This a late entry to start the week, with a mix of great questions to consider, an overly active sun and the origin of the pop-top aluminum can. We add a new “DropQuotes” section to the newsletter with random thoughts while working through mundane tasks. When we like the way they land, we will drop a quote every now and then. Great tunes and a hidden Where Did It Come From quiz for those who look for it. Welcome to the week!

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Monday’s with Mark Manson, today in his weekly newsletter, he asks the following question:

I will make a few qualifications; at face value, I take the challenge to be about an individual and what an individual wants to do and accomplish. In other words, these are the things I want to do in my life right now.

Manson follows up this question with:

We are calling the Monday Manson Questions “Living Your 3 Wishes.”  If a genie granted the 3 wishes our your professional life, what would they be? With A Shout is the beginning of living the 3 wishes, and as it grows and we tell more stories, the fulfillment will follow. 

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This photo of our Sun is a composite of photos taken daily from January to June by NASA. It is remarkable because there has never been an increase in sunspots during one month as there is now. Scientists are trying to figure out why the Sun is currently so active. These particles can affect our electronics and trigger an aurora in Earth's atmosphere.

Downloading OS updates over the weekend, I wondered:

There is something special about being at the pool or a picnic, grabbing an ice-cold beverage, and hearing the "Fizz" when you open the can. The evolution of the pop tab is an invention you never thought about until now. Smithsonian Magazine tells the story of the inventor - Ermal C. Fraze, who was at a picnic and forgot his church key to open his beer can. So, he popped a hole in the can using the fin of his car. He didn’t think you should have to carry a church key with you, so he eventually invented the pop tab.

Remember the older pop tabs with a ring you had to pull off that left a razor-sharp edge that littered the sidewalks and beaches. Jimmy Buffet even wrote about these pop tabs in his hit “Margaritaville.” “I blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop-tab. Cut my heel. Had to cruise back home.” Like any good invention, Daniel F. Cudzik thought there could be a safer, more eco-friendly way of opening our beloved beverages. In 1976 he invented the push-in-fold back tab that we still use today. The simple invention of the pop-top allows millions of people a year to enjoy a canned beverage from anywhere.

New (to us) old tunes.

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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us. Here’s one for the road!

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