Apparently I’m an oddball. 16personalities says I’m INFJ-A.
The Advocate personality type is very rare, making up less than one percent of the population
My lazy Saturday 🤔
We’re painting a couple of rooms today. Taping and other prep is done. Short break before the paint slinging begins.
Foggy drive this morning - but at least its warm (~50F) 🌫 📷
As usual Facebook says it did nothing wrong. It bothers me as I imagine 99% of users who to used the app don’t know what was really being collected.
Facebook has been … clear breach of their agreement with Apple
Big sky, puffy little clouds 📷
My Micro Monday is @herself. A kind, thoughtful person who also just had a short story published along side some famous authors 👍🏼
We love us some raw oysters. One of many rounds… 📷
Hmm. I was catching up on people’s Micro.blog posts from today and was thrown a 🧱 wall (No more posts) by the iOS app after only a couple of “load more” clicks. I don’t recall running into this before. I only managed to get back to 9:30am 😞
I love this idea - reuse is much better than recycling.
“Loop is about the future of consumption. And one of the tenets is that garbage shouldn’t exist,”
Tide, Clorox, PepsiCo and other big brands are thinking maybe the milkman had it right
My 10 year old son started reading The Hobbit last night and really likes it. I’m therefore a very happy dad this morning. 📚
I started playing Red Dead Redemption 2 a couple weeks ago. It’s my first R* game - I’ve mostly played the Fallout series from Bethesda. RDR2 has a much different pacing than the FO games. I’m enjoying RDR2 so far but it needs to be played at a slower pace to really enjoy it.
We watched the first episode on a pride of lions. Outstanding stuff. If you like wildlife you might want to watch Dynasties - BBC America. The lion episode can be streamed for free. 🦁 📺
My thought as well
the financial crisis of journalism and dominance of big tech platforms are important; academics and European lawmakers conflate them together, suggesting there’s an easy fix in making technology fund journalism No, tech companies shouldn’t fund journalism
My wife and I painted our daughter’s room today. First time to paint a whole room. We’re both quite sore from the ladder climbing and reaching over our heads (the room has 12’ ceilings). Feeling quite accomplished as no cursing occurred and no mishaps. ✔️
This is encouraging (article may be paywalled).
the emerging medium of choice to reach audiences is the only guaranteed-delivery option the internet has left: email.
✖️ marks the spot 📷
The Netflix price problem - maybe our time together is over
I’ve been mulling over the Netflix price increase. In terms of our budget it isn’t meaningful but I find myself displeased. I think the money is used to pay for expensive original content which happens to not appeal to us - we just don’t watch it. At one point in time they had what I considered to be the most user friendly UI amongst streaming services on top of diverse content. But they’ve made it less user-friendly and more “watch what we tell you to watch”. And on our AppleTV if we try to browse through shows it immediately plays previews and there is no way to disable that. It is really annoying trying to look at a descriptions and all the sudden this loud preview plays. Often our watch list is buried below lists of “what’s hot” and etc (I have no idea why this moves around).
At one point multiple streams had us on their top-priced plan and I had forgotten that. Today I downgraded our plan to the middle one. For the first time I can see us living without Netflix. Since it was our first streaming service it’s a bit sad.
A lone winter dandelion. 📷
I’m wondering if it will survive to completion - going to be in the mid-20s Sunday morning.
It was this kind of day. ⛅️ 📷
Sometimes our dog likes to lay down right up against the back leg of my desk chair. Mostly I’m aware she’s there and avoid her but sometimes I don’t notice and back up the chair into her. Even after all these years she still takes the risk… 🐕 📷
And with this the Girl Scout cookie season begins.
Feed me these and I’ll tag along anywhere
From a couple of days ago - an interesting reminder, for me, of the history.
Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.
Even when I’m not wearing them our dog likes to curl up with my shoes. 🐕 📷
This is another example of an overhyped prediction. The researchers who predicted a huge impact of the gig economy retracted it this week.
Messrs. Krueger and Katz now explain how the thesis itself was flawed, in a working paper to be released this week.
Midwinter’s blessing: fantastic weather for outdoor exercise. 📷 ☀️
