Finished reading: Honeybee by Craig Silvey. An incredible coming-of-age story of a boy with all the odds stacked against him. Wonderful to read a book set in my home town, too. 📚
OneDrive now has a “personal vault”. A shot across the bows of 1Password. Do Microsoft do more Sherlocking than Apple these days?
I’ve bought my ticket to “A Voyage Through Time” couch concert by Voyager featuring my guy Alex Canion on bass. $20 - bargain! 🤘🏻 voyager.veeps.com
This is very cool - @HemisphericViews getting a shout-out from DEVONtechnologies
Great to have @HemisphericViews listener @dsh1705 join @Microblog.
Bo Burnham: Inside, 2021 - ★★★½
This provides a stark reminder of how incredibly uncreative I (and probably most people) am. Through imagination, technology and the support of the Bezos delivery system, Burnham creates something quite amazing within a single room.
For the first time in 2 years I have a cold complete with aches, pains and a sore throat. Can we go back to isolation and social distancing so I don’t have to deal with these?
I highly recommend Like You podcast for anybody that has youngish children. My kids listen every night as part of their bedtime routine.
Things are getting serious now. @hemisphericviews
DevonJimbo
Episode 36 of Hemispheric Views saw us establish a brand extension - a YouTube channel. I want to call it Hemispheric Toobs, but I think I’ve been voted down.
In any case, here are two videos in support of Episode 36.
DevonJimbo
FinderJimbo
I’m at a pub listening to The Unmade Podcast, playing chess online against my brother, and solving a New York Times crossword. I’m a total rager.
Speeding up Google Calendar .ics Subscription Refreshes
My project of the moment preventing me from going to bed: configuring a Google Calendar script to work, such that it will force GCal to refresh its .ics subscriptions from Fastmail every 15 minutes, rather than the default 12-24 hours. All so then SkedPal can read GCal and have accurate and timely data from which to build my daily task schedule. Why can’t SkedPal simply support standard CalDAV?
Only Hemispheric Views offers One Prime Plus
I see that Macstories is introducing new levels of membership:
TL;DR: Today, we’re announcing the all-new Club MacStories featuring two additional tiers: Club MacStories+ and Club Premier.
That’s all well and good, but always remember that only Hemispheric Views offers One Prime Plus membership. Get yours today!
I’m two episodes into Mr. Corman on AppleTV+ and already it’s one of the most impactful, enjoyable shows I’ve seen.
It’s been an expensive weekend. I bought a new TV - LG OLED C1 - then discovered my current Yamaha 375 receiver was too old to drive it, so had to upgrade to a new Denon AVR-X550BT receiver. Fortunately, I’d been saving money for a long time in a YNAB category!
Camera Comparison
Today I pulled my old cameras out from storage.
This was prompted by my trial of Glass, and the reminder that my Flickr account still exists.
I haven’t had much time to do anything with them, except charge the battery and try to reset them back to a state where they were taking jpegs and letting the camera intelligence do the work.
In a sign of how long they’ve been sitting around for, every camera needed its clock reset. I also seem to have lost some SD cards - does anybody know where I put them?
I took two photos with each camera from roughly the same position. It wasn’t too scientific, so don’t necessarily read too much into the results, but it’s kind of interesting.
My cameras are (with links to relevant pages at DPReview:
Shot 1: Sound Panels
LX3
GX7
D7000
XR
Shot 2: Tchotchkes
LX3
GX7
D7000
XR
Findings
Each progressive generation gets better at capturing light, leading to brighter images. The iPhone and its computational photography has to be the greatest revolution in photography since the digital camera was born. Keep in mind that I’m using an iPhone several generations old, and that some of the greatest advancements since this model have been low light capture.
It was nice to pull out the old cameras though, and I think the D7000 and GX7 in particular still offer some value in terms of a change-up from typical iPhone shots.
At this point, the LX3 probably needs to be consigned to use only for outdoor shots with reasonable light.
I am proud to announce that NBL Pocket Podcast finally has its own home on the web. 🎙 🌏 🏀