No Idea

Rabbit, fire up the pod.

This is a good list to Look After Yourself from Swiss Miss.

My favorite is

Stop being so hard on yourself

I’m working on that every day.

It’s Christmas, Theo. It’s the time of miracles.

No, YOU’RE trying to talk yourself out of buying a Pixelbook.

Saw a preview for Vice and my first thought was I don’t want to see anything about that followed quickly by “oh god they’re going to make movies about Trump”.

You sit on a throne of lies.

Seth Godin on being specifc is pretty good.

When you’re specific, you only find two kinds of people: people who are delighted, and the rest.

Short and sweet.

Google is really good at marketing. I almost pulled the trigger on a Pixelbook today, but I was able to remind myself I didn’t really need it yet.

That being said. I think the Pixelbook will be my next laptop of choice. Unless someone makes a great looking, well built, and high powered Chrome OS tablet/convertible.

It is now officially year in review and best of the year list time because that is how everyone celebrates the end of the year: by looking back.

I say we leave 2018 in the past and focus on making the most out of 2019 as we can.

They made a Hellboy movie without Ron Perlman as Hellboy?

How does Del Taco not have any quesadillas? It is literallly cheese between tortillas. Does that mean they don’t have any tortillas? They ran out of cheese?

I don’t understand this.

Nick Heer on when Google testified before congress

Virtually the entire running time of the hearing was characterized by members of Congress grandstanding on their issues of choice, rather than using their time to ask thoughtful questions.

That sums up Congress pretty well. We elect lawyers and millionaires and then expect them to be able to ask thoughtful and logical questions when they are just there to grandstand and cover their asses.

I love these photo roundups from Erin Boyle.

The idea that you can sum up your week with a few photos better than a short essay is intriguing to me.

I have a good amount of projects that I want to start working on in 2019. It will be a busy year around the house if I can get myself motivated to tackle all the projects. Some things I need to do and some things I want to do and somethings I should do.

I was going to dislike a song on Tom Morello’s album and then I saw the ‘electronic’ part of the song was by Pretty Lights and I changed my opinion of it.

We are giving the American military money that they do not want, but we can’t fully staff the agency that is responsible for collecting tax revenue? We can’t fund education? We can’t fund social programs to help people? What kind of country do these conservatives want to live in?

My immediate response to the title of this article AP: Ivanka, Kushner could profit from tax break they pushed

No, shit, Sherlock. Did it take you some research to figure that one out?

Equal search results doesn’t mean that you have balanced coverage. Also, less conservative results doesn’t mean search is censoring conservative ideas. It means your sites are worth garbage and you should be ashamed of getting news from them.

For example, House Republicans seemed to argue that if the outcomes of Google search results for political topics did not include an equal amount of links to “right wing” and “left wing” publications, then that was unfair, and possibly open to governmental redress.

Pretty sure it would be possible to write a program or script that does the following for me:

checks a RSS feed daily copies a quote from that feed adds the day’s quote to a static page as a linked quote shares the new post on social media

Maybe this will be a little project that I work on in 2019 to learn some programming. Specifically it would be a statice page that is updated daily with the date and the day’s quote and shared in some fashion, Example post would be this:

Wednesday Dec 12, 2018

DON’T RUIN A GOOD DAY BY THINKING ABOUT A BAD YESTERDAY.

Just an idea running through my head this morning. Maybe I’ll pursue it, maybe I won’t. But, it might be time to start noodling around and learn something instead of just ‘surfing the internet’.

In which Ben Brooks tells people that logging and tacking is pointless if they don’t do anything with the data. Because you have to do something with your inputs to make them useful to other people.

Can we stop telling people that what they are doing is pointless if it doesn’t align with how we think? Just because you don’t think it has value doesn’t mean that there is no value. After all, maybe the act of tracking and logging is the thing a person needs to get motivated, not the review of the data. Maybe we should just, you know, let people be people and go about our own lives.

I guess we wouldn’t have discussions if we didn’t point to things people did and say, “they are doing it wrong”. Because I’m pointing to Ben and saying he’s doing it wrong because he pointed to an article that said they were doing it wrong.