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Things I don’t ‘get’ – Reality TV
The stubby fingered Cheeto colored, ferret wearin’ shit-gibbon aside, one thing that I just don’t get is Reality TV. My understanding is that the genre, while there are earlier instances, really got a jumpstart during a writer’s strike in Hollywood. The network execs just started producing unscripted “reality” shows, and they took off. The formula…
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Things I don’t ‘get’ – Daytime TV
Perhaps it’s my age, or my introversion, or … whatever, there are many things that I just don’t understand. Today, I will riff on television. being later-middle age, having grown up on a steady diet of television, I will admit to watching a reasonable amount of it. However, even with television being part of my…
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Apple Music – A Fresh Look
With the shifting allegiances in streaming music, I found myself re-enabling my Apple Music subscription. There are some benefits, and some less desirable aspects. This is relevant as I again ponder the mix of music that I have in my collection, as well as the convenience of streaming. In the following post, I lay out…
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Music, part 5,231
If you dig through the archives, you will read my travails around a permanent solution to my streaming/collection. The last “winner” was Amazon Music, hands down the best app experience, a decent library (not as big a selection as Apple, but enough) and the instant “AutoRIP” feature of what I bought from them were clinchers.…
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Observations on Blogging
I have been semi-regular blogging since 2009, and in the past 9 years I have some interesting observations that I would like to share. comments are for the birds
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Fucking Referrer Spam
Sorry for the language. However, I run a handful of small, fairly low traffic sites. This one, my product management site, one for my dog(s) and their exploits, and my Wife’s professional site. All of these use WordPress, and I have Google analytics set up to track and monitor them.
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Vietnam by Ken Burns
Currently in the queue on Netflix is the “Vietnam” by Ken Burns. I just finished it, and, like all the Ken Burns targets, it is outstanding. It starts well before the common story (with advisors ramping up through the early Kennedy administration,) back when the real drama started with the French trying to maintain its…
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Xfinity gyrations
On Tuesday, out of the blue, I got an email from Comcast that they identified a “problem” with my CPE1 and that because they are so awesome, they were going to just send me a new modem/router. Whoop-de-doo.
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Serverpilot Changes
A service that I absolutely love is changing their business model. Serverpilot, an automation, and management front end for simple VPS1 deployments, that takes a minimalist droplet from Digital Ocean and abstracts the drudgery and risk of managing that installation from the user.