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[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

Anyone else ever think of things like… What if Hogwarts used ostriches instead of owls to deliver mail? #HarryPotter

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

I’ve discovered a #cure for #hiccups… but I have absolutely no idea how to explain the technique to someone else. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

If you went straight chalk in both the men’s and women’s tournaments, you hit 0.750 in the former, 0.875 in the latter, and 0.813 overall (78/96). Upsets/shmupsets in the NIL era. #ncaa #sweet16 #brackets

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

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Remember the g/o/days when alarm clocks couldn’t change their own times and we could blissfully ignore all this time-switching tomfoolery?

Living in an era of newfangled gizmos like portable telephones & color TVs, let’s just dispatch with #DaylightSavingsTime, shall we?

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

@twostraws Started reading Testing Swift on HWS+... and got stymied on page 3. When trying to run the test on the First app, I don't get ✅✅. Instead, I get 2 concurrency warnings and the progress bar hangs on "Testing..."/"Indexing | Paused." I'm already 😵‍💫....

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

I think #Nintendo wanted their follow-up to the #Switch to be a #VR console (a la Apple Vision), but it’s nowhere near cost-effective enough yet. So they’re following the Xbox/PS formula for this generation. 7y from now, I don’t expect to see a Switch 3.

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

I’m think the #NewYorkGiants just blew another draft. Given the MetLife injury curse & the fact that Carter’s speed will only be as good as his ankle is, this could be a disaster. If it works out… all 4 of their SB-winning teams won bc of their D (and the last 2 bc of their DL).

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

#UConn Just imagine what the last 4 years could have been like had Paige & Azzi been healthy at the same time during the tournaments.

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

Considering the #Alarmo clock from @NintendoAmerica? 👎 Its screen adjusts to the ambient light, making it UNREADABLY dark at night even at its highest brightness level. It’s essentially USELESS as a clock. Night’s when a ⏰’s important; in the daytime, just look at your 📱.

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

The #NewYorkGiants are such a bad football team, they can’t even lose correctly. It’d be a miracle if they even get a top-3 pick now.

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

It’s amazing how the US has turned into “The City Mouse vs. the Town Mouse.” ALL* the cities are voting D and ALL the rurals are voting R.
*the vast majority, anyway
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We’re locked into this half-the-country-despises-the-other-half cycle, and only a rich Independent can stop it.

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

8 up, 8 down: the winner of Game 1 in ALL 8 #MLBPostseason playoff series has won the series.
In the WC round, only 1 HIGHER seed advanced.
In the DS round, only 1 LOWER seed advanced.
Records by seed:
1 (6-3)*
2 (4-5)*
3 (1-4)
4 (4-5)
5 (3-5)
6 (9-5)*
[*seeds remaining]

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

Just found out that my favorite comedian of all time died a few days ago. 😔☹️😓

Bye, Bob.

#BobNewhart

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

[3/3] And based on my experience, CTRL (not CTL) is the abbreviation for “control,” so sim-CTL should be sim-C-T-L (whereas sim-CTRL would be sim-control).

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

[1/3] I started listening to the #SwiftOverCoffee podcast last month and am just now into S2 (Feb 2020). It amuses me to no end/baffles me beyond words that Swift 6 was being considered a 2021 release… and more than 3 years later, it’s still only in an Xcode beta.

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

[2/3] As for the GUI debate, three-letter acronyms are almost always said “by letter” (C-I-A, not see-ah; B-B-C, not bu-bu-suh; N-F-L, not nih-ful). Longer acronyms (NATO, SNAFU) get the said “by word” treatment. Ergo GUI should be G-U-I, not goo-ee.

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

This is getting ridiculous. In the span of a week, #RichardSimmons #ShannenDoherty #RuthWestheimer #ShelleyDuvall #JamesSikking #JonLandau have all passed on. I wonder if this has anything to do with what's looking like an inevitable #TrumpTerm2....
#StopTheRideIWannaGetOff

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

I loved Martin’s work. Like Fred Willard, he had such a delightfully understated, dry sense of humor.
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Martin Mull Dies at 80 - Variety https://t.co/IqrDaRTRwl

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

As a former actor and on-set instructor, I can confirm that filming IS that tedious, but instruction is better than portrayed. Unfortunately. Because that would have made lesson planning SO much easier (I'm talking to you, organic chemistry). #FamilyGuy https://t.co/cxEatATJlg

[David Allan Markham @iamdashingdave]

Just saw the Apple #iPad ad… and have absolutely no idea why people are upset by it. I found it amusing. It exactly encapsulated the concept of fitting lots of entertainment into a tiny device. People who say it as “destruction” missed the point entirely. https://t.co/UyFUY0jp7C