Wednesday, December 18, 2024 →
I don’t think I’ve ever had a dream wherein I scrolled on my phone, used a laptop, or watched TV. Maybe dreams can’t keep up with the information density of digital devices. Or is that just my dreams?
Have you ever dreamed of screens?
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 →
I’m pretty sure I was an adult before I knew that reindeer were real.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 →
Weird seeing a typo in a New York Times puzzle. This is from today’s Zorse - which is their latest word puzzle, still in beta.
Or is it right and just too clever for me to get?
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
Finally saw my first Cybertruck in the wild.
At ~CA$150,000 this is no small investment. Especially when it’s parked outside a townhouse here in Kingston.
I’m getting used to them, but doubt I’ll ever like them.
Saturday, November 30, 2024
I posted this on my old blog and wanted to keep it online here because a) I love my mom and b) I was really happy with this tribute to her I wrote when she died in September of 2018. I hope you enjoy it. You would have liked her. My mother died two weeks ago. She was 97. I think the 35,668 days she spent on this planet covered an incredible range of highs and lows both for humanity and for her personally.
We could do this people!
If the US adopts “Canadian Thanksgiving” (second Monday each October), and Canada celebrates “US Thanksgiving” (fourth Thursday each November), we both get two days to be thankful and eat turkeys.
win-win!
Have you played crokinole? Have you even heard of crokinole?
If so, you’re probably from Southern Ontario.
If it’s new to you, let Pudding Cool give you an interactive introduction to this lovely game.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 →
I’ve been testing the Apple Passwords app and while it works okay, I think I’ll want to wait an iteration or two before leaving 1Password.
Dealbreakers for me are the inability to customize password type and length, and no way to include credit cards and other non-password information.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 →
Does Apple have to comply with GDPR requirements for data portability* for Messages?
If so, where and how do they do it?
I’d love to download my message history in a user friendly format. I’ve got a decade+ of family conversation in Messages that I’d love to archive for future generations. I think it’s the best representation of how we conversed.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 →
The post-Twitter social media landscape has settled down for me. I’m active on three separate networks, spread across Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads, in that order of preference. I think I’ll be able to take Threads out of the mix fairly soon, as people continue to migrate over to Bluesky.
And I’m also happy that I’ve dipped my toes into blogging again using micro.blog as the host of schafer.com. I’m now fully aware of what a challenge getting myself out of “lurk mode” will be.
My next task is to delete my Twitter account which still exists even though I haven’t posted there in close to two years now.
Micro.blog has cross-posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads built in to it, so I’m going to give it a try.
Micro.blog has cross-posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads built in to it, so I’m going to give it a try.
I liked Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” from the first time I heard it. No matter how many times I hear it on oldies radio (ha!) or in a rickroll I still really like it. I hope people who only know it as the punchline to an easy online prank realize what a banger that song still is 37 years after its initial release.
Hello (Again) World!
I’ve owned schafer.com since 1996 - over 28 years. Since 2000 it’s been my personal blog.
Moving toward 2025 seemed like a good time for a fresh start, so I pulled down an archival copy of the WordPress version of the site covering all 24 years of blogging and replaced it with this micro.blog site.
I’m hoping the new, radically simpler platform will inspire me to post more. I guess we’ll see!