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Linked: “What the Hell Just Happened?”
January 29, 2017
3 min read
via DavePell (a medium blog): The Next Few Months: There can be no tolerance of acts of hate…
Linked: “Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum – The New Yorker”
January 28, 2017
1 min read
via NewYorker: We talk about the filter bubbles on social networks—those algorithms that keep us connected to the…
Linked: “The Curved TV Gimmick Might Finally Be Dead”
January 27, 2017
1 min read
via Gizmodo: If you weren’t watching Samsung’s TV event and LG press conference you might have missed it.…
Linked: “Internet Archive’s Trump Archive launches today”
January 26, 2017
1 min read
via Archive.org: A work in progress, the growing collection now includes more than 520 hours of Trump video.…
Linked: “Redesigning Waxy, 2016 edition”
January 25, 2017
1 min read
via Waxy: But there a few reasons why I’m sad about the decline of independent blogging, and why…
Linked: “Decades in the Making: Fidel Castro’s Obituary”
January 24, 2017
1 min read
via NYTimes: For years, as we weathered one scare after another that Fidel Castro had died, I kept…
Linked: “The evolution of Apple’s laptops, from the PowerBook to the MacBook Pro”
January 23, 2017
1 min read
via Macworld Online: Great job by Jason talking us on a walk down memory lane. I’ve owned every…
★ Year in Review and 2017 Plans in Beer
January 23, 2017
11 min read
ReadME: I’m posting this late because RateBeer posts a year in beer annually for each userID. This year,…
★ Beer Tastings: It was a great Camp-Group Tasting Revival
January 23, 2017
1 min read
My drinking buddies and I haven’t met up since August. Lots of life events for all of us…
Linked: “Apple Will Charge You $70 If You Lose an AirPod”
January 22, 2017
1 min read
via Gizmodo: by Christina Warren who was at Mashable and is quite talented and to my mind, a…
Linked: “Steve Wozniak Was My Computer Teacher in 1995”
January 21, 2017
1 min read
via Vice: Thinking back to that class, I remember looking out the classroom window on our first day.…
Linked: “Snapchat Plays Hard to Get With Celebrities and Influencers”
January 20, 2017
1 min read
via NYTimes: Snapchat does not cater to these groups. Instead of having celebrities and influencers make product placements…
My House: 1-19-2017 Update: Insulation is in, Drywall next!
January 20, 2017
1 min read
Insulation is finally in which means we can crank the heat up and the drywall will be done…
★ Review: Hill Farmstead Double Nelson
January 20, 2017
1 min read
4.3/5 JAN 20, 2017 Draft at Big Fatty’s for Grassroots Tap Event A – Tangerine color, hazy, orange…
Linked: “News anchor sets off Alexa devices around San Diego ordering unwanted dollhouses”
January 19, 2017
1 min read
via some local news site: Which is exactly what happened today during CW6 in the morning when Jim…
Technology: My New Home Network Design (2017)
January 19, 2017
6 min read
It’s 2017 and while there will be a collection of posts over the next few months of various…
Technology: Being there for iPhone’s Launch
January 18, 2017
4 min read
The press coverage around iPhone’s 10th anniversary had me reminiscing and thinking that Apple has sold one billion…
Linked: “How Many Famous People Will Die IN 2017?”
January 18, 2017
2 min read
via MIT.Edu: Many people think that 2016 was particularly bad, but data tells us that it is not…
My House: 1-11-2017 Update: The electrical works is done. Plumbing up next
January 15, 2017
1 min read
Thanks so much for following along on these updates! If you look closely, you’ll start to see a…