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.
Un-Business Cards or Calling Cards
I have business cards, they advertise the business I’m a partner in. They don’t advertise me as an individua...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.
Jinhao X750 Fountain Pen: First Impressions
I wanted a cheap fountain pen to carry everyday because pens I carry have a habit of getting lost. This pen generally s...Testing Omnibear.
Watches, notepads, fountain pens, business cards, journals - I seem to have this need to get my everyday carry kit in order.
And this is just the analog stuff. The digital revolves around my smartphone and the services I rely on and all that is on hold, out of my control until the e.foundation starts selling phones with a version of Android OS with all things Google removed PLUS a set of cloud services to replace all the Googly services you use with normal Android. That’s going to happen this year, I hope.
One thing, with phone, shirt pocket briefcase and 2 pens my shirt pocket is at capacity.
Posted earlier: Automatic Wrist Watches Because analog time is more better than digital time.
Automatic Wrist Watches
I’ve stated before that I have set aside smart watches and gone back to an analog timepiece. One problem I had wit...I am over my limit for feed to follow on Inoreader free. I may have to either pay or move to a different reader. I’ve been experimenting with Wordpress reader but I’m finding it cumbersome.
Currently reading: Murder on the Orient (SS): The Agatha Christie Book Club 2 by C. A. Larmer 📚
Like: Normal Horoscopes by @kicks who finds really neat stuff, weird but neat, while dancing at the edge of The Abyss.
From the Archives: Let Us Build a New Web We needn’t wait around for somebody else to do it, we can all create our little corner of the web, right now.
Currently reading: Fool Moon (Dresden Files Book 2) by Jim Butcher 📚
I hate time changes.
Things I Learned Today: There is such a thing as Womens Rugby which I think is cool. Mainly because I think we need more rugby as a sport here in the USA but also because it’s another opportunity for women.
Currently reading: Storm Front (Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher 📚
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
Fountain Pens
A few years ago I got into fountain pens and experimented with them for awhile, then cleaned them up and stored them aw...When a major company like Automattic sends you to Github to update to the next version of Simplenote for Linux you know you are screwed. Github is for coders, NOT the general public. True to my prediction, it didn’t go well.