💡 I’ve reached the point where my watch needs a software update (and sometimes restarted) but also my lightbulbs need a software update. Up to one hour per bulb… During which they might turn off.
If I end up sitting in the dark unaware of the time, it’s all my own fault.
🖕 Believing both sides of the science is like saying “I believe Tom Petty is alive and dead.” I wonder if she could have any motivations to believe the few studies that deny human-made climate change.
⚖️ Welcome back to the game of Worst State of the Union. Florida is still in the lead, but a new challenger is coming up fast. After having their governor make the worst business deal in the world, they’ve now taken away powers from the incoming governor and attorney general.
I guess Wisconsin is another state where I can’t spend any time.
⚖️ When things like this happen, it feels like the truth doesn’t matter at all anymore.
💻 I agree it’s a cute ad poking a little fun at the iPad, but why in the world would MS show its store as empty? Is this a spin on the whole truth in advertising?
💀 American football should be banned from schools. It’s literally hurting children every day and it should be banned.
📷 I received a picture of my father today. It was sent to me by my cousin and I didn’t think to ask how he came upon it. I guessed it was from the late 50s or early 60s, but it was 1970.
Two things stick out to me when looking at the picture. Pictures from 1970 look really old to me now. And I just didn’t know him. The man. My father.
Parts of my life from back then never overlapped with my life now. I guess it’s something I’ll never fully feel resolved about.
🗽 I’ve learned more about how Congress works from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram account than from anything else. Well almost anything else.
I hope you consider following her on Instagram and on Twitter. Thanks, Alexandria.
☠️ What am I supposed to say here? Things are going swimmingly and everyone will be okay?
I wonder if there’ll be a day when I don’t feel sick to my stomach from waking to sleeping.
😬 Google subsidiary doing a thing. That by itself gives me pause, even if it’s a bit (or totally!) unfair.
But another – possible less controversial – tactic is to tweak the pathogens that attack mosquitoes, like Wolbachia bacteria, which can be bred into to male mosquitoes (who don’t bite and therefore can be released in large numbers without concern that this will increase the number of everyday stings inflicted on people), and who will transmit the infections to females they mate with, rendering them sterile.
Rendering the females sterile. What could go wrong?
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 →
📲 Thanks to Jason Snell’s site for pointing out this great post criticizing the App Store. It’s freshing to read real honest issues about Apple (rather than the endless bullshit that gets posted each and every single day). In fact, it looks like all of David’s posts are well thought-out.
😞 I was one of the people who crapped all over Monica Lewinsky during the whole stupid Clinton affair.
I don’t exactly remember my thought process at the time, but it was along the lines of “Come on, Monica, you had to have known better!” There are so many flaws in my logic that I am embarrassed to even admit that, but me looking dumb is nothing compared to what she went through.
If I were to meet her I would say I was sorry for being dumb and blaming a young person for being taken advantage of by an older, powerful man. Shame on Bill Clinton. And shame on me.
💻 Engadget asks Do you really need a tablet?
By tablet they mean, of course, iPad. There’s no tablet market to speak of. There’s just iPad. That’s not me saying so, the market speaks for itself.
The question that should be asked is, Do you need a legacy laptop? For most people most of the time, the answer is no. The iPad does what most people want most of the time. And it’s easier and more reliable. Hell, it lasts longer too!
To be clear, that doesn’t mean legacy products are bad! I use one all day long and I love it. My 2017 MacBook Pro (no touchbar, sad face emoji here) and the latest version of macOS (Mojave) is great. When the premise of an article is off, one should wonder what exactly is the motivation that caused that article to be created.
☠️ Romaine lettuce needs to ask the NRA for tips to find out how it can keep being sold regardless of how many it kills.
📲 Out with the old and in with the new. My 12.9" iPad Pro and our old 2011 MacBook Pro left Brooklyn today and a new 11" iPad Pro has entered.
While I was waiting to buy my new iPad Pro, two more were sold. I know it’s purely anecdotal, but it feels like the 11" iPad Pro with 64GB of storage and in space gray are flying off the shelves.
🎥 I think it’s funny I fell asleep during the movie Inception and am therefore a little confused about the ending.
Others in the family don’t find it funny.
☠️ All I want to do is write how I’m thankful for my family and friends, but, really, I’m nothing but angry and sad much of the time.
I’m so tired of politicians talking about sensible gun laws. Ban the things before every single one of us is dead.
🤓 My big tech purge project is coming to a close. While the goal wasn’t to go without using a Mac as my main personal computer, it will be the end result. In a way it’s not totally fair since I have access to a MacBook Pro (my wife’s computer), but I’m excited to have gotten rid of:
And reduced it to:
Now, to not seem weird, many of the items from that first list was just stuff laying around and not in daily use. I was able to sell, recycle or trade in everything from that first list. I hope this is just the beginning of a series of purges.
💪 In the world of superpowers everyone picks invisibility or flying, right?
I never thought of “No sense of shame” as a superpower, but clearly Trump has that. And it is serving him well. He’s likely the world’s biggest hypocrite and, when his hypocracy is pointed out to him, he is not remotely ashamed. It bounces right off him. And still no one can figure out how to deal with him.
Meanwhile the media is constantly writing about him constantly while dancing around his lies. Perhaps lacking a sense of shame is not as unique as I thought.
📺 We just finished the series House of Cards and, while I loved the series overall, I really didn’t like how it all ended. Frig.