I know so many who are experts on Russia and Putin. They know the mind of Putin, what Putin thinks, and what Putin wants. They also seem to know vast chapters of the famous Putin playbook.
Now I have one popping up who is an expert on forestry because she is a Republican. 🌲 🔥
People do 50-tweet threads of things, instead of writing it up in one piece somewhere, so that their collapsing quackery sinks into the Twitter soup. Comments get scattered all over.
It’s one of the signs that makes me think, “here’s a tool.”
Since the pandemic started months ago, webcams have been sold out most places or priced up by multiples because so many people needed them for the Zoom conferences and other things.
I didn’t have a camera for my big old desktop computer where I have a comfortable desk and chair for long meetings. For months I have used a Wyze Wi-Fi surveillance camera adapted for USB streaming by swapping out the firmware. It was nice of the manufacturer’s developers to provide that solution, but the camera not being designed for conferencing left medium results.
I was able to finally get a better webcam this weekend, a camera designed for the purpose. Nicer.
Wyze: the white cube, worked OK for streaming. Better than not having a camera. More suited for surveillance by Wi-Fi.
Angetube 920: the black one. Inexpensive, designed for conferencing, more than adequate. “The webcam works with Windows/Mac OS/Android/Linux/Chrome OS and Ubuntu.”
If you hang out in Guadalajara, you’re going to be eating a few of these. I don’t view them as great, but it’s decent candy. It’s very rare to open the package without breaking the candy into fine little pieces.
I was in a store today in Goldsboro that had these large boxes. 30 pieces inside. Heavy box.
An individual piece of mazapán and an entire box of 30