Nov. 13th, 2014

cellio: (talmud)
We're still talking about the levirate marriage, where if a married man dies without having fathered a child his brother is expected to marry his wife. A mishna on today's daf teaches: if a man (who isn't disqualified for some other reason) refuses that marriage, then he is not permitted to marry the wife's relatives -- mother, grandmother, daughter, granddaughter, or (while she's alive) sister. (He's done with that family, in other words -- if he won't marry his brother's wife then he can't try for someone else therein.) The other brothers in the family are under no such restriction; they may freely marry her relatives (but not her). She is also forbidden to marry the rejecting brother's relatives (father, brothers, sons, etc). (40a-b)

cellio: (avatar)
My phone knows where I am because of GPS.

It knows where I've been because surely it logs stuff like that. And yeah that's creepy, but still.

It spontaneously offers me information I haven't yet asked for, often correctly. Last week, for example, I had to travel for business, and starting a day or so before my flight it gave me weather information for my destination alongside my local weather. (I don't know whether it scraped that information out of email or got it from the airline app.)

So... could my phone please alert me, as I'm leaving for work, about traffic problems on my usual route? Please? It knows, after all; were I to check the navigator I'd see the problem. And it knows where I am, and that I follow that particular route every (week)day. It knows I am not in the habit of checking for traffic alerts. (It probably doesn't know that that's because I'm not at my best in the morning, but give it time.) So a little just-in-time information here would be great.

Google, can you take care of that? Thanks.

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