New hospital is looking nice
Bike riding along the riverbed
"Honestly? If you’re out today, maybe get maced. How is Black Friday not the grossest tradition we have?"
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Somebody pepper sprayed like 20 people—including a ton of kids. There’s something to be said for unmasking the violence inherent in the system. As Americans, we have access to cheap stuff secured through the occasionally-violent exploitation of other people’s labor. But it’s not quite cheap enough. So we’ve made a virtual holiday of trying to get things we don’t need for a few bucks cheaper than the person next to us.
Thanksgiving is a one of our better ideas. We, theoretically, reflect on how fortunate we are to have what we have. The day after Thanksgiving would be a great day to start thinking how we might start addressing wrongs perpetuated on anybody trampled in the process of putting together the comfort and security we are so thankful for. Instead, we’ve turned it into a symbolic date for acquiring shinier objects in anticipation of how we can best miss the point of our next major holiday. Perhaps worse, it infects Thanksgiving itself, turning the holiday into, effectively, a paean to culinary gluttony in preparation for commercial gluttony.
Gross? Gross doesn’t go nearly far enough. Look. I understand people have their things. I’d rather not get too judgmental about other peoples hobbies, fetishes, or extreme sports. But … I find Black Friday acutely depressing. I can’t even summon the energy to give a wit about about that reactionary-protest-of-dubious-usefulness, Buy Nothing Day.
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Gave my Kindle Fire a couple of days to grow on me. What I like best is the form factor. The 7” screen size makes it small enough to still fit in one hand but just large enough to view without squinting much. My last kindle I couldn’t read a book in bed with the lights off because it wasn’t backlit. My iPad is but it feels too large to lay in bed and read. Last night I read a few chapters with my Kindle Fire and it was perfect.
Options you might expect such as books, web browser and including streaming movies and TV shows are a plus. I streamed an episode of Lost and it was great. I
For $199 it makes a great buy for a tablet. It’s not as full featured as an iPad, but it’s not priced to be. For the price it’s a great tablet. If you’re a Amazon Prime member that adds more value to it. I wish they could have added a camera. That would have been a great addition.
It won’t replace my iPad, but it will be my preferred reading device.
Goodnight iPad, Goodnight Doom, Goodnight bird launching over the moon…
Have all this junk on my iPhone and still have plenty of room
PopClip for Mac
PopClip is a faster, easier way to work with text on your Mac. Just select some text with your mouse, and PopClip appears. (Yep, it’s just like iOS!)
I was wondering when someone would beat Apple to the punch on this (because I’m betting Apple will implement this in Mac OS at some future point).
