Ten Things That Occurred to Me #24
A non-trivial number of services are offering to summarize things for me, and I find have less than zero desire for this. Am I weird, missing something, or...?
Remember kids, what Apple calls "privacy," normal people call "preventing anyone else from gathering data about you so that we can be the only ones to do it."
Is it just me, or has the world decided to stop using the word “actress”? If so, that’s fine -- I just wish I had gotten the memo.
Shout out to my cousin Ford for this one: Why don’t airplane seats have decent cup holders? Of all the places one might be needed, that has to be it, right?
I follow the “quick to subscribe, quick to unsubscribe” attitude about SubStack, Twitter, etc. It works out well. It doesn’t take me long to know that I absolutely will or absolutely won’t want to continue with something.
I’ve been traveling quite a bit, and I’m happy to report that the enormously irritating habit of announcing, “This will serve as the final boarding call…” is a thing of the past. Never made any sense to me. And, of course, as I type this sitting in the Austin, Tx airport, someone just did it…Grr.
I'm not at all sure what it says that the great Paul Giamatti is currently playing Einstein in a Verizon commercial.
I currently have a leak in the pipe out of my dryer vent. It keeps the little laundry room quite warm. And I’m thinking, “Should I even fix it?” Someone should figure out a way to capture all that warmth instead of letting it merely vent outside.
The reason that you used to have to pay $5000 for a 386-DX25 with 1MB of RAM and a 106MB hard drive and now can pay $499 for an i7 with 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive is corporate greed, plain and simple.
If you aren’t following every word Sahil Bloom says, you are missing out. Despite his relative youth, the man is just a font of outstanding advice and wisdom. He recently tweeted, “My primary goal now is to spend most of my time doing things I never regret,” and how great is that?