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I took anthropology in high school and remember getting a negative comment from the teacher about a journal entry suggesting that Neanderthals and homosapiens may have interbred. The was in 1989-1990. I wonder if my teacher regretted the comment when it became accepted that it indeed happened.

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I had a hankering for a cream cheese, salami, and celery sandwich. I needed only one stem of celery but I had to buy half a celery at the supermarket. We don't eat a lot of celery so much of the half stalk it will probably go to waste. Unless of course I make a proper Italian sofrito. Now there's a thought.

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Sigmund Freud once said women have penis envy. That is not actually true, but he wasn't a good enough researcher to figure that out.

However, men DEFINITELY have womb envy

#musing #musings #thoughts #randomthoughts #randommusings #psychology #psychologyhistory #science #naturalscience #socialscience #socialdynamics #gender #genderdynamics #gendertheory #gendermusings

Silly Idea: Naming a laptop "Mike".

Why? Because Mike and mic (short for microphone) are homophones, and it would be very easy to cause confusion.

"Apologies. I'm having troubles with my laptop, Mike."

Even more chaos if you're having trouble with your mic whilst using your laptop called Mike in a conversation with a person called Mike.

"Apologies. I'm having troubles with the Mike mic, Mike."

#RandomMusings #IrreverentHumour

People in glass houses must have really high home insurance premiums.

Even if they use reinforced glass or some form of transparent aluminium, it's still has inherent structural weaknesses vs brick and mortar, concrete, or metal builds.

Plus can you imagine how warm it would get during sunny weather?!

Throwing stones in such houses should be the least of their concerns really.

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Let Me Introduce Myself

Hello to everyone reading this! Since we have decided to start over with the AllThingsTech blog, I felt it was only appropriate if I made a little introduction post. Just a few words to let all of you know a little bit about who I am and what I do. So what do you say, shall we get started?

As many of you likely know, but for those that don’t, I’m one of the co-admins of the AllThingsTech.social Mastodon instance along with Kyle Reddoch. AllThingsTech has been around for almost a year now. However, this post isn’t about our instance, it’s to give you some insight into who I am.

I guess I could start with the basics. I’m a 52 year old husband to an amazing wife living in Winston Salem, NC and am the proud parent of two awesome cats named Bess(15 years old) and Kumquat(4 years old). I was born in Merritt Island, FL, right across from the NASA launch pads, but only lived there until I was about 2 – 3 years old. My parents moved to Houston, TX for the oil boom that was just getting started and to be in a much larger city than Cocoa Beach, FL which is where we were living.

I spent all of my childhood and teenage years in Houston. I graduated high school at Klein Oak High School, the same school that Jim Parsons from Big Bang Theory attended. He and I even attended school together for 2 years, as I graduated in 1989 and he graduated in 1991. Small world, wouldn’t you say?

After high school, I went on to do adult things and never attended college. I was sick and tired of school by the time I finished high school and wanted to move on in life. Shortly after graduation, myself and my parents would move back to Florida, this time in south Florida around Boynton Beach.

My parents would end up getting divorced shortly afterwards and my dad and I would end up moving back to Houston in 1991/1992 as we felt that’s where “home” was. Plus, he was approached by his former boss at McCauley Lumber Co in Tomball, TX to come back to work. A deal that we couldn’t pass up.

We would stay in Houston and the surrounding areas until September 2007, which Pops and I would then move to Rome, GA. A place I didn’t really want to be, but it’s where life took us. I ended up meeting what is now my wife in 2013 and we’d get married in 2018.

In January 2022, the wife and I would move to Winston Salem, NC which is where I am located at now. Absolutely enjoying this place as it feels like this is where I belong.

Let’s go back to the year 2015, back when Google+ was one of the big social media platforms of the time. I stumbled across a post by Derek Ross, who I had followed for years, that he had shared by Kevin Barry, the developer of Nova Launcher. Kevin was looking to hire someone to replace his current customer support person who was moving on to other things.

I felt I didn’t have much of a shot at this job, but I decided to send an email Kevin’s way. As they say, you can hit your shot if you never shoot. Almost immediately, to my surprise, Kevin replied to me and wanted to setup a Google Hangouts meeting between us.

Two days later we had a meeting and Kevin ended up hiring me on the spot. Little did I know how much my life would change because of this.

So what is Nova Launcher you ask? It’s the largest and most popular home screen replacement app in the Google Play Store and has been pretty much since the day it was launched publicly on December 13th, 2011. Twelve plus years later, it’s still the most popular launcher in the Play Store.

Now you’re asking, what do I do for Nova Launcher? I am the customer support manager who handles all customer support via email and I also own and run the official, verified Discord server that currently has almost 77,000 members at the time of this writing.

I do other things as well since Nova Launcher was acquired by Branch Metrics back in 2022, but my job is mostly as I stated above. I’m still the only person who answers emails as well as a bit of social media stuff, mostly on Mastodon where we have a Nova Launcher account.

Outside of the work stuff, I’m an avid lover and fan of technology of any and all sorts. Since I work for an Android app, I obviously have a love for Android mobile devices, but I also use Apple’s iOS very regularly as well. I love to play video games and just love to absorb news and information about anything tech related. If it beeps or it goes boop, then my curiosity is piqued.

I’m also one who loves music. Since I work from home, I’m at my PC 12+ hours per day and while I’m at the PC, there is almost always music playing from my speakers. It’s simply a part of life and who I am.

While I’m certainly no professional, I love to take random photos. I take a lot of photos of my cats but also love to try and capture a great sunrise or sunset if and when I can. But you’ll find I snap pictures of all sorts of stuff, even the food the wife and I experience here around Winston Salem.

I’m sure there are many other things I could talk about, but as this post is getting a bit longer than expected, I should wrap it up here. With that said, if you are interested in knowing more about me, you can always reach out to me via Mastodon where I spend a lot of my time during the day posting random stuff of all kinds. My Mastodon account is here: Cliff Wade. I’d love to answer any questions you might have or go into more details about anything I mentioned here.

#AllThingsTech #CliffWade #Introduction #NorthCarolina #RandomMusings #RandomThoughts #WinstonSalem

After roughly 7 years, one of my monitors finally bit the dust. Over the years I've had doubles, triples, and even a single for a bit. But for the most part I've always ran two monitors. I'm used to it. And with Linux I've got four desktops. So I'm always tossing browsers and things in different desktops on different monitors and I'm finding myself struggling with just one. Ugh.

#RandomMusings #FirstWorldProblems #Sigh

Why finish with butter when you can finish with ghee

#Cooking #RandomMusings

May the hotel floor vending/ice-machine be close enough that you can just take your last drink hotel room plastic cup over, rather than the ice bucket

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Please try and live your best life. Please.
That is all 🙏🏽 Thank you

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Hm, when your fediverse server shuts down, does that make you serverless? 🤔

#fediverse #serverless #RandomMusings

The Fediverse is Not a Technology—It’s an Idea

https://blog.allthingstech.social/the-fediverse-is-not-a-technology-its-an-idea/

#AllThingsTech #Apps #Fediverse #Mastodon #RandomMusings #SocialMedia #Technology #Threads

A sketch in Apple's Freeform app for an idea for a fediverse app

So How’s Threads Doing?

https://blog.allthingstech.social/so-hows-threads-doing/

#AllThingsTech #Apps #Fediverse #Instagram #RandomMusings #SocialMedia #Technology #Threads

A collage of mockups of the Threads app showcasing the features and design of the app

Finding Your Digital Home

https://blog.allthingstech.social/finding-your-digital-home/

#AllThingsTech #Apple #Apps #RandomMusings #Setup #Smartphones #SocialMedia #Technology

Turns out People Actually Like iPads

https://blog.allthingstech.social/turns-out-people-actually-like-ipads/

#AllThingsTech #Apple #Earnings #Finance #iPads #RandomMusings #Technology

Two iPads, one sitting horizontally, one vertically, on a white background

You ever feel like walking up to someone you know (or the virtual equivalent) then saying "Dilly-dally, shilly-shally" to them, without any context or explanation?

We don't know why, but it's very tempting sometimes, along with going "boop".

#RandomMusings #DillyDallyShillyShally

Inspired by the NOPE post made by Jcrabapple this is a list of some of the things I simply do not like for various reasons.

If you have questions as to why I don’t like anything in this list below, please feel free to comment below or even tag me on Mastodon and ask. I’ll be more than happy to explain.

Mangos
Words/Phrases such as: no cap, bruh, bruv, simp
Licorice
People who think they know it all and truly don’t
Politics
Religion
Fake flavorings such as pineapple, watermelon and others
Did I mention politics and religion
Heat, which is anything above 50F/10C
Majority of people in various ways
People who aren’t open-minded or have tunnel-vision
AR/VR related products
All of this AI stuff we’re hearing each and everyday
Anime, anime, anime
Cleaning up after other people

The list above is just a few of the things I don’t like. I’m sure there are many other that I could have listed, but in today’s world, you have to be careful what you say because people get offended too damn easily over simple things, even if it’s not intended or related to them. Which explains the item on the list above, “majority of people in various ways.”

Feel free to reach out to me via my main Mastodon account here: Cliff on Mastodon and if you want to follow the sites account via Mastodon directly, then enter the following information into your Mastodon search bar:

@cliff@www.seerofsouls.com

Once you enter the information above, then you should be able to click it and follow the site account on Mastodon. That account will auto post all articles published to this site.

https://www.seerofsouls.com/things-that-i-simply-do-not-like/

#Nope #RandomMusings #RandomThoughts #Technology