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On Nasty Women Week
Samantha Bee has proclaimed this week to be Nasty Women Week. To celebrate, I suggest that you pre-order the new book NASTY WOMEN: FEMINISM, RESISTANCE AND REVOLUTION IN TRUMP'S AMERICA, edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and my wife, Kate Harding.
On Working From Home
I've worked from home the whole time I've had my current job--a pretty long time now.
It's not so much that I intended to work from home. But when I got this job offer, I had just moved to a new city, and wasn't able to just pack up again and move a second time. The person hiring me was also based in another city and knew that it was possible to be a productive member of a team and organization even if you're not based in the same city or office as your coworkers.
It's not so much that I intended to work from home. But when I got this job offer, I had just moved to a new city, and wasn't able to just pack up again and move a second time. The person hiring me was also based in another city and knew that it was possible to be a productive member of a team and organization even if you're not based in the same city or office as your coworkers.
On Moving to Miami
So, we've decided that the town of Ithaca, New York, was not for us. When considering where to move next, my criteria was that I wanted to "move aspirationally." What I meant by that was, I want to move to some place where we like being, is someplace we've been and have had fun before, and is maybe some place where life would be really different for us. Someplace where we both have thought, "gosh, we really wish we lived here" during previous visits. And with Kate leaving her day job, and my job allowing me to work from anywhere, we thought that we really ought to take advantage of the freedom that this allows us.
On Almost Buying a Samsung Galaxy Note 7
I almost bought one of those exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones.
A few months ago I dropped my iPhone 6 and cracked the glass along the top edge. It didn't make the phone unusable, but it lost its cool factor significantly. Then I was reading about the upcoming iPhone 7 and how it was mostly an evolutionary design, perhaps not a ton of difference from the iPhone 6s, and not a revolutionary new design. So I asked around to find out what peoples' favorite Android phones were, and everybody seemed to love the Galaxy Note phones. And the Note 7 in particular, had a cool slightly-bigger screen that goes all the way edge-to-edge on the device.
A few months ago I dropped my iPhone 6 and cracked the glass along the top edge. It didn't make the phone unusable, but it lost its cool factor significantly. Then I was reading about the upcoming iPhone 7 and how it was mostly an evolutionary design, perhaps not a ton of difference from the iPhone 6s, and not a revolutionary new design. So I asked around to find out what peoples' favorite Android phones were, and everybody seemed to love the Galaxy Note phones. And the Note 7 in particular, had a cool slightly-bigger screen that goes all the way edge-to-edge on the device.
On Ithaca and Bugs
Greetings from Ithaca, New York.
Need any bugs? Bugs are everywhere here in Ithaca. Flies, mosquitos, gnats, spiders, crickets, they all love us and want to come live in our home. Our tiny chihuahua is terrified of the bugs, but our other dog will chew on them upon request.
Everything is a .9 mile walk from our home.
Parts of it are flat, unless you want to go to Cornell, then it's straight uphill, on streets at scary angles, and that's before there's any snow and ice.
The falls are pretty, though.
Bud Iverson, 1942-2016
My father, Bud Iverson, passed away due to complications from COPD on August 11, 2016, at the Hilltop Care Center in Watkins, Minnesota, where he had been residing since March. His ex-wife, my mother Kathy, predeceased him in 2014. He is survived by son Al, daughter Liz, and various brothers and sisters. He was cremated and no services will be held. The family would like to thank the wonderful staff of both the Hilltop Care Center and the Rice Hospice program for their care and support throughout our father's final days.
(I'm posting this notice here so that friends and relatives might find it while searching online for information.)
(I'm posting this notice here so that friends and relatives might find it while searching online for information.)
Need a home phone? You need this.
This little box plugs into your internet router. Then you plug your regular old (land line) telephone into it. Then you have free phone service over your internet connection. Don't pay Comcast or somebody else for phone service! The only caveats here are, you have to set up a Google Voice account (which isn't hard), and if you want 911 to work you pay something like $15/year. It's still stupid cheap, and Google Voice is pretty slick.
My wife and I have used Google Voice for years, and we have an older version of one of these boxes, powering our home phone (which exists only to answer intercom calls). It works great!
After we first moved into our new place, we got a landline phone, because she needed one for radio interviews. But it was like $28/month for something we used for about 60 minutes each month. It's just crazy to pay that. So I dug out and reconnected our Google Voice phone instead.
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