Easter
The kids weren’t able to join us, but we had a wonderful dinner.
Live Update
Maine is doing a live stream of a bridge construction project. This impacts my drive to work (and from work). It’s pretty cool that the project is being streamed. Essentially, they have built a replacement bridge and will be moving it into place over a few days. This replaces months of closures and construction.
Podcast
Shawn and I had a terrific podcast this week. One of the things I was interested in was the Florida Department of Education’s latest Press Release Florida Rejects Publisher’s Attempts to Indoctrinate Students. This doesn’t sound like a Department of Education Press Release, but a listicle. With a title like that, it isn’t about education, but political positioning. We also talked about citizen science, schedules, and much more.
I’ve also been wondering about advertising. On one hand, it would be nice to mitigate some of the costs of running the podcast, but we don’t have a huge following either (maybe you could help out with that).
Barn 8
I’ve finished Barn 8. I can’t say that this one had me absolutely enthralled, but I did find it interesting. This is not a mystery. The plot of the story is pretty well explained and laid out. The story is dependent upon the character of Janey. Janey is a teenager who finds out that her father is actually alive. She goes to visit him and her mother is killed in an accident prior to returning home. Janey then becomes a chicken auditor and develops a plan to save a million chickens.
The story then introduces a couple of different characters who make up the story. I would’ve like a bit more focus and development of these characters. They feel fundamental but underdevelope.
ClipMenu
I’ve been using ClipMenu as my clipboard manager for years and years. It has been discontinued. The download link doesn’t resolve anywhere. However, since I have the application, I’ve been able to move it from computer to computer. It works. Except that it works slightly different on one computer than the other. Using the keyboard shortcut of Command | Shift | V, I get a menu pop up allowing me to pick from recently copied items. On one computer, my selection automatically pastes (this is the desired effect). On the other, that item is moved to the top of the list, but nothing is actually pasted. So, I have to hit Command | V again. Not a big deal, but a bit annoying.
So, I went to see if there was an update. Nope. However, I did find Clipy (this is a Japanese website) (Github version) which is based upon ClipMenu. When I say based, it is almost an exact replica. This is one of the beauties of open source. Since ClipMenu was open source, Clipy is allowed to exist.
So far, I’m grooving on Clipy. It is exactly what ClipMenu was but updated.
MOOSE
My MOOSE partner and I have met and begun the work on our middle school computer science project. It is very early, but we have at least begun the process.
Anne Tyler
Yea! Anne Tyler has released a new book: French Braid. This one has arrived and has been bumped up to “NEXT”.
Taxes
Taxes were tough this year. Selling stock meant a “pay” instead of refund. However, taxes are done and submitted.
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