I can’t wait to see reports from this expedition. What a worthwhile challenge.
Hundreds of people have undergone intense preparation for an expedition designed to figure out what a warming Arctic means for us all. apple.news
For you lucky folks in the know, does Apple Arcade require iOS 13?
Last night was homecoming for our sophomore daughter and like last year she had a date. These events are good parental training for the months and years to follow.
Time for some Iowa vs Iowa State 🏈. Go Hawkeyes!
Side project: Using an Adafruit PyPortal to create a custom alarm clock. Alarm time is set via my server rather than locally and can play music files as an alarm sound. Automatically turns alarm off on weekends. Coding this in Python makes it a breeze and can easily enhance it.
Our son was super excited about the early access Founders Edition of Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville so we agreed to get it for him last week if he would read an extra book. He readily accepted so every day after school he grabs me to go play co-op mode with him. 🎮
I took our sophomore daughter to her high school’s college night. There were over 200 represented and since the HS enrollment approaches 5,000 kids it was pretty much a zoo. Had to skip most of interest due to lines but got info on a couple of colleges we have in mind. 🏫
I found the Apple Arcade pretty pitch underwhelming. Price is great but the games they showed were “meh” for my family. Then I realized our teenage daughter frequently downloads free apps just because she is bored. Arcade will be a real boon for her so we’ll sign up.
A whole week of palindromes, the last whole week for this century (it’s actually 10 days this time):
9/10/19 - 91019
9/11/19 - 91119
9/12/19 - 91219
9/13/19 - 91319
9/14/19 - 91419
9/15/19 - 91519
9/16/19 - 91619
9/17/19 - 91719
9/18/19 - 91819
9/19/19 - 91919
With the work @manton did to add Tumblr support I’ve managed to revive my Tumblr acccount. I never really did anything unique with the account, just cross-posted to it. I suppose that’s not going to change but it’s worth giving it another look.
Thought the “rich guy corrupts leading researchers” was a tired movie/novel plot line. But here it is in real life, written large. MIT Media Lab was corrupted deeper than just the money.
How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
Apple’s next event is tomorrow. My wife and I have iPhone X - we’re happy with that purchase but there doesn’t seem to be anything in the rumors to motivate replacing them. I’d love a HomePod with external input and a AppleTV that supported Google’s VP9 codec. Very unlikely.
I like posting on user group type forums to help answer questions. But then some sort of bad reaction happens and I just want to forget that whole idea and crawl in a hole.
The story below reminds me of the Black Knight sketch from Monty Python, tis but a scratch
China Says Growth Is Fine. Private Data Show a Sharper Slowdown. - WSJ
Watching the Iowa Hawkeyes game 🏈 This is my wife’s adopted college team.
Nintendo produced a ton of great announcements this week. Then they announced this… We enjoyed the Wii Fit so I wanna be hopeful. 🎮
Wii Fit redux: Nintendo shows mysterious exercise ring for the Switch
I’ve avoided these due to my privacy concerns. With HomePods still feeling over priced (for my expected usage) I might take the plunge now that there’s a Sonos One without a microphone.
The Sonos One SL is a microphone-free version of its most accessible speaker
The scientific answer to a question I’ve never asked:
As you stir pancake batter clockwise, only a bit of the mixture moves in tandem with your whisk, while the rest swirls in the opposite direction, counterclockwise.
Well this is interesting: our 15 y/o daughter was never taught cursive writing. But today we got a notice from our 10 y/o son’s teacher they will learn cursive this year. I welcome the change. Same school district. 🏫 🖊
Now watching: British theater. Also known as the House of Commons live debate. 🇬🇧
Defeated today: I normally do home repairs myself. But today while fixing a leaking toilet the water cutoff valve stopped working. I could try to do the replacement myself but it’s going to require cutting off water to the whole house and I think best left to a professional.
Tejas. Protein. 📷
Wow. Tim Cook was just on ESPN’s College Game Day. ‘Cause Auburn of course. 🏈
Our sophomore daughter just asked why every book she can remember being assigned to read in school is about depressing subjects.
It’s a valid question. I think I felt the same way. 📚 Note: her current book is Of Mice and Men which she thinks is well written but…
I think Mercedes’s decision to keep Bottas on the team was the only choice to make to bolster Hamilton’s dominance further. But I’m glad Ocon is getting a seat on another F1 team 🚗