You’re at a record store and your 17 year old surprises you two minutes before you have to leave and says “Dad, pick me out a 90s alternative CD!” What do you look for first?
You’re at a record store and your 17 year old surprises you two minutes before you have to leave and says “Dad, pick me out a 90s alternative CD!” What do you look for first?
I want a hat that says “I REALLY want to talk to you about X-Men 97 Episode 5!” so I can more easily find my people.
Apple’s autocorrect doesn’t seem to care that people having a Messages conversation with me might want to address me by my first name.
Even my mom calls me “same”.
I think I like the Compact Tabs in Safari. I really like when the website’s color permeates through the top of the UI like on Daring Fireball.
I made the critical error of installing Civilization 5 on my Mac and lost a week of my life to its perfect mapping of just-out-of-reach rewards (just one more turn!) to my very susceptible, neurodiverent dopamine receptors.
I have uninstalled it! This is my public declaration that it will remain so!
Uuuuuuuugh. I’m reasonably sure if you measured my head right now it’d be 90% pollen.
Any recommendations on a basic USB A to USB C cable that fits an iPhone 15 while the iPhone 15 is in a case? I’ve got a bunch that have too much plastic too close, hit the case lip, and don’t fit.
Delighted by the return of patio weather. Birdsong, a light breeze, and warm tea—a lovely respite from the household chores I’ve been ignoring.
I had a horrible nightmare that there was an episode of Bluey where Bluey’s dad dies.
I’m complete prepared for the answer “nah, you’re just getting old and your eyes are worse” but the reflective paint used to mark lanes is worse now than it used to be, right?
Finished reading: Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey 📚
I had a day to spend in Farmville, VA recently and a friend suggested I visit the Robert Russa Moton Museum. The Moton Museum sits in the school building where, in 1951, the student body of black teenagers, led by Barbara Johns, went on strike demanding that the deplorable conditions at their segregated school be improved. Their efforts led to the case Davis v. Prince Edward County which was one of the five cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education where the US Supreme Court ruled that separate could never be equal and that school segregation is unconstitutional. I was humbled by the story of Barbara Johns and her peers—how kids, the same age as my son is now, stood up for themselves and demanded they be treated with dignity. I knew so little of their story and I wanted to learn more.
After the trip I picked up Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County by Kristen Green from the library. The author tells a history of segregation in her hometown of Farmville and surrounding Prince Edward County. In the aftermath of the order to desegregate schools, white people in power closed the county’s public schools completely rather than be forced to have their kids attend the same schools as black people. A whites-only private school was started with public funds, a school that the author’s grandfather helped to found, her parents attended, and where she herself graduated high school. The author explores and attempts to reckon with the complexities of her family’s role in this racism.
I recommend this book as a good starting point on the history and that anyone passing near Farmville, VA visit the Moton Museum.
The Marvels is a fun superhero movie. I enjoyed it!
It’s that time of year in Richmond where I need my Flonase with an Allegra chaser.
Happy Leap Day! May we greet each other the traditional way: “Oh Boy!”
I think my favorite TV show might be Bluey?
Finished reading: The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow 📚
Thoroughly enjoyed this read. Fletch, but if Fletch’s superpower was Excel. My only “complaint” is that I wish there were more stories to read.
Currently reading: The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow 📚
Finished reading: How to Steal a Presidential Election by Lawrence Lessig 📚
Great, short read on the gaps in our constitutional system that can be used against democracy in 2024-5 and beyond.
I want to congratulate James Taylor for winning the World Series and bringing home the Stanley Cup.
One of the most long-term, useful books I’ve ever engaged with is The Mac is Not a Typewriter by Robin Williams. www.amazon.com/Mac-Not-T…
I trained my muscle memory to option-[, option-], option-{, and option-} for my quotation marks and apostrophes and never looked back.
The default directory for Movies in macOS Sonoma is ~/Movies/TV/Media/Movies/
Finished reading: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 📚
I really like the ”MagSpeed Electromagnetic scrolling” scroll wheel on my Logitech MX Master 3S for Mac computer mouse. It’s both extremely functional and the best fidget spinner I’ve ever bought.
It has regular “click click” mode but if it detects you are going fast it goes into “weeeeeeeee” mode.
Here’s a little AppleScript I wrote that moves the dock to the right if my MacBook is the only display and to the bottom if it’s not.