{"id":9500,"date":"2014-08-23T10:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=9500"},"modified":"2014-08-23T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T17:06:22","slug":"saturday-morning-post-a-tasty-stew-of-news-chum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=9500","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Morning Post: A Tasty Stew of News Chum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8131\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/stew.jpg\" alt=\"Observation Stew\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>OK, so I&#8217;m nowhere near Benji Franklin or Norm Rockwell. But it is Saturday, and that means it is time to bring out the &#8220;mag&#8221;&#8230; otherwise known as the stew of articles that caught my eye over this busy week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jews in the South<\/strong>. If you get <em>Reform Judaism<\/em> magazine (as I do), you&#8217;ve seen those ads where the community of Dothan AL offers to pay Jews to move there. Ever wonder if it works? Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/204076\/you-can-pay-jews-to-live-in-dothan-alabama-but-wil\/?picks_feed=true&amp;google_editors_picks=true&amp;picks_feed=true&amp;google_editors_picks=true&amp;picks_feed=true&amp;google_editors_picks=true\">an article from the Forward that looks at the program and its successes&#8230; and failures<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Perhaps the Older Ways are Better<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re like me, you dutifully rerecorded your records onto each new medium. I had a large cassette collection, which I rerecorded onto CDs. I&#8217;ve also added a large number of purchased CDs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2014\/08\/18\/340716269\/how-long-do-cds-last-it-depends-but-definitely-not-forever?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20140818\">But are CDs the best way to store things? It turns out that not all CDs last the same, and most don&#8217;t last anywhere near forever<\/a>. Good thing I&#8217;ve got my music on my hard drive in a format that will never go away &#8211; MP3s \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eating Food Right. <\/strong>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viralnova.com\/eating-foods-wrong\/#.U_hZB3kt3Cc.facebook\">a list of 25 foods that (supposedly) we&#8217;ve been eating the wrong way<\/a>. Some of these I&#8217;ve seen before (such as the cupcake sandwich). Others are useful information for my daughter, such as using a waffle iron for pizza or hash browns. Others are cool, such as putting bacon in your cinnamon roles. I like the salad in a jar, m&#8217;self.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sound in a Bowl<\/strong>. From salad in a jar to sound in a bowl. The Hollywood Bowl, to be precise. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/la-et-cm-ca-fred-vogler-20140817-column.html#page=2\">an interesting article on the job of the sound technicians at the Hollywood Bowl<\/a>. Most people don&#8217;t think about the sound designers &#8230; and that&#8217;s how they would like it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tracking You.<\/strong> Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard that <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/locationhistory\/b\/0\">Google is tracking every move<\/a>. Here&#8217;s another one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/autos\/la-fi-hy-corvette-records-valet-driver-20140819-story.html\">The new Corvette tracks everything that a valet driver does in the car<\/a>. Now when you hand over your keys, you can know if they are going on a joyride. Let&#8217;s add one more to the tracking: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/envelope\/cotown\/la-et-ct-political-ads-satellite-directv-dish-network-20140819-story.html#page=1\">DirecTV and Dish are teaming up to send political ads to just <em>your<\/em> television<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>I Don&#8217;t Recall.<\/strong> Speaking about vehicles, the government has released a useful new tool. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2463560,00.asp\">Enter your VIN, find out if there are any recalls for your car<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It Adds Up<\/strong>. Ever wonder about those partially used bars of soap from your hotel visits? Think they go to waste? Nope. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-recycled-hotel-soap-20140815-story.html\">Hotels recycle them to make new bars of soap for the homeless<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unknown Features.<\/strong> Here&#8217;s a useful list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2466718\/the-top-14-hidden-features-in-windows-ios-and-android.html#tk.rss_all\">the top 14 hidden features in Windows, iOS, and Android<\/a>. I particularly like Win-X on Windows. I&#8217;ll have to explore developer mode on Android (of course, they don&#8217;t mention the most useful feature that is non-obvious: how to do cut and paste on Android). Since we&#8217;re talking computer stuff, here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/08\/21\/free-famous-fonts_n_5683268.html\">26 favorite fonts you can get for free (such as the Disney font)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You Go Girl<\/strong>. And lastly, some good news. <a href=\"http:\/\/scvnews.com\/2014\/08\/18\/women-donminate-science-and-math-at-csun\/\">Women are dominating science and math at Cal State Northridge<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I&#8217;m nowhere near Benji Franklin or Norm Rockwell. But it is Saturday, and that means it is time to bring out the &#8220;mag&#8221;&#8230; otherwise known as the stew of articles that caught my eye over this busy week: Jews in the South. If you get Reform Judaism magazine (as I do), you&#8217;ve seen <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=9500\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9502,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}