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Thursday, April 25, 2019
Oh! What a lucky town we are.
This is an exciting day for Boston sports fans.
Tuesday night the Boston Bruins hockey team made it through their first round series on the way to becoming hockey’s world champions.
They join the Boston Celtics basketball team who, on Sunday past, made it past their own first round series on their way to becoming basketball’s world champions.
Both teams hope to join the Red Sox and the Patriots in their respective crowning as world champions in baseball and in football.
If either team does win its championship, it will make Boston the first city since the advent of the super bowl era to win three major professional sports championships.
But however the Celtics and Bruins end their seasons, their present successes have contributed substantially to Boston’s glorious sports history.
Oh! What a lucky town we are.
Four of the next seven days will be similar to this.
And another day clicks past.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Thursday, April 25, 2019
My 384th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 384 posts we’re at the 7.68% mark of my commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 12.01am.
On Thursday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 59* with a feels-like of 59* under mainly sunny skies.
Dinner for tonight will be sushi.
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Question of the Day:
What is Mailchimp?
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Thursday, April 25, 2019
Love your notes.
Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
This from Colleen Getty who actively works to encourage people to write.
She responds to the post on sharing.
Hi Dom,
My wheels are always turning--whether I like it or not--they turn. And while I was reading your post--even before I got to the sharing part--I had a thought.
Here it comes.
I met two ladies about a year ago. They talked about an online magazine that they and other "seniors" submitted to that was organized and "hosted" by an MIT student program. I'm fuzzy on the details, but the point is that it ceased to exist and they came to me hoping I'd have a solution. Now, they may have since figured out a new solution--but regardless of if those two particular ladies have found their solution there are ladies and gents just like that them have not--or have not even realized they needed a solution at all.
It's still coming . . .
An elderly woman at a Ringing Cedars' settlement in Russia.
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I've had several people ask me about senior programming and memoir writing and going to do writing programs at senior centers. There are so many stories to be told and taken in. I met an amazing woman named Abettina Dell'Orfano Morano who I interviewed for my television series and asked her if she would collaborate with me come spring (I don't consider this spring yet--it needs to feel like spring) and help me do some outreach programs to local senior centers to start up some writing programs. She was game. She is a spitfire!
Here it is:
Perhaps we could introduce those who would like a tangible outlet for their writing to YOU and your blog. This might help you in reaching your goal of expanding your audience and it would also help me in providing a resource--organized by a man I know is on top of things--to share with those seniors I meet who may want to read and submit notes and stories to you to include (or not, as you see fit) in your blog.
Further, perhaps you'd be interested in visiting some of these places to talk about what a wonderful impact creating and maintaining your blog has had on your life. Also, that a person does not need to be a published (accredited) author in order to share their words publicly.
Anyway, just some thoughts and ideas kicking around in this ole head o mine.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Colleen:)
Web Meister Responds: Colleen, I am not surprised by your profusion of ideas. This sounds like another great one. Let’s discuss this further and try to implement at least an occasional entry.
We would work with these entries as we do with Howard’s, My Café Life.
Colleen: Would you consider poems?
Web Meister Responds: It will be a section for expression.
Colleen: We could call the site Senior Expressions.
Web Meister Responds: One condition to the project: As Howard edits his own pieces, you would edit any submissions to the Senior Expressions post.
Colleen: Agreed.
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Chuckle of the Day:
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings.
The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs.
When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor.
Before she says a word, Bob says, "I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel."
After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob.
After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.
The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.
When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, "Who was that?"
"It was Bob, the next door neighbor," she replies.
"Great," the husband says, "did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?"
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Answer to the Question of the Day:
What is Mailchimp?
Mailchimp is a marketing automation platform and an email marketing service.
The platform is a trading name of its operator, Rocket Science Group, an American company founded in 2001 by Ben Chestnut and Mark Armstrong with Dan Kurzius joining at a later date.
Mailchimp began as a paid service and added a freemium option in 2009.
Within a year its user base had grown from 85,000 to 450,000.
By June 2014, it was sending over 10 billion emails per month on behalf of its users.
In 2017, the company was gaining 14,000 new customers every day.
The company is still owned by its cofounders and has never accepted venture capital funds.
In 2016, Mailchimp was ranked No. 7 on the Forbes Cloud* 100 list.
In February 2017, the company was named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2017.
In August 2017, It was reported that, Mailchimp would be opening offices in Brooklyn and in Oakland, California.
Cloud computing metaphor: the group of networked elements providing services need not be individually addressed or managed by users;
instead, the entire provider-managed suite of hardware and software can be thought of as an amorphous cloud.
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*And what is a cloud company?
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user.
The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet. Large clouds, predominant today, often have functions distributed over multiple locations from central servers.
If the connection to the user is relatively close, it may be designated an edge server.
Clouds may be limited to a single organization (enterprise clouds,) be available to many organizations (public cloud,) or a combination of both (hybrid cloud.)
The largest public cloud is Amazon AWS.
Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale.
Advocates of public and hybrid clouds note that cloud computing allows companies to avoid or minimize up-front IT infrastructure costs.
Proponents also claim that cloud computing allows enterprises to get their applications up and running faster, with improved manageability and less maintenance, and that it enables IT teams to more rapidly adjust resources to meet fluctuating and unpredictable demand.
Cloud providers typically use a "pay-as-you-go" model, which can lead to unexpected operating expenses if administrators are not familiarized with cloud-pricing models.
The availability of high-capacity networks, low-cost computers and storage devices as well as the widespread adoption of hardware virtualization, service-oriented architecture, and autonomic and utility computing has led to growth in cloud computing.
Would you like some statistics on the Celtics and Bruins?
I keep a copy of the current Box Scores wit me at all times.
Helps win arguments.
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Good Morning on this Thursday, the Twenty-Fifth Day of April.
We posted a thought on Boston as a sports town.
And in short order we counted our postings, talked about the weather, and decided on Sushi for dinner.
We posted a letter from Colleen that presented a new idea for the blog which we enthusiastically embraced. We look forward to progress in getting the first entries.
And a chuckle.
Our q and a dealt with Mail chimp, a service that we have subscribed to, and a discussion of the cloud.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.