Hey, oh, I forgot to get my thing for my sound check. Just a minute. Hey, welcome to above-life channel Sweet we're working. We're in business peeps. We're in business today. Nice to see you Welcome to above-life channel the purpose here is to let me see if I have my glasses in the room Yeah, I'm flying by the seat of my pants today because I'm trying to get all this stuff in that I have to do today work sessions yoga Lionsgate a date manifestation energy, you know clearing burning setting intentions, you know, just the usual stuff Going to the co-op getting healthy food all that so Here we go now here we go now. Welcome. Thank you for showing up on a Tuesday Usually on above-life channel. We do our channeling sessions on Mondays, but this week just too much stuff going on I just too much stuff going on the end of the summer. It gets kind of crunchy So welcome if you're new here. Hey, nice to see you This is a live stream channeling session We're actually going to talk with David Bowie today because I was trying to feel into Who in the afterlife would be a good energy to tap into for like manifesting? Because whether you follow astrology or not whether you're into the energy stuff or not today is potent It's spicy The energy of this it's the 8th of August. So it's 8 8 Which 8 8 is the reflection of the energy of infinity? And so it's a great opportunity to actually manifest and you can think of it as like a lucky day if you want to do that, okay? So you don't have to believe in anything or anybody any deities any Astrologies any star energy stuff or ETS or whatever you don't have to believe in anything and you can believe in everything There's no judgment here Whatever your jam is, but we're gonna use This energetic portal to tap into and connect with an afterlife celebrity guest who will then share with us Hopefully some tips about this particular 8 8 portal, right? Okay. All right So I did go into town as I mentioned I did woke up this morning with just a Light in my belly And I'm gonna share that light with you today and I got this cardamon oat milk latte. Yeah, cardamon oat milk latte To enjoy while we're having our conversation when I went into town and went to a somatic class which is like a version of yoga and Just really started the day washing the sunrise Connecting to the Sun energy that solar plexus that spirit chakra bringing that in here I'm gonna acknowledge and honor some spirit guides that I work with if they're your jam Welcome them into your life. If they're not let them pass on by for you Secondment who is a lioness goddess who is known in the Egyptian realm Very divine Love that. That's hot. Yeah and to that too that I just my my upper Seen it. I post interest of it, but it's a dagger And you join of arc energy and second energy Yeah, so tools and symbolism So when we do our psychic work and our connection to the afterlife and for you, especially when we talk about manifesting here today symbols powerful Okay, because we don't always Know how to articulate or use words. We can't find words to the energy of how we feel We can't even find full thought forms of maybe what we might want like connecting into what we want I don't even know what I want. What I'm just a busy try man. I know I into some of you right It's okay and empaths you're told I'm here Getting that's a good sign Get your Stuff if I piss you off because of something I say or the way I say it or a word I use write it down because that's information for you You can use that for yourself You can grind it up get all upset and angry and the opposite of that is really the power that you have to release your grief Underneath because it's easier to get mad than it is to cry and be sad and usually that means there's grief There's something you're hanging on to that's no longer for you anymore. I'm so sorry, honey. It's just not It's hard except that it's over, you know or that It's that's expired now It's just it's it's run its course and so that underneath that sadness the grief presents sometimes as anger and Triggering and resistance and really underneath it is the sadness that wants to flow and move emotion feeling in the heart That's the empathic So the symbols are important because like the dagger is important for me About cutting cords and about alignment. It means alignment for me. It's not just a it's not a weapon It's a source of power and alignment. In fact, I have right here when I went to get my tattoo. I Took a picture of I had this and picture And so I took the picture with me I was able to look it up on my phone and say this is what my dagger looks like This is exactly what I would like you to create on my For left leg my divine feminine side of my body Mm-hmm. I want this with some roses around it and some swans and that's what I want this So I got it So this is a symbol for me, right It's not a violent symbol. It's an alignment symbol. It's a symbol of strength and integrity and power not brute force power of the wisdom inside it's the Spinal column. All right, so for you today when we're talking about manifesting when we're talking to David boy pay attention Because he might say something or he might bring in a symbol or I might see something in the third eye Because I know you guys know I'm clairvoyant, you know that That might be a specific message for one of you and before you just say no no no and dismiss it Just write it down Just write it down Because it might be something that repeats for you it might come back for you that kind of thing It could be a color. It could be a song lyric. It could be a word. It could be something your dad used to say it could be a Bird a tonal animal like the bird on my shirt Right. This is from a bike shop in town And they have a cafe. That's where I got this the farmstead bike shop In Northfield, Minnesota, just do a plug for them and not the one of Minneapolis but the one in Northfield and I went there and got my friend of mine does a lot of their does their menu and stuff So I went there and got the latte today, and then I saw the shirt and I'm like I have to have that It's a raven. So like a raven is a symbol, right? So it's the wheel Sacred geometry the wheel is a symbol for me the Celtic wheel I'm in actually in a program where I'm divine feminine connecting into the Celtic high holy days during this year just in Luna saw or llamas some people would say llamas if you're like a pagan person you kind of into the llama stuff and Luna saw is the Celtic version and stuff. So anyway My point is symbolism metaphor all that so I had to have I got it today I'm like, oh, that's perfect. Probably got a medium since I've been gaining some weight, which is fine It's healthy for me now. Let me tell you anyway Come on in mr. Bowie Welcome in the chat. Thank you for being here. Hi Kami Hi, Jenny. Hi Anna and Anna and Rhonda's here Lola's here Hey, Michigan patty, of course. I'm moderator is here. Thank you for being here today on this Tuesday for channeling Okay, we went I want to timestamp this gosh 9 o'clock or I'm sorry nine minutes in and I just chatting You guys are gonna be so annoyed. I'm so not. Sorry. This is who I am So if you like my style and my vibe you can hang out with me on above-life channel, you're welcome here, okay Come on a mr. Bowie mr. Bowie mr. Bowie has a tie on a Very loose noose.  Are you with me? Are you with me? The wish upon a star vibe.  I know he ain't dead people. I know he's not his wife is And living in john, but he's not okay.  Oh Oh like a catholic school uniform kind of thing with this loose tie but the shirt is like this disco shirt and it's metallic and it looks very iridescent rainbow reflective kind of silver it kind of shows a little silver a little White do you know what I mean? Like it's sparkly reflective So it kind of glows like that So, okay, and he's got like one of his eyes is pink like there's like this pink splotch of paint And then his hair's all spiky um, it's the there's a character or somebody that you I don't understand ziggie something um Starry night starlight um He feels very MTV Uh where I see a lot of cheesy set like props And then the magic or the energy is him the electricity is him That's what it is He's entering like this showing us the contrast He said you're gonna he said you're gonna have to explain a lot.  Okay. All right Go ahead chat chat away He says talk about the contrast between the structured set Like think about it when they film movies and stuff at a soundstage Oh my god, you guys it's almost like the Truman show the soundstage vibe Do you know what I'm saying? Like your life is a sitcom or a tv show. It's like a soundstage thing.   This is kind of cool. I think he shows me the flag He says notice the color contrast. I'm like, okay So the flag actually looks like like something you might see at a castle like hanging down like a banner Where it's like just straight and then it has like a little cut out So if it was a rectangle it would have a bite out of it like a triangle out of it And one side is this really beautiful purpley blue like purpley Like a deep purple blue and the other side is this hot fuchsia pink so it's like Blue and pink, but it's not necessarily just the he said it's whatever it represents for you.  He says let them decide Let them decide. Oops. I should turn off my phone. Sorry Let them decide. I had to do that because I wanted to check my um Sound sorry, sorry, sorry Um, he says let them decide so it looks like a flag Each each one point side is just a like a purpley blue And the other side is a like a fuchsia. They're bright colors But again the backdrop is all black and there's like a space look And it's like almost like chalkboardy cardboard And that's like the moon we're standing on the moon and then that pole with the flag Okay, and the flag the indigo purple the fuchsia pink Those colors could represent something for you The combination together might or whichever color stands out to you More when i'm saying that might mean something so the clues could be chakras. It could be People in your life. It could be a symbolism or a metaphor Just think a flag in general could be a trigger for you. This is information intuitively that your body is going to respond to Right, he says very good Very good teacher Thank you. Thanks my friend. Then he shows me lemons a big basket of lemons Is this going to be like a whole charades thing because I think we need to hear some of your actual words because we don't I mean it would be not he said The basket of lemons i'm like, are you gonna hand that to me? Is that like a metaphor? I guess I sat the stage didn't I I did I kind of asked for it when I said metaphor didn't I and symbolism? Yeah, yeah Sorry, that's gone now. All right, so the lemons when life hands you lemons Make a mixed drink iced tea lemon So a big Like a wire basket and it has lemons in it. So what are lemons to you? What do they mean? Do they have a symbolism or a metaphor? Write it down I am really noting the color the vibrant yellow or yellow yellow yellow yellow Which is exactly what I saw this morning in yoga that solar plexus That's exactly what I saw on the sun this morning that big yellow ball in the sky The solar plexus the intuition that's your energy center of your body that just the energy of that freshness that Kind of tartness that kind of wakes you up right shakes you awake Do lemon do lemons invoke kind of a negative energy in your body?  How does that feel so pay attention because when we're talking about manifesting and we're talking about energy with david bowie here It's all about the expression and so it's not just what you're putting out It's how you're receiving information first because then what you You receive it it comes into you kind of alchemize it and then you you export it and when you express it outwardly then that says a lot about How you've processed how you've received the information Okay, so if you don't think good or bad necessarily that's kind of a mind thing But it helps you kind of get a sense, right? But if you feel in your body tight or open Light uplifting or heavier or if you feel kind of grounded like it just keeps you mellow like in the balance Or if you feel like it brings you down all of a sudden It's really important to feel to allow yourself to sense and feel that is a huge sacred art That's what empaths do best is you sense and feel so mr. Bowie is going to help us with that Are we doing good so far? Yes. Now he shows me a huge eye big eyeball Well, that's attractive You know what it looks like you guys old school fortune teller vibes like a little sandwich board like psychic readings here Like that kind of vibe big eye like a third eye perhaps Yes, he said except it's in your tummy He says now you've seen this before he says you see it a lot because you know, so I do I see the I'll see an eye Like a third eye in somebody's heart. I'll see it in their tummy. It'll be turned inward It'll be turned outward. I'll be able to tell it'll be open. It'll be closed It'll be halfway I can tell how psychically aware they are and where they're psychic when I see that that's just my image That's my cue So for you, what does the eye represent? It literally looks like an eyeball like this like what do you see? Or how do you see what you see? This is about the manifesting This is about visioning having holding yourself into a dreamy vision Not into seeing or focusing so much on reality of what is happening right here right now Or the recall of what has happened But more so the ability to take that very laser focus and point it up Right up to the sky so that energy that light that that Upper vestments that you are as a soul can receive more fully All right, so the information can pour in to your crown chakra to your third eye I feel like it's in your belly like he said the belly the belly the belly because of the intuition of how psychic you are It's going to require you today this manifestation energy It's going to require you to be open To letting yourself dream again like if you could Like start over or start fresh or be dropped into the middle of an incredible awesome story If you were dreaming or having the best dream ever like at night like you have the best dream ever. Where would you be? Where would you be if you're having like this great dream and who would you be with? What are the kind of people that are around you? What's the weather like? How does your body feel warm or cool? Got a sweatshirt or a tank top sundress? Would you hear music? Would you hear ocean waves? Is it just quiet? you know that kind of vibe that because it's not about manifesting tangible things like I want a beautiful house or I want A trip to Greece or whatever it can be you can totally do that but it's it's more than that It's it's connecting to the things that the big the beautiful house and the trip to Greece Invoke inside your body. What is it bringing up in your body? What is it triggering for you? What is that dreamy? gorgeous blue sea in Greece that Is bringing something up for you that feels so amazing like that and dream into that That's the first Place to go if you're gonna manifest. It's not your brain.    He says what feels like you what what what feels light and Happy what feels like that for you He says, okay, so we're gonna play a game Think of a color right away. I see orange. I'm just gonna say orange Um, that would be my Psycho shocker. I think Prima goddess Fire energy. Yeah, thank you very much What color comes to your mind? What color comes to you? When I say happy He says happy. He says we want it what we want to do. He says he says b what we want to do is Turn up the volume on the happiness for them. He says that's what we want. He's like, that's what I'm here for I'm here for that. I'm here for that. I'm here for the equality Of the balancing.  I'm here to turn up the volume on the happiness So there can be more equality within you On all the parts of you got it. That's what we're gonna do He says think of a color what color comes in so you guys post in the chat What colors you see? Oh ziggie stardust Who's that? And the spiders from arse. Oh That's your stuff, right? Okay, because I was thinking ziggie, but I'm like I felt you I felt it and I thought I did I say it out loud. I think I did right Did I say it out loud? I'm like, I don't know that sounds too weird to say. I don't know Okay, I was I was also thinking tom something. Anyway, Tommy something Happiness is the yellow and green. Hi a spectrum Hi, Maya. Nice to see you Hot. No, I'm not gonna do that Let's be polite to our guest Who is david bowie today because he is so astral and we need somebody that's gonna help us really Understand this manifesting energy. Okay, so he says think of a color. Okay. So what's the point of the color? He says it will give you something to come back to he says over and over and over again Okay, it will be sort of like a button. He says that you can push to access what you want to access Can we do anything really cool purple and yellow? I see some different colors popping into them More so are you gonna lead us on something or what he says he says we can now you're ready You want to buckle up?  So I'm gonna close my eyes so I can really just feel his energy So I'm not gonna be paying attention to the chat right now and just see you're aware Oh, let's just feel his energy and see what he comes through with Oh, okay, there's lots of images. Am I supposed to say the images? Or the feeling He says you need to describe it because I can take you on an odyssey He says be I can take you on a journey and You're gonna need to narrate Okay It's all in there, right? All right. You guys ready? This manifestation energy and the 8-8 portal attaching and connecting to that with david boy. Okay, I spread them Exhale out. We're leaning back and our lazy boy chairs and we are Really connecting to this energy of the stay 8-8? Okay grounding our feet Letting ourselves get floaty Softening your mind closing your eyes If you're comfortable in doing that if you're not you can just let your eyes drip down Just kind of stare at the floor or a candle or maybe a coffee mug on your desk Just give yourself permission to feel dreamy with david boy Very much an astral projection kind of energy brings forward Okay, so I'm gonna have to get this close to my mouth because I think I'm gonna get a little relaxed, okay Okay, so first we're gonna see some images and we're gonna share what we see we see daisies beautiful daisies they look cartoon like Flowers like flower children like hippie vibes like 1960s hippie vibes and Just beautiful yellow daisies with a dot of white in the middle and the long green stands with the rich lush green So we've got yellow and white and green I'm just looking at the daisies We're looking at the daisies and oh, we're gonna grab one of those daisies So reach out and grab one of those daisies. It's like a cartoon daisy. It's a big one So you can reach out and grab that and hold it in your hand You can imagine it as a piece of paper cardboard or 2d 3d 12d. Whatever you like whatever works for you The room and the space that we're in the energy of this space is actually like an orb like an aura a rural borealis energy with a white Constellations kind of scattered throughout this room space almost like a soundstage if you want to imagine that But it's all around us encompassing and unfolding us to create this creative space It's for you to create whatever it is you choose to create as we're connecting here He says hold the flower in your hand And he says Touch one of the petals and I want you to go through the flower. He says go through the flower and touch each of the petals And feel how soft it is on your fingertips Rub it gently Touch each one individually And as you touch the flower and the petal of the flower Ask the flower to whisper something to you Just touch it and feel it Be open to what you might hear as you're rubbing the petal of the flower You can go either way clockwise or counterclockwise. Just touch the petals of the flower breathe in Notice the senses in your body the sensory responses of your body. Does your body calm down? Does it excite? Where do you feel when you're touching the petals of the spot this beautiful flower in your body? What do you feel it? What's coming through as you're touching the flower is coming through Life is so much better when you have the full access to all of your senses Yes, David. Yes, thank you breathing in and exhaling Softening your expectations in your mind This is about freedom. He says it's about freedom. It's about freedom. It's about choice As you're feeling that flower petals, what do you choose? What do you choose to know? What do you choose to sense? What do you choose to receive in your body? This is about embodiment embodiments connecting to Each individual part of this beautiful flower each piece that makes it whole That gives you more information about it The bigger picture The senses what is coming through you guys? Do you smell that?  That's probably why it's not here. It was outside Cinnamon caramel. Do you have a scent a fragrance that's coming in?  It's about freedom. This is about freedom Refringing you Flower child we're freeing you he says we're freeing you into the creative expansion of your youth We're just starting in this life after all we're just starting What that sense come in he says a fragrance perfume incense candle whatever that is smell I smell cinnamon rolls I don't even like cinnamon rolls Okay I just got that. Oh, I just got the chills. I'm getting some zings Let your body feel this is embodiment David Bowie is helping us to access this I have this I'm having this alchemical feeling Helping us to access the different levels of our experience of life of our essence of our soul So we can manifest by bringing together all these different forms of ourselves So we can create something so much more fulfilling and he says it's not about Saying this is good or this is bad.  So I'm gonna invite you in this night sky under this beautiful night sky of this gorgeous song stage To drop into the flames of the fire all that pain That anger is there stuff you want to yell or say you can write it down my friends if you want to or you can yell it in I'm gonna do it Because david's letting us do it. I'm feeling super connected in the red chakra and very connected in that sacred chakra right now and I'm like I can see that fire It's like burn baby burn Release and clarify. He says when you let go of the resistance Just the barrier is the craft that has blocked you.  He's like road closed for construction No more baby. No more. I can see a beautiful yellow blanket on the earth and this moist It's it's wet grass and then the flame that just brilliant fire.  It's fuel.  This is not life. Let's manifest. He says greater Where's the greatness?   He says that's a creativity Creativity That's not literally I hear it as a D. That's so weird creativity creativity creative Activity. Thank you. It's two words. He's like we are creating words Creative activity He says it's movement Energy of life is the spark the motion The fluid the lighter fluid the fuel It's composted by the pain by the trauma By the deceit by the hard hard times This is no one's fault where you are at here and now The way you feel is yours own your feeling Are you angry? Are you happy? Are you connected? Are you longing? Are you wanting? Are you sad? Own your feelings They are yours This is interesting. He's talking about causation. He's saying Because of this I feel this No the way you're wired causes The internal responsive reactiveness of the emotion Which gives you information. It is mindfulness from the body's perspective. It is understanding The heart and the emotion and the emotion is like the musical notes You decide How they work together how it flows you create creative activity movement allow Energy moving emotions moving on them Utilize them. This is your fuel. These are the sparks That create the life of fulfillment the happiness you are seeking And the happiness isn't one thing. It's each note In a moment And when you get a couple together and it has a sweetness a sweet spot.  I love mangoes are my thing I'm like, oh and I have to buy them all cut up already so I can see where they're at in their process of Sweetening and ripening Then I eat them when they're super ripening yummy and gooey and yummy Mmm He said yes, that is happiness of that that feeling that succulent savory Juicy goodness that's life He said this is the point. He says you got it. You got it, babe. You got it. You got it, babe. You got it You got it He says I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you. You got it. You've got it You've got it. No, you've got it so David Is this what manifesting is It's creating the opportunity for connection To have and allow the experience to unfold This is manifesting what you and I are doing. Did you hear what he said? It's about the connection to then have the experience to let it unfold That's for the point. That's what manifesting is connection Then being in present to have the experience to let things unfold. That's what manifesting is And we can do it with intention. We can use our brains after after after he says after you purify After you clear the stuff up. That's not yours.  What do you want what you want? Now it's time to journal my friends. It's time to manifest And it's not just one day. It's not just one moment in time It's every day. It's whenever it's an alignment for you You are in your own time nobody else's yours That's your power one of them All right, so that is that fabulous This week. I am offering a small group.  It's literally old school psychic greeting style And so you can see the link to join that it's on august 10th at 6 p.m. Central standard time. The group is limited It's in a zoom platform and you can find the link below in the description to sign up I've been doing them every month and they've been pretty fun And so if you can't make it this month, maybe you can join in september All right, my friends. Thank you, david. You've been just awesome. Now. He looks like he's wearing a yellow spacesuit Interesting no helmet though. It would mess up the hair. He says I'm like, okay a yellow astronaut suit yellow solar plexus yellow sunshine Yellow lion's gate Thank you so much for being here my friends a shout out to everybody in the chat. Thank you patty our mod Hello, thank you so much jenny. Thank you quenette for being here. Thank you nicky. Nice to see you Thank you a spectrum. Nice to see you as well. Thank you lisa. My Rob, nice to see you cami as well. Lola Daraund Asia nice to see you Hey ronda. Hello ronda ronda Nice to see you. Thank you so much for being here on this tuesday I will see you next week unless you book a session with me and I maybe I'll talk to you sooner Um, I do have private sessions by the way. I think you guys know that right? It's just there's links below in the description of this video and all my other videos whether or not I have space It depends, but I do right now. I have a pretty good calendar um I will see you on sunday for sunday morning coffee I try to do live stream whenever I can and I'll try to do it in the morning But it's been weird. Sometimes I work and kind of screws it up. Um and then Monday for our tunneling session. All right, we will see you later I hope we've inspired your spirit and filled you with some hope and encourage you to live your life It's your life after all and you get to live it Just live it Thanks for being here


Hello everyone, this is Mr. P. On today's lesson, we're going to learn how to write a dialogue. Yes, step-by-step guideline. So let's get started. First off, let's answer this question. Why is dialogue important in a story? To develop your characters. To move your story plot forward. To establish the backstory. To reveal important details in your story. To create relationships with characters. To establish the mood. And finally to set an atmosphere for each scene. All dialogue should pass the following criteria. It must move the story forward. It should reveal relevant information about the character. It must help the reader understand the relationship between the characters. If your dialogue doesn't accomplish all of the above, it is a waste of words. One of the best ways to learn if your dialogue sounds realistic is by asking yourself the following questions. Would someone actually say this in real life? Does it move the plot forward or develop a character? Do you pause in certain areas where you haven't written comments? Now we're going to look at the rules to format dialogues. Rule number one. Enclose the spoken words with double quotation marks. Like in these examples. I love it when that happens. He is so unprofessional. Mary makes a lot of money in her job. Tom is always looking after his daughter. Notice how the period goes before the quotation marks. The quotation marks are highlighted in yellow. Rule number two. Capitalize the first word in a sentence, as it's the first thing they spoke.  She huffed. Well, that's just great, isn't it? So you may notice the first word is in capital letter. So rule number three. Dialogue tags. The he, asked, she, asked portions. Stay outside the quotes and get separated by a comma. Jeff said, comma, I'll never go there ever again. Another example. Stop that noise, comma, demand the Steve. You're making me nervous. When dialogue ends, in a question or exclamation mark, tags that follow start in a lower case. What's your problem? He asked. Notice there is no comma here. Some examples of dialogue tags are he said, they responded, she whispered, he snipped, they bellowed, she huffed, she argued, they demanded, he could, he hallowed, etc. Notice the comma right after the main verb, and the verbs are all in the past simple tense. Rule number four. Actions that occur before or after the dialogue go in a separate sentence. For example, if Mary screamed and then spoke, you must write it this way. Mary screamed, period, oh no. On the other hand, if Mary screamed out the words, use a comma instead of a period. So that is all part of the same sentence. Mary screamed, comma, oh no. Rule number five. Pantuation goes inside the quotes. Like in this example, Mary covered her mouth, oh no. She looked like she has seen a ghost. Did you see that? On the first example, we have an exclamation mark and it's inside the quotation marks. On the second example, we have a question mark and it goes before the quotation mark. If the dialogue ends with an ellipsis, do not add a comma or any other pantuation. Like in this example, she stared at the horizon. I guess you'll go back home and I will. Ellipsis? Her voice drifted off. So you can see the ellipsis is inside the quotation marks. Let's talk about rule number six. If you have to quote something within the dialogue, use single quotation marks. Like in this example, John laughed and pointed at him. When that ghost jumped out and said boo, you screamed like a little girl. So you have boo right here is one single quotation mark, boo, right? So quotation mark, boo, exclamation mark, quotation mark. Rule number seven. Start a new paragraph every time you change speakers. If the speaker performs actions linked to the dialogue, keep everything in the same paragraph. It is easy to lose track of the character that's speaking. A new paragraph helps readers by signaling a change. Like in this example. Did he hit you? Sue asked, looking at the cut on Sophia's arm. No, I hurt myself. She made up the story. I fell. So here you may notice that we changed speaker twice. So we have to indent every line. By this, we help the reader understand who's speaking. Rule number eight. If an action interrupts a sentence in a dialogue, use lower case in the first letter of the second fragment, like in this example. I know he lowered his voice to a whisper. What do you said? So you can see the break in two fragments and the second fragment is in lower case. What? Rule number nine. If the same speaker talks long enough to require a new paragraph, place opening quotation marks at the beginning of each paragraph. However, closing quotation marks are placed only at the end of the final paragraph. Tom explained the details, quotation marks. Then there is a break, another paragraph with quotation marks. So we didn't close the quotation marks. And at the end of that paragraph, we closed his dialogue with a quotation mark. So that's it for today. If you have any questions about dialogues, please post your question below this video. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, I suggest you do. If you like the lesson, please hit on the like button. And then if you want to share the lesson, you may. Until next time, take care. Bye bye.


It's time for the beach where I just got off a call but he has another one later but we're gonna take a little beach break. I just did emails and I feel good because I cleared up my inbox. I brought this many swimsuits for like what four or five days here call me extra. Which one should I wear today? We won't be out there for like two long so I don't want to wear like my cutest one. I'm also setting up shop in my dad's room. This is like where he usually stays but they have like a nice like drawer thing. He's not here right now but they like left on Monday I think. Let's see which one I want to wear. Should I just wear black make it easy or the green one actually. I'm making a mess. What's new? I got this from loft to the campaign with Eminence. So cute. This is what it looks like. It also comes with straps but I want to see if I can be okay with the other straps because then I won't have like a tail line. I'm packing up my beach bag literally bringing like so much sunscreen and of course we got to have the chips and then it is not a beach vacation if we don't have Pringles. Yesterday we went to Seaside and they literally had so many of these like little what's it called? Why am I blinking on the name? It's just like merge shops and like they have the OG Seaside shop but they have like a yacht club one now which is crazy. It's a little bit of a mess but this is what the downstairs looks like on my dad's place. I love the kitchen and the first time we came here is when they had just bought it so there are a lot of things that are different like this fridge is like so cool to me.  The sun is finally coming out a little bit. I'm actually kind of getting sweaty. It's not hot but it's not cold so it's like kind of just like warm which is really nice and I'm like building up a sweat so I can go jump in the water. You would think this was hot before you got Texas probably? Yeah that's true. Okay you do. So what car feels like they see them?  I think it does. I think it smells. His car like takes forever to freaking cool down when you turn it on. You just drive a little bit of the air going. I look so much different than I did on the beach but we are ready. I did my hair I like blew it out with the round brush and I feel like my makeup kind of is slaying today. My brows look so good. I haven't gone them laminated in like a month and usually I try to go before a vacation but this was so last minute but I'm kind of loving them. I mean I just brushed them up and just filled them in like ever so slightly. It is pretty early like we went to the beach and we were kind of like over it by 2.30 so we came up and I had a lot of time to get ready which was so nice because I feel like every beach vacation I never take great pics because I'm rushed and I just like to spend a lot of time at the beach and obviously not a lot of time getting ready and then I feel so lazy too. It's just like going to put makeup on just to go to dinner you know not for the whole day but I'm kind of feeling good today so I really want to get some cute pics maybe of me and Ryan but I think we're gonna try to go to the Rosemary Beach area and see if we can get in at any of those restaurants. It's kind of hard because well I don't even know if like a lot of them take reservations to be honest like maybe they do.  It is really small like that little area. We had brunch there we went for dinner with my dad once. I think all those times we walked in last night I wasn't vlogging we went to Seaside and first of all Seaside is just like well I don't even know if it's like so different from what it used to be because I was literally a child back then. We grew up coming here to like the Panhandle, Florida like we usually go to Dustin then we would go to Seaside for one night and I was in high school and obviously you know they would like have the beach parties but like this time when I went I was like am I too old for this like literally there was just so many more kids than there were adults and it was just like friend groups like cliques just all over the place and Ryan brought up a good point he said it was probably because school just got out and was like that's probably true and that makes sense because I feel like I've never really seen it like that many kids everywhere like kids meaning like high schoolers and middle schoolers you know but it's just so funny cuz like that was me back in the day. Here's tonight's outfit it is this Astro label dress and it's kind of too perfect because well in my last vlog you guys saw we went towards some rack and Ryan got a lyncher and he was like I don't know what I'm gonna wear this to but it's $25 so might as well get it and I bought this for like a brand deal because I'm working with them for the next two months I think I already did like one month with them but I got this dress and I thought it would just be perfect to like throw on during the summer but little did we know we were gonna go to the beach and I was like that is just too perfect. It has cute little eyelet detailing all over the dress. It's just really comfortable. Guys this is so tall. I literally have to climb up in here. Entering Rosemary Beach. Pray for us it's so early but we're really hoping we can get in somewhere. It was even 15 minutes so the wait was really fast. I'm excited because I asked for a table outside too. Thank you. You're kidding. When you have a reservation here look at this table. Look at this table we just got. I got a marg and Ryan got this like used to vodka drink. Here you go. There's got a bunch of appetizers to share. Tuna rolls, chay, steak tartare. Everything looks so good. Last course we got some grilled octopuses and some scallops. We approved of this car because it has a ledge for me to put my hair on and it actually sits well. It just sat up. What did I do? Dinner was really good and I have one earring in because everyone was like being irritated but I wanted this for pictures. Oh there we go. Anyways I think I'm gonna braid my hair because Ryan will not put this top up because he says it's the fun of it but honestly Ryan you're just lucky you don't have hair all up in your face. The other night I slicked back my hair and my bangs came back right back in my face and I know these are like loose so they're gonna be flying but he just doesn't understand. My dad used to have a convertible when I was little and I actually got his hand me down car when I was like when I was able to drive and I hated when he put the top down and I never used the convertible when I got it for myself and now I look back and like oh dang that was a cool car I should have used it more but also like it's just not realistic with all the some bangs in my face. Okay what are we doing now? We're gonna drive around. We're gonna drive around? We're gonna go. We should look at houses. We're gonna go to a neighborhood or what? We could do that. We're gonna go through. There's so much that's been been built since we came here last two years ago. Is it fake? It's hard to see on the camera. I can't tell how I think it is. No, it's not even close. Wow. Look at this. This is like yellow. I'm here. Good morning. It is day three at the beach and it's such a nice day outside. We're about to go down and enjoy the day but this is my outfit. I'm wearing like a little Amazon cover-up thing. We should be guys.  I'm also wearing my favorite Monday swimwear. One piece. What's going on back there? I just made breakfast and I'm going to go pack up my beach bag but I wanted to say hi for the morning. Last night we came home and watched Drury Duty and every night we've been like just sitting on the couch and the moment I sit down I fall asleep.  My body clock would wake me up at that time and I kind of liked it and now I just kind of feel a little bit groggy because I'm sleeping in but I need to get back into waking up early. Ryan just found the circles. Okay they're like so extra. Big face mask for the circle but they're so cool. One thing about me I do not read even if I really try to like I just can't because I like just fall asleep but this book I bought it probably two years ago for our beach vacation. I don't even know if it was actually for our beach vacation but I bought it two years ago and I have not really gotten past like maybe the first three pages so I'm gonna try again because I haven't really tried reading in a long time and this is like the most generic recommendation I feel like but apparently it's good so putting that in my beach bag. Where did I put this? I don't even bring it down. I totally forgot I had this Elta MD sunscreen for your face so I've been using it and it's really really nice and I'm only using this because I ran out of my supercoop. I have the tiniest bit left on my unseen sunscreen which is like one of my favorites and then I also just saw that Lib Tinted has like a clear stick that you can just roll on your face which I'm very tempted to get that. I'm ready to swim in the snorkel. It's been a really nice day. Yes. Checking the damage. It's not horrible I guess. I decided to not wash my hair today and just kind of like throw it up in a bun. We'll see how this goes. I haven't really done this bun in a while but I thought I would show you guys how to do it. Did I pack a curler? I hope I did because I think I need a curler for this look. But we'll just go ahead and get started. Today was such a nice day on the beach. I took a nap but I'm like surprised that I only went in the water like once. Usually I go like back and forth.  Okay, we started with a middle part. I think we're gonna go to Shankoli tonight. They have like the best oysters and it's really like well more affordable than a lot of the restaurants we usually go to here in Rosemary Beach and like Alice Beach. Those places are very very pricey but when we come here we just kind of like have that in mind that they're pretty pricey already. So we're gonna take those two out right? I think that's how I did it. And then, ooh, this might not be good though actually because in the cheap my hair is flying everywhere in my freaking face. Maybe what do I do? Should I just do like a slip-back bun tonight? I really wanted to do that little cutesy bun. It's kind of just like the Pam Anderson bun. Okay, we're just gonna go for it and like hopefully my bangs will stay intact. I don't know how far this drive is though and like in the cheap. It's just not very comfortable to have like hair flying all up in your face so if it gets taken down then you guys know why. But basically you just put your hair up in a homey tail and make it pretty high up and then you're just going to actually pull it through twice. And then on the third time we're just gonna leave some hair out like that and do you wrap it around? Yeah, you can. Oh, so much hair. This looks like a mess. Okay, I just need like hairpins or like bobby pins and we could just like put it right here. But did I bring that as the question? No, I brought them. This is like my five-year-old plastic bag with bobby pins. The only bobby pins I own which are like 10 and I just reuse them and then well obviously I should be reusing them. But you know how like sometimes you just lose them really easily because they're just bobby pins? Okay, so I put them in a bun and now I just like pin it down a little bit and it's just like a fun, easy hairstyle to just like switch things up. I feel like I wear my hair down all the time and it's just fun to switch up. Like you save all these Pinterest hairstyles and like hairstyles on Instagram and TikTok and I just feel like I never actually do them but now I have an excuse because my hair is like disgusting. Just like very beachy which is fine for some people but I hate this feeling of like not clean hair but honestly I just don't want to wash it again and that's okay. Okay, this is this is cute when there's like some little peasy pieces I would just curl them but it's fine. I don't really care too much tonight. I leave these two bracelets on when I go in the ocean. They're from Goriana and then I take these off. This is also from Goriana. It's just like a little cuff and there we go. And of course my blova watch. I got her on Amazon. I can link it down below. It's so pretty. It's giving Cartier but for way less and I've actually seen it go on sale on Amazon so it looks like my little bracelet stuck at the evening. Here's the outfit of the night. I got my portable charger in my hands because my phone is on 5% but top is from Princess Polly. I'm wearing like a little tank top under it from Meshki I believe or no. Glossons. I don't know how you pronounce it but the pants are Amazon, shoes are Steve Madden. Sonny's are Amazon. What about you? I got a seaside yacht club, a shallow, my stained mango lessee shorts. Oh my god Ryan. And my rainbows. They're so funny. I ordered a new pair and I returned them to Amazon. They didn't fit? Remember you returned them to Dubai.  Are you going to order some new ones or are you just going to have mango lessee stained pants? Driving through seaside and right there Barefoot BBQ is where me and Ryan, well I don't even know but basically yeah it was like the first time we hung out outside of school was in seaside. I was trying to flirt he just was not picking it up. I was like I'm cold because I think you have like a sweatshirt or something and he was just not understanding the vibe that I wanted his sweatshirt but we also took our iconic yeah always want something but we took our iconic photo I'll put it right here and we tried to like remake it every year. We are headed to Shangali and I'm very excited to get some oysters and I was thinking it had to be if it was like 30 minutes away. We're here and I put my little bangs in the club so let's see if they survived. They're still so tangled. That's not how they looked earlier. For our virgin pina colada he was like it's just gonna be ice cream and pina colada mixed. It was like amazing. That's exactly what it was. It's good. It also made me drink like so much water. It's so dehydrated. Some honey here. It's a 45 minute wait for Shangali so we're gonna wait it. Alvin's Island is so nostalgic. This is where I got my first pet crab. Yeah, day three and I haven't bought merch yet so do I need to? We're about to go to breakfast and this is the outfit of the morning because I'm definitely gonna change it in my swimsuit. It's super nice outside and Ryan actually just told me that I probably don't need a jacket because it's really hot so probably we'll take this off in a second. We're using the bikes today. These are electric but we didn't charge it so I'm curious to see how much charge they have. Let's see. Nice. This is so tall though. Might have to lower it a little bit. Alvin's done. So we're in Alice Beach and we are going to Fond du Press for breakfast.  Just anything like cutely packaged and I have yet to get a souvenir back.  Wow. Look at this avocado toast. Okay a salad. Then we got vignets. Guys I forgot to get oat milk in this so please pray for me. We're just doing a little neighborhood bike tour of Alice Beach. This is Cliz. I think it's like a restaurant pool club. I'm not really sure. These houses are so pretty. I love it here so much and I've decided that I love blue shutters. Not that kind of blue but like a light boo hag blue. Boo hag. It's Saturday so we're actually gonna drink on the beach. We brought some high names. Wow. Oh my god Ryan it is actually perfect. What that means. We had the best beach day. It was so nice out and it is currently what time is it Ryan? I can't even look at my phone. What time? 7 23. 7 23. Look at my outfit. I'm obsessed with this jumpsuit. It's from Free People. I think it's stone stock and there's a couple different colors but look at Ryan's linen shirt. If you guys watch the other blogs he got it at Nordstrom Rack. Damn I need to out like that. What? Okay. No it's a good find. It is. It's good. 30 bucks.  We are out there for how long at the beach today. Like 10 30 or something. Yeah I think it was like six hours guys. But we're gonna go upstairs and swing on the bench upstairs so let's do it. It's humid out here. My camera's fogging up. Ask the vlog do I know how a horse looks like? No. We are off to dinner. We're going to Old Florida Fish House and they have a sushi and like a lot to choose from we are going to go to this new place called Aja. There's a restaurant called Umi in Atlanta and I think the co-owner came down and like opened a sushi restaurant here and that's what the name of it is. It's Aja but I looked at the menu and there's like not that much and we really liked Old Florida Fish House the last time we went so I was like we should just go back because we know we like it and there's like so much to choose from. There's not just sushi there's like so much so we're gonna go over there. Who has that texting sound on?  I gotta let people know that I hear what I'm talking to. We got something here. We also got some really good looking rolls like we got this in heaven. I think it is Sunday it is technically like our last like beach day because tomorrow our flight is at like 6 p.m. and so I don't know if we'll be able to swim and like enjoy the beach because Ryan has to work and I should probably work too. Um but this morning we are probably gonna go to the donut hole. It is a 30a staple and I don't know if we're gonna eat there. I'm down and just get donuts and come back to the beach what do you think? Oh shoot okay let's go fast then. Yesterday we got up super early and went to breakfast which I was like this is nice because there was barely anyone out there but today I woke up at 7 a.m. then I was like I just want to sleep in a little bit more it just feels so good. Here's the outfit of the morning I wore this pink set recently in a vlog and you guys loved it it's actually from Outdoor Voices but the last time I checked the pink color wasn't there I think like the set was still there so you guys want to check out if they have any new colors I'll link it down below and then we have my white like blue lemon dupe but it's from Amazon and then I think these are new balances Ryan just said that this shirt was green it's totally brown we have this freaking conversation anytime he wears the shirt he said no it's literally brown comment down below yep it's brown it's brown it's fully brown we are nuts he's also colorblind so guys we totally forgot there's a farmers market that happens in rosemary beach on some days might have to pass it on the way home changed into my swimsuit of the day this is so cute it's like a skirt set but it's swimsuit material and it's from albion fit I got it last summer but I will try to link it for you guys I think I might have already said this but the last time we came here was when my dad had just kind of like bought the place things were still coming in like the fridges new and all that kind of stuff but ever since then he made the attic into a third room so now this place has three bedrooms and three bathrooms well two full bathrooms and then one downstairs but anyways I thought I would show you guys attic because I think it's so cool let's go okay so that is my dad's room my stuff is kind of everywhere I've been using the bathroom in the closet space but here's the view outside the owner suite and they have like a little swing out here here's the room we've been sleeping in right between these two bedrooms is this spiral staircase which is actually kind of terrifying but I'll show you guys it is so tiny we have this little kind of got to bend down and find the light where is it okay this is the newest room so that's the door we came in gave me a heart attack it's a little mini attic it's so cute they did such a good job and so much light in here like a full-on like two dressers and outlets and an ac like this is amazing oh my gosh I just bumped my head on this thing I'm backed up ready for the beach each I don't know oh yeah I think it is oh that's cool that's smart we're rolling rock mistakes tonight it's a really rainy day we barely got a beach to end but look at the sky now oh delish what did you say? she died at the grill she didn't want him grilled we just checked into our flight tomorrow I'm sad yummy what's the plate do you want? the smaller one I'll take the light please what do you think? good morning it is our official last day here and I'm very sad to be leaving but I did a little bit of cleaning up today our flight's at six we have to go put the car and the bikes in storage at three and then we'll just go to the airport from there so I just wanted to get a head start on cleaning Ryan did a little bit of work and now we want to get some caffeine and we'll probably do the same place what do you think should we go do something different? yeah I like to that try at holiday yesterday we went and I washed my hair yesterday but I'm like I feel like I'm gonna regret it if I don't go swimming today so we might go in the water for like a little bit but I don't know if we have like too much time to you know just chill at the beach today unfortunately but I want to get some caffeine and then I really really want to go to this store called like 30a olive oil company maybe I think that's what it's called and that is going to be my souvenir guys I made it without buying any merch from seaside rosemary beach um alice beach oh wait shoot we didn't even go to the alice beach store babe should we go while we're there it's dang I thought I was gonna make it through but I don't know they always have such cute stuff there I don't need another trucker hat I don't need another trucker hat I don't need one but I definitely won't want one because I know they're gonna have such cute merch there um but yeah we'll probably go there because it's right by the holiday cafe I came to the home store next to the holiday cafe and it's so cute all the gloss were up there I died I found this quarter zip and it's 50% off it's so cute I feel like it'd be perfect for like for the July what is it it's not 120 days it's real it won't be in Georgia so it's not gonna be that hot beige with green it's very tempting we're in a different store now rosemary beach store do I need this this one's different though because like this one has a zipper so like and it's like this towel material I just feel as though it's different and I may need it last beach day and I don't know if I told you guys but our flight actually got delayed which makes me a little nervous because we have a connecting flight so originally the time that we were supposed to arrive in Houston was like 942 and then our flight out of there to Austin was like at 10 and I was like holy that's like a little too close but now it's saying we'll get there at 9 30 something so like a little more time which is very nice so I'm just trusting that everything works out and we actually got our lift driver's information he was like if you just want to schedule a ride with me so I can bring you to the airport then I don't have to like go through the fees of uber or lift or whatever and I was like I mean sounds good to me so we actually have to take the car to storage and the bikes to storage and then he's gonna pick us up from there so I was able to push back everything like an hour an hour and a half later which is kind of nice because then we get a little bit more time at the beach and when I was in Georgia I think the last time like probably around December break well not break hello I'm an adult I don't have a break but you guys know what I mean for holidays and stuff I saw that they had vanilla coke in the newest packaging which is like this tan color and I bought like a 12 pack or something I went through it so fast when I was home that time and then I don't know if you guys remember but Ryan was home in Georgia for a while and he actually moved back in February I was like please bring me back vanilla coke and he forgot but it's okay because I found it here at the Publix and this one is um the coke zero vanilla coke which it's not as good but it definitely like still satisfies the craving I just love a good vanilla coke so I'm bringing this to the beach with me it's just a really pretty day out and I also am very happy because we both got our souvenirs Ryan got a rosemary bean shirt and then I got my balsamic I what was something a little different I got like a lavender balsamic and it was like $20 honestly I thought it was gonna be way more just because it's very like curated cutesy shop so I'm excited to like try that on my summer fresh little like tomato and mozzarella meals I don't even know but I really want to get into cooking when I'm home I'm saying that now knowing I'm literally going to leave a week later for another trip but I love cooking summer meals I was telling Ryan yesterday we have to make cowboy caviar soon because that just sounds so good bye bye beach time to go back to Austin well we're back at the beach house because we literally pulled up to the airport and had our driver like take us my driver we sound so fancy but it's literally our lift driver that just gave us his card on the way here but um yeah I I don't know why I randomly looked at myself westap and I saw that it said like Tuesday and I panicked and I was like what the heck did I like book it for Tuesday and not know like it's Monday so I was like so scared I was like what the heck how did this happen like and then I realized that our flight kept getting like delayed so I was like it has to be like a rebooking so I sat like Ryan and check at their airport desk they gave us like $200 each so like $400 in total for rebooking us in my mind I feel like we could have negotiated for more but like the driver was waiting because I was like can you just take us back to the beach house and I'm so lucky because there was not another person coming after this I don't even know if my dad's renting it out anymore because he's starting to live here in July so I'm not really sure um but we're back at the beach house for one night and they rebooked us on a 6 a.m flight which is kind of annoying but not a bad place to be stuck


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We're in the closet today, no homo, and I have a trip I have triple trouble for you today I have three mini boomer ants that I'm gonna give you okay mini boomer ants, and they're all on the same topic CSS actually we could call them minified boomer ants Hilarious joke for my redditor friends so Rant number one here's I'll explain if you're a normie and you don't know what CSS is I'll tell you what CSS is okay, but my first first rant. I'll go ahead and get into it my first rant is When people email me and this is something I will never understand when they email me and ask my permission to use my CSS style sheet my cascading CSS style sheet I do not Understand that now of course if you don't know what CSS is it literally it's basically the color scheme of your website Okay, it's a little file it has your color scheme has you know what floats weird has like rules for how things are shaped And where their borders are stuff like that. That's what CSS is okay now You can go to any website and get their CSS. I cannot understand why anyone Would think you need to ask permission to use CSS I mean it'd be like if you were asked if you if you see someone paint their house in a certain color scheme You as if you go to them and ask their permission for to use their intellectual property It's just so absurd to me. I cannot even imagine it Okay, like even even if you're simping for proprietary software, which I'm not but even if you are You might think that oh, okay. Well, that's a big program. It makes sense to have IP for that But for rules about like color schemes Ridiculous, I can't I can't even understand it. This is actually one thing That annoys me to no end like these people who ask you like you put something out there and they ask for They ask you to like put some kind of license on it Like so they expect that it's like you'll be offended if you use the script that you or the CSS that you uploaded Same thing when I use when I first put up all of my scripts on github, okay? My dot files on github people would absurd that this is just I don't know Maybe culture shock for me because like I'm not in this cuck to mindset of oh, I go to all intellectual property I gotta follow it But so many people would just email me and ask wow I really like this script Can I like use it dude and I'm just like what why do you think I put it on github, buddy? Okay, so here's actually here's my new license, okay? It's called. I don't know what it's called But here's how it works if you ask you can't use it, okay? If you even think you have to ask you can't use it everyone else can use it Okay, but that's the first thing that annoys me that happens in CSS when people ask you to use your colors thing No, no, no, no, and I've never responded to any any of those emails because it's just so ridiculous to me, okay number two a minified CSS cringe Now what is minified CSS? Okay now CSS usually when you make a style sheet In CSS you have formatting so you know you can clearly read everything. It's all oh it looks it looks nice You can go through it your code editor has everything highlighted stuff like that great, okay? Now there's this thing called Minification where what you do is you take your style sheet and then you run it through a script and what the script does is Deletes all the white space deletes all the unnecessary semicolons deletes all the blank blank lines the new lines everything So it's all just one giant jumble that you cannot read if you go on someone's minified CSS You will not be able to read it now in a lot of cases You can get rid of dot men and you'll redirect to the original page or something like that But I cannot stand minified CSS now. I understand the purpose of it. Okay, the purpose Allegedly is oh well, you know, we want to save bandwidth. Okay, so we're gonna get rid of these this white space or something like that Now people don't I don't really see people doing that with HTML, but they do it with CSS Maybe they do do it with HTML. I'm not quite sure, okay But here here is the thing that I find really ironic about this Okay, what I find ironic is 100% of the sites that I have run into that do minified CSS are all Overwhelmingly bloated that is oh wow we saved a couple maybe even a whole KB on my my minified CSS Oh well now I got a load two megabytes of ads a megabyte of trackers. We have diffs zooming all over the screen We have JavaScript running and like you're eating up your CPU like everything about the site is incredibly bloated and you You know minifying your CSS.  Okay, that's what it is. Alright, what a waste of time. Oh Absolute waste of time people shouldn't be doing it. It's just a hassle. You know if I want to go into your style sheet Maybe I want to get something from it Maybe I want to change my own when if I'm using stylus or some add-on where I can modify CSS I want to be able to clearly see what's going on in your CSS Okay, I can wait the extra Microsecond for the full version of your CSS as if I can't even imagine it taking up that much space and again It's just I've it's the sites that use minified CSS are exactly the ones where it's not gonna do any good Okay, probably doesn't do much good anyway, but whatever. I'm not against the idea of it Just the fact I just find it ironic the sites that use minified CSS. Okay number three third minified boomerant also about CSS Sites about CSS Okay, so if you are let's say you're Do working on your website and you forget how to do something in CSS Oh, I want to oh, I want to have these divs next to each other unless there's not enough room Then I want them, you know in a row or something like that. Okay. I got to figure out how to do that Now you can't type in man CSS and you know get get an offline manual There's probably something for that someone in the comments is gonna say oh, you can just use this dude But normally what people do with pretty much everything else is they search How do I do this in CSS in your search engine? Okay, and you'll run across one of several sites You will run across a site called Excuse me, what is it CSS tricks tips something like that you'll run across something that's like w3 School, I forget exactly what they are who cares. I Find it and I another thing I find very ironic all of these sites dedicated to CSS web development. What do they all have in common? They're the worst sites Developed on the internet. They are by far the slowest to load the most difficult to use I mean CSS trips or tip tips whatever it is you go on the site the layout is very simple It just has a sidebar has a front bar or something. Why is it the slowest site on the internet? Okay? Here's what I'm thinking here's what in this actually I think happens a lot, okay What happens with people who use who know how to do all this cool stuff in CSS?  Okay, maybe that's why they minify it, okay? I can't imagine I can't imagine having that much CSS Especially I mean if you if you have CSS that big just like use different sheets for different parts of your website Okay, clearly not all of that is being used on one page, right? I'm just like so I just find it very ironic that the literally worst design sites on the internet are exactly those on web design And that actually is a recurring theme. I just want people to to to notice this These these odys people called web devs. All right, you know, I remember Nassim Taleb. Okay, he talks about how modern architects That the problem with them is they build stuff to please other modern architects It's just like this incestuous community where they're constantly like That basically just like stroking their own egos, okay, and everyone else is like wow this stuff looks disgusting Why modern architecture is terrible exactly the same stuff with modern web development because these people do things because they Can because they think they're fun. Oh look at the nerdy things I'm doing and you get these massive websites They can't even like please if your website functions better if it's just plain text It should be a plain text website. Frankly. Okay, that's that's how it should be. Okay, and actually right now It isn't live yet, but I've actually been rewriting my own website because I think it's too big Okay, in fact, I'm getting rid of a common CSS style sheet Cascading CS sorry CSS style it stands for cascading style sheet So if you say CSS style sheet, which I everyone always always says technically it's redundant Who cares some redditors in the comment will comment section will say something about it, but who cares about them What was I saying? So I've been thinking about rewriting. Well, I've not been thinking about it. I've been doing it It's not live yet, but I've been rewriting my entire website without a style sheet whatsoever Okay, normally you have a style sheet in common with all your pages. Here's what I'm doing I'm right. I'm rewriting everything and bear HTML and then a little style tag where I have maybe one or two rules Okay, because frankly my view is the inner you know the internet It should be viewed in plain text and you should not style it that much and keep it simple Like when I look at the sites that I've actually gotten a lot from where there's good content where you read good content They all have simple layouts like I'm sorry this having diffs zoom across the your field of view is not gonna make your life Any better, okay? It's people are gonna get distracted. Maybe they'll click on other stuff But like if you want quality viewers, I want quality viewer to viewers. That's what I want You know, sometimes I think I have too many subscribers on YouTube Maybe I should minify my subscribers to get it get a smaller chunk of the high quality people But when you're looking for quality viewers text Just readable text is the ultimate way to get through to them You can have a little bit of styling, but if you're going over if you're having you know Megabytes if you have to minify your style sheet, you're probably doing something wrong And that's why I've been switching over just just as a ridiculous Crazy thing that I do I've been making a website without a style sheet where And guess the great thing about that is I don't I'm not tempted to do fancy stuff and fancy drop-down menus that I don't need Instead basically every page Maybe I'll change the background Maybe I'll add a little buffering on the bottom so you can scroll down a little bit Maybe I'll maybe I'll make the footer a little bigger if I want to put links in it, but aside from that That's really all you need like and the focus is on the content of the website And that's something you don't really see that much anymore, frankly So those are my minified boomerance on CSS. I'm right Yeah


This 2010 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is stock number 11820Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used sports car headquarters. This 2010 Shelby GT500 has the 5.4L V8 supercharged engine, which pumps out 540 horsepower. This car has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this car is 100% ready to go. Kona Blue Metallic is the color. You get these silver stripes on here. One of my favorite colors on the GT500s. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, turn them on right now. Because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the car before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to subscribe to our YouTube channel to see videos like this one each and every day in the lower right hand part of the screen is a gold subscribe button. Click that, and then click the bell notifications to get updated daily as we do these videos of our amazing inventory here at Summit. This one comes with the painted SVT rims. Very nice condition, and it has the Cobra valve stem covers, Brembo brakes in the front. This one has like new Kumo EXTA tires in the front. These are 25540ZR19s, and they have just about all the tread left. I'd say 90% of the tread left on there. Kona Blue, like I said, one of my favorite colors. If you get it in the sunlight it really has a lot of metal flake to it. You can get it to focus there. Really a good looking color. There we go. Really cool color. You get the Cobra logo on there. You get these side stripes as well. Front fender, no dents or dings on there. Headlight lenses are nice and clear. It does have like blued out hemlabs which we'll turn on in just a little bit here. Front bumper is in great shape. I didn't see any major dents, dings, or cracks on there. Factory fog lights, and the hood is in very nice condition as well. Passenger side front fender looks really good too. Let me get the Cobra logo right there. Passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes. And as you go down this side of the car, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, you can still see the car, hear the car, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. And you can make a smart buying decision from the comfort of your own home. The roof looks really clean. Down this side, I didn't see one single dent or ding. Stripes look good. This back rim is in pretty nice shape as well. On the back, we have Goodyear 285 35R19s, and they have right around half the tread left on them. Get a good look at that tread there. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in really nice shape. It does have pipes exhaust with the chrome tips there. Looks really good. The deck lid spoiler is in great shape as well as the deck lid. And you get the Shelby GT500 logo on the back there, as well as the Shelby block lettering above there. We'll take a look in the trunk in just a second. I do have some pretty cool stuff back there. We have a letter certificate of authenticity as the cap was fulfilled as well as the original window sticker for this car. Rear quarter looks really good. This back rim for full disclosure is in excellent condition. No major scuffs or scrapes on there. Driver side door looks really good as well. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. Inside, you get the black seats with the silver stripes. Like I said, we'll check out the interior in just a second, but I want to show you these pieces of documentation we have in the back. So here is your vehicle authenticity certificate. It's all signed by EcoSphere and Gary Patterson. And then you get the original window sticker here. Feel free to pause that. I'm not going to go through everything. It does have the electronics package, the silver stripe kit. Safety ratings on this car, five stars up and down the board. Very safe vehicle. You also have a folder from Shelby, America with some other documentation in there that comes with the car. And then underneath here, we have the car cover and the tire inflator kit. So it does come with the factory car cover in there. They must have got that extra. I didn't see it on the original window sticker. We'll check out the interior here quick and then we'll start it up. Check out that pipes exhaust look under the hood.  You get the Cobra embossed backrest. No rips, no tears on those seats. Really nice condition. Power driver seat. You get the GT500 floor mats, auto headlamps, power windows, power locks, power mirrors. Side curtain airbags on here. Back seats are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears and it does have the latch child safety system. We'll hop inside here, turn on the ignition, check out the radio, check out the miles, and then we'll start it up. This car has 16,000, 471 miles. You get the ambient lighting, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. You get the suede and leather-wrapped steering wheel. Bluetooth and audio controls on the right, cruise controls on the left. Very nice condition. Comes with the touchscreen radio, AM-FMN series XM radio capabilities. And it does have the factory navigation system on it. And now you can put media on here. It's got a jukebox so you can store music from CDs and stuff on there. And I want to say it's like 2472 songs you can put on here. So really cool system. Does have the shaker sound. CD player.  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Hi, Jeff Rick here. We're on the ground in the heart of Silicon Valley at a brand new Ford facility. It's the Ford Innovation and Research Facility, right? Just opened up. They had a grand opening event today. We're happy to be out here. And I'm joined here by Raj Nair, the CTO, who's one of the featured speakers. So welcome. Yeah. Thanks for joining us today. It's a great day for us. Our pleasure. So it's it's pretty interesting for us looking it up before we came on one of the oldest U.S. car brands. If not the oldest, we'll have to check the research assistance to look that up. But certainly one of the oldest in here you are, ironically, not too far away from Tesla, one of the newest American car companies all about innovation. So talk about what it means for a company to lead Detroit, not lead Detroit, but come out here to the valley, put roots down right in the heart of Silicon Valley. What that really means for the company? Well, sure. I mean, we were founded in 1903 in Dearborn, Michigan, and I just outside of Detroit. So that is our home town. Right. But we've actually been out here in Silicon Valley for a while. We've been out here since 2012 with a smaller presence. But one of the things we've learned as we spent time out here is a tremendous opportunity of Detroit and Silicon Valley to work together. So that's what our announcement is about today, that we're really expanding our presence, this new facility you see here with some state of the art technology, but also increasing our staffing to a team of 125 strong to leverage the universities, leverage the tech companies, whether they be big ones or the small ones, and really put the connections together that are really required for the automotive industry to go forward. Yeah. And it's great, you know, you separate technology and innovation, right? There are two really separate things. Obviously, Henry Ford's super innovative with with assembly lines and really bringing new things to work, getting the car out to the average guy. But then it's technology as well. So talk about about, you know, the continual innovation. And now it's differently. You're in Silicon Valley, you know, it's a lot of partnerships. You're working with the universities. We've got the Google self driving car that you'll see rolling around here in the neighborhood. Talk about how the the environment has changed in terms of partnering and cooperating with other technology companies. Yeah, I mean, the car is most people don't realize one of those technically advanced devices that they own. Right. And so a lot of technology already in the vehicle. But there's areas that we're going to have this center work on that Silicon Valley is uniquely talented and qualified to help us with. So you mentioned autonomous vehicles, certainly an area where a leader in semi autonomous functions and vehicles right now, you know, focus on the dealer can parallel park for you already. Seeing some of the people out here and follow out so they could, they could use that function. But moving to full autonomy and the technology is required for that a lot of expertise out here. Connectivity. So we're a leader in connectivity right now, 10 million vehicles equipped with our sync connectivity solution. So you can use your smartphone in your vehicle. But that's going to move beyond the vehicle becoming a device on the internet of things. And the connectivity and technology required for that a lot of great talent out here for that. A lot of mobility solutions. So one of the things about Palo Alto, very congested for traffic, right. So solutions for that, whether they be internet based or hardware based, a lot of activity going on. And even, you know, broader solutions of what is personal mobility mean, maybe users, ride models, different ownership models, ride sharing, all of that happening out here. Data analytics. So one of the things that people don't realize is how much data their vehicle generates, right? Our fusion energy hybrid generates about 25 gigabytes of data that can be stored an hour. 25 gigs an hour an hour. So gives kind of a breakdown of what are some of those, you know, big buckets of data that it's tracking. Sure, it's tracking its vehicle speed. It's actually tracking vehicle speed from all four of its wheels. It's tracking throttle position, brake position. It's tracking, you know, what controls are you using right now? And so all that data is stored on board all that data is really owned by the customer. So we want to make sure that customers opt in if they want us to use that data that the vehicles connected to the internet, that data can now be streamed up. We can collect all of that data on an individual vehicle. If we see some diagnostic codes that are indicating service is going to be required, we can send a message that customer. If we see broad trends among a fleet of vehicles, we can make some quality corrections. Perhaps even more importantly, we can understand our customers using their vehicles, what features are important. And then tailor new vehicles, design new vehicles to meet those needs. It's interesting, we interviewed a guy from continental AG who really said most people don't understand that a car is basically a rolling computer, you know, there's so much computational horsepower that's in a car that's being used all the time and other things like how it blends the the fuel in the air and the fuel injection system and you know, just a ton of systems. Yeah.  And then it's gone. So it would I imagine the opportunity to have a closed loop feedback system, absolutely, absolutely understand how do people drive their cars, not only the individual, but as you said, the aggregate, then you know, you map that against location types of cars, types of driver age of driver, it's got to be just a humongous new opportunity. Yeah, it's a great opportunity for us. You're right. Right now we send out surveys, do research clinics, get parts back from warranty to get all that real time and have it accessible by every one of our engineers on whatever part they're they're designing for the next vehicle. It's a tremendous opportunity not just for product development, but for the total company. Great.  What do you hire? And I'm sure everybody from Detroit wants to come out, especially this time of year. I know you're you're probably going to bring a few people out. Yeah, but also you're looking for people what types of things are they going to be working on if they get a job here at the Ford Innovation Center? We're looking for a broad basis skill set. So software engineers, hardware engineers, what we would call human machine interface experts that's first in experience design, but also non engineering, you know, business development analysts, even marketing aspects that are unique here in Silicon Valley. So it's a broad set within the 125 strong team that we're gonna have. And we'll have some people coming from our headquarters in Dearborn, as well as our other centers in Germany elsewhere in the world to provide the automotive background and tie in back into the headquarters. But such a strong talent pool in Silicon Valley, we want to take advantage of. Awesome. Well, Raj, thanks for taking a few minutes. Really busy, Raj and the CTO were at the Ford Innovation and Research Center just opened in Palo Alto in the heart of Silicon Valley. I'm Jeff Rick, you're watching theCUBE.