Social Media More on fixing "social media" How to rebuild social media on top of RSSWe should look for ways to make reading, publishing, and community services all play nicely together. I’m calling this model “the unbundled web,” and I think RSS should be the primary method of interop.
Christmas Review: Laguna Niguel Christmas Parade I have gone to the Laguna Niguel Christmas Parade for a few years. I go because the kids are in the marching band but it is actually a nice parade. Even though almost every parade entry has something to do with Christmas they officially call it a "Holiday"
Christmas People voting on the light show People can scan a QR code in the front yard and then vote on the next song they see on the light show on the house this year. They pick Danger Zone from Top Gun over and over and over. It is definitely not a favorite for anyone who lives
Review SoFi NFL Game Review I attended my first NFL game on Thursday December 8. Raiders at Rams at SoFi stadium. 1. Football fans like to smoke a lot of pot. The entire outside of the stadium and a lot inside the stadium reeked of pot. 2. SoFi stadium is very beautiful. The architecture looked
Online shopping This is a lot of newsletters to subscribe to after ordering one item Online retailers are going overboard with the newsletter subscriptions after you buy something. I have noticed the new trend is to subscribe you to many different newsletters after you buy something. So you are stuck unsubscribing from their messages over and over. At least some retailers show you all the
Christmas How to choose a Christmas tree Going to the tree lot and reaching a consensus is impossible for our family. So sometimes someone will get final say in the choice. But this year we tried a new method. Four of us were going to the lot. So three of us got to select our favorite tree.
Review Review: Poetry For Neanderthals Cal got this game as an early Christmas present. We have played it a half-dozen times and it is pretty fun. One person on a team looks at cards and tries to get their team to guess the words on the card. They can't say the word on
Christmas Another cool still frame from the Light the World videos I didn't notice the nurse as the shepherd with a crook made out of the IV holder until a year late.
Travel How should the Canadian flag be hung vertically? I was watching a Nathan for You episode where he returns to his home country of Canada and noticed some Canadian flags hanging vertically and wondered how they are supposed to be hung. The US flag is supposed to be hung vertically with the blue corner in the upper left.
Christmas Do you store your Christmas lights plugged-in? I love the Light the World videos that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints puts out each Christmas. But we always laugh at the intro of the video from 2016. The person is unpacking their Christmas lights and they are on!
Christmas Making a QR Code with RGB Christmas Light Pixels I wanted a way for viewers to see a website about the lights this year. So I tried making a QR code out of pixels. The website will have a way to vote for the show you want to see on the house with Remote Falcon, information about the lights,
Review Review: The Planets with the Pacific Symphony I went to a performance of The Planets with the Pacific Symphony at Segerstrom on November 19, 2022. The symphony sounded great and very loud. I had never seen a performance of the full piece. They had a video screen behind the orchestra where they projected video with the theme
Christmas Del Mar Highlands Christmas Decorations My friend Bruce has been designing and decorating the Del Mar Highlands for a few years. The boys helped him design the synchronized RGB LED lights on the surfboard tree there. Last year the igloo decoration was destroyed by arson. This year he designed a snow globe to take its
Podcasts Lamentations of the Father One of my favorites from This American Life from many years ago. I realized today that Frances and Calvin had never heard it. So I made them listen to it. They liked it.
Books Interview with Roald Dahl This video from 1982 is great. I love watching him get setup in his writing chair and "nest" in his writing hut. I never really thought about what hand people hold a cigarette in when they smoke. I guess if you are right handed you have to smoke
Travel Idiot Card This is the card the concierge at our hotel in South Korea gave us when we were trying to make our way to a covid testing center last summer. Cal and I called it the idiot card. We just walked around like idiots showing the card to people and they
