Found my first-Gen AirPods Pro in an easy chair that I sit in daily. Reported them lost in the Find My app. My phone was often within 2 or 3 feet of where I found them. Found them when looking in the chair for my phone. Possibly the metal chair mechanism blocked signal?


Notification Fatigue:

I read the message on my watch. I clear the notice on my iPhone screen, then I launch the Messages app to clear the notification on the app icon.

In Apple’s house, using apps and hardware they themselves designed, I expect that to be a cleaner experience.


I voted my conscience. I choose to see voting as my responsibility, and I am grateful I live in a place where we can respectfully and privately add our input.


Is This Our Last Daylight Saving Time Change?

Yeah: No.

I still support ending the madness. Pick one and make it stick.

Please.


“There really is nothing better than a well-made latté” he said, finishing his second of the day.


Come From or Running From?

I have long been aware that the place in the world where I call home and feel at home is very distant from any salt water. Orient yourself in any compass direction, and despite the abundance of freshwater, I’m quite distant from ocean by any measure. This week at work, I was introduced to the idea of a Land Acknowledgement. My home and my place of work are on land where other peoples were displaced through trickery and with force.

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Land Acknowledgement

For me, today, I reside in land formerly of Očhéthi Šakówiŋ and Wahpekute ranges, and close to earthworks.

I am going to learn more.


We Need Critical ADHD Studies Now

“Because the more you think the problem is in your brain, the less you’ll want to change the structures that hold you in place.”


I learn more watching a single episode of The Great British Baking Show than in most other things I see. (Where “Bake-Off” is a trademark owned by Pillsbury, it is called The Great British Baking Show)


That feeling when, as an IT professional, I flunked a phishing test.