I don’t know to which deity I owe the most thanks and praise, but I am grateful for the shoegaze genre and for Apple’s recommendation engine. I listened to a group called SPC-ECO on my commute this evening and loved it.

Do I start by genuflecting toward Grangemouth, Scotland?


Trust no political party.

The evidence continues to suggest they are more interested in having us fight each other than in enacting lasting beneficial change.


Bittersweet, making room for the new. Took apart a small IKEA chair from much earlier in my daughter’s life. It had been functioning as a small table of sorts for a long while. Today that need was released.


I think about journaling more often then I actually write.

The internal censor is strong.


Iconic Arecibo Alien-Hunting Observatory Will Be Demolished

Storm damage and a lack of shared vision.


“This isn’t a tech problem. This is tech revealing a human problem."

#DanielMessler #SocialMedia #AI


Ooh! A new Lego catalog in the mail, today!


Followed this one all the way through:

How to have your Memoji as your profile picture — anywhere

I’m guessing many have read this or similar by now.


Sometimes my writing is just terrible. I am too long out of practice.


Hold the Big Sur, and Unexpected Big Sur

Deployed a new MacBook Air at work and asked my client to stay On 10.15.7 until 11.1 is released. I was hoping to avoid not-yet-known compatibility risks. I had only used a test machine for 90 minutes at work by that point. Another client wanting to stay on top of security updates demonstrated the thing I feared. Printing to a Canon workgroup printer from Big Sur did not work well. Canon’s American web site did not have macOS 15 drivers, which was not shocking.

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