Computer
In-person meetings
When in-person meetings disappeared last year, they were replaced with a weird, new kind of Zoom briefing. In some ways it was more efficient: Each moment of a video meeting is dominated by a single […]
Blog
Computer
And for those of you homeschooling
I am looking forward to schools reopening and in-person teaching resuming. The tech industry has ballyhooed the potential of online learning for years. Twenty-twenty was the first real test, and it failed badly. Poorer students […]
Quotations
The Predator Primer
“See Dick run. See Jane run. Run run run. See the wolves chase Dick and Jane. Chase chase chase. …” Gary Larson, The Far Side, 2021-01-11
Quotations
General
On 2020…
Never make Father Time say “Hold my beer” while he attempts some new move that will really put him in the record books. James Lileks, Star-Tribune, 2021-01-04
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Happy New Year
Boy… if there ever was a year that we wanted to forget, then it would be the terrible, horrible, miserable, very-bad year that was 2020. And we didn’t even get flying cars — which was […]
General
Words of the year – 2020
Not “word” of the year this year, but “words.” This list was posted in the 2020-12-25/28 issue of Time. My favorite was Blursday which pretty much sums up 2020 for me and I first heard […]