The SPS Observation Station is ready for Cyber Monday 2024!
I saw this graph on Tyler Cowen’s blog and it blew my mind how much is “alone”. In the comments someone did a stack area version which is much more readable.
We need to spend less time alone. If that isn’t possible, this is one area I think AI could be “helpful”. Spend time talking to AI?
Football game.
Now THAT is a giant flag! 🤩🇺🇸
Ready for the Vikings v Cardinals today! 🏈
We saw The Best Christmas Pageant Ever tonightt. Well done and great start to the holidays.
It is only 11 °F but it was the best day for me to fill the hot tub and burn in the sauna. Plan is next time we can use them. 💧🔥🥶
I made the best pan of Toffee Bars I’ve ever made. These are a holiday favorite of mine. My Mom has made them for me many times. My Grandma Rose would always seem to have a pan of them when we would visit the Farm. Just six ingredients. This batch was perfectly firm but soft.
Per tradition we got our Christmas Tree up and decorated today. It is always fun to recount past memories with the ornaments. 🎄
First time Christmas tree shopping at the Minneapolis Farmers Market Annex. Was weird to go downtown to get a tree but we found a good one! 🎄
I find this growing trend of sending a one-time code via email to login very annoying. Especially when companies make it the default. I’m good with 1Password.
Had a Things 4 Good candle scent survey today. Figuring out new scents for next year’s event.
From our family to yours — Happy Thanksgiving! Have a wonderful day.
Could the micro.blog discover section take a very different approach? The curation was nice but I doubt sustainable.
How about a sampling technique using a percentage of all posts that are not replies and including them? I feel like that would work pretty well. Not algorithmic, just a sample rate.
Tyler’s done with school for the week. Mazie’s home from college. I’m making Wassail Tea and it smells great. Logs burning in the fireplace. Feels like Thanksgiving. 🥰
OmniFocus 4.4.3 just shipped with a bug I found in the change log!
Sync – Fixed issue of the same Mac showing multiple registrations in Settings > Sync > Registered Devices, when running macOS 15 Sequoia. After this update, OmniFocus 4.4.3 may show up as one additional registration; delete all other registrations of the same Mac (that don’t include “this device”) to improve sync times.
I’d been pruning these ghost devices every few days. Happy to not need to look at sync devices now. 🙂
Candle experimentation trying out nine new scents. Made two candles each at a relatively high 9% scent ratio using the 2oz samplers. Will see what we like!
The Matrix
I have wanted to watch The Matrix with Tyler for a while. I remember seeing it in the theater and being blown away by the film. I was also taken aback that it was released 25 years ago. Yikes.
I was tentative about the R-rating. I visited the Common Sense Media reviews for The Matrix and the average parent review suggested it was fine for 12 and up. A 25 year old R-rating isn’t what it used to be it seems. With further inspection I decided it was fine so we rented a fresh 4K version from iTunes, versus the DVD rip I have on Plex, and fired it up.
I had forgotten that it was AI that they were fighting against. It was interesting to see that storyline in the context of AI that we have today. The cell phones were comical in design dating before the glass slab era. Bullet time was amazing back then but not very notable given todays effects. The story was still very interesting and well done. We both liked it.
