Wrote this yesterday as I was doing this yesterday.
John has his phone and the Jax phone and another Jax phone.
Jax (5 miles away) is with Nix and the Nix phone.
John on the John phone talks to Nix and Jax on the Nix phone.
John also talks to Jax on the Jax phone and the other Jax phone.
Jax doesn’t know that - because the Jax phone and the other Jax phone is with John, so John really talks to John on the Jax phone and the other Jax phone.
From the Jax phone and the other Jax phone, John talks to Jax on the Nix phone and Nix on the Nix phone.
Messages to Nix from the John phone are blue.
Messages to Nix from the other Jax phone are blue.
Messages to Nix from the Jax phone are sometimes green.
Messages to Nix from the Jax phone are sometimes blue.
Except that last sentence is inaccurate.
Because sometimes John doesn’t talk to Jax or Nix, but rather to a random stranger.
Their messages are blue.
The green messages on the Jax phone are the real messages from Jax and Nix, even though on the other Jax phone the real messages are blue.
Yes it does get confusing, but I think the time was well spent, because I could have been trying to fix the new wireless extender … because Mercury is most definitely in retrograde.
It’s complicated.
P.S. … all messages are now blue, which is as it should be.
What shouldn’t be is this hard.
2023 | 12 | 22
Two today. See the comments for why.
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How ‘rude’.
Declaring bankruptcy to avoid paying damages.
Well - it has been a long time since I saw this. Yes - you can walk into specific stores - but this was a section in a store that did a lot more.
OH - now that is interesting …
2023 | 12 | 21
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About That Adobe - Figma Thing
Sorry - but this is going to be a ‘MicroBlog Storm’. Is that a thing I hear you ask? Why yes - yes it is. If IKEA can have 🖇️ ‘Vintage IKEA’ - then hell has clearly frozen over - and a ‘MicroBlog Storm’ is definitely a thing.
Apparently ‘Vintage IKEA’ is a thing.
Two ‘words’ I never expected to see sitting adjacent to each other.
It took 12 hours to get through a day’s support requests before TextExpander. Now I handle 100 tickets in less than five hours.
Is it just me?
2023 | 12 | 20
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Dems and Repubs have a lot more in common than we might think.
In US politics … the two prime parties are symbolized by a 🔗 Donkey and Elephant.
The curious thing is that 🔗 Thomas Nast created both the original satirical cartoons.
- Same guy.
- Drew cartoons that dinged both parties.
- Both parties adopted their own cartoon …
These days they’d sue him!
Fuck TikTok.
Fuck Russell Brand.
🔗 TikTok users including Russell Brand given special status, messages show.
2023 | 12 | 19
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Not read it. Known of it for years. So not quite sure how it is classed as ‘top secret’ .. and whatever anybody knew .. it is clearly now ‘Not Top Secret’ …
Just in case you get too happy absorbing 🔗 Reasons To Be Cheerful, now you can 🔗 Cry Once a Week.
It’s all about balance.
I have saved 🔗 Layers of Time: Pace Layers of Work by Stowe Boyd to read properly later - but it triggered some other works I have been absorbing recently how the our digital worlds have been shaping our physical world for decades - and it is only accelerating.
Dear Citi - 72 hours? I didn’t even subscribe to begin with!
Careful What It Says In The Small Print
I was meant to be picking up a car from 🔗 Europcar this afternoon - for a one month reservation.
I just tried to change that reservation and pick it up early tomorrow.
Lady on the call center said no problem - and was about to hit the confirmation button … but as she was talking I hear that the new price was DOUBLE the old price.
DOUBLE!!!
When I booked car, the agent said that there would be no problem and no charge to change the booking if I need to.
I relayed this to this booking agent.
Absolutely she said, it would normally cost you 6 dollars to change the booking - and we are waiving that fee … but the contract also says that if the cost of the rental changes, we have to reflect that change in the new contract.
New job this afternoon … go down to Auckland Airport and pick up the car rental.
Ummm