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Nanoleaf Aurora Light Panels

I haven’t hidden my ongoing interest in smart devices. One product that caught my attention were Nanoleaf light panels but even by smart device standards, they’re pretty pricey. Fortunately, I set-up an alert on Facebook Marketplace and the other day, I found a young guy who was selling not just one but two sets which […]

¶ Posted 21 April 2021 § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, music

Throwback Thursday – MacBook Pro (November 2012)

I’m not 100% sure but I think this is a picture of the box when I bought my last laptop, a MacBook Pro, sometime in 2012? I’ve had a few maintenance things over the years – I think I replaced the hard drive, added memory going from 4 to 8GB, bought a new power […]

¶ Posted 01 April 2021 § List § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

I Did Not Wake Up Expecting To Do A Covid Test Today…

…but my RN wife brought home a box of rapid tests as some healthcare staff are being encouraged to test themselves regularly to help catch Covid before it can spread in the hospital. Since they were also allowed to test family members, I got to be the guinea pig for her first “at home” test […]

¶ Posted 30 March 2021 § Family § Jobs § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health, science

Friday Fun Link – Apple’s M1 Chip

The announcement of the new Apple M1 chip last fall finally got me to make the leap from using a ~2012-era MacBook Pro which was at the point that it was basically held together with digital duct tape and prayers to buying a new MacBook Air which arrived this week. I’ll likely share some expanded […]

¶ Posted 26 March 2021 § Internet § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, language, science, youtube

Why No Aquarium Has A Great White Shark

Random Sunday afternoon YouTube algorithm finds…both interesting and sad:

¶ Posted 21 March 2021 § Randomness § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, science, unitedstates

Saskatchewan Billionaire Becomes Tech Titan

Wow – never realised that the head of CloudFlare is from Saskatchewan For the record, Zatlyn’s stake in Cloudflare, based on its market capitalization of $28 billion, amounts to over $1 billion. That’s ‘one’ with nine zeros after it. We’re in a binary digital world but that one and all those zeros mean so much […]

¶ Posted 16 February 2021 § Internet § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – Seven Creative Ways To Organize Your Mobile Apps

My personal system is “most used apps on the first page with roughly themed rows”, “other commonly used apps on the second page” and then everything else sorted into folders on the following pages by category but as a librarian, I feel like I should switch to one of these creative classification systems.

¶ Posted 05 February 2021 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) °

I’m at an age where…

…I find myself downloading apps to test my hearing at midnight, suddenly worried that a lifetime of listening to loud music and going to concerts that left my ears ringing is catching up to me. (Luckily, at least according to a free iPhone app, I have nothing to worry about…yet.)

¶ Posted 02 February 2021 § Humour § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health, science

What Is Going On With Game Stop & Reddit?

Well, the dominant narrative of this story is “large group of Internet-enabled Reddit underdogs figure out strategy to bankrupt billion dollar hedge fund” but the reality, as usual, is probably a lot more complicated and also consequential.