Ron Guest

I’ve been thinking of Austin a lot lately and then this t-shirt came to the front of my workout clothes rotation. Keeping it Agile (2 years ago).

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Visited a new coffee shop this morning - the light through the window made for an interesting ‘framing’ effect. Then on to the dealer for my car’s routine service. Not a bad start to the day.

Don’t know too many details but happy to hear the Austin serial bomber’s spree has been ended.

Thought of the day:

N.B.: I really need to convince the school district, city etc to use something other than Facebook to communicate with us.

I don’t know why people are so shocked. This will continue to happen because you are the product at companies like Facebook and Google. Meaning everything they know or think they know about you. Facebook is under fire for not protecting your personal data better

When a non-breach is worse than a breach Facebook’s Surveillance Machine - The New York Times

Shopping in Texas

I’ve been having a debate inside my head about updating my series 0 Apple Watch to a series 3 due to a fading battery & overall slowness. I had my last car for 14 years & kept putting off replacing it - when I did I wondered why I waited so long. The AW seems the same.

Great hearing @modernlittleme on the podcast today.

I doubt anyone is surprised Chris Hsu is out. Tough day for those who held on to Micro Focus shares. Micro Focus -54% on CEO departure, lowered guidance

Gotta love the US Postal Service. Our daughter ordered something on Amazon and it shipped USPS. It went from Dallas, which is basically next door to us, to Illinois, then to Coppell which is at least back in Texas. And now is in Allen once again close to us.

@wyatt et al here is my current home screen

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If you’re in the area you could find worse places to spend some time.

Wondering if Florida ending the Daylight Savings time change madness is sufficient reason to move back there…

My journal (I use Day One) just reminded me it was one year ago today I made public my decision to leave my role as an executive at a public corporation. Definitely no regrets and haven’t looked back at all. It was a great decision.

This is loooooong overdue Free Credit Freezes Coming for All U.S. Consumers

This would have been a great Halloween or April Fools prank… Unprompted, creepy laughter from Alexa is freaking out Echo users | Ars Technica

Today: 8’x4’ raised bed set up along with about half the dirt hauled in. 🥒🥦🥕🌽🌶🍅 Tomorrow: Back recovery day Wednesday: Haul in the rest of the dirt and finish the sprinkler mod

I had been on a path to get the 30 day blogging sticker. But the past few days that seemed to turn blogging into a burden/nag and tasted of the metrics driving behavior cesspool. So for me I dropped it. I’m sure you’re disappointed 😉

I started playing Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Switch. Looks like I will be in this game for a very long time.

I’ve given it several tries but I’m not a fan of this Rye. Sorry Herman.

Based on the number of pages of instructions we are about 30% of the way through the 6x6 All Terrain Tow Truck Lego build. This is the frame and some of the drive train.

Our dog’s favorite “perch” is the window seat looking out on the street. It’s a bit sad because she is getting older and has a hip problem making the jump a bit difficult. But otherwise she is still in good shape.

Watching Outrageous Acts of Science with my 9 year old son is about as good as life gets.

I’ve been part of a lot of corporate acquisitions and frankly the reasons for most are complete crap. This is one that makes a ton of strategic sense. Amazon splurges on Ring, hopes smart doorbells bolster in-home deliveries | Ars Technica