This is where @maiki microblogs, a digital scratchpad.
You (yes you) are encouraged to interact, argue, correct, emojify, or whatever, any message in this thread. It is for discussion, otherwise I would have kept it to myself.
Be bold! We will split off conversations as they become interesting.
I may have just unlocked a secret in the universe: when I’m facing a low-value decision paralysis… ask my kid to choose for me! This is gonna open doors for me, I’m sure.
30 years ago I was the kid all the faculty asked to print birthday banners from the dot matrix printer. Today I discovered my laser printer can print on both sides of pages, configured directly from the print modal in Linux, from a LibreOffiice Write Document…
The future is bright, my friends! It’s gonna be so much easier to print zines now!
A “smart wall”, which listens to the ambient sound of an open space, such as a cafe, and when it picks up an idiom, present a multimedia presentation of the history of that phrase.
I can talk to a machine and it mimics a human pretty well, and yet I can’t get a good photo of this amazing scene, shared by billions of humans throughout time and place…
No idea the lesson there. Probably should learn nighttime photography.
Douglas is a Scottish masculine given name which originated from the surname Douglas. Although today the name is almost exclusively given to boys, it was used as a girl’s name in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the north of England.
– Douglas (given name) - Wikipedia
I may have to declare physical notes bankruptcy. As in, I am not even going to try to transcribe some of them. I need to let them go. They are holding me back, literal boxes of paper. I’m done.
My hope is if I start over, maybe I’ll be on top of it again.
Since this would be the first time in decades, there is a chance I will just be able to use notes as a tool, and never really deal with too many again.