Jax disappears into store and returns 30 minutes later.
Me - did you get what you needed?
Jax - no - a complete waste of time.
I didn’t have the courage to ask what was in the large carrier bag she carried out of the store - that she definitely did not have when she went in.
“The line between a fire tweet and the incoherent ramblings of a madmen is thinner than ever.”
💬 Ryan Broderick
It’s another day of being invisible
It has become clear that large corporates clearly want you to go online and NOT use their call centers. All good - but their online services SUCKS - and you more often than not cannot find the information for your orders that you are looking for. So you still have to call the call center - who tell you that a good way to save time is to go online.
2023 | 04 | 11
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Go ⚽️ WREXHAM …
Big fan of ‘smart filters’ / ‘rules’ - I use them all the time in various apps. BUT I sure hope that developers smarten up on how people use this functionality because I have hit limitations in building filters pretty much everywhere. The one exception so far is Readwise, BUT to build a filter there is not simple because you need to know so much about the formats they use. It gets real complicated real quick.
I know they are working on a simpler interface to their rules engine. I hope they don’t fall into the trap of providing a limited set of options to their customers.
Why would you do this
anyway … particularly when it is very clear that this
is happening.
🔗 It’s Monday - I guess there’s not much going on ….
🔗 Where does the Tennessee House Speaker actually live? - people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
🔗 I showed Bruce Springsteen my Bruce Springsteen tattoo. He said he didn’t like it. - I look forward to this new series.
I am a cult author, asked in the street maybe five times a year: “Are you Emma Forrest?” And I am Emma Forrest. But it’s a surname invented by my grandfather to combat anti-semitism, so there are other more legitimate Emma Forrests, some with their own internet fame, like the Scottish judo star or the woman, also Scottish, who consumes 3,000 calories of fizzy drinks a day.
💬 Emma Forrest
🔗 Super-rich abandoning Norway at record rate as wealth tax rises slightly. - @odd - what is your take? Should we care?
2023 | 04 | 10
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Is there a music app equivalent to apps like Letterbox, Reels, GoodReads, Literal and all the others?
YIKES - a Tornado hits in East Tamaki and Flat Bush, Auckland. … it’s dangerous out there!
Now THERE’s an interesting graph …
Found on Paul Graham’s Twitter timeline.
In turn looking him up - because Mastodon were talking about he and TMusk arguing about Twitter blocking Substack - a business funded by YCombinator
🎥 Murder Mystery 2, 2023 - ★★
If you read my review of Murder Mystery ... You might be surprised to learn that I also watched this. BUT as I said in the review ... the film’s saving grace (at best) was the Maharajah ... and spotting him featured heavily in the promo, I though maybe they would give him more screen time ....
Spoiler alert ... and I can't say this with absolute certainty ... But I'm going to say he had LESS screen time.
And yes ... the star count is accurate ... Worse than the first!
Oh .. And murder mystery? This was a kidnapping mystery, sure a fe murders along the way ... But the title isn't Murders Mystery.
Disappointed? Not really ... Sandler generally is what he is and does what he does.
🎥 Murder Mystery, 2019 - ★★½
With Netflix holding back on the 6th series of Better Call Saul ... What's a boy to do? Murder Mystery 2 was floating around and I had never seen the first ... so decision made.
It would be unfair to say it was a total disaster, though I am definitely NOT a Sandler fan .. I do kinda like Aniston .. So who knows I thought ... Maybe she could lift him up?
She couldn’t. (Though he did a pretty good job of bringing her down!) .. Stamp was another I had high hopes for ... but not to be the case, which becomes clear should you elect to give this a whirl.
But there was a saving grace in the ’Maharajah’ .. Played by one Adeel Akhtar .. What a spectacular part ... What a spectacular performance .. Just not enough of him.
Salvation, though the rating didn’t move.
🎙️Not yet finished the whole episode - but just stopping by to share this podcast link
Nilay Patel talking Eugen Rochko.
Interesting stuff. Maybe I listen to the wrong streams, but I have not heard Eugen talk before. He does seem to be someone who keeps his head down and focussed.
Gives me lots of confidence in Mastodon - not that I needed it.
I’ve hung around Kiwis in one way or another for a while and I thought I had most of the vernacular down (maybe made easier by my English background?).
Jax talking today about being at a bar by herself …
“I was like NoMates Jax"
Had me curled up on the floor in stitches.
🔗 We built our dream Cotswolds farmhouse in two weeks. (Apple News Link)
Their dream was almost ten years in the making.
Color me confused.