Gratitude Day 5: Dates
(I mean the fruit)
I know there are all kinds of amazing tropical fruits that I've never had an opportunity to try, but among all of the fruit I have had, I think dates are the most underrated.
Incredibly sweet and just a little chewy, with a vaguely mollasses-like taste, they make a great ingredient in home-made sweets and healthy snacks, and by themselves (or with some crushed pecans), they make an amazing treat with tea.
Just don't get the pitted kind, they dry out way too fast.
Gratitude Day 4: Virtualization / Emulation
I think I first heard about emulation in the early 1990s. Some kind of magical software could make your Mac pretend it was a PC, albeit quite slowly. It was very niche and expensive software, but it allowed folks to run software designed for a completely different architecture. Black magic …
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Gratitude Day 3: Cats!!
Ok, seriously forget that supposed rule about the internet being for, uh, "spicy media." Forget that exploitative nonsense. Seriously. Call me a prude, I don't give a rip.
The Internet is for CATS. I sense that Vint Cerf, Bill Joy, Kirk McCusick, Al Gore, and the other parents of the …
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Gratitude Day 2: Personal Music Libraries
Over the past few years, I've been on a journey of migrating from streaming services to personal music libraries. I haven't yet made the jump from streaming video services to personal video libraries, but it's definitely on my radar.
I got an Apple Music account right about when it first …
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Gratitude Day 1: Text
I wanted to start this month's theme off with something pretty light and easy to write. Indeed, I've written about the beauty of "plain text" at length last year:
Without re-hashing the specifics …
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A September Theme: 30 Days of Gratitude
This morning, I briefly skimmed through a post Robert Birming blog entitled "SepThemeBear - create your own theme."
When I say skimmed, I don't think I read much more than the title, honestly. I was on my phone, and reading on my phone is not an enjoyable experience for me, as …
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My Failed Tech Predictions
Tech writers love making at times outlandish predictions. I remember in the early 90s thinking back very glibly about John C. Dvorak's prediction (more of a comment, really) that the mouse was a questionable, unproven peripheral, and probably wouldn't ever take off as a main input device. How ironic that …
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Re: Ghosts in my phone
Earlier today, I put out a call to see if anyone wanted to do a July Reply collab, and Hyde answered that call!
In his post Hyde talks about doing "spring cleaning" on his phone, removing old photos and contacts.
I have a similar routine, removing a year's worth of …
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Re: Linkdump No 117, or "Thoughts on Computer Snobbery"
Andreas writes,
The Amiga turns 40 this week. I had an Amiga 500 as a kid, some time in the early 90s. And I remember being made fun of for having an Amiga, because PCs were supposedly so much cooler and better and whatnot. But the first time I visited …
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Re: Praying to St Jude: counselling the re-Googlers
Background/Reply
Kevin Boone wrote an excellent article about "de-googling," and how to counsel people who are encountering the "costs" of living the de-googled life.
I've been mostly de-googled since September 2021, and it of course hasn't been super easy. But I say "mostly de-googled" because I still have some …
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