The best-designed vaccine

• Prevents both from getting sick and from spreading the virus to others.
• Doesn’t induce symptoms: one only feels better after receiving it.
• Is single-dose: one trip to the lab does it.
• Can be breathed in, to avoid puncturing skin.

I invite my readers to continue this list.

Milking is good for cows.
Chickens are fine with their eggs being taken.
Collecting honey isn’t harmful to bees.

These facts prove that there is no moral duty to be vegan.

The aim for progress is a defining characteristic of human civilisation. As long as humans (or like-minded aliens) exist, the world will continue to get better, incrementally. I have no doubt that 2021 will be a better year than 2020.

I’m happy when others reïfy an idea of mine, since I get more time to work on something else.

The Big Sur icons for Activity Monitor, Console, Preview, & Terminal are square iPads, and they are charming:

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The ones who don’t want their app icons to be rounded squares. Thank you.