❤️ #photos #maggie

Whenever I ride my bike I always look in people’s house, see what they’re watching on TV and all. Not much other than baseball on the tube tonight. Some dude watching a western in his garage, too.

So I guess there’s that.

#photos #bikes

Getting ready to ship the “tcr! diaries - March 2017” signed first editions. You may be one of the lucky ones receiving a free copy in your mailbox soon, woo-hoo!

If you missed out on the freebies, don’t worry — I’ll solicit for the April 2017 edition in the next week or so. It’s expanded from 28 to 36 pages, too. Because that’s what you do when you’re me.

More details: https://tcrbang.com/diaries

#photos #diariesmagazine #forsale

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#photos #pugs

What the hell am I doing inside? All these phone poles out having fun and I’m stuck inside. Like an asshole.

#photos #telephonepoles

Terminator: Do Robots Think in Apple II Source Code?

Remember the original Terminator movie? Well, we came aross a bit of geeky Terminator trivia this weekend. Whenever you see through the eyes of The Terminator himself, a bunch of computery text is scrolling by. It turns out this text is the source code for an Apple II checksum program, among other programs. The code was first published in Nibble magazine in the early 80’s, so was close at hand when the movie’s producers needed something high-tech for their futuristic robot/killing machine/bodybuilder.

The code featured in the movie runs on a 70’s-era MOS 6502 microprocessor. Does this mean The Terminator himself had enough processing power to run The Oregon Trail? (“The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. Two oxen die fording a river.”)

#terminator #apple

Little Snitch popped up this dialog box a few moments ago.

I’m sure whatever app iTunes spawned just then was perfectly fine but then again, may be not: Apple acknowledges reports of personal music files being deleted.

I’m perfectly happy with Amazon’s music service, btw.

#itunes #apple

I post things on Facebook and then people like them. And then sometimes I kinda feel bad because I don’t reciprocate and like a bunch of things that others are posting.

And that’s because I see the same things over and over again. Nothing wrong with what people are posting of course but I’ve seen the same friend’s photo from 16 hours ago. At the top of my newsfeed. The last three times I’ve opened Facebook. There’s little motivation for me to scroll more than a screen or two down when I see the same thing I saw earlier today or yesterday.

Maybe these duplicate posts don’t show for people who spend a lot of time in Facebook. The ones that tap and click around much more than I do. There’s good things in there I’m sure if I get in there and work it but when the first thing I see when opening Facebook isn’t new, it gives me this back burner feeling that nothing’s going on.

Yep, there’s a setting to toggle between “Top Stories” and “Most Recent” and when I choose the latter, all is right with the world, the stars align. Sadly it doesn’t stick and I have to set it for each and every visit.

Facebook knows that I like the Alien movies, too, it’s no secret. So now I get to see the same exact ads until the latest movie hype quiets down. I end up hating whatever “sponsored” thing it is they’re trying to get me to buy.

They’ve applied this same algorithm to Instagram, too. I see the same photos that I saw the last time and have to hunt for something new. I saw a promo code once but I missed the sale because it was “one day only.” Yay, algorithms!

It makes me kinda sad and also kinda annoyed when I click on someone’s profile and see a picture from 5 mins ago that was no where on my newsfeed.

Of all the things that Facebook is ripping off from Snapchat, the one thing they should cue in on: Snapchat shows things that’re timely, in the here and now. Not things that are 10 hrs, 21 hrs, 22 hrs, or 11 hrs ago.

I saw them already. More than twice.

#facebook #fail

#photos #aliens #billpaxton

I told Alexa to play some 80s for some upbeat, motivational, get moving kinda music. Help me get dressed and such.

Ozzy then bellows his infamous…

“All aboooaaard! “

Perfect 😊

#alexa #ozzy