Ideas from Mark Stout

I passed 18 months of Covid related work-from-home last week.  I wouldn't be surprised if I hit two years come March. I thought when it began I'd do a lot more blogging. What happened is after eight hours in my home office, I am happy to leave it and not return for the day. There are lessons I have learned in the past 18 months that do make my life more pleasant. My enjoyment of the Twitter account RateMySkypeRoom did make me finally hang up posters and such I'd bought at aviation museums over the years.  While the number of actual camera-on meetings I have is small, it is nice to present the illusion of order and neatness in my chaotic world.  Next up is to hang my my ancient Radio Shack Model 100 in a shadow box. And the old TV guy in me (I majored in Broadcast Journalism but was seduced into the then-new personal PC space soon after graduation), lead me to use a gifted Amazon card to buy a Ring light.  Even before it arrived, I thought that was foolish, I had few ...

During the all-too-necessary move to more online interactions necessitated by the Covid pandemic, certain truths have come out. We've all become voyeurs.  Well maybe not become, we've always been curious on how others their lives. Now we just have a digital way to do it. I do not spend much time in online meetings, but when I do, or watch contributors to television programs coming to us from their homes, I find myself checking out their homes. Don't you? Which is why I've greatly enjoyed following the Rate My Skype Room Twitter Account . It started, I suspect, as a lark by someone with too much time on their hands in April;  the early days of the quarantine.  I understand the author is a Democratic political operative,| b ut don't let that lead you astray.  Even if you ignore his commentary about the rooms,  his scoring and his occasional snark about the individual, the account gives you glimpses  into others homes. He mostly comments on those appearing on...