Amazon has broken a what has been significant piece of functionality in the iOS Kindle app, the ability to send a book’s title and author to Drafts. I used to open About This Book, tap Share and then select Drafts, and the result used to be that a new draft opened with the book title and authors. Today when I did this Drafts wasn’t even an option!
Update: Turns out the issue was not just with the Kindle app, Drafts was gone from the share sheet in all apps. After searching the Internet, I restarted the iPad and that seems to resolve the problem.
Day 1 of lap 56 around the sun.
NFL’s first official sports betting partnerships include FanDuel, DraftKings, SlashGear
For as long as I can remember organized sports viewed betting as the biggest threat to the integrity of the game. More and more are now embracing the money, integrity be damned.
Received the Obvious Shirt that I ordered, though this is the one that I really want. I wish their web site had a notification for when shirts are back in stock.
This is the largest flowering tree that I have ever seen.
Friday, 1:20 PM Central Standard Time
I have a Logitech MX Keys keyboard and a MX Master 3 mouse that I use every day with my work Windows 10 PC. The PC has two USB ports, one USB 3 port on the left side and what I think is a USB 2 port on the right. In the left port is a dongle for my Jabra wireless headset, and in the right port I have a Logitech Unifying receiver for the keyboard and mouse. I have frustrating experiences with mouse that appears to be due to it frequently losing connectivity.
I’ve swapped the two devices between ports and that fixes the mouse issue, but then the headset loses connectivity, so I think that means there is some type of interference with the right USB port.
I have a USB-C hub and a there is a USB-C port with the computer, so I plugged in the hub and plugged the Logitech receiver to the hub but that didn’t fix the problem. I am now using an USB extension cable and the Logitech receiver plugged in to it. I don’t know why the hub didn’t work, it should have.
Why The Republican Party Isn’t Rebranding After 2020, FiveThirtyEight
I think another reason why Republicans are not willing to change is that they have not yet faced reality that they are a minority. Their arguments for why the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” can only hold if they think there is more of them than others. In other words, if Republicans are a minority then by definition they will get less votes, and we have seen this played out by the fact that since 1988 they have lost the popular vote for all but one presidential election.
The Chicago Cubs is the worst hitting team in baseball, but this shouldn’t be a surprise. It seems obvious to me that the Cubs' front office does not properly evaluate hitting talent, every player on their team is a home run hitter. When Schwarber left they went and got a literal hitting duplicate, Joc Pederson, as a replacement. Nico Horner was the best hitter in spring training and they sent him back to the minors in favor of another home run hitter.
I can’t blame the manager, and I can’t really blame the players, they are who they area. The problem rests entirely with the front office. Really, one hit wonders. How lucky we were in 2016!
I’ve forked a page of information about tracking down the origin of COVID-19 to my wiki. The page is being regularly updated and as a ton of information.
“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
John Ehrlichman, Domestic Policy Advisory during the Nixon Administration source
Using A 32-inch Monitor
I recently started using a 32-inch monitor, and I am figuring out its best ergonomic setup. I’ve searched for information, and this article is one of the few that I’ve found that make a specific recommendation for large monitors. When I ordered the monitor, which is a BenQ 32-inch, I was concerned by the fact that the height was not adjustable and it would be too low, but that has proven to not be an issue. If anything the monitor might be a tad too high.
According to the ergonomic recommendations, the top of the monitor should be at eye level. In my case the top bevel of the monitor is a couple of inches above my eye level. I could raise my chair to move my eye level up, but then my feet don’t comfortably touch the floor and I felt it in my legs.
On the other hand with the larger screen I am now viewing content in separate windows rather than full screen. Consequently I can move the windows in which content is displayed to where it is most comfortable, and so there is a gap in the display at the top that I will never really look at.
I’ve installed the Windows 10 PowerToys so that I can use the FancyZones windows manager to create layouts for placing windows on the screen. My current configuration has one large window occupying about 65% of the left side where I display the primary 1580 x 1356 window I am viewing. The remaining screen space on the right is split in half, with a top 792 x 661 and bottom 792 x 653 windows for MS Teams and Outlook. The smaller windows are for glancing at information, either chats, calendar, or my inbox. When I process my inbox in Outlook I move Outlook to the larger window on the left of the screen.
To complete the picture, I also us two virtual desktops, the primary one I described above, the secondary one I have OneNote in the large window, Microsoft Todo, and File Manager in the two smaller windows.
As of last Friday a little over 25% of the target population in Michigan has been fully vaccinated, which is well below what is needed to affect the spread of COVID in the state. People need to understand that the faster the rate of infection the higher the percentage of full vaccination needed to affect the spread. In short, thinking that because people can now get vaccines one can revert to pre-COVID behavior is increasing how much longer we are dealing with this and the continued risks of more mutations.
My wife and I had a pretty strong immune response the day after we received the Pfizer COVID vaccine, but felt much better the next day. Onward to full vaccination!
The flip that Michigan Governor Whitmer has made in her stance with COVID is astounding. It has the appearance that prior actions where all about politics, supporting earlier Trump supporter claims. I am very disappointed.
John Locke is the “he” who is insisting in the following:
“Freedom then is not,” he insisted, “a liberty for everyone to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws.” Rather, “liberty is, to be free from restraint and violence from others.” source
Who is John Locke? Wikipedia
It looks like the rate of new COVID cases my county is the worst that it has ever been. Adult ICU bed occupancy is at 86%. One can only draw their own conclusions as to why restrictions have not been put back in place.
Listen Notes is a podcast directory and listening web site that I just learned about. Here is an embed of the latest episodes of one of my favorite podcasts, The Confessional wiith Nadia Bolz-Weber.
The latest leaked pictures of future iPads shows a disappointing iPad Mini, still the same as the current design and thus now looking very, very old.
This tree is the first one to get blossoms in our neighborhood each spring.
