Automated Archives for April, 23rd 2026
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Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-7
Net Elo Change: -7
Games Played
- Ivan-3 - WIN
- tonybasanta - LOSS
- Zelemer - WIN
- Andre_P_1972_BAR - LOSS
- lepnume - LOSS
- adnybro - LOSS
- silfon - LOSS
- ElZapatoca - LOSS
- Flamingochen16 - LOSS
- Maksat7 - WIN
- Pino_2020 - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- April 23, 2025 (1 post)
- April 23, 2024 (1 post)
- April 23, 2023 (2 posts)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Twenty years old and yet it has aged quite well. Still a classic.
The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy.
That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Saw it in context of discussion of Republicans being angry at the Virginia political map redrawing. AOC called them out that Dems had been trying to ban this sort of thing for ten years and they always block it. So, since they want it to be the rules, the Dems have begun pushing back.
Great Danes are like velcro
I love my dogs. Duke, our current great dane, but also our first, Elwood, are velcro dogs. Duke is by my side anytime I am home. If I go to the bathroom he escorts me and gets annoyed when I close the door.
It's both very endearing and also very funny and annoying.
And I was thinking about the breeding that led to this for the breed. Most people don't realize, but references to a 'boarhound' are referring to great danes. They were hunting dogs. So the breeding is to keep them close and not prone to wandering off when hunting. And in the modern day that means staying by my side in the house.
April 21st, 2026
Nothing like some morning bug fixing to start your day. I was doing some tweaks yesterday and inadvertantly broke the nightly automated posting script.
April 20th, 2026
"Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down, John Ternus set to replace him"
Wow.
Update: Okay, apparently this isn't as unexpected as I thought. I wasn't aware it was somewhat expected.
Middle of the night writing and editing sessions are becoming too common for me. I'd really prefer sleeping through the night, but getting a quiet hour's worth of work is nice.
Now, back to bed.
April 19th, 2026
Fs in the chat.
I just took my La Z Boy to the street after 10 years of service. It's still quite comfy, but we got a new couch and have to give up space.
But I had the funny thought that at some point in the future I get to experience the sheer joy of bringing a La Z Boy recliner home again.
April 18th, 2026
I have a ratchet set somewhere and I cannot, for the life of me, find it anywhere in the house (not that that is surprising honestly.)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Since we watched the first, we continued in to watching the second one. And, look, it's a kid's movie. That's the most important thing. But, as entertainment for adults - it was bad.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
I had watched this previously on an airplane, but I dozed off multiple times. So the wife and I gave it a watch last night.
Using my phone as a computer speaker
I am aiming to have a productive day today. I have a to task list and everything. But there are also audio files on my computer I want to listen to and rather than go through the trouble of transferring that file to my phone, I thought it would be cool to be able to pipe my computer's audio over the network to my phone. That way as I move room to room I can stay tuned to the audio.
Enter AudioRelay, a windows freeware, and a free Android app. I installed both and they synced and it works seamlessly.
I don't know how often I'll use it, but in this case it is a good solution for me.
But what does progress even mean, if it doesn't include better lives for people who work? What is the point of greater efficiency, if the money being saved isn't going anywhere except into shareholders' bank accounts? We should all strive to be Luddites, because we should all be more concerned with economic justice than with increasing the private accumulation of capital. We need to be able to criticize harmful uses of technology—and those include uses that benefit shareholders over workers—without being described as opponents of technology. - Ted Chiang
