There tends to be benefit—better interoperability and so forth—in mostly or completely casting your lot with one soulless megacorp. For the questions you can answer Apple, Google, or Microsoft, my answer is mostly Microsoft. I keep a lowball Android tablet around, but otherwise I’m pretty bought into the Microsoft ecosystem. Part of said ecosystem is … Read more
I carry a handkerchief. What I carry is not fancy. It’s a square of unadorned cotton cloth that folds up to a good back pocket size. The ones I buy are $1 each or so in a multi-pack from Amazon or Target. They’re kind of crunchy when they’re new, but they soften up with a … Read more
No, I’m not turning into a bleeding-heart liberal. Yes, I have been thinking, at both length and depth, about our moral responsibilities to animals. It has been easy for me to pay insufficient attention to these issues because they are often delivered in and among other messages that I consider radical and/or silly. I am … Read more