Defending the coins of our realms...

...in the manner chosen by Philadelphia city hall strikes me as all too sensible. While I've been having a good run of steadier day-job employment the last couple of years, I'm still close enough to the edge to see it and not like the idea of not being able to pay despite having actual cash money in hand or wallet. And there are restaurants in Ottawa - Mad Radish for example - looking to drag Ottawa-Gatineau in the other direction.

Many thanks to NPR Philadelphia for the hint-drop!

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/701076862/protecting-the-unbanked-by-banning-cashless-businesses-in-philadelphia

And yeah, a Mincome - or Universal Basic Income? - seems like an equally useful component of the solutions mix for the next few decades. I'm sure there are traps awaiting us if we mess it up. And yet...

TREK/DESIGN: Zimmerman, Probert, Okuda - video lectures

Thanks to Doug Drexler over on Facebook for pointing these out.

If you watched any of the Trek series of the 1980's and 1990's, you've seen this man's work and that of those he supervised.

Making a note so I can review this later.

https://vimeo.com/237096110

Also, Andrew Probert, designer of the Enterprise-D:

https://vimeo.com/237129325

And Mike Okuda, graphic designer and author:

https://vimeo.com/243445464