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The Daily Dad — Sep 27, 2024

Lana Del Rey Obtains Marriage License Amid Jeremy Dufrene Romance
❝ Lana Del Rey is trading in “Summertime Sadness” for “Fiancé Fall” … as the singer looks set to marry her boyfriend, Jeremy Dufrene.
Your Consciousness Can Connect With the Whole Universe, Groundbreaking New Research Suggests
❝ This latest clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel-Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain.

Tupperware, pioneer of food storage and sales parties, files for bankruptcy
❝ Tupperware Brands, the company that revolutionized food storage decades ago and saw exponential growth with Tupperware parties, has filed for bankruptcy after years of financial woes and slumping sales due to cheap online competition.

‘Chimp Crazy’ Swings Big Donations for Tonka’s Sanctuary
❝ The craze surrounding HBO’s docuseries “Chimp Crazy” has become quite profitable for the sanctuary now housing the show’s star, Tonka the Chimp.
Singer Tito Jackson, member of the Jackson 5, dead at 70
❝ The Jackson 5 included brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael.

New multispectral analysis of Voynich manuscript reveals hidden details
❝ Handwriting suggests Prague doctor named Johannes Marcus Marci tried to decode in 1640.
Pathogenic microbes blown vast distances by winds, scientists discover
❝ Living microbes that cause disease in humans and host antibiotic-resistance genes carried 1,200 miles
Judge Orders Guardianship Firm to Return Thousands It Took From an Elderly Woman for Services It Never Provided
❝ New York Guardianship Services had billed Judith Zbiegniewicz $450 a month for court-ordered care, but a judge found the company provided “minimal services, if any” for years, including at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

Titanic: Striking images reveal depths of ship’s slow decay
❝ A new expedition finds that a large part of the railing at the ship’s front has fallen away.
Ok, but why do certain languages spoken with American intonations sound exactly like Simlish?

Modern text parser game The Crimson Diamond rewards precision
❝ Julia Minamata’s first game, The Crimson Diamond, is a text parser using EGA-style art.
Woman found dead in her cubicle 4 days after last clocking in
❝ The deceased worker was identified as Denise Prudhomme, 60.

• ‘¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!’ Trailer: ‘South Park’ Creators Save Restaurant
❝ ‘South Park’ creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone save a restaurant in documentary ‘¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!.’

• NARA recovers famed 1982 Grace Hopper lecture recorded on obsolete media format
❝ U.S. Navy computer scientist and COBOL inventor Grace Hopper gave a famed lecture in 1982 that was recorded using an obsolete video medium for which no player now exists.… Read the rest “The Daily Dad — Aug 28, 2024”

• Nintendo Shutting Down Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp App, Plans to Release Paid Offline Version – MacRumors
❝ Nintendo today announced that it will shut down the Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp app for iOS on November 29, seven years after the game originally…

• Inzoi Players Are Recreating Tons of Real People and Pop Culture Characters in Its Wild Character Creator – IGN
❝ Inzoi, The Sims competitor from PUBG developer Krafton, has temporarily released its incredibly in depth character creator and players are using it to recreate a ton of real people and pop culture characters.… Read the rest “The Daily Dad — 2024-08-22”

• What Barack Obama’s DNC speech was actually about
❝ Beneath the campaign rhetoric, Barack Obama offered a strikingly philosophical defense of American liberalism.

• 20 years of Bennifer ends in divorce
❝ 20 years of Bennifer, explained.

• ‘Love Island’s Nicole Jacky Slams Kendall Washington for Lying About Leaked Video
❝ There’s already trouble in paradise for “Love Island USA” stars Nicole Jacky and Kendall Washington … with the couple butting heads over a leaked-video scandal, which took place out of the villa.… Read the rest “The Daily Dad — 2024-08-21”