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javbw

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Apple nerd, photog, tinkerer, cyclist, English teacher. Former San Diego Mac-tech living in Japan.🛠 If you broke something, maybe I can fix it.🇺🇦🇹🇼🇯🇵🇺🇸

Still figuring this out 🔰

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hotdogsladies, to random
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Bad news.

I have discovered SKÅDIS.

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies is that the “special cart” mentioned before? Setup is looking good!

gruber, (edited ) to random
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Thoughts on Apple no longer including stickers with new devices to reduce waste:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/no-more-stickers-with-new-ipads

javbw,
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@gruber I have a collection of stickers, from 1970s to recent ones, but nowadays a huge CE brand doesn’t really garner the type of fans that would put Apple logos on their car, as I once did. Some will miss them, but I bet 99% get left in the box until it’s thrown out years later.

It would be like how we’d feel if Brother included stickers with laser printers now - that’s probably how the vast majority of customers see Apple (only the 5% pre-iPhone would feel differently).

javbw,
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@gruber so very true - but when I was a Genius back in 2006-7, there seemed to be more Apple fans in there - the ones who would use the stickers.

Even with several hundred million more stickers given out, I still see about as many Apple stickers in the wild as I used to from the G3 days.

The stores are great (& service centers too), but percentage-wise now seem to serve a tiny sliver of the Apple installed base (who’d miss stickers).

I think most Apple customers (now) have not visited one.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Major Partagaz is one of my favorite Star Wars characters.

https://www.starwars.com/databank/major-partagaz

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies He was great as the King’s Landing ex-Maester Qyburn 🧪- such a great supporting actor!

He plays both roles so well.

hotdogsladies, to random
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“Star Wars” had a wild teaser trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHk5kCIiGoM

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies It is interesting to see familiar scenes with John Williams’ score - instead paired with those Psycho-esque strings (or just on-set audio) - it really changes the mood of the film.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Sometimes, I like to just sit and look at my baby plants.

I do not talk to the plants, because all of these plants are babies, and babies can’t talk.

Read a book.

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies Are those marigolds in the pot?

The little onion is looking good☺️

(The marigolds are the only flowers I can get to grow from seed with my bad skills)

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies

You manage to squeeze more juice out of your GPT than anyone else! 🥛

I discovered them by chance.

Every year my work asks me to plant some flowers in our flower box, which one year included some marigold plants. They were the only ones to ever survive until fall; the dead flowers making hundreds of seeds. So I saved & raked them in when planting home center seedlings. I now put down thousands of their old seeds every spring.🌼

The seedlings even survive student weedings!🌿

hotdogsladies, to random
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If you want to see what it looked like before I trimmed my beard, here's me recently talking to some dear pals about New College for an hour.

I love those people and that place so fucking much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYBc3wZUv28

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies “I knew enough to know how to use words. I didn’t know enough about […] context - How important context was in adult life.”

A great summary of a fuzzy concept that was rattling around in my brain 🧠. I still mess this up all the time - it’s only obvious to me in hindsight 🙊.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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The difference in experience between Google Maps and Apple Maps, 12 years on, is kinda staggering 👀 I would never use Google Maps in Ireland except for looking up postal codes using our Eircode system (which Apple doesn’t license)

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javbw,
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@stroughtonsmith Here in Japan, Apple Maps has gotten way better, but the POI data is still behind, and both are weird still:

AM has cycling in my area, GM still doesn’t - but AM has none of the hundreds of KMs of cycling roads, which GM has, so the directions are still poor.🤷🏼‍♂️
(I map them in OSM🗺️)

GM has slightly better train route planning, but is useless for traveling (the UI is unusable💩), whereas AM is a dream to use🥰

GM lets me save & label dropped pins 📍- AM demands an address card🤮

hotdogsladies, to random
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George Orwell - "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies It’s always interesting to see what ways your GPT helps you - it is a great example of the common and mundane things it might really help a lot of people with☺️

I wonder if you feed it a Japanese manual (so many domestic things are Japanese-only here) and ask it about error codes or documented troubleshooting steps in English, will it do better than Google Translate and my guessing 😅

(Wera Drivers are awesome, I’ve used them for 20 years🪛)

hotdogsladies, to random
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Here's that Maggie Mae Fish video I mentioned:

"How 'Anti-Vaping' ads trick you into vaping"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbV6I8VRMG8

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies
😎🚬 thanks for the link 💨

The new Kurzgesagt video posted today is probably the best “smoking is bad” video I have ever seen, as an elementary school student that suffered through the Reagan DARE era.

https://youtu.be/_rBPwu2uS-w

hotdogsladies, to random
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Watching a guy restore a machine gun.

As one does.

https://youtu.be/Nz_c_rHrl-c?si=zu89mC_NMEO9X5XR

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies that makes one hell of a display piece on the wall!

Having all the rust pits cleaned and oiled makes it look like someone crafted it out of wrought iron on an anvil ⚒️☺️

javbw, to random
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The “What ifs” made possible by AI nowadays scratch an itch that is almost primal, even while being an uncanny valley nightmare. https://youtu.be/cUm3oRYV7yM

javbw, to random
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@hotdogsladies Whever I see someone doing something impressive on a guitar, I think of the various discussions you & Roderick have about guitars.

https://youtu.be/0ZII3Cu_Uo4

javbw, to random
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This is an amazing video - a custom powered Lego train for cats!

Come for the amazing functional Lego build, stay for the automatic in-train treat dispenser.

https://youtu.be/J3CnDXh7hH0

javbw, to random
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Leaving Kiryu for Tokyo…
🏔️🚴🏻‍♂️🗼
(Mt Akagi)

hotdogsladies, to random
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One time, Roderick introduced me to Kurt Bloch, and I almost passed out.

The Young Fresh Fellows - "Still There's Hope" (This One's for the Ladies, 1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sdJh9peu6I

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies the cymbals on the bendy pole is a great touch!

In many of the videos you link to, the band is doing something I would never imagine to make music, like watching my middle school students using hand tools to cut a board - I didn’t know you could use tools that way!

hotdogsladies, to random
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Grace, clear my calendar.

https://overcast.fm/+FnAje989E

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies I always like to think Jack Lemmon is imagining Grace from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off whenever he imagines her.

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javbw, to random
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@jamesthomson James “Trouble” Thomson is a good moniker for the DnD side of your works. ☺️

(Enjoying livestream playback now)🎲🎲

hotdogsladies, to random
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Madeline has just introduced me to Nathan the Dancing Dog.

https://youtu.be/fXmpcTF5jAw?si=Kp8wM6lSmykpq8nd

javbw,
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@hotdogsladies when people ask me what America is really like here in Japan, I will show them this video. 🪗🐶

A perfect counterpoint to the Japanese game show contestant with meat strapped to her head being chased by a lizard.

javbw, to random
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Listening to @hotdogsladies laugh at John saying town names is great☺️

Topics include:
-Imagine Wagons
-Harry Potter Hellscape
-Long-haired Steak Yeti
-Yellowing Memory Glue
-It Says Warsaw right on it!
-Stalinist Disney Dollars
-It Was Not Bacchanalia
-40 Versions of the Same Car
-Throwing Western Treasures
-Pat wanted to go home.
-Come to my German Village!
-Amélie’s Got Edges
-ForAlsoNeitherMust
-Big Party!
-The Scorps on the Brain

-You absolutely sound like John.

http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/ep-533-busty-trainfails.html

javbw, to random
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🚂🛤️
I really enjoyed RotL’s theme this week, with John’s point about words totally meaning different things to different bubbles now.

Merlin’s follow-up is even better - leading to the wonderful term “leveraged insophistication”, but John’s point reminds me of the M*ASS people holding meme stocks calling anyone raising concerns “shills” (illustrated by Dan Olsen’s recent video)😵‍💫

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javbw, to random
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@hotdogsladies Spotted a good piece of road metal when coming down the hill from Nikko - a galvanized M12 bolt.

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javbw, to random
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@glennf Glenn! It’s back for Christmas ☺️ https://youtu.be/Y9MhYYBFknk

javbw, to random
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Snow Day in all of Japan Today!

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