Twelve-time Emmy Award winning HBO comedy series Veep airs the third episode of its 5th season tonight off the back of winning its first:
Outstanding Comedy Series – 2015
Outstanding Casting For A Comedy Series – 2015
Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series – 2015
*** Spoilers ahead *** *** Happy Mother’s Day!***
Celebrate Mother's Day this year with the mother of our country Selina Meyer #veepsundaynite
— matt walsh (@mrmattwalsh) May 6, 2016
Rottentomatoes : 90%
Metacritic : 72
Emmys: 17 Wins
“A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.” — Andy Grove
In Memoriam: Andy Grove
2 September 1936 – 21 March 2016
Andy Grove was noted for making sure that important details were never missed. Having a strategic vision helps in recognizing the important factors.
He had survived by getting things right in the long term and transforming himself.
“By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising that was put down at gunpoint. . . [where] many young people were killed; countless others were interned. Some two hundred thousand Hungarians escaped to the West. I was one of them.“
Even though he arrived in the United States with little money and not knowing English, Grove retained a “passion for learning.” He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the City College of New York in 1960, followed by a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963.
“Probably no one person has had a greater influence in shaping Intel, Silicon Valley, and all we think about today in the technology world than Andy Grove.” — Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware
Continue reading Transformation: Swimming Across the Universe
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Bryan Singer will be relenting from the X-Men franchise for a short period as his next contractual project is an adaptation of Jules Verne‘s classic novel: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Apocalypse a.k.a. ‘En Sabah Nur’ is a ruthless incarnation of Darwinism, simply seeking to augment or enforce natural selection and remove those who are weak, unnecessary, or those who are slowly but surely destroying their own planet.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
War (artisan?), Famine (guardian?), Pestilence (rational?), Death (idealist?)
Rotten Tomatoes : 98%
Metacritic : 91
From the guys who brought you Office Space, Silicon Valley is partially inspired by Mike Judge’s experiences as an engineer in the area during the late ‘80s. It also features plot-lines parallel to that of Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Peter Thiel, Paul Graham, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Marc Benioff, Paul Allen, Larry Ellison, Eric Schmidt, and Sean Parker among others.
***HBONOW is now available exclusively online for a 30 day free trial available here.***
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Victorian horror series Penny Dreadful premieres its 3rd season two weeks from tonight and will feature a fresh rendition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic mad-scientist manifesto The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
“Penny dreadfuls” were a 19th-century London publishing phenomenon that featured a mass influx of cheap, illustration-heavy horror-based drama pieces.
Darkness will soon be upon us. Are you prepared? #PennyDreadful premieres May the first on @Showtime.https://t.co/6TJSx36dFk
— Penny Dreadful (@SHO_Penny) April 7, 2016
Honorable mention : Rory Kinnear : John Clare : Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadful is an elegant and clever amalgam of 17th century horror classics most notably : Mary Shelley’s Dr. Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey, among others.
The show focuses mainly on ***madness*** or : the tragic existence of a kindhearted Vanessa Ives who unwillingly serves as a conduit for the abstract notion of the apocalypse or “end of days”.
***SPOILERS AHEAD***
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Thrones SYGU‘d in a significant fashion this year picking up Emmy awards for Outstanding Drama Series, as well as Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Writing, Outstanding Casting, Outstanding Supporting Actor, and Outstanding Special Visual Effects among others.
Season 6 premieres two weeks from tonight and will essentially feature brand new content that George R.R. Martin has not yet written. So now all the snobby GoT book nerds will have to wait an entire week to find out what happens just like the rest of us plebs.
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*** SPOILERS AHEAD ***
#GameofThrones returns April 24 at 9PM. Watch a new trailer. #GoTSeason6https://t.co/coR9ve1P0o
— Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) April 11, 2016
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not gonna lie, kinda pumped for #gotseason6 #aryastark #revenge #winteriscoming #TheNorthRemembers #got #HouseStark pic.twitter.com/QqBTjAwcRg
— Brainsandcareers.com (@Keirseydotcom) April 4, 2016
Critically acclaimed new Wall Street drama Billions aired its penultimate episode tonight on Showtime and Paul Giamatti is all but locked for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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From the guys who brought you Rounders, Billions is a fictional depiction of some of the subversive tactics Wall-Street powerhouse players utilize to get an edge on the competition: and the legal repercussions.
***SPOILERS AHEAD***
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#TeamAxe: Knockout hero. 🏆#TeamChuck: Has eyes on the enemy. 👁
Whose side are you on? #Billions pic.twitter.com/OL7UbewxCr— BILLIONS (@SHO_Billions) March 8, 2016
#TeamAxe: Has an inside man. 🕵#TeamChuck: "Fuck the Pouch." 🍻
Whose side are you on? #Billions pic.twitter.com/ooxjCIUX94— BILLIONS (@SHO_Billions) March 15, 2016
Classic Artisan vs Guardian @SHO_Billions @briankoppelman @BillionsWriters https://t.co/5o3k0iCmSO pic.twitter.com/2J61mpq3Bb
— Brainsandcareers.com (@Keirseydotcom) April 3, 2016
I have the impression that some ways must be left behind, some mental habits must be abandoned, if we are not to clip the wings of progress. Even to science we must sometimes repeat Charon’s cry: By another way, by other ports, not here, you will find passage across the shore. In my role as teacher I hope to be able to show you other ways, if not other ports. — Giuseppe Vitali
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.” — William James
Bill Thomas has been described as a Cultural Jammer: trying to change the American attitudes towards aging.
In 1991, Bill Thomas, having been an emergency room doctor, became the medical director of a nursing home in upstate New York. He found the place, as the Washington Post put it, “depressing, a repository for old people whose minds and bodies seemed dull and dispirited.”
Is not a good idea.
So says her, and she should know: she has done the research.
It’s complicated, and there are no panaceas.
Real Complex. It’s hard work.
Politicians, Lawyers, Journalists, and the Public at large love simple explanations and simple solutions: let the Government or the Market solve it.
Simple Solutions for Complex Problems: NOT A GOOD IDEA. Many Simple Solutions are Fast Ideas.
Rather it’s communication: both cooperative and competitive.
Her ideas are slow ideas: complicated. And the world took awhile to recognize them. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics three years before her death.
“Lin Ostrom cautioned against single governmental units at global level to solve the collective action problem of coordinating work against environmental destruction. Partly, this is due to their complexity, and partly to the diversity of actors involved. Her proposal was that of a polycentric approach, where key management decisions should be made as close to the scene of events and the actors involved as possible.”
Emmy Award winning Showtime modern family drama series Shameless premieres its 6th season tonight and you can watch the first episode for free here:
Both major premium-content networks HBO and Showtime now offer their subscription-based services purely online via Hulu, and HBONOW. As more and more viewers are accessing their content online, streaming is becoming more and more of a mainstay in big-time entertainment.
For the main 2016 season, the NFL could be planning to partner with Google or Apple to livestream games https://t.co/bjzWGgJwe1
— Forbes (@Forbes) January 8, 2016
