Whether Squid Game is your fave, still in your Netflix “My List” (hands raised), or you’re actively trying to avoid the South Korean TV sensation, resistance is futile.

If your parents need a gift soon, the 2022 Old Farmer’s Almanac is out and ready to fascinate your father who will read things out loud to aggravate your mother. The prediction for this winter is “A Season of Shivers,” which sounds good for Halloween but lousy for a long winter.

Considerations include functionality, power source, network, project size, and security. 

Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can’t Go Home Again but perhaps Tom Brady didn’t read that novel, because he went home to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro Massachusetts to play the New England Patriots, his team for two decades.

“May you live in interesting times,” the famous Chinese curse, seems painfully appropriate now. Apple’s been all over the news with new hardware and software, just as Microsoft Windows finally crawls from Win10 to Win11.

It’s been a couple of weeks since Hurricane Ida flooded most of Louisiana, so now it’s time for Tropical Storm Nicholas to dump a half-foot or more of rain across parts of Texas and most of The Soaked State. Luckily, these newsbits are waterproof.

Physical security and cybersecurity are good places for IoT integrators to get started. The low hanging fruit? Protecting high-value assets.

One resource that continues to grow and multiply is billionaires with “interesting” ideas. Go to space, like Bezos, Branson, and Musk? Old hat. Own a basketball team? Go, Steve-o. Floating city? Peter Thiel is outside your jurisdiction. Build a $400 billion city in the desert?

NFL Fantasy fans, start your spreadsheets! The newly-shortened preseason, now three games rather than four, finished Sunday.

Does anyone have the warranty paperwork for Year 2021? When tropical storms come ashore in Rhode Island, things are weirder than usual, even for our trouble-laden 20s. But the 20s are doing their part, so searing heat will now head to the Northeast to make things more, um, interesting.