Dr. Drang

I just said what I said, and it was wrong
Or was taken wrong
And now it's all this

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Last Notes

2024-08-26 23:09:55

This guy wanted to walk over to Millenium Park, but I stopped him. Too hot today, even if you’re made of bronze.
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2024-07-25 17:07:18

Safari stopped working again today. This time I fixed it by turning off iCloud Private Relay until tomorrow.

2024-07-23 22:50:21

☃️ A Shortcut to be run from my Apple Watch that takes dictation and puts it, along with a time and location stamp, into Tot.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/07/tot-notes/

2024-06-12 18:58:48

Surely Siracusa or Gruber or somebody has talked about the 40-year history of “for the rest of us,” and I just haven’t gotten to it yet. More sacred, in my opinion, than “one more thing.”
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2024-06-08 20:20:20

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Bush wasn’t a B; he was a gentleman’s C.

2024-06-05 23:13:13

@npub1eee…e209 I’ve never seen a Sonic drive-in featured in an AmEx commercial. Now I know why.

2024-05-25 17:04:05

Not sure if we’re at peak cicada, but we must be close.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/502/809/864/896/962/original/64be23c9b878618b.jpeg

2024-05-24 12:32:37

For two days in a row, the Chicago Tribune has had stories with this language “explaining” campus protests. It makes it sound as if October 7 itself led to antisemitism.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/496/080/063/771/095/original/6e3fddc22362f9f3.jpeg

2024-05-20 23:33:50

Of all the people Altman could’ve tried to take advantage of, Scarlett Johansson seems like the worst possible choice. She sued *Disney*.

2024-05-20 18:08:24

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Have you ever explained how a paper(ish) mold survives contact with molten metal? (If it’s going to be in the book, I’ll wait until my copy arrives.)

2024-05-20 15:15:34

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 I liked the pressman’s hat they wore on the last day. Somewhere I have a PDF of how to fold one—not sure why.

2024-05-20 11:11:06

@npub1hvd…9sq9 You may be interested in this: http://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=5ff96eca-e18c-4ac1-a766-580bd3f582c2

2024-05-18 17:22:34

☃️ The Apple Watch should be a little more helpful.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/05/paddling-workouts/

2024-05-09 21:26:03

Apple’s been telling us that music and other artistic endeavors are “in our DNA” for quite a while. It’s been trite almost that entire time.

2024-05-08 23:01:02

I haven’t seen a GIF of Ternus winking yet. Am I behind?

2024-05-06 21:10:30

Successful maiden voyage in a foldable kayak on a small lake near my house.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/396/194/901/112/497/original/089b603c1249af90.jpeg

2024-05-01 12:17:33

Just read that a small Chicago restaurant group has been bought out of bankruptcy by an “Austin-based restaurant fintech startup.” This collection of words is, I believe, one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

2024-04-27 03:03:53

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@npub1c0m…xqjl You think I’d take Ballmer’s money? How dare you?

2024-04-27 00:47:42

Every Dallas player has what looks like the same number on their back.

2024-04-24 16:33:32

The upper echelon reporters who are attending the Trump trial have all agreed on one thing: the courtroom is shabby and uncomfortable. They apparently have not spent much time in county courthouses, the interiors of which seldom project the majesty of the law. In my experience, dinged-up furniture, worn flooring, and cranky HVAC systems are common.

2024-04-12 18:01:17

☃️ It’s not worth switching to.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/04/a-tardy-assessment-of-the-apple-sports-app/

2024-04-10 01:29:35

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@npub1at7…ca7v How about now?

2024-04-10 00:47:35

☃️ A brief review.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/04/my-2024-eclipse/

2024-04-02 00:33:37

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Fair enough. When I was a kid, I thought people were smarter.

2024-04-01 22:16:09

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Even when I was a kid, I never thought this story showed that Solomon was smart, only that the false mother was stupid. Who couldn’t see through that ruse?

2024-03-26 18:10:55

The WWDC announcement is the traditional day on which I start considering upgrading to the current version of macOS.

2024-03-23 21:25:21

Like all right-thinking Americans, I despise Gonzaga, but I didn’t let that cloud my bracket choice for this game.

2024-03-19 03:34:02

If this isn’t your thing, that’s fine; just ignore me. But if it is your thing, and you wait until the last day and then forget because you suddenly got busy, won’t you feel foolish? https://twit.social/@glennf/112004543167309282

2024-03-05 23:39:05

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@npub1c0m…xqjl On the positive side, Apple’s insistence on perfection means I’ve never had a single complaint about any of the products it does ship.

2024-02-25 17:45:44

Not really following the Avast story in any detail, but why would anyone trust a company whose name is mostly associated with pirates?

2024-02-22 11:51:46

Never seen that cellular strength indicator before. AT&T is having a moment.
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2024-02-15 23:22:23

Four years ago, my wife was diagnosed with stage IV endometrial cancer. Today, after many treatments—some quite helpful for a while, others that just did nothing for her—she passed away. She was the bravest and best person I knew, and I don’t understand how she could possibly be gone.

2024-02-11 01:17:49

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 As long as they can shut off the gas quickly, there’s little danger. In Chicago, many of the lines are so old, the local utility doesn’t really know where the nearest main valves are. I’ve been on sites where everyone is standing around watching flames shoot up into the sky for hours while the gas company tries to work out where the valves are. “This one? No. How about this? No…”

2024-02-10 22:13:34

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Pretty common for excavation crews to hit gas lines. Not so common when the crew is there specifically to work on the gas line. That’s a special level of incompetence.

2024-02-01 14:46:00

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 I’m surprised no one has given the obvious answer yet.
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2024-01-26 22:02:09

Those people who contribute to Trump’s PAC are piling up some serious debt.

2024-01-24 03:23:00

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@npub1xsy…cevg OmniGraffle is my current drawing app and has been for years.

2024-01-24 03:02:32

☃️ Hardware that everyone knows and software that no one knows.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/01/my-mac-40th-anniversary-draft/

2024-01-22 02:50:28

Everyone in Buffalo will be going to bed with the phrase “wide right” in their heads. Even if they weren’t alive for the original, their elders told them about their curse.

2024-01-15 00:52:50

I mean, it’s always nice to see the Cowboys lose, but did it have to be to the Packers?

2024-01-13 16:47:12

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@npub1y9z…3ykm Good to hear from a fellow semicolon user. Feeling foolish for using ;times all these years when I could have just used ;x. Will be changing that later today.
Modest suggestion: change the ;kall expansion to ⌃⌥⇧⌘ so you get the modifier keys in standard order. https://leancrew.com/all-this/2017/11/modifier-key-order/

2024-01-11 23:07:04

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@npub1utv…87lr @npub1vsx…j75a @npub1wue…sf5z You know the joke, right? “Emacs is a great operating system that unfortunately has a shitty text editor.”

2024-01-11 22:55:55

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@npub1wue…sf5z @npub1utv…87lr The short answer is no.
The long answer would tempt me to consider org mode again, and I refuse to go there.

2024-01-11 17:59:16

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@npub1el8…4l26 I cannot tell you how many times I’ve considered org mode. Luckily, its connection to Emacs, and the twitching of my right eye that starts up whenever I think of returning to things like C-c C-x, keeps me from making that mistake.

2024-01-09 01:07:19

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Maintenance records are unlikely to show such an obvious error, because that would trigger a repair. If bolts were missing, inspectors likely didn’t notice, which is a terrible oversight. Loose bolts are easier to miss and can lead to fatigue failure over time.

2024-01-05 00:44:13

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@npub1y8c…ycms Do you know the history of the added pickup?

2023-12-20 02:09:10

@npub1eee…e209 Re your post on the Keith Richards guitar sound. Eddie Van Halen used to tell a story about opening for Ted Nugent. One day, after Van Halen’s sound check, Nugent went on stage and plugged into their equipment, hoping to uncover the secret of Eddie’s sound. “Of course,” Eddie said, laughing, “it just sounded like Ted.”

2023-12-13 00:21:58

Y’know, I’m beginning to suspect that the phone I use doesn’t define me.

2023-11-30 19:02:37

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 My point is that it *didn’t* seem as if there was good in him.

2023-11-30 05:26:14

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 @npub1jjq…ksgt I feel certain you don’t really wonder that. Nor should you.

2023-11-30 04:41:31

I find it weird that Kissinger is becoming synonymous with “war criminal,” while Nixon is largely just “disgraced.”

2023-11-23 17:24:11

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@npub1jaj…54mc This one looked hard to make. You should be sedated.
Conlextions #75
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2023-11-22 18:50:11

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Shifting slightly from Mad to Marvel: Who says a social media site has to be good? Not Brand X.
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2023-11-20 12:35:22

In the 1970s-style paranoiac movie about this, Microsoft paid off the OpenAI board members to destroy the company. To make sure they don’t talk, it’s now hired Max von Sydow to assassinate them one by one. But Warren Beatty’s LLM has told him of the plot…

2023-11-05 16:32:10

This new NY Times poll says 67% of Americans believe the country is going in the wrong direction. I’m part of that 67%. What could be more wrong than Donald Trump being favored to win the presidency?

2023-11-05 02:24:22

My Series 9 watch, which is not yet two months old, may be dead. It apparently didn’t charge last night, ran out of juice early this evening, and doesn’t seem to be charging now. I bet I could recharge my ancient Series 3, and it would be happy to take up where it left off.

2023-11-03 01:38:44

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@npub14cj…gy5e Haven’t listened for fear of disappointment.

2023-11-01 00:14:35

Last night, I unfollowed and muted some people whose response to the Apple announcements was to simply complain about the prices. That’s not analysis.

2023-10-26 00:07:48

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@npub1xsy…cevg I’m retired. What else do I have to do?

2023-10-25 23:25:29

Yeah, and you’re a pain in the ass, Health App.
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2023-10-17 22:01:30

My reaction to “deadbird” is the same as my reaction to “sportsball.” Clever the first time I saw it but just annoying after that.

2023-10-16 15:06:52

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@npub1yyx…qa5g We believe that writing each sentence as its own paragraph makes our statements more persuasive.

2023-10-10 03:34:33

For immediate release: Social media may not be the best place to get the news.

2023-10-10 00:14:00

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 @npub1eee…e209 I’m curious if it’s typographically correct to call that improperly used glyph an apostrophe. I’ve always thought “apostrophe” meant exclusively the mark with an opposite curl.

2023-09-29 19:13:06

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 The license needs to be that much to incentivize the artist to continue creating.

2023-09-21 03:14:46

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Pretty sure most people read your Fritzi Ritz description and their mind wandered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ32gSLNHfA

2023-09-20 20:59:48

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 And Barney Google got elbowed out by Snuffy Smith.

2023-09-20 20:57:38

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Funky Winkerbean pretty much disappeared from his strip, but the name was never changed.

2023-09-14 15:53:38

☃️ No real content in this post. I’m just checking to see if MathML equations render properly in RSS readers
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/09/testing-mathml/

2023-09-13 23:49:11

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@npub1xsy…cevg So you’re saying I’m Tom Bombadil?

2023-09-13 22:25:18

I’m expecting my blog posts to have more equations in the future. Because I use MathJax, equations don’t render in RSS readers, which probably annoys people who read my blog that way (it would annoy me). If I switch to MathML, will RSS readers show equations properly? Does anyone even use RSS to read my blog?

2023-09-12 20:54:24

By the way, any word on the carbon footprint of that little skit in the middle of the keynote?

2023-09-12 19:50:28

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@npub1xsy…cevg Apple considers SE buyers to be cheapskates, and this is there way of getting back at you.

2023-09-12 19:02:10

Apple’s trade-in value for my Series 3 watch is “we’ll recycle it for you.”

2023-09-12 16:20:17

Maybe we’ll all be pleasantly surprised and there won’t be a lot of complaints about Apple switching to USB-C.

2023-08-25 22:22:15

Costco in August.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/110/952/587/080/214/549/original/2b4f13aff3721675.jpeg
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2023-08-14 19:42:25

I guess we should thank Musk for publishers taking up RSS again as they back away from Twitter.
This is not unlike thanking Hitler for the rapid improvement in British radar.

2023-08-12 00:25:28

It’s Colonoscopy Eve, and the festivities have begun.

2023-08-06 22:09:53

Me, in the car: Hey Siri, play Gimme Some Lovin’ by The Spencer Davis Group.
Siri, via Car Play: I’m sorry, Apple Music can’t play that.
Apple Music, after I’m home:
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2023-08-04 14:31:05

Does it say more about me or more about them that I continually mix up Mark Meadows and Kevin McCarthy?

2023-08-03 16:58:19

With all the recent talk about Apple and titanium, I’ve been wondering if the alloy has been confirmed. I’ve always assumed it’s Ti6Al4V because that’s a common aerospace grade, but has Apple ever said that? Or has someone done EDS on an Ultra case and posted the results? My Googling has failed.

2023-07-30 15:20:24

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I’ve heard from several people that when Employee 4 told De Oliveira that he couldn’t delete the surveillance files, he was likely being disingenuous—making it sound like his hands were tied when in truth he could have worked around the obstacles. That’s certainly plausible, but I still maintain that many reporters misunderstood the language used in the superseding indictment. #4 wasn’t bravely refusing to follow orders; he was at best doing a pocket veto.

2023-07-28 23:23:09

Maybe I’m nuts, but I think reporters are mistaken when they call Trump Employee 4 a hero based on the new indictment. I think that when he says he doesn’t have “the rights” to delete the surveillance video on the server, he’s not talking about legal, moral, or ethical rights. He’s talking like an IT person, saying that his account on the server doesn’t have permissions to delete the files.

2023-07-20 02:29:46

Nice to see @npub1eee…e209 posting code again at Daring Fireball. And he’s right about the value of the LaunchControl app.
https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/nerding_out_with_maestral_launchcontrol_and_keyboard_maestro

2023-07-16 22:00:37

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@npub1fq5…p8du @npub12h0…e7sz You actually fed your cards into a reader? I had to rubberband mine together and set them on a special shelf as an offering. The computer priests collected the offering, ran it through the reader, and returned The Answer on fanfold paper, along with the cards, to another special shelf.

2023-07-12 19:05:13

The problem with this time of year is that Apple-centric blogs and podcasts are focused on OS features that I won’t see until I’ve forgotten them.

2023-07-12 01:19:15

☃️ I tried tracking my pills in the Health app but have found a better way.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/07/better-medication-tracking/

2023-07-10 19:52:47

In case you were worried it would leave you unconnected for a long time, today’s rapid security response update took under 5 minutes to install on my phone.

2023-06-28 22:44:36

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 To me, the main travel hassle is remembering to get distilled water at your destination before the stores close.

2023-06-10 17:23:23

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 I am shocked—shocked!—to hear that French people are smoking.

2023-05-26 18:33:02

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@npub1c35…9pmh @npub1eee…e209 Yes. I started using Markdown in 2004 and switched from the bang syntax to <img> tags almost immediately. To me, images just aren’t compatible with the typewriter/email ethos of Markdown and should be done in HTML.

2023-05-04 18:28:30

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@npub1fq5…p8du College radio at the time certainly considered him the Next Big Thing.

2023-05-04 00:38:10

My sense is that the people most enthusiastic about Bluesky are those who would like to duplicate the huge following they had on Twitter and know they’re unlikely do that here.