Jun 11
The New York Times has an interesting tale of mass produced, factory built housing.
 
I was always fascinated by modular building.  It kind of combines manufacturing, which was my career prior to rentals, with housing which has been my life’s calling, and robotics, which is the future.
 
Years ago we proposed an infill housing project using modular construction.  The process was too politicized for outsiders to succeed, but it would have been cool to do, and beneficial for the community.
 
Jun 08

Many years ago I used a voice to email app, Jott.  Then six or seven years ago I wrote that Jott shut down, but I found a replacement that I liked, Reqall.  That too met a similar fate. I tried another, Dial2Do.  I didn’t like it that much, but better than nothing.  It too ended a year later.  So I relinquished myself to using Siri to send myself emails.  A bit cumbersome, but I guess…

This past week I tried Drafts 5.o.  It has a lot of features that none of the previous ones had.  It is great at long form dictation – say a draft of a letter while you commute.  Much easier than the last time I tried Dragon dictate, but its been a while and Dragon may be great too.  You can send the text to a bunch of different apps and storage platforms.

Price is free, which most of us can still afford even with summer maintenance season upon us.

Oh, and it works on an  Apple Watch, which I don’t own.  But think how cool you would look doing your Dick Tracy impersonation while entering some job on your watch….

 

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