The cloud is broken

How dependent are we on technology? How do we act when we lose access to television or the Internet or our cell phones? It's a question I like to return often, especially when we lose power or services and the only input I get is the turbulence of my thoughts.

I also remember having to go to the library and having to physically comb through index cards and rows and rows of books to find things. You might be nostalgic about the process, but it wasn't an optimal search experience, in that it took a long time to find what you were looking for.

So I'm a fan of technology, but I also try to be in touch with what it means to us, and how it shapes what we do and who we are.

Let's turn the corner

Thanksgiving is around the corner. I can smell the pie. And I can't wait.
In the meantime, let's see what's out there.

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Can public documents be funny? LOLOLOL that's not a trick question, apparently.
The guy who owns the Washington Post and sends you 'Prime' packages and rents you movies is landing rockets now because the future or he got tired of playing with delivery drones. 

Also in the future, which is now: Mistletoe drones.  And in the past: This did not end well. 

PSA: How to roast a turkey. NYTimes-style.
The other Turkey is in trouble with Russia.

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One video: Star Wars auditions.

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The Four: 
* The owner of the Nevele wants to turn the former hotel into a casinsports complex. 
* ER's in. ER's out. ER's in again. ER's out again. Now it's in. 
* This Midtown Kingston building sold for more than $1 million.
* He lives in Kingston.

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One cat: Fighting Animated Gif Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist and blogger, can't cat.

But Yesterday's Internet, Today! can cat.

Redditors Photoshop the Most Flexible Cat on the Internet https://t.co/gy5vN6bTmg pic.twitter.com/s79QpHjQmk

— reddit (@reddit) November 24, 2015

Drifting through dreams

A dreamcatcher hanging from a wire on North Front Street in Uptown Kingston. 

The dreams not dreamed are the dreams one cannot catch. But dreaming a life of living the dream can be a moving and unrealistic goal. The good dreams are the ones you can work toward.

Chantix dreams are realistic, but I don't recommend those stressful bouts with funkiness unless you're quitting smoking.

...  for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. 

SUNY New Paltz is No. 1 on this thing. What happened next surprised no one.

We have a wonderful campus, but it's the people who truly make #NewPaltz a beautiful place! Thanks for coming out today. Here is a little teaser from today's shoot. #npsocial #beautiful64 #suny #NP #hawkseyeview

A video posted by SUNY New Paltz (@sunynewpaltz) on Oct 9, 2014 at 6:36pm PDT

One of my first lead stories for 'The Oracle,' SUNY New Paltz-student run newspaper back in The Before Time, was about pot smoking on campus. It was accompanied by a huge photo of a dude hitting a large bong in a dorm that the editors easily managed to obtain. I remember that the jump was terribly mangled in the editing process.

What is This., yo?

I've actually been out most of the week, filing This. thing remotely. But I couldn't yesterday, which is fine, because blogging is dead. Or not. At any rate, we never found out if bloggers are journalists.

This. silly question has been going on for as long as blogs have been around, even though blogging has died over and over and over. All things go in circles.

Except climate change (conspiracy theories). I know, I know. Nobody believes in scientists. I mean, who do they think they are? Scientists?

Politician says politicians are corrupt. All things go in ...

I've got some invites to This.cm, which is why I've been inexplicably using 'This.' instead of 'this'.  I'll give the invites out to the first people who reply within the newsletter (I need your email for it). People are 'clamoring' for them, after all, even thought I'd had these invites for a while and you'd probably never heard of it? I'd expect to have the same number of invites by the end of this experiment, because All things go ...

World War III has not started but winter is still terrible

Previously, on 'Downton Abbey'

.@UPI website, Twitter account hacked along with @nypost http://t.co/8t6w1i2qGy (World War III has not started, thankfully)
— UPI.com (@UPI) January 16, 2015

There was a time when a news account's Twitter account was hacked and tweeted some terrible news and everyone freaked out for a bit. Nowadays? Meh.

Winter is terrible but you already knew that.

I was going to write something about SUNY New Paltz being in HBO's 'Girls' again because the episode aired on Sunday but I lost power yesterday, which brings you that wonderful photo of Highland Avenue in Kingston above. So all you get is SUNY New Paltz milking it, again. I was going to watch 'Downton Abbey,' anyway. NO SPOILERS!

I imagine it all goes down like this:

There's a cat cafe in New York City because of course there is.

Brooklyn, home of migrating hipsters and now the shigella bacterium outbreak that's creeping up the Hudson Valley just saying. 

Is running old content "a social hack, a handy feature or a trick?" I don't know Mathew LOLOLOL here are some quizzes I've done.

One cat: The aforementioned Mathew Ingram also says the New York Times and Buzzfeed are not that different. That sounds risible but there are actually some very good points there. But, no. I'm not going to explain it because there's a photo of two kittens inside cups with the post and that's all I wanted to bring up. 

One Google Glass photo: You shall not pass, shigella bacterium.

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a ~feature~ in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the morning and what-not. You also get a cat and a Google Glass photo. If I was a marketer, I would say 'Don't miss blah blah' but I won't so why don't you subscribe anyway?

If you give a perp a cookie

I'm only adding this here because gifs break the Freeman's front page. But there's more!

Post by Kingston Police Department.

"Do you recognize the individual in the car? If so, we would like to talk to him!" says the Kingston Police Department on Facebook, all excited as if they were going to give the perp a cookie good jorb.
In any case, are you reading this and you're the perp? Go to 1 Garraghan Drive in Kingston! They have cookies? Who knows!

Remember that time we gave a Kingston Police officer Google Glass for a day? That's just a lame transition sentence to point out Google says it's ending the Explorer program and I'm just trying to tell my boss who paid for Glass that the Freeman got its investment back? LOLOLOL now let's go buy a drone.

At any rate, I did post a ton of photos and of course there are cats hidden in most of the albums. SO: BEST. INVESTMENT. EVER.

One tangent: "Many readers are likely unaware of the impending sale" of the parent company of the Freeman. Wait! Did I just made you awarhere's a baby pig wearing a sweater.
Phew! That was close.

One letter: I'm officially a man. 

Mr.! pic.twitter.com/hRrTQ0zQio
— Ivan Lajara (@ivanlajara) January 15, 2015

Not the first or second time, either.

One Dateline: "Aboard President Roosevelt’s funeral train."

One police cat.

One Google Glass photo: Kingston Police Department.

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a random experiment in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the morning. You also get a cat and a Google Glass photo because it cost $1,500 plus tax. 

Despite some anger, everything is awesome

Remember when I had a column in *print* and of course I wrote about cats but one time I wrote that the angry Kingston mayor is angry?

He's ( •_•)
still ( •_•)>⌐■-■
angry (⌐■_■)
and running out of people to get angry about LOLOLOL but srrsly don't be angry.

It's not a good look, and you might get caught on camera one day. Ask your predecessor.

Talking about angry things, I hope you bought glitter to sent it to your enemies with http://shipyourenemiesglitter.com/ because now you can't sorry.

But enough of that. After all, everything is awesome.
Let's see:



'Everything is AWESOME!!!" has an Oscar nomination and that's awesome.

Esquire wanted to end 'awesome' at the beginning of 2014 and it didn't work and that's awesome.

Robert Plant is to perform at Mountain Jam, which already has the Black Keys lined up, and that's awesome.

The Freeman's pet contest is back and that's awesome.

Yesterday's #DFMchat was about how to improve posting things to Facebook and it ended with "I HAVE SPECIAL EYES" and that's awesome.

A New York Times headline says you have to do this to fall in love with anyone and that's awesome and/or a total over-promising headline don't do that Gray Lady I love you but c'mon.

Now that I think about it, the Lego Movie didn't get an Oscar nod and that's not awesome.

It's okay. Made my own! pic.twitter.com/kgyu1GRHGR
— philip lord (@philiplord) January 15, 2015

Nevermind. That's awesome.

One awesome cat:



One awesome Google Glass photo since it's movie season: I'm pretty sure you recognize these ladies.

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is an random  awesome experiment in which I throw in a bunch of awesome links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the awesome morning. You also get an awesome cat and an awesome Google Glass photo. Hello new ~subscribers~! Tell your friends to sign up. OR I'LL SEND YOU GLITTER.

This post will not go viral

@ivanlajara You go viral more than a slutty college girl.
— Melissa Weiss (@melissaeweiss) January 14, 2015

A four-year old Storify about the ~New Brooklyn ~ is going viral again because people keep posting it on Facebook. Astute readers of Yesterday Internet, Today™ learned on Monday that it was not a recent post. You can brag about that but I wouldn't because that would be weird. Don't be weird.

CNN struck a deal with the FAA about drones and, wait! Does it mean that we're soon going to see drone journalisNO IT DOESN'T.




Good news! You can now send glitter to your enemies. Don't say I don't provide a useful service.

Bad news! You can't curse or buy Snickers in the newsroom at the York Daily Record, a sister pub of the Freeman. Just to make sure I bought a Snickers bar and ate it while cursing. Freedom wins.

One viral cursing cat.

One viral Google Glass photo: How about 290 photos over 6 months?



Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a random experiment in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the morning. You also get a cat and a Google Glass photo.

'GOAT HAD THE TIME OF HIS LIFE'

Have you ever wondered how many goats live in the United States?

It doesn't matter!

The helpful journalists at the Washington Post's Wonkblog created a map of ~"literally"~ every goat in the United States because data journalism? Who cares? GOATS!






ANYWAY! According the 2012 data from the United States Department of Agriculture, this is the breakdown of the local goat population, by county:

Ulster: 330

Greene: 443

Columbia: 667

Dutchess: 3,126



More goats: The escaped Lowell, Massachusetts, goat can now have a home, if he's ever found.

'GOAT HAD THE TIME OF HIS LIFE' screamed the Freeman in 1906 and the sub-headlines are even better.

So this is more than obligatory.

I don't know what else to do with this information, so here's an New York Mag article about going to Hudson. No mentions of Brooklyn so *slow clap gif*

An 80-year-old retired Sullivan County principal won the $326M Mega Millions jackpot. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 258.9 million.

So here's some more ~ data journalism ~: You're more likely to be killed by an asteroid than winning the lottery.

Hey, you never know.

One cat dressed as a goat.

One Google Glass picture of goats at the Ulster County Fair in New Paltz in 2013 (I knew I had at least one from the bunch).

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a random experiment in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the morning. You also get a cat and a Google Glass photo. And sometimes I try to have a theme, so you get goats today.

Randomness in internets

"New York Mag’s Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up"  and New York mag is sorry on its front page so props for that, at least. If you hadn't heard about any of this, you're doing it right.

The lesson? Americans are apparently OK with torture. 
Of others.

You know what can be torturous sometimes?: Online comments.

But let's just put this out there: If a news site tells you they care about your comments and then they close comments, they don't care about your comments.

I care about your comments. Except for this comment. This comment is garb (Comments on this blog are un-moderated, btw, and you haven't abused it yet so high-five all around).

Talking about garbage, there's a lot of garb data, Jacob Harris reminds us not in 40 charts.

Randomness in publishing: 
Factoid: Chris Hughes is the owner of The New Republic and has a home in Shokan. So this is local news, fwiw:
What would happened if there were to be a magazine about one magazine's implosion?

Inception.

That would be a terrible publication.

A great publication would be The Racket. So of course it doesn't exist.

Randomness in gif:
The other day I sent an old gif to a stranger.
You can have it too:

Randomness in winter

There's a new 'Game of Thrones' teaser trailer but I can't seem to get it. Maybe you can.

Winter is coming, indeed. To the Hudson Valley. In quiz format.

Randomness in Twitter cat:

My cat is sad because he is looking directly into your soul, and rigorously evaluating everything it contains. pic.twitter.com/4FPIFRfpfx
— WHY MY CAT IS SAD (@MYSADCAT) December 16, 2014

Randomness in Google Glass photo:

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a quasi-feature in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, fave or saw the day before or in the morning. I have an ifttt recipe that puts all the links on a spreadsheet to make this easier and that's the reason I'm writing these: To see if I can eventually make sense of what I push out on a daily basis.