It’s freakin 23 degrees outside! Checked the calendar, it says it is November 8, 2019.
Google has released Chrome OS Version 78 and it is available so I installed it on my Pixelbook. One significant change is that Google changed the file format it uses to backup Linux apps and because of that I suspect it will not be able to restore prior backups using the old format. If you backup Linux apps on your Chromebook you will want to run a new backup as soon as possible.
The Heritage Guide to The Constitution:
It has been the general American practice regarding criminal law to grant considerable discretion to prosecutors, so that by analogy one could argue that the House has complete discretion to decide whether to initiate impeachment proceedings. On the other hand, Alexander Hamilton, in The Federalist No. 77, argued that the nation would find “republican” safety from a presidential abuse of power by the mode of his election and by his “being at all times liable to impeachment.” There is no doubt that the Framers saw impeachment as a part of the system of checks and balances to maintain the separation of powers and the republican form of government. The implication is that when the President (or other impeachable official) has committed an impeachable offense, the Members of the House, bound by the oaths they take to uphold the Constitution, are under a particular obligation to deal with the miscreant’s offenses, irrespective of whether their bill of impeachment may or may not lead to a conviction in the Senate.
Surely, this is why a Republican-led House initiated impeachment proceedings on Bill Clinton. Why should the current Democrat-led House not be bound to the same obligation to hold proceedings on President Trump.
Adafruit has a nice story about the Apple Newton that provides some sense of how it influenced our modern mobile devices.
And with that another baseball season is over. Go Cubs go!
All five of the starting pitchers of the 2014 Detroit Tigers have now won the World Series. What could have been, Detroit.
What remains to be seen now is whether Juan Soto goes on to have as good a career as Miguel Cabrera.
Note to self. Next time you think of going on the road for two weeks that takes you through the Upper Peninsula, Bermuda and back, don’t do it! When you did the last time it kicked your ass. Laid up with the worst head cold I’ve had in years starting a second week.
It looks like the entire pitching staff of the Detroit Tigers of ten years ago is pitching in this World Series.
Boston Logan International Airport (BOS).
La Trattoria.
Just a few of the pictures I took during my fall trip through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Autumn is when the Upper Peninsula of Michigan shows it’s true colors. #puremichigan #michiganders #906
For some reason the posts I wrote yesterday using the iOS version of the micro.blog app did not publish. I had to go in to the web site and update the posts.
It was a beautiful day today on the shore of Lake Michigan in the U.P.
Another trip and another reminder of the stupid hoops I have to go through to get a picture I take on my Pixel 2 posted on this blog. It’s been years!
Last year I wrote about the excitement I was seeing on the Internet about an expected tablet from Google. Google did announce and start selling the Pixel Slate that later announced it would no longer make. A lot happened in just one year.
Back in the mother land.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday historians will look back at this period in U.S. history and think of it as “an aberration” during an event at Amherst College, reports the Boston Globe.
I hope she is right, but I don’t share her optimism.