I rode a stationary bike this morning for my workout instead of going outside to ride because of snow and salt and wind and sub-freezing temperatures so my hands and feet were nice and toasty but damn it sucked. I could use some warmer weather (just a little warmer) or a real solution to frozen toes.

What I want for Christmas is Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool reviewing the new Superman trailer.

Basic driving skills and common courtesy are severely lacking. No one can signal before turning, stay in their lane, park in a single space. No one obeys the speed limit, stop signs, red lights. It’s gotten really bad.

Google Gemini Deep Research and related tools are going to have a significant impact on academia. Hard to say right now if that will be a good or bad thing but our track record with technology is – to be kind – mixed.

Why is it that YouTube video reviews of cycling gear are mostly presented by people in the UK? Does no one in the US care as much? Is all the good cycling gear made for European consumers?

Nice win today at work using spaCy and Flask on macOS to build a quick web app for running named entity recognition.

I most certainly did not forget about Dre.

I have my criticisms of Apple hardware naming schemes (“The New iPad”, anyone?) but at least their processor designations are very clear. M1, M2, etc. Regular, Pro, Max, and Ultra. I cannot say the same about Intel Crater Lake or Snowball Lake or Jupiter Lake or whatever they come out with year after year. Or Ryzen 4600 Zen 3 vs 7700 Zen 5 or whatever they call it. As if they try to confuse consumers.

Another year without an iPhone Mini. It’s disappointing. It makes me wonder if the Mini descriptor was part of why it didn’t sell well. It might have worked better if there had been iPhone (small), iPhone Plus (medium), and iPhone Max. Make the Mini the default iPhone.

A Brompton bicycle in the city is a common sight nowadays, but in the burbs where I live it is still a novelty. It often happens that someone, usually a woman over the age of 55, will come up to me to ask questions about and admire my bike. Always makes me smile. I am happy to tell them about my British folding bike.

Cars that require the driver to use the infotainment screen to open the glove box are badly designed. All of them. Put a damn handle on the glove box door and stop being user hostile.

A device that is a combination laptop and tablet still tends to have compromises that make it either not a good laptop or not a good tablet. This is, I imagine, Apple's central argument for the division between the iPad and the Mac. The Mac can focus on being the best possible laptop and the iPad can focus on being the best possible tablet. But I think the hardware is getting to the point where an uncompromised combined device may soon be possible. Apple silicon hints at this.

Learning about the CSS animation-timeline property which, of course, is not supported in Safari.

The user experience of shopping for Whole Foods delivery is the absolute worst. Particularly on the mobile app. If I am shopping for Whole Foods delivery, I don't want my searches to return results from all of Amazon. This is the most frustrating online shopping experience I've ever had from any online grocery service. Someone at Amazon must know it's bad.

I miss the well lit bridges of older Star Trek starships. The bridge in many new Star Trek ships is so dark. It’s like Star Trek went dark mode with their design.

If you leave the Safari browser on macOS open long enough, it will just stop working properly and you will need to restart it. It is thankfully easy to restore the previous session, but it’s still really annoying.