2 Guys; One Was a Little Cranky

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4 Things About Cyrus Farivar

1. He was voted off Wikipedia. He created an entry about himself which is a no-no. For revealing a person can be voted off Wikipedia he deserves to be reinstated in Wikipedia.

2. He's a funny guy. Maintains his sense of humor despite being a lonely voice advising us that the law can't keep up with all the ways data about us can be collected. That  data collection, by the way, is encouraged by federal grants to YOUR TOWN for surveillance technology, which is often implemented without thought about how the collected information will be used.

3. His new book is

which is about, among other things, how the legal definition of  "the reasonable expectation of privacy" is diminishing as, for instance, people know and expect that they're tracked everywhere they go with their phones.

4. At Dartmouth, he told an anecdote about how he never imagined that his Flickr photos would be used as training tools for facial recognition software. That's the whole ball of wax, isn't it? We can't imagine the ways all the data collected about us can be used.

        4a. He said it's a short leap for the body cameras that police wear to have facial recognition software, so that every time you interact with police (or pass an officer on the street), your face will be scanned to see if you're in any law enforcement data base. Like Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Here are 2019 examples of exactly that.

5. He pronounces his name Sir-RUSE. 

Even The Avengers Weren't Indestructible

I put the scanner in the baler.

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This was hideously expensive.

Nailed It

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Tiger Woods rallied from two shots back entering the final round of the 2019 Masters at Augusta National to capture his 81st PGA Tour title. 

3 Reasons Why Tiger Will Win the 2019 Masters

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1. He won't.

2. Let's be fair to the guy. He's great copy. The years he was on top, golf's popularity soared. So sticking with what they know, TV and the sports commentariat keep sucking that thumb.

Examples:

Opinion: Tiger Woods says he can win Masters, and that doesn't sound ridiculous at all

Christine Brennan, USA TODAY

Sorry Christine, it is ridiculous. (Golfweek has the exact same headline, by the way. Just to cover my bases, to Golfweek I say, "No, it isn't ridiculous at all." This follows the reporter's rule of spelling last names. If you don't know, spell it different ways. One of them is bound to be right. This method isn't a big hit with editors.)

Will Tiger Woods win the Masters? (a poll from Tylt).

Voters are slightly on the yes side. Sorry voters. There is a better chance that President Trump will invite refugees to the White House to give them the tickets to Disneyland he says they want.

CBS Sports:

2019 Masters: 14 years removed from his last, can Tiger Woods win another green jacket?

As he approaches his mid-40s, is it safe to rule out Woods at the Masters?

No and yes.

Kyle Porter writes:

I don't know if it will be this year, but we will have a real moment in the near future where we say, If Tiger makes this putt or sticks this shot (or whatever it is), he's going to win the Masters.

To be fair, Kyle thinks the above won't happen in 2019. It will never happen, Kyle.

3. Keegan Bradley will win the Masters in 2019.

I Didn't Think Led Zepplin Would Still Be So Popular - I Mean, It's Not Beethoven

(This is Beethoven.)

Things I predicted wrong.

I thought Amazon would have crashed under its own weight by now.

I didn't think there would still be three white guys telling different versions of the same joke on TV at 11:30 (and Conan) in 2019.

My Radiator Had a Little Space Heater

She looks just like mom.