Roger Scrafford
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  • Serious question: Is TikTok really an essential iOS app?

    23 July 2022
  • Alison Martino said “Have you ever, BTW, typed ‘James Rockford’ into Google Maps – try it, it’s maybe the single coolest thing on Google ever.”

    So I tried it, and this made my day: jimrockfordinvestigations.com

    16 July 2022
  • I am wondering, for the nth time, why iCloud file sync can happen anywhere from near-instantaneous, through one month, to never.

    22 May 2022
  • Wordle 295 3/6

    🟨🟩⬛⬛🟨
    🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    10 April 2022
  • “To misquote The Bard, hell is empty and all the devils are running in the Ohio Senate Race in the GOP primary.” ~ Ordinary Times

    7 April 2022
  • Last night we watched “The Dead Don’t Die”, a Jim Jarmusch film from 2019 … Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, etc.

    27 March 2022
  • I will now take a break from WWIII by eating pizza
    and watching “Murder in Provence”.

    5 March 2022
  • I cannot express how much is loathe Snapchat “filters”.

    27 February 2022
  • I stayed away from Wordle for a while. But then –

    Wordle 252 3/6

    🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    26 February 2022
  • I didn’t buy enough “This is Fine” t-shirts.

    24 February 2022
  • Autocorrect: the new Grauniad

    22 February 2022
  • 2022-02-07. Our Wordle is not strong.

    7 February 2022
  • I’m always late to the party. In practice, this means the beer is gone.

    5 February 2022
  • Some time ago I refretted a friend’s Django-style guitar. Here’s a photo from early on in the process.

    2 February 2022
  • I’ll have extra vaganza with that, please.

    1 February 2022
  • Today I deleted all the emails in my gmail account. In box, Sent, Deleted, Spam — all of it. The emails now exist only in my own backup files, stored locally and off site.

    Next candidate for a purge: Dropbox.

    26 January 2022
  • Now reading: “DISCOVERIES: A VOLUME OF ESSAYS BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.”

    21 January 2022
  • It was too late to pull the batter, combine and refill into the loaf pans. So about an hour from now I will test the unleavened loaves for doneness, pull them when they are done, and set them out to cool.

    Voila! My own, my very first doorstops. Live and learn.

    19 January 2022
  • While the timer was ticking away I started cleaning the countertop. That’s when I found my small prop bowl filled with baking powder and baking soda, sitting, unused.

    19 January 2022
  • The gods are pooping on me — the kitchen gods, anyway.

    Today’s batch of my locally famous fruitcake — which I hasten to tell you has never been a doorstop — went into the oven in two loaf pans in a 325°F oven, as planned.

    19 January 2022
  • The Hitchens theme is now doing yeoman’s work here.
    But Yes, Pat Dryburgh and P. I. Moore did the real work, for which my thanks.

    16 January 2022
  • TV commercials

    Are they still called that— TV commercials?

    In any case, I will be indescribably happy when images of maniacally dancing consumers fall out of favor.

    Also, get all the vaccinations.

    21 December 2021
  • The end times

    Here's a fresh two-part signifier of the apocalypse:

    https://nonfungibleolivegardens.com

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29643257

    21 December 2021
  • Quote of the day:

    “One may cower within, but one cannot avoid,— le Bec de la Mort, the . . . ‘Beak of Death.’ ”

    (Excerpt From “Mason & Dixon” by Thomas Pynchon)

    7 November 2021
  • I need a Hat of Power

    4 November 2021

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