Apps - It's a New World

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 I figure you can safely say: It's a new world out there.

For clarity I write on Saturday eve, Sept. 18, 2021 at 277 Elm.

Just saw a pitch onscreen for a new 'app'. It deals with astronomy and stars.
It has info in its database of some 100,000,000 stars - that's a hundred million - or a hundred thousand of thousands.

This number blows me away - metaphorically of course. Wowsie.
All this in a single app that is readily accommodated in the memory of most phones I see these days.

Fuggetabout the memory thing and just reflect on the knowledge base.
I gotta figure that when I first took a computer course - 1970 - there were not 100,00,000 identified sky objects in our known universe. So not only have we, as a species, discovered and observed these objects, we have given them names and trajectories, and put it all in an app, which you carry on your phone in your pants pocket. Amazing.

Schmatte - Yiddish for Rag

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Should I get into the rag trade?

Nice Yiddish word applies to this. Schmatte.

This  question emerged one Sunday morn, (today) while tackling a suoer-long overdue chore of organizing my fabrics.

I've got enough clothes and other fabrics to give the appearance of a trader.