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Oct 14, 2024: No, the machinists did not make Boeing a piece of shit Boeing has been shooting itself in the foot since the early days when they decided to move their HQ from Seattle and “innovated” by …
Oct 11, 2024: Twice in one year.
Oct 7, 2024: A single site was responsible for 60% of our IV fluid supply. It’s bananas that we allowed this by virtue of being ignorant of its existence. …
Sep 24, 2024: 2024 continues to be…weird.
Sep 21, 2024: I look at my 4 year old boy and I find it incredibly heart wrenching that I cannot figure out a way for him not to have to go through this. From Dan …
Sep 14, 2024: I had no idea that UsaFacts.org was a thing nor that Steve Ballmer was behind it until I listened to Jon Stewart interviewing him. I’m impressed …
Aug 31, 2024: Thoughts on the iPhone 13 mini after two days: bloody amazing. Time to sell off the 13 Pro Max I’ve carried these past two years.
Aug 31, 2024: Summer Top 5 NA Beer List As we ease into September, I can feel autumn making it’s way to our trees. The light already feels different from just a week ago. I’ve …
Aug 30, 2024: I am first in line to celebrate the demise of twitter and I have a hunch it won’t be long. This situation in Brazil though, is not the blessing …
Aug 30, 2024: Man, this hits hard. Arstechnica and AnandTech were the primary drivers for me in my tech education in the late 90s. RIP AnandTech End of an era. I …
Aug 27, 2024: I haven’t recorded in a bit. Was futzing around with tuning, it can be meditative at times to tune a drum and other times it’s the most frustrating …
Aug 25, 2024: Glad to see Apple are finally selling the refurbished iPhone 13 mini. Just placed my order to downsize from my 13 Pro Max. Portability, music, reduced …
Aug 10, 2024: During these next few weeks my focus is going to be staving off burnout. Balancing crazy work hours and making sure I’m available for family has …
Aug 7, 2024: Poser.
Aug 5, 2024: Dave Abbruzzese, Pearl Jam drummer for the Vs. and Vitalogy albums dropped a comment in one of my YouTube covers.
Aug 2, 2024: I’ve been going down a Pearl Jam rabbit hole, especially the Vs. and Vitalogy albums with Dave Abbruzzese on drums (my favorite PJ records and …
Jul 25, 2024: Purple corn, with occasional flowers.
Jul 1, 2024: How Far the Song has Fallen from the iTunes Tree I have nothing against streaming music (I do so on occasion), but I prefer buying my music and downloading on to my device. iTunes used to be really …
Jun 19, 2024: Man, I sure miss Bowie.
Jun 17, 2024: Today I posted a Stone Temple Pilots drum snippet and a lame attempt at playing samba.
Jun 16, 2024: My go-to beer is the Run Wild IPA from Athletic Brewing but it’s hit or miss finding it in the stores here (or any NA beer besides like O’Doules). …
Jun 15, 2024: Summer, signaling its beginnings.
Jun 13, 2024: I’ve been enjoying posting little short snippets of my drum playing on YouTube but I think I’m going to transition to hosting them here instead.
Jun 7, 2024: Frozen fruitcicles
Jun 5, 2024: Friday last week, we installed the pedals on my son’s balance bike and he didn’t skip a beat, was successfully pedaling on his first try.
Jun 5, 2024: I posted another drum cover short on YouTube. Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins) is a great drummer but I never loved the Pumpkins that much. This …
Jun 2, 2024: Trying this out, my first YouTube short playing drums.
Jun 2, 2024: Incredibly disappointed I missed Godzilla Minus One in the theaters but super happy it was released on platforms today. It was excellent.
May 27, 2024: My (other) tribe
May 26, 2024: I’ve discovered an excellent new blog, arun.is by Arun Venkatesan. Today I read a mini first impression of the Daylight Tablet Arun posted back …
May 23, 2024: I am this close to some day capturing a lightning bolt.
May 18, 2024: It’s so silly, but I love that Call and Oates is still active, many years ago I saved the number in my contacts and tried it today and it worked! For …
May 14, 2024: Lots of jumping and rolling in the grass today.
May 14, 2024: Wild asparagus, with occasional grapes.
May 13, 2024: Playing drums to a loop for giggles, it’s been a while since I did anything electronica-ish. The recording quality through GarageBand (on my …
May 10, 2024: I appreciate marveling very much
May 8, 2024: The iPad I want isn’t here yet. But my complaint is not what the general tech pundits argue about. Still absent in this year’s lineup is …
May 8, 2024: Steve Jobs: It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that …
May 7, 2024: The clouds yesterday put on quite a show 📷
May 6, 2024: If the internet went away tomorrow, I think we would all be just fine.
Apr 23, 2024: Patience
Apr 11, 2024: Committed myself to using Arc browser on my Mac for 3 months. I’m one week in and slowly some of my old habits/muscle memory have been relenting …
Apr 6, 2024: Day 6: Windy #mbapr
Apr 2, 2024: Day 2: flowers 📷
Apr 2, 2024: Kite, with occasional symphony
Mar 21, 2024: Watched “Dune part 2” yesterday. In honor of one of my favorite websites of years past Review in Haiku by @mgs@me.dm , here’s my own review in haiku: …
Mar 19, 2024: Not sure where I first saw this, I finally read through it tonight. Text editing on iOS and Android have been a source of frustration for me for many …
Mar 18, 2024: This is still a great book and such a fun operating system back in the day. I spent many hours on BeOS, using it full time and learning the depths of …
Mar 17, 2024: Listening to this Teresa Esguerra interview (drummer from Built to Spill) with Joe Wong from The Trap Set Podcast. She’s in a popular band and …
Mar 17, 2024: Fixed my 1Password issues with Safari on mac OS by downgrading to 1Password 7 🤷
Mar 17, 2024: I’ve been keeping up with my drum playing regimen and challenging myself to learn a single song per week by listening to it for 5 minutes, …
Mar 13, 2024: Verizon: Your bill is due. Me: I can't log in to pay it. Verizon: You can click the "One time payment" link. Me: It won't accept my account number. …
Feb 27, 2024: I have a large phone, but c’mon Apple!
Feb 24, 2024: Waiting for the Sandhill Cranes to arrive
Feb 22, 2024: Tomorrow, Mario starts preschool. This milestone smacked me in the face tonight.
Feb 17, 2024: Summer can’t come soon enough. This was taken in August of last year. They are not shy and will permit close proximity.
Feb 16, 2024: When I was a kid, Ruben Blades was a staple on the radio and throughout our house. Love his music and his movies. Pedro Navaja
Feb 13, 2024: Improvisational duet between drums and gen AI: Jo Jo Mayer Me/Machine
Feb 12, 2024: Switched over all of my lines from Verizon to Visible. It was a very simple painless process through the app and I’m seriously going to save …
Feb 11, 2024: I generally don’t download lots of apps on my phone or regularly try things but dammit, my mind gets twisted up over podcast apps for some stupid …
Feb 10, 2024: Make no mistake, Karen Carpenter was a master at playing drums
Feb 10, 2024: You know what? The sunflowers and the grasses are the creek’s popsicles… My son, having breakfast at the creek one morning in September.
Feb 9, 2024: When I first began my PM journey, I felt this immense pressure of needing to know everything. Over time I have transitioned into being curious about a …
Feb 7, 2024: I setup Starlink in September of last year and I am genuinely impressed at how it has stood up to storms, high winds, heavy snow without missing a …
Feb 6, 2024: Bending Time I’ve been messing around with my drums and mic setup and I think I’ve dialed in the sound how I want it. One of the things I’ve been …
Feb 4, 2024: “What are all of those pipes?”
Feb 4, 2024: This is what brought me over to micro.blog from Mastodon, somehow on Mastodon I was always missing posts or conversation context, haven’t run into …
Jan 31, 2024: Japan’s Only Cymbal Manufacturer Such a lovely video. I often think about what I spend my day doing at work, it’s not a craft what I do …
Jan 29, 2024: Regarding 1Password and Safari, it definitely is working better using Edge. I suppose I could migrate to iCloud Keychain but I’m too lazy to go …
Jan 25, 2024: In praise of buttons www.nubero.ch/blog/009/
Jan 25, 2024: Lately, 1password and Safari have not been getting along. I can A/B with Edge (or Chrome or Firefox) and the extensions work so much better on them. …
Jan 17, 2024: I just discovered that there is a text version of NPR and I wish more websites did this: text.npr.org
Jan 13, 2024: Is That a Drum Studio in Your Pocket? It is bitterly cold today in central Nebraska. Wind chills of -38 degrees Fahrenheit to be precise. Absolutely gross. I could have chosen to binge …
Jan 12, 2024: The amount of hurdles Apple puts you through to buy a song in iTunes, download said song, and have it appear in your Apple Music library as a …
Jan 11, 2024: The Evolution of the Trap Set lecture by Winton Marsalis Such great story telling in this video
Jan 8, 2024: Highs of -4 degrees in a few days. Painful.
Jan 6, 2024: I’ve been using my watch + AirPods as my “dumb phone” for the past few months with decent success. Going back to T9 would be a …
Jan 5, 2024: Icy fog
Jan 4, 2024: 2024, with occasional introductions Hello, and thank you for stopping by. I’m John, married to wonderful Erin, and father to a lovely 3-year-young lad …
Jan 3, 2024: After two and a half years, Covid strikes the household again. How to keep a 3.5 year old entertained is beyond me.