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Month: March 2020

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Isolation: Day 13. Chroming.

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Lewin Edwards

With the soon-to-be-nationwide Covid-19 school shutdown in the United States, and need to move to e-learning (either formally or informally), and/or to work from home, there are a lot of people in my immediate circle who find themselves suddenly needing computing devices for every member of the family, and not necessarily being able to afford…

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Isolation: Day 5. Curb your enthusiasm.

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Lewin Edwards

With widespread closures and restrictions of population movement and retail commerce in force (and likely more coming), one of the stimulus items being bruited about most loudly is a direct cash payment. The exact amount(s) vary from “$1000 per American” to “$1000 per American adult and $500 per child”, and both a one-time payment and…

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I am not a smart man.

Posted on March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 by Lewin Edwards

I am not a smart man. I have ways of doing things. Those ways are not always the best ways. So when I compare, as above, a dollar bill to the size of my mini-wallet (license, 3 credit cards, and a small cash pocket), I see this in my mind’s eye: Clearly, a dollar bill…

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JFK arrivals hall 3/13

Isolation: Day 3

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Lewin Edwards

(The feature picture for this post is one I took of JFK’s arrival hall around 9pm EDT on Friday March 13, 2020. Le Monde’s cover picture for that morning was almost identical). This is my first opportunity to write about the excitement of traveling back from Switzerland to the USA in the lead-up to the…

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Surface? Go!

Posted on March 8, 2020March 10, 2020 by Lewin Edwards

The Surface Pro 3 I bought in December is working well, but the specific SKU I own is limited mainly by the 4GB non-expandable RAM. As I stated in my original post, I was using it as a low-investment test of how practical this form factor is as a primary mobile computing device, and I’ve…

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