Thanks to a find by “brother-in-law-in-law” Corbin, we are sharing this Washington Post piece on changing your some of your major online default privacy settings:
Author: leh
Stumbled Upon, From 2011
Today, while trying to divest myself from excess files counted toward my Google allowance (tip: keep an eye on this; it can get you). I noticed this image, taken in a lull during a photo shoot of some of my workplace colleagues for a local advertising campaign:
Are Octopuses From Outer Space?
rDay One Thousand Fifty-One
Afternoon clouds and rain in LaG City …
rDay Eleven-Hundred-Fifteen
From the backlog. The other Pioneer Park, April 2018.
And, a couple of blocks away …
Finally, our shed and backyard from the alley.
Up or Down or …?
Here’s a simple four-variable income tax calculator to estimate the effect of the new tax legislation for you personally.
The Year in Pictures – 2017 – New York Times
Lots of these kinds of selections coming up now. See more from the New York Times.
The Problem with Muzak
We use Spotify once in a while around here, but not enough to justify a subscription to the premium version as some family members and friends have, so we suffer through advertising and limited controls and low fidelity. (For background play — like during kitchen baking sessions — the streaming service of choice would be the KCRW website, a nonprofit operated by old hometown Santa Monica’s eponymous college radio station. And for serious, dedicated, lights-down, sitting-still listening, it is on to our own dedicated music computers serving up lossless sounds from a 1TB collection accumulated over many years.)
Here is an opinion piece, “The Problem with Muzak: Spotify’s bid to remodel an industry”, that just appeared on The Baffler website and should be of interest to all of us music lovers. A quote: “Spotify is ruining music. Its algorithmic playlists are made for background listening, which favors “clickbait” music.”
rDay Eight-Hundred-Twenty-Three
Stepped outside this afternoon to see how hot is was (about 95 degrees F.), determined to try to do some human-free photographs that would show how hot it was. Had to soon abandon the quest — it was too hot.
rDay Eight-Hundred-Twenty-Two
