{"id":573892280,"date":"2020-06-10T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892280"},"modified":"2020-06-18T19:45:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:45:43","slug":"if-youve-got-20-minutes-there-are-two-great-videos-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/if-youve-got-20-minutes-there-are-two-great-videos-below\/","title":{"rendered":"Got 20 minutes? There are two great videos below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found some fossils down at the lake yesterday. We have to spread these things out for content just now, plus I&#8217;ve been playing around with a new light box setup at home. So yesterday&#8217;s crinoid samples would have to wait. They&#8217;ve been sitting around for a few hundred million years, so what&#8217;s a few more hours, really? <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I am trying to remember how to take pictures of small things.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june20\/june22.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They look like shriveled Cheerios, don&#8217;t they? Really crunchy cereal bites with ridges. Don&#8217;t eat these, they aren&#8217;t that tasty, and probably difficult to digest at this stage. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing, really. I&#8217;m taking these pictures and I&#8217;ll put these back out by the lake or a creek or something and maybe one day someone else will see them. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june20\/june23.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Or maybe they&#8217;ll just wait for another few hundred million years until the insect citizens of Perpaplexiconia dig through a few more feet of soil and who knows what they&#8217;ll think of tiny fossils. Maybe they&#8217;ll eat stones for their digestive properties. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuff from Twitter<\/strong>, to pad this out.<\/p>\n<p>This is sort of self-explanatory. But I always wonder how people select the takeover person, and what that negotiation is like. Do you have to leave your license and car keys behind or something? Now, a full on swap for a day or so would be enlightening. I think it might be better on Instagram than Twitter, actually.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How cool is this?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the different ways en masse swaps might be useful across a broad array of fields or subcultures or age demos. 300 million people?<\/p>\n<p>That helps rub out lines between different silos that social media allows us to set up with our selection biases. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gM7RJQlQTT\">https:\/\/t.co\/gM7RJQlQTT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1270767044544380928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>George Taliaferro is one of those people that, the more you read about him, the more you want to know about him. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">George Taliaferro was absolutely The Man and football was the LEAST of it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CK2of1nuuh\">https:\/\/t.co\/CK2of1nuuh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1QkPBM0miW\">pic.twitter.com\/1QkPBM0miW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1270838849003012098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He led the Hoosiers to their only undefeated season, helped end segregation in Bloomington by a few different methods: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JnTZ2Bv7aQ8?start=582\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He became the first African-American drafted by the NFL, and spent a lifetime, I mean the rest of his life, lifting up others. I regret not having had the chance to meet him before he passed away. But there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoosiertimes.com\/herald_times_online\/news\/local\/a-walk-through-black-history-in-bloomington\/article_b5a4183c-ca9d-5c34-86b2-ce78643db7ea.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">plenty<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/theundefeated.com\/features\/george-taliaferro-black-quarterback-first-african-american-drafted-into-the-nfl\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">great stories<\/a> about him, I mean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/indiana\/football\/remember-george-taliaferro-race-relations-social-justice\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">plenty<\/a>, and football is merely the way you learn about an otherwise great man.<\/p>\n<p>Midway through this piece Taliaferro talks about he and the university president managed to desegregate the businesses of Bloomington. It&#8217;s a little choppy, but it goes like this: There was a photo in a popular restaurant right across the street from campus that had a picture of a championship IU team on the wall. Taliaferro said to Herman Wells, my picture is on the wall, but I can&#8217;t eat there. And Wells said, we&#8217;ll just see about that. It&#8217;s a big little story about two amazing men. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UKed9M1Zsho\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t make many like that anymore, and they never did make enough of them to begin with. <\/p>\n<p>I have an idea about this, don&#8217;t:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;We have a lot of National Guardsmen who are struggling with this, because unlike in combat when you have an enemy, these are our neighbors, our friends, our family.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lmIyle6twW\">https:\/\/t.co\/lmIyle6twW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1270886958693257219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine? One day you&#8217;re going through life&#8217;s drudgeries, the next day you&#8217;re in a pandemic, and then suddenly you&#8217;ve lost your father and your step-mother and now you&#8217;re the caregiver to five children and a stroke victim. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After two million confirmed cases, 114,000 deaths, how about an anecdote?<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Maria Ruelas, 35, is now taking care of her five step-siblings, ages 2 to 17, as well as her 30-year-old sister, who was hospitalized with coronavirus and had a stroke.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Take this seriously. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fhd6yXfm0B\">https:\/\/t.co\/fhd6yXfm0B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1270924889768239104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Where a mask, wash your hands, give the people around you plenty of distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found some fossils down at the lake yesterday. We have to spread these things out for content just now, plus I&#8217;ve been playing around with a new light box setup at home. So yesterday&#8217;s crinoid samples would have to wait. They&#8217;ve been sitting around for a few hundred million years, so what&#8217;s a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10,31,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobby","category-photo","category-twitter","category-video","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573892280"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892285,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892280\/revisions\/573892285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}