Zero Day (2011) is the first of the John Puller series.
An Army detective, Puller has been compared to Jack Reacher (sometimes unfavourably). A large, tough man, whose peak physical fitness is matched only by his intellectual superiority.
Puller is now working for the US Army’s Criminal Investigations Division (CID).
He partners in this tale with police sergeant Samantha Cole. An appealing couple.
I’ve often criticized Baldacci for his dumb over-the-top plots — and this one is dumb. BUT I do recommend this book. It’s entertaining. And I really got to like Puller and Cole.
First half of the book is far better than the rest.
If I’m on my laptop and want to take a quick note, I’ll either use Siri — or move my cursor to the HOT CORNER of the display I’ve set up to launch the app. (That works even in full screen mode.)
OK … ALL those methods put my quick notes into a folder in the app called “Notes” via iCloud.
From there, I’ll file them into the best of the folders I’ve created. It looks like this right now.
Done. Notes will archive my brain farts.
Any of those whims that become ACTION PROJECTS I’ll move over to the NOTIONS app.
It’s much more complicated Project Management software.
Down in the bardo There was nothing to hold while we let it go We were empty, we were hollow Shined with everything we were living for And you see your soul Like some picture show Across Idaho We were running through the autumn leaves A couple kids just wearing out their jeans, running Mary she’s our autumn queen Watch her smoking cigarettes in the street And down she goes Cold she blows Across Idaho And down she goes Cold she blows Across Idaho And there’s lights up in the north And I ain’t wondering where you are Now it’s white as snow Watch the evening glow Across Idaho And there’s lights up in the north And I ain’t wondering where you are There’s lights up in the north
While in Europe, my first generation SILICON MacBook Pro purchased November 2020 began to fail. Slowly the display started to go black. I ended up using just half the screen that was still visible. As I post it’s completely black and can only be used with an external monitor.
Just over a year old, the warranty was void. Happily, I’d purchased AppleCare extended warranty and will try to have the 2020 fixed.
In the meantime, on November 25th, I ordered the base model of the upgraded 2022 version.
Love it so far. Especially the RETURN of features that had been discontinued.
One of my online gurus, Serge M from Saskatoon, had his laptop screen crack after he dropped it. So purchased the same machine at about the same time. Basemodel14‑inch MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM and only 512 GB internal memory. Both of us will store our large files on external SSD drives.
Kraig warned me that my old 2020 laptop might choke with only 8GB RAM. And he was right — though it didn’t happen very often. And only rarely with Final Cut Pro and once Pixelmator Pro.
Serge tested my new machine editing 4 simultaneous 4K streams. No problem. That’s far more processing power than I’ll need for years. 😇
iJustine tested even more extreme use cases, and was shocked how easily the base model handled video editing.
So … the cheapest base model of the 2022 MacBook Pro is powerful enough for anything I’d want to do over the next few years.
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