In other news, we have adopted a stray cat. We keep watching various sites for rescues and reporting lost animals and to the best of our information she’s not there.

We interacted with the cat, outdoors, on several separate occasions, and at one point while we considered opening our doors and we were researching those same sites. Based on a story from someone a few blocks from where we live, we were convinced she had been given to a local rescue org. The very moment we had the conversation about feeling relief the cat would be cared for, she showed up again at our doorstep. My kiddo called to her and the cat came running.

We opened our door and invited her in. She opted to come in. She opted to use a litter box (we were hopeful). And given the opportunity to leave via a door left open, she walked out briefly twice and came back into the house assertively.

Pending a proactive trip to the vet, we think she may be ours now.

We are still watching the community sites. It has been several days with no reports of any cat matching her description newly lost or gone for a while. We’ve gone back to November of last year.

It seems I only own 11 of Rush' studio albums. I have some catching up to do.

Have the band Rush on the brain, lately. They’ve been showing up in my TikTok feed of late because of Anika Nilles. I tend to enjoy watching videos posted by drummers. I’ve never had a kit but have always wanted one. Nevertheless, I find it joyful that two out of the original trio are alive and well and touring. Anika isn’t Neil Peart, but she does a great job of playing the parts he composed, so the songs sound like you need them to sound.

I had the privilege of seeing Rush play once in the 1990’s, in Jacksonville, Florida. They play note-perfect. So seeing Anika play note-perfect was no surprise. It warms my heart, honestly.

Pretty happy Notes got any attention at all. 9to5Mac has a brief article describing changes (so far) that iOS and iPadOS 27 will bring to Apple Notes, including dividers and additional ability to handle markdown.

I’d still love to see something like HTML Anchor Tags, and I’d love it if mobile Notes apps received the ability to center text, like the desktop app can.

I’m using a modified Forever✱Notes scheme and would love to see just a few more things. I’m not against migrating out into another toolset, but it’s so close and I don’t want another subscription.

It does suck when Apple “obsoletes” your device, especially when you love the shiny new things. But I have a Series 4 Apple Watch that I bought when that was the current device. It still does everything I bought it for and that I use it for. It even retains a feature the SE3 doesn’t doesn’t have. I figure it’s a watch, and I’m going to see if I can get it to last for a decade—unless or until iPhone OS won’t talk to it, or the battery gives out. Whichever comes first.

TIL I am older than the floppy disk. IBM first started producing the 8-inch 80KB floppy in 1971. The patent was granted June 6, 1972.

#ToBeFair, IBM’s Project Minnow, which begat the floppy and its counterpart drive mechanism, was begun in 1967. This predates me slightly.

/Tom’s Hardware

I’ve realized, with a certain amount of emotional pain, that a majority of pop-culture music and movie references that I pepper into work conversations are from the 20th century. Some Exceptions: Family Guy, Letterkenny/Shoresy, TikTok

#EmotionalDamage #ToBeFair

This probably applies to a vanishingly small audience, but I have noted that two different T2 i5 Intel MacBooks Pro, getting the development updates for MacOS 15.7.x (yes, still—I assume anything other than the occasional security update will end when 27.0 is released) require the SMC reset process.

I’d particularly like to thank @patrickrhone for helping me to check my work and use the actual SMC Reset process, versus the process I was using before our conversation, which applied to previous generations, but not this generation.

Also I’m excited for WWDC. I use an M3 Mac at work and M1/M2 iPads, so I expect I’ll be able to update all of those to the next OS.

Remembering today my great uncle, who was killed by a German sniper in The Battle of The Bulge during World War 2. I carry his given name.