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I played around with this a bit, first I did a photo of a cat I just took at a cat cafe, but the black and white cat didn’t turn out well with the dithering algorithm, so then I tr…

I’ve found it interesting that cows become beef, sheep mutton, pigs pork, but goats, chicken, turkeys and fish keep their identities when they become food.

My daughter once spent a bunch of time going through all the flag emojis classifying them as stars, animals, trees, religious symbols (and probably some others). We found three fla…

It influenced others as well. As I recall Ravel was among them. There was a great deal of curiosity of elements of African-American music among European composers in the early 20th…

Unless that’s changed in a recent version, it was a global setting. As I mentioned before, sometimes I will walk, sometimes drive, sometimes take transit.

I didn’t think of the smell at all, I was wondering what the feel was like. There’s a certain level of comfort that’s expected from clothing that matters. There’s also the question…

In Mexico, apparently, the scheme is to grab a phone from an inattentive pedestrian from a motorcycle or scooter.

Apple Maps also does this. It would also be nice to have a configurable transportation choice for the time to leave notice. Because some things I’ll walk to, some I’ll take transit…

Even a lot of session work. Tony Levin (bass player best known for his work with Peter Gabriel and King Crimson, but who’s also played with Chuck and Gap Mangione, Paul Simon, Dire…

Oh, I forgot about that, but had seen that in the news as well. It’s kind of weird that this area that I was only aware of because I like studying maps has popped up a whole bunch …

It also showed up in the discourse thanks to Christopher Nolan controversially filming parts of The Odyssey there.

One thing I’ve learned from reading accounts of Flock camera thefts is that you shouldn’t do more than one per outing. This sounds like a group arranged to do them all at once whic…

Stinky cheeses have largely disappeared from the zeitgeist, but were used to be much more common (see, for example, the Pepe Le Pew cartoon from the 40s where his would-be paramour…

I’ve encountered feeds that do this and I tend to not keep those subscriptions long. That said, some feeds often have content that doesn’t present well in my feed reader and I’ll e…

It seems like it’s become a bit more common for companies to pay part or all of the COBRA premiums for a period after a separation, at least that’s been the case in my last two job…

No meeting that has an HR person on it is a good thing.

A big part of the joy of model railroading is the building of such things, at least for some people.¹ It’s less about the product than the process. That’s a big part of why things …

I don’t seem to be charged for Scam Shield on my account. I’ve had one unknown number call and not leave a message over the last month, which is a far cry from the 20–40 spam calls…

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Although Apple did undo the touchbar (although I think they gave up on it too soon—I actually liked it once they restored the esc key. I can never remember what all the F-keys are …

One hopes that the new CEO will realize the turn towards ads is ruining the Apple brand and pull back on that front.

For that matter, a kit drummer is essentially playing (up to) four instruments at once since each limb could be doing something unique (granted for many (most?) drummers, they’re j…

I was being sloppy and should have said diatonic scale.

For that matter, the first 5 stacked fifths gives you the standard pentatonic scale. Extending by a fifth on either end and you get the most common accidentals in Western music (if…