Wow, Wow, Wow — Apple Special Event Announcement — October 24, 2023

Locator: 45815APPLE.

Link here.

Special event just announced!

October 30, 2023!

If the M3 is not introduced there will be a lot of unhappy campers.

If the M3 is introduced, wiki will have to update its “semiconductor chip” page. 

For the archives … let’s see if Ming-Chi Kuo changes his prediction between now and next week.

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The Book Page

The following books are on my short list. I won't buy any from Amazon until after November 6, 2023 -- but then after that, depending on circumstances, these are the books:

• Jackie: Public, Private, Secret, Randy Taraborrelli, 2023
• What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds, Jennifer Ackerman, 2023,
• The Iliad, Amy Wilson, 2023
• The Sisterhood: The Secret Sister of Women in the CIA, Liza Mundy, 2023.

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The Magazine Page

There are moments when I suffer intense memories of my own life. Today driving after a short -- not biking, due to rain and distance and constraint of time -- I thought about was going in the 50's and 60's -- I was born in 1951. We lived in Williston, North Dakota, a distance farther in time than in miles from NYC and Washington, DC, and Vietnam .... and I thought about Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe -- neither of whom I would ever hear about or read about for many, many years. And then Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s connects me with John F. Kennedy in the 1960s and, that, of course, connects me with Vietnam.

All in a flash of an eye, as they say. And I become, not tearful, but that moment just before one becomes tearful and then regains one's composure. It's a most pleasant -- for lack of a better word -- feeling, however fleeting it might be. 

Just prior to my short drive I had been reading an essay on The Crucible in a recent issue of The New York Review -- Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe -- and all those memories of the 1960s came back. The Crucible was a decade earlier but it was all compressed a blink of an eye.  

I had forgotten about the obligatory six-week stay in Reno prior to a California divorce.

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Marilyn Monroe