I think I’m going to actively crosspost all the photos I post on Instagram here, on my personal website, as well. I find more value posting photos on Instagram because that’s where my community is but, at the same time, I’m loath to leave my content existing exclusively on a third-party’s infrastructure. Especially when that infrastructure is owned by Facebook.
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2018.9.3
I’ve been putting off getting a book printed that contains my best photos of 2017. Today I decided to just pull the trigger and get it printed and I’m super excited to have it in my hands in a few weeks!
I made my first stir fry this evening: broccoli, fresh beans, red peppers, and carrots, along with spicy baked tofu. For no good reason I’ve been hesitant to make these kinds of dishes; I think it’s the sound of popping garlic and ginger irrationally made me think that it was somehow complicated to make. I’m glad to have finally overcome that hesitation and look forward to making more of these dishes going forward.
I spent a large portion of last night deleting all of my iCloud-stored data on my iOS devices and then re-downloading all of my data. Again.
The reason: Photos wasn’t updating across all of my devices. Again.
It’s maddening that Apple can’t seem to get syncing to work reliably across their devices. These kinds of failures makes it challenging for me to recommend people to fully invest in Apple’s services.
Crazy excited about the next, truly final, season of Star Wars: Clone Wars that was announced at Comic Con.
An annual renewal fee from Evernote unexpectedly showed up on my credit card; I’d cancelled my premium account over a year ago, and the company’s official policy asserted that they would not reverse any premium subscriptions. In contrast to the asserted policy, the CSR I worked with immediately reversed the fee and apologized for the error. While I’m not a huge fan of Evernote’s current business practices I definitely appreciate that its CSRs are empowered to work counter to stated policies!
After setting up my media centre over the weekend, I learned that my 10+ year old Harman Karman Soundsticks speakers just…stopped working when they were connected to my TV. They worked when plugged into my iPhone but not when I used the TV’s composite ports. In a fit of desperation I did a factory reset on the TV, figuring that if that didn’t resolve it then I’d just conclude that something happened to the TV during my move. However, post-reset, the composite ports are working. It’s entirely unclear what the problem really was or how the reset fixed the problem. But, at least I once more have decent sound for music and videos.
The life transition I’m currently embroiled in is, I suspect, like the tide: I’m already caught in the undertow but don’t really appreciate what it means. Fortunately as a Maritimer, I know to let the undertow pull you out a ways from the shore and then swim perpendicular to it to avoid the worst of its effects. I’m pretty ready to start swimming.
It’s a profoundly strange experience knowing that my work was cited in the development of a US Presidential Executive Order (in this case, on the relative merits of cyber security transparency reporting).
Played Fortnite for the first time this evening. I can super appreciate why it’s so popular and why people enjoy just watching it online.
Excited Pixels 