A few days ago, I rediscovered Rands in Repose, thanks to a mention from Chris Bowler that I saw last week. After browsing around on Rands’ site, I was inspired by an article where he shared pictures of iPhone home screens that some of his followers had posted on Twitter.

Yesterday morning, my oldest came upstairs to show me a unique LEGO creation of his own design: a “record player”. I don’t know if he’s ever seen an old record player anywhere except in a random Shaun the Sheep episode, but this creation was pretty realistic!

Earlier this week, I poked around on Amazon’s site during the somewhat buggy Prime Day, looking for anything of interest. Not much jumped out except a nice low price on some Amazon-branded toilet paper and then later on the first evening, I caught sight of a few game deals.

Last weekend after a short coffee nap, I had a chance to finish reading an interview in Offscreen Magazine with Tom Loosemore, a “digital reformer” from the UK who helps governments revamp their policies and systems to move into the internet era. Upon first reading the high-level description of Tom’s work, I wasn’t certain I’d enjoy reading the interview or find it very interesting. To my surprise, I gleaned a lot from the article, especially since I work in the same industry, providing software for government. Here are a few of the highlights:

Back when my brother created a promotional video for my coffee business, I liked the name and logo he created so much that I decided to purchase a domain name to get a website going.

Have you ever said something that you thought was really clear, but someone understood in a completely different way? Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some computer or app that could figure out what another person really meant in their communication to you, so that you could just understand them? This is a significant problem in human interaction that has been around since the Tower of Babel (and probably before).