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

I copied and pasted this blog post from Shelly Palmer, a technology consultant, because many people want to have a virtual Seder. This is what you need to know.

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By Shelly Palmer

https://www.shellypalmer.com/2020/04/setting-streaming-seder/

Hosting an online Seder, or virtual Seder, or a “Streaming Seder,” as we are calling ours, takes longer to explain than it does to set up. (If you are wondering what a Seder is, you can think of it as an interactive dinner party with a script.) Here’s how to make your Streaming Seder a smashing success.

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The Online Invitation

The tech is easy. You can use Zoom, Google Hangouts, or any one of a dozen video conferencing tools. Choose one you like. I am using Zoom for our Streaming Seder because almost everyone attending is already very familiar with Zoom. But, again, there are dozens of easy-to-use solutions out there.

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Gather the email addresses of your participants and send a calendar invite with the video conferencing login codes. You can do this from inside any video conferencing app. If you don’t use an online calendar, simply copy and paste the event details and send them using your normal email account.

Send instructions. (Sample below.)

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Technical Setup

To run your Streaming Seder, place your laptop, tablet or cellphone on the table in front of you, login and run your event – that’s it. Now, if you have your family around your physical table and want to get creative (and you’ve got some video skills), you can designate one of the people in your home (or tag team) the job of cameraperson – this allows you to go around the table and take some close-ups, etc.

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My least favorite option is to put the laptop or camera far enough away so that everyone is always on camera – it makes it hard for your online guests to really see anything. That said, if you are designating a camera person or if you are going to move your laptop, smartphone or tablet around the table remember that your online guests are watching a video, so try to keep your camera moves smooth and steady as possible.

Audio Issues You Will Absolutely Have to Deal With

To make your life extremely easy, use one location, one connection. In other words, only one device per physical space should be connected to your Streaming Seder. Why? Audio feedback. To have more than one device logged in to the same meeting, all but one must have both their speakers and their microphones muted. This means muting the microphone (very easy) AND turning off the speakers on the devices.

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You can do this easily, but telling non-technical people how to get this done comes with its own brand of stress. “Dad, just press the volume down button… no… not on your laptop, on Aunt Edna’s phone.” “But then how will Aunt Edna hear?” “She’ll hear on the speakers from your laptop.” “My laptop? What about her phone? She wants to hear it on her phone.” Multiply this by several non-tech-savvy relatives or friends, and you can see how this can quickly devolve into chaos. So follow this simple rule: One location, one connection. Problem solved.

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The Haggadah

The Haggadah is the text we recite at the Seder. To get everyone reading from the same page, you need everyone to have the same document. The low-tech way is to all use the same Haggadah. This is not always practical. In my family’s case, it was impossible. So, I created a pdf version of our family Haggadah. There are two ways to do this: (1) Scan the pages and make a quick pdf. (2) Make your own.

I chose option (2) this year. I scanned our family Haggadah, screen captured the Hebrew text, rewrote the parts I wanted to rewrite, and added family pictures where appropriate. I used the opportunity to highlight and codify our modern family traditions alongside the ancient ones. I sent it as a pre-read. So far, the reviews are pretty good.

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Larry David, Master of His Quarantine

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/style/larry-david-curb-your-enthusiasm-coronavirus-psa.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Eliot Is Back In The Puzzle Making Business

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A Surprise Ending

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Happy Birthday Adam Hess, Zoom Style

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How to make a mask in less than one minute — and no sewing!

https://www.facebook.com/sgrace22/videos/10158483222757112/

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The Biggest Goof On “America’s Got Talent”

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New York’s Love Letter To Donald Trump

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