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• The Onion – Lester Holt Begins Debate By Reminding Audience These The Candidates They Chose
• I just know if I were ever in a presidential debate, I’d be running off stage to go pee since I have the world’s smallest bladder.
• A couple was shooting wedding photos in Central Park and Tom Hanks stopped by.
• I’ve only slept on a waterbed once, my back ached for a week.
• Man who spent 43 years in a wheelchair after mistaken diagnosis is learning to walk again after doctor spots the error
• A Chicago Sun-Times reporter witnessed a person jumping to her death. The suicide wasn’t reported by the paper, but it stuck with the journalist who decided to discover more about the person, what lead her to that life-ending decision, and interviewed the people it impacted – from friends and family to first responders and coworkers. You can read the piece here.
• Speaking “Star Trek”: Meet the Man Who Made Up the Klingon Language
• Something for the lawyers that read this here blog:
  • The Economist – How Computers Become Biased
    • In May of this year, non-profit new organisation ProPublica published a critical story about the use of algorithms in the criminal justice system. They revealed via rigorous statistics that the algorithm tasked with predicting future criminals was racially biased against African Americans. Relying on the output of algorithms without sufficient oversight was leading to the opposite of objectivity—instead of mitigating bias it was introducing it.

It’s been a long time since I’ve made a time-lapse video, which I used to do somewhat occasionally and post them. This one is from our visit to the Plano Balloon Festival we attended on Friday during the balloon glow. It’s not one of my better videos, but it was fun making it.