Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the release of the very first iPod. I bought an iPod Photo circa 2004. And then I bought a Mac Mini. Then I bought an Apple TV. Then I started supporting Macs at work. And yeah. I slowly became an Apple Guy.
If I didn’t broadcast with a spelling error, I wouldn’t be me
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early
Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Destruction does not require consciousness.
It requires only power and the ability to act.
An Urgent Message on Artificial Intelligence from the Kogui People
I did my lawn today. Almost no gasoline and ran out of battery with the weed whip and leaf blower. Not up to my personal standards but more ready for the seasons to change than before I started.
Sunday morning means it’s time for Explorator News
History keeps getting longer and full of more detail.
The speed with which I can make changes to my environment, running Linux on a 5+ year old notebook–for example: adding and removing applications, applying updates–is really making me wonder what in the world is going on in the Windows world.
Some days, Emotional Growth TikTok comes out swinging.
I just watched a video about a person with ADHD talk about how he as an adult in his 30s endlessly feels like he is in trouble, at all times, in a sort of nameless, faceless, foreboding kind of way.
I cried.
Because I do, too.
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The source of some of the repeated intrusive loops that occur in my brain is John Phillip Sousa, who was born on this day in 1854.
#almanac
I find myself upset at the relentless discussion of elections as though they are sporting events. We are really silly beings and I think this kind of discussion is overly simple.