Friday, October 18, 2024

Remember When Sam Moore and Joyce Moore Fought For Musician's Retirements and Pensions

 

The music business tried to kill rock n roll, and keep its retirement money for its own greedy record label self.

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Revisión de Ai (IA) Medical Billing en Baptist Health South Florida - (Spanish auto-detect)


El nuevo sistema de facturación de inteligencia artificial en Baptist South Florida es tan rápido que casi puede superar la supervisión.

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Review of Ai Medical Billing at Baptist Health South Florida

 
The new AI billing system at Baptist South Florida is so fast it can almost outrun oversight.

Monday, July 22, 2024

Monday, July 1, 2024

Ventanita Coffee Book and Coffee Windows as Invention

 

 

Cuban Coffee Windows of Miami is the independent, self-published book that started the modern Ventanita wave.

In the 1960’s, they were called Cafetin. Up until 2016, it was "A la ventana;" and they were generally referred to in writing as "Ventanilla," with two L's, Spanish style, as in from Spain, even by Cuban-American food blogger Burger Beast, and the so-called New Times.  

When I published my book, there was no "La Ventanita" cafeteria at FIU. There was no "La Ventanita" inscription on the window at Versailles. Several media companies backdated their articles to meet the newly popularized nomenclature later.

I did not invent ventanita. It's a basic word utilizing the common linguistic diminutization feature found in both Cuba and Russia (which post-revolutionary Cubans are still indoctrinated into the traditions as well as evil communist brainwashings of on the island to this day), but "Ventanita" had no social cache or active zeitgeist in popular media, where Cuban coffee windows went largely overlooked as something to be proud of for decades. I had my idea for a book on them since 2009, but a couple of articles on them came out the year I started, 2015, but before me (Mandy Baca, Sef Gonzalez).

The Miami cafecito is a local and therefore American invention.

In fact, the very concept of "Cuban coffee" is built on commodification and cultural appropriation, from the beans to the machines.

Walk-up coffee windows have existed in many countries, including Italy, where Miami's Cuban espresso machines are traditionally from. Coffee was actually introduced to the western hemisphere in Martinique, Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Colombia, via French and Spanish explorers. But coffee windows most likely originated somewhere in the North African and Arab worlds, where much of early coffee history leads back to, and whose trade centers were famed for great markets that still stand today.

Cafeteria coffee windows vastly predate air conditioning and they are not a Cuban invention by any means. In fact, windows are not defined by glass or metal tracks, but by empty space in the wall of a building, a very ancient architectural tradition that no Miami businessman can lay claim to. 

Friday, May 31, 2024

watery streets 5-31-24

 

running the robalo with two hondas pushing 450 on the back of a ford f250

Sunday, May 26, 2024

Important Florida Boating Information


First of all, you gotta know that maritime law is very different from land law. Did you know boaters can get pulled over by cops on the water at pretty much any time for pretty much any reason and have their vessels boarded and searched? And did you know that Florida's FWC officials can also make stops on land? Find out more info in this interview

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

runnin with the tide

 

©Jacob katel
Much fun flying through the trees in an ancient native american capital on my kayak

Sunday, May 19, 2024

anti gravity movement


 

Very interesting theories about the nature of consciousness, physics, math, geometry, and science by Terrence Howard as explained on a great episode of the Joe Rogan show.

I agree that new ideas can be restricted by old math, but I'm not all in on super symmetry. I think the fundamental building block of all life is in the chaos of the flow state and its improvised and sometimes volatile reactions, which are the counterpoint to equanimity's total coolness under pressure. Both phenomena are present in sports, and cause both wins and losses, but oftentimes we hear about an ugly win where something seemingly magic happens in an odd way. Flawless imperfection, the yin yang of true reality, is the best case asymmetrical state that we experience as the daily ideal, and may be an important aspect of universal truth

Without conflict, there is no drama, the essence of the human condition. Therefore, in my opinion, perfect symmetry is a human invention to try to order that which cannot be understood, but not necessarily a physical axiom

Go crazy if you want, but I don't think we are meant to overly ponder infinity or get caught up in numerology. I think that even if it can result in some, usually monetary, value, it actually may hinder the path of true enlightenment, peace, love, prosperity, action, offense, defense, aggression, and tranquility

As for the idea of uncoupling an object from the earth, galaxy, or universe's rotation to incite hyperspeed travel, that could be a grand slam



update after the great followup episode with eric weinstein and terrence howard debate: I see now that by Howard's personal definition of super symmetry, i believe he refers to the phenomena which must logically occur in which sometimes everything lines up curves perfectly; not that it is a constant state, but moreso an ephemeral absolute contained within the chaos, therefore I agree with that premise.

I also noticed that since the release of the first episode, that Google is using some version of the idea of Howard's universal Lynchpin shape as the logo for its Gemini AI.



very interesting

Saturday, May 18, 2024

kayaking the everglades

 

Jacob Katel

here i am kayaking out where they run airboats in alligator country off the python levy in a water conservation area in the francis section back of the micc having a blast in the miami everglades.

look at all those cat tail reed plants. they are used to soak up phosphorus and other could be dangerous chemicals and move the junk out of the water as it flows south into florida bay

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Top 10 Reasons Bigfoot Hasn't Been Discovered, Yet

Massive, ape-like, elusive, Bigfoot is a worldwide wilderness monster whose genus have been sighted from the peaks of the Himalayas to the ruggedest wilds of the USA. And even the woods behind some highway rest stops, grunting loud and running off smiling.

All throughout history, mega-drifters have roamed the earth, cracking the paperbag of space-time through a tear in the fabric of reality. Even today, people claim to see Bigfoots everywhere. 

But no one has proven their existence conclusively.

That's because Bigfoot's species exist in a world beyond reason, and that existence is proof that Bigfoot is real. Here are the top 10 reasons that mysterious Bigfoot creature hasn't been "discovered," yet.

10. Caves

9. Portals

8. Hibernation

7. Shape Shifting

6. Camouflage

5. Trees

4. Underwater

3. Tunnels

2. Invisibility

1. Spaceships

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

coffee power

 

medio cafecito - jake katel

Un Poquito e Café

a coffee poem ©Jake Katel

 

Dame un buchí

Un buchito

Cafecito

Ese mismo

Paseito

Diminutivo

Monday, May 13, 2024

name that neighborhood - somewhere in the MIA

 

typical classic local style architecture at a landmark building in a hot area with a storied past, a tumultuous present, and an interesting future

Sunday, May 5, 2024

Recommended article

"Toutiao," meaning "Headlines," is the Chinese news-app whose machine-intelligent content-recommending-engine powers corporate owner Byte Dance's flagship product Tik Tok.

But it is Susquehanna, a private global trading tech firm, who arranged hundreds of millions in early funding for it. And that's a company owned by Americans deeply involved in Libertarian political funding

Very interesting


Thursday, May 2, 2024

Lenny, Flip, and Rickles: Standup Comics In The Magic City - News

 new news on the way

soft focus, manual settings, read the manual

 how to take a cool blurry picture of the night sky with a car flying past on that good old tamiami trail no filtros - outtake from astrophotography florida article

Jake Katel

wild florida


tiny little dime size wild horseshoe crab making its way through the wacky world

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

FL KEEZ

 

THE BACK YARD OF THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES IS IN FLORIDA BAY JUST BEYOND THIS SOUND

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