1,076 days later is not an awkwardly named horror film, but rather a climate disaster reality show. It’s also the number of days since snow fell in Raleigh, NC, and even then by only the most generous of definitions of frozen water vapor. I wonder if I’ll see snow in the backyard again in my life.

How it started and how it’s going for the Japanese Maple after a few fairly cold days and deep freezing nights.

Tired of French bread slices not fitting the toaster, I went big, too big. I thought a larger toaster would be 50 percent longer, not 100 percent. My wife asked why I didn’t look at the specifications before ordering. That is a question best left to the philosophers, I think.

Appalled to find my wife listening to audio for a video through her MacBook Pro speakers, I was then disappointed but not surprised the work Mac disallowed AirPlay, so I mounted a shelf and soundbar atop the monitor and used the audio jack. Old analog tech trumps new IT policy every time.

Tired of trying to grow grass on a rain runoff slope, I’m thinking of planting a large shrub in this space. The Emerald Green arborvitae is boring, but they grow big and fast and stay are green all year.

Satechi announced their Mac Mini M4 Stand & Hub to increase connectivity and storage for the base M4 Mac mini. It will cost me a Thunderbolt port, but I’ll take Satechi reliability over whatever rando OEMs and Kickstarter projects pop up in coming months.

#Macmini

Since Apple egregiously upsold me to the glorious nano-texture M4 iPad Pro, I’ve paired it with an M4 Mac mini. A KU XIU magnetic wireless charging stand and Luna Display adapter/app transform the iPad into a 13-inch XDR Display mini. It’s the best “Mac” I’ve ever owned.

#Apple #Macmini

If you want to use an M4 Mac mini with a Touch ID keyboard, bad touching on the bottom is required! Someone at Apple needs to watch some industrial design or maybe HR videos on do’s and don’ts in the workplace.

#Apple #Macmini

Surprised FedEx has fallen behind UPS and Amazon(!) in tracking packages and estimating delivery, I wouldn’t care if my signature wasn’t required and my delivery “window” was until midnight. FedEx: like the Post Office but more expensive.

Sometimes—not all the time—you have to zoom in to a universe of one and ask yourself, “how does this thing effect me right now?” If it doesn’t, stop thinking about it, at least until you are able to not think about it all the time.

Preordered! Moving from an M1 iMac to an M4 Mac mini-me and a 13-inch Apple XDR mini Display (M4 iPad Pro). I briefly considered upgrading to the M4 iMac with a nano-texture display, but since I already have one I’ll try trading screen quantity for quality.

#Apple #MacMini

More than half of North Carolina has voted, including us. The wait was about 30 minutes, longish for a recent cancer patient. If she had to, my wife would have died standing in the unseasonal heat on hard concrete, but a kind poll worker took her to a chair in the shade near the door.

#Vote