Watching from a distance as my intended destination for a Christmas get-away appears to be experiencing every possible ill effect from snow and wind and wave.
One under-appreciated or less-mentioned phenomenon of bitterly cold weather is that the world sounds different, not just the wind. Though the wind itself is hinting it its own power.
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media Having been through some lift-and-shifts, I feel this to my core. I agree with so many of the points, but most particularly that the community and the love can’t be bought.
Watching Lego Masters, eating Halloween candy while keeping an eye on a snowstorm that is evolving, possibly into a blizzard.
My immediate behavior in the face of obligation-free paid time off is to sleep until I can’t sleep any more. If/when this is interrupted, I go back to bed as soon as possible for as long as possible.
Book-ended my day with urgent calls, almost exactly 12 hours apart.
“Jane! Get me off this crazy thing!” —George Jetson
I could easily have changed an elevated-access password Friday, when I received a three-day warning. I but chose to wait until today, when I needed it to perform a specific thing, to do the account recovery process instead.
#ADHD #makesCompleteSense
When the Jeopardy clues elicit responses such as “Bootylicious” and “Shuttlecock.” I heartily approve.
That feeling when you find someone interesting to follow online, and then within 24 hours they indicate they will be taking a break.
I’m probably using social media wrong, but I deeply enjoy following people who challenge me and teach me.
Here’s the thing: We are all influencers. We all shape the world around us with our words and actions. This has always been true.
If we aren’t uplifting the people in our lives, what are we doing?
I am thinking more about our advertiser-based media landscape, and I’m grateful that the federated social media sites and services remove the perverse incentives of likes or follower counts.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I have a T-Shirt problem.
This is a test for @vincent. May your development be fruitful!
That feeling when you order your sandwich without onion, and the first thing that falls out of the wrapper when you go to eat it is onion.
Found The Maven Game’s recent newsletter The Opposite George to be very meaningful. I am a lapsed musician/poet/writer with no practice, no advancement, and a heart full of terror for more than a decade. This method gives me hope of rekindling my fire.
Picked up some Gen 2 AirPods Pro. I have to say, compared to Gen 1, the low end is more pronounced and powerful, but not boomy or emphasized. Well done, Apple! Best bass I have yet experienced in an in-ear bud.
My daughter has existed without her Minecraft machine for 8 days. Set it up for her in our temporary digs this afternoon and she has disappeared in the intervening hours.
COVID test says it’s not that. But my daughter has had flu-like symptoms this past week and it looks like it might be my turn
Twitter did not let me add my ActivityPub-compatible name to my display name on my Twitter profile though it looks like others have done so. It’s in a pinned tweet and in my profile, should anyone be interested enough to look at my profile page.
I was pleased to learn that in the Discover section on Micro.blog, you may not always need the full @name@fully.qualified.domain string to locate ActivityPub accounts. In some cases the username alone was enough. Many times, name@fully.qualified.domain was enough.
Yesterday I found about 8 Twitter accounts that I follow mentioned or listed a Mastodon address. Did a quick Twitter search for “mastodon” on followed accounts. Today I learned of Debirdify, which helped me to find about 100 more accounts I could follow directly from Micro.blog.
But what if Apple became a mobile operator? It would accept inbound calls and send them to me as FaceTime over any network. When I make a call, Apple can decide if that’s an in-network call or if (like with SMS) it goes to a 3rd party. No phone needed, just a mobile data plan.
If I could set my Apple Watch as the focus for my phone number, I’d be happy to carry an iPad exclusively. Or heck, just make a cellular-capable iPad operate as a phone so I don’t have to keep three computers on my person, just two or one.
Reading and writing is wonderful. I have a brain that likes to make connections. Between consuming some social media posts today, then writing an update to my Now page, I’ve learned some things that have helped me to clarify my own values and principles.