It's me John Park it is time for the first John Park's workshop of a happy new year to everyone I hope you had good holidays and some celebrations some time off maybe And are enjoying your new year so far. We're still in the statute of limitations. It's only four days in So what's happening here? What have we got going on I've got things I've got a coupon code for you so you can save some money in the store I've got a little Project that I was working on last year that I forgot to I think ever show and I It's gonna be done in two stages, and I only finished half of it and but that's a that's a part that we can show So that's why I've got that VGA CRT monitor set up over there so I can show you some of that What else I've got a Recap of this week's product pick so I'm back on the product pick train product picks of the week Let's see. I have a circuit python parsec for you a pretty cool one, and I also have a Little update on the memento camera. I want to show you some some photos that I shot with it as well as Give you a little preview of the learn guide I have started working on some learn guide stuff for the memento camera And I've got a basic example up and running that I wanted to share So let me see before I even move on. I want to remember. I'm gonna remember that because Otherwise I'll forget open that up in my browser over here. So maybe I'll see it but remind me if I don't So By the way, I'll be showing these travel photos They are actually just inside of a cabin because we were way up north in near Kiruna in Sweden And that's why I said hey hey to Johnny Bergdahl. I know you're I think you're in Sweden We we had a great time. We got to do some dog sledding and be pretty cold, but nowhere near as cold as it turned this week. So We lucked out, but that was that was great. Yeah, the northern it gets the colder It is Yanisku 7 saying over in our discord They are in Finland I think I think that's where you excuse us So Also, hello to who we have over there in YouTube DJ MJ are love the intro. Thank you That was a little sample based song I put together a while back using my 1010 music black box It's a fun little sample sequencer thing Update on my teenage engineering KO2 do you remember that one the cool Big calculator looking thing that is a sampler and a sample sample workstation. Is that what they call it? Had the dead on arrival Potentiometer the fader on it. I decided to send it back and get a fixed one from them rather than fixing it myself Only because not that it's hard to fix, but it's probably good to Let them know that the packaging didn't quite work out and have them. I'd also didn't want to Void a warranty it was unclear if there was a warranty in fact there was a Image on the back molded into the plastic of a screwdriver pointing at one of the screw holes as if they're encouraging YouTube But I don't know Actually, they're Swedish companies I'm not sure what Swedish law is about that sort of thing about repairing your stuff that arrived broken Will they honor that if something else breaks? I don't know so That I shipped off to them before the break and hopefully I'll get that one back in Soon soon enough Alright Let's move on with this thing. What? What do we got right here? Is my coupon code so in honor of the cold climate up in Scandinavia that people are experiencing right now chilling is my coupon code that could also be taken as a As a way of life are you chilling chill in Chilling that will get you 10% off in the store.  That's the the store page. That's what comes up right there shop It says shop in the upper left there if you're navigating around You can throw some of this cool stuff in your cart Look at we've got these new tiny tiny tiny neopixels these one one one one They are one point one millimeter by one point one millimeter tiny little Neopixels you can get them a strip of 50 So if you're building something these are these are not beginner friendly.  So just on physical goods And oh, that's cute. It's it's Arnold Excuse me sip here right What else what else is going on? How are you all doing? Hey Kerry Zafir welcome to the YouTube chat Yeah, and I meant to welcome everyone who came over into our discord chat. Hello to Tyeth UNESCO 7 Todd bot Johnny Bergdahl Jeff who is GDJ sky-o-one thin man Starman all the men I think see Grover is up in here. Hello. Hi Gary Z Thanks for stopping by Okay What is next? So, you know on Tuesdays I have that show. It's my product pick show It usually looks like this this by the way is a bit of a composite photo most of that photo I took in we just visited we didn't stay overnight there, but we visited the ice hotel near Kiruna where we were and that background as well as my my furry parka collar you see there and the and the neck gator Were taken there I comped on a better photo because it was kind of a blurry photo of the foreground JP that you see there, but that Yeah, that was taken inside of the ice hotel Snow ice carving kind of rooms, but that was the the product pick apropos I thought is a thermocouple amplifier, which lets you take very accurate temperature readings at a very broad range Using a thermocouple probe of any kind any of the different kinds that they make And if you watch the show during the show You could watch the show from inside the product page and you can get 50% off on the product That's how the product pick show works. There's no coupon code necessary You just buy them during the show and they are at a huge discount. So Here is a little one-minute recap of what went down Max 31 856 thermocouple Amplifier it is a universal thermocouple amplifier So it can use all the different types of thermocouple probes a feather M4 here And I've got this nice little display my ambient temperature right now is 68.2 degrees Fahrenheit I'll go ahead and plunge that in the icy Icewater bath here and we can see we're getting down to around 37.8 degrees or so take that out and That will rebound. I think faster if you're not using the metal-ended probe Just because that's got some thermal mass to it if I grab that with my fingers there You can see I'm starting to raise that temperature pretty quickly and then this was some water I boiled for tea earlier. So if I plunge that into there, you can see we're quickly getting up to around 120 degrees or so Fahrenheit it is the max 31 856 universal thermocouple amplifier Question for the chat I always make this I always can't I didn't do it in that video I don't think but I always confuse or or just conflate Celsius and centigrade I think when I was growing up for some reason the word centigrade was in use a bit What's the difference between those? I know they're not quite the same, but I think they're sort of similar Why do I always confuse those because they both begin with C and it's neither of them or what we use here We use Fahrenheit. Does anyone know? I'm sure I'm sure the internet can tell us or a wikipedia search, but if anyone has Insights onto Celsius versus centigrade and why I always say centigrade if you can help with any of those things I would love to know so I ask that of you the chats out there By the way, I should mention if you're watching over on Facebook or one of the other places like twitch Where there doesn't seem to be a chat going on We just focus our chat on really the discord. I'm also keeping an eye on on our YouTube chat, but the discord is probably the best place if you were wondering where to chat and you can get there but just go into a to through Dot I T Slash Discord that'll get you an instant link invite thing over to our discord server And then you can see here on the side if I move the YouTube chat out of the way for a second You can see we have a whole slew of different Server channels Should say just channels and the channel for live broadcast chats is called live broadcast chat So head on over there if you're wondering where to chat during these shows James Williams over in YouTube Says centigrade is the older term It was a and tithe says it was a standardization Moment when it became a an SI unit. That's the international scientific notation, right or terminology Converted to centigrade from Celsius or was it the other way around? Oh That's interesting really any excuse seven says negative 40 is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit Jebler is quite certain. It's not what's going on here. Temperature has everyone confused. Hi Jebler. By the way nice to see you here Popping in good to have you hanging out with us. All right, so So far that the most confident answer looks like to me the James Williams centigrade is the older term John Richardson, why does everyone use discord it seems very subversive and There's an emoji in my UI here that's blocking and for huh. Well, that's not nice to say John I don't think it's for that and I'm not quite so sure. It's subversive either, but it's a pretty good good chat Platform and partly it helps us keep the chat going Forums are really difficult to have conversations in and a lot of things like the YouTube chat that are here during the show Disappear after the show. I think same not sure about twitch, but I don't know that you can Kind of unify people talking. So this is a I think a pretty good solution for that not subversion And not weenies either. What do you mean by that? Cintergrades are used by tardigrades. What? All right Things are going off the rails quickly here. How about how about we do a circuit Python parsec that would be fun All right, here we go Let's get this set so for the circuit Python parsec today I wanted to show you how you can use Split to split a string into a series of strings based on a separator So this is useful for cases where you have things like comma separated lists or other Messages such as GPS data where you have strings that you want to kind of chop up into pieces and use those in a sensible way By putting them into a list which you can then use list Filtering and management of those items. So here's how we're gonna do it. You can see here I am Creating a variable called sentence and it's just this text string. This is a neat circuit Python trick Then I am going to Create a variable that's gonna be a list called words and into that I'm casting Sentence dot split. So I took that string Which happens to have spaces between the words, but it could be other Characters in there that work just fine to delineate those And then I'm using sentence dot split that will essentially look for every white space Unless we give it a specific separator to use and it will chop those up and put them into this list This list called words and then I can grab those and do something with them So I'll show you here in action if I Let this run you'll see it takes the first sentence. This is a neat circuit Python trick Then it shows me what my list looks like which has broken up into all these separate strings Then I'm using a little loop just to print them out to show I can do something with them And I'm saying for word in words print them and then I'm putting a little timing space in there And then since this is now a list I can do things like ask. Hey, how many things are in that if I made this a longer sentence and Resave this you'll see we now have a larger string to work with we break it up into the separate pieces and now it tells me Oh, we have 11 words in this string And so this is how you can split a string into separate strings Using split inside of circuit Python and that is your circuit Python parsec All right, I hope you found that Possibly interesting or useful It's also something you'll find if you're doing things like making mp3 players and wave players and using samples sometimes you'll Be using directory system directory commands to grab File names such as songs if you've put things like numbering into your songs Artists followed by album followed by song name those kinds of things You may find split to be useful in those cases to kind of dice things up And actually I'll show you another I mentioned you can use different separators. So if we let's say Let's say we put a comma in here We can actually just find out the two sort of clauses phrases in there clauses By saying what our separator will be as a comma. So I'm gonna In the split command now say okay look for commas and that's how we'll separate so now if I look at this It's gonna say all right. The list is now filled with two things the first one is this is a neat circuit Python trick And the second one is as far as I know my thing here is a little bit of a Wonky where it says this has two words in it's actually kind of two phrases or two clauses in there So really useful and thank you hat tip to Todd Kurt Todd bot over in the chat for Suggesting this as a circuit Python tip If you have ideas for circuit Python tips things that you'd like to see me show Things I don't know there's plenty of those that you that you think I ought to know about and should be showing and share with other people Let me know in the in the chat. Why broadcast chat is a fine place to do it. I will probably see it Alright, let's see back over speaking of the chat back over here Yes, someone asked about the product of the day that is a Tuesday show So today, I don't have a product pick, but I just show that recap and I saw more talk tight says on the negative twenty-two degree talk. Oh Yeah, so you can okay. Here's a nice link to a to a weather Checking out the temperature of still air versus wind I think Jeff says interesting centigrade's an old-fashioned name for Celsius freezing point of water for Celsius is zero One four waters a hundred abbreviate Celsius to see temperature skills invented named after a Swedish scientist Anders Celsius How about that? Keeps coming back to Sweden alright Next up What have we got we got a couple things so Let's jump into This VGA thing you can see today's show I named it VGA forever. So let me give you a little background. This is a a Video synthesizer project From Jonas bears if I'm getting your name, right, I hope Right, my apologies from that and Jonas does a lot of video synthesizer as well as audio synthesis types of projects and and education I Think has done some some sort of like hacking workshops to have people get together and build these things and Where this all started was let me go to the cheap hacky AV This is originally a Wrong link a project to use a Inexpensive VGA signal generator that you can get on Ali express Why am I not finding the link to that hold on where'd you go? Oh, that's the store. What one here? Where was the original tutorial?  Where are you that right there? So these are these little signal generators that you can get on Ali express or other other places for like five or ten dollars And they usually have a series of VGA signals that you can output you can go through like red RGB red green blue just solids Can add them together get a white image and then some other test patterns So what? Jonas had done was create an oscillator that can drive these to create video synthesis based on incoming control voltage Signals coming from like a euro-rex synthesizer or even just audio So that was the original project It was it was kind of taking advantage of that little board and making it do some things It wasn't really meant to do he then put together a design for a sort of more proper VGA board to replace that And that's this thing here the VGA forever and it pairs really well with this shav Cheap hacky AV board they kind of go together and the the shav board is the one I haven't finished building But if you look over on my workbench over here You'll see There's my VGA forever board and it's got in honor of red green blue It's got Ruth Bader Ginsburg there with a funky spiky hairdo on the silkscreen, which is pretty cool and You can see I've got some wires plugged into it. So what's going on here? Let me Superimpose me there. So in the middle. This is now instead of that sort of mystery Product $5 thing is now based on an at mega 328 I think which is what you find in like an Arduino Uno as the Signal generation chip and then it has you can see a VGA port at the top So that's VGA signal going out to a monitor and VGA is one of those signals that's quite doable for even low power Low horsepower Microcontrollers to generate you can generate the red green blue Horizontal sink and vertical sink signals send those off to your monitor and and actually display patterns and text and people have made video game Small video game consoles out of out of this sort of a hack So pretty cool to do VGA because it's very very approachable a lot of monitors even modern monitors can do VGA I just happen to have found this I Think it's a 19 inch CRT VGA monitor recently that I'm showing this on and it just looks super nice. So that's what I was going to show it on and As you can see here on the left side, there are three analog controls these potentiometers for Bringing in the red green and blue component, which is really cool So if you are sending a sort of single image to that you can pull the components RGB in and out But you can also do things like fit filter them and filter them individually differently from each other and You can drive them with oscillators in the individual channel. So you see on my board there I have this Eurorack patch cable mono 3.5 patch cable plugged in that I'm going to use to modulate The or essentially oscillate the red channel of that if I plug it into the next one It's the green channel and X1 is the blue channel and then there are also some some little built-in patch points that you can use for that So let's Jump to that view of the world there and let me go go Over to Here and I can I can demo some of this stuff here so Hopefully it'll get the focus right. I have that camera on autofocus it may I think I've got enough depth of field that it'll be okay But it's probably gonna try to focus on the human face more than that monitor there So what I've got right now. Let's see is this the About will bring in the green channel so I have Programmed this little at mega 328. Is that what you are? I can't read it on there. I think you are I've programmed that originally on an Arduino Uno and if you have an old enough one You can pop the chip off after you've programmed it and then plug it into here that gets tiresome quickly So I built a little Programmer using a metro mini 328 So that can program over the the programming header here. You can plug that in Code in Arduino and then send code up to this to do something else So I happen of coded it to do this kind of funky pattern. I think this was an example I can't remember this is like six months ago now that I did this but I think on The the site the website for the tutorial for putting this together. There's some example code in Arduino And so you can see here. This is just the green channel and I'm just adjusting That component with this middle potentiometer I've got my camera as well synced as I can to the refresh rate of this monitor You will still see that sort of diagonal Miss sync I think this is 60 Hertz and that's Trying to be at 60 frames a second essentially through shutter controls, but it's not not exact So that's the green component Let me Pull in I Can dim that a bit and bring in the blue component Let's see those all mix with each other a little bit as we bring those in There's blue so I have different patterns, but they're they're similar. They're just kind of offset from each other So they're not in the exact same spot And then if you look at plug this back in The red channel what I'm gonna do the red channel is actually You see it has this movement in these wavy lines and that's because I have patched a Eurorack Oscillator sort of a VCO here on on this side is Sending a fast oscillation to that red channel. You can see I can Adjust as I adjust things like the shape of that That wave or that's the pitch of it, so I'm sorry I didn't set this up so we're hearing it as well We're just visualizing it but the idea here is this could be pretty cool for visualization of sound because the same Oscillator that's driving your audio the audio rate oscillations are also Driving the different components and that can be different patterns in each channel, right green blue that can be different Oscillations coming into them from from different oscillators You can do things like FM modulation so you can get some interesting Effects and you can also do things like adjust the horizontal sink or the vertical sink also coming in from oscillation So there's some interesting things you can do I don't have much demo other than this today just because I haven't didn't have a chance to go in and reprogram that to Do anything much more than what you see here But that is this fun fun little project here and you can see it's got some great silk screen art on there. I don't know why the night Jonas did say that the Eva in forever the Eva was I think the name of the Alibaba or Ali express Chatbot so it's a it's a bit of a nod to the chatbot on on Ali I don't know why 1987 on there There are mysteries involved, which is kind of fun so that is What I've got there. Oh, and of course by the way you can while I've got The red channel receiving oscillator input from my Your rack I've got the green channel just doing its own thing. So essentially only the Programmed signal generator coming from the chip is what we see on the green channel red is a mix of that pattern as well as the Oscillator same with blue here. I have that get green out of there. I have blue receiving Oscillator input the same oscillator. In fact, I'm just piggybacking those right Is that right? Oh, no, it's not right now. Let's let's let's piggyback those So if I take my green of my blue channel and repatch it into red, okay now we get purple right because these are doing the same thing they're getting the same Oscillation from my your rack and so they're the patterns are aligned the the color channels are mixing so we can Do some neat color effects. So you can imagine if we're sending different Slightly different oscillate maybe slightly out of phase then we could get some color mixing and stuff like that In fact, let me see. Let me try one thing with that. I'm gonna set the blue channel and I'm gonna patch that to There are multiple outputs on this tides module here, and I can't remember what Those look like. Let's see. So there's blue without and blue with I can't see that well in my little monitor there, but Presumably those are Mixing no, that's fun. Okay. So that's it. That's VGA forever There's Not a lot of Inexpensive video synth things out there. There's a lot of expensive ones, but I thought this was a really cool example. I think the I Got the PCBs probably for ten dollars each or something like that and the components are not that expensive I think the claim is that it's maybe twenty five dollars to build one or something like that Pretty cool Let's see if you are interested in this I'm gonna just drop a link in the chat for this site right here and I'll dive back into this project actually to To let you know why I even thought to show this today. I Saw on one of the synth DIY reddit groups subreddit Someone was building one of these and asked if anyone could do some troubleshooting on their build which seems Seemed to be having a problem And I was like, hey, wait a second. I got one of these I forgot all about it Let me go grab it off the shelf see if it's working and try to try to help so it looked like they just had a jumper Plugged in where they didn't need to have it. I think it was just continuously resetting the chip So that's the VGA for Eva Go check it out if you're into this kind of thing Alright and then Let me just check in on the chat here questions now The last thing I wanted to do was you remember this little guy right here That I was playing with right before the break. This is the memento camera So we have these I think they're out of stock right now, but they should be coming back into stock soon So it's a way to essentially have your own programmable hackable five megapixel camera that you can do interesting stuff with So let me show There is the main guide right there and I'm just gonna jigger that cropping on screen There and That's a little easier to see So Liz put together the main guide on this that has all the usual cool stuff. You'll expect guide to the Parts the pinouts the specifications and so on and so forth I have the sort of a early version of the Add-on for it that gives you a little LED ring that you can Control as well if you want to do things like colorize your photos and things like that, but that's the main main Attraction with the memento is that it is some controls. It's a little LCD display so that you can Do preview as you'd expect Think Jeff might be working on a little camera viewer a little image viewer Because it saves its photos onto SD card and you might want to review those So I brought with this with me on my trip by the way, so I'll show you some photos I took with it the idea is that it's a it's hackable. You can do interesting things like You know take photos only when PIR sensor detects movement Do web-based things do IOT based things do? bracketed Exposures that kind of stuff all by coding yourself intervalometers Does it can shoot gifts? We can do things like Stop motion time-lapse. So so there's gonna be some interesting fun stuff with it but to get my head around it I wanted to write up a Real basic of how to control this thing in circuit Python. So this is the page I put together So just look for I hid it from you but on the left side there's a circuit Python basic camera link inside of the guide one of the pages in the guide I think it's the fifth page and This just has you get it set up download your Necessary Libraries from the project bundle that is the code I have I think it's just like a hundred and some lines of code to do the real basics and so you can see things in here like Setting your resolutions so you can just go in by hand and pick some preset resolutions All of this is based on ESP 32 Sort of built-in camera stuff. So they're preset resolutions. They're preset brightness levels preset filters we're using that are actually just built onto it You'll be able to create your own but some of these are just built in things like doing an invert filter or What is some of the other ones? I think the we have a blur on there. I can't remember but So this will show you how to Use the little UI that's on there that's built into the library that Jephler put together So in that UI you'll see things like the resolution that you're currently shooting at so this is at 240 240 It'll let you know the status of the SD card. There's actually a little switch in the SD card Reader so it knows if there's a card in there Or not and I think it Verifies that it's actually able to mount the thing to show if it's good and then the Normal mode versus some of those filters I talked about and then the type of image you're gonna save to disk so you can save a BMP or a JPEG or a GIF So There we are taking a little photo tells you snap you took a photo And then once you start looking at your photos here I've got little bits of code to tell you how to adjust things so if you want to change the resolution for example These are the presets we have zero through 12 So anything from 240 240 all the way up to the full size 25 2560 to 1920 You can see Some of those images there if you click on those you'll see the full size image Here are some of these effects so py cam Library here. I'm just saying okay zero. That's normal image You'll see these in the preview and then you can shoot your photos so effect One is invert just inverts all the RGB values two is a nice black and white Three is this reddish filter a greenish filter a bluish filter a sepia tone and then the solar eyes effect and Then since I have that little Add on there I plugged that in and used that to do some color so you can see the goat my little goat here in The front has a Color cast of green or blue or red on it and that's sort of like a flash right so I'm shooting from the flash on the camera and then we have other Camera effects here. This is the full blown. I'm gonna document this more, but this is a full blown code example that Jeff Created that's in the guy rather in the library and this allows you to essentially use the UI to pick those things so in my Examples here, you're just gonna go in and manually change those just to get a feel for okay How do I just take a photo with the command for that? How do I set the resolution? How do I preview that? How do I save that to the SD card and so on so? That is the very basic guide there Or rather the very basic camera page example. I have a bunch of other Sort of guide pages for this that I'm gonna put together how to do a remote camera how to do animated GIFs How to do stop motion it'll be kind of a fun little stop motion platform Using the colored me a pixel lighting for some cool effects Creating your own filters. We're gonna see if we can do some both bitmap tools library as well as maybe some convolution filters for the Convolution kernel matrix per pixel to do things like blurs We may be able to do qr code scanning on it. I forget the the status of that And time lapses like I mentioned and maybe a web viewer. So those are some things coming up with it And I wanted to give you a little preview of that as well as I thought it might be cool to take a look at Some of these images that I took so here Some of actually are this one here actually just looks legitimately like a nice image The rest of them I think give it a flavor kind of like a Holga camera or some old film camera with light leaks It's you know, it's not your iPhone like you want the great photos use your iPhone or a professional camera But this one just in snapshot mode, you know, it's kind of a fun little cool pocketable camera We were dog sledding when we were in Sweden. I Didn't take any photos with this but I wouldn't have minded as much dropping this as my as my My iPhone so maybe just as an inexpensive snapshot camera. It's kind of a use case for it. You might consider So that's a regular color photo that I think I shot at a decent resolution I scaled these all down to I think 1024 768 just for Previewing here on the show But that one is actually a nice looking photo of a little antler on the outside of the cabin where we're staying Speaking of antlers, so here's in the sepia mode and also you can see some noise in there and that's partly because I it doesn't do low light that well and I Shot it out of I think a lower resolution. I think it was 800 600 But it's kind of nice since it's in the sepia tone we go we don't get like color jpeg artifacts we get Just these sort of little grainy bits to it Here is I can't remember this might have been in in the Game Boy mode so if you look in that example that Jeff did there's a sort of dithered mode so this is Just black and white and and using dithering. This is of one of these Christmas straw goats and it was right next to a little stove little fireplace stove So I think that's what the bright image is there But that's a little straw goat in this kind of cool grainy noisy Gameboy mode this one actually shot inverted with the invert mode But I didn't like the way it looked so I re-inverted it just in Photoshop that introduced all this color artifacts so if you see all those typical color artifacts in there that is because of me Messing around with the image. It wasn't shot in sepia mode the original image actually was a painting in the lodge where we were of a Danish explorer, I think it was You have very Blair rich project Todd says well you haven't seen nothing yet because the final one I have of here is This this moose skull and antlers Don't remember what mode that was in It has color artifacts so may just have been low light and and the regular color mode And Yeah, that's pretty Blair witch. That was also up in the cabin there so let's go back to this happy one here and That'll that'll do it for my my vacation photo. Sorry, it's not probably the normal vacation photo set You're expecting but those were some kind of fun little snapshots to shoot with the the memento camera there alright So, let's see. I think that's gonna do it. Oh That's cool see Grover over in the chat said they're planning to do some green screen Photos using the palette filter library and the LEDs can be some interesting stuff you do with that And any other thoughts or question no looks good Okay, I Think that's gonna do it. So hey, thanks so much for joining me for the first Workshop show of the new year. I'm gonna go work on all these these camera Pages for that guide and get those in there so that if you do Go and grab yourself one of these you can You can get yourself 10% off when they're back in stock If those those moments align otherwise look for a coupon code on a different day There's 3495 for the memento board, but that coupon code will work on anything if you want to get one of these You can sign up To notify By putting your email address in there and clicking But yeah head to aterfruit.com go find some neat stuff and You can get 10% off with today's coupon code chilling Use that before midnight tonight eastern standard time eastern daylight time. I don't know which one we're in Remember which is which all right. Thank you everyone for stopping by I think that's gonna do it for today We will I don't know if there's deep dive tomorrow, but we'll we'll be back I think next week should be the return of 3d hangouts I'll be doing my product pick show on Tuesday. So for people who are asking in the chat. That's a Tuesday Happening. I'll have another cool product pick and Then we'll have show and tell on Wednesday I think I'll be hosting that one either that one or the one of the week week after guest hosting We'll have ask an engineer and then this will happen again So thank you everyone for stopping by for aterfruit industries. I'm John Park. This has been John Park's workshop. Happy New Year I will see you soon. Bye. Bye


What's to do a little Q&A? I've been rambling on for eight minutes now. Let's come in there. Scott, protect me harder. That's right, Gary. Ah, man. Silver Foxes, people are selling Bitcoin. See, this is the thing, like I've been in since 2017. People have been around a lot longer than I have. And the whole thing that we've all talked about is mass adoption. We can't wait till mass adoption gets here. Now we're on the precipice of mass adoption if people are saying, you know, usually by the rumor sell the news. I'm like, what's the point? This is it. You know, we get to the finish line, time to celebrate. And I think if we just hold on, more funds come in. I think it's even better for us. But again, you can do whatever you want to. But yeah, let's take a look at the markets. I kind of neglected that. Ah, I'll be damned. Look at that. In one hour, I went down 1.4, wonder why? Well, if you're so inclined, maybe this is, oh my goodness, look at this. Well, I'm not surprised about that either. So that's, you know what that is, ladies and gentlemen, that is a preview of what will happen when the Bitcoin ETF does get approved. And that's after 10 minutes. Let me make sure. Yep. Okay, you got me. 15 minutes. It went from 46,000 to 47,000. Okay, wow. Well, it's a good thing we bought in this year, huh? So that's in 15 minutes. Imagine what's gonna happen in one hour and five hours and 24 and 48 and 72. On the flip side, if it doesn't get approved, expect this, me personally, I'm fine because let's be honest, I think we're all thinking the same thing. Boy, I wish I would have bought some more. So if they don't approve it, good enough. It's inevitable anyhow. So Silver Fox, great catch. I didn't really realize that people would do that, but it makes sense. The only thing that's really volatile in crypto or in Bitcoin is the holders of Bitcoin. CryptoGulfer says that post was meant for tomorrow. And you probably, you could be right. Maybe you're just like, ooh, we forgot to, we set the wrong timer. Our bad. Wouldn't that be funny, huh? I guess we'll find out tomorrow, right? I like to report this to you. Yeah, very nice. At least we triggered the 48K reaction. Yeah. Lori says, Lori says, I don't find this funny and you should care whether we're gonna use you or not. Lori, at some level, you have to laugh at some things. And this is one of those things to me. The people that are doing longer than shorts, I do feel bad for them, but I mean, I do talk a lot about not using leverage and doing those plays, but it's again, everybody has their thing. As far as like an ETF, I'm more concerned about the narrative and shifting away from the Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger mentality of investing and going, we don't understand this, so we're gonna demonize it. Because it doesn't make sense to us because we made a ton of money going from the 1960s and forward to people going, oh, I really, I understand now because I understand that people in the United States, I mean, in 2020, they had a nice little shock of the corona sickness and they stocked their money away and they were responsible enough and then everything started to skyrocket because the contillion effect, which is when the money printers just go on and those nearest to the money printers are the ones that actually reap the most benefits.  I think I'd like to see more of that happen than anything else for people to realize just how bad it actually is and to realize that for their store of value and for their protection of assets and for their purchasing power, there's no better option right now, at least that I can see than Bitcoin. You got a better one, let me know. And again, there's a great website I've been talking about for three days now that I've found it. It's called ChristIntoBitcoin.com. ChristIntoBitcoin21.com. And again, it just takes a look at, let's just take gold, this'll be fun. So as the price of Bitcoin goes up, you need less Bitcoin, right? To buy said gold. We're gonna overlay fiat, same thing. It's always the same thing. And then we'll do, let's do, yeah. So like back in the day, 2011, it would have cost you $240 to buy an ounce, like I think it was an ounce of gold. Correct me the comment section, not a big gold bug. I buy a little bit here and there. But now it only takes you 0.04 of a Bitcoin to get the same amount of Bitcoin that you buy or the same amount of gold as $2,000 of what it's worth per ounce. And you can just look at this website and it just makes a ton of sense. Crude oil, gold, I mean, there's not very much green. S&P 500 for one month, okay, you got me. 4.8 on the Mexican peso, hey, it's not bad. My wife will be happy. This is a weird outlier, 145% orange juice. I don't know that. I think it's all by kiloton of weight. I can't remember, but yeah, three year, five year, so on the world. Here's another thing I wanna show you some.  And I talked about this last week and I said how we put $260,000 in a condo here for short-term and long-term rentals. And that was in July 24th, 2020. I wanna show you something because we thought we were geniuses, of course. You take $160,000 and you lump sum that into Bitcoin in 2020, which was right after the halving. I thought I might have missed something. Check this out. 2020, June 24th. If I had to dump $260,000 in a lump sum into Bitcoin, again, it's in the past. I don't have a time machine, but we're gonna sell that same condo for like 305,000. And it's done pretty well on Airbnb, but you know, there's a lot of hassles with that. I'll do a video on it later. But at the peak, that would have been worth $1.8 million. $1.8 million. So instead of, you know, a profit of $45,000, maybe $100,000 over time, a little bit more. And then right now it's even worth 1.2.  All right, I'm gonna drink this coffee. I know Gary drinks coffee, especially right now. I had to listen. You're talking about Preston Pishin and his cadence of talk. He's very, very quick. You know, that's why I talk. Well, he must think very quickly. And that's why he talks quickly. This is why I talk so slow. That's a good point. Trademate says this is more ammunition for a delay because the whole thing about the, and think of it this way, I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist here, but the whole prospect of why this ETF would not have been approved was because of what Gary said, made it very vocal. He's worried about manipulation. You know, we can, the price is getting manipulated. It's offshore. There's a problem with Binance and what they're doing. And of course they rein them in very well, but maybe this was a test run to see how much it could actually move the market. Let's take a look real quick on liquidations. Now I think things are rolling in. One hour liquidations, 85 million. It's not too bad. In four hours though, 101 million. Over 12 hours, 169 million. I don't think it's enough for them to really say too much. It's concerned the fact that Bitcoin's like a $900 billion asset class, but it could be something. Maybe they could say, I don't know. I'm just hypothesizing. Don't listen to me. Let's see, not approved. It was just a tweet. It's not like crypto investors even look at their X app. Look, if you want to find out what's happening right now and get the most, I don't want to say unbiased opinion, but some pretty good range of opinions, watch out for X. What a thumbnail. It was a good thumbnail, I thought. I did it like that. Does not say yet, says not approved. It's true, but it's all on tomorrow. And it is fake news. Shadow Aliens could be, we never know.  Yeah, maybe. First, yay, obviously. Tense mug at times. What are you gonna do? SEC is trolling us. This was intentional. I could see that. I could see maybe it was intentional. Like somebody said, maybe they just set the timer wrong on their social media account. Maybe someone who was actually responsible for that social, cause I'm pretty sure Gary's not tweeting out stuff. Whoever's responsible for that, they're like, hey, we're gonna approve the CTF. So set this for X time. And then they got the wrong, they put the wrong day. Who knows? Yeah, lucky me. Not really, I don't. Look, if I got to wear a T-shirt that says my heart Machinsky and everybody's portfolio goes up, I'll wear the T-shirt. I'm good. As he says, hey, well, yeah, sure. So risk levels, this is a good question. So what we're looking at here is, let me bring this up. So there's this website. And it's Ben's, you know, the Cryptoverse. And the DCA tools that I show you guys can use this right now, it's free. But take a look at time and risk bands and ADA. And what this is is just over the entire existence of Cardano, they are in these pockets of risk. And when things get super overheated, it's only been 74 days. That's usually when you see like, let me show you. Like when it hits like $3 or 250 or something like that. So you can, again, let's take out ADA, let's hide all. And what's great about this tool is you can kind of see like, usually some pretty good times to potentially take some profits if you're gonna wait that long. So here we are, 12th of February, 2021. March and somewhere around April. I think it topped out over here. Price was $2 and 16th of May. And then I did it again over here. Yeah, $2.91. So all that just says is like, look, these are when things are vastly overheated. So today at this current timeframe, ADA is currently in the 0.3 to 0.4. So if you believe in ADA and you wanna buy it, this might not be a bad time, just saying. And then there's another one that I think is pretty cool. Let's see. Charts, now. Now, where is it? Yeah, this one right here. I can't show it all to you. It's a paid for service. But if you're so inclined, there's a link in the description to get 10% off. And I like to see these, so they're kind of like price predictions. So let's take a look at ADA. So of course this will change, but for the top out, all the different data that we're looking at now, look at that, $7.51. Well, let's just say it just hits the 0.9, $4.66. These are just predictions. You don't know if it's gonna come true. They're just predictions. So that's something for that. Let's take a look at, well, let's take a look at Bitcoin and the risk levels at current. So right now we're at zero, we're like right in the middle, 0.59, almost 0.6. The 0.9 level, 88,000. At the 1.0 level, 105,000. I think you can do more than that, but I thought I could do more than that last cycle and that was wrong. So what can you do? All right, everybody. So that's it. I wanna keep you here. False alarm, SEC got hacked supposedly. Gary is protecting you harder and failing yet again, but we'll just wait till tomorrow. We'll see what happens, but that's it for tonight. So look, like today's video, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing, everything we talk about, super time sensitive. That's it for tonight. Thank you so much, everybody, and I'll see you guys on the next one, which will be mania. Adios.


We will be 1st enemy. No! I appreciate Kenyan football. I appreciate the teams that are playing. Obviously, the management has a problem, but it's still the love of the game. It's still football. I'll still watch it. Tell us good to have you on board. How have you been, man? Good to have you too. Excellent, thanks for having me. Missed you guys a lot. Thanks for giving me a chance to hang out with the men of the moment. Men of the moment. And Abizo is coming here for the first time man. ...to adresi describe, which is obviously another given In that there are some defensive problems, but that being said, ...a team has the right way. Let's see how the champions will look like to be honest. I'm very skeptical, I must be at Joze MoRinju. Joze MoRinju, the other day there was an interview with Bean Sports... He is choosing his words, especially directed towards Man United and he is saying that you know when he will be making his decision with regards to a team he will be joining as a tactician. He has to know in advance the ambition and the long term plan of the club and I think that one he might have been talking in reference to Man United. You are a big supporter of Oleguna Salsha, the Nurewian International and you have been an ardent admirer of him but he got reality checks in Midweek against Burnley. To all. What's the reality check there? I mean, he lived up to his reputation, saviour of the team. They did it the Saalex Fagason way, they came back into the game on the score sheet wise in the dying minutes. That's the way they always did it under Saalex Fagason and who used to do it more than anyone else, Oleguna Salshaia and this time he did it as manager. So they were going to lose and imagine what people would have said had they lost. They've drawn and he's getting so much stick for that, why? I mean, they drew the Manchester United way, the Saalex Fagason way. What better way to do it? I'm extremely proud of what he has done so far. Fine, they still remain at sixth position but points wise, look at where they are. In fact, why not for that late entry into the United regime as manager? Had he come in alia, one beggars to think where would they be right now? They'd be probably at the top with Manchester City and Liverpool going for glory. So that overstaying of the Mourinho regime actually held back Manchester United from its full potential. So let's stop going hard on Oleguna Salshaia. Let's save that for later, there'll be days for that but so far so good. It's about objectivity and partiality with regards to this particular show, especially when it comes to funds on where we're discussing international football. But apparently today I think two man united heavyweights, really defending their team. Of course, as a neutral fellow under support of Nottingham Forest, two time UEFA Champions League winner. And at least we have a Bizu support Chelsea football club. First, no supporters outside there. In case you're gonna come on the show and of course talk to us at Waseke Maxwell at hashtag touchline Y254, at Y254 channel just inbox us, then you're gonna come on this particular set and discuss and defend your team as well. We are also on Twitter. How about yourself? Joe Sayena. Joe Sayena. Joe Sayena. Yes. Let's interact. And Rolado Koth has just been here and he's left. He's a Manchester City supporter. And I think... Just joined recently. Just joined recently. These are the results from Chelsea and from Arsenal. So you guys, what you're trying to say that they are not genuine Manchester City supporters. Exactly. These guys, I've been announced. They are supporters for the past three years. Maximum five years. The team came into public limelight. Think a few years ago, right? Yeah.  Or a fashionista. Or a fashionista. Anyway, abizo. Talk to us about the title rest. Do you think it's gonna go to the Y? You see after midweek clashes, Manchester City getting beaten by Newcastle United. Alan Sheraman, the former international for England, the legend, celebrating on set live on TV. But what do you make of the title rest going forward? I think now Liverpool have the best chance of winning their first title. Because you see there is a gap of five points now. And they have actually just lost one game. As compared to Manchester City have lost almost four games. So I think they have a better chance. If they don't utilize it now, they'll never get such a chance. But having listened to several pundits just like yourselves, they are saying that it's likely to go to the Y. Liverpool as well, you know, drawing against Leicester City in Arimaguaya, the English international equalizing. It's not something that was expected. Do you think the dynamics of the game, the title rest can shift and City have got a winning momentum? Do you know how to do it, especially towards the end of the league? Do you think they can replicate the same and leapfrog Liverpool? No, they can't, but it all depends on, actually I think this weekend will actually determine. Because it depends if Manchester City are going to beat us and all. I think they have a better chance of closing the gap. John. Yes. Several midweek clashes. Chelsea getting beaten by a bound mouth. Today they are playing against Huddersfield. Saribol, a man who just came from Napoli. He seems things are not going his way. And the other day after losing to Arsenal he said that it's hard to motivate Chelsea players. Negative news coming from the manager. And with the player mutiny, you know, called player revolt being reported at the Stamford Bridge with senior players Aden Hazard. I hear he's got some sort of a row with the tactician. That will affect the delivery of the players at the pitch. I think this is where now man management comes in as a manager. And this is where you work towards what you're being paid for. As a manager you're supposed to sit on the display and say we have had a Tory time. We have not been lucky successfully in scoring goals. Our midfield clearly I got someone from Napoli thinking that he'll replace Kante. He can't replace Kante.  And our defence Louise is not working very well. So how do you address these three angles by going to each of those players specifically? Sit down with them, get to know what's troubling them. Get to know what's troubling Hazard. Since the beginning of the season Hazard has been playing as a false number nine. It has not worked. Right now they have a striker in Higuain. Okay. What Sari would do, and this is my honest opinion, change up that system. Okay. Have Higuain who has been playing all his club career years as a single striker upfront have, whether it's Ross Buckley behind him as an attacking midfielder, have William on the one wing, have Hazard on the other wing, both of them who can cut in. In the middle of the park where we've been having a problem, let Kante drop back and help the other midfielder who's there. In the defence, which is very critical, Rudiga needs to stick with Louise at every time. Communication is important. Getting the assistance from the left back who's scissor and on the right side at the same time Marcus Lonzo, give it a four, two, three, one. Play to your strength which is Higuain as a sole striker, as a target man. Chelsea has been widely known for using polished players and experienced fellers during most of their assignments and they rarely use the upcoming talent. As we speak right now, Adsono Doi is reportedly interested to leave the bridge and probably join Bayern Munich but unfortunately the transfer window closed yesterday so that is not happening. But do you think the blend of youth and experience is good for the team? What I think really is that after Chelsea won the Champions League a few years ago, their proprietor Roman Abramovich sort of relaxed. He was initially very involved in what was happening with the team behind the scenes and you could see him attend almost all of Chelsea's matches but after they won the Champions League it's as though he felt, yes, I have achieved whatever I wanted to achieve. Yes, he has... So he got in complacent. Kind of because he has fine, he has subsequently fired a few managers along the way since who did not quite deliver what he wanted and usually his prime target is the English Premier League but I think the Champions League elevated his thinking process and he became contented. So in a way, let me contradict myself it lowered also his thinking his thinking in terms of ambition and he sort of relaxed. So I'm glad you've used the word player mutiny because what we've been seeing in Chelsea is a bit of player mutiny. Mourinho came back to Chelsea for a second spell won the Premier League and then in the second season there was arguably player mutiny and he got kicked out. Then came in Antonio Conte, won the Premier League in his second season I repeat of what happened to Mourinho in his second spell player mutiny. And this player mutiny is orchestrated by influential and senior players. And then now we have Sarri, he's come in and he's not even been given a chance to win the Premier League. There's arguably a player mutiny. This was not happening before when Roman Abramovich was actually involved almost hookline and sinker in each and every detail of the squad. But ever since they won the Champions League and then of course Abramovich had problems some say the problems were in Russia with Putin others say there were no problems in Russia with Putin others say the problems were in England where they refused to renew his visa and so maybe he got caught up in the bureaucracies of life outside of Stamford Bridge and he sort of got his eye off the price. When you invest in a team heavily you've got to be involved with it heavily. That's what Vishay did with Leicester. That's what Mike Ashley has failed to do with Newcastle United. Daniel Leviotzpaz? That kind of thing. Now what happens is when the cut is out the mice come out to play kind of situation. So that's what's happening at Chelsea and it would be most unfortunate if that became the trend if that became normalized because we are seeing it a bit too often at Stamford Bridge and arguably one can say it more or less happened to Mourinho at Old Trafford. So really this problem is deeper than what you see on the pitch. It goes into the boardrooms and that's where you can see the problem coming from. Similar situation with Manchester United the Glacier Brothers. They were said not to be interested with United. So the team started, I mean there's even a Manchester United offshoot team that has been formed by fans. Why because they feel that this ownership is not interested in the actual club itself. They buy these clubs to play some of them, not all of them. So play at Mutiny takes over and that's what happens when there's a vacuum at the top the guys at the bottom take charge and a crowd cannot rule. In as much as we love democracy and it a crowd cannot rule. Abdizo you are a Chelsea supporter and do you agree with their sentiments during from the same script with them that probably Roman Abramovic the Russian Taikun who is the owner of the club has failed to stamp authority and take control of the team if the team has to perform and probably between Sarri and the players especially Eden Hazard who is on the wrong? Actually I think there's a big problem. The players have a fair share of it even the coach because Abramovic, I mean Sarri Sarri came with one tactic from Syria. Is rigid minded? Ya is very rigid minded because you can actually predict his substitution he normally takes off covers each brings in Berkeley the same thing so I think he needs to have a plan B and from the players side I think there's a tendency that is actually growing in Chelsea as in every season they expect to have a new player and a new coach That's a big problem. That's too much inconsistency. I think actually Sarri the main problem here is trying to force Jojiniu to play in the first eleven because he is the one who signed him? Exactly because he knows Sarri bowl so Jojiniu is not a bad player he has a good reputation in Syria and he has been good for the past two seasons but now the big problem he has you see in big games what they normally do they just shot Jojiniu and Chelsea cannot play football actually we've gotten results from long balls from David Luiz and see that actually makes David Luiz to go deeper to number six role then there's Rudy guys left alone So do you think Sarri bowl has been getting his tactics wrong and he's been getting rigid minded because I've heard from several Chelsea supporters that you can even predict his line up regardless of who he's facing that has been his main undoing and actually he can even try one game and put Jojiniu outside play contain his natural position you cannot expect the best CDM in the world to play as an offensive midfielder


Hi, this is Stu Miniman coming to you from Wikibon World Headquarters in Marlboro, Massachusetts. Having a CUBE conversation on the clouds. Joining me for this episode is Steve Keniston, longtime friend of the CUBE, and Steve, the storage optimist. Steve, welcome to this CUBE conversation. Thanks, Stu, thanks for having me, and good to be in the World Headquarters here at Wikibon. Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, cloud, of course, is this big mega trend we've been following for many years. We talked about last year it seemed that, you know, really hybrid cloud, you know, really is one of the hot topics of conversation, and with the CUBE, we've got a lot of shows that are going to cover cloud. We already had, earlier this year, we've done some open stack coverage, we were looking at the open compute summit, which is rather interesting.  You know, where are we with the whole conversation cloud? What are you here in the marketplace?  Yes, do I think, it's interesting. I think there have been a tremendous number of conversations about cloud for a very long time.  I hear a couple of different things, right? I hear one, depending on the size of my company, and you know, as a lot of these conversations go, it depends kind of thing. If you're in the small and medium-sized business type space, I think a lot of folks have turned to the cloud as a way to digest what that technology is by leveraging it for a data protection type of environment. Now, maybe it's long-term retention, maybe it's a way to get data out of my data center and daily management type of set for things like, you know, off-siting tapes and that sort of thing. But they've been able to do things like test the security, test the performance, test recoverability so that I can handle and digest my stuff. If I'm at a larger type of a shop, I'm hearing more of things like, hey, I can spin up infrastructure and I do mean total infrastructure, like servers and storage in the cloud to be able to allow me to do test dev type stuff a lot faster than I might be able to do internally. So from a practicality standpoint and a realism standpoint, I'm hearing a lot of that type of things. Now, there are environments where, especially in startup land, where a lot of folks are starting their companies and leveraging clouds. I think you and I had a conversation about gaming is a great place to do something like that. So I think that's for the new company. So we've got the new, we've got the SMB and we've got the enterprise all leveraging the cloud in different ways. But I think today that's how it's taking form. Yeah, and Steve, you know, I think you brought up a lot of good points. So first of all, right, it's very much kind of, depending on what staff you have and what objectives you have, as well as what application fits.  You know, absolutely.   There's many other services, companies like, you know, ServiceNow and Workday that are really, you know, offering new services that are, you know, transforming a lot of businesses. Then you say, are you leveraging public cloud?  Latest numbers for 2013 look that they're probably over three billion dollars worth of revenue there. Of course, what solutions they're selling is a big question. We'd all kind of like to understand which piece of services they're offering because they kind of blur the line between infrastructure and a service where they just give you kind of that raw compute, you know, storage and network and, you know, some platform as a service because they really are offering more services going forward. You know, we covered it, re-invent many of the new services like desktop as a service or database as a service. They've got big data applications. Gaming, lots of services, streaming for gaming that are fitting in there. So, you know, lots of, you know, different services that they have. And then, of course, in my own data centers, people are trying to create more cloud. So hybrid cloud is usually, I've got some of all.  Yeah, I think what ends up happening is, and again, I think you brought up a lot of good points, right? As a CIO looks to the cloud for answers to solutions for their, for things that are happening within their data center, I think they have to, they're obviously juggling things like cost, right? So cost is one of the objectives of how can I take that out of my IT budget and leverage some of that money that I would have, either that I would normally spend on IT, but put it towards those projects that are actually gonna make my business more money. So I think with, you talked about big data, I think big data and analytics is starting to drive even smaller companies to be able to be more competitive and really giving fuel to the fire so that if I'm a small bank, right, now there's probably apps, and I'll get into this in a second, apps that allow me to do fraud detection that large banks have been doing for years with a lot of analytics and compute, giving these small banks the ability to now to be competitive. So it's interesting. And what I think as CIOs look to the cloud is, okay, there's the ability and the need to be able to run my particular application. And the question is, is that something I want outside my four walls or not? And then I think a lot of CIOs are now turning to, if I look at the cloud, is there an opportunity there for me to be able to maybe leverage a new app that does similar things that I'm doing, but as an app, right? So if you think about, I always talk about kids coming out of college these days that are moving into data centers and computer science or whatever, running IT, they're used to the iPhone, right? They're used to the app. They're used to turn it on, it works, it runs, it's been tested, and I can get all the feature rich functionality, right? So can I, as a CIO, look to the cloud what's out there, what's available? And I think Amazon, like you had pointed out, right, is growing, if they adopt like an Apple iPhone app type model, right, that could be pretty huge. Yeah, and Steve, it's worth pointing out, it's not even a binary. Do I put it in the cloud or do it inside? There's lots of those modern applications where I can have all the processing be done in the cloud, but have my sensitive data stay inside. So obviously security is a top concern. I know you're going to the RSA conference next week. So any comments on kind of security and internal versus external that you want to touch on? Well, I do think that folks are looking at data, more the data side from the security piece. First of all, I find that there's one, from a security aspect, it boils it down, you got to boil it back down to the data. And I do find that a lot of folks don't really have a good handle on what data they have and where it lives. And that's why I think backup data into the cloud is kind of a handle on, it's kind of single-threaded. If I need to recover it, I'm doing like a file at a time. It's easy, it's encrypted, it's stored securely. I get that part, right? It's when you start to get a lot of these moving parts about the data that people start to go, well, I don't know if I want that piece outside of my infrastructure, that's with a database that might have social security numbers, but the rest of the analytic piece is this type of data. So I think it's a little tough. First, you got to have a good understanding of what data you have, and then secondly, I do think that we are still slowly marching forward on that secure trust in the cloud thing and where is it and who owns it and what's getting out and what's not getting out. Okay, so I mentioned at the top of the program that IBM Pulse is next week, and IBM is a very large company, lots of different shows, but Pulse is really the cloud show for them. When I look at IBM, they've got lots of entry points into the cloud. Obviously, they've got lots of infrastructure components. Their large acquisition of SoftLayer is one we want to talk about, and of course, IBM has lots of services to help people retrain their workforce, to look at their applications. They have a huge partner ecosystem. What's your take on, how's IBM doing in the cloud, Steve? So internally, I think that SoftLayer is doing really well, right? And I think that there's a lot of, IBM is heavily focused on cloud and cloud services moving forward, and they do talk a lot about infrastructure matters as a part of the cloud service, and so if I'm a CIO and I'm thinking about, okay, who am I gonna trust my external data to, right? Obviously, I probably want it to be someone like an IBM or even an Amazon. Someone who has a big name, who's probably spending some money on the back end and is taking into concern my concerns as a CIO, right? Security we just talked about, right? Am I staying up with the latest and greatest technology so that I'm getting the best overall cost per gigabyte or best overall dollar per IOP that I can out of the cloud? Because I'd like them to make sure that they're running their cloud the same way I would run my back end infrastructure, so I'm getting all the economies of scale I get as time moves forward. So a quick question on that, yeah? You say IBM cares that infrastructure matters, and I agree with you there, yet on the other hand, IBM has been shedding a lot of its hardware businesses, so how do we parse that out? Yeah, so I think they really care most about that the infrastructure that they're building the cloud on is tightly coupled and together in such a way that I can go ahead and do things like spin up virtual machines whether it's VMware or KVM, PowerVM, and have it also talk to storage in a seamless manner for the customer. So it's more than just the spinning disk or the CPU, I think it's a matter of what's the software components around that infrastructure that provide easy accessability to folks that want to spin something up. Yeah, so software really owns a lot of it. I had a chance to talk to some of the SoftLayer folks leading up to the event here. I know there's some big announcements coming which I can't preview here, but SoftLayer really is that core infrastructure as a service, so compute, networking, and storage. And on top of that, we're seeing IBM launch services. They already talked about Watson on top of SoftLayer and expect to see many other services that IBM's going to launch. So I think it's an interesting company. Some of the big guys like Amazon and Google and even Microsoft get a lot of the attention, but IBM could be a dark horse if they can really start delivering on these services and leverage their ecosystem. Yeah, I would agree with that. All right, so Steve, we've talked about a lot of different topics on cloud. Any kind of final talking points, you say, what should people be watching this year? What maturity you expect to see in the marketplace kind of the next six, 12 months or any other kind of key points you'd want to see IA to look at? Well, I think there are two things. One is, if you haven't taken that first step into the cloud, I think you pick an application in your environment and I think data protection is a good one. Whether it be backup or replication from a disaster recovery standpoint, I think you pick one of those and you start to give it a try. You not only try it from a technology aspect but you also start looking at it from a financial aspect. Then you start to look at different companies or different things that you could actually put into the cloud where it's going to be easier for you to run your backend business and if that's a particular database or a particular app or if it's test dev, then you look to the companies that allow you to do that provisioning very easily and quickly. Everybody talks about it because they know it's a requirement. The question is, who's providing that set of services for you today in a very fast and economical manner? Then you take that and you look at it from both a technology perspective and an economic perspective and then you slowly figure out which things make sense to move to the cloud. And I think, one, that's a direction and two, I think what you look for, you look for that ease of use because ease of use is really what's going to dictate the ability to be able to easily migrate your stuff into the cloud in a cost-effective manner. It's interesting, enterprise tech. We talk a lot about mergers and acquisitions that's going on. Talk about some of these multi-billion dollar acquisitions. Consumer tech just blew away enterprise tech this week because you turn on CNBC and all they are talking about is Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. So I'm curious, Steve, is there lessons learned for the enterprise or what's your take on this 13 to 19 billion dollar acquisition of Facebook and WhatsApp? So I will tell you that one of my big interests around technologies or technology companies like Facebook, like Google, like Amazon, and I actually wrote about this in a blog piece right around the time Facebook went public. One of the things that's interesting to me, yes, it's a social media platform, but think about the fact that Facebook runs almost a billion email accounts and how often are they down? And name another enterprise in the world that does that, that doesn't have major issues, right? From a technology backend perspective, they had something interesting. So from an M&A perspective, which is kind of where you were going with this, my thought is I am curious to see how they integrate that into the overall Facebook experience, right? If they have an architecture, a backend architecture that allows that to happen seamlessly and easily, right? That's pretty impressive, right? I think a lot of IT shops would want to be able to, how many acquisitions do we hear about where, okay, they bought the company they brought them in and it's just kind of fludging around or whatnot, right? But if I can integrate and do that effectively, and I'm doing that in a cloud type of a platform, which they are doing that today, that's really, really interesting. So huge acquisition, very interesting. More interesting will be where does it go inside of Facebook? I think that'll be an interesting note. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, people compare, Instagram has kind of been left a little bit on the side, hasn't been a lot of integration. Of course, the WhatsApp founders when they launched the site said, they're never gonna have any ads and of course, that's so much of the revenue on Facebook. So I heard people say 19 billion and no ads, there's no way that's gonna happen because if you're talking a dollar a year for some customers and let's say they got to a couple of billion users out there, it's still gonna take a long time to recoup that 19 billion dollar investment. So Steve, thanks as always for joining us here on this Cube conversation. Lots of events we're gonna be covering and expect we'll be getting you back here on the program often. So please be sure to tune in. If you go to siliconangle.tv, you can see all of our upcoming events and recent events, including all of the cloud ones that we have there, live.siliconangle.tv is the constant stream of content coming out of us. Siliconangle.com for all the news and wikibon.org for all of the analysis. This is Stu Miniman from the wikibon office in Marlboro. Thanks for joining us.


Welcome to the Kathy Rayleigh show. I'm Joe Wombo joined now with Kathy Rayleigh head coach of the women's lacrosse team. Coach, you guys, let's talk about Wednesday first. We have to. Was that a wake up call for the team? I hope so. Couple things could have happened with that. We slept through the first 45 minutes of the game, and by the time we started to play, it was too late to really rally to 11 goals or 10 goals or whatever it was. I think we did put four or five goals in in about four minutes. So we're capable of doing so much. Thursday's practice, I didn't know what I would see. Would I see a defeated group? Or would I see a group who is ready to work hard and make some changes? And when we walked out onto the field on Thursday, we had a great practice. I think we learned from a lot of our mistakes. And we fixed some of the scoring issues that we had and tried to really put a focus on limiting our turnovers. And here we go. We head into Saturday's game. We have so very few turnovers and some balance scoring and certainly a high total of goals, which makes me happy. You mentioned that Thursday practice. Where my office is, I have the luxury of watching almost every team practice. Seemed like the group was determined out there. And they showed it on Saturday with a balanced attack. And how pleased were you with that performance? I am very pleased. I think we're doing some really nice things. I want to start bringing that kind of performance and that kind of push for fast break goals into practice. We need to challenge our defense more on a day-to-day basis. If we can start doing that on a regular basis, I think that we can really turn this team around, turn the season around, and get to that winning and winning side of the record faster. They're a hard-working group. And they're led by some seniors who want, they don't want to leave their senior year with a losing record. They want to win. So I think we've got a good combination that will get us through this last month of the season. I wanted to talk about that senior group. Each one of them gets a goal on Saturday, which of course was a senior day. Just talk a little bit about that senior class, as you were. How determined they are for this year. Well, I think that they absolutely love to go to goal. We have a senior class that is four of our, I think it's four of our five attackers, our seniors. They're well over 65% of all of our point total, I believe, and maybe even our goal total as well. I'm not sure I haven't checked in a week or two. So they're willing to get the job done. We need to continue making changes in how hard we fight back for the ball when we lose it. We, again, have to cut down on the number of turnovers. But sometimes I think those turnovers, Joe, come from a, they want to do so much. They're so thrilled to go for that pin point, thread the needle pass. And it all comes from a really great place. And as a coach makes me proud, this group of seniors on attack, they need to start making really great decisions now that it's April and realize what they're capable of and when to push it and when to hold possession. If we could get that down, that controlling the clock down, which we've been working a lot on this past week, if we can get that down, I think that we're gonna be a really tough foe heading into the conference playoffs. I would agree to that entirely. It seemed like the clears that you guys were able to accomplish on Saturday, you guys really wore them down, really patient, worked the box like you emphasized after the Messiah game, and it worked out for you guys. Yes, and they want to do the right thing with that. And I think that we have two or three people that want to put it on their shoulders, and it's got to be a team effort. Everybody's got to catch and throw well. Everybody's got to attack the goal, whether you are Matt coming out of the cage or the lowest defender on the field when you get the ball, the entire opponent's team should think you're going to goal, and that's how things open. And we got away from that in the Messiah game and the Lebanon Valley game. We would catch and kind of be a passer instead of look to be an attacker. And I think we're turning the corner on that as a group. As you guys get ready for this week, again, no rest for the weary. Two more conference games, you guys head to Widener and then host Hood on Saturday. How important are these games for you? They're very important. We actually have, I think we have Hood on Wednesday and Widener on Saturday, but that's okay. It's Monday morning and that totally makes sense. I think we'll be able to really use Hood as a gauge on how to successfully run full offensive possessions. So I think that we're really looking forward to that. You know, Widener had a great game. I think Widener lost by one or two to Lebanon Valley this week or on Saturday, so they're gonna be every bit of a test that we hope that they will be. So we're looking forward to that and hoping it's a nice, gorgeous day. It is our junior day. So we have a lot of junior recruits coming, which is amazing. And we want to kind of show off for them at home. Well, hopefully you do guys accomplish that. Yes, thank you. And good luck this week. Thank you. She's Kathy Rayleigh. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Kathy Rayleigh Show.


Everybody Matt here for latent sports cards ripping. Let me fix this 2022-23 Bowman University's best basketball hobby eight box case break number three. This is random inner box style So what I'm gonna do is open the case and then open each master box to get all of the inner boxes out So I can show you exactly which box is gonna be which before I do the random The reason I do that is because when I open a case, I don't always put the boxes in the same order I just do whatever's easiest for where my hands are. So I'm gonna establish that first before we do the random just so there's no confusion or any Anything looking weird. I'll just do that. I'll just get all the inner boxes out so I can stack them and Make it make sense Just gonna stand up and do this quicker break these down into smaller stacks alright, so This will be box one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen and sixteen All right, we're gonna randomize the names and then the numbers Here we go We'll randomize eight times. Good luck One two three four five six seven and eight Joseph G down to Carol G and eight times on the numbers Yeah, one two three four five six seven and 12 down to 15. All right. We have Joseph G box 12 C Chan box 16 Chris B box 4 Evan H box 1 Kato H box 10 Jason G box 9 Chris B 7 Kato H 6 Michael R 3 Evan H 2 Ramars a 14 Corey C 5 and 13 Walden in 11 Todd W 8 and Carol G 15 I'll get these results posted drop you a link in the chat to the results and we'll get this started Now you're good Yeah, this is just random box style. It's just 1 through 4 5 through 8 9 through 12 and 13 through 16 So you get all the contents of one random box Here's a link to the results one random inner box so we're gonna start off with inner box one That's Evan H. Evan actually has numbers one and two Select for example everything in this one will go to Evan all hardship Good luck. Evan.  Do charm Flagler, uh, Marty Bailey and leaky black Link Renault, Ernest Uday and Jalen Washington Whitmore Felix Akpara mini diamonds and Lauren Betz Drew Timmy hardwood warriors and Nick Smith jr. Refractor And this is box or inner box number two. I'm just gonna refer to him as boxes This is Evan H. Let's see a better box too for you here Evan Ernest Uday jr. And Ryan Nemhard Blue refractor Otto to 150 Is he really behind you?  There's PJ Hall Jaden shut and Tyrese hunter speckle Hansele manual refractors Cam Whitmore masterpieces sassar and sassar Come over for actors. Yes Wendy's odd Oh, is it? Yeah, I'm about to find that out firsthand. That's why I asked is Wendy Yeah, one of these labs scoot does not have base. It's only auto. It's very weird Caitlyn Clark and then a guy like Grady Dick doesn't have Otto's only base Arthur Kaluna green refractor and arterio morris All right last pack of box two for you Evan, but yeah, it's pretty awesome that Wendy's live like Smith jr.  I don't know if everyone's saying there's a wimby refractor Wimby refractor I think everybody's a sticker so far. Yeah All right, mini box number three is Michael R This right here this random inner box style is such a good way to break this One Otto was like what 60 bucks for you noticing that like numbered autos and stuff like that are alternating between boxes or anything like that Um, I think I haven't had a whole lot of numbered autos, but I think we're about to have another one There's lively and Cam Whitmore that is gold lava auto to 75. There you go, Michael There you go nice one 75 of 75 will mag that for you jarris walker So i'm just getting back into ripping base or uh football and basketball So if there's a guy that hasn't played an nba game yet, and I know his I know his name He's a pretty good one, right? He's really good. He just no one can figure out why he fell in the draft Jayden shut speckled and mark mitchell Kyle filipowski and jaylen bridges Nice that's a leah boston bluer refractor to 150 great mini box here for you Kallel wire and haley cavender March madness to go to the draft I'm selling a really good regular season and just was awful in the march Jackson holler purple and trey alexander It's in jay rice Oscar t a good idea die cut Flagler and richardson All right, that's it for mini box three chris b has mini box number four I'm ready for a super. I think I'd really put a put a nice bow on my week And pj. Hall auto go chris b and a leah boston refractor There's uh brandon miller locked in cam whitmore neon neophytes in hara brandon miller hardwood warriors and vincen's eye and slater drew timmy and amari bailey Victor wendman yama that is aqua lava to 199 that is 10 of 199 We'll mag this for you. Congrats chris b Nice wendby ashlyn wattkins Livingston and livingston. All right number five is corey c Miles har jay tavis kellel wire and pj. Hall People are wrapping up their work weeks and getting ready for a long holiday weekend For those that had the foresight to make it happen. There's anthony black hardwood warriors on sell a manual It's funny. I was trying to figure out for the July plan And I was like, man, I don't even know if we're breaking if I'm often I mean the schedule came out, but I was I was like, oh wait, I'm off on tuesdays anyway That's good cam whitmore and marcus sassard. I think about going to altamont kitty johnson dron holmes green mini diamonds 99 and mj rice that is speckle jj starling die cut burn wash bless you and arterio morse and jaylon bridges refractor auto nick smith jr refractor That's it for mini box number five. Here comes number six kato h All right, so here's a question What is the proper number of times to say bless you to a person during a sneezing fit?  Yes Terry's proctor and hailey cavender auto. There you go kato Victor wendman yama refractor smith jr Vincent i speckle and dj horn God, do we have the dj horn? It says horns. Is that it? Every time I pull a dj horn i'm gonna hit that Tyrese proctor and bruce Thornton Victor wendman yama grand and miller flashing lights Caleb love dj horn Ah man, I'm gonna end up with back problems if I do that tiger cambell mini diamond and kiki rice Yeah, man, it's been good so far. I want to find some ink especially since lane said wendy's live in this This is sky clark Die cut derrick lively and hunter couture Crispy has number seven random miller Jalen hood sheffino and green refractor auto to 99 sky clark timmick philips osprety walsh sassar and wilson jers walker and tyrese proctor cam whitmore masterpieces speckle and caroline douche arm That's the pack of the mini box for you chris chris murray juda mince and leaky black All right top w has number eight calif battle auto jalen wilson Just making up names now got the fridays, I guess germy roach speckle and lauren betts refractor nick smith jr cam whitmore hardwood warriors and nick smith jr refractor lapowski and pj hall victor wendman yama tyrese proctor mini diamonds and hansel emmanuel So lia boston die cut jj starling and marcus sassard Jason g has number nine hans westerie and jalen hood sheffino auto j horn Are you good at sound effects? When I call a dj horn, can you do that? I need a jj starling and bruce Thornton lia boston cam whitmore hardwood warriors and kealeb love marie bailey and rice sensaba blue refractor to 150 marie bailey and kiki rice chris walker jordan walsh green mini diamonds couture harka sassard speckled iphone that's called telepecia uh i think starling and jordan walsh something for sure all right kato h has number 10 yes yeah alexander and tray white blue refractor auto to 150 there you go kato h in mox 10 kato h jalen's cook and brice sensaba speckle starling lia brunneau and jared mccain mikey williams starling and howard frankie collins and nick smith jr flashing lights that is lava 50 here you go nice and kato lia brunneau cambull starling die cut and nick smith jr hardwood warriors refractor callel wear all right we have walden h number 11 i think it's like every time i turn my head that way it's like i inhale something it's not as strong guys i'm really swirling around from the fan blowing yeah it's very true for warm for the fan the heat from my hands we just make it rise vector wembinyama we go walden and adam flagler auto jude mince timmy and jalen cook cambull and armstrong cam whitmore flashing lights refractor and hisham bartholome callel wear chance westerie pink lava 50 and starling what's up viking how's it going cam whitmore and armando bico speckle hardwood warriors oscrity and anthony black refractor number 12 joseph g this is caroline douchard refractor auto jinn Zachary race thompson speckle mikey williams it's thompson starling julian phillips and trace jackson davis oh i'm not sure viking i haven't that hasn't even i like i haven't even looked into that yet i think i'm going to be breaking it on monday so i'll be doing my research research for it on sunday evening grand and miller flashing lights into wan harris tray white mike myles mini diamonds frankie collins all right we'll see something in this last pack for you joseph there's katlyn clark skyclark die cut katlyn clark hardwood warriors refractor and hannah cavender colby c number 13 check um cardboard connections or cardboard connection dot com viking you check there even becket aliyah boston that is kd johnson refractor auto go colby chris l or chris chris lovingston i don't know why i said that like i'm reading off a customer name markis sassard jarris walker refractor jarris walker mondava co and mark mitchell osprey t and jaylon bridges won't be a hit recap on this because it's um random inner box style tray alexander urnist ouday jr mini diamonds and haley cavender jarris walker hardwood warriors speckle and aliyah boston arbor warriors hardwood warriors refractor tray alexander all right three mini boxes left remars a has number 14 hold on let me get fueled watch i just drank that monster now i'm gonna pull the wendy super and i'm gonna get endorsements from monster court shan barthelamy and kiki rice auto will richardson i was going to switch up like the top pack on the bottom because the auto keeps in enough on top at the one time i was like thinking i should do that it's like yeah of course hunter dickinson speckle and judo mince it's jarris walker hardwood warriors and jaylon cook anthony black flashing lights and mark armstrong osprey t and rj davis green refractor barthelamy it's uh brandon miller die cut anthony black kaleb love hardwood warriors and jj starling all right carol g has number 15 nice color coming come on diran holmes gold refractor auto to 50 you know carol nice gold auto and moley chrono aliyah boston livingston and howard tyrese proctor hardwood warriors and callel wear jarris walker and blue refractor russier bolton 150 uday and gg jackson mark michael and speckle anthony black constellation of greatness that is a super short print uh let me take a look at the scarcity on this i saw it earlier constellations of greatness is one in 481 packs what's the math on that 12 packs per master box 12 times 896 packs it's about what one in every five cases do they say it yeah it is mag that one for you congrats carol donovan clingon steric lively hardwood warriors and cam whitmore refractor nice mini box for you there c chan am i napping right there 12 times 12 packs a box a master box eight boxes per case be what 96 right so 480 so it'd take about five cases yeah all right c chan with mini box number 16 mini box inner box there we go good luck let's finish my week off with a monster here mark armstrong jalen cook and lj crier auto amando bico black tomorrow langford speckle and timmy allen refractor callel wear and jared binham freaky collins moley chrono uday all right two packs to go when we had a numbered one would be the aqua lava tiger cambell and mattus mosellis that is mini diamond lj crier last pack so judo mince die cut mikey williams hardwood warriors refractor and ron holmes all right that's gonna do it for the break thank you everybody appreciate it uh if you missed out on today's bowman university's best basketball we do have another random inner box tonight and um two or three random player style and one of them still has some spots left thanks everyone