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Oh Yeah! Another Power Outage!
This is super cool. Well, since it is currently 92 degrees maybe cool is the wrong word.
Power went off around 11:00 am. Projected time of repair is 2:30 pm.
Makes for an interesting start to the week.
My guess is that a power transformer exploded (heat related) but it could just as easily be a stupid motherfonker who hit a stupid motherfonking telephone pole. Telephone poles, in and of themselves, is a funny term because we don’t use landlines anymore.
Update: 3:47 pm – “They” do not anticipate power restoration until the early evening hours. Some gizmo or “do-dad’ broke. It’s technical.
Updated: 7.16.2018 – Added a cool photo I took in extremely low light conditions.
Because Y’all Know How I Feel About This
Google. Stop hijacking words to make them mean what you want them to mean.
Fonking motherfonking shizznods.
Trello for Project Management
I was looking around for an easy project manager to use that would work with my iPad. I use the iPad for my planner (Pocket Informant) so it just made sense to use an app for project management as well.
Trello looks promising. They have some add-ons you can purchase but most of the functionality is free. Trello isn’t just an app but also has a web interface for those team mates that may not have Apple products. The folks that work for me don’t have iPhones, for example. No problem. The web interface works the same as the app on the iPad.
I have converted a couple of planner entries to projects and am looking forward to adding my team members to the process.
One of the major problems we have is reporting what we are working on and communication between us. We don’t always keep each other in the loop. This type of software should help fix that problem.
I’ll post back after using this for a week. I’m hopeful.
Happy Birthday Aaron!
Just like to say for the record that I remember holding this guy as a baby when I was 13 years old.
Pretty sure he would have no problems holding me at this point.
Happy Birthday baby brother!
Great Idea!
I saw this post this morning and totally agree that this would be a great way to go with the Mac Mini.
Apple could still claim that Mr. Cook’s promise is in force. Apple could offer the most basic configuration of the 2019 Mac Pro as the 2019 Mac mini. At Mac mini pricing levels.
Of course, if properly designed, that very same chassis could be outfitted with the highest level of computational power. Say, 32 Xeon cores, 256, 512, or 1,024 GB of RAM, a 4 TB SSD. Plus a monster graphics system and all kinds of other plug-ins that would be beyond the realm of an ordinary Mac mini. That’s the $10,000 Mac Pro we’ve always been thinking of.
By cleverly designing a 2019 Mac Pro modular chassis, Apple neatly avoids product overlap and gives the Mac mini user base the upgradable Mac mini they’ve been dreaming of. And so customers of all kinds could start low, upgrade as they go, or start in the middle or go right to the top. The Mac world will have achieved computational heaven.
Fonking Shizz
I’m reading a book series called “Space Team.” The characters have translation chips imbedded in their heads that allow them to communicate with alien species.
The funny part about the whole thing is that the company who created the technology doesn’t allow cursing. When it picks up a curse word, it substitutes that word with something considered “safe.” Just hearing that from the Audible book reader is enough to make you laugh.
And that…is some fonking shizz!
News App Fail
The biggest (and if I’m honest) only complaint about the Apple News App has always been the inability to remove politics from the news. I hate politics and I do NOT want to see ANY politics in the news feed. I see various promises that claim that they only populate your news feed with the items you say you are interested in but sadly, that is just not true.
xBox One X
I ordered a new xBox yesterday morning. I waited an entire year to see if the price would drop. It did not.
Looking forward to seeing how much better the graphics are. I have an xBox One S with 4k resolution but the processor(s) aren’t really designed for the advanced graphics of 4k.
Not too many options as I had when I ordered a One S. My One S is blue. I don’t recall seeing any other color available than black.
Update: NOT at all disappointed. This machine rocks!! You can tell the difference between the One S and the One X straight away. The details are amazing and the game play is a lot more smooth. Thumbs way up.
