This? This is Great.
This is a letter that was given to Reddit user leanentrep by a senior citizen after he taught them how to use the Internet. It reads:
“Thank you with all of my heart (and more, if possible) for the wonderful gift of music you have given me (obviously haven’t quite mastered the intricacies of Word yet). I spent all last night searching YouTube and “subscribing” to stuff I hadn’t heard in years except in my mind (as well as some comedy routines that never fail to crack me up). Again, with all my heart (I could use one of those little emojis right about now!).
P.S. And I even get to WATCH them!! How could I ask for more!?!
P.P.S. And there are several versions of many of them—be still my heart!!”
From the good-hearted sauce himself-
“I teach seniors at the senior home how to use computers and the internet,” reads the caption. “When I came in today, one of the ladys [sic] used MS word to write me this letter.”
Oooh like a cup of hot cocoa on a rainy day, right? Be still OUR heart! We’re off to watch some Youtube and be grateful.
Wanna talk like the kids from Silicon Valley? Either the place itself or its mirror, the TV Show?
Check out this new website by Silicon valley-ers Matthew Hui and Kilim Choi*, two 23-year-old UC Berkeley graduates who decided that this shizz needs to be written down for posterity and reference and for people to poke fun at and laugh at themselves for.
It’s called Silicon Valley dictionary, and you’ll find it here. Beginning as a joke, it’s burst into super popularity right now and includes words and phrases like ‘No Money Mo’ Problems’ , (An expression often used by startups who’re running out of their funding) and ‘Shallow Alto’ (Another name for Palo Alto, denoting how shallow and superficial many (but not all) of it’s inhabitants are.)
Check it out!
*Choi has since stepped down from the project and was replaced by Zeeshan Javed, another friend of Hui and a Computer Science graduate from Berkeley.
Over at UC Berkeley, there’s some dudes and dudettes who are hell bent on discovering what the eff is up there above us – we’re not talking angels here, rather, aliens.
One of those dudes is a Russian billionaire named Yuri Milner. He made his fortune investing in certain big name scompanies like Facebook and Twitter and now he’s spending (some of) it in an effort to find intelligent alien life. $100 million of it, to be precise. Wowza.
This money goes straight to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence research centre in Berkeley that has been looking for aliens since its inception in 1961.
Milner has called the project Breakthrough Listen and will be the largest scientific search for extraterrestrial life, in the expanse of the universe that will be studied, as well as the depth and detail of the data that will be collected and shared with the public.
How big is big? Well, beginning next year, and for the next 10 years, they’ll study the nearest million stars, nearest 100 galaxies, and the entire Milky Way galaxy and its billions of stars—a celestial expanse 10 times wider in scope than any previous research endeavors.
What’s really cool is that all data collected from the project will be made public for anyone to see, and Breakthrough Listen will offer a platform to developers to build applications to better analyze the celestial data.
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August 10, 2015 4:48 am | 
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