Laws of technology and remote work
Some observations on a Friday evening about the realities of home offices and technology. Fa A laptop’s cabling will always be located on the maximally inconvenient side. Especially power cords with bulky connectors. Internet only fails before or during an important teleconference or the most suspenseful part of a...
“Close (To The Edit)” – Art of Noise
A discussion on Metafilter today about interviews with J.J. Jeczalik from Art of Noise tickled my brain and put this song back in heavy rotation....
Remember what’s important
Six years ago a good friend of mine passed away due to cancer. She was just shy of her 65th birthday and deserved so much more time....
USB-C is simple, right? Well…
One of the nice things about USB-C is its simplicity, right? No more figuring out which side is up to plug into a device. The connector is super-friendly. But… that’s where the simplicity stops....
“The Dispatcher” by John Scalzi
Took me a while to get around to it, but I finally picked up John Scalzi’s The Dispatcher yesterday morning and polished it off before bed. Some mild spoilers (depending on your definition of “spoiler”) below....
A little Calibre trick: Set series order in metadata
Many book series do not make it abundantly clear what order the series is in by book title. If you are reading, say, Larry Niven’s Ringworld series, it’s not clear from book titles what order the series is in. So you finish Ringworld and then you are ready to...
Quick links: Guns ‘n Roses “lost” music, subscription fatigue and more
Clearing out the tabs on Saturday. The Search for Guns N’ Roses’ Lost Masterpiece: Good long-form post from Rolling Stone about leaked music from the Chinese Democracy sessions and how it played out for a fan who was accused of leaking some of the bootlegs. Once upon a time...
Listen to this: Steve Lawson “Episode 50: A New Hope”
Fresh new music for the first week of the new year, Steve Lawson’s Episode 50: A New Hope is two epic-length tracks of introspective goodness. I’ll turn the floor over to Steve to describe the release: Turning 50 after 5 months of chemo to try and get rid of...
The scorpion strikes: Still speaker-less after 11 votes
Clearly nobody taught Kevin McCarthy and the rest of the establishment GOP the lesson of the frog and the scorpion. It would be funny if it was a plot on a modern West Wing, but it just seems like a harbinger of more problems to come. After 11 tries,...
MacBook Pro 2015 update: The winner is Pop!_OS
After a few tries to put Fedora on the MacBook Pro 2015, I auditioned a number of other Linux distros and wound up going with Pop!_OS. I gave Chrome OS Flex a brief spin, but it wasn’t quite my jam. If you like Chrome OS and have an old...