Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Have to give Dana White credit for trying so hard to stage UFC 249. Long live Fight Island!

- LA without cars or pollution

- The cornavirus Wuhan virus crisis is turning Americans of both parties against China. As well it should!

- The Risk of Discovery. (Via Tim Ferriss' Five Bullet Friday)

- How's your tsundoku? Mine keeps growing no matter how I try to put a dent in it.

- One month later, sports remain shut down. An inventory of where the different pro leagues (and I include college football as a pro league) stand. I think both college and NFL schedules should be published and if the home team cannot host an event because of lockdowns then that team simply takes an "L" and forfeits. 

Blade Runner

A reminder that the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner was set in the far off future of Los Angeles November 2019.

We don't have the life-like robots (yet), flying cars (yet) or the space colonies (much further out in the future) predicted by the movie.

But Los Angeles does have out of control traffic, a homeless problem and rolling blackouts. So there's that.

Also a government agent free to hunt for dangerous illegal aliens replicants? That might be the biggest sci-fi aspect of the movie. In real life Los Angeles would have been a sanctuary city and  those replicants on the run probably would have been welcome and given free healthcare.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Happy 71st birthday to George W. Bush. History will be very kind to your memory.

- OK the flood of these memes won't end well for CNN.

- Holy crap! Does it get more awesome than a GoPro camera on an eagle?

- Speaking of awesome! Winners of the BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition

- Very cool time lapse photography of the fireworks over LA on the 4th

- Speaking of fireworks