It’s a comfortable word to say. Unlike “European-American,” it’s euphonious.
This is part of my effort to break out of the linguistic trap of the one-drop rule.
An Open Notebook
It’s a comfortable word to say. Unlike “European-American,” it’s euphonious.
This is part of my effort to break out of the linguistic trap of the one-drop rule.
Amazon Nano Echo needs a radio for Internet connectivity. It needs low power bluetooth to connect to wireless earbuds. It needs wireless earbuds so the wearer can keep them on all the time. The earbuds need to be stereo, because music is one the of the main use cases. The earbuds need to be paired out of the box to eliminate pairing hassle. The charger for the device and earbuds need to be consolidated. The earbuds should be stored in the box.
Wearing earbuds all day isn’t ok because it interferes with conversation and reduces awareness? Ok, take one earbud out when you’re not listening to music, and the output switches to mono.
And that’s the product. A featureless box that never leaves your pocket or purse, paired with wireless earbuds which never leave your ears. The box charges from the wall. The earbuds charge from the box.
You can have voice conversations, listen to music, send and receive voice chats, do web searches, figure out tips, get the weather, check your calendar, get the time, take a voice note, look up a recipe, etc. It’s even a fitness tracker.
Like Google Glass the user doesn’t need to take it out of their pocket. Unlike Glass it can’t take video of every casual intimate interaction in your day. You look goofy with a single earbud – the bluetooth headset jerk – but it’s not nearly as bad as the glasshole look, and you can negate the fashion problem by putting the other earbud in. Or going subdermal.
OMFG, *subdermal alexapods.*
This is sexist. Men should be aware of the pattern and take steps against it.
I’m exploring the idea that helping males scale the learning curve related to sexism is a male responsibility.
This is not to claim that I have personally scaled that learning curve. I am in the process of figuring things out and am sharing what I learn.
The 9/11 attacks were clearly meant to sucker-punch the U.S., but also to lure the country into war. A wiser president would have had a thoughtful, sophisticated and less costly response than going into what has turned out to be an enduring state of war in Afghanistan (and bordering parts of Pakistan) and Iraq (and now Syria and bordering parts of Turkey).
Source: We had the wrong president
There are still only 28 search results on Google for "bad metadata is killing music"
— Marc Weidenbaum (@disquiet) September 2, 2016