The Show Notes

Mortgage rates : were stable for while (under 3% for 15-year-fixed) and started going up in May-June, to hit a new plateau (around 3.5% for 15-year-fixed) "Peninsula school district in hot water over home loan" "San Carlos School District Board is under fire for giving a loan to its superintendent before it was formerly approved" $1.3 million bridge loan  2.65 % New logos Yahoo! new logo Google Google rebrand experiment , a personal project The actual new flat Google logo Android 4.4. KitKat KIT KAT Dark Movies The Dinner Game  ("Le dîner de cons") (1998) Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986), not so great erotic movie with Kim Basinger 8½ (1963), Fellini's great movie Merlin Kopi Luwak  "or civet coffee, refers to the beans of coffee berries once they have been eaten and excreted by the Asian palm civet" "Tim Carman, food writer for the Washington Post reviewed kopi luwak available in the US and concluded "It t...

The Child Exchange Eric Meyer "is an American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)" blog , where he now talks about his daughter's cancer not to be confused with  Erik Meijer , "a Dutch computer scientist and entrepreneur. From 2000 to early 2013 he was a software architect for Microsoft where he headed the Cloud Programmability Team. He then founded Applied Duality Inc. in 2013. […] Meijer's research has included the areas of functional programming (particularly Haskell) compiler implementation, parsing, programming language design, XML, and foreign function interfaces. His work at Microsoft included C#, Visual Basic, LINQ, Volta, and the Reactive programming framework (Reactive Extensions) for .NET." not to be confused with  Scott Meyers , "an American author and software consultant, specializing in the C++ computer programming language. H...

Space, Mars Gravity on Mars is "62% lower to be more precise. That means that Martian gravity is 38% of Earth’s. A person weighing 100 kg here would tip the scales at 38 kg there. MarsOne project : "The Mars One Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023." Biosphere 2 Armadillo Aerospace  "is an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas. Its initial goal was to build a manned suborbital spacecraft capable of space tourism, and had also stated long-term ambitions of orbital spaceflight. The company was founded by John Carmack. […] In August 2013, Carmack announced that Armadillo Aerospace had been put in "hibernation mode", following setbacks including the crash of the STIG-B rocket in January 2013." Woman killed by laptop in Surrey crash Kids Zoboomafoo  "is an American children's television series that aired from January 25, 1999, to April 28, 2001 […] i...

J.-C. Monzani, "facteur de clavecins amateur" web site Florence Monzani, daughter, is a harpsichordist Organ Le musée suisse de l'orgue  in Roche, Switzerland pictures I took during the visit Orgue de Valère , Switzerland (oldest playable organ built around 1430) pictures I took during the visit Maestro Nicola Luisotti conducting and singing Va, Tosca Mòlìhuā (茉莉花) "is a popular Chinese folk song. The song dates to 18th century. In time, many regional variations were created, and the song gained popularity both in China and abroad." Flash Mob Chorus in Taipei 101, Taiwan Turandot ending Josephine Barstow - the Alfano's original end of Turandot  (YouTube) Another version of the complete Alfano ending exists with Linda Kelm, Jon Fredric West, Christopher Keene, New York, 1985 Giving Puccini's Turandot the Finale it Deserves Alfredo Silipigni , conductor David Vine Music Angela Hewitt "is a British/Canadian classical ...