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My name is Daniel Howard. Born in 1976, I grew up in the Chicago Public Schools, earning an International Baccalaureate diploma. After the US Army judged me Unfit for Military Service, I enrolled at the University of Illinois, earning a Bachelor's Degree in English Rhetoric, with a minor in Computer Science.
I have lived (mostly) in the Silicon Valley since 1999. I am married, with two sons. I have served on Sunnyvale's Planning Commission, seeking to improve our access to housing and sustainable transportation. Lately, I volunteer with the Scouts.
I enjoy writing, and I have been publishing on the web since 1995. You can browse/follow my profile on Mastodon, which is mirrored to Bluesky. On occasion, I also post to my YouTube channel.
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The locals are extremely friendly. All the street food vendors didn’t want to charge their international guests. It reminded me of Jordan.
How do you remove the “Ask Gemini” button from Google Chrome?
Easy: right-click on “Ask Gemini” and select “Unpin”
TIL: how to set up “author attribution” links, mirror my Mastodon to Bluesky, configure the feed to not show re-toots, and how to effectively block re-toots of screenshots of Twitter.
I am old enough to remember when The Internet wasn’t just screenshots of quotes from other websites.
Older folks are unlikely to “rewrite” their core functionality, but you can tweak around the surfaces of the system to ensure better compatibility.
The Matrix isn’t Virtual Reality; it is lonely people holding smartphones close to their faces for gentle loyalty-inducing dopamine injections into their eyeballs. A scruffy group of Resistors persist in The Real World, which is actually pretty nice and totally worth fighting for. Welcome, Neo, to the Real World.
There’s a general dread of ICE and a surge of Federal Law Enforcement conducting raids while they are in town for game security. Now there are reports of pro-ICE billboards having gone up in San Francisco.
A blog is the cultural equivalent of a yard sale.
Come morning I couldn’t sleep. I really like to sleep in when I can. That’s what Sunday is for, right? I taped up the old sign: END ICE. I dressed warm and headed out. Around the corner a guy walking his dog encouraged me to be a dumbass and go get shot by federal agents. He seemed good natured about it.
It’s a contention of Heat Moon’s — believing as he does any traveler who misses the journey misses about all he’s going to get — that a man becomes his attentions. His observations and his curiosity, they make and remake him.
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A loner hitman lives upstairs with a bird. He is very careful about his work and covering his tracks. He steals cars with ease. License plates are swapped. When a female witnesses his work, he takes no action against her. His client turns violently against him.
