No Idea

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.

I feel like I’ve been here before

I feel that knocking on my door

And I’ve lost everything I had

And I’m not angry and I’m not mad

Michael Kiwanuka has some great lyrics in Black Man in a White World

Latest cool bird sightings:

sw what I think was an owl on the hunt last night. It was floating above the bushes outside the warehouse.

A small falcon sitting on the backyard fence this morning.

CNET praises Brave browser for moving to Chromium while the internet complains about Edge moving to Chromium.

But the kicker is the subhead

The ad-blocking browser says hello to Chrome extensions by moving closer to Google’s software.

I know there is a reason the micro.blog apps for Android don’t have the ability to create a new post. But, as a non developer it is frustrating that I can’t create a post in Gluon or Dialog yet. I’m hoping that @dialog and @vincent keep working on the apps cause they are very nice to use.

View of the Pacific from the California coast earlier this year.

It is two thousand eighteen.

How are butt dials still a thing that happens?

December is usually the time when everyone starts looking back at the year that past.

I will be spending my December looking forward to the year ahead.

2018 can stay in the past for all the insanity that it brought.

The most annoying thing about getting a new technology item is the update out of the box that is so prevalent today.

New Fitbit came and now it’s downloading an update before I can use it.

Why? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I just used the Call Screening feature from Google on my Pixel 2 for the first time and Holy Moly is that service magical.

It was a spam call about selling a home that I don’t live in anymore and I did not have to interact with the person on the phone at all.

Tom Morello feat Marcus Mumford songs an awfully lot like Audioslave to me.

Pixel Buds case.

Dear users of iMessage,

How do you find out what time a message was sent? My iMessage groups messages in the weirdest way possible and I don’t see a way to see time sent info for a single message.

For example I have 8 messages that have been sent in a group text and ALL are dropped as “Today 9:51 am” even though they were not all sent at the same time.

Thank you, Frustrated with dumb time groupings

What is your favorite casual wasting time game on iOS or Android? Doesn’t have to be inside or free. Just what do you enjoy playing when you have so.e free time to kill?

Why do i keep looking at things to buy when i dont need them?

It’s not like I need a Timex watch. I have a few watches I doynt even wear.