Notes From The Cave

Forgive my moment of patting myself on the back. Last night I found that the fill valve in the toilet on the main floor of our house needed to be replaced. I am not experienced with home repairs and in the past managed to mangle toilet repair enough to call in a professional to fix the job. So, in normal circumstances I would have just scheduled a plumber to repair, but I decided to search for information, found videos on YouTube that showed me what to do, and today I bought the parts and made the replacement as easily as was shown in the video.

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The UI this website is remarkable. You might have noticed that my site is very bland, that’s mostly because I lack the design skills, but also because I like featuring the text and how it looks on mobile devices.

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Amazon has broken a what has been significant piece of functionality to me, the ability to send a book’s title and author to Drafts. I used to open About This Book, tap Share and then select Drafts, and the result used to be that a new draft opened with the book title and authors. Today when I did this Drafts wasn’t even an option!

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Day 1 of lap 56 around the sun.

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NFL’s first official sports betting partnerships include FanDuel, DraftKings, SlashGear

For as long as I can remember organized sports viewed betting as the biggest threat to the integrity of the game. More and more are now embracing the money, integrity be damned.

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Received the Obvious Shirt that I ordered, though this is the one that I really want. I wish their web site had a notification for when shirts are back in stock.

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This is the largest flowering tree that I have ever seen.

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Friday, 1:20 PM Central Standard Time

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I have a Logitech MX Keys keyboard and a MX Master 3 mouse that I use every day with my work Windows 10 PC. The PC has two USB ports, one USB 3 port on the left side and what I think is a USB 2 port on the right. In the left port is a dongle for my Jabra wireless headset, and in the right port I have a Logitech Unifying receiver for the keyboard and mouse. I have frustrating experiences with mouse that appears to be due to it frequently losing connectivity.

I’ve swapped the two devices between ports and that fixes the mouse issue, but then the headset loses connectivity, so I think that means there is some type of interference with the right USB port.

I have a USB-C hub and a there is a USB-C port with the computer, so I plugged in the hub and plugged the Logitech receiver to the hub but that didn’t fix the problem. I am now using an USB extension cable and the Logitech receiver plugged in to it. I don’t know why the hub didn’t work, it should have.

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Why The Republican Party Isn’t Rebranding After 2020, FiveThirtyEight

I think another reason why Republicans are not willing to change is that they have not yet faced reality that they are a minority. Their arguments for why the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” can only hold if they think there is more of them than others. In other words, if Republicans are a minority then by definition they will get less votes, and we have seen this played out by the fact that since 1988 they have lost the popular vote for all but one presidential election.

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