First Step Toward Failure

Finally got to my first Twitter post ever. I’ve been on a campaign to delete as many tweets as I can. Knocking off the low-performers, the dumb posts, written in haste, zero-engagement, etc. I could only go so far back in the timeline before the infinite scroll stops scrolling. Twitter stops showing older posts at …

Turning Cranks With No Thanks

I have seen the greatest minds of my generation copied, co-opted, ripped off, written over, memified, stolen, and misapplied whenever they put their best efforts into the work they post on the internet. I have no illusions that my own work has become grist for the mill. I’ve seen it. Most of my readers are …

Handset Snips Music at the Ankles

A few days ago my Pixel 4a phone, running Android 13, started exhibiting a problem where I can play music in VLC, pause it with my Bluetooth headset, wait a few minutes, and when I unpause with the same headset, I get no response. Crickets. No music plays. So I wake up the screen, see …