Happy Super Bowl Sunday!
Early in our relationship and when my wife first moved to Michigan from Colorado she observed that the difference between winter in Michigan and Colorado is that in Michigan winter starts and stays the same for three months, but in Colorado you got snow and a few days later it warmed up and melted away. Now it’s not so different.
I think the fix Manton reports here took care of a problem I had with Omnibear, which is what I use to write most of my blog posts when using a deskop. Omnibear doesn’t have categories, but it does have tags. I wonder, would tags translate to categories?
What is a slug in Indieweb?
The temperature got over 40 degrees today so I went for a walk for the first time in a week.
A year ago I wrote that I had put the Peel super thin case on my Pixel 2 and I can report that after a year later the case is still on my phone and has held up very well. I will not hesitate to buy another Peel case if one is available.
I did some experimenting and documented my observations about how Crostini runs on my Pixelbook. For people concerned about the performance impact of Crostini running on a Chromebook, I note that the virtual machine and any containers within do not automatically start on boot and therefore the cleanest way to run is to not launch the Linux Terminal app, which you see when you enable the Linux apps beta on Chrome OS.
The first time you launch the Terminal app the virtual machine (termina) and default container (penguin) start, which accounts for the longer than perhaps expected time to launch.
The pizza run tonight was the first I had been outside since Sunday.
The United States is in a state of emergency: 28 national ones and many more local. This might come as a surprise, but it isn’t new—this month marks the start of our 39th year in a continuous emergency state. What is an emergency, and how did we get here? This post explains.
The 1976 National Emergencies Act requires Congress to meet every six months to end the state of emergency. If you want to know why Democracy is failing in the United States, read no further than the following…
Not once has Congress met to consider such a vote. It is not exactly clear why. But the provision would have lost much of its intended force even had Congress complied: It originally allowed Congress to end an emergency by concurrent resolution (that is, if majorities in both houses voted to end it). But in 1983, the Supreme Court declared this sort of legislative veto over presidential action unconstitutional. A 1985 amendment to the act now requires a joint resolution to end the emergency, meaning that any Congressional vote to end the emergency is subject to the president’s veto, which may be overridden only by two-thirds majorities of both houses.
CNN has a list of the current list of 28 national emergencies in the United States.
Micro.blog, which is the platform for this blog, now supports categories. I am mulling over whether to add them here, but so far I have not found the need.
Living The Dream
I’ve had the same reaction to Howard Schultz’s comment about the American Dream as Dave. When I was growing up the American Dream was equated to the Middle Class, by which I mean adults aspired to having a comfortable life and dreamt of a better life for their children.
While I do agree with Schultz in that another way to describe the American Dream is to be successful, I think the biggest problem is measuring success by wealth. The focus on wealth in America is allowing us to accept the huge income inequality that exists in our country.
For me, Schultz implying that Elizabeth Warren and others want to punish him and others for being successful is totally wrong. What we want is for the very wealthy people to contribute a share to society commensurate with their ability.
Schultz might want to put on an indepedent label, but his ideology is conservative Republican selling himself as a Democrat Ross Perot.
It is not the job of Congress to simply pass a President’s legislation. It’s their job to represent the people of the United States.
Even colder today
My house has too many windows. It’s cold almost everywhere. #FirstWorldProblems
Baby it’s cold outside
Dear world. Can we please stop with the satisfaction surveys? I just asked Google Home to convert 12 degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius , which it did, and then I asked how happy I was with the answer. Really?
The entire mitten (Lower Peninsula) of Michigan is getting snow, except my house that is in a small pocket where it’s not snowing for another four minutes.
A mitten covered with snow.
At church today the pastor in his sermon suggested we consider Christianity as different from other religions rather than better. Then, this afternoon I came across this quote in Thomas Cahills, “The Gifts Of The Jews”.
God wanted something other than blood and smoke, buildings and citadels. He wanted justice, mercy, humility. He wanted what was invisible. He wanted their hearts—not the outside, but the inside. There is no way of exaggerating how strange a thought this was.