The fact that I still can’t add a song I recorded myself to my own Apple Music account via iPhone/iOS is perhaps the biggest lingering pain in the ass for me in the Apple ecosystem. Absurd in 2024.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

“Dad, do some people have 11 fingers?”

“Yeah, but it’s rather abnormal.”

“Oh my god, that is a bunch of fingers!”

Sunbreaks in the PNW. Sometimes it’s rainy in my backyard when it’s sunny in my front yard.

This product appeals to me. I recently got rid of my Apple Watch and I’m considering a more minimalist phone setup.

Light Phone 3

Is it just me or has Shazam become really spotty recently with its ability to identify a song?

As a blue voter and feminist, I find the online interviews with men about women’s bodies meant to expose ignorance ineffective. It might be more useful to address the 40% of women who voted for Trump in 2016 instead.

If there ever was a government program representative of how terribly run government programs can be, it’s Oregon’s BottleDrop program. Talk about taking something simple like returning your soda cans for deposit and turning it into to a nightmare every time I try to drop off my bags.

Do I know anyone who uses a light phone or something similar? How has your experience been?

Walking the boy to school this morning, I saw a middle age man a little older than myself walking with his two preteen girls. You could tell he adored them, but they made him stop before getting to the school grounds so as to not be seen with him. It made my heart ache as a dad.

Currently reading: A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut 📚

Finished reading: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan 📚

On the ballot this year in Oregon (as I fill out my ballot at home):

1. Establish an impeachment process for elected officials
2. Remove lawmakers’ power to set their own pay
3. Allow ranked choice voting
4. Increase corporate taxes on the largest businesses and establish universal basic income of $1600/yr for every Oregonian
5. Allow cannabis workers to join unions

I’ve got about 10% left of the Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. It’s taken me like 3 months to read this book I’ve wanted to read since 2006. I like nonfiction but they can be such a slog sometimes.

Despite Climate Friendly and Equitable Communities (CFEC), there are over 1,000 units of housing being developed within 1/2 mile of Elmonica, Willow Creek and Merlo MAX stations (8 trains per hour) and every single unit is still being built with at least 1 off-street parking space. #pdx #oregon

All these people pretending like they’re gonna cancel Amazon right before Christmas 😉

iPhone recording of me covering Lua by Bright Eyes for its 20th Anniversary. #musiciansofthreads #acoustic #brighteyes #lua

Link.

I need a middle age friend matching app like OK Cupid where current and preferred neighborhood walkscore figures prominently into our match %.

It’s really pretty incredible how much perfectly benign email Apple Mail sends to spam. Even after adding things like my bank’s email address to my contacts and manually moving messages from the same senders over and over again to the inbox, hundreds of times.

Oh, hey…check it out. Openvibe beta now supports Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr AND Threads. #openvibe #threads

Soaking it up while we’ve got it! #pnw

What I don’t like about the #Wordpress implementation of #ActivityPub is that I see the whole damn post, long-form and unformatted, in my feed. Let’s hope #ghost does it better.

Holy f%#!, planning life has gotten a whole lot harder having a kid in elementary school. I just had to merge the school calendar with my work calendar…so many days off.

There’s this trend recently where developers cry for planners to liberalize zoning rules to make pretty brick townhomes. Well, the first photo is not what they build. Here in Portland, we have liberal zoning rules and the second photo is what they actually build. Nothing even approaching pic 1.

Michiganders…how do you pronounce Isle Royale?

I’ve always pronounced it roy-AL, but it’s come to my attention that many people pronounce it like royal (ROY-ul).