1) Touch Typing - this is nothing new but its new to me. I learned it this year and it is an amazing skill, It feels like magic typing out words without looking at the keyboard. I can type out a page worth of words in less then 10 minutes. I wish I had learned how to touch type when I was younger, this skill would have been very handy in University and TAFE both for finishing assignments and for impressing the people around me. I learned to touch type with keybr.com, "The Typing of the Dead" game and typing speed challenge websites. I am thinking I should learn to play the Piano next because how much harder can it be if I can touch type.
2) Connecting a wireless keyboard and mouse to android devices - I am currently typing this blog out with a wireless keyboard and mouse which I have connected to an android tablet using an adapter and this works amazingly well, The mouse and keyboard are as responsive as they would be on a windows PC.
3) Uber - Disclaimer here Uber is a scam, if you took into account the degradation of your vehicle, you are losing money when you do Uber and one is a hundred people who gets in your car will be dangerous so you are putting your life at risk by being an Uber driver. Having said that I was an Uber driver for a while this year and loved doing it, I traveled all over Sydney and loved having conversations with all sorts of people that got in the car with me and I learned a lot to just by talking to people. I would only drive at night and loved the empty streets and I think I became a far more confident driver with Uber. When driving I had a lot of waiting time so I caught up on a bunch of Anime. Minus the not making any money, Uber was a lot of fun.
4) Movies - there was nothing really good this year, I have not even cared to watch anything because actors keep hating on the current POTUS, who I like and movies are made just to get into the Chinese market and the CCP are quite scary, I am worried even writing this thinking they will eventually take over Australia and this blog will come back to haunt me. Raking my brain I can't think of any movie I watched this year that I enjoyed.
5) T.V. - T.V. really sucked this year too, most T.V. made today is made to remind anyone who voted for trump they are bad so its constant displays of Racism, sexism, diversity, America's civil rights movement, refugees trying to make it somewhere, calling white men bad and all this is not presented in any type of intelligent way its all just cheap virtue signalling by millionaires, one positive of Donald Trump losing will be that all this may stop. The only new T.V show this year that I liked was called "His Dark Materials". Speaking of T.V. I also have to mention the second season of Altered Carbon, on this season they changed lead actors and the person they chose to act as Tekeshi Kovach was Anthony Mickie and he Anthony did such a great job that I found that his performance in filling the shoes of another actor was the best thing that happened in season 2.
6) I liked a couple of games this year, they were: "Ori and the will of the wisps" and "Doom Eternal". We got new consoles this year, I don't really care to purchase either of them. The PS5 looks large and ugly. The Xbox series s and x actually look good and their fast loading and game swapping is something I like but that is not enough for me to purchase a new console. I will just stick to my Xbox one x and PlayStation 4 for slightly less graphics and slower loading that I will not notice.
7) The Fediverse - a few tech giants have way too much power to control to interfere with society and there have been several companies showing up to take some of that power away like Gab, Bitchute and Rumble but the problem there is they are central points that can be attacked. With the Fediverse millions of people can have alternative to YouTube, Twitter, Facebook Instagram and a bunch of other things sites. If the Fediverse takes off it will take out the central power of these tech companies. As I write this I feel like this whole blog will be deleted by G!@#%^ and I will not even be allowed to back it up, I think they can be that vindictive and I did not think that of tech giants in years past.
8) Turning websites into apps - you can use the add to home feature while surfing a site on your phones web-browser to save that website as an app icon on your phone, then whenever you hit it, it will open like an app, its awesome more people should know about it.
9) Pepsi max mango - it tastes good, not good for you but its tastes good.
10) Raina bought a flat in Penrith and its beautiful, I miss her when she is not at home.
11) Alvin got married I like his wife, they look really happy together, I hope they have an amazing happy life.
12) Elon Musk just does amazing things every year, this year he:
- Flew his giant starship rocket and it came back down slowly on its side, I can't wait to for it to start delivering things to orbit.
- Starlink started taking customers.
- Elon is getting close to becoming the richest man is the world.
- Finished building a Tesla factory in China.
- Started building the Tesla's largest factory in Texas.
- Started building a Tesla factory in Germany.
- Finished the first boring tunnel in Vegas.
- And probably a few other things I can't remember right now.
13) Sandy Munro - He talks about new cars, especially Telsa's and he is fun to listen to.
