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Reading a page about the local movie theater planning to re-open, I couldn’t help but be amused. In the sense, yes, they’re taking it seriously and have defined sane policies; amused in the sense that I can see what antics are liable to follow.

And then there’s another aspect of the world’s current situation: the notion of releasing film available to rent a stream, ala Amazon. ‘Cuz I’ve only waited about thirty years for Instant Cassettes to be a thing.
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The scale of getting things done:

  1. Urgent and important.
  2. Urgent but not important.
  3. Not urgent but important.
  4. Not urgent and not important.
Or for a visual que let’s borrow one from Wikipedia:
While it took me a long time to learn about the connection to president Eisenhower, I’ve generally found this decision matrix a pretty good way for classifying things. It works really well. Because urgency controls attention, and importance determines making sure it happens, which leads to much doing.
And then there’s what I call The Class 5 Full Roaming Vapor–something that is not urgent, but is important, and that makes you feel like having a shot of whiskey in the mean time. These kinds of things: you can kinda picture smack dab in the middle of the chart, lol.
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A friend mentioned second guessing themselves, so I offered this in response:

If I was better at drawing, I’d probably make another one for my “Amok time” method of solving problems I don’t now the solutions too, lol.
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Me: “Things I can blame on genetics: dunking a donut in my coffee.”

Willow: “What about the lack of sharing, human?”
Me: “Ummm, the baker?”
Misty: “Bastard….”
Corky: snorts
And may the coffee flow. 

Passing thought: omnitasking

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A thought reoccurring to me often of late: is how many updates I’ve been meaning to write here in my journal, and filed under “Do that later.”

The answer is of course: too many.

My time has been pretty much a simple cycle of work, taking care home, or trying to garner enough downtime to recover from the formers. On the positive side, I’m not dead yet.
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This Was Apple’s Most Significant WWDC Announcement. Why It’s Bad News for Google and Facebook Developers will have to disclose exactly what information their apps collect about users. 


An interesting idea but I doubt much will truly change.
In my Android → iPad conversion I came to the conclusion that Android made it easier for me to know what data I am sharing with applications; iOS makes it more clear that I am sharing data. But in practice people aren’t going to stop using their services just because of data collection. At best, we can hope users read the privacy policies, and that the platform gods police bad actors on their store fronts.