Bask in the glow


🍿 Shadow in the Clouds is to Chloe Grace Moretz as Crank is to Jason Statham.

TV rights to the local πŸ’ team being sold again. Debating going with ExpressVPN and nhl.tv. Because to watch hockey you pay for, you also need a VPN to avoid the blackouts.

Wish List:
Blot.im
But hosted in Nextcloud.

Dropped Pixel 3aXL in water. It was not pleased. Replaced with Pixel 4a. Pixel 3aXL recovered after rice therapy.

Return Pixel 4a? Keep 3aXL phone? Will my gigantic hands gets used to a normal sized phone?

I would happily pay to have more hats for my cameras. The cowboy hat that came with my Wyze outdoor camera pre-order continues to delight.

Second time backups have saved my bacon in Proxmox. Friendly reminder, if you value your work, your data, your projects then please back them up somewhere.

I was able to restore my Nextcloud installation after a bad update hosed it.

My wife is having to use Microsoft Teams for a client and when she rotated her phone, the phone’s video turns into static. When she rotates it back to portrait, it’s fine.

Is this a Teams thing??? The Android app settings are no help.

Β πŸ“š Ready Player Two! My Library rental showed up last night so I’m listening to Wil Wheaton read to me and enjoying returning to the nerdy world.

πŸ’ Hockey is back. πŸ’

Enjoying a John Mulaney marathon in Netflix tonight. From his deliver to his prancing, he’s hilarious and I need a good, long laugh.

It gets real when the mobile alerts come through on my phone about DC curfew and public transit closures. I’m safe at home but it’s unreal. I used to work across the street from the Capitol Building complex. I’ve seen some minor protests and activism. But nothing like this…

πŸ“Ί Atypical (Netflix)

Such a sweet series. Nik Dodani as Zahid is a far greater character than he should be. Better friend. Supportive to a fault. The ultimate ally to Sam.

Walked into qdoba tonight to pickup two quesadillas and…

Home for Christmas is a wonderful series on Netflix.
It’s Norwegian.
Watch it without dubbing.
It’s very funny. And sweet.
We are 5 episodes in.

Youtube-DL users, How do you tell the status of downloads? For now I send them to my NAS and watch the folders, but have you found anything that shows the progress of file downloads?

I’ve been using it to download Twitch streams for of my co-hosts for the video edition of our podcast and the videos are LOONG.

I started reading For The Win by Cory Doctorow and have not been able to put it down.

Be the sleepy Dove you want to see in the world.

Time to replace Halloween birds with Christmas birds.

Beautiful day for a (masked) walk. Busy day with some kind of scout event going on with waaay to many people. But the trail was thankfully nearly empty.

🦌friends visited this morning.

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Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police - The New York Times

Facial Recognition works both ways.

Is there any way in 2020 to keep mail as unread in Apple Mail until I open it or manually mark as read?

“We have Peacock now Carl. We get to watch all of the ads!”

– My wife, trying to find where to watch something that’s only streaming there.

I love to see the bumbles hunkered down for the night on my dahlias.