Freddie Star isn’t exactly a household name - even in the UK - but back in the day πŸ”— πŸ“Ό πŸ˜‚ he could be very funny.


Listening to the latest ‘Automators’. First time in a LONG time, but interested to listen into the WWDC through the Lens of Automation.

@dsparks and @rosemaryorchard doing a good summary. I second the ‘don’t update advice’. I have a spare iPad that I use for Beta. So not totally pissed off that it is currently worse than a brick. Worse? Sure - you can at least build something with a brick πŸ˜‚

Rosemary’s take on Shortcuts gives me confidence to try them out again - because for me - life is too short to deal with a string of ‘ifs’ and other rules shortcomings. Sounds like that might be fixed?

David commenting that Shortcuts was ‘short changed’ on updates on this round - wondering if that is because Apple Intelligence - from a customer experience POV might be a better way to do something things that previously only Shortcuts could do? Not there yet - but maybe they will get to that when they get to the Apple Intelligence section.


πŸ˜‚ I was rolling in the aisles when they first came out. They just reappeared today and I’m rolling in the aisles all over again. …

πŸ”— πŸ“Ό How Does The Financial System Work

πŸ”— πŸ“Ό How Banks Work


If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.

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Sitting with β€˜a quiet one’, wandering through the reminders re prioritizing - as you do. Needed to remember to connect a couple of people to another couple and accidentally added them into my Shopping List.

Have to say, impeccable logic.


Great job @danielpunkass

New Mars Edit Release

Search & Find Improvements

NICE

Find me all the posts containing πŸ˜‚ AND πŸ“Έ - which would find all my funny images is a great way to narrow down for whatI am looking for. (Words also work @devilgate πŸ˜‚) - I wonder if β€˜OR’ is in our future?)

Micropost Panel

I won’t typically use - but I can definitely see some workflows will love this

Duplicate Posts

.. or Templates - as I like to call them - clever.

Options Side Panel

I am sure it is great - but .. β€˜say what now’? Lost.


πŸ˜‚ πŸ”— An oldy but goldy


If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.

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πŸ”— πŸ˜‚ Impeach Nixon! - a lesson from history.


🎈145/366 About content.

πŸ”— πŸ“Ό πŸ˜‚ Stewart Lee on Social Media (Content Provider)

Don’t worry, it’s not my usual rant. Just a very funny piece of standup that needs to be watched more than it has.


πŸ–‡οΈ πŸŽ™οΈ Vinyl Sneak Peek

Conan’s short promo had me laughing out loud πŸ˜‚ as I wandered down to the ferry this morning.


Whatever you are doing … stop … and πŸ”— πŸ“Ό πŸ˜‚ spend 5 minutes watching this.


Shed a TearπŸ”— - William Gallagher

The DECORATOR stands back to appreciate his day’s work. The entire wall is now painted. Satisfied, he collects his snap-tin, paint, brushes, ladder, etc., lights a cigarette stub and walks off.

While he’s been achieving that painted wall, the film crew cast have failed to do anything at all. So much effort, so much energy, so much time, and nothing achieved whatsoever.

Completely unrelated, I’ve been sitting and typing in this chair for the past few days while four men put up a shed in our garden.

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🎈132/366 Very happy with myself. Up at 4:30, sucked back some caffeine made myself and house ready for the day and out - with time to walk down to the 6 o’clock ferry.

Got there in record time and plenty of time .. fully 10 70 minutes ahead of departure.

I had forgotten it was a Saturday. πŸ₯³πŸ˜‚πŸ₯±


Be a pity if something happened to it? @simonwoods πŸ˜‚ Thank you


🎈129/366 Siri For MidWesterners πŸ˜‚

πŸ”—πŸ“Ό Enjoy. … via Chris Lockhead.


πŸ”— πŸ˜‚ Letters ‘by’ Shaun Usher

Funny, worth a click through - unless you don’t think this is funny …

Last weekend, the drive up to London was improved by listening to a Sherlock Holmes audiobook on the car’s CD player. I was amused by my inability to follow the plot as closely as I would have liked, and put this down to middle age. It was only when I arrived at my destination that I realised the CD player was on “shuffle” mode.


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πŸ–‡οΈ Me - in the middle of April - but had been having the problem (an out of control mouse) for a lot longer.

Cracked the issue this morning.

Sidecar.

It seems recently that I have not been closing my iPad, and so my Mac believes that I have a second screen.

Issue resolved.


🎈122/366 Not dissimilar jobs when you think about it …

straight line

At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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🎈119/366 Not everything on the β€˜Book of Face’ is bad.

Consider this that was just sent to me (reproduced in full so you don’t have to sully yourself).

Credit for the source - Rich Thornton

β€’ An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

β€’ A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

β€’ A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

β€’ An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

β€’ Two quotation marks walk into a β€œbar.”

β€’ A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

β€’ Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

β€’ A question mark walks into a bar?

β€’ A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

β€’ Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out – we don’t serve your type.”

β€’ A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

β€’ A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

β€’ Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

β€’ A synonym strolls into a tavern.

β€’ At the end of the day, a clichΓ© walks into a bar – fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

β€’ A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

β€’ Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

β€’ A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

β€’ An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

β€’ The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

β€’ A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

β€’ The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

β€’ A dyslexic walks into a bra.

β€’ A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

β€’ A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

β€’ A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

β€’ A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

straight line

At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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