The New Coffee Room

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Love this comment. "My wife and I reviewed our finances, and we're fine as long as we die by Sunday."

Been using it for years. I think i was a early beta tester. Not that I use it that often, but it has been very good at identifying birds from photos I take using the phone.

Lol how do you mistake a Robin for a Hawk?

Thanks Mik. I think this one might actually make it to the Play Store at some point. I am thinking about a subscription based pricing model. Keep it very affordable, offer annual subscription discount, etc.

Getting 100,000 people to send me $1 every month would make for a nicer retirement.

LOL @89th! Yeah I get it. I have been developing software my entire adult life and doing this is fun. I get very laser focused when developing things. Having a "team of programmers" inside of Android Studio's AI that I can just command to do this! Do that! Fix that! is very empowering. I do review and modify the code but the latest version is very good at just getting it right.

The only setting right now is Dark mode. I am thinking about adding patient and doctor info but then I will need to make it HIPPA and GDPR compliant with MFA login and encryption. There are a lot of data points swimming around in my brain regarding this app.

The need to document health related events as they happen can be crucial to optimizing certain therapies. As we get older I am finding this out first hand. Well, second hand as none of these things affect me at present. People i know and love are affected by various chronic conditions. I think the more data points available the better to possibly steer their treatments to better outcomes.

I have seen various log sheets provided by health care providers that the patient is supposed to fill out by hand and keep records of particular events and details about said events over relatively long time periods. I have also seen this logging process fail for various reasons. Mostly because the person forgets to fill it out for every event, or simply doesn't care for the process or the form wasn't available at the time of the event, etc.

I know my "talent" of naming of apps is not great but I present to you the Med Event app for Android. It is still very much a work in progress but I started creating it less than 48 hours ago and I have a grand total of about 4 hours of actual work in on it. About an hour or more spent getting the Caduceus overlay looking good on top of the calendar.

I have been so focused on piano that I have hardly played my guitars over the past 5 months. My callouses were so good that I can still slide up and down the neck and play any barre chord in any position. I need to start doing daily practice or I will pay the price. I have decided to sell a guitar or two. I just don't play all of them enough to justify keeping them.

I have learned 2.5 new Chopin pieces since November. The latest is the Op72. No1. Nocturne. Such a hauntingly beautiful and difficult piece.

LOL!

Yesterday was our yearly listening of JCS. I have an original vinyl pressing, a remastered vinyl pressing from just a couple of years ago and an original reel to reel tape. We listened to the tape yesterday. The new remastered 45rpm Alan Parsons Project, A Turn of a Friendly Card arrived Friday. It's a great album.

Here is the current state of my system. Yes, there are two reel to reel tape decks and even a cassette deck. Two RtRs because there are different formats and speeds. The Teac on the main rack is for 4 track tapes that run 3.75 ips / 7.5 ips and the Pioneer RT-1050 on the stand to the right is a 2 track 7.5ips and 15ips deck. The Pioneer has interchangeable head assemblies and can also play 4 track tapes but I leave the 2 track head installed to play 15ips master tapes exclusively.

Cassette tape is making a comeback. Teac and others have new Cassette Tape Decks available.
https://teacusa.com/products/w-1200-dual-cassette-deck

Silo on Apple TV

I'm using a Chat-GPT Plus subscription for app development, database analysis and data management. I also use it for customer support issues, etc. It's excellent for producing apps that talk to APIs that I really don't want to code by hand. A shitload faster than any coder I have ever known. Including myself.

I will gladly give you some extra weight.

Sorry you are going through this. Hope it continues to get better.

@LuFins-Dad said:

@mark said:

Ugh. Hire a freakin accountant.

And pay somebody $1800 to just do data entry into a $200 software program?

$1800??? Wow. My accountant is a bargain at $400.

Ugh. Hire a freakin accountant.

I hope this shit stops soon.

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