I was asked to give a presentation at a Colombian conference on energy. It was a virtual conference, and I was supposed to record a video of my presentation. They would post it on the conference Slack page. So I prepared my slides and text for my presentation, and then I did it, but I forgot to press the record button. So I had to do it all over again. I did it better the second time.
I get a newsletter from Lifehacker every day, and I find out many great things like how to reheat leftover pizza to make it nice and crusty. Anyway, today I found an article about how to fix an Android update that had screwed up all my Apps. What a fabulous newsletter!
My sister needed help getting an audiobook out of her library. So she gave me her card number and password so I could do it for her. Then one day, I was looking for a new book, and I looked on her library website, and it was there but not in my library. So I put it on hold, worried that my sister wouldn't like me to use her library account. But when I emailed her, she said she was okay with it.
I mentioned to a team I was working with that I felt that the simulation we were working on was like a thought experiment. I meant it well because I thought the computer enhances our thinking and makes it more precise. My team members had never heard of the idea before. One of them looked it up on Wikipedia and found out that Einstein's Theory of Relativity was a thought experiment. Another of my team members thought it was a good term. But one of the team members took offence and said she didn't want to be part of a thought experiment, and she wanted to do social science. We went back and forth a few times in private emails, and then suddenly, I got a lot of cancellations of our future meetings.
This guy Rob Brown walks around the park in the afternoon and stops and talks to everyone he meets. Something about him just seems a little off but he appears very gentle. Anyway, he gave Barb an iPhone4, thinking it was an iPhone7. Of course, I couldn't do anything with it. But it was nice of him to give it to us.
Barb got an iPad from a lady in the community who didn't know how to reset it to factory settings and gave us access to all of her stuff so we could do it.
Barb has been putting requests on the Morningside Facebook page and is getting a lot of good stuff from our good neighbours.
