Asides
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Columbus Ohio is a bit of alright.
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Went back to Mail.app this week. Missed it.
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Frosty morning prep flights for a gear check.
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90 minutes of full-court basketball felt great.
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Just downgraded iCloud and Drive to their least expensive plans. Sick of dealing with the cloud. I’m now investing in my own storage.
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Just drafted a lengthy post entirely within LinkedIn’s editor. It isn’t terrible but with a few tweaks it could be so much better.
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Fiddled with a GoPro, and related software, for the first time in a few years today. No wonder they’re hurting as a company. Software is a mess.
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Picked up The Abyss special edition at the local library (the only place I could find it) and re-watched it after having just finished the book. So good. This is the only novel that I can say works as a companion and enhances the experience so much. Thanks library.
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Releasing an app on the Google Play Store — 20 clicks Releasing an app on the iOS App Store — Some multiple of the number of clicks you’ve ever clicked in your life.
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I can’t confirm that LIGO is down for repairs. But I believe it is. Imagine how many gravitational waves we are missing while it is down.
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I remember when being a computer nerd spending countless hours online wasn’t cool. Then it minted millionaires and internet celebrities. Today being a space nerd looking at the stars for countless hours may have made that same jump.
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Blew my chance at the Micro.blog 30-day pin by forgetting to post yesterday. No longer going to try. Posting to my blog needs to be natural.
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After several months with Beats headphones I only have one gripe; battery life. I believe they could be smarter about “sleeping” to reserve power and thus last a lot longer between charges.
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One other great thing about Android is that all apps, including Phone and Messages and other pillar apps, are updated in between system updates. I like the small iterations rather than huge updates.
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Gentle reminder to back up everything as often as you can. And don’t trust automation. Follow-up on it from time-to-time to be sure you have everything. This includes your computer, your mobile devices, music and photo libraries, web sites, uploads to those sites, etc.
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I have no desire to own a HomePod. I think Siri would drive me bananas.
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Spent much of the day reading. 📚
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If you’re on Micro.blog and into art, watercolor, and inspiring interviews and videos, you can follow @h2ocolor on Micro.blog. Also, of course, Twitter and Facebook. Oh, and RSS.
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I’ve decided to use all of my skills on a single project. This means making the hard decision to cut all other projects I have going currently and mentally put them in the garbage can. It won’t be easy, but I think it will be worth it. Stay tuned.
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Very happy for Eliza and all Eagles fans.
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Had an incredible day yesterday visiting the Berwick Brewing Company, O’Donnell Winery, and Three Dogs Vino. It was nice to visit some new-for-us places in our area. Worth the drive.
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I usually don’t post to my blog on the weekends. But I want that Micro.blog 30-day pin.
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Social media in 2018: Facebook – where we unwittingly share fake articles Snapchat – where we privately video chat w/ squeaky voices Twitter – where we retweet our dislike of "other people" Instagram 🎉 – where we share our best photos, work, motivations, recipes Wonder why IG is winning? 🤔
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Today I did some maintenance on my domain name, registrar, hosting provider, and file structure for my site. I still have a few things I’d like to do in preparation for my personal blogging goals in 2018. I think it will be a banner blogging year for me.
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I think I will get used to this Pixel 2 XL camera. Very satisfied.
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After a little more than a day with Android the thing I miss most is Tweetbot. The Twitter apps are terrible. I now understand why many people don’t see the value of a microblogging social network. Tweetbot is likely the only reason I can still use Twitter.
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After over 10 years on iOS I’ve switched to Android on the Pixel 2 XL. So far an excellent experience.
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Seriously considering a move to the Pixel. But what would I do with my Apple Watch? And how does one live without Tweetbot?
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I’m considering the reprising of my "best of the year lists" for this year. Just need to find the time. Here are the lists from 2008 and 2009.
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Doesn’t look like iOS 11.2 turned on Apple Pay Cash after all. At least, not on my phone yet.
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Second time I’ve felt an earthquake in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Just making a note here so I remember.
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Wednesday that feels like Friday. Wefriday. Fwinesday. Fridnesday.
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The last time I shared Micro.blog invite codes they went very quickly. Here are 5. First come, first served. mb-ed28cc, mb-d0f852, mb-dbb439, mb-9b86e4, mb-c0629e.
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The number of liquids, ointments, gels, and creams I purposefully rub onto my body on a daily basis has increased exponentially with age.
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Finished The Wright Brothers by David McCullough ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. So much to glean.
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First week of the NBA season has been pretty dramatic. I like it.
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Finished Contact by Carl Sagan in audio book narrated by Jodie Foster. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was excellent. I love the movie but it makes me wish for the π part in the book to have been in the movie.
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I had gotten out of the habit of watching YouTube videos on my TV. Believe it or not, the Apple Watch has reinvigorated this habit since I can control it from my wrist. Didn’t think of that.
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Just watched Space X’s presentation about the BFR. What an incredible presentation! The timeline seems impossible but I’ve given up doubting Musk a long, long time ago.
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My second day with the Apple Watch Series 3 was a full-day of use, travel, driving directions, notifications, activity monitoring, and Siri and I ended the day with 78% battery life.
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I used my Apple Watch Series 3 extensively all day. Just plugged it in for the night with 48% battery remaining. This works.
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Many are sweating over a notch on a phone while Space X is making trips to Earth’s orbit routine.
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Reading Ready Player One, Downtown Scranton – July 2017 Easily my favorite book this year. Eliza just finished it too. I may want to read it again before the movie comes out.
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Sunsets over the Pacific have their own special feel.
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The “I’d like to suggest an edit to one of your blog posts with this link” scammers can just forward their requests to my trash bin.
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Your customers will never care what programming language you used.
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It appears that the WordPress for iOS beta text editor has some character encoding issues. Other than that, I like it.
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Published Build 11 of my iOS app to TestFlight this morning. Some great improvements in this build. Now to fly the UAV a little.
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You never get to "start over". You only get to try again. There is a big difference.
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After reading and listening to so many favorable reviews I’m installing the iOS 11 public beta on my iPad.