Reacting to my friends’ posts either to say, “Hey, I see you, and I love you, and I want you to know this is a great medium and hope you express yourself more here. Join us!” or otherwise to say, “I like this post.” — and keeping them guessing which one I’m saying. Enjoy the …
Category Archives: Technology
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 …
Old Kid, New Town
For those who are interested, I have a Mastodon account. There you can follow me, and interact, and engage, and tease, and tempt, and cajole, and love love love. Sweet love. Please be gentle.
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 …