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Odd thoughts: Pretzel stick for the dog, whiskey for the human.

Somehow this seems to suit all of us, lol.

Why the B-1 Bomber Is Such a Badass Plane

Growing up, I always found the B-1 a curiosity more than anything else. Here we this large, variable sweep wing bomber. It was and still is rather unique. Meanwhile most folks were mesmerised by the more modern Stealth designs.

Years later, I find it even more curious that people still talk about the Lancer, and that we’ve somehow managed to keep any in service since the cold war era drew to a close.

So far I generally find myself in a middle ground of sorts.

Diaspora* makes for a social environment that works pretty well, although I think a touch behind what G+ became. But to be fair most of the things I miss about G+, other than the people, were things that took time for the platform to develop.

Where I find myself most frustrated tends to be the software.

You see: most of my time on such things is centered around my Android tablet. Dandelion is about as much as any Diaspora client could be but I find the performance lacking, as a consequence of it being forced to function as a web based app instead of a native client.

Such that I am almost better off going back to keeping my journal on a blogger platform and automating sharing posts to Pluspora, where there is more social life. This my recent experiments doing RSS -> D*.

But of course that leaves another open loop. Before moving to G+, I had used Blogger. Before that I used Live Journal. But in the years since moving from Blogger to Google Plus not much as changed. Rather Blogger has mostly remained fixed in time and others like WordPress have marched on. Creating a sort of software want redux.

Difference is that it is easier to pull a journal migration or write a custom bot bridge than it is to pull a better Diaspora client out of my wazoo.

Using a different client app that sucks less.

Also want to see how the formatting comes through my RSS feed and into the post bots conversion.

Here’s a link to Captain’s Log Supplemental as it stood before G+.

Some bold, italic, underline, and strike through formatting.

• Bullet
• List

And

1. Numbered
2. List

Plus

A block quote.

And a little

Horizontal bar for good measure.

Quick test post #1 for my feed bot.

It looks like Google has expanded Blogger’s integration with Google+, since I made the switch.

But how well does it work now? :-).

Hmm, I wonder. There are just so many possiblities of what can be done, and my brain can baloon with ideas fed off that. In the mean time, I know it’s most important to scratch the itches with the most value, first.

Off my operating environment, the more pressing lack is notes taking. Simplenote works but via Android, I seem to be in need of writing my own client (been a while since I’ve hit that part of my GitHub). One thing that might be of interest is some client side integration, of being able to mate Simplenote, Blogger, and G+ and apply a little meta-search magic.

Hmmm.

You know, this page isn’t as slow as I thought it would be on my tablet. I’m not sure I’d prefer it over a native client option though, that does better than Google’s own offering.

At some point, I think I need to bust out AIDE :-).

So my mother calls me at work for something “Important” that probably fits in the 3/10 or 5/10 buckets, which is a blocking I/O event when you’re trying to debug code, eh? This is something anyone out of grade school should understand by now:

1. Walking in
• In addition to calling (see below), blocks visual input if face is turned to look at you.
2. Calling (E.g. phones, Skype calls, etc).
• Blocks other tasks requiring conversational or non-automated mental function.
• Suitable for urgent matters that demand a response time under five seconds.
• Signal and local state issues may get you ignored to /dev/voicemail.
3. Rolling conversations (E.g. from a desk away, over TeamSpeak, etc).
1. Blocks either tasks requiring conversational output (responding) and reading comprehension (listening).
2. Suitable for when a response time under 15 seconds is okay and you can repeat something.
4. Messaging (E.g. instant message, text/SMS message).
1. Suitable for when response time under 5 minutes is ideal but not urgent.
2. Temporarily blocks text output ON writing a response.
5. Electronic post (E.g. e-mail, forum PM, etc).
1. Suitable for when response time of 2-5 hours is okay.
2. Minimal obstruction when response is uneeded and notification can wait.
6. Snail Mail
1. When it involves something you can’t digitize.
2. Risk of being ignored is acceptable.