I’ve created a page of Books That I Read In 2020 that lists what I read in reverse chronological order and I wondering whether I should change that to chronological order. What do you think?
The Jed Hoyer regime is not starting well in Chicago when it communicates b.s. like this. I see zero ways in which the trade of Yu Darvish to San Diego for little in return helps the Cubs in 2021. Maybe the Cubs will be competitive in the N.L. Central by default, but they won’t be competitive outside their division.
I dislike rainy winter days like today. I wish we had a fireplace, but the Christmas tree lights are nice.
I moved to the Detroit, Michigan area 31 years ago, and one of the benefits of that is the ability to attend the annual Great Lakes Invitational college hockey tournament that Michigan Tech hosts. Over those years I think I did not attend three but never until this year, due to COVID19, has there not been a tournament.
I am drinking my first Starbucks Latte in I don’t know how long. EOM.
We got a white Christmas.
Now that Apple has enabled one to use a mouse with an iPad they have to enable them to use external monitors in a manner similar to notebook computers. Right now you can mirror the display to a monitor and that display is larger but it does not fill up the entire screen. When I connect my iPad to my 24-inch monitor I want to have all of the screen space available to me.
“The symbol of Christmas—what is it? It is the rainbow arched over the roof of the sky when the clouds are heavy with foreboding. It is the cry of life in the newborn babe when, forced from its mother’s nest, it claims its right to live. It is the brooding Presence of the Eternal Spirit making crooked paths straight, rough places smooth, tired hearts refreshed, dead hopes stir with newness of life. It is the promise of tomorrow at the close of every day, the movement of life in defiance of death, and the assurance that love is sturdier than hate, that right is more confident than wrong, that good is more permanent than evil.” — Howard Thurman source
A micro.blog question… how come I can only add categories to posts with titles?
Vivaldi Day 2
Today is the second day of using Vivaldi on the Raspberry Pi 4 desktop, and it continues to perform better for me than Chromium. I decided to run Octane 2 and Speedometer 2 to see how Vivaldi benchmarks against Chromium and I am surprised to find that it benchmarks slightly slower in both even though my practical use finds it faster. For example, Speedometer 2 scores 7.93 in Chromium and 7.614 in Vivaldi. For comparison, the Speedometer 2 score on the iPad Air is 201, fastest in the house.
One of the most dangerous ideas that emerged in politics starting in the 1970s is that changing one’s mind about a policy or topic is wrong. We heard politicians claim that their opponent “flip-flops.”
Unfortunately, too many people have taken this to mean that they must not change their minds about something, but changing one’s mind over time is what growing up is all about. Is it any wonder then that people are now so entrenched in their ideas they simply do not listen nor accept anything spoken by someone else that they don’t agree with?
The “no flip-flop” mindset can have dangerous consequences. If scientists aren’t willing to consider the possibility that how they thought something happens, like how respiratory illness spreads, could be flawed, lives can be lost. Not to mention scientists who don’t believe they could be wrong aren’t really practicing science.
If you want to really impress me, tell me about something you changed your mind about in the last three years.
Trying Vivaldi
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as a personal remote computer that I access using VNC during the work day, which enables me to keep my personal web access from going through my employer’s Internet proxy. It’s also an excuse of me to fiddle with the Raspberry Pi.
I have been using Chromium for browing the web but grown frustrated with its performance on the Pi so this morning I decided to give Vivaldi a try. Vivaldi uses the same rendering engine as Chrome and I’ve found it uses the same extensions as Chrome, which is important because I need access to Lastpass.
Installation was a little tricky because I am running a beta 64-bit version of the Raspberry Pi OS and so I needed to find the arm64 version of the installation package.
So far I am finding that Vivaldi does run faster on the Pi4 than Chromium. One thing I did to speed things up is to turn off the drop-down, URL completion of the address bar so that I can quickly enter URLs. However, one function that I use to forage for new updates in the Federated Wiki verse does not work, for some reason, so for now I will need to use Chromium for that part of my daily flow.
In the beginning was the first site of the World Wide Web. source
So, the iPadOS Gawq app does not display in landscape. Bad application design. BTW, the ESPN Fantasy app also has this flaw. No mobile app should only work in either portrait or landscape, forcing a user to only do one or the other is lazy programming.
Had a visitor at the home office today
The main task of the week was getting the Christmas packages shipped out in hopes that the Post Office can get them to their destinations in time for Christmas. Each was sent using the machine in the lobby after hours when nobody else is around from which I got several printed receipts with tracking numbers. If you have a current Android phone, take a picture of the tracking number of the receipts and then you can use Google Lens that finds the tracking number and provides a one-tap button to query the tracking status on USPS.com.
Trump’s election was likely only phase 1, my fear is that phase 2 has begun.