Using coordinates as event locations: anyone else do that?

44°54’14.6″N 92°58’43.7″W is one our mountain bike team meeting places. I’ve been using coordinates in calendar locations for a year or so. Works better than anything else and is cross-platform. I put Google Maps URL in description section.

Haven’t seen anyone else do this but hope it’s a growing trend.

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American Loggers: your purchased iTunes media has a limited useful lifespan.

My son is a fan of an old TV series – American Loggers. When we recently restored his phone from iCloud backup it was missing.

It’s no longer available in the US:
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We did have copies on iTunes, but not all of our media is in iTunes now. Some movies and TV shows are iCloud only. Those could vanish at any time, even though we paid for them with the expectation of long term ownership.

The not-so-long-term fix is everything streaming/rental, no expectation of ownership. It will become much harder to access and use the media we purchased in the past. I’ve already found that synching an iPhone with both iTunes and iCloud media is very problematic. Apple must know this…

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My post-book moment. 

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Teaching our mountain biking team I passed around a book I like. 

The 12-14yo were amused but disinterested. 

Yeah, they were playing me, but it felt genuine.

Eichmann and the Catholic Church

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Wikipedia: “1948 Eichmann obtained a landing permit for Argentina and false identification under the name of “Ricardo Klement” through an organisation directed by Bishop Alois Hudal, an Austrian cleric then residing in Italy with known Nazi sympathies…These documents enabled him in 1950 to obtain an International Committee of the Red Cross humanitarian passport and the remaining entry permits that would allow emigration to Argentina… He travelled across Europe, staying in a series of monasteries that had been set up as safe houses…Departing via ship from Genoa on 17 June 1950, he arrived in Buenos Aires on 14 July.”

PS. iOS autocorrect doesn’t recognize Eichmann.