the number was pounded home to everyone on the news each night.  Vague figures like “a year and a half” float in and out of conversation these days.