It doesn’t take much to figure out why the Chicago Cubs have faded and are out of the running for the playoffs. Team batting average is nearly dead last, ranked 28 of 30 teams. On base percentage is ranked 23, and slug is ranked 19. I am surprised that Cubs pitching is as good as it is, their team ERA of 4.10 puts them in the top 10, although their WHIP of 1.32 ranks them 18th in the league. (WHIP might be a better indicator than ERA.)
Bottom line is that the Chicago Cubs lineup is not very good. If you are another team looking to pick up a bat to help you make the playoffs, given the stats, beyond Kris Bryant, which other batters would you trade for to help your lineup?
I managed to undo what I did that prevented me from getting into my servers, which enabled me to successfully move my 1999.io server and River of News to a new virtual machine on Google Cloud Platform.
Fun With Servers
I borked the server that has been hosting my instance of nodestorage, which in turn provided the editing for my old 1999.io blog. This blog was the direct predecessor to this site and I was publishing to it from May 2016 to February 2018. Before that, from 2014 to April 2016 I was publishign to this site using Fargo.
Right now I cannot SSH in to the server but I do know that it is running and serving up an old Bitnomi default page. I decided to build a new server to replace it, but won’t be able to move any of the data on the old server if I cannot get in to it.
I had nodestorage configured to publish the content to a S3 bucket, which is serving it directly, so I was not expecting the outage to affect the published site, but it does. When you first access the top navigation bar is delayed in loading. Looking at the page source I see variables that contain URLS back to that old site, one which appears to be defining a chat log socket. Unfortunately, this means to not have this affect on the old blog content I need to keep nodestorage running at the URL provided.
Just checked the Google Play store to see if I can directly install an app to my smartwatch. I searched for watches faces, selected one, and saw that there is an option under Install to select whether to install on Phone and Watch or Either or. I don’t think I saw that option yesterday.
Why is it so freakin' difficult to find what is the most current version of Wear OS? Right now I have Version 2.28 on my Fossil Sport, is that the most current version?
I’ve seen two articles today reporting that Google has updated the Play Store on Android Smartphones so that it can remotely (directly) install Wear OS apps on the watch. One of my main complaints about Wear OS is that it requires me to install/manage apps directly on the watch, which is too difficult given the small screen. In the beginning Google enabled one to install/manage their watches from the phone and they took that away in favor of a standalone app store on the watch, a move that made no sense to me at the time even if that is something done on the Apple Watch.
So far I have not seen this update appear on my Pixel 4a. While I can see the Wear OS category in the Play Store, it still really is a list of Android smartphone apps that have Wear OS components, meaning if you have to first install the app on the phone and then go in to the Play Store on the watch to install the associated Wear OS app, which is a totally braindead approach!
I bought an Airthings Wave Mini that is placed in the basement of our home, which is also our home office. It’s currently in day two of a seven day calibration period but I have already seen a trend on air quality affected by the air conditioner.
BreezoMeter provides location based air quality maps.
I am disappointed with the final episode of Loki. For me, because episode five was so good it felt as though the final episode closed the first season too abruptly. It felt like you are reading a six chapter book, get to chapter six and find it is only three pages that basically says, “buy the next book.” What we know is that there will be a second season of Loki (thanks to the end credit scene) and it appears that we got introduced to Kang the Conqueror and the set up for the Multiverse of Madness. But now what?
Finished reading: One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin Kruse 📚
NFL Sunday Ticket bidding war could lead to new streaming home after 2022 season
I am hoping that the price to watch a specific team is much less than $300 per season. If ESPN or Amazon get the deal, would they incorporate it into their current services or create something new?
Power came back on yesterday at 10:30 AM, which enabled us to get through most of the work day. We just started purging the fridge, so getting completely back to normal is going to take us a few days. People around me have it much worse, with trees falling on homes and cars, so I am grateful to just replace food.
After a long short week highlighted by 36 hours of no electricity, it’s nice to watch the Cubs beat up on the Cardinals.
Been dealing with power outage since 5:30 PM yesterday. It came back on at 11:30 PM but went back off at 7:30 AM to this morning. I wouldn’t be as concerned except that we have a sump pump and the back up isn’t starting as soon as I would like. Internet access is spotty, so not sure when this will upload.
Read about the updates that Google is making to the Wear OS App Store. Wish someone would write about the stupidity of the on watch store existing. In my opinion there will never be a good on watch store experience because there is simply not enough screen space to create one. Smart watches are and will always be accessories and not stand alone computers and it best that designers get this through their heads.
It drives me crazy how Cub managers keep putting the wrong players in the lead off position. No reason for Contreras to be leading off today and it increases probability of injury.
Happy to start another fourth of July in the shade on our patio.
It’s virtual Friday and the feeling (and weather) is good!
I am using NetNewsWire just on my iPad and do not have it configured with any back end system. Recently the refresh of feeds has been running slow, for some unknown reason.