If you’ve been invited to a podcast that uses the Anchor app to produce the show, you may wonder how it works.  Depending on your level of comfort with today’s apps and podcast solutions, these instructions may be anything from confusing to as simple as drinking water.

Instructions for guest interviews using the Anchor (Podcast) App

The Podcast host will send you an invite from her/his side asking to send you, the interviewee, an invite/link via multiple medium.  S/he will will click “invite friends to join.”

There are so many mediums that are available today, Anchor provides multiple ways of reaching out to you, the guest: users who already have the app and are ready to go, text messages, twitter, facebook, and all the other default apps or media that your phone lets you select when clicking on … More.   Continue reading “How to be an Interviewee for an Anchor App Podcast”

The Korean phrase “멋있어” means “chivalrous” in English

The Korean word 멋있어 (romanized as “muh-shee-ssuh”) can exude many other concepts including: debonair, courageous or valorous.  There could be arguments that it means charming, suave or even heroic.  However, as many words are defined or received in terms of meaning, it can depend on so many factors including who is defining it or who is using it for whatever reasons.  Linguistically, semantics can have so many dimensions that make it almost impossible to provide the perfect twin in a completely different language. Continue reading “What’s the English Equivalent to the Korean phrase “멋있어” or “멋있다” (romanized as “muh-shee-ssuh” or “muh-shee-dah”)”

I’ve been keeping track of the death rate from Corona on a daily basis since March 12th.  Before that, I tried to decry that Covid-19 is MUCH more significant than people would give me credit.

Today, people are clearly aware that it wasn’t just many boys (or girls) who were crying wolf.

Latest update on April 17, 2020, 10:19 GMT.  

Marking today (3/30/2020), we’ll start to profile the:

Deaths in the World Velocity — Increasing or Decreasing — from Corona 

• It’s NOT slowing down; there was a perception it was from over the weekend, but that was false — our theories are that weekend stats are not as accurate
• Reminder: I’ve found weekends tend to have weaker data.  Moving forward, I’ll try and capture only M-F data.
• Our latest statistics as of Coronavirus Update shows people were dying at ~291.500/hour on April 17, 2020, 10:19 GMT
• 04/16/2020 showed people were dying at 337.333/hour/hour
• 04/15/2020 showed people were dying at 448.375/hour; the WORST rate thus far (they may have rejigged the numbers ~4/16 b/c this was not this bad a few days ago)
• 04/14/2020 showed people were dying at 224.875/hour/hour
• 04/12 (~253/hr) & 04/13 (~225/hr) will be omitted.  I’ve found weekends tend to have weaker data.  Moving forward, I’ll try and capture only M-F data.
• 04/11/2020 showed people were dying at 290.583/hour
• 04/10/2020 showed people were dying at 301.375/hour
• 04/09/2020 showed people were dying at 267.250/hour
• 04/08/2020 showed people were dying at 307.583/hour 
• 04/07/2020, 04:58 GMT showed people were dying at 217.792/hour
• 04/06/2020, 04:21 GMT showed people were dying at 197.375/hour
• 04/05/2020, 05:06 GMT showed people were dying at 241.667/hour
• 04/4/2020, 04:36 GMT showed people were dying at 249.708/hour
• 04/3/2020, 04:33 GMT showed people were dying at 248.667/hour throughout the globe vs. 203.458/hr the day before
• 04/2/2020 at 12:35 AM showed people were dying at ~203.458/hour throughout the globe vs. ~180.625/hr
• 03/31/2020 11:20 PM showed people were dying ~180.625/hour throughout the globe vs. the day before at 154.541/hour
• Latest statistics Globally: 937,167 cases worldwide & 47,267 deaths (Last updated: April 02, 2020, 07:27 GMT)

Continue reading “The latest Corona Velocity (Speed) of Transmission”

non-conformist, rebel and a deviant are what are currently defined as “someone who doesn’t follow the rules.”  (at least according to google’s search results)

Historically, there have been many trendsetters and pioneers that were originally disdained for “sticking out” or disobeying what society or even some small group they may have belonged to.  Today, more than ever, there will be and have been some amazing people who have been brave and literally failed to conform to what society or more conservative types may have deemed appropriate.  Nevertheless, here are some of the nouns that people associate with people who “fail” to follow the rules:

• • nonconformist – this entry popped up #1 when I searched “person who doesn’t follow the rules”  Vocabulary.com secured the featured snippet space with: “nonconformist. A nonconformist is someone who doesn’t conform to other people’s ideas of how things should be.”

Continue reading “What do you call someone who doesn’t follow the rules?”