The Pierce Family is getting a kick out of playing GeoGuesser together every evening for a few minutes.  For the uninitiated, the game uses Google Earth to drop you in a random place on the earth and you need to guess where you are after looking around for up to 3 minutes. The closer your guess, the more points you get.  We’ve been to Brazil, Canary Islands, Kenya, Australia, Canada. . .

Free to play once a day.

https://www.geoguessr.com/

The Pierce Family’s good friend Tony Hoff is in Namche, Nepal today.  Starting Everest Base Camp trek with friends.  Good luck, Tony.

They got snow last night.

For comparison,

Nice stuff here. Video.

https://aeon.co/videos/amid-the-chaos-of-being-nietzsche-believed-that-plants-offer-us-inspiration-for-living?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7c184b39df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_04_15_09_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-7c184b39df-70547025

Amid the chaos of being, Nietzsche believed that plants offer us inspiration for living

Aristotle thought that plants possess what he called a ‘vegetative soul’. Centered on growing and reproducing, this primordial, unthinking state of being was encompassed and far surpassed by the ‘rational soul’ of humans. Friedrich Nietzsche, however, believed that, in the overwhelming confusion of considering how we might live, there was much we could learn from plants – deeply rooted in the ground and yet limitlessly expressive as they are. Borrowing from some of Nietzsche’s lesser-known writings, this short video essay might just inspire you to look at a plant growing through a crack in the ‘inhospitable ground’ – and perhaps even Nietzsche himself – in a new light.

The Pierce family just returned from Spring Break.The first two nights were spent in transit camping at Lake Castaic near LA and then with Aunt Julie in Studio City.

Then we arrived in San Clemente for a surfing holiday.  The kids can’t seem to surf anywhere other than Dana Point.

We met the Louderbacks and the Gutierrezes, and Phillips Sweet and Jeff Scofield stopped by for a visit at our hotel.

We whole-heartedly recommend the San Clemente Inn as family friendly accommodation a short walk to the beach in San Clemente.  Suites with kitchens, swimming pool, hot tub, tennis, pickle ball, miniature golf, ping pong, and barbeques.  Our room had a view of the ocean.  Everything was as advertised on their website.

Pierces are going to hit the 20th Century this Summer.

Robert just realized that, for the most part, 20th century novels were pretty dire.

Rory is already on the lookout for newspeak.

Robert has been working hard to solve a perplexing and time consuming puzzle.  He has finally figured out what wristwatch he wants once the Pierce family pulls itself out of its current financial nose-dive.  Or he retires from a fully staffed law firm.  Or has its 50th wedding anniversary (with a wife that has some money). Important matter indeed. And those reading this blog need  information like this well before the Christmas gift-giving season.

He presents you with:

The Omega Seamaster 300 Co-Axial Master Chronometer 41 MM

With blue dial and blue oxalic anodized aluminum bexel with its diving scale filled with vintage Super-LumiNova. You will, of course, note that the recessed hour markers and open numerals feature Super-LumiNova, which is also present on the rhodium-plated hands.

And note that with so many “master”s in the name, you know its gotta be good.

Here it is, https://www.omegawatches.com/en-us/watch-omega-seamaster-300-co-axial-master-chronometer-41-mm-23430412103001

Robert stumbled on this documentary last night.  Worth a watch.

With more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. On March 9, 2016, the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence collided in South Korea for an extraordinary best-of-five-game competition, coined The DeepMind Challenge Match. Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched as a legendary Go master took on an unproven AI challenger for the first time in history.

In addition to period chick flicks, Robert loves virtue-expressing-verging-on-the-sappy big pics.  Add Mitty to the list.

Forrest Gump
Searching for Sugarman
Walter Mitty

Gotta watch these two clips in order.

The Pierces are busy installing and tuning a new Ikea kitchen.

For numerous reasons, it turns out that they could not extend their countertop as far as they wanted. Never fret, Robert to the rescue.  Introducing, the Ikea cabinet microwave cart hack!  Whoa.  Look at that quartz top that matches the kitchen counter! Look at those wheels! Space solution, with no new electrical outlets needed!  Plus, just a hint of Snap-On toolchest.  Woo Hoo! Further evidence of possible genius!