Tonight’s niche pick is Round the Outside! Round the Outside! by Malcolm Mclaren and The World Famous Supreme Team Show, which I rescued from a cut-out bin in the early 90s. I especially enjoy two tracks: Buffalo Gals II (Remix) and Un coche de agua negra.
Alas, my Series 4 Apple Watch and my 2019 MacBook Air are not going to get the next OS releases this fall. Everything else is rolling forward and I will have to think about what eventually will get replaced or recycled.
Spent the night with an awesome group of people hosted in Minneapolis to hear Chuck LeMonds.
Me and my Little Buddy
When your mom is a Queen super fan and she takes you to One Vision of Queen at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair
I’m federated everywhere I can, except on Meta products. I want them to be endpoints and Meta wants me to put them at the top of the pyramid. If they allow inbound posting, I’ll include them, too. Deleted X a while back. Occasionally I follow a link to a post there but generally don’t miss it.
Blasted my ears tonight doing yard work and listening to Echodrone. I have favorited Tranquility and Energy on their new album The Curvature of Sound.
We all want to be seen and accepted just as we are.
Many of us have been taught again and again to keep our masks tightly in place.
Because of terrible things visited on us by those whose acceptance we have sought, we visit those things on others.
Reinforcing the patterns we wish to break.
I am amazed. I haven’t had a hibiscus bloom like this before
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One fun thing in the midst of my CD Re-rip project has been digging into the contents of the “Enhanced CD.”
For the most part, I just grab anything that has the MOV extension.
But it’s a window into a brief period of history when playing video on our computers was amazing. Further, it made production sense to try to cram several video files into the space a song occupies, instead of delivering the content online. It would have taken many hours to download each of those small files.
The later Enhanced CDs really are just interfaces to launch hyperlinks to content on a server somewhere, and probably long offline by now.
The artists seem so young and little, though they were once giant to me.
23andMe is running a decent promotion for July 4th in the USA: $79, down from $119
Just backed the latest OrbitKey
Just did Ancestry DNA. The surprised at the regional focus. My genetic background is less diffuse than others close to me. Nearly half Swedish and Norwegian. The percentage of German is actually lower than I anticipated.
I have had the diagnosis of ADD (ADHD now) for almost 30 years. I no longer take meds nor do I attend any type of therapy. Instead, I’m protective, and I have the luxury of surrounding myself and working in places with people where I do not have to explain or defend myself.
Oof. I just spent hours answering questions for a survey about ADHD. Go [@catieosaurus]!(https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7ia8GKMYr2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) It made me feel things and remember things, but also helped me to feel proud of everything I have managed to accomplish despite this. Please share. If you have the diagnosis or are seeking it, I see you.
Three Technical Support Truths:
- All hardware sucks
- All operating systems suck
- All applications suck
Many other truths and corollaries can be derived from support experience, but these are ones I’m willing to state out loud.
To be fair (sung in three-part harmony), all operating systems suck. This is one of my three simple truths, to be embraced as a professional who supports such things.
Windows still prefers to be stationary. It doesn’t know when this external display needs different settings than that external display. The assumptions the OS makes are not the assumptions that people make. This makes individuals angry and is a support nightmare.
I’m deeply annoyed by the metadata now supplied from Apple when you go to convert a CD. Either an album is now put into the Various Artists ghetto, or the same album is listed in parts because of partnered artists even when the album itself and the liner notes make no such distinction.
TIL: kegling is a sport.
But it isn’t about your pelvic floor.
Please stop saying anyone tweeted anything. Twitter is dead. It’s dead, Jim.
People post. On social media. Post. Post is as easy to say as tweet. Wrote, also easy to say, with a long history of accepted usage. They post what they wrote.
Also? Twitter is dead.
I think Elon is only upset that it’s ChatGPT and not xAI.
So, I’m Gen X, and therefore potentially grumpy and old. But Teams (or name your favorite tool, my company uses the M$ stack) calls aren’t something I’m necessarily prepared to take at a moment’s notice. Could you give me a heads up? Unlike a phone I can pick up, with PC-based communications I have to turn on a headset and make it connect before I can answer the call.
I sit in a cube farm and I prefer to keep my business away from teammates who are generally good at keeping their business from me.
Not knowing what is happening at the other end is the reason I hate making phone calls or any calls without first sending a text message to establish availability to chat, before I’ll broach availability for a voice or video call.
And then I have these requests. You know the camera on your laptop is shit. You also know that everyone is looking up your nostrils, or for you multi-monitor folks, the camera is pointed at your profile or your head is only visible in the bottom 25% of the frame.
We are in the 21st century. Pay attention to your camera quality. Pay attention to what your camera sees. Make sure we can see you with a little bit of light. And for the love of all that’s holy, put yourself into the majority of the frame and at least try to give the appearance you’re not doing other work on the call. Actually look at your camera from time to time.
Easy remedies that cost nothing:
- Temporarily, move to a place with more light. Face the light.
- Adjust your laptop lid (and therefore your laptop’s camera) to put yourself in frame, even if it means the display isn’t at the perfect angle for seeing what is on your screen during a call. Having the camera at the same height as your own eyes is great.
- Keep your screen/lens clear of fingerprints and debris.
- Treat the camera lens as the eye contact appropriate to the conversation and your attention.
In a purpose-built room?
- Sit close to the camera, not opposite.
- Move chairbacks out of frame so remote participants feel included rather than mere observers.
- Actually look at the camera in the same way and as much as as you would look at any in-room participant.
Discovered Sungazer (and Sungazer Plus) via TikTok last night. Played a video which represents about the last minute and a half of this video for Thicc, from the apology onward. Let it loop and loop.
Didn’t know I was into electro jazz fusion, but there it is.
One song shy of a complete rip, a CD shattered in the drive. Have never experienced such a thing. I bought my first CDs and CD player in 1987. The CD that shattered was from 2002.