Well...this one was a suprise... Grammarly is doing a Year in Review, and I guess by whatever metrics they've collected and measured from the emails, proposals, and papers I've written in 2024 I am an "inventor" 😹

Reddit has the weirdest measuments for how long you've been on their platform.  They measure time spent on there as "bananas scrolled" - which brings to mind jokes like "Americans will use almost anything to measure things, except metric" 😹.  After being presented with communities like ForgottenTV and MartialArts, I joined those.  Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and old TV shows, and

My complete and utter 🐂💩 cardWell, this was a weird one for me. I saw this posted on people's timelines on LinkedIn, and I thought I'd give it a try to see what kind of things it gleaned about me.  I didn't change any of the automatically generated text (I assume it's some kind of GPT). I used LinkedIn more in 2023 than I had used it in the past.  And, mostly to boost messages posted

At the end of  November, I decided to scale back a lot of my Twitter usage (no, I won't call it "X").  I've been using Fedica to cross-post across mastodon, bluesky, and twitter since this summer (and when threads becomes available, I'll post on threads too). Meanwhile I have 5 tabs open in the browser, and four apps on my old phone (now used like an "iPod touch" style device) that I use

In my older mobile device retrospective series, I guess I totally forgot about PenPoint!  Since I was just reminded about its existence again, I thought I'd look it up and see what it looked like (last time I thought about this OS, MacOS 9 was still a thing...).   PenPoint was a product of GO Corporation and it was one of the earliest operating systems written specifically for personal

 Well... I didn't think I'd be migrating from one Mastodon server to another one so soon (I just created the account this past spring!), but here we are! 🙄 I joined this particular server because it seemed like this was where fellow academics were going after they left Twitter (or while they were co-establishing their presence on Mastodon). I should have read the prohibitions a bit more carefully

Wow! Almost a month since I started to comment on this and only now do I have some free time to actually finish my comments 😂.OK, I am an Apple fan. I've gotten a bit more critical over the years, but I still like their products (more or less).  I think VisionPro (AVP) is a bit rushed to market.  No one is saying the β word, and people are treating this as the product, but I honestly

I don't often pay attention to dev-conferences these days, but every so often something catches my eye.  This time around it was Google's annual I/O event where new devices were announced.  The Pixel 7a looks interesting. It looks like a solid replacement for my aging Moto Z3, but it's still a slab of glass.  It seems like a lot of the cool stuff for this phone is under the hood in Android

Here's another Reddit find in the r/vintagecomputing subreddit.  What if MacOS had support for Vintage (aka obsolete) Mac hardware, such as the Mac Plus?  It might look a  little something like this! It's always fun to look a bit at the alt-history of computing :-). I wonder what the MacOS would have looked like today if Apple had retained the Platinum look!

 TVTime, the app I use to track what I've watched on TV (and in various streaming services) gave me a "rewind" this year. I think some of my stats are a little skewed because I marked a lot of episodes watched in 2022 when I had really watched them in years prior, and I only really rated like 4% of the episodes that I watched.  Maybe in 2023 I'll rate things more consistently to see what