In 2016, I have taken 453 screenshots on my iPhone. 142 of them are Pokemon Go. Ahhh, 2016. And for no other apparent reason, here’s all my iPhone screenshots from 2016. If you are curious how I made all these, I did them in Adobe Lightroom. The instructions are below the images. I was able […]
With more and more people cutting their landline phones, you’d expect that searches on Google for landline would decrease in the past 12 years. Google searches for landline are actually increasing, because there are more people who don’t know what a landline is. Mentions of the word landline in books were pretty consistent starting in […]
The demographics of sports watching is changing. Young people are less interested in sports. Bloomberg reports, “When asked what type of content they enjoy watching, young people express less enthusiasm for sport than other genres” Media reporter Chris Thilk gives this analysis: What they found should be super-disturbing for the media world. Two of the […]
Quark XPress still sends emails to designers trying to convince them to purchase their dated software. 20 years ago Quark was the premiere layout program for print designers. Then around 2000 Adobe released their Quark-Killer, Adobe Indesign. Since that time 15 years ago, designers quickly dropped Quark in favor of Indesign. We haven’t looked back […]
In Office 365 email, everyone has a default icon with their initials inside a circle. The icon is so boring that it makes you want to add a photo. However, nobody changes their icon. Everyone keeps the default icon. To use your photo makes you seem rather narcissistic. “Here’s a photo of me!” I have […]
The New York Post made a funny and truthful video about how much New Yorkers hate slow walkers. People walk by this guy and give him evil stare-downs. How dare you walk so slow! However there are times in the video where the guy is on his cell phone. There’s a difference between a slow […]
Can you remember the last time you hurt your back? How long did it take you to recover? I can’t remember either of these things, and I should. I’m starting a health log to track whenever I feel sick or have a back ache. Then I can see how long it takes me to heal […]
Just so you know, I’m the very first person on Twitter to ever use the hashtag #AllHailEmperorPalpatine. Rather surprising this hasn’t been tweeted yet, given Twitter’s 10-year history. I did so with my fictional twitter account, @atourriten, the Death Star librarian. While sitting at my desk in corporate America, I like to stare out the […]
The thing with social log-ins is that I can never remember which network I use to log in. Whenever an email option is given, I always select that. I control my email address, so I know it will never go away. These other social platforms, we are at the whim of these third party companies. […]
Everyone loves a good infographic, right? Especially when it’s based on true data and does some data mining. I’ve thought about getting into more data journalism. A couple articles that have helpful resources: From journalism.uk: Get with the program: The benefits of coding skills in the newsroom There’s no shortage of places to learn how to […]