Tinkering

Today I’ll be starting a new series of posts called “Fixing stupid things that should not have been stupid in the first place”, or FSTTSNHBSITFP… Mmmm, just rolls off the tongue. Anyway. Logging in to Slack this morning, I noticed an irritating change. Almost every message was followed by a “Translate” button. What a waste of screen real-estate! At first, I thought it was another AI crap. It’s been absolutely everywhere lately. ...

So there I was. Half-shaven with a stupid look on my face. My beard trimmer had just died. Any other time this would not have been that much of an issue. Just go get the charger from the bag, right? Right? Not really. You see, I had also realized that while the charger was indeed in the bag I knew it to be, the bag itself was 3000 kilometers away. ...