The Evil Eyebrow

Month: March 2021

  • What I Learned in 2021 Week 10

    1. We have been lied to by all our health classes in High School. The Great Sperm Race is…a bit over-masculinized.
    Screenshot of an iPhone showing a message, "Volume Should Be Turned Down: Based on your headphone usage over the last seven days, you've exceeded the recommended..."
    1. The new iOS update, or maybe my new phone, now forces the volume down when it detects that the headphone usage has been too high. I applaud apple for watching out for everyone’s hearing; that’s a good thing. I was going to be all upset about this because this message popping up is due to my bluetooth line-in plug for my car. And that needs to be volume 100%. Every time it popped yesterday on my longer drive it would turn down the volume. That was highly irritating.
    2. Turns out the iOS volume monitoring for bluetooth can be adjusted by assigning different categories to the bluetooth devices that are connected. All I had to do was assign the car bluetooth as “car stereo” rather than headphones. Works like a charm.
    3. “Bluetooth” should be capitalized, but I refuse. Bluetooth has become like xerox and kleenex and frisbee. It’s too ubiquitous for me to capitalize it.
    4. Speaking of bluetooth, I also learned that good-quality noise-cancelling headphones are amazeballs.

  • What I Learned in 2021 Week 9

    A picture of a kitty litter box adorning a tile bathroom floor.
    Retraining the cat to pee here, not over there —>
    1. When you have a cat who gets a perineal urethostomy he might just decide to pee on anything everything. Casualties so far: Bean bag. various piles of clothes.
    2. How to backup your iPhone using iTunes to a place not on your local hard drive. Because if you have a 256 GB iPhone and only a 400 GB hard drive, that won’t work after a while. Make sure you follow ALL the instructions.
    3. Moving over 100,000 images from various locations on various hard drives and external hard drives into a brand new, Lightroom-managed photo catalog, and creating all their thumbnails takes three full days of computer time on my computer. But hey, now everything is in one spot, thank god.
    4. On the same theme, Lightroom is currently moving at a pace to do the auto face recognition thing on 100k photos in about 5 days of run time.
    5. Lots of other things I didn’t write down.