Travel Bans Take Shine Off Banks’ Premium Rewards Cards - WSJ

Ultra-premium rewards credit cards aren’t as rewarding these days.

I love reading articles about rewards credit cards. From the outside looking in, the manipulation of the consumer is blatantly obvious.

Even more entertaining is the defenders of credit cards as “gaming the system.” Rewards credit cards are based on a spending. I beat every one of those programs with a high yield checking account and my debit card from my local credit union which pays based on my balance.

Oh, and my credit union doesn’t charge me 14% interest.

Civilization V is a game, not your stupid 11-card credit card scheme.

Now available, ChetCast: Season 1 (2018).

The week that I stopped wearing my Apple Watch, my screen time decreased by 20%.

Not a coincidence.

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Kanye West to Design Yeezy Clothing Line for Gap - WSJ

As recently as 2018, he had hoped to become artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear.

So much gold in this article.

I’ve been posting regularly on this blog for nearly three years. In that time, I’ve tweaked the layout and design. I ended up with a space that’s uniquely my own and one that reflects my personal tastes. Scattered among links to my favorite articles and random inter-day updates are larger bodies of work. Specifically, I have a podcast, a reading log, and a massive collection of daily haiku.

Up until earlier this year, I had a single page for each of these three types of posts. On each page, in reverse chronological order, I had lists of links to each post in the category. Visitors to my site could easily scroll through a very long list to find a particular post, date, or title.

The problem is that these pages were getting too long. A single page of my daily haiku contained over 650 links. My podcast is nearing Episode 160, and I’ve read more than 80 books in the past three years alone. I wanted to bring a better sense of organization and structure. In a word, I wanted curation.

Thanks to an idea from the founder of Micro.blog, Manton, I’m nearing completion of my reorganized archives. I still have a page for my podcasts, a page for my reading log, and a page for my haiku. Now, for each of these categories, I have posts organized by year. When you visit the link in my blog’s navigation, you get a list of the current year’s posts. As you scroll to the page footer, you’re offered links to previous years.

This is a much better way to organize my work. It took some effort to get to all put together, but I’m very satisfied with the results.

Lots of misrouted packages crisscrossing the country. 📦

My least favorite form of being sick is having a sore throat.

It might be time to block YouTube on my iPhone & iPad.

Got my baby carrier kit all put together. Cleaned out my kitchen office cabinet. Looking forward to putting it all together tomorrow.

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Dixie Chicks Change Name To ‘Three Persons Of Non-Specific Gender And Regional Background’ - The Babylon Bee

I still won’t listen.

Never forget!!

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Just placed an order with IKEA. I hope they actually fulfill it! 🪑

Four weeks until baby. Supplies will finish arriving today. Time to get organized! 🧸

The Abolition of Man and Woman - WSJ

There is no totalitarianism so total as that which claims authority over the meaning of nature.

Rain and Olafur Arnolds. 🌧

There are an equal number of hits and misses in the new app icons in macOS 11. Hopefully those change before the public release. I much prefer the current suite of iPad icons.

Air France Will Bid Farewell to Its A380s on Friday

The aircraft will take to the skies for the last time with the Air France livery on Friday, eleven years after it entered service at the company.

The A380 has been an unmitigated disaster, from design to demise.

Mastercard Changes Name To Equalitycard - The Babylon Bee

Honestly, in 2020, there is no place in America for terms like “master.” That is not an image we want to evoke when consumers engage in financial transactions that might place them massively in debt to us, through late fees and massive interest charges. Equalitycard will always promote the equality of cardholders of all races.

Apple Revives and Refreshes Game Center in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur - MacRumors

Apple is encouraging developers to set up leaderboards, add achievements, and opt in to the Game Center challenges feature for their apps.

Please don’t. Waste of space.

It’s always good when you take your car into the shop and they can easily replicate your problem.

Trump Says Those Empty Seats At His Rally Were Actually Reserved For Jesus - The Babylon Bee

“We had to make sure the Jesus guy was there blessing the campaign with his tremendous blessings. Great blessings, some of the best.”

First Look: See iOS 14 in Action With Home Screen Widgets, App Library, Subtle Call Alerts and More - MacRumors

The Weather app includes some features from Dark Sky

Hopefully one of those features is accurate weather reports.