I wanted this phone scanner stand to work. It did not.

https://amzn.to/3AR1WWz

No matter how much you like pterodactyls, you’ll want to think twice before telling someone that they’re your favorite dinosaur.

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-are-pterodactyls-not-dinosaurs

The song “We’re Not Gonna Take It” came out more than 40 years ago but I feel like we have, in fact, continued to take it.

Forum on the Future of Personal Computers: Boston Computer Society, 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4OgJluTPwU&list=PLQsxaNhYv8dYDtr5UtEoZ8oXU54Yn74CR&index=2&t=0s

Star Wars Outlaws is a good game. It could have been a great one. https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/reviews/star-wars-outlaws

Numbers to Know for Managing (Software Teams)
https://staysaasy.com/management/2023/03/20/numbers-to-manage-by.html

The privacy equation: Data is not information until it is useful
a story that David Gerrold wrote for me in 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20220812000516/https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-privacy-equation-data-is-not-information-until-it-is-useful-1805.html

My advice on how freelancers should raise their rates https://estherschindler.medium.com/how-to-raise-your-rate-as-a-freelancer-1f4cb31c6920

The story of how a homemade anti-capitalist game created by a woman becomes a mass-produced uber-capitalist game that profited a man. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game/

What the Lobstermen of Maine Tell Us About the Election

(Y'all know we lived on Deer Isle for almost 7 years.)
(gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/opinion/maine-lobster-climate-change-election.html

New Randy Rainbow just dropped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyQ2MLldGRI

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TIL, An artist named Harold Sangouard custom builds video game arcade cabinets hand-chiseled from marble. They weigh hundreds of pounds and start at $100,000. https://www.harow.fr/arcadia/

ComputerLand Radio Commercials, 1985 https://archive.org/details/ComputerLand_Radio_Commercials/ComputerLand+Accounting+Radio.wav

System design interview questions: The answer is generated by AI, and the speakers are both AI bots. https://open.spotify.com/show/3q322aCceMNYvYW7KmtMc6

A visualization of standardized date/time formats
https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

Beware the medieval fighting snails! 🐌
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231221-the-mystery-of-the-medieval-fighting-snails

"The survey, which drew responses from 5,699 published authors, found that in 2022, their median gross pre-tax income from their books was $2,000. When combined with other writing-related income, the total annual median income was $5,000." https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/93301-author-incomes-post-small-gains.html

Dinner today: Ottolenghi's Coffee and chilli chicken koftas with onions.
Really good, and a change of pace. The ingredient list make it sound as though this is a spicy dish, but it isn't.

https://ottolenghi.co.uk/pages/recipes/coffee-chilli-rubbed-chicken-koftas-grilled-onions

A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD https://www.ci.cumberland.md.us/1787/Choose-Cumberland-Relocation-Program