John Farrand

Sr. Cloud Broadcast Engineer at Paramount+. Photographer.. Tech lover.. and oddly enough, I have an Emmy.

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@therabbithole Yep! We’ve seen it in our schools for sure. Useless positions soaking up tax money. The county I live in (only ~500k population) has 46(!) school districts Not one Unified.

46 Superintendents (230-300k/yr ea), 46+ Asst. Superintendents, 46+ Secretaries. Easy to reduce by 90%

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@USMortality @Alec_Zeck Well.. at least in California, my kids couldn’t enter school without completing the list of vaccines. So we’re kind of stuck until Federal steps in and calls out the BS.

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@AnnettePrestia I try to eat RFK-approved chips. Like the ones from @SieteFoods .. Seriously good! And clean!

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@elonmusk Amazing. Biggest mistake I made for the house was not putting in a Powerwall with my solar!

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@elonmuskTN 29

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@jimfarley98 @Ford @Tesla Looking forward to this!

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@engvallart Would love to study your prompts. This work on your page is amazing.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Was just informed that approval to launch should happen in time for a Friday launch

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@nrqa__ Prompt. Please, thanks!

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@Vugar_Ibrahimov Guide please, thanks!

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@elonmusk @bpoppenheimer Please just get us to Mars, sir.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Jerry Seinfeld was once thinking about golf announcers whispering.

He then found something in his notebook about how people whisper when they talk about tipping.

"Now we make what's called a charm bracelet," Seinfeld says in this 144-second masterclass on the creative process:

When you notice a commonality between two or more things, Seinfeld explains,

"You say, 'Oh there's something there.' And now we make what's called a charm bracelet: You take these things and you find a way to associate them."

"So that's the process: I'm thinking about this [one] thing and then remember this [other] thing, and then you go, 'Oh there's something there—let me connect those 2 things.'"

Takeaway 1:

Whether it's in a notebook like Seinfeld, on notecards, in Apple Notes or a Notion database—many great artists have a habit of capturing the interesting thoughts or ideas they come across.

The comedian George Carlin said his capture habit started because...

“I had a boss in radio when I was 18 years old, and my boss told me to write down every idea I get even if I can’t use it at the time...and have a system for filing it away—because a good idea is of no use to you unless you can find it…"

A lot of creativity, Carlin said, “is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that’s our job is to just notice them and bring them to life.”

That's what Seinfeld did: he noticed the various contexts in which people whisper and brought them to life.

Takeaway 2:

The great fantasy and science fiction writer Brandon Sanderson says,

“The way that human creativity works is by combination. That’s what we’re really good at. We don’t come up with a completely new creature. We put a horn on a horse and go, ‘Look at that, that’s cool.’ That’s how we create on a fundamental level.”

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“Creativity equals connecting previously unrelated experiences and insights that others don’t see.” — Steve Jobs

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You’ve seen the images of Tiger’s chip-in at the 2005 Masters countless times. But you may not know just how that iconic moment came to fruition.

CBS Sports Director Steve Milton brings you inside the production the truck during that unforgettable shot.

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@callofduty @Activision What the heck is going on?? My wife and I have been playing split screen for years. We got a new Xbox and pre-ordered MWII months ago to find this??? That you’ve REMOVED split screen online? This makes no sense whatsoever.

[des’ @_DestineeKM]

this might be my new favorite Halloween video LMAOO. One of the kids at boo @ the zoo was michael 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@lisakrch @ROC_CTEC Aww.. Ms. Figures!!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Mari is an orangutan and has no arms, having lost them in an accident as an infant. In this short clip, she proves that even without her arms, she is still a perfectly capable orangutan

[read more: https://t.co/S4mciMQhQ2]

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Could I repeat the Mountain Dew “Every 10 Minutes” lightning strike??

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