Seen on the Amazon home page, in the introduction of new Kindles:
Kindle Fire HDX also introduces the revolutionary new “Mayday” button. With a single tap, an Amazon expert will appear on your Fire HDX and can co-pilot you through any feature by drawing on your screen, walking you through how to do something yourself, or doing it for you—whatever works best. Mayday is available 24×7, 365 days a year, and it’s free.
So.many.questions.
I happened on this the other day and am still thinking about it, so I thought I’d pass it along so you can think about it too. Unitarians are pretty broad in their range of ideas and practices so it was interesting to hear her thoughts on more formal prayers and the ones of being present in a moment or acknowledging what’s going on.
Well, that would have been a typewriter. I’d been thinking about the one I’d used in college for awhile wondering where it had gone and one night in July my brother and I were in the cellar of our childhood home, we looked down and there it was. And here it is.
Everything seems to work except it needs a good cleaning and a new ribbon. Found this on the Smith Corona site which was sad:
however I did find the freakin’ manual online, so I guess it’s all good.
I can’t really say I’d prefer to type on this over a fine Apple keyboard. It takes a lot of power to drive a typewriter key down. It’s a lot easier to make corrections on a computer too, something I’d be loathe to give up. But, I was still glad to see it again.
This was good and even better towards the middle and end. TED now has curated lists of talks and Stefan Sagmeister is one of those who has a curated list. Well, he did say he likes to make lists:
PS here’s a hint – start with Benjamin Zander next!
I did the things that needed doing today. Worked on some work stuff.
Stopped at the East Greenbush Library to ask about the possibility of gathering some NaNoWrimers there during November (yes!) And while I was there I did a little writing.
And now the obligatory cat photo – deirdre this morning after a normal night with them sharing available bed space. The night before they got all spazzed about something – serious yowling, growling, hiding and puffed out fur, all four cats in various corners and hiding places downstairs. None of them came up on the bed. One slept underneath it with occasional small growls… I never did figure out what freaked them out but they were so out of control I ended up searching the house for some invading animal, as unlikely as that seemed. Bear outside? I have no idea. But at least they were all on the same team rather than ganging up on one of the herd.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now–always.
