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I have the opportunity to play pool with some folks that I’ve never played pool with before and so I thought it would be timely to share my ruminations on the pool rules I’ve experienced in the US and the rules I recommend for friendly games. Bar Pool Rules The default that I’ve seen in most bars in the US is that you shoot 8-ball and you have to call every shot. If you call it off of another ball and it goes in without touching that ball, it is still a miss and you’re giving up control of the pool table. This can lead to debates on whether what actually happened adequately matches what was called. Compared to other alternatives there is a much higher chance of rules arguments like this. Those debates are not fun for me. It also feels pretty unforgiving and not what I’d want for a friendly game of pool. ...

Howdy friends! I’m happy to announce today that I am launching a rebuilt https://www.chicks.net/ . Hopefully you can already see the difference. It has been a long time This is the first redesign in a very long time. Most of the changes over the last decade have been minor. Going back further gets us before git to September 2004 in the wayback machine and we can see that the old design lasted for 20 years. ...

Recently, I’ve been trying out compact computer keyboards to get things to fit better in my keyboard tray. I started off with a few cheap $50 keyboards from Amazon and they were all disappointing in some way. Then I came across an article talking about the Akko Gaming Keyboard MOD007B-HE Santorini. Right off the bat, the design intrigued me. I’ve honestly never seen a set of key caps that is this gorgeous! I would never have suspected that I would be encouraging you to ogle key caps with serif letters, but here we are. Then you can’t help but be amazed at the seaside scenes on the space bar, shift keys, and enter key. The feel of the keys is excellent. The lights are pretty. Finally, $140 was a great deal if it worked for me and luckily it has. ...

Commentary on https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7194789351812214784/ by Logan Abbott. This seems very reasonable and I hope this idea catches on in other places. Other options that come to mind would be more onerous and less likely to be adhered to. Additional beneficial side effects of this will be for all network games to be more fault tolerant to network problems and for EOL considerations to get more thought and testing during development.

We have a fun smart team here in infrastructure at Tubi. Are you interested in leading us? Check it out… Note: the role is filled now.

Original article is at https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-banality-of-genius-notes-on-peter. This bit really hooked me on this article: Peter Jackson’s decision to make Get Back an eight-hour series rather than a two hour movie was a risky one. When I heard about it, I wondered if it was the result of a man who, locked down in his Antipodean editing suite, had waded too deep into his material and lost control of it, a Kurtz in the Beatle jungle. ...

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Observability Lead at Tubi! It has been such a fun and educational journey with Tubi so far. I am grateful and honored to receive this new challenge.

Introduction Howdy there, Internet People. I am known as “chicks” and I’m here today to talk about the Internet and community. Background First, a little of my story to set the stage. I started in the computer business before there was a web browser, but conveniently the Internet blew up at the right time for me and it has kept me employed or consulting steadily for 30 years. In my formative years the computer business had a variety of thriving magazines. You could read in Wired or ComputerWorld how tech companies were striving to maximize their number of users by building a community and taking advantage of network effects. ...

Repost of post by David Kenny from Nielsen: Today marks the 25th edition of The Gauge, an important industry snapshot of the total time U.S. viewers spend watching TV each month via broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. The Gauge is tracking, arguably, the most seismic shift in the history of television. In just 25 months, streaming has moved from representing 26% of total time spent with TV in the U.S. (cable was 39% and broadcast 25%) to today representing 37.7% of total time spent with TV in the U.S. (cable is now 30.6% and broadcast 20.8%). ...

During our first visit to the Pismo Beach area we talk about restaurants, the beaches, and amazing views of the Pacific Ocean. We talk about these places: Zorro’s in Shell Beach Steak & Seafood Wooly’s on Pismo Beach Hotshot Billiards in Pismo Beach InterContinental the Clement hotel in Monterey Passion Fish in Monterey The article about the Del Monte Shopping Center is at SF Gate. You can watch it here: