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Re: iPhone 17 Users Report Random Wi-Fi Drops

bklnpoet — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:23:58 -0000

Yes, I'm having that problem in CarPlay on my iPhone 17 while wearing my old Apple Watch SE. I hope the next iOS update fixes it.

Re: Naomi Klein, Isabella Hammad, Maaza Mengiste and More Have Withdrawn From the PEN World Voices Festival

bklnpoet — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:01:13 -0000

I plan to boycott the signers of the letter; if I read their work at all it will only be via library or used copies.

Re: On the Racism of Andrew Johnson, Self-Identified White Ally and “Your Moses”

bklnpoet — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:03:32 -0000

Perhaps instead of colonization plans the Lincoln/Johnson administration should have expelled the white residents of the majority African-American states such as South Carolina and Mississippi, which could have become places of refuge for newly emancipated residents of the other southern states fleeing racial violence. The antebellum constitutions of some northern states specifically banned non-white residency, so new post-war state constitutions could have likewise banned white residency. It also would have been easier for the Union army to protect the borders of a couple of states than to occupy the entire former confederacy.

Re: Reengaging With the World : Democracy Journal

bklnpoet — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:04:01 -0000

Currently our military is increasingly focused on cyber warfare, and our old weapons and hardware are gradually becoming anachronisms.

Re: The Ultimate Fall 2018 Books Preview

bklnpoet — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:58:15 -0000

What about The William H. Gass Reader forthcoming in November from Knopf?

Re: Apple's iPhone 6s Has One Huge Advantage over the iPhone 7

bklnpoet — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:06:40 -0000

I too am on a budget and thus not an early adopter. I bought a used iPhone 5c in November 2015 from my carrier T-Mobile, which will be paid off in October 2017 at which time I'll probably buy a iPhone 6s. By that schedule in autumn 2019 I'll probably get a used 8s.

Re: The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin

bklnpoet — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:11:58 -0000

"in 1933, after the Great Depression ended"

1933 was the height or depth of the Great Depression, which did not end until the start of WWII.

Re: Poems Matter: Text and meaning in Claude McKay's "If We Must Die" (part 2 of 4)

bklnpoet — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:11:59 -0000

Good article series, Aberjhani. "If We Must Die" was translated into Yiddish and was widely circulated in the ghettos of Eastern Europe during the Holocaust where it inspired the resistance fighters.

Re: Writing in Hebrew in the Diaspora - Israel News - Jerusalem Post

bklnpoet — Tue, 26 May 2015 18:57:20 -0000

The American poet Gabriel Preil lived in New York from his immigration from eastern Europe at age 11 and wrote in Hebrew (though some say he thought in Yiddish and wrote in Hebrew). He visited Israel but never lived there and died in Jerusalem during his last visit. See his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Ben & Jerry’s adds its signature to Supreme Court marriage equality brief

bklnpoet — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:45:49 -0000

Good news and a good article, Tarringo.

Re: Lawrence Kohlberg and his moral development theory

bklnpoet — Sun, 25 May 2014 19:25:07 -0000

Sad end for one who made such a valuable contribution. Someone should create software that would screen any statement (especially those of politicians) according to the criteria of Kohlberg's six moral stages.

Re: Predicting your personality by the music you listen to

bklnpoet — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:17:45 -0000

"Extroverts tend to enjoy classical music and jazz; music with heavy bass. They also tend to have higher IQ’s." What is your source for the assertion that extroverts are more intelligent than introverts? I'm an introvert and I prefer jazz to classical, though I enjoy both. I wonder whether this correlation between genre and personality is any more valid than the dubious alleged correlation between gender and sexuality on the one hand, and musical genre preference on the other, which claims that among people with discerning musical tastes straight women prefer classical music, lesbians prefer folk, straight men prefer jazz, and gay men prefer opera (popular genres are intentionally omitted since the generalization only considers discerning tastes).

Re: A Baker’s Dozen: Recommendations of Poetry Published in 2013

bklnpoet — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:38:12 -0000

My list would also include
The Collected Poems of Ai

Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982–2013 by Burt Kimmelman

and The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems

Re: Sidestep

bklnpoet — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:55:13 -0000

I have a macbook running Snow Leopard on which I stupidly installed sidestep without having a proxy server to connect it to. Now I can neither remove it nor run it correctly. When I drag it to the trash and try to empty the trash I get a message saying that the application cannot be deleted because it is open. But when I double click on it nothing happens, so I can't close it. Please advise.

Re: Sidestep

bklnpoet — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:47:01 -0000

Sidestep is on my 13" macbook running snow leopard. When drag it to the trash it and try to empty trash I get a message that the item cannot be deleted because it is open. When I double click on it nothing happens. Apparently I can neither open nor close it nor get rid of it. I don't have a proxy server to connect it to, and even if I did I don't know how to get into it or get it to respond. Please advise.

Re: How to Use Strong and Secure Passwords

bklnpoet — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:52:45 -0000

By definition a password that a criminal cannot guess is a password that I cannot remember. When will retina readers make passwords obsolete?

Re: How much do YOU tip food delivery people?

bklnpoet — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:52:46 -0000

20%; I've been a service worker. Plus I have dyscalculia: moving the decimal and doubling is easier than doing an algebraic equation.

Re: The Unbearable Whiteness Of Pro-Lifers And Pundits - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Politics - The Atlantic

bklnpoet — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:44:28 -0000

You're right: slavery is about creating material wealth by owning other humans as property and enjoying the fruits of their labor, while abortion is about the right to control one's own body, specifically the right to eliminate a fetus to terminate a pregnancy. That slavery was not about elimination is supported by the (if memory serves) 1839 case of a North Carolina slave owner who was found guilty by a jury of his (all white) peers of murdering his slave and paid with his own life on the gallows (though I suppose a similar defendant after 1857 might have based a defense on the Dred Scott decision's language about blacks having no rights that whites need respect). If there is a chapter in American history that is analogous to the Nazi genocide of Jews and Gypsies it would be the campaign to eliminate Native Americans whose slogan was "the only good Indian is a dead Indian."

Re: Guide for Everyone to Stop Street Harrassment | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet

bklnpoet — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:30:31 -0000

Good article. I wonder if there isn't a socio-economic aspect, if this behavior isn't more common among poorly educated, inarticulate men from sub-cultures that adhere to and reinforce traditional gender roles.

Re: Toll Free Reverse Lookup Tool - Custom Toll Free

bklnpoet — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:49:35 -0000

The number 1-866-927-0314 calls several times per day and each time it is a barely audible recorded voice mail message saying press one for such and such, press two for something else, etc.

Re: http://whatevs.tumblr.com/post/598175851

bklnpoet — Sun, 16 May 2010 13:14:16 -0000

Who is their vocalist?

Re: Another Reason Guys Hate the Condom: Bad Fit

bklnpoet — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:34:39 -0000

Polyurethane male condoms (for latex allergic people & their partners) are only made by two companies and both are the same narrow size (1/4" smaller than the diameter of my erect penis)--another reason why I prefer monogamy to condoms.

Re: Top 10 News Readers Judged by Mashable Readers

bklnpoet — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:23:08 -0000

I see that MyYahoo doesn't make the top ten, which doesn't surprise me since it frequently doesn't load properly. How far behind did it come in?

Re: Droid vs iPhone: The Comparison Chart [PIC]

bklnpoet — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:17:21 -0000

The cost of ownership for all of them is still way too high for a homebody such as I, notwithstanding the recent price drop for the Motorola Droid which is also offered by T-Mobile. If on the rare occasions when I leave my apartment I absolutely must go on-line I can look for a WIFI hotspot to use the browser my Motorola Zine which also has a 5 megapixel camera.

Re: Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish

bklnpoet — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:03:10 -0000

I lost exactly one follower. I have a locked account and screen whom I allow to follow me. All of the people I follow are still there.