• If you haven’t yet had their ghost pepper wings and amazing mac and cheese, you totally should.

  • Again I show up to vote and again the accessible machine isn’t working, and again nobody seems to know how to fix it. so tired of this happening. So tired of hearing how two election judges would be glad to “assist” me as if my privacy shouldn’t matter. . @nationsblind@nfb.social

  • I'm now wondering if I should subscribe to The Onion, according to them: Subscribing to The Onion will make you the envy of your neighbors, friends, family, community patrol officers, HOA board members, professional dog walkers, U.S. Postal Service

    I’m now wondering if I should subscribe to The Onion: according to them: > Subscribing to The Onion will make you the envy of your neighbors, friends, family, community patrol officers, HOA board members, professional dog walkers, U.S. Postal Service employees, and/or your fellow inmates.

    Seriously, I absolutely love The Onion, their satire has made me laugh year after year. And yet while I think it’s kind of neat they’re trying to support a print edition through subscription revenue, I just wish they’d offer an accessible digital subscription. Sure it’s possible to read The Onion via their web page, or even in their own app, but there are so many ads and other 3RD party content that accessibility is hit or miss at best.

    So, is anyone else out there a fan of The Onion?

  • Here for the NFB of MN state convention.

  • Checking out some really cool tech which, if it’s as accessible as I think it is, I’ll be very excited to blog about. :)

  • iOS18.1 is finally here! If you’ve been waiting for Apple Intelligence, be sure to update quickly, so you can join the wait list and go back to waiting again.

  • Really miss Micro Monday, hoping that someday this podcast comes back. overcast.fm/+AAMRfrRb…

  • Checked in at Lucky’s 13 Pub

  • Checked in at City of Richfield

  • Wow, was just scrolling through some of my old entries on Micro.blog from four years ago, talk about a crazy trip back in time.

  • It looks like posts are not federating again today, is it just me? Cc @help

  • Still not really here, but since it’s so close, I figure it’s as good a place as any to use for testing. :-)

  • I wonder if there’s a way to cross-post Strava activity to micro.blog and/or other services? I tried building something with IfTTT but couldn’t figure out the “then” part of the recipe.

  • Checked in at Wooden Hill Brewing Company. First time at this place, great to mee up with co-workers after work and to experience some great beer and great food.

  • Best Buy. Here to check out the new iPad mini which I still don’t know if I want. :)

  • My thoughts on Apple's long-awaited 2024 refresh of the iPad mini

    I have been waiting for what seems like forever for the iPad mini to get a refresh and at long last, it has happened. That said, I’m admittedly underwhelmed by this refresh. While the new iPad mini will be able to use the shiny new Apple Intelligence that everyone is talking about – even though it hasn’t been released yet – the other changes in this refreshed model are pretty minor. I was hoping they would use one of the newer M-series Apple Silicon processors in the mini, just as they’re using in the current air and pro models. Unfortunately, they’re using the A17 Pro chip which, while not bad by any means, is the same chip that Apple used last year in its iPhone 15 Pro models. Couldn’t they at least use the chip that they’re using in this year’s iPhone 16 Pro models? To me, it almost feels like someone at Apple found a drawer with leftover chips and thought, “Gosh, what are we gonna do with all these leftover chips from last year? Let’s give the Mini a refresh and then update it for real once we run out.” I’m sure the situation is far more complicated than this, but it’s hard to justify upgrading knowing that I would be buying last year’s technology and still paying a premium price for it. All that said, I love my current mini, I love the form-factor, I love how portable it is, I like that I can have my apps organized in a way that helps me be productive in ways I can’t be on my phone. I would even go so far to say that of all the Apple mobile devices I’ve owned, the iPad mini, 6TH generation, has been one of my favorites.

    There are a number of articles that do a great job of detailing what’s new with Apple’s newest generation iPad mini. For anyone curious to learn more, I highly recommend this fantastic post by Jason Snell.

    So, will I be upgrading to Apple’s shiny new iPad mini? I’m still not sure. On the one hand, I like the idea of being able to use Apple Intelligence on the mini since that’s where I already do a lot of work, but on the other, I hate the idea of buying last year’s tech as if it were truly new. I’m definitely glad Apple is refreshing the iPad mini line, but after three years, I was really hoping to see a bit more.

  • Checked in at IKON Bloomington

  • Checked in at IKON Bloomington

  • Checked in at Full Tilt Tavern

  • Checked in at Caribou Coffee

  • Checked in at Caribou Coffee

  • Checked in at Minneapolis Central Library. Another awesome NFB chapter meeting.

  • Checked in at Hennepin County Law Library

  • Checked in at Coffee & Bagels

  • The campaigner at my door

    I just had someone at the door who is running for local public office. She said how wonderful it was to see me again, so I told her how wonderful it was to see her too. We talked about the weather, my job at 3M, her kids, she even asked about my four-year-old who must be getting so big now and so I assured her that yes, yes he sure is. I asked about her teenaged daughter and is she still enjoying sports? She does, but she’s growing up so fast; where does the time go anyway? this went on for about ten minutes. Thing is, I don’t have a four-year-old, I’ve never worked for 3M, I have no idea who she is, no idea if she has any kids, and I’m pretty sure she’s never met me either. Still, she did such an amazing job of keeping up the pretense for so long that I’m tempted to vote for her anyway. I only hope she is as impressed with my ability to make stuff up on the fly as I am with hers.

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