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In my tenacious tech trek, I’m now back to using the Motorola Razr 2024 in Spritz Orange. It’s flippin’ good. The reason? Local-first computing. You know, that thing we used to do before cloud computing put all our files on someone...
Andy and Alanna came to visit so we went to do seaside things. I love doing seaside things.139 words · 10 images
StarCraft 2 is a well-known Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game. It features campaigns, skirmishes (alone or with other players), PVP matches and Coop missions. These are missions that have to be played with a selected Coop Commander. A unit...
A Bigger Splash (1967) by David Hockney. • I was interviewed this week at Retrofuturista, the first interview I’ve done in a while, and more wide-ranging than they sometimes are. Subjects covered include illustration, design, weird...
I've found I've enjoyed games more when I play them outside of the release period, because then I decided to play it when I was in the mood for it, rather than just because everyone else is playing it. But also, that means nobody wants...
Today's links Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO: A bright line test that's totally unfalsifiable. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Msft v Linux geeks; James Joyce scholars v Joyce estate; iPod...
Elon is officially a trillionaire, as I predicted in April 2021 in the post “Convergence to the global hegemon.” Here is what I wrote: We’re seeing the convergence to the global hegemon , as an increasingly large percentage of economic...
Out the back door today. The question is what did it? I reported on a Cooper’s hawk last winter that was working on them but a while ago I saw a crow chasing one. I was surprised a crow was in active pursuit. The pigeon was out flying...
My thatha, in his late 20s saw a photograph of Thirumangai Azhwar once, in someone’s house, and could not get past it. So he went to Thirunagari — Thiruvali-Thirunagari, the Azhwar’s own town.
Pilot’s line of erasable “Frixion” pens has expanded since its initial release in 2006, to the point where it can almost b...