Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Spent something like 20 minutes trying to troubleshoot Minecraft Realms for the 9YO and determine whether it was his account, our network, or a service outage. Seems to be the latter.
Now he’s making armor stands in a local world, naming them Minecraft Realms, and demonstrating how someone would knock one out or cover it in spider webs to slow it down.
Now he’s got a bunch of pistons pushing “Minecraft Realms” around
People who are riding out the pandemic in literal ghost towns. Park rangers and an update on the guy who was going to stay for two weeks but got caught by a freak snowstorm and then the travel restrictions…and has decided to stay.
They Live Alone in Ghost Towns
There are thousands of abandoned hamlets in the U.S. Some people still live and vacation in them. Maybe you want to, too?
Surprising no one over the age of 9, the 9YO who spent the last month complaining about his video sessions for school (wrapped up on Friday) is now bored out of his mind and can’t think of anything to do.
…thanks, Asana, for saving that unfinished comment from two years ago that might have helped prevent some of the things I had to fix last week.
‘Course it would’ve been nicer if you’d reminded me that I had an unfinished comment slightly less than two years ago…
Spiral holes in the deserts of Nazca identified as part of an ancient aqueduct system.
You’re doing a great job, form. Nicely legible, clear labels on everything, sensible defaults, easy click/tap areas, and when someone doesn’t fill things in right, you tell them what the problem is instead of throwing a stacktrace. Keep it up!
Casting around for something to prop up a phone, stumbled on an audio cassette case. Weird that it works so perfectly.
TV died. Any recommendations on brands that are at least *less* likely to abuse their smart features to spy on me?
Obviously nothing with a microphone or camera, but something I can trust to actually turn off data collection beyond what the streaming services already know.
(Consensus was get what I could find and just not hook it up to the network.)
9YO tried out sending me a file labeled “lol why did I do this”
We have reached the time of year when someone in the neighborhood sets off *one* firework late at night, then waits an hour or so to make sure that no one’s called the cops, then sets off another one, then repeats the process every night until a week or so after July 4.
At least here, it happens every June. Also about a week around New Year’s. I’m pretty sure that someone in one of the nearby blocks stocks up on fireworks every July and saves part of the stash for the following June.
Finally set up a #nextcloud server for the household. Hoping to replace several big-company and ad-based services with it.
File sync/sharing: straight-forward, works well across desktop, web and mobile apps. May need to add storage.
Next step: to-do lists. Looks like Tasks will do what I want (both personal & shared lists), but I need a good mobile app to use with it.
Then I need to experiment with Carnet. Already moved from Google Keep to SimpleNote, might keep going.
Was going to run to the store after work before curfew hit. Stores were already closed. Came back, got out of the car & saw, I kid you not, a mourning dove on a wire and a red-tailed hawk circling behind it.
Hard to tell on the phone resolution, but damn, you can’t make this shit up.
Winderbourne Mansion “is currently abandoned and has no plans of restoration. The site is a photographer’s dream. The property is nine acres with several old muscle cars in the backyard, along with sprawling trees and flowers. It is also located right up against Black Hills regional park with a great view of the water. The interior of the house is littered with old furniture, letters, magazines, and clothes.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/winderbourne-mansion
#house #haunted #spooky #plants
Anyway, back to the work box.
Today has been a real pain. Home, work, school, tech, repairs, etc.
So when it got to this point…
Ask the question, you might get an answer.
I mean, look at this UI: The selections look like just labels, not buttons, both have the same width border, same background, same size, and the ONLY difference is that one border is gray and the other is black.
And then I didn’t look closely enough during checkout because I was already stressed out and rushed. (RTS: don’t buy things online when you’re in too much of a hurry to double check the checkout.) No shipping charge, so 🤷♂️
And then the email & website said NOTHING about the medium.
Short version: accidentally ordered a Windows 10 USB stick instead of a product key when I’d just finished installing the system. Nothing in the order info email or website made that clear. I was trying to sort out why what I thought was a digital order was still “pending”
Now I know why
Who knew that watching me chat with Microsoft customer support to resolve a Kafka-esque mixup would calm the kid down.
9YO wanted to jump straight into Minecraft Dungeons as soon as he woke up to maximize time before school. Fortunately it takes time to download so he was willing to use the bathroom, change out of his pajamas, and eat breakfast while that happened. 🙄