All Short

It’s true

Even more impactful if you know where this picture was taken
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Back to the blog

I got heavily into a writing project and stuff and just abandoned this site for a while. I’m going to try unabandoning it for the next while.

The focus for the next while will be on that writing project, some guitar and gear modding/maintenance/repair projects. There will probably inevitably also be some of the usual tech/web crap tossed in. And of course, the short and pithy insights that you have been ignoring for decades.

I will attempt to be useful, amusing, or weather permitting, both.

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I’m not shy, so I asked for the digits

Good interview and article on Hackaday about Adobe’s latest foot-shootin’ spree/licensing disagreement with Pantone.

Because I am windswept and interesting, I haven’t used Pshop in about 20 years. As a result, I didn’t realise how very…Adobe-like Adobe was being about this EG not just displaying Pantone colours as black, but also REMOVING Pantone information from your existing PSD files when you save them.

Anyway, If you are still being used by Adobe software, you might try the Freetone plugin, which provides you with a palette of colours with code names very, very similar to Pantone codenames. The plugin is free to almost anyone who does not work for Adobe.

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Naked Flamingo

Not a euphemism

From hereon, there is a good chance I will use the term “…like trying to find a flap wheel to strip my flamingo…” to describe things that are more trouble than they ought to be.

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Bounced right off my Skrull..

This box fell off this shelf and hit me in the head and I immediately yelled “Jaffa, Kree!” and I have to believe that there are people out there who appreciate that.

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Links 5

Last week was a tough one. Be sure to update your overpriced Mac and your terrible iDevices. No need to give you links, just start them up and click where the red dots appear.

Also, if you are still being used by Chrome, you should go to “About Google Chrome” and check for updates.

This will fix some pretty terrible problems.

Well, except Windows 10, which you absolutely should update, and then have problems. (tl;dr: Win10 update KB5015878 might cause the audio to stop working on your computer, unless it doesn’t, but if it does, you should do a Known Issue Rollback, which will only work if it hasn’t already, and if it has, it won’t).

The Story of the Nation State in Five Biscuits, by Sharanya Deepak is a quick and interesting history of some popular Indian biscuits, how they came to be, and how they came to be important. I am a huge fan of this subject, and a fan of biscuits in all forms. AND I have a wheat sensitivity! Milk Bikis, Nice Time and Bourbons have all broadened both my tastes, my perspective and most of my body.

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