SiliCon With Adam Savage has finally updated their website for the New Year. Out with the old content for Silicon Valley Comic Con 2019. In with the new content for SiliCon With Adam Savage 2020. Not that the in-person event took place this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. But there were virtual events to make up for it. I’m going to review the website redesign on the front page and explain the changes.
Read more “SiliCon With Adam Savage Website Redesign Review”Amazon 3-FOR-2 Black Friday Door Stoppers (Programming Books)
During Black Friday and CyberMonday 2020, I didn’t find any great tech deals at Newegg. Not that they had any of the newest CPUs and GPUs launched in the last three months in stock. But I did find an old school tech deal at Amazon: a 3-for-2 deal on doorstoppers. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many programming books were so thick that they could stop a door.
Here are the three “doorstoppers” I bought from Amazon last month.
- “Python All-in-One For Dummies” by John Shovic.
- “Classic Computer Science Problems in Python” by David Kopec.
- “An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus” by Greg Michaelson.
What If Elon Musk Sold Tesla to Microsoft?
Elon Musk tweeted that he wanted Apple to buy Tesla but Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to meet him. That was back in 2017 when Tesla was worth 1/10th of its current value today and Apple went quiet on building its own cars. But the tweet was in response to a report that Apple will start production of their own vehicles in 2024.
You know the old joke about Apple making cars?
Apple would make a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five per cent of the roads.
What if Elon Musk sold Tesla to Microsoft instead? Here are the Top 10 Microsoft car jokes from 1999 with updated commentary.
Read more “What If Elon Musk Sold Tesla to Microsoft?”Working From Home With A $75 Mobile Standing Desk
Four months before the pandemic shutdown, I started working from home. Which meant I missed the first coronavirus case that came through the office. My work from home desk for the past year was a pair of printer tables in the corner of my dining room. I recently replaced one of the printer stands with a $75 mobile standing desk from Amazon. I’ll talk about the standing desk, the set up for my work laptop, and my first week standing while working.
Read more “Working From Home With A $75 Mobile Standing Desk”Please “Mod Down” All My YouTube Videos
A troll posted the following anonymous comment on Slashdot, encouraging users to “mod down” all my YouTube videos.
Make sure to go to YouTube to mod him down, any kind of Google account will allow you to mod him down. I use my Gmail account. Don’t mod too many of his videos down at once since YouTube will shadow-ban and ignore your mods while still making you believe they count.
– I mod down 3 of his videos every day.
– I wait a bit and watch a few videos between modding each of his video down.
-Watch a minute or two before modding it down, then click next video.Don’t bother to go to YouTube if you don’t have some type of Google account, it’s definitely not worth the time.
I want everyone from Slashdot (and Medium) to click the dislike button on all my videos. If the above steps were consistently applied, each person would add over six hours of watch time to my channel in 83 days. Watch time, not the like/dislike ratio, is the metric that that the YouTube algorithm cares the most about.
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Christmas In The Park Drive-Thru 2020 In 3 Minutes
Info and tickets for the 2021 drive-thru can be found here.
The drive through for Christmas In The Park in the History Park (San Jose, CA) took 20 minutes. The line to get into the park was 30 minutes long. Recorded from the dashboard behind a fogged up windshield. No stopping. Bumper to bumper. Lots of flashing lights. This is probably how most people will experience the drive through. I added snarks to the video where appropriate. The “out of storage” error message on the iPhone came before exiting the park.