Tag: Dead

On April 9, 2020, I published an essay called “Dashboards are Dead”. I wrote it mainly to vent my pent-up frustrations as a data analyst, and yes, also to take on the most popular data tool at the time: the dashboard. To my surprise, a lot of people read it. Over 60,000 people in the ...

It was pitch dark, and I was alone. Just like the old days when I was the most dangerous hitcher on the road. My favorite time to work was always at night. Surprising the creeps that picked me up with a shotgun to their chest was scarier in the dark — for them. I looked at hitching like scr...

Every morning, I drive my youngest to school. She gets to sleep a little later, and I get to watch her walk inside the school and at least know she was safe up till that point. (I have serious anxiety issues, especially when it comes to my kids. Don’t worry, I do still let them live normal liv...

We spend a sizeable portion of our lives collecting stuff-- procuring things we deem valuable, important or desired. But at the end of life, it’s hard to point to any one, tangible item that has real significance to us. So think about what you would name as your most treasured possession. Out ...

I made the mistake of looking up how many breaths a person takes in their lifetime. 605,491,200 if we live to be seventy-two. So Elon Musk has roughly 100 times more money than I’ll ever have gasps of air. Neat. Worse — because it’s not like I can invest in more air &md...

Since I wrote this “viral” piece about the Metaverse (and NFT) boom going bust on March 15, the traffic trends have continued to tumble down towards zero. The Metaverse exploded into public view on the back of Facebook’s rebrand to Meta in late October 2021. ...

In a few days, Dead Space is coming back. As a big fan of the original trilogy, I honestly have mixed feelings about it. If EA was going to remake any of the original games, the first one is probably the one to pick — but it also holds up so well in a modern context that I ...

This is you: you’re restless. You’re lost in the world. A lone boat on the sea. You graduate college and you already feel strangled. The tide is rising and you don’t think you can swim yet. You have to find a way to survive. You have to test yourself, or prove yourself, or find you...

This month (April 2018) it was released the last Dead Combo’s album, named Odeon Hotel. Before going into the details of the new album we need to re-frame Dead Combo in Portuguese music. The last Dead Combo single: Deus Me Dê Grana, directed by André Tentugal Dead Combo ...

The X is gone!” screamed a text message from my partner. Overnight, a gigantic X effigy sprung up across the street, bathing our living room in pulsing white light, like a disco or fire alarm, or both. On Monday, crews removed the short-lived tribute to Elon Musk’s “new&rdq...

Mytrip to Israel was something I had been planning ever since I first started studying abroad in college. My goal was to go to all three major monotheistic holy sites: Jerusalem, the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Dome of the Rock; Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus; and Masa...

Each fall, like clockwork, clouds of monarchs descend upon the highland forests of central Mexico. Their arrival marks the finish line of a 3,000-mile journey: once in a lifetime, the butterflies fly south from their summer breeding grounds in Canada and the United States and return to the same oyam...

My dog walked along the wild path with me cheerfully in tow, From opposite side came a child in stride, and he was eager to know, “Why do you carry dead flowers?” he asked. “When they no longer glow?” I halted my pace and looked at his face while my dog searched him ...

I’m a climate change doomer. Not in the sense that I think the world is going to end, or anything — the planet isn’t on the verge of exploding. It’s just that the threshold for preventing disaster has long passed, and the political will to make the necessary changes just d...

Anyone who has been paid hourly, knows the term, time and a half. This means you are paid for the time you are scheduled to work plus half the original pay. let’s say you make twenty dollars an hour. and you have one hour of overtime. For that overtime, you would be paid thirty dollars for tha...

Hello there! Let me assume you have some money saved up and you are looking for the best way to invest it. You have probably heard about Bitcoin and how it has made many people wealthy. I am sure you have an idea to invest $1,000 in Bitcoin and watch it grow exponentially into $100,000 like a mag...

What the wives said remains unwritten, they danced to the demon’s rondo, the husbands’ words no longer matter, more than 20,000 murders last year alone, only the sound of the shots ring into time, 16.5 million guns were bought in 2022, grisly moments laid frozen by murd...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) excels at peering into the past by leveraging its advanced technology and capabilities. Equipped with instruments optimized for infrared observations, JWST can detect light from objects billions of light-years away, effectively capturing images of the universe a...

Australian company named Vow made headlines for creating a meatball — from an extinct species. Sort of. It’s not true mammoth meat. It’s faux-mammoth meat? Meat with the essence of mammoth flavor? Let’s look at what Vow did, and what it might actually mean for the offer...

Genetic technology is defined as the term which includes a range of activities concerned with the understanding of gene expression, advantages of natural genetic variation, modifying genes and transferring genes to new hosts. Genes are found in all living organisms and are transferred from one ...

I didn’t consciously search for this answer — Aunt Katie’s question did — and as one who usually can remember everything about an artist except their name, I was disappointed that my answer was male, straight, white, and fully formed — all eight sy...