Asides
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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.
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I’m testing out the Micro.blog iOS app. Looks nice.
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I’ve been using Apple Music today. There is a bit of a learning curve but it is far, far better than when I tried it when it was released.
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If you were 39,000,000 miles away from earth and the earth was covered in white clouds it would look like what Venus looks like right now.
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I had the opportunity to do some programming over the last few days. Feels good.
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Arrival comes out on Bluray today. Very excited to see this film again.
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macOS has made setting up a new computer a one-step process for most people and a three-or-four-step process for developers. Incredibly easy.
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I’m looking forward to tonight’s first Homebrew Website Club in Scranton. Details here: https://indieweb.org/events/2017-02-08-homebrew-website-club
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Facebook Marketplace is Mos Eisley.
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Abstraction can assist automation. Keep going up until you hit the ceiling. Then retool your way back down. (Vague? Yes.)
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Local entrepreneurs, here are the dates for this year’s @tecBRIDGE1 Business Plan Competition http://www.nepbpc.com/innovation-challenge/httpwww-nepbpc-cominnovation-challenge2017-bpc-event-dates/
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Looking forward to flying today. I’ll be sharing my flights via Instagram Stories starting in less than an hour.
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Instagram Stories > Instagram
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My skin is becoming translucent. Time to plan an escape south.
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Auto mechanics should serve motor oil in their lobbies. It’d be much better than the "coffee" they serve.
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Duolingo’s email reminders should be in the language you’re learning, no?
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In 20 years that which we call AI today will be considered an egregious misnomer. We are comparatively in the melainotype phase of what AI will become.
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My blog’s traffic has increased month-over-month since May of this year. December has already passed November. I hope to continue my streak in January. Thanks for all the clicks!
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I wish Instagram and Twitter would make up already. It’s been years. Maybe @kcoleman can facilitate that.
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You have to be a Norwegian Strong Man competitor to open a packet of DayQuil.
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Not too hard to slink into the Sunday vibe with a fresh coat of snow on the ground. Coffee and biscuit morning.
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I’m working on a serious update to The Watercolor Gallery. It is coming along nicely and I hope the community will dig the update.
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We are firmly into wool sock weather this morning.
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I would like to invent a new season. One with fall days and summer nights.
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Today is wait for the cable guy day.
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Digging Session Buddy for Chrome.
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Jogged three miles this morning. Calves are hurting because some portion of it was a steep hill.
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Two YouTube subscription recommendations: Alastair Humphreys and the brand-new channel from David elsewhere.
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I multiplied my daily average step count by five this week.
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Tip: Walk during phone calls. Just earned 7,000 steps during a business meeting.
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Walked up to a young skater bro last evening and asked if I could shoot video of him — both in slow-mo and with the UAV — and he immediately thought it was a great idea. Just another "you don’t know unless you ask" lesson.
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I’m considering a return to jogging.
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Today is going to be a headphone-mode type of day. Lots to catch up on after a week off.
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"Let’s make the zippers as loud as possible." – Tent Manufacturers
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"Let’s make a bag that only fits the tent once and never again." – Tent Manufacturers
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Did some tweeting last night while Juno was preparing to slow down and enter Jupiter’s orbit.
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Broke my GoPro Hero 3+ Silver Edition’s waterproof case yesterday. Excuse to go Hero 4 Black?
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I hope @NASA’s Juno mission has a great day tomorrow. Will be an awesome 2016 if they do.
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Going to try a slightly different social approach for one week. Share here, and everywhere else separately.
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We’ve had a good run of really nice, albeit hot, days so far this year. Don’t complain. It will be January again very soon.
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Regardless of the outcome of tonight’s game this has been the most fun to watch season of basketball in my lifetime.
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Book review: 2001: A Space Odyssey. – 5 stars.
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I’ve updated my list of subtle software updates announced by Apple this week.