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"So i just got back from washington state a trip that required a lot of logistical navigation. Near there was cova of course but also the wildfires in that part of the country and as former guest host glenn. Fleishman reminded me as soon as i landed in seattle. The murder hornets washington state was the first place that murder hornets were found in the us in late. Two thousand nineteen but this past week officials in washington found and removed another nest. The first one of this year. Now as i said on one of the very first episodes of this show murder hornets or asian giant hornets are nicknamed murder hornets. Because of the destruction that they wreak on other hornets as well as honeybees the colonies of which they can destroy in mere hours despite their shocking size of almost two inches long. They don't pose the same threat to humans. Now i feel like when people hear about murder hornets they envisioned hitchcock in swarms invading city streets as people immediately died from a single sting. It's not that intense. They are still dangerous to humans though murder hornets. Don't bother with humans in less provoked but when provoked they'll sting and while scientific american points out that milligram for milligram. Murder hornet's venom is less toxic than honeybees. The murder hornet is so big that it has a larger dose and crucially. It can sting you over and over again quoting scientific american people stung by the hornets have described the experience as like being stabbed with a hot metal pin the stinger long enough to pierce the standard protective gear. Beekeepers wear a reason article in the new york. Times claims that up to fifty people in japan die from asian giant hornet stings each year and quote. So it's important to route the mounts and important for those doing so to be protected and that note about the stinger being long enough to pierce usual. Beekeeper gear is why if you see any photos or videos of officials removing the nests. They wear thick sifi looking suits. The washington state department of agriculture found the most recent nest from a combination of tracking devices placed on hornets and a resident tip line. They that this nest was three times bigger than the previous one and the hornets were a little more aggressive. The nest was in a rotted alder tree where officials vacuumed up. One hundred and thirteen worker. Hornets in netted sixty seven other hornets from the surrounding area. All told the nest housed nearly fifteen hundred hornets in various stages of development and important to eradicate the nests because the hornets not being native to this part of the world can cause havoc on the ecosystems they invade especially threatening are already dwindling honeybee population. So the odds are you probably won't die from a murder hornet's sting but their presence in north america is unfortunately still fairly concerning..
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"And now it's time to unite as one family one community to build the next era for this team and the city and quotes and according to washington post. The name and logo are inspired by the hope memorial bridge which leads to progressive field and is home to massive stone statues known as the guardians of traffic. The idea according to information about the name change offered on the team's website is to pay homage to the guardians of traffic watching over the city as hangs noted in the video. The team released the goal is to preserve cleveland's baseball tradition and the teams place in the city and quotes of course. There's predictably been a bit of backlash but most people are applauding. The change with some maybe disappointed. It wasn't changed to something cooler. Although i'd say picking something that promoted local pride and resiliency was pretty safe move and while the team has had their former name for just over a century. It's not their original name. Since the franchise's founding as a minor league team in eighteen ninety four they've been called many names including the rustlers the lake shores the bluebirds or the blues. The naps or the napoleon's and the spiders quoting indian country today. According to cleveland baseball history the indians name was chosen in nineteen fifteen honor. Louis sockalexis of the pinup scott tribe. Who played for the then. Cleveland spiders in eighteen ninety seven joe poznansky of nbc sports however found in two fourteen th the name was actually the creation of a group of sports writers in nineteen fifteen looking to renew fan interest in the poorly performing cleveland. Naps sports writers at the cleveland. Plain dealer and other newspapers created eight nomenclature committee and sponsored a contest in which fans could choose a new name for the team. The sockalexis story was entirely untrue. A bit of state funded propaganda to conceal the obvious fact. Cleveland team was named the indians only to capitalize on the many racist cliches. That could be used to promote the team. It was glorious opportunity for hilarious native american jokes and race specific cliches insults that fit well in headlines. Poznansky wrote and quotes. Amanda black horse of the denomination. And who has long fought against native themed mascots told indian country today quote. This victory belongs to the native people and organizations within cleveland who've been fighting this issue for decades. Although this change should have happened decades ago. I hope other franchises like the kansas city team and the atlanta team can learn from this and move away from native mascots and slur names and quotes the cleveland guardians will be retaining their team colors of red white navy. The full changeover will debut at the start of the twenty twenty two season back in june. I told you about some of the youngest olympians headed to tokyo this year. Twelve year olds sky brown from the uk and kono hiraki from japan who will be competing in the park. Category of skateboarding won't earlier. Today was the final four street skateboarding and the top two winners ended up being thirteen year. Old genie shia from japan. Who won gold and thirteen year old. Al from brazil who won the silver teenage girls are absolutely crushing it at the olympics this year and i think it's awesome. Can't wait to watch them take over the world anyways. It is great to be back huge. Thank you to glenn fleishman for taking over. While i was away i was tuning in well. I was on the road. And i particularly enjoyed his segments about the standardization of paper sizes. More interesting than it. Sounds like the explainer on all of those seed packets that people mysteriously got from china in twenty twenty and the history of new coke. If you missed any of those definitely go back and give him a listen and be sure to follow glenn on twitter to keep up with his other work but that is it from me for today as always the show was produced by ride home media and cocky dot org. I am jackson beard. And i will talk to you again tomorrow.
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"Renting arrangement seems like it supplements and takes the pressure off public pools many of which were closed for part or all of twenty twenty due to the risk of kovic spreading thirty dollars. An or more is definitely a middle-class pleasure but it's not a per se luxury. I mean you see what movie tickets cost these days when we go back to movie theaters it's comparable in terms of entertainment value in cost and it seems to help homeowners to from the oklahoma quote when they bought their home in two thousand nineteen. It was condemned said chris. Clark technician with the oklahoma city streetcar the was shot. He said it cost twenty thousand dollars to repair it alone. The imagined another expensive repair job in fifteen or twenty years quote. We enjoy it but we were thinking about how to pay for. He said while allowing others to enjoy it too not just him and his wife their daughter nine year old lyric and son an ice eight tiny son aidan just thirty two days old will be a swimmer someday and quote. They've made one thousand dollars before expenses so far this summer. One of the sticking points with the rental may bathroom access. Not all hosts have the luxury of a pool house particularly one with a bathroom or a bathroom in their house. They want to provide access to you can filter when you're searching for rentals for those that have facilities and most pool rentals do seem to offer them in the areas. I checked remember kids the pool. Water changes color. If you pee in the pool or does it from thought brain quote though there is no such thing as a urine detecting die. You can purchase signs that prey upon the misconception that a urine indicator exists the signs which warned the pool is being monitored with a chemical. We alert are believed to be an effective deterrent against nation and a pool. Particularly with adult swimmers and quote enjoy for adult swim off. dip in a stranger's pool doesn't appeal. How an echo tour of the colombian jungle led by members of the former marxist rebel group. I says armadas revolucionario de colombia or farc from npr quote felix inaba a former farc guerrilla. Who heads the agency says. The rebel saw the region's ravines and river valleys hiding places and perilous obstacles had to be crossed while carrying rifles and backpacks filled with seventy pounds of ammunition gear quote. The truth is. I never imagined that this would become a tourist attraction. He says smiling and quote probably because quote then too. There was fox fearsome reputation the guerrillas funded their war by trafficking cocaine extorting businesses and kidnapping civilians abductees were sometimes chained up the jungle for years until their families forked. Over large ransom payments end quote the transportation and accommodations our spartan but people are eager for these tours partly seems to talk to the former guerrillas and understand them better. The npr reporter was on the tour not reporting remotely and noted this amazing exchange quote at night. We sit around campfire as marco obvious. A former commander fields are questions about the war. Bogota high school student. Manuela humaneness us. Why did the farc kidnapped so many people rather than explaining alvie. Suddenly tears up and apologize. It's an asset forgiveness for the abuses. The rebels committed during the war under the peace process. Former rebels have been carrying out. Similar acts of atonement with war victims throughout colombia and quote. The student leader told the reporter quote. I don't think they can make up exactly. But i think if they continue this tourism that it's really nice. They want to share paradise that have never been seen because of war and quote as the daily beast wrote in two thousand eighteen when these were still starting up quote. for those. who've been to belfast. It is more like the peace tours that former combatants from both sides of the political divide give around there divided city. It's like going to a museum that is still in the making learning about group whose troubled past is so fresh in the memory. The history is still being written and quote an unexpected outcome from a long running conflict. Flowers bloom where battles once raged. That's it for today. This show was produced by ride home media and coffee dot org. I'm glenn fleishman. I will be in your ears again tomorrow.
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"Jacob. I've got my lucky shirt and xfinity flex. Oh yeah take. Family got xfinity internet with the best wifi for their home and a flex four k. Streaming box free plus peacock premium included. Jacob is ready for anything. Go team you with metal ceremonies highlights interviews and more plus all his favorite streaming apps in one place. Can your internet do that. Switching supply not available in all areas Required xfinity proud partner of team usa. Welcome to the cocky ride home for july twenty seconds two thousand and twenty one. I'm glenn fleishman in for jackson bird. Who was on vacation. Your payments for dog walking and Love hotel via event mo are now no longer. Subject to global scrutiny. Neutron stars have we tiny mountains smaller than predicted pool parties by the hour via swiftly and former colombian guerrillas tore you through the beauty of the jungle. They still inhabit. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. Strangers around the world will no longer be able to see who you're paying for dog walking or College fees yeah. That's it then. Mo has discontinued its global feed when the person to person mobile payment system started it predicated itself on social flow. The founders wanted everyone by default to see everyone else's payments to generate a sense of buzz and to give them ideas about what they could use it for. This quickly became unwieldy and awkward. The venlo apps marked all payments as public by default for a while so people wound up broadcasting secret love affairs adultery and drug deals among all the anodyne quotidian.
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"I'm glenn fleishman in for jackson bird. Who is on vacation. How did paper sizes fall into their century. Long groove. how low wage workers seem to have the upper hand the job market despite pandemic job losses. And the very newest freshest words are in here are some of the cool things from the news today. Why is letter sized paper eight and a half by eleven inches. It's a great question asked and answered by mental floss in a recent article leaning on a variety of existing research. The answer they say. Is that the molds used by the dutch to make paper centuries ago were settled on around forty four inches. Because that's the whitest that papermaker vat man could hold while dipping into the liquid slurry of pulp and lift back up to drain the water. A seventeen inch depth is more obscure but may again be related merely physical capabilities. Divide seventeen by two and forty four by four and you get eight sheets of eight and a half by eleven paper boom there you go but do you know the story about the ham cooking ham for his partner. who asks. why do you cut the ends off. i don't know my mother always did that. They visit the mother and she says oh. I don't know it makes it more juicy. My mother always kept the ends off. Finally they visit grandma and her retirement. Home she holds up her hands a short distance apart and says we had a pan this wide. So i cut the ends off. That's how most mechanical traditions work inertia shah and history as a historian of printing and type. I'll tell you that. When gutenberg printed his bible there were also standard paper sizes but not many because paper was used for very particular purposes mostly for writing by hand because printing mostly didn't exist yet. The good and bible is put it on the size of paper known as royal two pages on each side folded down to about twelve by seventeen inches or thirty by forty two centimeters..
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"I'm saying maybe a little more Couple stories before we go and thank you all for being with us And thank you panelists for being with us One-storey before we go a harry. An are residents of the bay area. I just wanted to point out this story in the new york times this week. Headlined tech workers who swore off the bay area are coming back. Anybody who has been in the bay area or san francisco or anywhere in the surrounding for any amount of time remembers. How many they actually they remember when they lose track of how many times the bay area in san francisco is declared dead. I have lost track. It happened when i moved here in the early nineties. It happened in the late nineties during the dot. Com crash happened in the late. Two thousands during the financial crisis. It happened again during the idea that everybody's leaving the bay area and everybody's leaving san francisco and they'll never come back and everybody who's here goes Probably not and then when you set your watch wait for it. Wait for it. Oh here's the piece about how they're not actually leaving or if they did leave. They're coming back. I you know. I don't really have a lot to say about this other than it always happens like this. This is just how it is. This is san francisco is a city and this is a region founded on the gold rush People russian to get rich and some of them stay and some of them go and it's kind of a weird place but there's value to be here and so every time i'm just saying if you see san francisco declared dead again take the under. It's probably not going to happen. And some of the people who did move like move to san jose if your new home is forty five minutes away from your old one you really have not made a big life change A lot of the people move to To to reno or or truckee which is right on the nevada border which is not quite the same or having a vacation house up there and relocating temporarily like it's not california's a big place to so people can relocate out of the city centre to a place where maybe they can afford a house Which they've been doing for many years since time and memorial know tons of people have moved up to truckee tahoe. That's that's not a nutrient. So i'm just saying San francisco's never over. It's just never over. Everybody will always think it's over. It's never over. It always comes back. It always will. It changes all the time and people do leave but new people come and that's just how it is so anyway Really a dog bites man kind of story. The tech workers are back and finally last story. My friend glenn fleishman is Really interested in lots of quirky things including old type. He recently bought a replica of gutenberg. Bible it's glenn you if you know you know you get it but this story is so good and i wanted to point out to people. It's a story from antigone. Journal dot com. It is called. Laura epsom filler. Fail killer tale if you've ever done any desktop publishing or seen weird things post on the internet that don't make any sense you might wonder. What is lauren epsom. Dole or sit on it this strange. Latin ish text isn't quite right for latin. Where did it come from. Why is it here. Well this story tells all and the story is really pretty great because it turns out. They're also great pictures of like Bags of food packaging. That never got. The actual tax law is filler text when the regular text isn't ready so you have a bag. That's food and drink. Laura simpson dolar. Saddam it sounds great family special laura some dolar saddam it the idea there. Is you replace that with the real text later. Sometimes people forget but it's a great way for designers to maka page and see what it looks like taipan. This story though is amazing because it finds that this particular order of latin occurred in a very particular book that was an addition of cicero that was published in the early twentieth century that that was widely distributed. And probably somebody somewhere in the late sixties because that's what originated. It is not from time immemorial it is not from the time of the romans and does not from the time of gutenberg. It's from the late sixties. Somebody was like oh we should probably have some fake texts to put in there just in case and they picked up a used copy of this latin by cicero and they dumped it in there and then changed it. The other great part of the story changed it to add some more english issue punctuation and word endings so that anybody knows latin looks up and goes. This isn't latin. This doesn't make any sense. And they found the actual literal page number in the cicero Book the in this particular edition that contains the source text. And there's actually a sort of a second page a little later that they kind of glommed. I i love this stuff. They're like like the fact that somebody on the internet went to the trouble to find out the origin of laura epsom text. Boy it gives talk about our first segment. This is what gives me hope for humanity that this kind of this kind of stuff is going on. That's great company. That did was lecherous at which some of us get nostalgic about because they made these sheets of rub on letters which before desktop publishing richard useful Yeah and so. They needed some some greek texts. We call it. Greek text even though it looks latin. The idea of filler tax now modern modern journalism students in the like no that we generally use things that are misspelled words so that our spelling checkers. Catch them things like. Tk you see that. A lot or lead spelled led or deck spelled d. e. k. Or other words that are should be real words but they're misspelled so that everybody knows that's not right. You shouldn't put that in the newspaper tomorrow. You shouldn't post that on the website but back in the day letter set needed some sort of generic text and anybody who knows what is. It's just like i feel like this is such a great origin story. I assume that this was an ancient printing practice into. That's the late sixties in london. Hope i remember. I took a. I took latin as my as my language in high school..
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"Welcome to the cocky ride home for july thirteenth two thousand and twenty one. I'm glenn fleishman in for jackson bird. Who is on vacation archaeologist. Dig up a massive cash. Fifteenth century metal printing type in south korea. Baby beaver is born in x. More for the first time in centuries what if ice cream but also macaroni and cheese. A video game breaks records and may indicate a sales bubble and nick cages pig. Probably good here are some of the cool things from the news today. Sixteen hundred pieces of metal characters used for printing were unearthed in south korea recently. This discovery of movable type characters that can be used to print rearranged into different words and used again has excited scholars of early printing. That's not because they offer the first archaeological proof of printing before you hanis gutenberg. The so-called inventor of printing with movable type that has long existed but because of the sheer quantity and diversity of characters while the type still needs to be authenticated. It's believed to date to fourteen forty three. It would be the largest set of early metal ever discovered even though the use of metal type pieces is recorded in korea. Thirteen seventy seven and almost certainly before that based on examination of surviving books. Only two pieces of type or thought to predate this latest discovery. The type and other artifacts were uncovered while archaeological investigation was underway at a site under development in insa deng an area that was off limits to construction until twenty thirteen. The korea herald described the area and quote a focal point of traditional culture in the northern part of seoul and quote. The cash was found underneath where a house had stood in an area populated by middle class residents and government employees in the fourteen. Hundreds oak young tech head of the pseudo research institute of culture told the korea times quote. It seems that a person buried them during an emergency and failed to recover them. We have recovered many relics buried in a similar manner. during wars. in the sixteenth century and quote the type uncovered comprises one. Thousand pieces in chinese characters and six hundred in hungary will also known as the korean alphabet. Hull was developed by king sage. The great in fourteen forty three which is part of what is driving the dating of this type. The chinese have the earliest surviving accounts of and examples of printing one dating back over eighteen hundred years examples in the first millennia of the common era. Where zeiler graphic or based on carving would typically an entire page or large parts of the page carved than they were inked and paper linen or other material pressed onto it in ten forty ce a pretty precise state. Amanda ambition apparently developed movable type using both wood and cast ceramic pieces. The would was a dead end and none of his ceramic type survives but descriptions of his process go into great detail developments proceeded over decades and centuries in both china and korea that led to using sand molds into which brass was poured to cast brass type. Korean started using brass type as early as twelve thirty four. But there's no copy extent of the book known to be printed with it the earliest surviving book printed this way the jiechi dates to thirteen seventy seven. Europe was fairly far behind. The chinese had also invented paper though. The invention leak through invasions in the capture paper makers european papermaking started in earnest in the twelfth century. Italy the chinese and koreans knew how to cast metal type and print on paper with it. So how'd gutenberg and europeans and general get the credit for centuries that followed. They made it up in volume and by using simple alphabet. The korean king who introduced hongo hopes to encourage literacy but his efforts also made it more ideal for movable hype because it had just a few dozen basic and combination characters compared to the chinese are han characters which numbered in the thousands for basic literacy in that era and mostly still today. Despite this discovery of complete sets of hungary metal type. It was probably an anomaly. Hungary offended scholars and produce controversy. While caught on to some extent there was extensive resistance to it in fifteen o four and anonymous party possibly trying to disguise his upper class status publish documented hong-gul criticizing the contemporary king that led to that king banning hungary and having all books that contained it burned. It wasn't until around sixteen hundred that hungary became used more widely again. The lack of interest in hungary by scholars followed by this ban may have both stifled the growth in printing with metal types and erased historical traces. That could have revealed more extensive use. Couldn't berg apparently had no knowledge of earlier movable type printing from though zeila graphic printing was common enough. It's extremely likely. He didn't steal printing from china or korea. It seems more like improvements in metallurgy and refinement and metal sniffing and the production of coins and mints gave him some key ideas. His family was connected to the mint in might germany and he may have learned goldsmith Though that wasn't common for a member of his social class gutenberg had the same advantage that ngu offered latin and german had just a couple of dozen characters combine that with the critical marks numerals and punctuation. And it's still a very small set of unique characters to cast and print from to emulate scrabble handwriting gutenberg's workshop alternately created alternative versions of many lower case letters for fitting lines neatly as well as ligature or common combinations of characters like fica chin st even with all that the total character count across. Gutenberg's bible is well below three hundred unique characters. Gutenberg had to develop some method of producing lots of these pieces of type that could easily set squarely and lovely together for printing without moving probably using something that was later called a hand mould and if not a hand mould something that similarly allowed the mass production in the hundreds of thousands of pieces of type over just a few years during the printing of the bible. No printers in china or korea seemed to have come up with this hand casting idea. Although the new discovery may put the light of that gutenberg his workshop also had to create a press probably easing a wine presses. A model adapt inc prepare paper to accept that particular inc and figure out how to align pages to name just a few problems but the combination of innovations. He came up with can be readily learned and reproduced. Mostly unnamed printers in china and korea deserve the credit for being i couldn't brings intervention was producing a pre industrial process that.
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"glenn fleishman" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"After the frenzied hot bridgeton winter we just had nbc's streaming platform peacock has just announced a new reality series based on pride and prejudice. What does that even mean. Will contestants have to perform complicated. Regency era dances while one of them scowls at the other one well quoting variety the series titled pride and prejudice in experiment in romance is an original format that will see a heroin looking for her duke transported to a regency style england. A group of eligible hopeful suitors will have to win the heart of the heroine and her court housed in a castle in the countryside. The heroin and suitors will experience that with which dreams are made of from carriage rides and boat rides on the lake to archery and handwritten letters to communicate. They will be immersed in a time traveling quest for love in the end the heroine and her suitors will discover if the ultimate romantic experience will find them. True love and quotes. Av club questions whether contestants will be wearing era appropriate wardrobes and if they'll only be allowed to hold hands in briefly kiss no word on any of that or when the show will be coming out just yet but it's being executive produced by one of the guys behind amazing race and america's next top model so it might actually have a decent budget behind it and i really can't tell if this is going to be a total flop or do surprisingly well among the bridgeton crowd. I am a sucker for reality shows where they transport people back in time. But even i'm not so sure about this one. I guess we'll just have to wait. And see so. I m going on a bit of a summer vacation. No show tomorrow. And then starting on monday glenn fleishman will be guest hosting the show for two weeks. Glenn is a longtime tech journalist and printing historian who spent the pandemic shipping out dozens of collections of type and printing artifacts. Called the tiny type museum which. I'm a big fan of his. Most recent book is take control of cryptocurrency. Which is available at take control. Books dot com link in the show notes so glenn's got his finger on the pulse in a lot of different arenas that i think khadki ride home. Listeners are into. I think he's going to bring some really cool interesting insights to the show. Glenn also used to host the election ride home podcast of the start of twenty twenty so we're keeping it all in the ride home family. One thing to know glenn is on the west coast so episodes might be going up a little closer to five. Pm eastern than usual but that is actually closer to win. Ride home shows used to go up for any of you that are newer listeners. You may not know that the ride home slate of shows started with the idea that you would listen to them on your ride home from work at the end of the day to catch up on the day's news that you missed that. We kind of shifted release schedules around when the pandemic decimated regular commutes but now that some people are getting back to commuting and our schedules are kind of influx again. I thought i'd just mentioned that. In case you like me have found yourself listening to podcasts. Less because your schedule has kind of shifted again. So you know. If you're commuting again maybe consider making this show or the tech name ride home of part of your commute experience but whenever or however you listen thank you for doing so and keep tuning in to hear from glenn for the next two weeks and i look forward to coming back. Well rested on monday. The twenty sixth. So that is it for me for this week. The show was produced by ride home. Media and cocky dot org. I am jackson bird. And i'll talk to you a couple of weeks but blend will be in your feeds on monday..
Rocket
"glenn fleishman" Discussed on Rocket
"So there was a comment on twitter about About a universal control. And i forget who it was. It may have been joel. Stern and she was like who actually has stuff. Like who has an i mac sitting next to an m one laptop sitting next to an ipad. And i'm mike will christina with a suckers. Have this like it's such a small devil people they're going to blow this much money on apple crowd and i still would never use this. I mean i. I will occasionally know how safari will sometimes tell the vin surfing site on your your iphone back. It's like yeah hand. This here is taffeta mike. Sometimes i use that okay. Hey i am that every single day. I use that every time i do this show because there are so many times like if i'm on a a computer that doesn't have whatsapp on it and i i need to write on a show notes passing off the link from my phone to the computer. Oh my god. And when it doesn't work. I get no man reasonably angry and brief shout out to glenn fleishman because i think i did complain about this on twitter because i was like googling hand off suddenly not working So mad and he was like you know sometimes if you turn bluetooth off and on again it'll start working. And i was like sure it does and i did it in it immediately. Worked and i have i. I'm still furious about it. But i hope that this message helps someone else in time of need chinese. Anyway i'm sorry. I totally interrupted you. Please continue no. No no no you did not. You're dead on your dead on with that. I do want to say cr- christina has a hard out in fifteen minutes so we should probably figure out like the last thing briefly. You're gonna say one sentence. Thank you so much for the reminder test flight coming to mac well. I xe cloud coming to make well. Yeah i was gonna say excellent cloud would be for me the bigger thing. Yeah that's actually pretty profound. So ex cloud is basically a way of doing continuous integration continuous deployment stuff from your echoed. Bildt's in it'll do it on the cloud and so they'll do. The build process will push the agents. It'll do parallel bills. Make it easier for you to do testing it. Integrates with test flights. So tusla's coming to mac meaning that you can now which is it's about time Apple acquired testified a million years ago. But it's good to see it's finally coming to the mac. I think that that's of really exciting. The interesting things about the exco cloud thing is that this cd space is really really hot. So you've jenkins you have a bunch of other services actions which disclosure. I work at microsoft which you know. owns get hub. There are a lot of options. Travis there are none of different services and people have built a lot of cic de build stuff exclusively aimed at iowa this also directly connected with abc connected. Meaning you can do this. As part of your bike submission process to apple which is cool. The interesting thing i noted because i signed up. I'm on the wait list to get into the beta. Because i want to see how it works is that they say that it'll be free. During the beta period and that pricing will be announced in the fall. This is interesting to me because to my knowledge this is the first time in the kind of modern apple times that we've seen apple have additional resources for paying to extract like a services model mode of what they've done with with icloud and other things going towards developers and that this could potentially be a really big money making thing for them because some of the cd services and and and whatnot are multi billion dollar companies..
Upgrade
"glenn fleishman" Discussed on Upgrade
"I think that that was an interesting little addition to help on the iphone. They're adding more trends. Stuff was very much a thing of like. Oh well they're already doing that. They they're just really adding more and going in the direction they've already gone and then the lab lab integration and sharing stuff with your health provider. My response was. This is all great. Will it actually work with providers right because that's always the question is it's great that you've got the ability to share your data with your health provider. It's great you've got the ability to get this labs data in and out of your device but the asterisk is always. It only works with three partners that we've worked. So what's what's the end result there. I think the end result is probably that in a few years this will be much more usable. But it's doubtful to me that something like that's going to happen anytime like immediately. It's more like oh yes great You can share with your provider. We will the maker of the enterprise system that provides that data to my provider will update it software to do that in for years. Okay well i'll see you. Then i guess the thing that most users would care about was the family kind of schering of health data. Yeah and that was again. I joked about it earlier. But there's just a lot of family stuff in this in this set of releases and it's funny because the family feature that a lot of us wanted in terms of photos is just never going to come. Apparently but that they did try to come up with some of these ideas so the idea that you can share health data with people in your family. That's i think especially going to be strong for things like the elderly sharing with their kids. How they're doing or other people who are helping them out. I can see that as a real advantage. And then i'll throw in there another thing that they mentioned. Which is this sort of with apple ideas with the legacy stuff. The idea that I was talking to slack with glenn fleishman. Who does mac nine one one the column at macworld and he said one of the top questions that he gets is about people who died and the apple. Id kinda gets off. And it's a huge problem and so apple addressing that directly. You know these are all kinda like looking at the bigger picture of. It's great thing that was part of icloud. Plus which is we're going to get to wasn't so much but it's that idea that you've got data that you wanna keep private secure and all that but you don't want to make it a silo that nobody can get into. And then they seem to have built a bunch of you know they always say secure and private but like abilities to set up a sharing relationship and say no this this person like my mom shares. Some of her apple watch health data with me like that make sense right and so they seem to be headed down that path. What about privacy. They had like a whole section on privacy. We mentioned the male privacy protection thing. They're expanding the website privacy. Report thing that you get in safari out to apps and is doing a couple of things as well as a showing you what system things the the apple requiring select location data. Contact the things you said. The the apps can have access to but showing you when and how often they're being so what's really smart about that. Granting permission right and they they've done this granting permission thing. I would argue that. Maybe they've overdone it. Where it's it's extra confusing like you. Can't they ask you increments. So they're like geo wanna share location and then later it's like do. Are you sure you want to share location for all time. And then later it'll come back and say look at where you've been. You've been sharing your location with this app. Are you sure you wanna do that. I think it's too much. I think that they're there. That's one of those cases. Where apple is kind of overdoing it. Because they're treating us like babies who have to be dumb user us share location with your weather app right. Did you wanna do that. Why would you want your weather app to no way. So what's smart about this new feature is if you grant permission you get to see when it's used and i liked that i like the idea that it's like it's not just on granting this audio app permission to record my use my microphone but i can look and see when it used the microphone and this is a way to give you. I guess to see nefarious uses. But also give you pri peace of mind like you can see when this particular permission was actually used. I think that's smart. And they're also kind of expanding and bringing in some of the web based stuff into apps to which was really interesting so showing if an application is talking to things on the web what they are. They're bringing a lot of their stuff directly into apps that the idea is. Your app is going to have a privacy report third party. Domains access by the app are going to be listed. This is all real at least at this point. It's a very much a disclosure kind of thing but this is all just apple. I would say ratcheting up. Its own the details right. But i would think that they're going to be app. Developers who made uncomfortable by this. Because it's going to expose more information about what they're apps are doing to users who care about it and what's interesting to this doesn't seem like it's a policy change right. It's just a disclosure so it's not apple saying we're blocking third party app domains. It's it's apple saying we're going to list all third party app domains that your app contacts and your users can see it. And that's i don't know apple's got a lot of Of of trouble brewing in some of it is about like facebook and the ad tracking transparency. And all of that. That's a policy change right. That's a that's a. We're going to make you not do this unless you ask. This is not that this is just a disclosure thing. But i think it's it's a very apple kind of thing to do and i think it's i think it's all for the good based on what i know so far. But who knows about the details icloud plus. This is not a joke. I cloud plus another. Plus you know they follow on the greatest plus which is upgrade plus. I close icloud plus. Let me let me frame this for you. Mike what. I cloud pluses. I cloud plus could just as easily be called. Oh not that icloud. Not that i cloud because literally what they say is if you pay for icloud you've got all these features. What is what does it mean. It's like we know we give you some free icloud that we haven't upgraded in a million years. That's not this everybody else's now icloud plus for the same price. It's not like a new thing. It's literally they're taking icloud. Which meant like. I mean they're also servicing it right icloud. His a general thing like gets access to cloud and they're saying but there are premium features of icloud that you have to pay for and includes all the all the storage that you already got a bunch of other features and i clawed used to mean something much simpler than it does now so i get why they're redefining it this way and saying icloud plus means you pay and you get more storage. I assume if you're in the apple you know bundle you pick up all this stuff too and there's a lot of amazing stuff in there a bunch of us. I think we've talked about and written over the years about apple. Could do more in terms of privacy with like its own. Vpn private relay isn't quite a vpn but it kind of is vpn. Y- that you're when you're in safari that it's going to encrypt your traffic and send it through two different relays so it basically is a vpn inside safari and the.
Mac Power Users
"glenn fleishman" Discussed on Mac Power Users
"I forget it must have been mutation and Exported the pdf. And then when everything back on the mac again so that was that was. That was the word the word era. Then we moved to pages and pages got the ability to do you know to export those those pdf's and then at some point Nicest writer pro came out. And we love nicest writer. I've been using nicest writer like since the nineties. And and having those. Mac rose and the incredible rebbe searching. You know nicest writers. Just the cat's pajamas. When it comes to s- powerful customizable word processors that you can bend to your will and so that was. That was what we used up till the end. But the problem for tidbits is we need to be faster. So with with nicest writer which is great word processor. We use dropbox to provide the collaboration. And i don't know if you guys have done this kind of thing but when you get into a dropbox scenario with a document based up you really have to version the app because of anything goes wrong. Then you're you're you're like pouring through dropbox versions trying to figure out the right one. It's just easier to have a system and we did this because we'd have like three people author editor and tanya may maybe me so three or four people who'd be looking at a file and so we'd always have an out folder and what you do. Is you see. Move the folder into the out folder and you'd rename it With your initials and version number and then when you checked it back in you would leave a you. Put a copy in a leave. A copy in there We had an old folder. Putting and so that we'd have this just like selection of version. One two three four five six and you can always see who done what in the in each version and when you're working with a hundred and fifty page word processing document that's one hundred megabytes because it's got big images in it yeah e. Corruption happens sometimes. So you really need to do there. And it's just it's just too slow to do the renaming and moving all the time and google. Docs just does it. All you know. I mean yeah you get a lot of color sometimes. But that's about the extent of the problem with google docs. So let's talk about that for a minute because the docs is excellent in the sense that you can have three people in document at the same time typing in it's not gonna trip on itself yeah but And and that's where people stop. Well that's why. It's good at collaboration. But i would argue that you know. There's more to collaboration than just contemporaneous writing. And how do you manage that. Like how do you open. Google and you know whether adams riding on the josh has been writing on her tanya zeman well and think one of the mistakes people make because they think this like simultaneous writing is collaboration. I'd almost never happens like it's it just doesn't and it's it's actually an actually most of us who are in the tidbits world don't like it so like if you see if you're working in a document and someone else comes in usually you back off and part of it is like let's say let's say julio has written an article and i'm editing. It and josh comes in. He shouldn't do anything. Because i don't necessarily work entirely linearly so you know i'm i'll start at the top and i'll work my way down but as i get further down. I see why this is to here now. So i'm gonna go back to the top and fix that stuff at the top that i either i changed or needs to be fixed because i understand what's going on the full document now so so having like having two people in a document it wants can just be confusing. Because just because you've done something doesn't mean you're even going to commit to it like i might go and revert my change because now i understand why. Why those tech that. Why those words were there at the top. And so yes so usually we. Don't you know like formal about it or anything. But i think we've just sort of all come to the idea of someone else's the doctrinal for awhile so so so here's the thing so let's say. Julio submits an article. I will take an edit pass on that article and all the edits i make as sort of quote unquote primary editor. Julio has to approve and he has to approve or reject them. He doesn't get to ignore them. He can reject them if he doesn't agree with them. Although at that point usually say is approve it and then change it again and explain why you've done it. Because i made the change for a reason if he comes in and another editor same thing julio is the is the guy who gets to approve or reject josh changes. But after the first writing everyone works in suggesting mode including julio so when holyoke comes through an approved an in rejects my changes if he makes additional changes which is going to likely because like kill sima. What am i changes like. Oh i was trying to do. But i'm going to rewrite it. My voice He his suggesting an is primary editor. Get to approve his changes. And so it's important to set those roles of author primary editor and and to have the rules of who approves who's changes and the fact that they must do so you don't get you. Don't get to just leave them so the document is always gets more colorful and unless colorful more colorful less colorful and we will often take two or three passes on a long article you know. So so it'll go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth in that happens often in slacker in trello depending on sort of the the immediacy of it the person who actually do the most of that with his glenn fleishman because glenn is incapable of not writing new stuff on every pass takes so he'll just think of a better way to say something and everything so each time trade the thing back and forth. There's there's fewer and fewer changes but it will often go like four or five passes. Because i got a great new way of explaining this comedy. That's great but now. I had to make two edits and that new stuff so we glenn has say.
KQED Radio
"glenn fleishman" Discussed on KQED Radio
"San Carlos 43 in San Francisco. Right now, it's 46 degrees. This is KQED public radio. The time is 8 46. This is morning edition from NPR News. I'm Layla fold in and I'm Steve Inskeep. Happy New Year. Among other things. January 1st is public Domain Day. That means copyrights expire on works from 95 years ago, so everybody is free to rewrite or remix or just play around with classic books and songs and more. NPR's Petra Mayer reports on what people have been doing with it all. So here's the thing with public Domain Day for 20 years. It didn't happen in 1998. Congress passed a law extending current copyrights from 75 to 95 years. And that meant that until two years ago, nothing new was coming into the public domain. That all changed on January 1st 2019. Since then, A flood of popular culture from the 19 twenties has become available early, silent movies, pop songs, books like the Prophet Mrs Dalloway in The Great Gatsby. So what are people doing with all this good stuff? You know, Like Gatsby, I was captivated by Nick That's author Michael Ferris Smith. His new novel, Nick comes out this month, and it imagines a life and a backstory for Gatsby's and it, Carraway. Smith says he was snagged by that moment at the end of the book, where Nick suddenly realizes it's his 30th birthday. And then right after that, he describes it as anticipating a decade of loneliness. And that is what really stuck me like When I read the decade of loneliness line I remember actually stopped there, and I said the book aside, Smith says he saw so many parallels between Nick's life and his own at that age that he decided to write next story, although he says he just assumed Gatsby was in the public domain. When he started writing five years ago. He was a little taken aback when his publishers told him the book couldn't come out until 2021. But Nick is one of the few really high profile works to surface from that flood of new public domain material. Jennifer Jenkins is the director of the Center for the Study of the Public domain at Duke Law School. She says. A lot of what's happening is on a smaller scale. I've had e mails from parents who say Hey, my high school kids, an amazing musician. And guess what, In another Rhapsody in Blue is free. He's going to play it. He's going to re imagine it and maybe we'll put it on YouTube. Some publishers have put out new editions of books like Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, Jenkins says the works become more available and in more editions, and that is self feeds creativity, So we do absolutely no, that happens. So why aren't there more Nick's out there? Glenn Fleishman is a journalist who's covered copyright issues. There's some very popular weird copyright cases that involved lots of lawsuits. And I think it makes people worry. Flashman has experienced some of that worry himself. He loves the classic song. Yes, we have no bananas, which entered the public domain on January 1st 2019. So he organized some friends at a New year's party to sing it, And they put the song up on YouTube. Moments after midnight on January 1st wait..
KCRW
"glenn fleishman" Discussed on KCRW
"Inskeep. Happy New Year. Among other things. January 1st is public Domain Day. That means copyrights expire on works from 95 years ago, so everybody is free to rewrite or remix or just play around with classic books and songs and more. NPR's Petra Mayer reports on what people have been doing with it all. So here's the thing with public domain Day for 20 years. It didn't happen in 1998. Congress passed a law extending current copyrights from 75 to 95 years. And that meant that until two years ago, nothing new was coming into the public domain. That all changed on January 1st 2019. Since then, A flood of popular culture from the 19 twenties has become available early, silent movies, pop songs, books like the Prophet Mrs Dalloway in The Great Gatsby. So what are people doing with all this good stuff? You know, Like Gatsby, I was captivated by Nick That's author Michael Ferris Smith. His new novel, Nick comes out this month, and it imagines a life and a backstory for Gatsby's and Nick Carraway. Smith says he was snagged by that moment at the end of the book, where Nick suddenly realizes it's his 30th birthday. And then right after that, he describes it as anticipating a decade of loneliness. And that is what really stuck me like When I read the decade of loneliness line I remember actually stopped there, and I said the book aside, Smith says he saw so many parallels between Nick's life and his own at that age that he decided to write next story, although he says he just assumed Gatsby was in the public domain. When he started writing five years ago. He was a little taken aback when his publishers told him the book couldn't come out until 2021. But Nick is one of the few really high profile works to surface from that flood of new public domain material. Jennifer Jenkins is the director of the Center for the Study of the Public domain at Duke Law School, she says a lot of what's happening is on a smaller scale. I've had e mails from parents who say Hey, why high school kids, an amazing musician, and guess what, you know now that Rhapsody in Blue is free. He's going to play it. He's going to re imagine it and maybe we'll put it on YouTube. Some publishers have put out new editions of books like Khalil Gibran's The Pro. Off it, Jenkins says. The works become more available and in more editions, and that is self feeds creativity, So we do absolutely no, that happens. So why aren't there more? Nick's out there? Glenn Fleishman is a journalist who's covered copyright issues. There's some very popular weird copyright cases that involve lots of lawsuits, and I think it makes people worry Flashman has experienced some of that worry himself. He loves the classic song. Yes, we have no bananas, which entered the public domain on January 1st 2019. So he organized some friends at a New year's party to sing it, And they put the song up on YouTube. Moments after midnight on January 1st wait. Months.
KQED Radio
"glenn fleishman" Discussed on KQED Radio
"And the listeners of KQED. This is morning edition from NPR News. I'm Layla fold in and I'm Steve Inskeep. Happy New Year. Among other things. January 1st is public Domain Day. That means copyrights expire on works from 95 years ago, so everybody is free to rewrite or remix or just play around with classic books and songs and more. NPR's Petra Mayer reports on what people have been doing with it all. So here's the thing with public Domain Day for 20 years. It didn't happen in 1998. Congress passed a law extending current copyrights from 75 to 95 years. And that meant that until two years ago, nothing new was coming into the public domain. That all changed on January 1st 2019. Since then, A flood of popular culture from the 19 twenties has become available early, silent movies, pop songs, books like the Prophet Mrs Dalloway in The Great Gatsby. So what are people doing with all this good stuff? You know, Like Gatsby, I was captivated by Nick That's author Michael Ferris Smith. His new novel, Nick comes out this month, and it imagines a life and a backstory for Gatsby's Nick Carraway. Smith says he was snagged by that moment at the end of the book, where Nick suddenly realizes it's his 30th birthday. And then right after that, he describes it as anticipating a decade of loneliness. And that is what really stuck me like When I read the decade of loneliness line I remember actually stopped there, and I said the book aside, Smith says he saw so many parallels between Nick's life and his own at that age that he decided to write next story, although he says he just assumed Gatsby was in the public domain. When he started writing five years ago. He was a little taken aback when his publishers told him the book couldn't come out until 2021. But Nick is one of the few really high profile works to surface from that flood of new public domain material. Jennifer Jenkins is the director of the Center for the Study of the Public domain at Duke Law School. She says. A lot of what's happening is on a smaller scale. I've had e mails from parents who say, Hey, my high school kids, an amazing musician. And guess what, you know now that Rhapsody in blue is free. He's going to play it. He's going to re imagine it and maybe we'll put it on YouTube. Some publishers have put out new editions of books like Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, Jenkins says the works become more available and in more editions, and that is self feeds creativity, So we do absolutely no, that happens. So why aren't there more Nick's out there? Glenn Fleishman is a journalist who's covered copyright issues. There's some very popular weird copyright cases that involved lots of lawsuits. And I think it makes people worry. Flashman has experienced some of that worry himself. He loves the classic song. Yes, we have no bananas, which entered the public domain on January 1st 2019. So he organized some friends at a New year's party to sing it, And they put the song up on YouTube. Moments after midnight on January 1st wait..
KCRW
"glenn fleishman" Discussed on KCRW
"And I'm Steve Inskeep. Happy New Year. Among other things. January 1st is public domain Day. That means copyrights expire on works from 95 years ago, so everybody is free to rewrite. Remix or just play around with classic books and songs and more. NPR's Petra Mayer reports on what people have been doing with it all. So here's the thing with public Domain Day for 20 years, it didn't happen. 1998 Congress passed a law extending current copyrights from 75 to 95 years. And that meant that until two years ago, nothing new was coming into the public domain. That all changed on January 1st 2019. Since then, A flood of popular culture from the 19 twenties has become available early, silent movies, pop songs, books like the Prophet Mrs Dalloway and The Great Gatsby. So what are people doing with all this good stuff? You know, Like Gatsby, I was captivated by Nick That's author Michael Farris Smith. His new novel, Nick comes out this month, and it imagines a life and a backstory for Gatsby's Nick Carraway. Smith says he was snagged by that moment at the end of the book, where Nick suddenly realizes it's his 30th birthday. And then right after that, he describes it as anticipating a decade of loneliness. And that is what really stuck me like When I read the decade of loneliness line I remember actually stopped there, and I said the book aside, Smith says he saw so many parallels between Nick's life and his own at that age that he decided to write next story, although he says he just assumed Gatsby was in the public domain. When he started writing five years ago. He was a little taken aback when his publishers told him the book couldn't come out until 2021. But Nick is one of the few really high profile works to surface from that flood of new public domain material. Jennifer Jenkins is the director of the Center for the Study of the Public domain at Duke Law School. She says. A lot of what's happening is on a smaller scale. I've had e mails from parents who say, Hey, my high school kids, an amazing musician. And guess what, you know now that Rhapsody in blue is free. He's going to play it. He's going to re imagine it and maybe we'll put it on YouTube. Some publishers have put out new editions of books like Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, Jenkins says the works become more available and in more editions, and that is self feeds creativity, So we do absolutely no, that happens. So why aren't there more Nick's out there? Glenn Fleishman is a journalist who's covered copyright issues. There's some very popular weird copyright cases that involve lots of lawsuits. And I think it makes people worry. Flashman has experienced some of that worry himself. He loves the classic song. Yes, we have no bananas, which entered the public domain on January 1st 2019. So he organized some friends at a New year's party to sing it, And they put the song up on YouTube. Moments after midnight on January 1st wait. Months.
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"Possible. Rita Chatterjee. NPR news, among other things. January 1st is public domain Day. That means copyrights expire on works from 95 years ago. So everybody is free to rewrite or remix or just play around with classic books and songs and more. NPR's Petra Mayer reports on what people have been doing with it all. So here's the thing with public Domain Day for 20 years. It didn't happen in 1998. Congress passed a law extending current copyrights from 75 to 95 years. And that meant that until two years ago, nothing new was coming into the public domain. That all changed on January 1st 2019. Since then, A flood of popular culture from the 19 twenties has become available early, silent movies, pop songs, books like the Prophet Mrs Dalloway and The Great Gatsby. So what are people doing with all this good stuff? You know, Like Gatsby, I was captivated by Nick That's author Michael Ferris Smith. His new novel, Nick comes out this month, and it imagines a life and a backstory for Gatsby's Nick Carraway. Smith says he was snagged by that moment at the end of the book, where Nick suddenly realizes it's his 30th birthday. And then right after that, he describes it as anticipating a decade of loneliness. And that is what really stuck me like When I read the decade of loneliness line I remember actually stopped there, and I said the book aside, Smith says he saw so many parallels between Nick's life and his own at that age that he decided to write next story, although he says he just assumed Gatsby was in the public domain. When he started writing five years ago. He was a little taken aback when his publishers told him the book couldn't come out until 2021. But Nick is one of the few really high profile works to surface from that flood of new public domain material. Jennifer Jenkins is the director of the Center for the Study of the Public domain at Duke Law School. She says. A lot of what's happening is on a smaller scale. I've had e mails from parents who say Hey, why high school kids, an amazing musician, and guess what. Another Rhapsody in blue is free. He's going to play it. He's going to re imagine it and maybe we'll put it on YouTube. Some publishers have put out new editions of books like Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, Jenkins says the works become more available and in more editions, and that is self feeds creativity, So we do absolutely no, that happens. So why aren't there more Nick's out there? Glenn Fleishman is a journalist who's covered copyright issues. There's some very popular weird copyright cases that involve lots of lawsuits and I think it makes people worry. Flashman has experienced some of that worry himself. He loves the classic song. Yes, we have no bananas, which entered the public domain on January 1st 2019. So he organized some friends at a New year's party to sing it, And they put the song up on YouTube. Moments after midnight on January 1st wait..
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Helpful Tips for Working From Home with Glenn Fleishman
"The whole reason for this particular episode is even though it's not really in our normal vm. It to give this kind of advice with everything that's happening. We know that a lot of people in the UK across the world will be worked from home for the first time or at least working from home for the first time for an extended period and that can be an odd aspiration to be an oversee. Some people don't have the option of working from home and especially for those people who continuing to do shopping for us and look after us in other ways with us. An inch as the health service or or in other professions like cleaning and this jobs that often go unremarked but for those people who are network from my friend. Glenn. Fleishman has written a book. It's his contribution to keeping everyone saying and moving forward which he's pro for free is called taking control of working from home temporarily and is available at take control books dot com and it's full of advice from him and from friends across the world about how to make the very based of the changed circumstances of yourselves in and so because I knew Glen. I got him on the phone from Seattle Washington where he joins us now to go through the advice. That's in his book so joining us from Seattle. Here's Glenn Fleishman. Welcome Queen. Hello thank you for having me. You're very welcome. Thank you so much for writing this book and All. We'RE GONNA DO. This really is you. Take through the contents. You've written a book on literally am what should people working from home for the first time. Be Thinking about. Well IT'S A. It's an interesting time because usually when you advise people say you know. I'm thinking about working from home. Maybe a transition maybe leading one job and going freelance or they get a new job that gives them the opportunity. And you're like well we could. We could plan this out. Here's some ideas. Here's we think about. This is totally different. This is like no one has ever on. The scale of this never happened before that. So many people thrown on their own devices to change their pattern of working. So that's why I thought to my mind. I made the sexiest book arises in part because I made a joke on twitter about before this became even more serious. I think if you're still making jokes. Some twitter yeah exactly. This is a few a few weeks ago a few short weeks ago. It's like well if you're being asked to work from home or forced to work from home get a freelance bunny and they can tell you things like putting time lock on your refrigerator and so forth. I don't keep your account for typing on your keyboard and I got a remarkable response to that and I thought oh I'm making light of something it's a very serious for people and I thought why. Write a book about this and get advice from people like you and veteran work from home people so I talked to people who are work Some of them are employees have been employees doing telework. Some of them were fulltime for home for virtual company. That has no central office. Some are freelancers like me. And they've spent most or a huge chunk of their life especially in recent years working for a home space they created and we all had some time to plan most of us and I think the most critical thing. I think that everybody said I totally agree. And this is kind of what got me into a Home Office. Also after renting space outside the home when Seattle's real estate market was a little cooler than it is. Now it's Guinness. Set a space for yourself and that's going to be hard for a lot of people because if you didn't plan this you know. Most people do not conveniently have An extra several rooms in their mansion. They don't have their jato sitting there and oldest oldest shift off the record and so forth. It's you know some people may be lucky enough to have an extra room or room. That's their their sewing room there. Dan a kids playroom that they say look. I need a space where I can define the sum. You're not to turn that over So that if you're very lucky you of that you could close the door. If not you're going to need to find a space in somewhere in your home and I know for some people listening. This may be your roommates. You may have a partner. You may have children the parents living with you than maybe living with. You talked to numerous people who are suddenly living at home because of where they are and these are people. Sometimes in the thirties forties The current crisis others have had their parents move to them so they're closer by to help whether this and provide for them so we are in unprecedented time. A resident living situations. Our children will be home for weeks if not for the rest of our school year in my house and being able to define space. That your workspace being able to find both physically. Here's where I'm working in a way. That is not invasive of other people but that that you communicate to them that is the space you need to work in being able to set it aside. Psychologically so yeah in that space. You're working you're not you're not yet. I think actually key so as you say a lot of people will have the luxury of separate even have a Home Office of some kind or a space can vividly purpose into a Home Office. Even if you don't that idea of some High D. marketing space that will be yours and that might be a purely notional barrier. Right might not be anything physical. It might be just saying when mummy is over here. She's going to be working. Yeah the writer. Mary Robinson cow was a science fiction writer. Whose work may people know she? Has This Co Creative Commons licensed. Pdf she made for working at a writers workshops. It works really well for home to she. Basically you print this out in stiff paper and fold it and you put a paper on a paper clip a clothes pin on it and you put it in different positions of your laptop. Whether you're available not available or goofing off right and you just literally a sign of. I talked to one fella who is tips in the book. A colleague of his used a hugh. That's H. E. controllable lightbulb. Put it outside his office so when he's His Google calendar is tied into Was So when he has an appointment at actually lights up his family knows. He's an assessment. Incredibly Geeky way of doing things but you can do much more. Gripe you could just literally have a series of colored people that stick to the door or you as you see that difficult will flag on your laptop or even just you know simple rules about times between this time and this time the one of the things that he liked was talking about you know almost a traffic light system. So it's raid really. Is You kind of interrupt me? I might be broadcasting or might be. I'm really focusing piece of writing or might be doing. Something just requires focus green is. I'm just goofing off. You can come in whenever you like and I think you said I'm a little while or keeping Jason seeing ethical while to work those rules. Where if your wife commits you're working space during that amber thomas she can come in and then just just pause for a second. Let me finish the thought a writing and then. I'm completely talkable and those can have rules of social interaction can be quite difficult to to to get to so what shortcuts. Can you have for us to those good sports a bit more quickly? I think it's going to be a combination of physical barriers and symbols and signs And also some digital tools and it'll depend obviously on the age of of kids and parents and sophistication as well as a three year old is not gonna be checking your shared. Calendar your wife or husband or other partner May Be checking account under for you And you know I think we're going to those of us who can rely on digital purposes. Especially I'm thinking you know I know people in the bay area in the San Francisco Bay area who Maybe seven to a house and that may sound worse than it is. It is as bad as it sounds because of the cost of housing there and these people are all roommates and the I don't think any of them are romantic partners in in one case And they have some bedroom summer sharing a room and they may all be thrown in an even working different shifts in the past so they have to figure out some system but all these people are digital natives digitally literate they can all put stuff in a calendar maker share calendar You know it could be as simple as putting up a curtain sticking a couple hooks in the ceiling for the time being or getting a little stand guy. These actually very inexpensive photos stands are designed for putting up backdrops on but you can get these kits typically very inexpensively with Telescoping tripods and you could just hang a curtain or use a photo type Divide on it and just be. That is your office and you move it out of the way at night when it's no longer your office. I think one of the things that's worth seeing as well as that and something like that. You know putting hooks into the ceiling to hang something from scare some people not right from the point of view but it tends quite drastic but it is worth seeing without being in any way alarmist we might be looking at a few months of this Especially with schools closing people having to work from home to support their their kids so it it it it far to do that work. No right and get a working as well for you as possible than to Heathrow something together. It's just kind of you know kitchen table and we'll sorta all I if you do that for two weeks. You might suddenly find the actually. You're not in a particularly good place and a month down the line that I think is exactly it is is is also I? I say this again and again the book and I'll say it again and again what we're talking is be kind to yourself too because this is going to be difficult for you. Your employer has no idea what's going on because no no one has ever lived this kind of experience before in the history of the world people have gone through play and so forth. No one has gone through of disease. That's this survivable yet. Requires this much disruption. I mean what we're being asked for us to be as far away from everybody else as possible and keep working. Keep working which we need because we need to make money. We need the money to keep going. So we're actually inviting vital. Working is a vital function. But then you know you all these other stresses on top of you so set it up like maybe you need psychological. Say I can't set this up as a three-month office or a six week office on setting up a two week