📸 🌊 Busy day to day … took this early this morning. 14 hours later … oh yeah … should post that picture.
🎈158/366 These days, reading about Musk and all follow up commentary is akin to where I have been with The Orange Clown for a while …
.. yes .. I know .. seen / read it before .. insert ‘expletive descriptor’ .. what a ‘expletive’, but what are you going to do about it, and if the answer is nothing / I can’t then stop wasting my time and petition the people that can .. because if we don’t it will get worse.
All those years ago the 🍎 Long and Hodgman ads were really very good and clever, definitely creative, truly fun. Interesting how the subsequent careers of the two actors developed to be nearly the exact opposite of the companies they represented.
📸 🌊 Taken earlier. Posted much later.
Interesting Twist .. from today’s 🔗 HCR
Then, on Saturday, there was what Danny Westneat of the Seattle Times called a plot twist. It turns out the state of Washington has a law on the books that prevents felons from running for office. But because a candidate has to be certified to be on a ballot before they can be challenged, the issue can’t be resolved until Trump officially becomes the Republican Party’s presidential nominee at the July convention. Westneat asked, “Republicans: You sure you want to go down this road?”
Not entirely sure why this is different to Colorado off top of my head.
🎈157/366 🍿 The Conway family is its own self contained circus. No extras needed.
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Our very own @jthingelstad on the 🔗 🎙️ Omni Podcast
🎈156/366 Interesting that Gig Young won 3 Oscar nominations (including 1 win). All three roles saw him playing some kind of drunk/ alcoholic. Life imitating art?
You know what this is - right?
Christmas WWDC is coming.
All I really want is for it to STOP.
About That Show I Just Watched
- Gratuitous Naked Shots ✅
- Tops and Bottoms ✅
- Male and Female ✅
- Clichés ✅
- Happy Endings ✅
- Arc of the shows story ✅
- Sex scenes ✅
- Champagne corks popping ✅ and
- Crashing waves (see 2 - clichés) ✅
- Bad Acting ✅
- Plenty of military jingoism ✅
- Nationalities of the baddies as expected ✅
- Renegades in the Military who turn out to be the best ✅
- Lead straight guy discovers his best friend has been gay all along, even though the Lesbian team member knew all along ✅
- The ‘nerd’ computer geek is the least attractive of the entire team ✅
- Pretty compliant on ‘most’ politically correct casting for the core tea of 7 ✅
That All Said, on the plus side.
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Great twist that I didn’t see coming, that reinvigorated my waning (waned?) interest.
- (Episode 1 was so bad that I have no idea why I started 2 - it likely just auto played.)
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The actors spoke in English so no dubbing or subtitles needed (more on this in a future post).
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The baddies weren’t muslim.
I just listened to Steven Hackett and David Sparks talking about Arc. Been a while, because though I am subscribed - I tend to listen to podcasts based on the topic per episode - not the podcast or host(s) of same.
Topic - Arc? Im in.
Nice summary - and a couple of things that I will try out - but most disappointed that no discussion on STILL WHY NO IPAD APP. I (don’t) get it - run the iPhone App. Yeah …. No. Have you seen how useless an iPhone window is on a big screen? Let alone browsing.
I like Arc - but I won’t even consider it as my default browser until there is a real iPad app.
📸 🌊 Sometimes I don’t even know what to say …
🎈155/366 The First Vision Pro Concert Movie
I have touched on this before but after reading a Lefsetz post over the weekend, decided to expand a little and log the thinking for posterity.
🔗 Lefsetz Letter - Company At The Sphere - that’s the link to where 🖇️ this quote came from that I published this weekend. I said I’d be back…
Around 2016 - ‘the term ‘spatial’ was being coined’. - though I personally think Apple’s ‘spatial’ is a light year or two ahead of where Mr. Scoble was at the time (He’s very quiet these days, isn’t he?)
🖇️ But February this year I made some pretty logical predictions about the first Vision Pro Movie.
🖇️ And in October last year I was predicting that The Sphere was a pretty good place to start on a ‘Vision Pro Concert Series’ - and I think Apple will be the one to do it. Well, maybe not ‘doing’ it - but certainly financing it.
I still think that.
But who will be the director and/or subject matter for this groundbreaking event?
Who’s Out?
Despite Tay Tay’s global appeal, it won’t be her. The Swifties don’t have the money to buy the Pro.
Peter Jackson is deep into the latest tech to do great things, definitely a friend of Apple - and his foray into music with The Beatles is interesting - but no, no Sphere experience and besides 🔗 he is deep into his next Trilogy .. as Producer - not Director, but still ..
Original “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy filmmaker Peter Jackson and his partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens are producing the movie and “will be involved every step of the way,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said during an earnings call Thursday.
Phish? I dunno - not seeing it.
So Who’s In?
Two very real possibilities …
U2 - deeply intertwined with Apple - remember the album? And then they were first up at the Sphere - and Zane Lowe hanging out with them, talking with them. We have seen some of the footage, but who knows what was taken off the ‘back stage’ for the first Vision Pro movie?
… but I am wondering - and well out of left field - but …
The Grateful Dead - who have always been at the bleeding edge of touring and spectacle
- The ‘Home’ band for Bay Area based Apple
- Sphere residency happening - even as I type
- Residency coincided with Earth Day 2024 (very ‘Appley’)
- Lots of San Francisco through time imagery featured in the show
- 🔗 and then there is this - Huff Post - so maybe a pinch of salt is needed, written eight years ago …but written by Bill Bradey, so not his usual subject matter - but certainly no slouch.
- Note that Mayer is also part of The Sphere residency.
It’s all fitting in for this bear.
The only hard thing to reconcile is that ‘Tay Tay’ problem. Is there an overlap?
I think there just might be.
What do you think?
Today I Learned that ‘A Boy Named Sue’ was written by Shel Silverstein …
… I’m also thinking that today most of you will be asking ‘ what’s ‘A Boy Named Sue’ ‘
Magnet Fishing.
Had you heard of the term before now?
The surprising thing about ICQ closing down is that it is 2024 and it is still around to close down.
Sounds like a grand plan. If memory serves he’s on a sticky wicket when it comes to his coalition, If they go - the whole house o/ card is at risk - he loses power and will then have to face courts for other crimes - or something like that - I need to check. BUT. It sure smells like another example of a very small extreme minority holding sway over the vastly larger majority.
Just to say after writing that last post I suddenly realized that Reminders has become my Task Manager of choice.
For years it’s been Things … which still lurks .. but Reminders has always been there because ‘family sharing’ .. and then a few weeks ago I asked Siri to remind me to buy something and Siri dropped it into Reminders - not Notes where the shared shopping lists live … I know I know … sorry … because ‘sharing’.
Not only that .. but turns out ‘Shopping’ has a whole auto categorizing thing going on that I had somehow missed … so I moved my quick lists in there and before you know it - other stuff.
It has come a long way since I last used it with vengeance .. not deleting Things yet though.
Two wishes for WWDC
- however they are doing the shopping thing - let me set up other lists to allow similar categorization
- Introduce time boxing and necessarily tighter calendar integration.
Sitting with ‘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.
