Bask in the glow


I love 1Password.
I love being able to open a web page, verify the login I want to use and it just works.
2FA no problem.
Stash serial numbers? Sure.
Need some place to put information on your car?
Need to share Secret Notes™ with your family?
Done.
All in 1Password.

Not an ad. Just appreciation.

“I recently came across your background and work experience with hewlett packard enterprise dxc technology perspecta.”

Spammers really summing up my experience working for HPE, DXC, Perspecta. This company is now Peraton. Until they change again.

Power is out.

At least the severe thunderstorm cooled it off to… 87 degrees. With the humidity it’s a cool 92 feeling out there. 😎

Reading these translation posts are always on point and entertaining.
𝕏 is no exception.

Daring Fireball: Translation From Hostage Code to English of X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino’s Company-Wide Memo

The best news is we’re well underway.

There is no hope.

How many House Sparrows is too many House Sparrows?

📺 Silo (2023)

Silo poster

Finished the season. It was stupendous and I’m anxiously awaiting more. There is more, riiiight?

Does my house have studs? Do they run vertically? Gaze upon my collection of holes in the wall to answer these questions. And more!

I’ve fallen in love with a newsletter called The Deep Dive. Every Wednesday you’ll get a new batch of interesting Youtube documentaries/videos/deep dives in your inbox. It’s not only introduced me to a lot of fascinating stories but also new creators.

Trying to get into the habit of replying to people. It’s the comments section of blogs back before everything was spam hateful.
People are writing into the void. Hello, from the void.
I’m reading. I’m enjoying. I’m trying to say that more.

Barbie Answers Oppenheimer - by Anne Helen Petersen

Film history and movie review. It’s all quotable so just read the whole piece.

New faucet. Color coordinated.

Disable hardware acceleration to fix Google Chrome slowness

Chrome has been running slower and slower on this Ubuntu Linux desktop and it was driving me nuts. Any complex website would turn the entire browser into molasses.

Today, I find a post from December of 2015 about a bug in hardware acceleration. With updates every couple of years saying, “Yup, it’s still a problem.”

Here we are in 2023 and it fixed my issues!

Step 1: Open this in your Chrome Address Bar: chrome://settings/?search=hardware or go to Settings -> System
Step 2: Use hardware acceleration when available slide this to off.
Step 3: Restart Chrome.

Here’s a link to the original thread with pictures for those visual learners.

Podcasts Recommendations, no crime

I had a co-worker ask for podcast recommendations that weren’t murdery or crime related. So I offered up two classics.

I mentioned not offering up anything too deeply nerdy. And after that another co-worker sent me a message asking about those nerdy shows. So I said be careful what you wish for and offered up my favorites.

How it started.

Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka

How it’s going.

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

Regarding the trailer for Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka

Remember, if our local natural gas company can put up EMERGENCY WORK signs from June 5 to July 5. And on July 10th, put up new EMERGENCY WORK signs from July 10 - Aug 10 that your EMERGENCY at work is likely just as urgent.

Most Emergencies Aren’t.

Visiting the hummingbirds and parents.

I love watching them fly around like tiny fighter jets.

Millennial Burnout

Being so burnt out from the last three years of relentless, ruthless running that you seek how to recover knowing it will be slow.

But so jaded by all of the people offering solutions/coaching/help that you seek nothing and try to take time off work and rest.

Rinse. Repeat.

🍿 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny poster

It was Indy being Indy and I enjoyed it.

Audio people, we had wall to wall carpet but recently replaced it with flooring. My little 8’x10’ room is now echoey and I’m trying to understand the best option to deaden the sound for my podcast I record there. We own the house. Looking for advice. Foam panels? Rug for part of the room?

Big Mac Tacos and Crispy Parmesan Carrots

Made dinner tonight with my wife. We have a small kitchen so our choreography must be impeccable.

Big Mac Tacos (Smash Burger Tacos) | Cravings Journal

Replaced beef with turkey because we had it in hand. My wife made tortillas and they were delicious.

Crispy Parmesan Carrots (Cheesy Crust) - Cooking With Ayeh

Made these carrots on the side and they were delicious though if I did it again I would brush the carrots with the olive oil and pour/brush on the marinade since it didn’t stick very well. But they were absolutely delicious. Carrots!

All around a superb meal and both went straight into Plan To Eat which is a superb meal planning web site and app. (If you like it and can wait until Black Friday, they always have a good deal. We’ve renewed it for years this way.)

Star Trek is Space Ted Lasso.

Or is Ted Lasso Football Star Trek?

The sky is lovely today.

Watching Ted Lasso again has been such a salve for the hard days.

The characters grow and change and learn. There are running gags in only starting to notice (Higgins spilling tea.)

It’s such a sweet show where we are doing our best alongside our band of footballers.

I’ve been using this Logitech H540 headset throughout the pandemic and it’s never failed me. Today, the little red mute light on the cord has stopped working when I mute the mic.

It’s really thrown me off. I use the headset to mute versus the application as it’s a simple tap on my right ear cup.