Tech Stuff Windows 11 “Default Apps” October 8, 2021 / October 8, 2021 by Dave | 2 Comments on Windows 11 “Default Apps” So, I installed Windows 11 Home as soon as it was available, because I figured there might be questions about it and I’d rather be the guinea pig than wait for someone else. Given the backup setup I have, if something went wrong it’d be easy to go back to Win10. The fresh install (Create […] Read more »
Tech Stuff Presenter View for Partial Screen Zoom Sharing October 6, 2021 / October 6, 2021 by Dave Since Zoom allows you to share part of your screen (Screen Share > Advanced > Portion of Screen) and lets you drag a box around what you want the other folks in the meeting to see, you can use presenter view for your PowerPoint presentations and just share the slide, while having your notes, next […] Read more »
Tech Stuff Fixing Gmail’s UI (a bit) July 5, 2018 / October 6, 2021 by Dave OK, this is pretty specific, but the new Gmail interface has one “feature” that really annoys me. The “status” display is a large black bar at the bottom of the screen, showing “Message archived” or “Message sent” or whatever. That bar floats on top of the other content, and it’s right over the “Send” button […] Read more »
Musings Clean up your Inbox September 16, 2017 / September 27, 2017 by Dave OK, so a couple of ideas that are relatively new to me, and might be to other folks as well. Gmail will accept email addresses that are slightly different from your “real” address. You can add filters for any of the above, sending incoming emails to those specific addresses to specific labels, or the trash, […] Read more »
Books and the written word If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy? January 25, 2017 / January 25, 2017 by Dave The title of the post is taken from the title of a book (and online course, etc). The book is interesting enough, is well-written, and is similar in general content to other compilations of similar material from other sources, though with a little more discussion of tangentially-relevant experiments run by the author on students from […] Read more »
Movies and TV Bwaaang June 12, 2014 by Dave Well, the Wil Wheaton Project is only three episodes old, and they’ve already ripped off Cracked.com. Episode three included a bit about the overuse of the “Bwaaang” sound effect, which seemed pretty familiar to me. Turns out that’s because it had been done before, as part of Cracked’s “5 Bizarrely Specific Ways Every Movie Trailer […] Read more »
Movies and TV Title Sequences April 10, 2014 / April 13, 2014 by Dave Some TV shows have little or no title sequence. The first one I remember doing this was Lost. Just a spooky noise, and then on with the show. There are others with really minimal titles, though none pop into mind at the moment. I love the approach – I obviously know what I’m watching. Hannibal’s […] Read more »
Musings Turns out I didn’t know how to tie my own shoes March 2, 2014 / March 3, 2014 by Dave I had a very odd experience last night. I’ve started running, and my shoes have untied themselves twice now while I’ve been on a run. It occurred to me that somebody might have some advice or a cheap product to improve this situation, so I did a little surfing. And what did I discover? Turns […] Read more »
Movies and TV Does anybody in Hollywood actually walk anywhere? November 8, 2013 / November 27, 2013 by Dave There have been several abnormal walking statements or descriptions in (relatively) recent movies, and I’m wondering if I’m missing something. I walk quite a bit, and an 11 minute mile is really pushing it in terms of pace. 15 minutes per mile is a fast walk, 20 minutes per mile is a stroll … just […] Read more »
Musings The Rules of Golf – Amendments for Seniors September 29, 2013 / October 11, 2013 by Dave Advertisements proclaim that golf scores can be lowered by purchasing new clubs, balls, shoes. etc. Since this is financially impossible for the average senior golfer, one stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment. A ball sliced or hooked into the rough shall be lifted and placed on the fairway at a point […] Read more »