Today, I took my own advice. I cleaned my cubicle. Not ready for the photo session, yet (maybe Monday), but I put a major dent in the “waiting to be recycled” pile. Nineteen older laptops, among other things. And with all that new space in the cubicle, I can hand it off to whoever with a carefree heart.
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At what point did the sales model (of far too many products) change. What used to be payment on delivery has evolved into “test on delivery” and “let us know if things work out”.
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I work in the public sector, for now. After three decades, I’ve finally figured out what sets us apart from the private sector. We don’t believe in savings. Got a dime? Spend it, before the end of the fiscal year. That’s it. Nothing else.
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I’m a gearhead. Nothing to do with wheels and sprockets, and everything to do with patching one electronic device into another. This afternoon, with only the dog to protest, my first massive MIDI test is completed.
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Recently, on an episode of Glee, I watched Santana dancing through a basement with something that looked like an oversize Lego brick. The “what could it be?” urge sent me searching, and with the help of YouTube and Google Goggles, I learned that it might be a Jawbone. Pardon the code; a particular model of Bluetooth speaker that seems to have quite a following among the technologically equipped.
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Two dogs. A window on the world. People passing in the street. All that lacks is a translation of the the dialogue.
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How do you handle leftover portions of food from your kitchen? Do you place the food on a plate, covered in a thin layer of plastic? Do you place the food in hermetically sealed plastic boxes, able to withstand the wind tunnel conditions of a modern frost-free refrigerator? Or do you convince the dog that he really does live in Paradise. Careful. The question is tricky, and the response laden with meaning. You could (unknowingly) be aligned with me, against me, or in the camp of the impartial observer.
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About a year ago, we went to the Metropolis, for the fun of it. A chance to get out of the house, test our multilingualism and shop. A little. We’re not big shoppers. Along the way, after an afternoon of shopping for brass, I decided to add a MIDI controller to the facilities here. Even upscaled, when the price point was right.
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Let the record show. Rather, let my record show that we are at the end of April. There is still a certain quantity of old snow around (front yard, tree line, over by the bus stop) and the pool has more ice than I need. The seasons are running late, and it probably won’t make any difference in the long run, but I want to make a note of such things.
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Faced with a forgotten password, my friend Google showed me the back door. I have a love/hate relationship with products from Apple. Goes back, possibly, to a long ago attempt to run a program written in some version of Apple Basic, on a II belonging to the math department. Spent an afternoon, only to have someone point out that there were several varieties of the language. I didn’t have the necessary one. But that was just the seed.
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