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Apple’s HomePod Mini has a Temperature and Humidity Sensor
According to this post from the iDownload blog Apple’s HomePod Mini has a Temperature and Humidity Sensor. Made by Texas Instruments and measuring 1.5 x 1.5 millimeters, the secret sensor is embedded in…
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Pencil Sharpeners
In 1971 my parents bought a house whose previous owners had left a hand-crank pencil sharpener attached to a stud near the head of the stairs to the basement. The sharpener had a…
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Red and Blue Bicolor Editing or Checking Pencils
Bicolor pencils with a red core on one end and a blue core on the opposite end are often called “checking pencils,” or “editing pencils” because they are often used for copyediting and…
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Favorite Pencils
I am in the final stages of a general re-organization and purge that I started in the fall. That re-organization meant not only swapping around furniture to make a work area, given the…
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BaronFig Dateless Pocket Planner
When 2020 began I was using an A5 hardcover notebook as a bullet jourrnal, tracking appointments, tasks, reading, birthdays, due dates for publishers—a lot. In late summer, I realized it was just going…
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I Love My Kindle Paperwhite
One of the things that has been especially useful during the year of COVID-19 isolation has been my Kindle PaperWhite ereader. I was an early convert to ebooks, and not just because I…
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Ulysses Supports Family Sharing
I’ve only recently begun to look at Ulysses again, and start using it. I got my current copy of Ulysses via SettApp, which provides access to hundreds of macOS and iOS apps via…
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Apple HomePod Mini
I used an Amazon gift card to buy a DOSS SoundBox portable Bluetooth speaker in 2017 when I realized I would be away from home and my stereo for an indefinite time. It’s…
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Pilot S20 Drafting Pencil 0.5 mm
I’ve had the Pilot S20 Drafting Pencil on my Wish list at JetPens.com for a few year;s I like mechanical pencils, and I love a wooden body. This pencil comes in two…
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Annotating Books and Other Texts
As a child, I was horrified by people who wrote in books. In high school, I’d go through my textbooks at the start of the new school year and carefully the penciled scribbles…