¶Don’t look now, but the NFL’s golden boy, Patrick Mahomes, has a losing record (2-3). And he really should be 1-4, since the opening week win over Cleveland was enabled by a horrible call. I’m hoping the comparisons to Tom Brady will be dialed back a bit now.
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¶And now begins the delicate dance of launching an effective oral antiviral for COVID while still working to convince people to take a vaccine. The availability of molnopiravir will embolden some who refuse the shot, I suspect. Why take the shot when there’s a pill?
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¶This is why they play the games.
¶No one saw this coming. The Rays were the unbeatable force rolling into the playoffs, and the Red Sox were off the rails a bit. The teams flipped roles in this series though, and now the Rays are headed home and the Red Sox will play for the American League pennant.
¶Man I love baseball.
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¶This seems as good a photo as any to be the first posted through the Shortcuts app on iOS. I remember taking it at a gas station on a drive home from Florida. In southern Georgia, I think. The grammar police are everywhere…thankfully!
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¶I struggled a bit with photo uploads through the iOS Shortcuts all. The interface for creating scripts is a little janky…still. After struggling with the logic of the photos script, I realized that it was a problem with the interface that was borking things for me.
¶Basically, the script calls a Get Contents of URL action to send a POST request to the API. The photo is included as a file in the form data. When you add a field to the form data in Shortcuts, it defaults to a text field, but allows you to change it to “file” when tapping on it. This doesn’t actually change the field to a file, though. Rather, it allows you to pick text attributes of a file to send as text. I had changed it to File, and thought, for hours, that I was in fact sending a file.
¶I finally reconstructed the action from scratch, adding each field one by one. When initially adding fields, a separate text v. file option appears. Setting that to File actually sets the field as a file. In the list of fields, the file fields are right-aligned while the text fields are left aligned. I wish I would have known that a couple hours ago!
¶Anyways, the Shortcut is now working. First photo posted through the Drafts-Shortcuts-API conduit coming next!
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¶I learned something today. Scheisse yeah!
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¶Ken Jennings retains GOAT status.
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¶‘Within the U.S., 19.9% of bitcoin’s hashrate – that is, the collective computing power of miners – is in New York, 18.7% in Kentucky, 17.3% is in Georgia, and 14% in Texas, according to Foundry USA, which is the biggest mining pool in North America and the fifth-largest globally.’
¶What a crappy headline. Texas is in fourth place according to the source cited in the article. Why is the fourth place state headline worthy, while the second (Kentucky) and third (Georgia) place states are not? Eyeballs and clicks, Texas apparently brings (or has the potential to bring) more of each.
¶And this is really sad when you consider that so many people “only read the headlines” these days. They don’t walk away with only part of the story, as you would expect of someone only reading the headline. They actually walk away with a completely different story.
¶That’s sad. And dangerous.
¶And it’s not journalism. It’s clickbaiting.
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¶Renee and I might have stumbled upon an unexpected use for AirTags — training a dog to stop barking. Teddy is a constant barker when he’s outside. He barks at everything — joggers, bikers, leaves, even the political sign out neighbor recently installed.
¶He escaped from the backyard a couple weeks ago. Luckily, he ran right to the front porch, but we thought it would make sense to put an AirTag in his collar so we could locate him if he ever got away from us.
¶Testing it out this morning, Renee hit the “Play Sound” feature, which makes the AirTag chime a bit to help you locate it when it’s nearby you. With his AirTag chirping, Teddy immediately took notice, stopped in his tracks, and did the tilted head thing. Hmmmm. Maybe a simple ping to his AirTag will stop a barking episode? We’ll see....
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¶I’m finally getting around to updating some of the scripts I have for Daystream in the iOS Shortcuts app. Shortcuts is still somewhat limited but has surprised me with what it can accomplish.
¶I’ve now got it working essentially as a conduit between Drafts and the Daystream API for posts. This allows me to publish to Daystream directly from my favorite iOS text editor, with tags and everything. My post earlier today about last night’s football games was the first to use this setup. It should enable faster, and more frequent, posting.
¶I plan to create similar Shortcuts for links and photos, too. For those, I’ll use drafts to write the main text elements for the content (the body and tags), and then use Shortcuts to get the other content (url for links and a photo for photos).
¶Then on to the watch.
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¶I didn’t get to watch much college football yesterday, but I think the sixty minutes I watched last night had to be the best hour of the day. When I tuned in at about 10:00, Michigan, Notre Dame, and Alabama were all losing, with time running out in their respective games (and I’d be happy with a loss for each of these teams). Michigan and Notre Dame ended up surviving their games (by the same final score, btw - 32-29), in dramatic fashion. Alabama lost to unranked Texas A&M on a last second field goal.
¶All of this in the span of about an hour!
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¶Well, I completed my annual feat of strength today. I’m happy to report that I can still manhandle the pool cover all by myself, without drowning, breaking my neck, or otherwise inflicting significant bodily harm on myself. The gash on my ankle from clubbing it with the anchor tool doesn’t count, I’ve decided.
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¶Photo posted via iOS Shortcuts app
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¶The American Women Quarters Program looks interesting. Sounds like the first quarters in the series will begin circulating next year.
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¶Dave Winer celebrated his 27th anniversary of blogging today…by launching Drummer, a new blogging platform.
¶That’s pretty cool.
¶I enjoy watching everything Dave does, and am a bit curious about Drummer. I’m not keen on having to log into Twitter on someone else’s server to post to a blog, though. This is particularly true with the outliner setup, which is most effective when always open and at the ready (meaning, to get the benefit of the outliner setup, I’d have to stay logged into my Twitter account on someone else’s server, all the time).
¶I’ve looked at it a bit. It reminds me of Dave’s old Fargo platform, which I tried and liked. I haven’t looked closely enough to be able to understand the differences between Fargo and Drummer (and, presumably, the advances and benefits offered by Drummer).
¶Worth watching.
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¶Just watched Jake takeoff from Fremont Airport for a little night flying.
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¶Working on adding a few more iOS Shortcuts to posting to Daystream via the API. This post was added by sharing a draft to a Shortcut that adds a post to the current day’s journal with shared text.
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¶It’s a beautiful night for flying!
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¶Good morning! Up and at it!
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¶Here’s Jake in final approach above the pilot controlled lighting.
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¶I’ve watched Jake land countless times, and it never gets old for me. But watching him land tonight was really something. I headed over the the runway once I knew he was on the final leg of his flight. I sat there, in the darkness, waiting. Then, suddenly, the runway lit up all at once as the Pilot Controlled Lighting turned on. I couldn’t see the plane yet, but knew he was close. Then I noticed his lights off in the distance and he was on the ground not long after. Seeing those lights come on as I sat there alone was truly amazing!
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¶Just sitting here alongside the runway, waiting for Jake to appear. Pilot Contrilled Lighting just turned on—he must be close! That was pretty cool to see.
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¶Renee and I have had a lot of fun watching Jeopardy lately. The current champion (Matt, something) is having quite the run — with a 30+ game win streak, he’s now second all time on that metric, trailing only the GOAT, Ken Jennings. Matt still has to essentially double his existing streak to catch Ken, a tall order for sure. We’ll see.
¶Anyways, during yesterdays broadcast, I had an idea for a game show. The premise is simple - have contestants compete on their web research skills. A host would ask Jeopardy-level questions (or give the answers in Jeopardy format). The contestants would have a set time limit - 60 seconds maybe? - to answer. First one to buzz in gets an advantage of some sort, but a penalty if wrong. They can answer using their own knowledge. Or, they can use the web! Viewers could watch their web research on the side, in an Iron Chef, behind the scenes while it’s made, sort of way. At 60 seconds, everyone shows their answers and points are awarded for correct answers, with advantage/penalty based on the time they buzzed in factored in.
¶I think this would be fascinating to watch, to see how people research things. Sites they use, how they scan info, and assess credibility. Producers could have a lot of fun designing questions based on information available on the web.
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¶Arrived to this wicked, post rain sunrise and sky over the river this morning. Great way to start the day!
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¶This article is sort of fascinating, and is a door into a fairly deep hole. Oh, and the obvious soundtrack for reading it is Fantasy by Aldo Nova.
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