Xfinity thought we had a problem, so they cancelled our tech support visit
It’s like bizarro tech support. “Oh, you are having an issue? Let me cancel the tech appointment.”
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Thoughts on starting a digital garden
Years ago, I loved Mike Caulfield’s explanation of how many internet platforms today are streams, not gardens. This concept re-emerged in this tweet today. This is inspiring me to make my own digital garden. As I said in my twitter reply, there are so many amazing resources in this list of digital gardeners. I’m going …
Reading the lyrics before hearing the music
What if we read lyrics before hearing the song? You have no idea what the music will sound like. Or even the genre. All you have are the lyrics in words. Some songs might sound more poetic than their audio/music version. Some other songs’ lyrics would certainly sound really lame when you just read it …
Globulos the fun Flash game from the 2000s
Arcade fun and simultaneous turn based strategy in the 2000s
How to find cheap #1 cards on Quidd Market
Quidd’s new marketplace looks like it could be a place to make some money. So far what seems to really sell for high prices on Quidd are cards serialized as #1. Makes sense, the count #1 card is always the most sought-after. Three ways of getting a count #1 card in Quidd Random luck through …
Yeti Iceweaver (Crazy Defense Heroes) digital card
For about six months I actively collected digital cards on the Quidd iOS app. I spent a couple dollars inside the app. I eventually gave it up, because the app was getting more and more geared leveraged for people who spent money to buy a ton of coins (which then in turn is used to …
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Hyperspace through thesaurus.com
Leave a browser window open with an entry from thesaurus.com. After about 30 seconds, this giant ad will automatically appear. I’m working on two monitors, so one of my monitors all of the sudden made me feel like I was traveling through hyperspace. *In a trance* “Yesssss, I want to jooooin IBM Clouuuuuud” Ironic that …
Electricity cost calculator
We have a porch light that we used to keep on all the time. We would just forget to turn it off. Now that I have a smart bulb in there, it’s running a schedule (5pm to 5am), so I’m saving 12 hours of electricity. There’s a cool calculator that figures out how much money …
Cracking the mystery of the unicode horizontal lines
The problem of special characters appearing as horizontal lines or blank boxes Sometimes people will use cute unicode characters as their Twitter name or Linkedin name. But then the text appears as a bunch of horizontal lines. Here’s a Linkedin user’s name as it appears in Chrome: What are those horizontal lines? Whenever I scroll …
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List of recommended podcasts, March 2021
Under five minutes:• Biz in 60 seconds• WSJ minute briefing• LensWork• Little Happier• 60-second science• 2-minute jazz Conversational style:• The BeanCast (marketing)• Circulating Ideas (librarians)• Happier with Gretchen Rubin (life hacks)• MBMBaM (comedy)• ReCode Media (tech/business)• Something You Should Know• Hidden Brain• Hidden Forces• 40 Minutes In The Old Testament• Christianity on Trial Prepared/organized/researched:• Bible Project (by far my #1 most …