UNIX timestamps used to be a signed 32-bit integer with January 1st 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC as the start of epoch.
— stderr.dk (@stderrdk) January 20, 2020
The maximum value of a signed 32-bit integer is 2147483647 and 2147483647 seconds after the start of Epoch is:
$ date -u -d @2147483647
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038
It is great to see the Young Scientist program getting online.
The hero of this next movie is a naive, misguided child who spreads Nazi propaganda and only has imaginary friends. His name is Mark Zuckerberg…
Sacha Baron Cohen at the 2020 Golden Globes introducing Jojo Rabbit
Why sit on a chair when you can jump over it on TV, eh?
I just wanted to show you the finger.
One of the first rules for a guide in polite conversation, is to avoid political or religious discussions in general society. Such discussions lead almost invariably to irritating differences of opinion, often to open quarrels, and a coolness of feeling which might have been avoided by dropping the distasteful subject as soon as marked differences of opinion arose. It is but one out of many that can discuss either political or religious differences, with candor and judgment, and yet so far control his language and temper as to avoid either giving or taking offence.
The Gentlemen’s Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness, by Cecil B. Hartley
I find ‘passion’ a meaningless word today. It’s like weed. It spreads fast, it’s shallow, it’s non-committal.
Chef Ivan Yeo
Alas, Count Binface could not defeat Boris Johnson.
The documentary, I Am Big Bird, from 2015 is really touching and worth watching.
Of course, we go to songs to make us feel something – happy, sad, sexy, homesick, excited or whatever – but this is not all a song does. What a great song makes us feel is a sense of awe. There is a reason for this. A sense of awe is almost exclusively predicated on our limitations as human beings. It is entirely to do with our audacity as humans to reach beyond our potential.
The Red Hand Files
I’ve always been a Bond fan.
