Sam Davies
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“Maybe: Hillary Clinton”
Sam Davies
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My latest contribution to Richmond Family Magazine is out now! Pick up a physical copy if you’re RVA local, or read it online
There’s nothing as satisfying as watching your teenage child try to seem unaffected by your steak pun, but then seeing the slightest hint of a smile pop through, despite their best efforts to suppress it. I don’t go out of my way to embarrass my kids in public (other than being their parent who exists), but I feel it’s my duty to regularly remind them that they are but the next link in a long line of ancestral doofuses.
Sam Davies
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I like the evening bats in my neighborhood. Go get ‘em little friends!!!
Sam Davies
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LOL. Autocorrect just turned “bitlocker” into “buttock”.
Sam Davies
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Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. In my Ben & Patty Show mug (with no logo remaining)
Blueberry Maple Scone.
iPad.
Patio.
Sam Davies
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Quite a day to be a person who helps support computer systems in operating rooms. Ready for a nap. 😴
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My dreams will be forever haunted by C-00000291.
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@KimberlyHirsh Oh I’m 100% sure my take on the original is through very thick nostalgia goggles. I’d much rather play a non-green-and-black version. 😂
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@KimberlyHirsh I haven’t played the remaster but the original Gameboy game is one of my all time favorites!
Sam Davies
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I’m shopping in Kroger. A Kroger employee approaches me and asks “Do you shop at Kroger?” I hesitate, wondering how I am being tricked.
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Ice breaker at work: “What did you want to be when you grew up?" Truest answer: Swift Heart Rabbit, the Care Bear Cousin.
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From last night’s Letters from an American:
About the effect of tonight’s events, former Republican operative Stuart Stevens warned: “Don’t day trade politics. It’s a sucker’s game. A guy from Queens out on bail bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade, said in public he didn’t have sex with a porn star, defended tax cuts for billionaires, defended Jan. 6th. and called America the worst country in the world. That guy isn’t going to win this race.”
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@caseyliss Give them time, Casey! Apple’s only been working on the problem for 23 years. youtu.be/mE_bDNaYA...
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It’s probably been a decade since I stopped trying to organize any part of my digital life (files, email, music, photos). The clutter and cruft is overwhelming. It makes me like my computers less.
The easiest fix would be to not care, but that’s quite unlikely. 🙂
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@swilliams What is changing? When will this take effect? What does this mean for you?
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I like how it feels after you’ve gotten 2-3 days of better sleep.
Sam Davies
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I like the Kagi Search Engine. It’s so much better and worth every penny. Stellar recommendation from @rosscatrow.
You know when you turn on a TV in a hotel and are bombarded with ALL THE CRAP you forgot existed? That’s what it feels like when I open up Google after a month of using Kagi.
Sam Davies
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I like finishing off the tub of greek yogurt with a ridicuolous amount of blueberries.
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I’m absurdly happy that there are Newton MessagePads on For All Mankind.
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I like cool, late-spring mornings on my patio, drinking earl grey tea. I hear the rustle of squirrels foraging, the morning song of wrens and robins, the gentle background hum of engines propelling humans as highways diverge, and the occasional whistle of a locomotive as it leaves the railyard.
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@swilliams Did you accidentally enable e.e. cummings mode?
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I’ll return to my regularly scheduled posts about things I like in the near future. I like more things than I don’t!
Sam Davies
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Playing with computers stopped being fun when I could no longer meaningfully “start from scratch” having bound myself to an iCloud account for life. They stopped being fun when success or failure became linked soley to the whims of someone else’s servers.
Sam Davies
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Computers are bad. All software is bad. DRM is bad. Game Store “software” is REALLY bad. I shouldn’t have to spend this much time and money only to have my kids NOT be able to play Stardew Valley with each other.
Sam Davies
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@hotdogsladies Sir, you do the Lord’s work.
Sam Davies
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Finished reading: The Ferryman by Justin Cronin 📚
Fun book. Felt like the final act wasn’t as tight as the rest of the read, but still worth reading.
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@KimberlyHirsh I did that one and it works great for images but haven’t figured out how to make it work for short text. I hope I’m just missing something easy and obvious in the config.
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@larand I get it from the Conversations on micro.blog plug-in
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Does anyone know how to get a micro.blog hosted site with its own domain name to show text previews in an app like Apple’s Messages? If I link the URL from a micro.blog source I get a preview. If I link the URL from my domain I don’t.
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@caseyliss What, you don’t like their new tagline? 1Password: Oops, something went wrong while loading™
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@brian_wolf There’s only those things that we all collectively pretend don’t exist like the CD-i games and the 1989 cartoon.
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Finished reading: Determined by Robert M. Sapolsky 📚
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Feels like every dang day.
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Unexpectedly, the teens are all out of the house and I get to go on a spontaneous date with my wife to my favorite beer garden. 😊
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Finished reading: Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina 📚
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@thillsman Glad you enjoyed it!
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@manton Back to basics is needed across her line. For my 14yo's birthday in the past week, we preordered the new album during the Grammys after she announced it. We had to wait in a digital line like 2 hours to order it.
And Turns Out™ that's not the “real” version of the album. We learned our lesson.
Love Taylor, but yeah, simplify!
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@tmdub.bsky.social See, this was a strategic error! TMBG and R.E.M. isn't cool 90s music, it’s “dad’s music”.
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@tmdub.bsky.social I would've gotten pronounced eye-roll if I handed him an R.E.M. record.
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@kevincianfarini I'm not familiar with them! What’s a good first listen?
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@adam I've really enjoyed just how dense the show is. It moves. Major Claremontian story arcs are handled in 30 minutes. I can definitely see how the pacing can turn folks off, but I think I'm overall enjoying a show that seems to not want to waste my time with any level of "filler".
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@adam Wasn’t it amazing? It’s nice to finally see an adaptation get so much right!
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@swilliams Don’t freak out, I found this hilarious.
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@brian_wolf TRUTH 😂
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@ploafmaster Was it the Logitech Casa? I’m actually intrigued by it! blog.logitech.com/2024/02/2...
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@help I sent a couple of support emails for an issue I didn’t want to share on the public internet. It’s been a while with no acknowledgment. Could you confirm that you received them? Email is from my personal domain.
I worry that my emails don’t always get delivered because I’m not using Big Email.