Listen to Meg Whitman, CEO of Quibi: “Leadership in crisis is about getting down into the trenches.” Quibi is a mobile app that will host all sorts of original short-form movies and shows — documentaries, comedies, scripted series, news programs, you name it. Think streaming service, except everything you watch is 10 minutes or less in length and only available on your phone. The following videos are two of Whitman’s favorites.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meg-whitman-ceo-quibi-leadership-in-crisis-is-about/id1345547675?i=1000470829699

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X-Rated Sex In The City

If you want to get your mind off of the present day plague, make sure you see this documentary. It should shock you. We enjoyed it because we like spending time with people who are so different from us.

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Peter Beard Still Missing, Weeks After Disappearing on Long Island

Peter Beard Still Missing, Weeks After Disappearing on Long Island…

I have been reading about his disappearance for the last few weeks and wondering if there will be a happy ending

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Where Does Stephen Colbert Live? Top NYC-Based TV Hosts | StreetEasy



https://streeteasy.com/blog/nyc-tv-hosts-where-does-stephen-colbert-live/

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First Responders Get Proper “Thank You” Salute On Lincoln Road, Miami Beach

Today is the day that Jayda Knight’s painting of all the First Responders she wants to personally thank gets installed in the window of one of the empty stores on Lincoln Road near Washington Avenue. Jayda has been getting national attention for cleverly creating window coverings that turn empty stores into walk by art exhibits. The world needs more artists like Jayda who takes a negative environment and converts them into a positive experience. Congratulations Jayda.

Jayda’s other works.

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FaceTime with two Playboy bunnies named Dawn McCall and Gail Williams. Our two gal pals got me but good when they came on the screen to wish all of us Happy Easter/Happy Passover. What a surprise!!!!!

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Question:

If you own the noise cancellation version of Apple’s Air Pods, have you experienced what is written about in Medium?

Click the link below to find out what I am talking about.

We need to talk about AirPods Pro by Joseph Curran

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How do you want to re-enter the world?

I think about it everyday. Do I want to go back to what I used to do for work and play?

Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting* by Julio Vincent Gambuto

https://link.medium.com/pGbTlcDDC5

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Mark Elliott Zuckerberg had a typical middle class upbringing in Dobbs Ferry, New York, twenty-five miles north of New York City. He was born to Karen and Ed Zuckerberg in 1984.

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In the words of the author, Steve Levy,  “The day was May 14, almost four months after the launch of the Apple Macintosh. Not many people had personal computers then.

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“Ed Zuckerberg had both a computer and a modem. He had a lifelong affinity for technology in general and gadgetry in particular. When he was himself a child, his favorite subject was math.

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Considering this, one might justifiably wonder whether Mark Zuckerberg’s later ascension to the status of global tech idol might be a case of the son living out the father’s thwarted ambitions. Ed never said as much, but he did not object when a New York magazine reporter writing about the family in 2012 floated the theory.

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“Growing up Jewish in New York City,” Ed said, “if you had half a brain, your parents wanted you to be a doctor or a dentist . . . But back then, there really weren’t a lot of jobs in computer programming . . . That was not the ‘appropriate use of my time,’ my parents would have said. It wasn’t for the smart boys.” If not for the pressure it would have been different. “I would have done something in math, left to my own devices,” he says now. “Absolutely. I loved math.”

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Both Karen and Ed had grown up in working-class neighborhoods in the outer boroughs of NYC. Their own parents were first-generation Americans. In 1977, while studying dentistry at NYU, Ed had gone on a blind date with a Brooklyn College coed, Karen Kempner, who hailed from Queens. He was twenty-four, she nineteen. Ed and Karen married in 1979.

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Both had grandparents who emigrated from eastern Europe, and both were diligently studying to accomplish what was the career gold standard in each of their families: becoming a professional like a doctor or lawyer. Especially a doctor. (Ed’s father was a mailman; Karen’s father a precinct captain in “The 79,” in Brooklyn’s tough Bed-Stuy neighborhood. Her mother taught school.)

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“Ed moved his dental practice to the ground floor of their home, with the Zuckerberg clan basically living above the shop. Karen was a psychiatrist who delayed a clinical career to raise Mark and his three sisters while helping her husband run the dental practice. (Mark was the second oldest, born two years after Randi; Donna and Arielle would follow).  

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From an early age, Mark had a mind attuned to logic, especially when the answer to one of his requests was no. “If you were going to say no to him, you had better be prepared with a strong argument backed by facts, experiences, logic, reasons,” Ed Zuckerberg once told a reporter. Mark, he said, was “strong-willed and relentless,” a description that many coworkers and rivals would certainly endorse.

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“As a tyke, Mark played with Ed’s old Atari, which was a great game machine. In sixth grade, he got his own computer. “It was a Quantex 486DX,” he recalled in a 2009 interview with me, and was surprised when I didn’t recognize the brand name of that IBM PC clone. “I don’t think it exists anymore,” he explained, taking me off the hook. “But my family didn’t have a lot of money, so I was lucky just to get a computer.”

I will always associate Passover with Ben Platt. His singing voice tonight was like being in paradise. And Idina Menzel singing the Four Questions made this Passover so very special. Thank you YouTube.

Read all about it here.

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2965898001

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This is what Eliot and I did during the Pandemic. He introduced me to our new high tech Thermador appliances: an induction cooktop, a convection oven and a digital dishwasher. Nice to meet you.

https://youtu.be/NRXzp84WALk

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Happy Easter to all. While we are still celebrating Passover, we welcome Easter with open arms. Love, Lois and Eliot

Photo by Eliot Hess

I just started reading ”Facebook, ”The Inside Story,” by Steven Levy, Wired’s editor at large. The Washington Post has called him “America’s premier technology journalist.” His authoritative words have appeared everywhere. As I read this captivating book, I am collecting interesting facts. I’m doing this for a new client. I plan to also share quotes from Steve with you everyday, or every other day.

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”Mark Zuckerberg is one of the world’s most recognizable faces. He’s the CEO of Facebook, the world’s largest social network—the world’s largest human network of any kind, ever—approaching 2 billion members, more than half of whom log in every day. It’s made him, in today’s reckoning, the sixth-richest person in the world. Mark founded Facebook at nineteen, in his Harvard dorm room.”

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Today Mark’s passion is providing Internet access to the next few billion—people in underserved regions or who can’t afford connections. He has promoted a variety of means to spread the Internet, from exotic technologies like self-piloting drones to a controversial plan to give people free data plans that limit their access to a subset of popular applications, including Facebook. The effort, called “Express Wi-Fi” is a small but promising aspect of this dream, called Internet.org.

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“On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg officially opened Facebook, then called Thefacebook, and began sending emails to his friends, urging them to try it out. It was the time of year when students were shopping for courses for the new semester, and Thefacebook provided an instant utility.”

More soon.

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The History Of Zoom. For Those Of You Who Were Wondering Where Zoom Came From From Read On…..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications

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Here’s How Those Hot Jigsaw Puzzles Are Made

Eliot completed the above puzzle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/business/coronavirus-jigsaw-puzzles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Trump Meets The Honeymooners

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The sun setting in Miami on the second night of Passover. Photo by Eliot Hess

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Honor Blackman, a Memorable James Bond Adversary, Dies at 94 – The New York Times

Pussy Galore



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/movies/honor-blackman-dead.html

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Thank you Steve Greenberg, Robert Armada, Valerie Cevallos and Eliot Hess for hosting this Zoom Seder.

https://youtu.be/iJJxwUYL4RU

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Thank you Marilyn Scher

 

People’s perspective on life as we now know it, (going around the internet)

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-Half of us are going to come out of this quarantine as amazing cooks. The other half will come out with a drinking problem.

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-I used to spin that toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn it like I’m cracking a safe.

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-I need to practice social-distancing from the refrigerator.

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-Still haven’t decided where to go for Easter —– The Living Room or The Bedroom

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-PSA: every few days try your jeans on just to make sure they fit. Pajamas will have you believe all is well in the kingdom.

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-Homeschooling is going well. 2 students suspended for fighting and 1 teacher fired for drinking on the job.

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-I don’t think anyone expected that when we changed the clocks we’d go from Standard Time to the Twilight Zone

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–This morning I saw a neighbor talking to her cat. It was obvious she thought her cat understood her. I came into my house, told my dog….. we laughed a lot. 

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-Quarantine Day 5: Went to this restaurant called THE KITCHEN. You have to gather all the ingredients and make your own meal. I have no clue how this place is still in business. 

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-My body has absorbed so much soap and disinfectant lately that when I pee it cleans the toilet.

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-Day 5 of Homeschooling: One of these little monsters called in a bomb threat.

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-I hope the weather is good tomorrow for my trip to Puerto Backyarda. I’m getting tired of Los Livingroom

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-Classified Ad: Single man with toilet paper seeks woman with hand sanitizer for good clean fun.

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-Day 6 of Homeschooling: My child just said “I hope I don’t have the same teacher next year”…. I’m offended

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Eliot Built This LEGO White House As A Going Away Present