Thanks to the Internet, I’ve updated Stryper’s The Yellow and Black Attack and To Hell With the Devil albums with their original artwork in my iTunes library. Not sure why I waited so long.



Proving once again what an excellent executive producer he is, to celebrate 125 episodes of The Empowered Parent Podcast, @Ryan_North dropped off a piece of new equipment.

Like all great producers, he keeps the talent happy.



Nine years after I purchased my first noise-canceling headphones, a pair of refurbished Bose QuietComfort 15s, I’ve stepped up to wireless ANCs with these Sennheiser PXC-550-II cans.

First tracks played: Stryper’s “To Hell With the Devil” and Whitecross’ “Who Will You Follow.”



It’s good when a weather AI recognizes not just a true American hero, but one of the entire planet.



Whoa. John McAfee hanged himself in prison in Spain today.

Let me get this straight: Ayatollah Khamenei can make outright genocidal statements against the state of Israel, but those aren’t considered “threats” or “incitement” by Twitter. But @ATVSPoseur playfully quotes SONG LYRICS and gets permanently banned for a “threat”? What a joke.

At long last, I have made it to Rivendell.



Well, my beloved 2015 MacBook Pro survives another year with being able to run the latest macOS. I mean, I haven’t installed the last two “latest” macOSes on it, but it’s nice to know I still could if I wanted to. #WWDC2021

iPhone home screen, 6 June 2021



Friends, if you have a Ring doorbell and don’t want to be part of Amazon’s creepy Sidewalk program that co-opts your device to be part of their network, the setting to disable can be found thus:

  1. In the Ring app, tap the hamburger menu in the upper left of the screen
  2. Select Control Center
  3. Scroll down to the section marked Community Control (creepy)
  4. Select Amazon Sidewalk
  5. Slide the button from Enabled to Disabled
  6. Done!

You have to do this before Tuesday, June 8th, or you are opted-in against your will. More info: www.theguardian.com/technolog…