Not sure how I feel about tenured academics who churn out tons of bullshit software patents, feels like the opposite of “knowledge creation”. (Disclosure: I think most software patents are bullshit).
“If you’re not part of the solution, ….”
Morning coffee at the lake
Powerful interactive illustration of the 2180 mass shootings since Sandy Hook. To make it personal, go click on your 4 or 5 birthdays over that time in their chart at the bottom www.vox.com/a/mass-sh…
Whomever said “you don’t own stuff, stuff owns you” is on my mind. So much house maintenance this summer. New roof. New concrete drainage. Pressure washing. Need to get deck stained. Thinking about solar
To heck with fantasy creatures, home maintenance is The Never Ending Story
Another “blockchain to the rescue” manifesto, this time about rescuing us from Facebook (which piqued my interested, so I read it). Doesn’t seem to be much here (but has a nice “we did it first in the ‘90s” rant, if you’re into that sort of thing https://medium.com/[@david](https://micro.blog/david)/manifesto-6b94d4b34210
You know your to-do list making skillz are poor when pretty much any “things you’re doing wrong with your todo lists” article resonates… they can conflict, and still be right.
Easy one: The Replacements xkcd.com
For those who still use Facebook, I’m mirroring my micro.blog (bmaci.me) onto a page there. It should be public, if you care to follow it and see my posts there (vs twitter or mastodon).
Who says you can’t be all things to all people?
Very much looking forward to role queue. I play support and rank, not really dps. Two games in a row I was forced into DPS (ya, really); one we lost because our two healers were throwing; other we one because LUCKY. Too stressful.
I have to say, #OWL is so much better with2-2-2…. all the games are so much better! Bonus, the @ATLReign are so much better! #LetItReign
First map down, #LetItReign. Love the 2-2-2 meta!
We are almost out of time on the climate, and a sizable number of Americans cheer on a racist totalitarian who celebrates when his opponents are assaulted or robbed. Time for change! www.bbc.com/news/scie…
Resurrected the WindowsMR device I had in a box, so I could try it with the new Windows laptop. Works great, of course the laptop has an i9 and a RTX2080 in it, so i’d hope so!
Windows MR + Steam + Firefox + @byhubs #FTW!
My @atlantareign custom jersey is ready for action! Thanks GHVinyls! etsy.me/2ZpVuOl
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Ikea and Sonos, two great tastes that go great together! It’s a good thing I’ve got a full compliment of Sonos already, or I’d be tempted, as there are a few places in my house both would fit
These last months have been kind of crazy, I need to get back to blogging and other writing. But the future isn’t looking conducive to anything not in the “urgent” half of the time management quad chart …
The implementation of Duo two-factor authentication at @georgiatech feels like it was designed as an experiment in how far you need to push people before they think two-factor is too much hassle. Sometimes I navigate between 2 or 3 links and have to 2 factor on every one
Dorking around with @ByHubs, plugged in my iPad to the Mac, started a screen recording (don’t need to hit record) and shared that window. Run OneNote on the iPad and voila, instant pen-based whiteboard.
Considering doing some remote office hours in hubs this fall
I made the mistake of looking at replies to a climate science fact posted to twitter. Mixed but rational commentary from around the world mixed with American ignorance and hate (from flag/eagle/gun imagery bearing, fake named accounts, of course). Sigh.
I usually wear gaming/nerd t-shirts when I’m flying business/first class, just because “mostly old people in business clothes.”
Today, it’s an Atlanta Reign shirt #letitreign
Just discovered education.github.com and classroom.github.com… how had I not seen these before? Ignoring all the awesomeness of these, I could have been avoided paying for my Pro account and one of our research org sites 😭😭
My inability to not type two spaces after a period really hampers the speed at which I can send out short tweets/toots/etc.
First I type a message. Then I go back and remove extra spaces if it’s too long. My typing teacher would be proud.
In addition to starting to be more conscientious of our power usage, it looks like we’re about to sign a contract to get solar and batteries installed. Plus, finally going to start composting, and going to add a few more beds to my front yard garden
Bought some energy monitors and plugged them into the bulk of the networking and desktop computers in my house. Total consumption when all are on is > 1kW, most of that coming from a set of PCs.
Average US home pulls about 1.25kW on average over a year
Ugh! Change is coming…
This is so good, I hope someone cleans it up and sells things based on it! www.bbc.com/news/worl…
