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The problem with digital reminders: notification systems.

The problem with paper reminders: which stack is my notepad in?

And then there’s times where the upper limit on human multitasking collides with actual task counts 🙁

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-3xx?wprov=sfti1

I’ve always wondered somewhat, just how much consideration was really put into using one orbiter to rescue another. Because, it’d probably be nice not to be blind sided when the problem is closer to needing a flying  tow truck than a memorial service.

In history though, I reckon the latter is how things turned out for NASA. Over the course of a hundred and thirty five launches: only two shuttles and their crews were lost. Catastrophic failures were the only true failures is probably a fair statement.

Actually, that’s a pretty good success rate if you ask me.

More than a hologram: Star Wars-inspired tech you can buy right now

Move over George Jetson, and let the wookie win!

Watching a commercial for Google’s Nest Hub, and thinking a moment how this might evolve. Much as the phonograph gave way to the iPod and MP3 player, what might come of such hubs in people’s lives.

My last thought was of President Scroob, shouting: “This is an unlisted wall!”, in Spaceballs. Because in the future that’s how things work.

Whiskey might not be the solution to all problems, but I have to admit that a shot glass makes a damned fine refillable portion size.

Combined with one’s favorite anime isn’t a bad idea either.

For the most part, battery life has not been a problem with this tablet.

I’m pretty sure that the optimal algorithm for maximizing number of dogs in a space is a quasi linear arrangement.

Until you get up, and then it’s whoever claims the warm spot first, lol

Willow was so genius level comfortable, that after these pictures, two dogs may have gotten kisses on the head, lol.

As I sit here, a wave of thoughts pass through my mind.

For one, I’ve owned flash drives with less capacity than the download size of nVidia’s drivers. As I sit here with my iPad, I think my desktop is unpacking and installing a 570+ meg download.

Cream reminds me, of how nice it would be if machines didn’t hang on reboot. Centauri actually does the same but less frequently, and Intel’s errata sheet can kiss my hairy ass.

Being smart would mean cycling the dishwasher instead of messing with my iPad while I’m waiting for the driver update to finish.

And if there’s really any good reason to prefer the K380 I use at work to the K810 I use at home, it’s the tweaking of the modifier keys from PC to Mac style. I assume the keyboard’s microcontroller just shifts its keymap when the active device has an Apple identifier; when my K810 came out the solution was buy a different model. Also helps that the K380 is almost cheap enough to use as a Frisbee compared to my K810, which more like pulling teeth when I bought it for the multiswitch capabilities.

Evernote’s release engineering often comes with entertaining release notes. I really like that they have a sense of humour.

It’s quite possible that the next time I have good reason to buy a monitor, 1080p60 Full High Definition will look like a VHS tape. Or that /dev/desk will have been taken over the rest of the way by my tablet, and I wouldn’t mind if it was a display with a Chromecast or AirPlay function built in.

Hmm, it’s been 5~6 years. I really do hope this Asus monitor makes like it’s forebears, which are more like ~10 for my first LCD screen (an old LG Flattron) and filed under “Won’t ask, Don’t want to know” for the last tube monitor I owned, lol.

Ahh, well, time to move my fat ass again 8-).

While at first, I was rather hesitant to bother with Apple News, I’ve got to admit it’s pretty nice.

On first launch, my impression was it looks a lot like Microsoft’s news app when I had tried it some years back. After trying to use it and populate it with topics, it feels more like Apple News combines the things I like most about the Google News and Flipboard apps.

I’ve generally come to prefer Google News’s emphasis on its own page view rather than being subjected to countless, often craptacular and annoying web designs just for the sake of reading an article. Both Google’s and Apple’s apps offer that. But Apple’s also will throw you upstream after a continue reading, so there is that.

Flipboard on the other hand, I’ve usually enjoyed because it is smart enough to recommend a broader content base than my topics of interest, and refloat articles into view once in a while, making it easier than scrolling backwards if you change your mind. The way Apple News bundles sections together kinda achieves that too.

And then there’s the fact an iPad has such performance that you don’t have to groan at the performance of page loads. Which has been especially a plague upon Flipboard for Android over the years, IMHO.