Apple Beta program participation disadvantage I haven’t seen mentioned before: media-sharing requires signing out and back in, or de-authorizing and re-authorizing—after applying each update. On AppleTV this means not being able to connect to my server or access iTunes Match
Second shot packed a wallop. In the intervening 24 hours I hope I’m through the worst of it. Body aches, headaches and chills, for me
Second dose acquired.
The Vaccination, Part II: Return to House Pfizer
Contact interoperability via VCF or CSV file is simply terrible. It could be as simple as export/import. But that’s not the case. It’s export/translate/edit/import/edit
Long story short:
Don’t use files to exchange this data. Use services.
To get contacts from Outlook (Exchange) into iOS, I used the macOS-native Contacts app. I connected to the Exchange account that had the contacts needed. Then I connected to the empty iCloud account. I selected the Exchange account, selected all of the contacts, and dragged them en masse to the iCloud account. In a few minutes, all of the contacts appeared in iCloud with the correct data in the correct fields. A few minutes after that, they were on the destination iPhone.
The Voice seasons seem to move really fast now. I don’t feel like I get to know the contestants and their personalities like we used to
I appreciate the voice-to-text ability of my watch more and more every day. Especially as I struggle with keyboards just as much today as 20 years ago
I always wanted to be a DJ, from the days I listened to my Radio Shack FM radio all day long as a boy. The people pushing out the sounds always seemed to have a finger on a pulse. They seemed to connect to something. I imagined a depth and breadth of knowledge and a currency that I’m sure was impossible to attain in reality.
In the 90s I took a job at a record store, which in some ways was a sort of dream come true. I thought I knew about music. I was an avid consumer of what radio and MTV fed me. But it was then that my education began.
When techno and electronica hit, my DJ dream shifted. I wanted to play the records that moved the people in the moment. I have played with decks and mixers a teensy bit. I played with a friend’s collection of vinyl and did my best to beat-match records during a small gathering.
I’ve made lots and lots of mix tapes, that mostly no one has ever heard, but me.
What’s happened is I’ve collected a lot of music over time. I am infected by people who are enthusiastic about a genre or a scene.
Music is so powerful.
It is a giant river, life-giving and fertile like the Amazon or the Nile. Some of it is written down or recorded, where it lives in the vast ocean.
Just like I can’t read every book, I can’t hear every record.
I have been listening to a series of playlists generated by someone close to my own age, that span years including the four that I spent at the record store.
Boy, is it resurfacing old thoughts and ideas and dreams.
The cool part is I agree with many of the selections.
The cool part is I’m hearing songs I would have never heard, otherwise.
The cool part is there is always such good music.
If you do the Apple Music thing, I’m here and I like to share.
Minnesota State Fair Announces Walk-Around Days
“The fairgrounds will be open for a five-day ‘mini Fair’ over Memorial Day weekend with capped attendance.”
When you boot up your MacBook after a few days off and your Login Keychain is gone…
Have lost a cousin to COVID today. It’s still killing people.
Be careful, everyone.
What if you took the opportunity to turn your secure pass-phrase into a positive affirmation?
Or a goal? A mission statement? Your intent?
Watching videos on MTV again. Glad to see them. And always struck by how music unravels times and places and states of mind.
15-minute wait after first vaccination. This place is huge and I appreciate the clear mobilization of the National Guard to make this work
Finally registered for my COVID vaccinations. Happy, for me, and that makes me feel better I’m less likely to be the cause of a transmission.
My work day started with my awesome new Logi MX KEYS keyboard not Bluetoothing to anything, anywhere.
I was worried I owned a nicely-weighted, space gray brick.
It’s rechargeable and therefore sealed. The power switch didn’t change anything. None of the key presses in the Quick Start guide changed its behavior. None of the forum posts addressed what I was seeing. So I went rogue. After a lot of searching for any mention of what I was seeing, I began experimenting with long key presses and multiple key combinations and finally got to where I could pair the keyboard to my Mac again.
I was able to hold the fn and F13 keys to get it into pairing mode for device 1. Then, on my MacBook, I was able to use the Bluetooth preferences in the System Settings application and subsequently the Logi Options app saw it again, as well.
Phew.
There is a lot of discussion of justice on the national level.
We have a single case of accountability.
And a lot of work to be done.
When you don’t use the filter basket, the coffee maker doesn’t behave the same way.
I’m left astonished with wonder at how I failed to notice this while I did everything else in anticipatory preparation.
After cleaning up, I’m making a second attempt at coffee, now.
Also: Coffee is hot. Because I have no patience, my thumb will continue to remind me of several failures throughout the day.
The end result is I have cleaned my coffee maker and I will shortly be sipping hot, delicious coffee.
TIL The Trashmen were from Minneapolis.
It’s a bonfire kind of night. Two other yards on the same side of the street as me also have fires in their respective fire pits.
Status
Listening to the Nineties, today.
The author of a sub-blog I follow produced a series of posts called Insanely Great Nineties Songs You Aren’t Sick Of. Start here if that speaks to you… He has a post per-year and links to YouTube videos of all of the songs he mentions.
I worked for a record store from the summer of 1990 to the summer of 1994 and these hit home for me. But fair warning, these are mostly not Top 40 song lists.
This just in:
COVID is still deadly.
Putting some thoughts here, while they are on my mind:
Political parties and news organizations love to pretend that an election is an ideological mandate. When the candidate you vote for wins, it’s fun to feel that way.
I think an election is simpler, it’s a snapshot in time, and it’s very much about who is on the ballot. Sometimes a vote is yes to a candidate, to a party or to a platform, but sometimes a vote is against a specific person. I suspect that the 2016 and 2020 elections reflect this in America more than Americans traditionally would admit.
I think the political parties are their own machines, representing their own self-preservation and the agendas of large donors. As such, neither party in the U.S.A. would ever change anything fundamentally.
I don’t think that political parties represent a mandate any more than an election does.
I think political parties aren’t representative of us, of We The People, because the parties generally and the candidates specifically are beholden to money.
I think Ranked Choice Voting is worth a try and might better represent overall preferences, or show where more of us actually agree. We really need to pay attention to what we have in common and fight hard for that.
I think it’s really hard to step outside of a bubble I have willingly been inside of for decades.
I used to wonder why George Carlin seemed so angry toward the end of his career. I’m starting to understand.
Watching the snow fall in Saint Paul and singing a song quietly to myself
Just got news several extended family members are simultaneously ill with the UK Variant of COVID, one very seriously. They believe they were being cautious and don’t know how they got it.
Take care of yourselves, keep others safe. We aren’t out of the woods.