Painting Over Shadows

by Philip Rosenberg-Watt

2025-01-24

122 words - 1 min read

I’m painting the ceiling. White. Flat white. Wet it doesn’t look much different from dry. Dry it doesn’t look much different from the primer it’s covering. I’m looking hard for imperfections, areas I missed. Never mind the gouge or the dried paint chip now permanently embedded, those I can’t fix with another coat.

Three Years

by Philip Rosenberg-Watt

2024-12-30

406 words - 2 min read

Personal

It’s been three years. The third anniversary. Before, when I heard someone say “you don’t know unless you went through it,” I didn’t believe them. Now I do.

I never wanted that experience.

Thoughts on Foreign American Dialects

by Philip Rosenberg-Watt

2024-12-23

286 words - 2 min read

Film/TV/Theater Miscellaneous

It takes an exceptional actor to do a really good American dialect. There is a “General American” dialect that news and radio hosts and announcers practice, but it is largely nonexistent in nature. :) Most accents are regional. Even if the actors get dialect right, usually their resonance/placement is a bit off and that’s a red flag for me. It’s a bit hard to describe, but when you study accents and dialects, you don’t start with the vowel sounds but you start with what drives the differences between dialects (in English at least), which is where the speaker focuses the placement of their sounds.

Osophy on Usefulness, Sadness of

by Philip Rosenberg-Watt

2024-12-02

11 words - 1 min read

Osophy

If I can’t be happy, at least I can be useful.

FreePBX SMS Messaging via VoIP.ms

by Philip Rosenberg-Watt

2024-04-09

462 words - 3 min read

Tech

Today I share my success with configuring SMS messaging on FreePBX (running Asterisk) through VoIP.ms. Now I can text to and from other numbers using my landline SIP phones through my self-hosted PBX at home. If you don’t know what any of that means, then this probably isn’t for you.

What Gives?

by Philip Rosenberg-Watt

2024-03-25

75 words - 1 min read

Rants and Raves

What’s with all these companies wanting my review on a purchase or my opinion on a survey? I see no recompense for my time for all these thousands of papercuts. No, I will not review my purchase experience or take a survey on how to make you do your job better. Hint: if you want me to give you my time, please offer me something for it. I feel devalued with all of this crap.