Random Musings
Studying for my driver’s permit. Hoping to take the test next week. I haven’t driven a car in 30 years. Wish me luck. The road should be nervous, not me.
Tomorrow is April 1. March was a blink. Where did it go? What was I even doing? Scratching my head.
There are only 51 Rice’s whales left on Earth. They live exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico — that’s their whole world. Today, the Trump administration’s “God Squad” voted to strip their Endangered Species Act protections so oil drilling could proceed unobstructed. No energy company even asked for this.
That would be devastating if those whales are gone. No more whale watching. Can you imagine that?
As one law professor put it:
“If Trump is successful here, he could be the first person in history to knowingly extirpate a species from the face of the earth.”
Most streaming services default captions to the smallest size, don’t carry across devices, finding where to adjust them varies. The How-To Geek article breaks down where to find the settings. For Deaf/HoH viewers, that’s not a minor annoyance. It’s a barrier.
I’ve been a geek my whole life. I just didn’t always have the word for it.
It started early. It survived a Tandy, MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and decades of blogging across more platforms than I care to count. Eventually it even became the name of this blog.
Which made me start wondering where the word actually came from — because it clearly didn’t start as a compliment.
“Three central components of subjective well-being were considered: life satisfaction, positive emotional states, and negative emotional states.” - Dr. Susanne Bücker
Research points to the 70s as the happiest decade of all.
But for me, at 50 is my happiest time of my life, living in a tiny house in the Appalachian hills, working a side job on my own terms, sitting on my porch watching the mountains do nothing fast — I think I’ve already found it. Maybe happiness isn’t an age. It’s a life that fits.
But I’ll check back in at 70. Just to see.
Still rocking my 2017 Pixelbook, minimal lag. The 16GB model was the right call.This article nails it, sticking with Chromebooks over the MacBook Neo makes sense. ChromeOS and Android work seamlessly together. With AluminiumOS merging both, why switch to Apple now?
A leaked LEGO set of Gaudí’s Sagrada Família could dethrone every set before it. At 12,060 pieces and $599.99, set 21065 drops July 1, 2026 — right on the 100th anniversary of Gaudí’s death. Curious to see how it comes together. But with zero shelf space, I’ll admire it from afar.
New research finds the U.S. has caused roughly $10 trillion in global climate damage through its emissions since 1990 — more than any other country. The bill is real. The tab keeps growing. And we’re still arguing about whether it’s a problem.
Donald Trump has accelerated this abrogation, however, withdrawing the US from a loss and damage fund set to up aid vulnerable countries, as well as removing the country from global climate treaties, urging a “drill, baby, drill” approach to oil and gas extraction, and taking extraordinary measures to hobble domestic clean energy projects.
Those sliding doors are everything. I’d love something like that in my own place — maybe it’s finally time to replace that old door I’ve been holding onto. Future project? I think yes.