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“Meet our September cover star and everybody’s favourite cool-girl…
A conversation with Cara Delevingne is a bit like going down a rabbit hole.” ~Marie Claire Aug, 2019

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✓ 5 years ago

2010 – The Twitter UI gets an overhaul

March 2009:

pic 4 notes: (2010 screenshot)
(1) Browse pre-selected twitter accounts from a menu that is opened.
(2) Searchable list of celebrity accounts from @valebrity within a dropdown.
(3) 2nd and 3rd columns (middle and right) could be switched with the preference remembered between sessions.

  • 1st and 3rd columns floated into view (with fresh user data) whenever a user was selected within the middle column.
  • The basis of this site was done by Scribu in Romania using jQuery according to my spec. I ended up building upon that foundation very substantially in the subsequent months. The site became unusable when Twitter changed their API in August 2010 but I still have the code and had fun building it. I initially launched it via a Techcrunch comment.

September 2010:

[source]

Evan Williams Explains New Twitter Interface

0:58: “We had a bunch of changes in mind that we’ve been wanting to do for a long time. And sometimes you can make them incrementally and sometimes it kind of takes a big rethinking. And so this was one of those times where we decided to take a big leap forward just to create the best product we can.” ~ Evan Williams, 9/2010

further reading here
✓ 3 years ago

The David Rubenstein Show – Paul Singer – (Strategies for Successful Investing – Elliott Management) (2017)


– 4 min version
– 24 min version

In a 2017 interview, Singer was asked to describe what he wanted the “headline” of his life to be. He paused for several moments before saying, “He tried to make a difference. He protected a lot of people’s capital over a long period of time. He was steady, reliable.” (source or at 23:08 above)

I myself have had many ideas about how companies should improve themselves, for example by producing a better product or website. I have also seen many of my submitted ideas implemented – but not with Sun Microsystems.

Note: regarding my strategic vision for Sun (link above or pic 2 below), I am still left wondering why TheInquirer.net’s shutdown screen (a news site that briefly reported on the strategy back in 2003) is not accurate today as to when it itself began. Seems like it should read 2001 and not 2006, what am I missing? It was only acquired in 2006.

ref: 1 2 3 4

However, the whole idea of activist investing is new to me. It’s like management consulting on steroids.

Today, imagining myself as an activist investor (or working closely with one,) I would investigate, test and eventually install free energy devices into pre-existing energy infrastructure. Regardless of outcome, that process should be broadcast live and also turned into a documentary.

For more info, see here.
✓ 2 years ago

Brad Johnson – Spirit Drive – The Point of No Return (2020)

Spirit Drive - The Point of No Return

12:30: It can be the most sick and the most twisted person on the face of this Earth… and you want to dish out death and judgement to them? You need to look at yourself when you’re like that. Yes, there are some sick and twisted and deranged people on this planet. But they are going to reap their own seeds, they’re going to go through those situations, because it’s still a learning curve for themselves up until the point where they take their last breath. Because it’s very, very important for what they realize they’re doing, as a means of seeing exactly how they’re going to break themselves down. They’ve already punished themselves…

Relinquish your fist before it’s too late.

 

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✓ 5 years ago

Following on from the last post, in terms of emphasizing the role of the moon’s transformation via the unstoppable fire at the end of Ormus King, this thought first came to me via the following:

Isaiah 30:26: The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter— like the light of seven days— on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He inflicted.

Also, some other important quotes are below:

Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson (2009)

I think the intensity of the lunar light will actually change upon entry into the messianic age. I also suspect there to be a supernatural light (from the moon) than can also be perceived and shines on all of creation – this continues amplifying until the World to Come arrives.

To be enlightened messianically is to be delivered from all conceptual limitations, even the very notion of becoming emancipated from limitation. The ultimate liberation, or true and complete redemption, fuses the believer into an infinite essence beyond all duality, even the duality of being emancipated and not emancipated–an emancipation, in other words, that emancipates one from the bind of emancipation. ~ source

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✓ 5 years ago

Yoda Lives!

Here I am on his right-hand path and he is on my left-hand path! But in the end what does it matter if there is only One.

In more recent definitions, which base themselves on the terms’ origins in Indian Tantra, the Right-Hand Path, or RHP, is seen as a definition for those magical groups that follow specific ethical codes and adopt social convention, while the Left-Hand Path adopts the opposite attitude, espousing the breaking of taboo and the abandoning of set morality. ~ source

✓ 5 years ago

Brighter Days

From the time I moved into the Great Twitya Pad to the time I left, there was always something going on. Life could’ve been much worse though.

updated: 23 April 2023

By May 2008, I found myself back at Hayarkon hostel, Tel Aviv:

Then, after pondering what to do, I decided to return to acting so I took these headshots and sent them to CU-Agency – the talent agency who had already spotted me in Jerusalem in 2005:

This led to my first extras role since my original 2005 role as a Roman soldier for a History/NatGeo documentary (Mount Zion). Sharon ran the agency:

At the hostel, another Australian guest took issue with me living at the hostel even after making ‘aaliyah.’ Regardless, I found myself wanting to leave anyhow.

Soon after I found the Great Twitya Pad while literally walking up the street (just after dark) with my bags after grabbing a newspaper. Whoever picked up my phone call first had my business. I was so keen to find brighter days.

On the corner of Levontin and Allenby, many people door knocked. I rarely answered because they were strangers.

Outside my door was another door into a corridor and groups would congregate, chatter, unlock the door and then close it behind them. So it was noisy but it didn’t matter. It was far better than nothing at all.


During my time at the Great Twitya Pad starting in mid 2008, I returned to Tsfat and attended a few tech events.

I’d also go rollerblading to Tel Aviv port and the skatepark.

Rollerblade Tel Aviv port

I ended up in a number of film, TV and advertising productions including Bena and David and Kamal. I also acted with a small dog in a Chevrolet advertisement.

In February 2009 while working diligently on Twitya, there was a callout to do this supermarket TV ad. It was a welcome break (and brake) to my train of thought!

מגה בעיר - Mega in the city - TV Ad / Feb 09

The Al Foster Quartet even played up the road:

These activities continued into 2009 before I left to Jerusalem in early 2010. By that stage I had lost hair and developed adult acne in that apartment, which all soon dissipated. I had real trouble with Hebrew but I felt I was moving forward regardless. I had learned Hebrew at King David School for around 5 years, so I could speak, read and write it pretty well but not converse in it, strangely. It was also my least favourite subject.

So in terms of Brighter Days:

Seek, and you shall find – Luke 11:9

[April ’10]

I stopped working for CU agency because my roles would remain non-speaking as my Hebrew wasn’t good enough to progress. Regardless, I kept getting call-outs because I was almost always successful in auditions, and I eventually changed my phone number in order to put an end to it.
✓ 9 months ago