It's called the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, by the way, because Daniel K. Inouye took out three Nazi machine gun nests by himself, and while throwing a grenade at one, had his right arm shot off by a Nazi rocket, obligating him to pull the still-live grenade from his now-severed hand, and toss it into the bunker. As one does.
Coinciding with the approach of winter in other parts of the U.S., “Movers & Shakas" — a reference to the Hawaii term for the “hang loose" hand gesture — launches Sunday as a campaign to attract former residents and those from elsewhere to set up remote offices with a view. They're touting Hawaii's paradisiacal and safety attributes: among the lowest rates per capita of COVID-19 infections in the country.
The first 50 applicants approved starting Sunday receive a free, roundtrip ticket to Honolulu. Applicants pledge to respect Hawaii's culture and natural resources and participants must commit several hours a week to helping a local nonprofit.
It didn't take much to convince Abbey Tizzano to leave behind her Austin, Texas, apartment to join four Silicon Valley friends in a rented house in Kahala, Honolulu's version of Beverly Hills.
She had never been to Hawaii before. She booked a one-way ticket, arrived in September and quarantined for 14 days, complying with the state's rules at the time for arriving travelers. She's keeping Central time zone hours while working in account management for a software company, allowing her to end the work day early enough to enjoy long hikes along mountain ridges or walk five minutes to the beach.
It's a niche compared to Fortinte etc, but it still has as many regular users as it did back in the day. It doesn't really grow but it doesn't really die!
Yes though I think the public has not caught on yet. These apps have become far more popular during the pandemic quarantine and people don't realize it's going to put a lot of their favorite food joints out of business.
It's been awhile, but I thought VR glasses in "Snow Crash" have all the functionality of cell phones, you just need to log into a 3D metaverse to communicate with someone else.
I'm amazed at the pushback over "Afrofuturist", the term has been around for decades and is an important theme in science fiction and pop music (think Janelle Monáe), let alone Black Panther:
