WORLD BUSINESS ACADEMY

Today, I'll avoid the pandemic and politics.  Unless you consider that Elon Musk hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend to be in those realms.  After all, more than a year ago he promised that his factories would be cranking out ventilators ('twas more flash than substance) and his early attitude embarrassingly reflected Donald Trump's.  They both plugged the malaria drug choloroquine for COVID-19 treatment.  Musk also said kids were immune to the virus.

After the SNL announcement a couple of weeks ago, Tesla stock dropped 9% and Dogecoin (his cryptocurrency venture) jumped from 25 cents to 63 cents, a gain of more than 150%.  But will he break into the top twenty of WORST Saturday Night Live hosts?  Some of them from RollingStone are:

#19  Rudy Giulani (22November1997)

• Watch his monologue.
• One comment:  Jesus he looks so normal...it's so weird.

#18  Lance Armstrong (20October2005)

#15  Lindsay Lohan (3March2012)

#14  Louise Lasser (24July1976)

#12  Andrew Dice Clay (12May1990)

#9    Paris Hilton (5February2005)

#8    Justin Bieber (9February2013)

#7    Michael Phelps (13September2008)

#2 Donald Trump (this is his monologue, 7November2015--note that he ran for the presidency the following year)

#1    Steven Seagal (20April1991)

• Can't find anything.
• But here is Dana Carvey telling Howard Stern about one scene with him.

Saturday Night Live, of course has been around since 1975...46 years, so of course a few incidents have occurred.  Oh, musical guest of SNL with Musk is Miley Cyrus. 

One of the organizations I have long belonged to is the World Business Academy.  It has been around for a third of a century.  The primary founder and sparkplug has been Rinaldo Brutoco.  Here is his story of the beginning.  

Noticed that a University of Hawaii colleague James "Mitch" Ewan is now a member.  In the 2021 update from the Academy quoting Mitch: 

1: “Converting the Island of Hawaii public transportation fleet to hydrogen fuel cell electric buses and installing the hydrogen infrastructure to operate them. This includes completing a hydrogen fueling station, operating the first hydrogen buses Hawaii available to the general public, building a bus assembly facility, developing a trained workforce, and wherever possible leveraging the investment in the buses and infrastructure to create high quality local jobs and a new economy. We are supporting the County of Hawaii to raise private financing to secure the next round of buses and leapfrog existing diesel bus technology. This will provide a new business model for other entities throughout the world to emulate.”

 

2: “I will continue to support Rinaldo's Hydrogen Clipper project to provide a transformational decarbonized transport airship that will revolutionize the shipping industry. By the end of 2021 we will have assembled a world class design team, progressed the design, identified the required technologies and suppliers, and raised the required capital. See it at H2Clipper.com.”

Then yesterday, Rinaldo himself published his latest contribution to the field of hydrogen with:

Hydrogen – The Simple Solution

Unpacking the Color Codes for our Future Fuel 

He is using all my favorite terms.  But we do think alike.  Here is a short quote from that paper:

Brown Hydrogen, Grey Hydrogen, Blue Hydrogen, Green Hydrogen. Who knew hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe (76 percent of all molecules in the universe are hydrogen), came in so many colors! 

So the hydrogen economy is indeed developing.  Aviation is where this technology will make a difference.  Read my Huffington Post article of a decade ago on The Future of Sustainable Aviation.

The last time I mentioned volleyball, I was in shock, for Hawaii had lost to a mediocre, but inspired, San Diego team.  In the two-week period since then, we made it to the NCAA's and yesterday beat Santa Barbara.  It was not on national television, but the 15 Craigside channel televised both the Hawaii and BYU victories.  You need to have lived through all the past embarrassments to appreciate the enormity of this game.  Mind you, it was just in 2019 that Hawaii beat BYU 37-34 in the Hawaii.  But that was football, and this one tomorrow will be for the national championship.  The game is at 2PM on ESPNU, so after I send this posting off, I'll be shopping for a supreme volleyball tailgate.

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