”As America gets whiter, the world gets darker … and I ain’t talkin’ skin tone.”
‘Someone’
🍻 Now THAT’S a pub crawl! 🍻
Random Words 6/7
But it didn’t take that much more to get better than it was before.
Homepod Or Echo
For years I have listened to people as they gather around the ‘internet campfire’ discussing what/who makes the best hardware, software, service.
But is it really about the best hardware or software or infrastructure or stack or whatever else we want to call it? Surely, there can never be an absolute comparison, without understanding the rules of judgement? And those rules aren’t someone else’s. They are yours. You need to define what your needs are and the parameters against which you will judge before you can get to an answer of what is right for you.
It is about each of us defining what we want to do to improve ourselves, improve our efficiency, make life easier, more enjoyable … whatever we are wanting to achieve … and then choose what we want to use.
I happen to live in Apple land … but if a Surface tablet, an Android phone, a Chromebook works for you, I’m good. Trust me, even if you want to talk to Amazon’s Alexa through your Echo, your call. I am not in a position to judge whether you have the right tool, because you haven’t told me what you are trying to do and (just as importantly) what you are using at the moment.
BUT …. if you did … I can probably help.
As for the Homepod. Not got one. Yet. Probably will. Eventually. Not because I want to talk to Siri - I barely do that with my phone, but because I want to listen to great music with great sound. That’s what I want, and why Alexa won’t do it for me. Then again as a long time Sonos user, it might explain the Homepod procrastination!
People, Process THEN Technology.
Post Script
I have a related post about Microsoft Word in the works that relates.
An Excellent Read From The Outline On Gun Violence … to which let me append a quote I shared just two days ago …
”The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
D.H. Lawrence
Twitter - a stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous who love to second-guess, to leap to conclusions and be offended.
Stephen Fry
Two years ago on Twitter - one that I liked so much it ended up in DayONE and popped up as a reminder today.
🎵 was it [@stefp](https://micro.blog/stefp) or [@minton](https://micro.blog/minton) or [@laurentboileau](https://micro.blog/laurentboileau) or [@pgor](https://micro.blog/pgor) that put me onto Night Watch - and I was told it was Genesis like …. Genesis derivative I would say - would fit right in with those first 5 albums - and the voice - O M G … they used to talk about Fish - but this is even closer. Thankyou for sharing.
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.
🎵 If you are already a user of any Rogue Amoeba product … this is a nice little thank-you from them.
Soundsource is a handy little utility - and this is where you can get your free license from them
👋 @manton - thanks for the 🚀 recommendation .. I am sure @katiefloyd will come around … I did
There’s something about this set up that is - oh I don’t' know - beautiful?
I like that the iphone no longer needs to connect to iTunes to manage itself .. but I sure do miss the days of being able to block move the order of entire pages … wonder if that will ever come back.
Random Words 5/7
Hello again from my phone as I use the predictive text function on the keyboard… this is a strange experience
Random Words 4/7
Here we are in the same place as we were in yesterday afternoon and the morning was so nice and now we have to be back.
Glasgow is where it is at … just added it to my bucket list …
Oh wait - already been to Glasgow many times, maybe I just need to add ‘The Gin School’.
It Can’t Happen Here By Sinclair Lewis (the first American author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.) is available on iTunes today for just $1.99.
”A new president gains power, becoming a dictator in the name of protecting the people from biased press, socialism, and crime.”
Written in 1936!
Let’s see …
Well how clever is this thankyou @manton ….. I think this is an interesting and potentially viral way to build interest in Micro.Blog … post into the ‘wild wide web’ with links to interesting conversations here and people who aren’t already members get inspired to come over and see what is going on.
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