Fair Play, 2023 - ★
Molasses moves faster than the plot of this movie. Bad in so, so many ways.
Jarrod Blundy on Really Specific Stories
My friend Martin is a great interviewer on his podcast, Really Specific Stories. And thanks to Jarrod for mentioning Hemispheric Views! My Appearance on ‘Really Specific Stories’ - HeyDingus: That, along with this being my very first time on the speaking side of a podcast rather than the listening side, made me quite nervous, but it paradoxically felt both exhilarating and completely comfortable to just chat with an internet friend.
Object Linking & Embedding
This article was originally written for the November 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus. Martin has set me a challenge as to what to write about this month. He told me I have to write something about old office technology; maybe an office app feature that I used to use, or something similar. Because I’m so old, I have many topics to potentially write about; but also because I’m old I have forgotten so many of them.
Not sure if this is a compliment or a brickbat, but I think I prefer micro.blog as a Sonoma Safari app ahead of the native Mac app. Sorry @manton and @vincent
End of month YNAB life. 😅
Cannonball, 1976 - ★★
I really wanted to watch Cannonball Run! but I got this instead. The 1970s were a simpler time.
Reading Ross Gittins on Economics
I enjoy reading Ross Gittins' articles on economics. He is doing a great job of highlighting the many failures of the neoliberal dogma in Australia. ROSS GITTINS: What's kept us from full employment is a bad idea that won't die: Wages have risen in response to the higher cost of living, but have failed to rise by anything like the rise in prices. Why? Because, seemingly unnoticed by the econocrats, workers’ bargaining power against employers has declined hugely since the 1970s.
NextDNS or Pi-Hole?
I’ve been using NextDNS for a few years to block ads. Previous to it I used Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi. With the terrible AUD-USD exchange rate, I’m contemplating a return to Pi-Hole, but this time via Docker running on a Mac mini. Does anybody have any experience with this setup? I don’t want to have to do a lot of fiddling around and regular maintenance.
Climate Change Stripes for Perth, Western Australia
Depressing; alarming. This is an emergency.
Today’s Advice: Don’t Get Old
I know, the advice is meaningless because age is undefeated. The world turns, time moves ever forward, and we get old. If you can manage to avoid the process, though, I recommend you do. My latest ageing problem is a pulled back muscle that has entirely incapacitated me for one day, and three days later continues to prevent me from walking properly, putting on pants, or picking up things I have dropped.
Case Study: The Weekly Cost of an iPhone
Hemispheric Views - Blog - Case Study: The Weekly Cost of an iPhone: During the episode recording I referenced the spreadsheet as I was describing my decision to buy an iPhone 15 Pro. I rattled off some statistics, but Martin (appropriately) suggested I write a blog post that provides the necessary detail. Fun fact: the description of number series are not great content for an audio show. A blog post written by yours truly in support of a conversation had on Hemispheric Views Episode 094.
I’m going to give Stage Manager another honest try on iPadOS 17, with “More Space” set as the display resolution.
Currently reading: Transforming the Difficult Child by Howard Glasser 📚
Really Specific Stories: John Gruber
My friend and Hemispheric Views co-host Martin Feld was able to interview John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame for his podcast project, Really Specific Stories. It’s incredible the line-up of guests Martin has been able to assemble for this podcast series. Let’s fireball the feed!
Dr Drang's Shell Script for Blank Calendars
A shell script for blank calendars - All this: I wanted a script to help me print out blank monthly calendars. Oh Dr. Drang, where have you and this script been my whole life? The steps I have gone to to get blank calendars in the past. Now I can simply run your script. Thank you!
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2004 - ★★
Some nice moments but this film felt like it ran for 4 hours.
Love this end frame quote from Young Sheldon. If this doesn’t describe Trump I’m not sure what does.
My Dad joke for today:
Q: What do you call an extra vegetable?
A: A-spare-agus.
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I’m here all week, folks!
I preordered an IPhone! This will be the first time I’ve had a Pro designation. My history as best I can remember it is: 3G, 5, 5S, 8, XR, SE, SE2, 13 mini. Soon to be 15 Pro.
Today at work I casually sketched out a swimlane diagram as I listened to a colleague describe a process. Can’t decide if I was a good management consultant for so many years, or I’m just a nerd now.