I signed into BattleNet last night. I learned the remastered version of Starcraft was just $15 US, and runs natively on MacOS. So I’m working through the game in the prescribed progression first as Protoss. I’m very rusty but it plays more or less just like I remember.
The transportation construction in my part of the world is epic, this year. I have the change of seasons to look forward to, but some projects continue into December even as the ground starts to freeze and snow starts to fly. I’m weary of the delays and changes to my routes. Just complaining here.
Hypothetically, if I was to go to The Renaissance Festival, buy a Tricorn hat and eat a roasted leg or Turkey, I might look like this:
Scientists Find Evidence Earth Used to Have a Ring Like Saturn
I think the Earth’s history, and human history, are more complex than we have so far imagined. I don’t think we have it figured out.
I’m running Ubuntu on an older HP EliteBook X360 1040 G5 and everything for the most part was working well, except audio. Always something, right?
No suggestions seemed to work until I modified grub, per the instructions here, which reverts to Intel. The B&O system is only supported in Windows.
That feeling when you know the answers to Jeopardy questions that the contestants won’t answer, because you’re older than they are.
Can I say I like Teams “calls” less than phone calls? Hard to believe but I think I found something I appreciate less.
I am a professional and take the interruptions in stride, of course. It’s no caller’s fault I have issues, but I have issues.
I am an actor playing a role - by Chris Guillebeau on Substack
I feel like this could be a tool to help some folks who, like myself, are dealing with anxiety from one cause or another
https://open.substack.com/pub/yearofmentalhealth/p/i-am-an-actor-playing-a-role
Uncovering Merlin’s Scottish Legacy
Merlin was my first wizard.
TIL a new phrase: bibliophilic olfaction
It was in a TikTok about the smell of books
It tickled me. That is all.
There is no race to see who can start a Teams meeting the earliest.
The butterfly house was not a bad way to sit in stillness. They will come to you if you wait.
We did get to see the Walz motorcade, so that was cool
The worst of the night were the people who amplified their voices to preach hate. I do believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe my freedom of religious expression and yours do not need to be hostile. As a captive audience member while waiting for my bus, it felt like an ambush.
Several times we simply opted out of the crowds by picking a bench and sipping a lemonade until we felt up to facing them again. So many things we might have eaten or done but for the long lines everywhere. This wasn’t our year.
Today’s trip the the Minnesota State Fair was a challenge through and through. No surface lots had room at the fairgrounds, and it wasn’t until the 4th park-and-ride lot that we could actually park-and-ride. Lines everywhere were the worst I have ever seen. Moving in the Fairgrounds was difficult.
Today I learned, via my work MacBook Pro, that having your clock set to update automatically will override settings preferences for 12-hour or 24-hour time displayed on the menu bar. I started having “Ava” announce the time again, and prefer the audible updates differently than I had initially chosen.
I’m not grumpy all of the time, I promise. I’m just looking at yet another change in collaboration technology that is going to find its way into a company still spending a lot of energy maintaining SMB filers and with people synchronizing sharepoint folders to File Explorer.
Asking for real: What is Microsoft Loop? Why is Microsoft pushing this separate workspace inside of Teams? Why does Loop immediately want me to create and name a workspace when I don’t know why I would even use it?
Fourth support scenario: Your organization’s most senior leader publicly denigrates technology you support on behalf of the organization, but specifically praises members of your team