The Aptly Named, Sam's Blog

Slack on Mac seems to be getting worse, and I didn’t think that was possible.

Voting by mail, as well as email notifications of every step along the way, are awesome. I love voting in Oregon!

I love the grain of this table top, especially after a good cleaning and conditioning.

🕹 Really enjoying What the Golf on Apple Arcade these days 😄

Three different fabrics in moderate light at home. I think there is some Deep Fusion at work here. I think 🤔 #iOS13

Director Park. Portland, Oregon. 27th October, 2019.

This would be helpful if it also noticed that dad’s address (and current location) is in a time zone that is over 12.5 hours ahead and so it’s already the next day there. 24 hours ago this would have been great.

📷 Downtown Fall. Portland, Oregon. 27th October, 2019.

Interesting sky this evening 😍

Yesterday, chronologically.

It had been a while since my last time at Mi Mero Mole. I was missing the deliciousness 😋

iOS appearance settings for Portland #pdx

With aspect ratio set to Square, iOS camera still captures outside the frame, i.e. things not shown. This happens even with capture outside the frame setting switched off. That’s not good.

Scenes from a morning walk last Sunday.

It’s working out.

Next version of iOS (13.2, not out yet) has a bunch of new emojis including many that relate to Indian culture. Diya, Sari, Hindu Temple, Auto Rickshaw. That’s cool! Although that Sari emoji is really bad. Hope that gets fixed before release!

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I’ve been enjoying Matcha for an afternoon boost, replacing my previous favorite Coke Zero.

the fuck is this shit?!

Picked some quinces and pears over the weekend. Bonus: Olive climbing a tree.

Photos of me by @jennijelsing.

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All communication software should let a person enter a time in their timezone, implicitly or explicitly, and automatically convert that into the timezone of the reader in their interface. Especially if it was entered explicitly. This should be standard.

T. A. Moulton Barn, aka “the most photographed barn in America”. 19th September, 2019.