Interesting Links for 29-12-2018

[andrewducker]

Ultima Thule: Nasa prepares to explore most distant world ever probed by humankind

(tags: space )

Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers

(tags: software learning apple pixar )

Queensferry Crossing improving reliability

(tags: bridge edinburgh )

People adopt made-up social rules to be part of a group

(tags: psychology groups community ethics )

More games should be truly honest about death

(tags: death games )

Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain of bacteria which is effective against four of the top six superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, includin

(tags: earth bacteria antibiotics ireland )

How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve

(tags: facebook chat im )

How the Artificial Intelligence Program AlphaZero Mastered Its Games

(tags: ai games Chess Go )

Most English people live with illegal air pollution

(tags: UK pollution death )

Comments

[calimac]

Item 2 is of great interest to me, because I'm a very old-time fan of that juggling troupe. I first saw the Flying Karamazov Brothers in 1977, when they were playing regularly at a small magic club in San Francisco. My friends were all fans, too, and we would make group expeditions whenever they played locally for over a decade. (The full show of which the embedded flaming torch clip is part 8 is a good record of their standard stage show at that date, 1983.)

I remember when Randy dropped out of regular appearances, and I understood he'd gotten a job in the computer industry somewhere, but I never heard details or that it came about because Steve Jobs was an FKB fan. That's peculiar because, being in Silicon Valley, I knew a lot of people in the industry, and while I never met Jobs myself, I knew a few people whom I was aware knew him.

Anyway, so it's great to find out what happened to Randy and to see clips of his later-day self. His appearance has changed a lot, but that distinctive voice is still the same.

[andrewducker]

It's a small world. I do love how people sometimes move through the world in entirely unpredictable ways.

[cmcmck]

And there was I thinking Ultima Thule was Orkney! :o)