It was dark for a panoramic iPhone5 photo, but while doing my "last bag" garbage run this morning, I couldn’t resist a photo of the sunrise while the lightning was cracking to the west. Within an hour it was pouring rain and became a dreary, damp day.
On a social networking technology note, it is amazing what a higher profile "re-tweet" can do for an average tweet. I generally post a few things to Twitter each day, often while I eat my lunch. It has been my habit for almost a year and over 1000 of over 20,000 tweets to use a personalized URL shortener; it is easy to know when a media personality re-tweets something that I’ve shared. Generally a tweet gets between 30-50 clicks from my followers, but it can go close to 1000 if someone high profile comments or retweets it. Here’s 4 hours worth of clicks on a couple of today’s tweets.
Although using a leaf blower may be more fun in cleaning the gutters, it can make a mess of everything below. I generally use rubber gloves, but in the end always slice them up and end up with a bare hand anyway.
Here’s a great idea: Cut an anti-freeze or similar shaped plastic gallon jug in the shape of a scoop and dump the debris into a bucket or plasitc garbage bag.
My son Taylor is geography and map kind of guy so I gave him a mag-lift spinning globe for his desk for Christmas 2016. His interests and innate sense of direction is probably why he pursued “Urban Planning and now coordinates development for Clermont County Ohio as a county planner. Anyway, I had forgotten that I make a test video prior to wrapping this globe and figured I would post and archive it before I forget again.
We’ve taken a enough longer road trips in the 2010 BMW X5 35d now to officially declare it an outstanding road car … no surprise really.The driving characteristics of this 5000+ pound SUV are enjoyable since the handling is tight, interior space excellent, ride comfort “so-so” and highway power substantial. I don’t really want to admit this, but driving through Wisconsin there were stretches where I was comfortably cruising along at 100 mph … until commonsense kicked in and told me grandfathers are suppose to be wiser than that … so 90 mph became my limit.
Previous long highway trips in warmer weather, and slower speeds,returned 25 mpg easily, but at these higher speeds and colder weather, it was closer to 23 mpg. Still, few full-size, 338/HP/542 lb-ft of torque, SUVs are consistently returning fuel efficiency in the 20s and giving up a couple miles per gallon in the winter is normal anyway. Here’s a recent Fuelly.com chart with the 3/17 fills reflecting our latest Minnesota trip.
The Magnifier is a simple but overlooked feature on an iPhone.
The setting is found in Settings > General > Accessibility. Turn “Magnifier” on. Then simply press the home button three times anywhere on the iPhone — either on the lock screen, the home screen, or in an app.
