Category: Micro.blog

Yesterday I downloaded TikTok, just to register my preferred username and to see if it was any more useable than the last time I tried it years ago. While I thought I did get my preferred username, it silently added an 8 to the end of it. It turns out there is someone using my preferred username already so I changed it to my second choice.

The other thing I did was find a few accounts of people and businesses I know of on there and follow them. I figured that this would result in my feed being them instead of all those “suggestions” the app crams at me. But everywhere I looked, that’s all I got. It’s horrible. Autoplayed videos of things I don’t want to get sucked into, or card after card of suggested accounts, and nothing from the accounts I followed.

After a few minutes poking around, I deleted the app.

If I’m flying on a Boeing 737 MAX, is it okay for me to not turn on Airplane Mode so I can Find My iPhone later after it’s sucked out of the cabin?

We were lucky enough to meet Mellisa Aldana and her quartet after their terrific show last night, both thanks to Houston’s DaCamera. Her band is

Melissa Aldana, tenor saxophone
Pablo Menares, bass
Lex Korten, piano
Jochen Rueckert, drums

It’s Lex’s birthday today, so happy birthday wherever you are now!

Um, then it seems like the right thing to do is not work, right? Or, do bad work if you can stand it?

It seems like people are using the term “ghost car” to refer to those police cars with markings that you can barely see, graphics that probably skirt the laws that require police traffic enforcement vehicles to not be unmarked. But the term “undermarked car” was right there…

It’s probably good that Jon Stewart is returning to The Daily Show, but I haven’t forgotten his glee when T**** came down the escalator and announced his candidacy. He missed that one by a bit.

I keep seeing all this hang-wringing and such about Substack and Nazis, and it strikes me that that this wouldn’t be a problem if people just had their own blogs on their own websites, like using something like WordPress.

My friends Grifters & Shills get listed as one of the top 20 albums by Houston artists for 2023! Check out their great album Fireball.

https://apple.news/A9zgUQnIcSCmnALjE1_LbHA

I’m probably not the only person who has noticed that Texas’ environmental agency, TCEQ, is The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, not The Texas Commission for Environmental Quality.

I knew I’d forget some albums in my post about My Favorite Jazz Albums of 2023. There was also Dynamic Maximum Tension by Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society and Phoenix by Lakecia Benjamin. I was reminded of both by Downbeat’s article about the Grammy nominations. I have since updated the post.