What a lovely painting by Wanda Koop titled “The Crossing”

Just a Phase

Hey, look, Google is still making Google Glass. Who knew?

The tech press sure hasn’t been writing about it for the last couple of years. Google Glass and Google Plus were the products that people loved to hate in 2013 or so.

Today in bad headlines

Maybe there should have a course, or ten, on how to write factual and accurate article headlines in Journalism School?

Today in bad headlines:

US mortgage rates climb steeply, slowing housing boom

From the actual article

Vacation-home demand peaked in March 2021, Redfin said. That was two months after Freddie Mac’s average 30-year mortgage rate hit a record low of 2.65%. Borrowing costs have shot up since the end of last year, landing at 4.67% this week.

No mention of vacation homes in the title even though that is what the article focuses on. What is the basis for the claim that a 2% increase is the interest rate shooting up and climbing steeply?

This is the perfect response.

Perfect Response

Maybe, as a society, we kill off the Op-ed portion of newspapers.

Let the Newspapers focus on reporting “the news” and leave the commentary to all the other outlets people have.

Tik Tok moderators sue

To fulfill their role as moderators, they witnessed “many acts of extreme and graphic violence”, including murder, bestiality, necrophilia and other disturbing images.

I wonder if websites and apps report all this violent crap to the authorities, or just not post it to their website or app and call it a day.

Cats, man.

Cats

Ever wondered what Pluto looks like at night?

APOD has got you covered.

Pluto

Seriously.

seriously

No, you just used the Evernote web clipper to save a Evernote webpage into Evernote.

Definitely wasn’t me.

Don't Put It In email

John Gruber, commenting on Google’s ‘Communicate with Care’ policy:

If you don’t want it discovered, don’t put it in email.

Exactly.

If you don’t want other people to know about it don’t tell anyone about it.

But, how is a group of 100 (or however many) engineers working on a single project supposed to stay on the same page of a project?

Conference call every time there’s a question? Fuck that.

Try to get a group of more than 4 people working on the same project to discuss the project only in person or on the phone, in any organization, and watch chaos unfold.

Well, these are simply fantastic drawings and diagrams of Japanese hotels made by Kei Endo.

Simply stunning. My favorite so far is this watercolor of The Okura Hotel.

Okura Hotel

Well, I must say, Ulysses is a pretty nice editor.

Of course, I’ve only played around with it for a whole 3 minutes so far.

Lots to learn and understand still.

I’m looking forward to using and learning this little app to write on the blog.

Testing posting from Ulysses on my MacBook Air.

Um, I may have to add the term jackassery to my vocabulary.

It does well to describe a wide range of acts in an interesting way.

I hate meetings where the people just read the information on the slides. I can read what you have on your slides. I don’t need you to narrate them as well. It’s a meeting, not an audio book.

Blank Canvas by Potter’s Triangle Bookstand — Tools and Toys

I ordered an unstained one just because.

Triangle Bookstand