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August 25,2019
Productive afternoon. Finally taking the time to build out my author website. All of the effort that I’ve put into previous web design is really coming through.
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August 25,2019
It would be nice if Apple had author pages like Amazon.
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August 25,2019
If it could go wrong, it has gone wrong.
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August 25,2019
A little CSS to start my Sunday morning.
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Haiku
August 24,2019Errands All Morning
Strap in your seats, kids! Errands all over town. Whew!
It wasn’t that bad.
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Reading
August 24,2019
Currently reading: Blowback by Brad Thor 📚
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August 24,2019
It should not be allowed to rain the day after you wash your car.
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August 24,2019
It’s great that my phone labels some callers as Spam Risk or Telemarketer, but why would iOS still let it ring? Who sees those labels and answers?
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Reading
August 24,2019
Finished reading: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 📚
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August 24,2019
I love two clean cars sitting in a freshly swept garage.
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Reading
Book Review: Things Fall Apart 📚
August 24,2019I first read this book as a summer reading assignment in high school before starting my sophomore year. It was again assigned as I began my senior year. The enduring message of the book has always stuck with me.
In Part One, the reader is introduced to a proud man in a traditional African tribe. We learn about their history, culture, and customs. In particular, we’re introduced to their religion and how it shapes their communal life.
Part Two finds the main character in exile and an ominous development. European colonialists begin to move into the region. They start by spreading their religion, attached to a simple government.
Part Three has the main character returning to a village that he no longer recognizes. The Colonists have by this time imposed their rule on all of the tribes in the region. Their evangelization, coupled with heavy handed administration, has broken the back of the Tribe. No longer functioning as a single unit, family is turned against family.
What I most treasure about this book, although it is fiction, is how it presents a new point of view on colonialism. We see through the eyes of the conquered, how a once functioning society literally falls apart. Colonialism is still alive and well in the modern era. Perhaps more pernicious, is its evil twin, intellectual colonialism. A belief on the part of one group that their morals and values are inherently superior to another’s.
Would I recommend: YES
ISBN: 978-0385474542
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Haiku
August 23,2019Up Too Early
Body clock mistake,
Woke up half hour too soon.
Well, I guess I’m up.
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August 23,2019
Like their customer support, Tapbots' release notes leaves so much to be desired.
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Reading
August 23,2019
Finished reading: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 📚
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August 23,2019
I needed to pick up a new garden flag to mark this Back to School season.
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ChetCast
Episode 104: Field Trip
August 23,2019Benedict talks about his first field trip of the school year.
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Haiku
August 22,2019Futile Resistance
Why did I avoid? This book is very good work.
How long til release?
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August 22,2019
“Complete and total disaster,” he muttered to himself as he read about Jesus’s crucifixion for claiming to be God and the rightful ruler of the Jews.
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August 22,2019
News Corp Readies News App to Address Publishers’ Concerns About Google and Facebook - WSJ
The service, currently called Knewz.com
Great idea, atrocious name. I will never go to a website called Knewz.
The service will aim to promote original news reports rather than those that are quick rehashes of existing articles
Desperately needed! Very little orignal journalism/reporting going on these days.
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August 22,2019
Oh, wow. Taylor Swift is still around?
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August 22,2019
My ISP is offering new customers 2x my internet speed for $25 less per month, permanently. This is everything that’s wrong with most Americans only having one ISP option.
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Haiku
August 21,2019Editing on iPad
Text selection: hard.
Multi-sentence selection:
Hard. Stick to the Mac.
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August 21,2019
Writing on the iPad is a much easier task than editing on the iPad. iPad OS may change this reality, but I’m dubious.
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August 21,2019
How to clean your Apple Card - Apple Support
Place your card in a slot in your wallet or billfold without touching another credit card.
Doesn’t play well with others. I guess we now need a range of 3rd party cases for Apple Card.
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August 21,2019
I’m deleting YouVersion from my phone. I hate how every devotional for dads or men takes on the same tired caricature of the modern man.