Blindfolded and unconscious.
In its legal filing today, Apple refers to the bespoke operating system the FBI wants them to build to hack iPhones as “GovtOS” which cracks me up for some reason.
GovtOS 1.0 will hopefully never be released…
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Let's Play a Game of "Geoff Responds to Today's Headlines"
If I were Brian Sandoval I wouldn’t be on the list in the first place.
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What I Do When No One's Watching
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Here’s a solid update on the Apple/FBI encryption disagreement, including a pretty clear illustration of the major problem for the future of data security when you pit a company against itself.
“Now that the government has tried to force Apple to hack its own code, security officials say, the company must view itself as the vulnerability.
“‘This is the first time that Apple has been included in their own threat model,’ Mr.
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My Acceptable Celebrity Doppelgänger List
🤔 So what’re the guidelines here? People I wish I looked like? …
Satya Nadella
Look how warm and approachable and kind and distinguished he looks! [swoon]
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Just read a short article on the “Trending” list on Facebook. Then came to Facebook to see if this really exists. There it is ➔
I never noticed, probably because that’s where ads go.
Me at Half My Age
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How to Be Dumb
Me: “He’s a drama queen sometimes.”
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How to Get @wikihow to Share Your List
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Getting my laptop out on the train which means I’ll have be careful to not get too absorbed in my work and miss my stop. What I’m saying is see you at the end of the line.
Reading in to Harper Lee
From Go Set a Watchman:
“If you did not want much, there was plenty.”
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Things I'm Not Qualified to Judge
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Understanding the Apple/FBI Encryption Debate
Disclaimer: I am an Apple employee. So 1: My bias is showing. 2: It should go without saying that I don’t speak for Apple in any way. These are my own thoughts. Read more…
Some of My Favorite Stuff From the Old Testament
This is inspired by the very existence of @evan. Read more…
Names for Things That Need Names
Some of these are real. Some are my proposals. Read more…
"There Is No Excellent Beauty That Hath Not Some Strangeness in the Proportion.” — Francis Bacon
Alternate title: A HISTORY OF MY CRUSHES in no particular order. Read more…
Things I Do That Cause Bookish People to Doubt My Commitment to the Cause
Send all my paper books to goodwill and switch to almost 100% eBooks.
I like reading eBooks so much better unless pictures or layout are important to the book.
Forget the title of books and the names of authors all the time.
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How to Be Me in Five Easy Steps
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Someone should invent a combination mailbox/trash can to save travel time.
Nota Cultural
I took Spanish in high school.
Our Spanish text book had a series of sidebars called “Nota Cultural” (“Cultural Note”) with tidbits of wisdom.
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Rereading one of my favorite contemporary novels, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, while I wait for my dentist appointment. It is so full of oddball but thoughtful meta-scifi gems like this:
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine. And of course there’s this beauty which I return to all the time:
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People That Make Aggregate Assessments of the Choices Individual Women Make Based on Their Gender
Old white men
Young white men
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It’s nice that they now say “SURPRISE!” in the Amber alerts. Fits with the blaring siren.
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Gross Things I Can't Help Thinking 😷
You should not read this list. Read more…
Things Hospitals and Airports Have in Common
Ugly floors
Ugly furniture
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They keep talking about chanting and sine waving on the radio. Must be some trigonometry convention.
(Apologies in advance for this.)
Things That Will Pass in Time
All these animated GIFs
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Questions for the Man of Steel
Does it hurt when this happens to you?
Does this leave a bruise?
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Things I Loved About Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The irreproachable and beautiful Eliza Bennett…
In 18th century dress…
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Interesting Things I Keep for No Particular Reason
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The Two Phases of Life
Before you own a car with a backup camera.
Who needs a camera to back up? Learn to drive, idiots.
After you own a car with a backup camera.
I can’t believe this rental car doesn’t have a backup camera. Ugh where am I going even. THIS IS UNSAFE.
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Lord of the Rings Characters Ranked by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tom Bombadil
The most ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ character in literary history.
Treebeard
Started ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but then went the other way.
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If Amazon succeeds with physical bookstores it doesn’t mean Borders was right all along. It means Borders failed because of poor operations rather than a fundamentally unsustainable business. Borders couldn’t compete with Amazon because they were lousy. Not because physical stores can’t work.
Oh My Gosh I Couldn't Care Less
The orientation of the toilet paper roll.
Oh my gosh I couldn’t care less.
The Oxford comma.
Oh my gosh I couldn’t care less.
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How I'd Spend My Time if I Was Immortal ↪️↩️
Inspired by @ListPrompts. Immortality sucks. Read more…
Sometimes I have crazy ideas and usually this is a disaster but every once in a while it works out. Like today when I was making homemade macaroni and cheese for my babies and on a whim I added some goat cheese. Very very yum.
What Did You Say?
Inspired by @dad3 / Link Did I do it right? Ok, analyze me! Read more…
Things Chef John Says
Chef John of Food Wishes is bar none my favorite YouTube star. His recipes are amazing and his banter is 💯. Link Read more…
Books I Finished in January
In which you see why I don’t get much literature read these days. Inspired by @bookishclaire. Read more…
Suggested Serving Sizes
Thin Mints: One sleeve.
Note: Why are the sleeves so small now? This will have to be revised to “Two sleeves” if trends continue.
Pizza: Two slices, then just a sliver of a third slice, then half of what remains, then the other half.
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Phineas and Ferb Has Better Music Than Frozen
That is all
Fight me
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If Someone Sent Me My Ideal Care Package, This Is What Would Be Inside 💚📦
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Yoda’s supposed to be the wisest guy in the galaxy but after like 900 years he still can’t speak english properly. Not so smart he is.
Thoughts That Go Through My Head When I'm Trying to Get to Sleep at Night but Cannot 💬
Inspired by @ListPrompts. I only had trouble sleeping once that I can remember and that was after taking a new allergy medication. Never took that again. This is my usual pre-sleep thought process… Read more…
Things I Don't Have on Right Now
Pants
A shirt
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How to Make Perfect Fluffy Rice Without Measuring
I used to be terrible at making rice for some reason. It was always under cooked or soggy or gloppy. My friend would always tell me about water levels and finger joints and I’d be like “doesn’t that depend on the size of the pot?!” Anyway, if you want fluffy rice with separate grains then this recipe is fool-proof and also requires no measuring. Read more…
@imc and I Checking Out a Library Book in the Voice of Han Solo 👥
@ChrisK this is fun. Read more…