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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Holy Mackerel: Apple iPad Pros On Sale -- Amazon -- April 26, 2022

Link here.

Highlights in this sale include the tablets with higher storage that are seeing new all-time low prices, like the 1TB Wi-Fi 12.9-inch iPad Pro for $1,599.99 ($199 off) and the 2TB Cellular 12.9-inch iPad Pro for $1,999.99 ($399 off). 

At this much of a discount, the 2TB Cellular 12.9-inch iPad Pro is now the same price as the 2TB Wi-Fi model, so this is a great time to buy the cellular device.

But why buy "cellular"?


 Word of advice: before buying from Amazon, check your local Costco.

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The Sports Page

Boston Celtics: a sweep. Wow. 

NASCAR: I saw most of the race but then missed the finish on Sunday due to family commitments. I saw the re-airing of the race yesterday. Wow, Eric Jones (#43) really "blew it." How did he manage to lose the race in the last quarter of the final lap. Chastain (#1) played it perfectly. Huge lessons learned by the top five going into third turn before the finish.

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The Book Page

How the disappearance of the dinosaurs created an hospitable world for humans.

Link here. My notes on the book will be recorded here. From the preface:

Biologists still argue about what the definition of life truly is—reproduction, growth, movement—but the one amazing fact that we are confronted with every day is that life is incredibly, irrepressibly resilient. Every organism alive today is tied together, each life connected to the one before it. Even as we acknowledge that 99 percent of all species that once lived are now extinct, our world is still brimming with organisms that have survived, evolved, and thrived in their own ways.

From the foggy and sometimes dim windows of the fossil record, paleontologists have estimated that about 75 percent of known species that were alive at the end of the Cretaceous were not present in the next sliver of time. As if to drive the point home, a band of clay packed with the metal iridium marks the boundary between the  Age of Dinosaurs and the opening chapters of the Age of Mammals. In some places, such as eastern Montana and the western Dakotas, you can follow the story layer by layer, watching the likes of Triceratops disappear as a world of diminutive fuzzballs begin to flourish in a new Age of Mammals.

The book: The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World, Riley Black, c. 2022. 

Riley Black:

Who she is, what she does:

Riley has been a fossil fanatic since the time she was knee-high to a Stegosaurus. Her evolution into a science writer and amateur paleontologist was only natural. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, right in the center of dinosaur country, she chases tales of vanished lives from museum collections to remote badlands.

A prolific writer, Riley wrote her popular Laelaps blog for publications such as WIRED, National Geographic, and Scientific American for more than a decade. Her fossil-filled tweets have led Business Insider to call her one of the top "science social media wizards" and HLN to dub her one of "Twitter's 8 coolest geeks", as well, and she was the host of Parallax Film’s Dinologue. And in a childhood dream come true, Riley was also hired to be the "resident paleontologist" for Jurassic World

Riley Black sounds like the J.R.R. Tolkien of the "dinosaur world." 

I absolutely don't need this book, but I just ordered it from Amazon, and it will be at my door this evening. 

Look at the copyright date, and look at today's date:

2 comments:

  1. seems i've been buying a couple of those each week....at least that's how i often i get a phone call from 'amazon' asking me to confirm mu

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    1. And Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Apple and Amazon all thank you many times over. It is customers like you that make Apple and Amazon look good. LOL.

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