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
My “Now”: half of me is saying “time for a bike ride” and the other half is all “nah, time for a nap”.
I have to say Keyboard Maestro is a pretty slick piece of software.
Boiled snow crab legs in Cajun spice. So much spice while it was boiling I kept coughing. But it sure is good!
I think “smart” advertising is stupid and a failure. For me the typical scenario is: shop for something online (or in the Amazon app); buy it. Next day websites I visit, Facebook etc show me an ad for the thing I just bought. It’s often annoying and never generates revenue.
First time trying Tamanohikari. Usually stick with drier sake.
Based on some loving recommendations on my Micro.blog timeline, I purchased a Rhodia dot pad tablet. Looking forward to using it.
Wow. Just. Wow.
Also, two of my least favorites.
NRA gives Ajit Pai “courage award” and gun for “saving the Internet”
When I opened Things3 to look at my tasks for today, there was only a handful of items. I’m a task driven person so at a bit of a loss for how to spend my day (not there isn’t a long list of things I could do). Cold & rainy weather isn’t helping.
Pre-UIL Choir performance. I think the choir teachers are way more nervous than the kids.
HomePod owners: Is it true you can tell the HomePod to open an app on a paired AppleTV? E.g. “Open ESPN”? I saw one site said this was true, but the others I found don’t list this ability.
Listening to Mac Power Users podcast with Rose Orchard. Hearing them talk about awesome AppleWatch battery life has me quite jealous. My Series 0 can’t make it through the day any more. Kind of aggravating feeling the need to replace it after less than 3 years.
This is about as exciting as sports can get. Congrats to 🇺🇸🏒. Regrets to 🇨🇦, you played well. apple.news/AXbm63IogTK2NCifbLupqyQ
We’ve had a wee bit o’ rain. 6” in the past couple of days with rain continuing through Saturday. Speaking of degrees of separation: a couple degrees cooler and we’d be covered in ice.
I somehow imagine the choice of icons for the Micro.blog and Micron apps anticipated this relationship.
For those interested in automation and Workflow for task management, Things3 added cool new features this week which enable this.
The four of us.
Note the snow boots 🏝
