Rocking out at 6°F right now. The TWC model is calling for a low of 4° here overnight, I wonder if we could go lower.

I would rather have my teeth drilled than watch the inauguration today. So that’s what I did. I went to the dentist. At least that’s one thing that went well today.

I can’t figure out why Apple doesn’t offer “alarm” as an option for Calendar and Reminders notifications. Most things are well served by a normal notification, but sometimes you need something you absolutely won’t miss.

Anyone ever make the first few notes of Today by Smashing Pumpkins into a ringtone? Does anybody still make ringtones?

If TikTok was a website hosted outside the U.S., could Congress do anything about it? Have we as a nation ever blocked a website, “Great Firewall” style?

Gasoline Powered Car Review — very thought provoking.

RIP Jimmy Carter.

RIP Rickey Henderson. Gone too soon. But I guess that was his M.O.

First wood stove fire of the season

Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful. Thank you for reading this.

YouTube TV offering NFL Sunday Ticket for free this weekend… but no where in the email does it say “web only, not available on AppleTV” spent 15 minutes trying to get it to work for me and my father. (My Bears are playing his Vikings right now)

I believe the reason other “similar” nations to the United States have longer live spans and higher happiness is that they don’t have Open Enrollment for health insurance.

Verizon: keep your plan as long as you want. Also Verizon: except when we want you to move, we will add surcharges and remove discounts until you move to a plan that’s more profitable for us.

Just keep breathing is today’s mantra.

Perhaps, if the FBI is correct, and Russia is behind bomb threats to majority-black polling sites, President Biden should allow Ukraine to use American weapons however the hell they want.

Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Kamala Harris a secret— npr.org

NPR

“In political ads and campaign speeches, supporters of Vice President Harris have a message for Republican women: Your vote is private, and no one will know if you secretly vote for Harris.”

After months of covering the 45th President as a near-normal candidate, now the top of The NY Times home page has “What’s at Stake?” “Still more scandals” “Criminal Trials” “Foreign Policy was ‘Chaotic’” “Tariffs Would Rock Global Business” “Would dissolve more than 100 environmental regulations”🙄

Got home ready to take the dog out back before bed, and there’s a whole pack of coyotes out there upset to see us.

News outlets: “Job growth slows ahead of election” — missing context: Unemployment remains near historic lows.

I was just doing some experimenting with Apple Intelligence writing tools, and had a thought. After writing a multi-paragraph or multi-page piece, select all had select Writing Tools > Summary. This could give you feedback as to whether your piece buries or expresses your points.

Received a bunch of texts on the high school drop off text thread for the first time since iOS 18.1. {Snoop voice} Apple Intelligence {/Snoop voice} perfectly summarized the outcome of the conversation.

If you are an Apple Watch owner, you may want to switch to the Snoopy face. There are Halloween-specific animations today.

Each day of these Boston area brush fires has smelled different. Day 1: morning–campfire; afternoon—cigar Day 2: Lemon-scented floor cleaner

Freddie Freeman is incredible.

I want to know what’s burning in Middleton. It honest-to-goodness smells like a cigar in our backyard right now.

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