No Idea

What a fantastic and stunning photo by Julie Kenny titled “Tree of Life”.

Featured by My Modern Met in their 2022 World Nature Photography Awards round up post.

I wish I thought $1,400 for a GPU was a good purchase (spolier: it’s not) because, dang, the Nvidia’s Founders Edition looks good.

I have thoughts about this post. So many thoughts. Most of them not very nice.

I have a visceral dislike for productivity gurus who sell you, or try to sell you, on how you can control your work life with a few simple techniques.

This calendar isn’t a work calendar.

The moon tonight was pretty glorious.

Shot on Pixel 7 Pro at 30x zoom. No editing.

At almost 30 years old. Wither Blister Burn & Peel is still a great album.

See you, Space Cowboy.

I just bought the components for a gaming PC that I’ll build myself for the same price as an 11" iPad Pro with Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard.

Say what you will about Windows, but, to me, the value I’m going to get out of the gaming PC far exceeds the value I’d get out of the iPad.

It is snowing 🌨️🌨️🌨️ in Southern California.

Why does the Super Bowl need a 5.5 hour long pregame?

The cake has spoken.

Just hanging out. Minding my own business.

Nick Heer, rounding up AI chatbots,

Searchers get the results they are looking for and, in the process, undermine the broader web. The price we all pay is the worsening of the open web for Google’s benefit.

Um, yeah, nope. Finding answers easily doesn’t make the open web worse.

Mike Masnick at Techdirt

The point is: these are not policies. These are brain fart whims. This is no way to run a business with many millions of users.

Musk’s decisions are annoying people. But, are they the people that will drive the majority of users to abandon Twitter?

Ars Technica:

Bloatware pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS to an incredible 60GB

This is the reason I buy Pixel phones. With the Pixel line you do not get the bloatware that infects almost all other Android phones.

For no particular reason at all. I just want the internet to know.

I do not like built in bookshelves.

They reduce the versatility of a room and your ability to style a room how you want to style it.

This has been a random announcement for no particular reason at all.

This mashup is freaking genius!

Genius.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here forever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

– Virginia Woolf

“Betty, you think Velcro is impressive.”

Poker Face has some pretty great dialogue.

Caturday. With River watching Planet Earth.

We Tivo Wheel of Fortune during the week to watch on the weekend and one our our pet peeves is people who do not wait for Vanna White to tap all the letters before deciding to spin the wheel.