Woke up this morning with the lyrics to California Dreamin' in my head. I’ve never lived in California.
All the leaves are brown (All the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (And the sky is gray)….
Which iPad is right for you? We break it down
I agree with CNN’s high level use cases of each class of iPad in this article. For me, the iPad Mini is most used of the computing devices I own while the iPad Air will be used every work day and whenever I want to use a large screen device.
Today is the first day that I will be using the iPad Air full time in place of the 10.5-inch iPad Pro that it is replacing. Not sure whether I am liking the placement of the Touch ID sensor at the top on the power button. Having been using the iPad Pro 10.5 for three years and using the iPad Mini 5 muscle memory is trained to press my thumb at the bottom of the screen to turn on and unlock the device. I’ve caught myself picking up the Air and putting my thumb were the home button used to be only to realize that does nothing but turn the screen on. No doubt I will re-learn a new behavior, but I can see how Face ID would be a better experience.
“I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions,” he wrote in an 1816 letter addressing what he perceived to be weaknesses in the new government, “but … laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.” –Thomas Jefferson
Amy Coney Barrett’s Judicial Philosophy Doesn’t Hold Up to Scrutiny
It seems to me that in order to have progress we need some agreement on what are the big problems. Many people think government itself, it’s very existence, is the big problem, and they equate Democrats with pro government and pro big government. Others see that government as necessary, the problem is that it is not as effective as it should be. These others are Democrats and used to be a good number of Republicans too.
Since October 19 the number of new COVID-19 cases in the county I live in has been in triple digits, which on average had not been the case all summer.
And here is my original home page, complete with an animated GIF.
This post from May 5, 2000 may be the oldest evidence of my blogging. I am pretty sure that I started blogging in December 1999.
Just discovered that the Internet Archive has scanned copies of the first and third edition of my books.
Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan closed in December 2019. The library collection was donated to the Internet Archive, which digitized it and made it available online.
I am on the injured list! Pulled up with a serious charlie horse in my right calf during a walk yesterday. It feels better today, but slowly loosening up. First time this has happened to me.
Note to self. Don’t make line up changes to your FFB team based on rankings on Sunday morning.
“The founders were well aware of the dangers of populism, demagoguery, and faction. They built a constitutional order designed to force compromise and impede sociopathic behavior. But the institutions they put in place to act as gatekeepers (the Electoral College, the appointed Senate) became obsolete, and the successor gatekeepers (political bosses, smoke-filled rooms, big media) came to seem undemocratic and lost their grip. Today, the road to power for a sociopath or demagogue is comparatively unobstructed. As a result, the fail-safes designed to protect the system when the settings go out of alignment have themselves begun to fail.” (nationalaffairs.com, Rethinking Polarization)
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“‘Extreme partisanship may be literally addictive,’ writes the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. Partisans who find ways to rationalize their beliefs get a little hit of dopamine. ‘Like rats that cannot stop pressing a button, partisans may be simply unable to stop believing weird things.'” (nationalaffairs.com, Rethinking Polarization)
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Taken during one of my walks yesterday. Open your eyes, look around, and enjoy every moment.
It’s probably the last t-shirt day outside for the year.
Looks like OSIRIS-REX successfully collected a sample from Bennu yesterday.
Andrew Shell and Dave Winer write about rethinking blogs and streams. I wrote about this a couple of years ago when I discovered Federated Wiki, and I still think blogs are well suited to writing associated to dates whereas wikis are well suited for writing associated to topics. My wiki is a garden that I tend whereas my blog is a stream that I add to and review occasionally.
OSIRIS-REX tagged Bennu, which I assume is now IT. Hopefully Bennu doesn’t tag Earth back.