I just saw an ad on YouTube that said to trust a printer.

Never!

In the past week I have:

• Flown from Hawaii to Maryland.
• Got Sick 😷
• Drove two hours to attend a two day music festival. (Iron Blossom in Richmond, VA)

And now you’re saying I have to work? I’m exhausted. 😂

Some of my most trusted news sources in 2023 are:

V who reports from Under a Desk: www.tiktok.com/@underthe…

A crowbar wielder: www.tiktok.com/@endeavor…

A guy who screams about the stupid: www.tiktok.com/@

And The Washington Post.

I miss the days of trying out an app without immediately needing to create an account.

I really need to make a tag in 1Password for “trial” or “new app”.

I’ve got so many random accounts I’ve used once and may not even still exist.

Mahalo

👋 Seattle (airport)

I have a very long flight coming up and am looking for iOS games. iPhone or iPad.

Trouble is, I don’t know what im looking for. Main criteria is to be playable offline and im happy to pay for games, I don’t want to buy micro transactions forever.

What games are you playing and would be fun offline?

📺 The Bear (2022)

The second season is incredible. Every episode could be an entire movie. The immersive dive into each character makes them uniquely human and while people. They’re not just characters. They’re human and I’m living and dying with their ups and downs.

Trying to watch Episode 6 of 📺 Invasion (2021)

Literally trying to watch it because apparently the house our heroes are hiding in is pitch black and maybe there’s a creature?

Add this to the “What Even Is Lighting?” pile of television made that’s too dark to tell what is going on.

Trent Reznor scored the new TMNT movie is a sentence that I can say in 2023 and it’s real.

The Workday “Dead Zone” is a Fake Problem

But let’s be very clear: those aren’t real problems. They’re problems with perspective — and indicative of an organizational structure that privileges the exceptional requests and convenience of those with power over the everyday needs of everyone else.

That might just sound like a workplace%2C but it also sounds like an unhealthy one: one where workers are less happy%2C where quit rates are higher%2C where burnout is a bigger problem%2C where it’s harder to excel or even just survive as a person with caregiving responsibilities%2C where having people scroll Twitter until their eyes burn because their brain can’t do anything creative is just “the way things are.”

Library loans: Saving Time by Jenny Odell 📚

Really enjoyed listening to Saving Time by Jenny Odell

There were two parts that really stuck with me.

In Chapter 3 (timestamp 4:14:33) she talks about Parks and gardens as non-commercial leisure space.

A visitor could just be herself not a worker or consumer. Compared to commercial, scripted, surveillance areas.

In a public space, you are a citizen with agency. In a faux-public space, you are either a consumer or a threat to the design of the space.

This is one of the things I so deeply enjoy about going to my local gardens. You can just be… There’s no expectations upon you for anything more than roaming through the flowers, looking at the birds, smelling the scents of flowers and trees and sweetness on the wind. You can just be.

In Chapter 5 (timestamp 6:35:05) she talks about relationships and this resonated deeply with me. People change and being in love with the current person is more important than the idealized version that lives in your mind.

Relationships fall apart because one partner has stopped seeing the other as they are and instead as a frozen picture in time. Without change. Without disappointment. The idealized version.

My new shirt is here!

And it’s perfect!

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)

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.

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.