Link. Part of my strategy for sharing to photo streams and google
Author Archives: jgordon
“standing firm with predatory autocrats. And one of them is the President of the United States”
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The Ferrara hockey legend.
Link. Hockey has the best people.
Work: downhill after 45.
Link. Retirement age still real.
MOOCs, Baumol, and university costs.
Link. Health care vs education
iCloud backups still unencrypted.
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“Bekenstein-Hawking entropy …. number of elementary areas of size Planck-length squared.”
Link. Suggestion spacetime quantum.
GOP modeled as 6 blocks
Link. T showed I don’t understand US politics.
eBooks: someone notices the DRM.
Link. Very annoying.
Google is crushing Apple on Maps.
Link. Apple appears to have given up.
High-Fiber Diet & Knee Arthritis
Link. Skeptical I am
Air Travel always sucked.
Link. Smoking on planes was more awful than you can imagine.
The progressive agenda and sympathy for the deplorables.
Link. There is always someone smarter.
Airlines suck and it’s your employer’s fault.
Link. Business travelers must buy on price alone.
Gmail adds Inbox’s Smart Reply.
Link. Inbox isn’t replacing Gmail very quickly.
Using neural nets to enhance neural nets.
Link. Pretty sure Vernor Vinge wrote about this feedback loop.
Disability before the ADA.
Link. Still early in understanding the contextual relativity of disability.
Kushner’s secure Russian communications: “We shouldn’t assume they didn’t succeed.”
Link. Indeed.
In memorium: Frank Faughnan
Link. 1922-2017. My father.
There are no good digital picture frame (slideshow) apps for iPad
This is mind boggling. Water water everywhere — and not a drop to drink. With the demise of picmatic (now a squatter app) there’s no longer a digital picture frame app for iPad.
The original lock screen app from Apple is long gone. The Photos.app slideshow has very obscure settings and no randomizer. LiveFrame.app was flaky in my testing.
That’s it. There’s nothing left.
The iPad has the smell of week old fish these days.
iPad Photos.app slideshow feature settings: extremely obscure.
Link. Wow. Also, no random. WTF Apple.
Resolving Modern Mac Alias Files
Link. I love this stuff.
What care looks like for America’s poor.
Link. Nightmarish — GOP wants to make it worse. How do those monsters live?
“Mom, you don’t bring flowers to infantry graduation.”
Link. Her expression in photo is marvelous.
How to upload images to a specific album in Google Photos
Link. Not obvious.
PIcasa Web Albums – Google’s archival strategy
Link. Google is far better at preserving my data than Apple is.
West Virginians are Trump Chumps.
Link. Vulnerable and now lost.
Trump executing on Putin’s plan for NATO
Link. Not subtle.
ShadowSpawn push a fake news conspiracy.
Link. Hannity, InfoWars, usual vermin.
CBO scores TrumpCare. No surprises.
Link. “costs could soar for consumers who are sick or have pre-existing conditions, while premiums would fall for the healthy”
Russia may have deceived Comey into HRC investigation.
Link. Played?
Trump non-screwup interval ends with nuke sub reveal.
Link. How many hours did he go?
Uber will price based on your willingness to pay.
Link. When don’t need ride check price and quit.
Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
Link. Worth reading.
Review of Trump admin attack on net.
Link. As expected. GOP bad news.
1Password Travel Mode keeps passwords from US border search.
Link. Only with subscription.
Canadian citizenship is not inherited by adoption.
I’m a Canadian citizen. A birth child inherits that citizenship that but my adopted children do not.
Surprising.
I wonder if US citizenship is any different.
AMP invades.
Link. Surprises me.
“AlphaGo is improving too fast”
Link. China surprisingly upset by human obsolescence.
Feedbin Supports JSON Feed.
Link. And Reeder uses Feedbin.
Stalin. A brief review.
Link. It is good to know who his fans are.
Thousands of gemes determine IQ, 52 candidates found.
Link. Very hard to find.
Apologetics 2017.
Fine tuning.
Simulation hypothesis.
Fermi Paradox.
In memory of my father, Frank Faughnan 1922-2017.
Spotlight is still messed up on iOS.
Link. It ain’t just Slack and it’s not just you. 2GB+ RAM helps.
Trump Commerce Secretary loves those protest free Saudis.
Link. Freedom is unsettling.
Working remote: only at fully distributed companies.
Link. Travel restrictions are death knell
Review: Brave browser.
Link. I still need Chrome’s Flash.
Google AMP must be fought.
Link. Son of Flash.
Kushner-Trump business deals with Russian mafia are focus of investigation.
Link. Jail can happen. Pardon?
Screwed we are: “Expert” advice on malware is really dumb.
Link. “unplug the drive from the computer and put it away.” was only good one.