Quick Thoughts
Shorter than a blog post.
Does social media content become popular because people like it? Or does it become popular because the algorithm likes it and that is the only content that users see?
CNN has an article about how Victorinox might create new Swiss Army Knives without knives. I stopped carrying mine after 9/11 when security tightened and kept forgetting to leave it at home. Personally, I’d love a knife-less multitool that I could attach to my keys.
My wife is about to start a PhD program. She has a Dell PC for work, but her home computer is an iPad with a keyboard case. It works for what she needs now, but looking ahead to grad school, some of the apps she’ll need won’t run on the iPad. We’ll get her a Mac, but if Apple wants people to use iPads as primary devices, they need to lift some of these restrictions to allow for more complicated computing needs.
Just had a fun conversation with my girls about how Gen X and Gen Z use social media differently. They are baffled about what I post to Instagram. I didn’t even try to explain how I use Micro.Blog. 😂
I’ve always picked up wiper blades from my local auto parts store, but I have two really short blades on this Buick that are hard to find. So I went to Amazon and found a company that will assemble a set of all three blades specifically for my car. Massive timesaver and significantly cheaper.
Now that the semester is over and I’m not teaching classes or taking classes, I’m really looking forward to working on some personal projects. I want to do a little more customization to my Micro.Blog theme, I’ve got some fonts to finalize, and some merch to design.
Connections Puzzle #329
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I haven’t been playing Connections lately, but today, I got them all, but from the hardest answers to the easiest. Never done that before.
Not all saves are caught with the stick. Ryan ended up making this save by trapping it between his arm and his body
Strands #61
“A shade envious?”
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I’ve been playing the NY Times’ Strands for a couple of months. Still in beta, but a lot of fun. Didn’t need any hints today…
Got these installed today just in time for commencement this weekend. Look forward to seeing all the graduate photos.
Bad Batch finale was wonderful. Loved every moment.
Glad to see Instagram is trying to shut down the accounts that simply rip off original content. I’m interested to see how well the algorithm changes work.
Every time I’m reading online and a “subscribe today” box pops up over the top of what I’m reading, I just leave the page.
Explaining to my teenage daughter what microfiche is, and how we used it for research before the internet.
Today was rough. Not sure why, exactly. Nothing particularly significant happened. It just sucked the life out of me.
Behind home plate for the Columbia Fireflies – I mean – Carolina Grits. #letsglow
My inlaws were getting “Breaking News Alerts” from Messenger. Someone was sending them “news” through Facebook, and because they have notifications on, they looked like legitimate news updates.. But they were a bunch of MAGA nonsense that was probably actually Russian disinformation.
NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth. It’s amazing how NASA has kept Voyager 1 and 2 operating. The probes were launched in 1977. 🪐
The last few weeks have been a blur… busy at work, wrapping up the semester as teacher and student, dealing with the aftermath of my wife’s car accident (she’s fine), buying a new car, my son’s lacrosse season… but I think I’m starting to round that corner back to some semblance of normalcy. 🤞
Turned in my final paper for the class I’m taking this semester. Not completely happy with it, but finished with it for now.
Finalizing a paper for grad school on a rainy Sunday. Soundtrack is the new Pearl Jam.
First Cybertruck sighting. Was attracting a ton of attention. People were taking pictures with it. #cybertruck
Dealing with replacing my wife’s totaled car is a full time job.
My wife and son were in a car accident last week and her car was pretty much destroyed. Liz and Ryan were fine, but a tree impaled their car, going through the headlight, engine and stopping between the headrests.
She just got a notification from her iPhone reminding her where she “parked” her car.
So even though I don’t work on the athletics side of things at the University of South Carolina, it’s going to be a fun couple of weeks celebrating Dawn Staley and these amazing Gamecocks.
What a great season. Undefeated. National champs.
