No Idea

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.

John Gruber

That’s like asking for “measurable criteria” for evaluating a movie or novel or song or painting.

But, there are measurable criteria for evaluating every one of those things that exist outside of the artistic aspect of the works.

There are a lot of assumptions here by Gruber and Birchler and I do not think those assumptions provide a solid foundation to stand upon when making these comparisons.

Poker Face is a pretty good show.

Sir. Sir Give me the grenade, sir. Sir, give me the grenade.

“Uh, … Yeah”

Playing around with themes this morning. Just Because.

Nothing to see here.
Just Plotting.
Move Along.

Daring Fireball, John Gruber:

…only to eventually cede the entire touchscreen revolution in personal computing to Apple and Android.

So you can get a touchscreen laptop from Apple now? I like how ‘personal computing’ is now only phones to Gruber so he can get a dig in.

My Modern Met, Jessica Stewart: Strange UFO-Shaped Cloud Formation in Turkey Causes a Stir Online

Wait. Wait a minute. Hold on. Give me a second.

People think UFOs are always circular or spherical and only circular or spherical?