You Had Me at 2.7 Portions of Nachos

By Christopher Null | January 29, 2020

The most ridiculous press release of the week. Someone please get me a fact checker on this. Super Bowl fans to scoff 11,000 calories each on game day Jan 29, 2020 LetsGetChecked [PRESSWIRE] 29 January, 2020 – UK — New research released today reveals that the average football fan in the United States, will eat…

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Day 13

By Christopher Null | January 13, 2019

When in doubt, try to hide the tree in the leaves piled up on the street. (Spotted in Sacramento. Kudos to my neighbors for getting rid of their late trees in a timely fashion.)

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Day 7

By Christopher Null | January 8, 2019

Abandoned Christmas tree watch begins! Turns out tree pickup here was December 31 — a date which even caught me by surprise as my own tree went uncollected yesterday. I’ve already dealt with mine, but we’ll be following a few gems like this one over the next few weeks as they turn the most delightful…

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Cortana

By Christopher Null | January 1, 2019

Finished testing about a dozen laptops for Forbes and I reinstall Windows at the end of the process each time. If I have to hear “A little sign-in here, a touch of Wi-Fi there…” one more time I’m going to end it all.

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Living in the Future

By Christopher Null | December 20, 2018

This guy at the gym is insistent that he does not have an account or a password on Amazon, although he “uses Amazon Prime every day.” “I JUST DON’T HAVE A PASSWORD, OK?”

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Resolving “Unable to retrieve conflict information from the sync server” in Itunes

By Christopher Null | November 10, 2018

Many promised fixes online, but this is the one that works. Just leaving this solution here for posterity: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4410910 “What I did was to rename the file called conflicts.synconflicts I renamed it to conflictsold.synconflicts the .synconflicts is the extension so you can’t rename that. I then restarted my computer, opened iTunes and connected my iPhone. OS(C:)…

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Day 24

By Christopher Null | February 1, 2018

All my local trees have vanished, but in San Francisco yesterday I saw no less than 3 roadside Christmas trees slowly browning away. Will capture photos on my next endeavor.

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