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Archive for ‘Pieces’
Nice try, Other Gary
Last week, I got this text message: Your Other Personal Banking appointment is confirmed for Dec. 9, 11:00AM. Confirmation Number: […]
On curator bias
Once in a while it’s healthy to remind ourselves that the “curators” of our media are people, so that we’re […]
…and Backstitch Reader is probably spyware
So I had installed an insipid chatroom app on my phone, because it was the only reliable way to get […]
Scorn Race 2000
It happened again. It was a pleasant morning, sunny, only slightly chilly with a light breeze. I was walking, because […]
The Crew app is insipid and shameful
One of the first things I noticed after being hired at the new job was that the schedule was missing. […]
Why I keep changing Google accounts
I have a Google account, of course. It’s easy to not rely on Google, but hard to do without entirely. I’m old enough to have had a Google account for years […]
Games like this are why I don’t game much on mobile
I don’t remember what prompted me to install a mobile game last week. I’d read a listicle about decent mobile games, but this wasn’t one of them. I assume that, while I was checking one of those games out, I looked at Google Play’s recommendations and saw this thing, blandly called “Wood Block Puzzle.” […]
Stupid tiddler tricks: the DefaultTiddlers restore button
TiddlyWiki’s startup behavior is easily customizable. You open up $:/DefaultTiddlers and put in a list of what you want to have open, and those are the tiddlers you have open. To make it even easier […]
No longer a Mild-Mannered Retailer
A couple of days ago, I renamed my blog tag “Mild-Mannered Retailer”, with which I collected my stories of work-related folly, chicanery, and bullshit, to “Mild-Mannered Laborer”.
I did this because I’m not a retailer any more. […]
Ray of Infamy 