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Bios

The bar is in the globe.

This is a factory, not a circus.

I weigh less than a slice of bread.

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Merlin's Wisdom Project

Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”

By Merlin Mann.

It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.

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A Quickie Voice Log Spec

Short Version

By invoking a quick phrase, Siri captures a sentence or two of dictated text and adds it to a bucket where I can then do something with it later. Critically, it should also automatically capture the location where the note was made as well as the date and time of the note.

Genesis

I'm new to riding a 70 lb. ebike on which balance can be tricky and the 20mph+ speeds mean I really prefer to keep both hands on the handlebars and ready to hit the brakes. I don't even like using one hand to adjust a mirror or signal a turn—let alone trying to fiddle with a device like my Apple Watch or iPhone.

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Merlin's First Fruity Pleaser

Ingredients

• Peychaud's Bitters | 3-5 squirts
• Angostura Bitters | 2-5 squirts
• Regular Crappy Bottled ReaLime® | 1+ capful
• Seltzer Water | 12 oz | Chilled

Steps

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Usage I Dislike

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An Epicenter of Wordsmithing…for the Enterprise.

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Words: Ugly, Dumb, or Overpriced

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Better

Politics, celebrity gossip, business headlines, tech punditry, odd news, and user-generated content.

These are the chew toys that have made me sad and tired and cynical.

Each, in its own way, contributes to the imperative that we constantly expand our portfolio of shallow but strongly-held opinions about nearly everything. Then we're supposed to post something about it. Somewhere.

From businesses we've never heard of, to countries we've never visited, to infants who've had the random misfortune to be born into a family that's on TV -- it's all grist for obvious jokes and shortsighted commentary that, for at least a few minutes, helps both the maker and the consumer feel a little less bored, a little less vulnerable, and a little less disconnected. For a minute, anyway, it makes us feel more alive. Does me, anyway.

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Every day, somebody's born who's never seen "The Flintstones"

Cincinnati's independent UHF channel 19 (WXIX, get it?) used to have a "1 O'Clock Movie" that ran for two hours every weekday afternoon. They were mostly old black and white films that, even with all the commercials, often ran shy of the 120-minute block allotted.

When they had to fill the extra time, they'd run a "Questions to the Station Manager" segment, where viewer letters were read and the manager responded on-air. Why'd you stop running Ultraman? (Too violent). Why'd you stop showing pro wrestling? (Too violent). How come you show so many commercials? (Well. We're a business and stuff).

Anyhow. One time a viewer expressed her frustration that WXIX was still showing reruns of The Flintstones, a dumb kid's cartoon that hadn't even been on the air in almost a decade ferchrissakes.

The manager calmly explained that, in addition to lots of kids enjoying the show, you have to keep in mind that, believe it or not, that show is still

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Quotations to Get Right

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myname@mysynology:/usr/sbin$ cd /usr/sbin/
myname@mysynology:/usr/sbin$ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u time.nist.gov
Exiting, name server cannot be used: Temporary failure in name resolution (-3)28 Nov 18:58:43 ntpdate[12680]: name server cannot be used: Temporary failure in name resolution (-3)
myname@mysynology:/usr/sbin$ nc -z -v nist.gov 80
-sh: nc: command not found
myname@mysynology:/usr/sbin$ wget nist.gov
--2023-11-28 19:00:43--  http://nist.gov/
Resolving nist.gov... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address 'nist.gov'
myname@mysynology:/usr/sbin$ 

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