Brad Enslen

I have no opinion on Cardi B. I don’t feel compelled to have an opinion on Cardi B, for or against, as social media would have it, cos I know nothing about her. All this focus on celebs is just a distraction.

Got the early spring fertilizer and crabgrass killer down on the lawn. This year I’m switching from Tru-Green service to doing it myself with Scott’s 4 Step. Saving a lot of money this way.

Twitter Survival Guide: Don’t click on “Promoted Tweets”. Most of the time, these go to sites made to show maximum advertisements over maximimum page views. Click bait.

Political Correctness does not seem to be totally compatible with comedy, free speech, art, literature, etc. Amongst people of goodwill, what a person is saying is much more important than how they say it.

This. The EU has bigger problems to deal with than Brexit And this is only part of the problems. There is more.

Trump is creeping me out.

B2evolution version 6.11.0-beta adds Webmentions support for Indieweb. This is a great addition to an excellent CMS.

Things I learned on Twitter file: Actress Honor Blackman was a motorcycle dispatch rider during World War II. Per: Tweet with photo Ms. Blackman known for her roles in The Avengers TV series and James Bond movie.

Anyone who thinks there is one simple answer or solution to each of the great problems facing our society is delusional. Treating the symptoms does not address the underlying causes.

Stop words when I shop for a watch (meaning I quit looking at it):

• rose gold
• uni-sex
• carbon fiber
• day/date
• chronograph
• (any fashion designer brand name)
• eco-drive
• solar

I’ve been trying to remember how I first heard about Micro.blog and – nothing. I remember looking at the site, I remember signing up, but not how I found it.

“Stranger Things” TV series looks really good. I don’t have Netfix so I’ve never seen it and I’m not subscribing to Netflix just for one show.

Finished reading: Murder on the Orient (SS): The Agatha Christie Book Club 2 by C. A. Larmer 📚

Finished reading: Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, Book 4) by Jim Butcher 📚

It’s tax time. Needed to print out hard copies of PDF tax docs emailed to me end of last week. Elderly laser printer connected to iMac. But iMac died last year. Hooked up cheapo replacement linux laptop to replace iMac. Laptop test prints fine. PDF’s print as garbage. Waste lots of paper trying different things, different browsers. Still garbage. Finally try downloading PDF’s to hard drive and print. Works.

Meanwhile, my couple of months old Kobo ereader’s battery has started draining abnormally fast - 100% to 5% in one hour. Trying factory reset. Unit charging. Will test. Meanwhile I will look up to see if it’s covered under warranty.

Between these two things, just trying to print some damn documents and troubleshooting an ereader with battery problems has taken up the better part of a day.

And we haven’t even gotten to the taxes yet.

Finished reading: Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3) by Jim Butcher 📚

Okay, so I’m sitting here wondering if vampires can withstand the sound of bagpipe music.

Listening/Watching: Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Dream, a little dream

I spent some time last night reading reviews of the iPhone XR and inspite of all the slobbering superlatives in those reviews, nothing convinced me to go back to an iPhone except the improved privacy over Android. Access to Apple Pay may also be a factor because I trust Apple Pay over Google Pay. The rest was bigger, faster, longer, more cool and do what Apple says and what Apple wants. No innovation.

And again, the Apple walled garden is everywhere: “not compatible with existing micro-SIM cards” which means I can’t switch back and forth between an Android phone and the XR. Use Apple’s Safari browser or pound sand. Use our proprietary cords.

iOS 12? Boring. Again, bigger, faster, longer but still the same old iOS.

Price? Cheaper than all the flagship phones but still a lot of money for a phone that does not have fingerprint ID. Screw that.

Interesting. This, The Justwrite Post came up on my Twitter feed. Fountain pen users might be interested.

For the last couple of years about the only thing I write in cursive with a pen are checks. Otherwise it has all been keyboard typing. Writing anything at length with a pen is like relearning how to write. Fortunately, like riding a bike, it comes back quickly.

Writing with a fountain pen brings it to a different level. More arm, less wrist and fingers and different angle. Or something.

Which makes me wonder if writing with a fountain pen, might be good exercise for preventing carpal tunnel? Dunno.