"Humans are the only machines capable of solving new problems."
Silicon Valley’s New Parlor Game? The ‘Last Job’
When robots accomplish everything, what's left for humans to do?
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鮑康如（Ellen Pao）在辭職聲明中說：「在 Reddit 工作了兩年多後，今天我宣佈辭職。打從2013/04/01那天在 Reddit 工作起，天天都是意想不到歷程。職掌 Reddit 執行長的八個月間，我見到好的、壞的，以及醜陋的一面。好的已成異乎尋常的激勵，而醜陋的一面則令我對人性起疑。」（After more than two years at reddit, I have resigned today. My first day was April 1, 2013, and every day since has been an adventure. In my eight months as reddit’s CEO, I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly on reddit. The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity.）
Mumbai’s Empty Parlor Games
By SIDDHARTH DHANVANT SHANGHVI
Socializing with sycophants and hypocrites.
What is sketch comedy?
Sketch comedy is a genre of dramatic performance where the material in a particular show is a collection of short comic pieces unrelated to each other. Each piece is usually centered around a comic "premise." The premise may be something completely off-the-wall such as "What if the San Francisco '49ers Football Team decided to open a beauty parlor? " or something more politically or socially relevant like "What if Anne Coulter and David Bowie had been lovers in the past?"
Whatever the comic premise, the sketch will usually contain absurd exaggeration with unrealistic outcomes peppered with outrageous action and circumstances befalling the characters.
| Germany is considering appointing a special envoy on Afghanistan to liaise with the new US emissary to the region, Richard Holbrooke, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman confirmed in Berlin. [more] |
For the regular patrons and personnel here at the Mayflower, last week’s revelations of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s rendezvous with a pricey prostitute within its walls fit into a decades-long story of such liaisons. Some staff members have a parlor game: Guess the Call Girl.
“We are in the business of selling rooms,” said a former manager of the Mayflower, speaking on the condition of anonymity as he searches for another job in the clubby world of fancy hotels. “And the escort services are in the business of keeping our guests happy.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In 1942, twenty-five-year-old Lawrence gained national recognition when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., shared the acquisition of his sixty-panel Migration of the Negro series and sent it on a fifteen-venue tour across the United States. Later that year, the Met purchased its first work by the artist, “Pool Parlor,” a prizewinner in "The Artists for Victory" competition. BlackHistoryMonth
In 1942, twenty-five-year-old Lawrence gained national recognition when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., shared the acquisition of his sixty-panel Migration of the Negro series and sent it on a fifteen-venue tour across the United States. Later that year, the Met purchased its first work by the artist, “Pool Parlor,” a prizewinner in "The Artists for Victory" competition. BlackHistoryMonth
parlour game UK, US parlor game noun [C] OLD-FASHIONED
a game played inside a house, usually involving words or acting
parlor game
Syllabification: par·lor gamenoun
an indoor game, especially a word game. More example sentences- She is constantly studying and she plays games - word games, parlour games and card games, to keep her mind sharp.
- There are a handful of games for children, a seemingly endless series of rehashes of Victorian parlor games, war games, and that's it.
- Adam and his wife invite the narrator to a party to play Mafia, a complicated parlor game, one followed by a more dangerous game emotionally called ‘I Never,’ a kind of truth-or-dare.
liaise
verb [I]
to speak to people in other organizations in order to exchange information with them:
Our head office will liaise with the suppliers to ensure delivery.
liaise
verb [I]
to speak to people in other organizations in order to exchange information with them:
Our head office will liaise with the suppliers to ensure delivery.
liaison
noun
1 [S or U] communication between people or groups who work with each other:
He blamed the lack of liaison between the various government departments.
The police have appointed a liaison officer to work with the local community.
2 [C] MAINLY US someone who helps groups to work effectively with each other:
She served as a liaison between the different groups.
3 [C] FORMAL a sexual relationship, especially between two people not married to each other:
He's had a number of liaisons, even with people in the same office.
escort services 本刊解釋過 請 search之 這兒就是"拉皮條"
off-the-wall
Eccentric, unconventional, as in That idea of opening a 100-seat theater is off the wall. This expression probably originated in baseball or some other sport in which the ball can bounce off a wall in an erratic way. [Colloquial; 1960s]
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