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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • As someone who lives through the height of the mall era I’m sad to see the go personally. However before online shopping it was sort of a pain in the ass. Not only did you have to go to the mall for clothes shopping sometimes you would have to go to more than one. I remember school clothes shopping would be a multi day affair to buy some jeans and shirts and a pair of shoes. If the mall didn’t have the store you needed you would sometimes have to drive really far to go to that store. If the mall didn’t have what you needed you were sort of SOL. So when online shopping started to provide anything you want in a few clicks it was not just the hard to obtain stuff people bought it was everything else too. But it’s sad so many teenage sagas played out in malls for me. Friendships were solidified and dating occured there. It was a place you could hang out for a few hours with no parents and navigate teenage social life. I am sure teens will just do something else but it holds a special place in my memory.




















  • gadgetbridge for android is amazing also itd for linux is great. I would say don’t use lift to wake as it’s a bit too sensitive IMO and drains your battery super fast. Know that some apps like the stop watch get interrupted by notifications so when using those apps I turn notifications off. Same for the timer app it has the some indication vibration as a notification so you should turn off notifications when using that app. Long press on the wallpaper to get options to change the color schemes and such. Such a cool feature I like to change my color schemes a few times a week. Don’t forget to put the watch in sleep mode when you sleep otherwise it will be vibrating all night and the screen will keep turning on. Not required but I keep an eye on the github repo to see what issues are being reported and so that I know when new releases drop. Also when you first get the watch be sure to update to the latest release.



  • I’m in reality probably center left. I find that I tend to have nuanced views about a variety of things but I probably wouldn’t hard commit to a particular political stripe. I tend to vote Democrat but I often disagree with them on certain things as well. Sometimes I think they are not doing enough on social and environmental issues and sometimes I think they have gone too far on other issues. There are some republican theories I don’t mind but I don’t generally see this current party actually focused on anything I agree with.