Monthly Archives: August 2015

Business, International, Social Media, Technology

SOMEONE AT GOOGLE FAILED TO GOOGLE ‘ALPHABET’

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Google is now Alphabet
Google is now Alphabet

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California  (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – So Google is now part of Alphabet, a new holding company that will manage Google and all of its other products. Why is the new company called Alphabet?

Google/Alphabet CEO Larry Page says it’s because Alphabet means a “collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity’s most important innovations, and is the core of how we index with Google search!”

But the domain name for Alphabet is abc.xyz — not alphabet.com (which is currently getting hammered with traffic it seems).

It looks like neither Google nor Alphabet own alphabet.com — BMW does. Alphabet is part of the BMW group and a business mobility solution with a focus on fleet management and financing. Alphabet was founded in 1997, so it’s unlikely that the company will give up its long-established domain name.

The bottom line is, someone at Google didn’t think of googling ‘Alphabet’ before he or she recommended the new name for the giant Internet search company.

Total fail.

 

 

Religion, Tourism, Travel

BATTLESHIP NEW JERSEY TO PROVIDE CHEAP ACCOMMODATIONS DURING POPE FRANCIS’ VISIT TO PHILADELPHIA

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imageCAMDEN, New Jersey (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Pope Francis will visit the city of Philadelphia on September 26 and 27 as part of his U.S. itinerary.  If you plan to go see the Pope and have not made your hotel reservations yet, you’re out of luck.  Hotel and other accommodations are 100% booked.

But wait, there is some hope.

The Battleship New Jersey , America’s most decorated battleship, has some bunks available for pilgrims who need a place to lay their head during the papal visit to Philadelphia.

Battleship New Jersey, now a museum, is  located in Camden and is just literally a stone’s throw away from Philadelphia.

“Guests can come on board, be served dinner and breakfast from the chow line, get a tour of the battleship, ride the flight simulator and, of course, sleep in the bunks used by the former crew of USS New Jersey — all for the bargain price of $69.99 per day,” said Jack Williard, senior vice president fo the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial .

There must be a catch, right?

Yes, but just one minor catch:  showers are not provided.

So go ahead and book your bunk.  It’s first come, first served.

And pack enough deodorant and cologne, as a courtesy to the thousands of other pilgrims who will be part of the packed crowds you’ll be intimately hobnobbing with  at the papal event.

Media, Religion, Science and Environment

AN ANGEL APPEARS IN THE SKY OVER CAMPBELL, CALIFORNIA

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Angel in Campbell sky?
Angel in Campbell sky?

CAMPBELL, California  (The Adobo Chronicles®) – On Tuesday morning, KTVU Channel 2 in the San Francisco Bay Area received multiple photos from viewers  of what they had described as an appearance of angel in the sky.

The photos were taken  from different locations around the Bay Area, including Campbell. (Campbell is just a few blocks from the headquarters of The Adobo Chronicles.)

The sky was totally blue without a single cloud formation except for the rainbow-colored  phenomenon.

Hundreds of residents who saw the “apparition” over Campbell, as well as many more who saw the photos on television and on KTVU’s web site, immediately gathered at St. Lucy’s Catholic Church on Winchester Boulevard.

“It’s a sign from heaven,” they cried out. ”

Meteorologist Steve Paulson, however,  had a scientific explanation for the occurrence. He said it’s a sun dog (scientific name parhelion).

Sun dogs are a relatively common atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with the reflection/refraction of sunlight by the numerous small ice crystals that make up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds.

Regardless, the excitement of the the overflow crowd that gathered at St. Lucy’s could not be contained, not even after the church’s parish priest admonished the people to go home or go back to work.

Sun dog or angel, it was a spectacular sight to behold!