Jet Cannon

Invisible Airwaves Crackle with Life

Music / By

Buzzed Boomers will remember listening to music on their very own transistor radios.  Often made in Japan, they were relatively inexpensive.  Our first transistor radio had four transistors in it.  Four.  Those transistors and battery power allowed for a big leap in portability over tube radios.  

Now hardware-maker Nvidia announces  a processor unit with 77 billion transistors, meant to unify nearly all computer-controlled automation in self-driving vehicles.  77 billion?!  Did someone count them?

– Jet Cannon

Photo:  Collectorsweekly

Russian Idiot

Music / By

On this day in 2004, the Bay Area band Green Day released its iconic American Idiot, which later won a Grammy Award for best rock album and was adapted into a rock opera.

We’re hoping for a new release titled Russian Idiot with which we will pair some fine French vodka.  (BTW, Green Day cancelled their scheduled concert in Moscow this year.)

– Jet Cannon

Photos:  Cheatsheet.com and stubhub.com

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Watch us drink!

Food and Drink / By

Watch us drink!  Wait.  That’s not quite what we read.  It was “watch what you drink and still lose weight.”  Insider.com suggests six delicious, low-calorie alcohol beverages.

Tequila with fresh lime, vodka and soda, light beer, Mojito minus the syrup, diet tonic with gin, and hard seltzer.

For details, click here.

 

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fighting back with fart spray

Trending / By

AARP reports that Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer, got mad at scammers and thieves.  Scammers often target seniors.  Now he is getting even in creative ways.  For example, “The smash-and-grab thieves who are breaking car windows and stealing from the vehicles.  Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, it’s really bad.  I’ll be working potentially with some law enforcement.  There will be a very uncharitable amount of fart spray involved.”

Game on!

– Jet Cannon

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Nature works wonders

Fitness / By

HuffPost reported on a recent study in Berlin that concluded nature walks, versus urban walks, were the best for improving one’s mood.

“The study followed 63 people who were randomly assigned a nature walk or an urban walk. The nature walk took place in a forest in Berlin and the urban walk took place on a busy street in the city.”

“Participants were instructed not to check their phones or stop in stores while on their walk.”  

Obviously, this study could never be conducted in the United States.

– Jet Cannon

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pass the donuts

Good Clean Fun / By

According to National Day Calendar, September 14th is National Sober Day and also National Cream-Filled Donut Day.  We’re confident we can nail the donut.

– Jet Cannon

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Drinking Black Tea Each Day May Lower Risk of dEATH, Study Shows

Caffeine / By

Well…. “Modestly” lower risk.  Darn!

Health.com reported this, “The participants were followed for about 11 years, and researchers determined that people who drank at least two cups of tea per day had a 9%–13% lower risk of death from all causes, compared to people who did not drink tea at all.” 

So add black tea to the beverages that offer some health benefits like coffee and green tea do.  Plus water.  And we’ll add tequila to those but not based on any facts or studies.  We just like it.

– Jet Cannon

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it sorta makes sense

Fitness / By

If we keep exercising as we age, we can stay physically fit and mentally healthier.  Even loss of muscle mass is not inevitable.  Don’t believe us?  We wouldn’t either.  But how about a Harvard Biologist?  Many Americans stop exercising, which leads them to become less fit, which in turns causes them to exercise even less.  Read more in Inc.

– Jet Cannon

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coffee balls

Caffeine / By

ABC News reports, “Swiss retailer Migros said Tuesday that it is launching a coffeemaking system designed to replace capsules that produce thousands of tons of waste worldwide each year.

The cooperative said its spherical capsules — described as “coffee balls” — are fully compostable, unlike the plastic and aluminum containers popularized by its rival Nestle under the brand Nespresso 36 years ago.

Migros said its coffee balls are encased in a thin, flavorless, seaweed-based cover that can be discarded with the spent coffee after use.

The company said the CoffeeB system, which also features a special coffeemaker, will be rolled out first in Switzerland and France this year, followed by Germany in 2023.”

 

Good thing we have time to get accustomed to saying “coffee balls” and consuming a morning dose of seaweed with our caffeine.

 

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Quantity. Not Quality. That’s Us!

Food and Drink / By

“One of the trends we have seen with this (Baby Boomer) age group,” says Liz Paquette, the head of consumer insights at Drizly, “is that they typically spend less per product, but more per order, than other generations.”

But we also learned we like premium wines.   So we’re not totally cheap!

 

– Jet Cannon