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.
The forgotten director who gave us The Force, inspired 2001, and changed film
@ Ars Technica
Hot coffee and cookies on a cool morning
One of these things is not like the other
I’m old because I remember MTV playing music video always, and I’m up early enough to watch AMTV
Unspoken Role of Technical Support: Absorb and correct for damage created by other companies
Example: large ticket volume this week created by issues stemming from a large operating system vendor’s critical updates. Some laptops are becoming unbootable and some folks are getting bluescreens simply from printing. This is all fixable, but fixes take time. None of this is a result of any decision made by anyone employed by my company.
This makes me very sad:
The Case Against Year-Round Daylight Savings Time: We Tried It Before
I was a child, then. I have no recollection of this.
There. I didn’t have to say it:
Also? I don’t think that word (addiction) means what you think it means. It’s not carte blanche. You are responsible for your own actions.
Also? The “addiction” is not the thing. Dig deeper.
TIL Curved screens are fragile.
You do you, Elon.
I’m just gonna enjoy some popcorn.
My Semi-Annual Plea: Please stop the madness with the clock shifting. Pick one and run with it.
Please.
The coffee isn’t working today.