More Chalk

Some problems you could solve if you had more chalk. Others you could only outline.

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All this connecting

... I have to wonder if it’s good for you.

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Then again, maybe it was —

The last time I got my hair cut I said, “No, I don’t need to see the back. I really never see the back of my head.”

I’m not sure that was right decision.

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Dictionary Time

— Barr sure knows a lot of big words and he’s not afraid to use ‘em.

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“Paddle to the Sea”

: Exactly how your polystyrene take-out container (that the wind pulls out of your recycling bin) ends up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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One Step Forward:

What kind of thinking went into moving the power button from its sensible, purposeful location on the top to its awkward, confused location on the side?

(Yeah. This one’s been simmering for a few years.)

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Penetrating Insight: It’s not the algorithms, it’s content that’s the problem.

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Pirate—

is there any other calling? You can be interesting well past your prime, when you’re a pirate.

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Can you imagine

what it was like for them to grow up in a world where double-clicking would do, like, nothing?

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What’s the opposite of

a Nobel Peace Prize?

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Is the bar too high?

The guy doesn’t know how to operate a shovel.

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Here’s the thing...

If you want to drag us backward, not to say going forward is going to be a cake walk, we’ll only end up where we were with everything that got us here. One way or another, we’ll end up where we started.

Here.

Going forward.

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My Draft Report—

Canadian ISP/wireless company advertising is vapid and if not untrue re the facts, untrue re the promises.

Brief report, I know.

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So this is Christmas

Relax, now.

Things are supposed to change.

This year will be somebody else’s

how it used to be.

Hold someone’s hand.

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Tax Reform and Jobs

So, this bill is going to create jobs, jobs, jobs in a moment of near full employment.

Well, who’s going to do, do, do these jobs, jobs, jobs, exactly?

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Getting there.

I’m ready to hear from developers with some really basic stuff that doesn’t know who I am, where I’m standing, what I ate today and doesn’t even care about any of that shit.

I’m ready to pay a reasonable fee for a perpetual license including essential updates.

I’m ready.

It’s time.

Again.

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Here’s the thing:

If I click on something that looks interesting, that’s all I’m doing. Most of the time I don’t even read more than a couple of sentences or watch a few seconds of video or whatever.

When I click on something that looks interesting, I am most certainly NOT putting in an order for everything else ever written or video’d on the subject.

So stop, already.

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Putting off

certain demise is worth a try, at least.

We can start by outlawing the cutsie names for AI things.

They are not our “friends”.