When someone dies and you prepare for their funeral and reach out to their friends and siblings, you learn about all the other people they were, beyond the person they were to you. And you get to know the full person they couldn’t or wouldn’t let you know, and you wish you could have known that person too. But now it’s too late and you couldn’t have known them in any other way anyway. So you’re grateful for knowing them as you did. And that has to be enough.

I just watched The Last Jedi. I haven’t watched it since it originally came out, and while I didn’t hate it when it came out, it was so different from my expectations that I was a little disappointed.

Watching it now, for the second time, I actually think it’s a very clever way to take the story forward and I really enjoyed it.

Seeing it a second time, I don’t think Luke’s character is mishandled; I actually think it’s very believable and quite a powerful message throughout the film.

I’m looking forward to watching The Rise of Skywalker, which I enjoyed more the first time I saw it, so it’ll be interesting to see how I feel about it now.

Proper consumer protection would force either HP or Humane, I don’t care which, to refund customers the cost of their now-useless hardware. And that should probably come out of the enormous amount that is going to otherwise go to the shareholders/owners in this deal:

daringfireball.net/linked/20…

#tech #consumerprotection #customerrights

Had a beautiful cold walk up in the woods today. Just about enough snow for my wife and son to have a running snowball fight. After three days of being ill, it was a wonderful welcome change to the confines of my bed.

A tranquil landscape features rolling hills, scattered trees, and a cloudy sky.A person and a child in winter clothing walk hand in hand on a forest path with a black dog nearby.