: Tired of French bread slices not fitting the toaster, I went big, too big. I thought a larger …
: Appalled to find my wife listening to audio for a video through her MacBook Pro speakers, I was then …
: Tired of trying to grow grass on a rain runoff slope, I’m thinking of planting a large shrub …
: Satechi announced their Mac Mini M4 Stand & Hub to increase connectivity and storage for the …
: Since Apple egregiously upsold me to the glorious nano-texture M4 iPad Pro, I’ve paired it …
: If you want to use an M4 Mac mini with a Touch ID keyboard, bad touching on the bottom is required! …
: Surprised FedEx has fallen behind UPS and Amazon(!) in tracking packages and estimating delivery, I …
: Sometimes—not all the time—you have to zoom in to a universe of one and ask yourself, “how does this …
: Preordered! Moving from an M1 iMac to an M4 Mac mini-me and a 13-inch Apple XDR mini Display (M4 …
: Trader Joe’s comes through big this week with the snall bouquet of flowers.
: More than half of North Carolina has voted, including us. The wait was about 30 minutes, longish for …
: In our neighborhood, this was a kind of stop-motion installation over a few weeks. It started out as …
: Nothing quite like Wendy’s fries and Goodberry’s Nutella custard for dinner. So heavy in …
: A Northern Flicker woodpecker is apparently large enough to activate the security camera. This is a …
: In this likely tiny interval of calm between personal disasters, we are going to retile the kitchen …
: Happy #iPadmini Day! My wife will happily be choosing among the colors of the new mini and folio …
: Walking along a paved path next to a busy road bisecting a wooded housing development, I was …
: Bird boned and tiny wristed or not, #AppleWatch 10 big screen allure was irresistible, also Best Buy …
: Little Ernie and Big Ernie (my wife thinks raccoon faces are shaped like Ernie and possum faces like …
: Carolina mantis enjoying a longer, warmer, wetter summer into fall, not so much the biped who took …
: Tinting to the tone of Frank Lloyd Wright wallpaper with iOS 18 looks nice but feels unfinished as a …
: Evolutionary tradition has the first Camellia bloom signaling the beginning of Autumn. …
: As of WatchOS 11, the Siri face is no more. No doubt its many fans–all five or so of …
: From Hell to Purgatory Jean-Paul Sartre troubleshoots my printing problem.
: I returned the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro. Hefty and awkward in the lap, cantilever design …
: Placing a late bet on the beta of #iPadOS 18 had an immediate payoff, a more whimsical home screen …
: Bambi stopped by the backyard, posing for about three seconds before realizing its mother was more …
: The new iPad Pro in All Its Splendor has made my top five #Apple devices. Nano Edition iPad Pro …
: Five years ago I bet on a root canal over tooth extraction, odds 6 to 1 in my favor of it lasting …
: 59½ You can’t fight The System.
: Butter chicken tacos with pico de gallo and fries at Urban Turban combine Indian, Mexican, and …
: A last vestigial limb of the Steve Ballmer era at Microsoft has withered a bit more. Surface …
: Fox and Raccoon was not quite the Disney short I expected.
: Downy woodpecker is not well pleased with me watching her eat.
: The bird feeder seemed a bit “light” in the mornings recently, but overnight footage …
: Hot and dry for weeks, three of ten or so birds were bathing and drinking from the lawn sprinkler …
: A squirrel at rest, possibily pondering the record temperature in the Raleigh metro area of 103 °F …
: Two weeks since I scrounged my last six pack of Pepsi Made with Real Sugar, I find Pepsi-Cola Soda …
: Challenge rejected, as Pepsi-Cola Made with Real Sugar follows Coca-Cola Life into the recycling bin …
: My wife likes counting rabbits on walks in the neighborhood. I like walking as little as possible. …
: A dear deer friend stopped by for dinner.
: Fearless Hummingbird Moth on a Butterfly Bush would make a decent kaiju if it were 10,000 times or …
: I love the minimalism of the iPhone mini, except for the camera, this duck and duckling photo …
: Oh, Apple Maps! It’s been two years since those trees were removed to make room for more …
: Lots of tech enthusiasts hyping new Surface devices as plunky rebels fighting the Apple Empire, but …
: I’m pouring one out (Caffè Misto) for the Smart Keyboard Folio. After eight years and three …
: How I solved the “No AirPrint Printers Found” problem with my Nest Wifi mesh network. …
: Mr. Turtle does not seem well pleased by my attention.
: A few very rare yard lilies not (yet) eaten by our dear deer friends.
: From a forest near Asheville, I think this is a Flame Azalea, but if not it should use that as a nom …
: After my mother-in-law fell off a sidewalk curb into the street in front of me—but was thankfully …
: I replaced a fifteen year-old HP DeskJet with a new Brother laser printer that felt like it was …
: Four happy years of fast internet later, I was beginning to fear Google Fiber would be Killed by …
: Once again feelings upon waking match the data: tired. Stress is likely the cause of a night spent …
: Every spring I argue with my wife over eliminating the small section of lawn bordering our …
: History repeats: “We are not aware of–and I don’t believe there is any issue …
: I wanted something that kept me from losing my Apple Pencil and that looked nice when I was using my …
: A faulty “thermistor” may be causing my water heater to malfunction, not Maxwell’s …
: The “gotcha” season has begun for flora and fauna in the Piedmont, or low hills, of …
: How I know I am old: an incoming call notifies me simultaneously on my Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and …
: The ubiquitous sign in every skilled nursing facility stating day, date, year, president, and so on, …
: Instead of a whimsical snowman brought to life with a magic hat, Cleveland snow looks like something …
: Nearly a decade since I’ve flown, incremental changes towards the intolerable are more glaring to …
: You still have time to get in on Project Tapestry, a “universal, chronological timeline for …
: Microsoft Devices continues its slow ballistic arc towards oblivion. At approximately $1.23 billion …
: Rick and Morty has been a dying star in my queue since season four, but then comes a supernova of …
: Just a reminder: this is Apple Vision Pro Apotheosis Day. Hype and FOMO will ascend today, then be …
: I feel a little guilty about wiping out a possible microscopic civilization in my small intestines, …
: An hour or so later the pile of papers is gone, data entered, documents scanned, bills paid, calls …
: No Vision Pro for me. My hyperopia/astigmatism well beyond the over/under of +/- 2.10 on the …
: My tires hate me. I favor “performance” driving–PSI matters! Temperatures ranging from …
: A few of our dear deer friends stopped by this morning for breakfast, but foliage along that dry …
: Wanting to change drive icons, instead of tedious search I tried Bing Image Creator using …
: Serendipity of the Day: an entire package of fabulous Speculoos from Trader Joe’s fits inside …
: Apple may be trying a new Magic Keyboard, but the old one was a trying experience. Ungainly and …
: Is there an app setting or lawyer that I can select to stop ads in my “ad-free” MAX …
: Q423 Surface revenue was $1.1 billion, down 20 percent YOY, about the same as in 2018. Worse, …
: It does make a sound. Also, a small dent in the gutter where the top hit, as well as a $650 bill for …
: Five seconds of snow captured on video, likely the last snow of this year—not just this …
: My wife got three bouquets of flowers. Her father arranged them into four vases. They all look this …
: Once again, #AppleWeather radar fails to provide basic functionality and #AppleSupport provides no …
: Before Bing chat was lobotomized, I asked it to “write me a story about a unicorn.” What …
: A Red-shouldered hawk sat on this branch looking for lunch just long enough for me to grab my iPhone …
: I tried to tell the gas company rep that a 40 percent increase in my monthly budget billing amount …
: Always #Microsoft #Surface has existed upon the sufferance of Nadella and the interest of Panay, but …
: Saturation so high, this Camellia japonica bloom looks like it was manufactured by Samsung’s …
: Eight hours and an evocation later, the plumbers/sorcerers installed the hybrid water heater. It has …
: A brief history of desktop computing: 1980 Atari 400 1986 Apple IIGS 1999 DIY PC 2004 iMac G5 2010 …
: This year Redvember falls on the 28th, the brightest day of the year for the Japanese Maple. A cold …
: A box turtle with evil eyes made a run for it across the driveway during the first real rain in …
: I made pretty good quesadillas for lunch, but the crema purée was both tasty and oddly hypnotic in …
: The DSC-QX10 once again fills in for the missing 10X zoom lens on an iPhone, this time catching a …
: Like most teenagers, this red-bellied woodpecker is too young to know better or doesn’t care, …
: I don’t tell the woods in back how much I appreciate them often enough.
: Other World Computing should call it the Envy Pro FX because it will create that in others. …
: Like any addict, be they opioid user, Love Island viewer, or Trump voter, I make up reaons to …
: Windows Phone Redux Microsoft just reported earnings for the 2022 fiscal year, generating more revenue than …
: My wife says there are now two Swallowtails visiting our yard daily. No kaleidoscope of butterflies …
: Seeing this infrequently, looks like iPadPro has vertigo or possibly its orientation is fluid. …
: This Rabbit hanging in the yard evenings spooks if I step onto the stoop, but is content to be …
: Towards a Cordless Future The packaging is minimalist: white box, product photo, typography seemingly chosen for a city Apple …