At this point, the Steve Jobs era is far enough in the past that it’s almost dumb to note that Apple under Tim Cook is quite muchly different. Still, I’m a member of the old guard and I’m still adjusting to this weird company that regularly makes its top-tier executives available for interviews. (Yes, “when the
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Oh, whoops: by “Tweaker” I’m referring to me, not to the subject of this photo (Chad Johnson, aka OMGChad, a fab former producer at TWiT who’s now off on his own and building his own business hosting his own YouTube channel). And I don’t mean “tweaking” in the sense of being hopped up on
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Here’s a photo I shot for the column I just filed. I had to go back and reshoot it: If you’re a Raspberry Pi user, you’re sure to spot the problem. …Got it? Okay: I populated its ports as though it were in operation. USB cable, ethernet cable, HDMI cable…but dammit, yeah, I
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(Credit must be paid to the awesome “Life In A Typewriter Shop” blog.)
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A dog I once knew loved a stuffed chicken toy. He carried that chicken toy everywhere. It was a love that had no rational foundation, and like many instances of true love, anyone outside of that relationship was at a complete loss to explain it. But it was a pure love. Witnessing this love made me happy. Happy enough to
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Yes, British and US spy agencies infiltrated the systems of the world’s largest maker of SIM cards and stole the encryption keys that allow private individuals to have private conversations. After so many breathtaking revelations, one of my reactions to this news is “Well! At least the NSA was forced to break in to this
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I was grateful for this New York Times piece. It explores the reasons why some vets are bothered to some degree when someone who clearly has never served in the military comes up and says “Thank you for your service.” This phrase entered the lexicon sometime in the past ten years. I instinctively liked the
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Okay, not bad at all! I’m pretty happy with that. Oh, not my physical appearance. My apologies for thrusting this odd blob of pixels into your face…sometimes I forget that I’ve literally had decades to make my peace with the sight of this. No, I’m referring to the lighting. AÂ new piece of lighting equipment arrived
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It’s Tuesday night. I’m nice and warm and on my sofa, I’ve got things baking in the oven, and I’m watching a TV show that I’m barely interested in. When the storm began on Monday night, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to say any of these things tonight, let alone say it from a computer with
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Okay! I’m done. I carried the last handcart full of firewood from the car to my Supplemental Woodpile, wrapped it up in a blue tarp, laid a pair of snow shovels on top like the cross marking the furtive burial plot of the weakest member of team of Antarctic explorers, and then I said goodbye to the outside
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The Verge got another chance to fondle Project Ara, the big stinkers. They wrote up what little details exist of this most cool work-in-progress. Project Ara is (a) Google’s experiment to build a fully-modular smartphone, and (b) a strong example of why the tech world needs Google. It’s bonkers. Phones cost anywhere from $0 to
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Why does the official name of this website still say “Beta?” Jeez. Well, look at it! Yeah, see, for years I’ve been trying to make this site look nice and clean and modern. But in golf terms, I have no short game. I can move the ball from the tee to just short of the green with accuracy
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I decided to run a not-entirely-necessary errand in the city yesterday. I could have put it off until next week but I wanted an excuse to see the lights and the city tree — or at least a tree in the city of Boston — before Christmas. This here is my kind of Christmas
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Sometimes, you see a work of art and you break out into spontaneous applause. Here we see two examples. Augustus Saint-Gauden’s “Diana” there in the background is well-known. It was originally designed to adorn the top of Madison Square Garden (the cool, original one) and was fitted out as a weathervane, of all things. It
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“Pure Imagination”/”Golden Ticket” We kick off the season with a double-header, sensation-seekers. We have the pig-bastard greed of the record industry to thank for this: the movie soundtrack to “Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory” is only purchasable as a whole album, not as individual tracks. IÂ ought to approve of this, in principle. Ugh. Seriously?
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