Joel Hamill

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This morning’s music; One of my favorite albums, that I listened to on repeat in high school.

Tool Aenima

→ 9:47 AM, Sep 27

LMAO @ Space Force. An acutal branch of the US militray.

That money could have been used to house the unhoused, fed the hungry, support those that need support.

→ 9:54 AM, Sep 25

TIL; there’s a vulture in Africa that eats, almost exclusively, bones.

How did we not realize birds were acutally dinosaurs earlier?

→ 2:22 PM, Sep 24

My Letterboxd review of Fellowship of the Ring.

Good, but could have been cut for time to make it better. I love the music.

→ 8:44 AM, Sep 24

I’ve been using ARC browser for a few days now on my M1 Macbook Air.

It’s a browser. It looks different than Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari. It still gets on the internet.

I’ll keep playing around with it.

→ 11:16 AM, Sep 23

My short little Letterboxd review of Prey (2022).

Good action, good CGI, believeable characters. Entertaining movie.

→ 10:22 AM, Sep 23

Monday Morning Wake-Up Call – “Heaven”, I suggest. “Yup.”

→ 7:47 AM, Sep 19

If your book was just one sentence…

Not a book.

→ 12:08 PM, Sep 17

Words of Wisdom

CHANGE AND PROGRESS TAKE TIME. DON’T BEAT YOURSELF UP ABOUT NOT BEING WHERE YOU WANT TO BE YET.

Indeed

→ 10:24 AM, Sep 17

Busing Migrants is Expensive

Transfers of Migrants Have Democratic Leaders Scrambling

Arizona has sent about 1,800 migrants on 50 buses to Washington, at a cost of about $4 million, the governor’s office said. Texas has spent about $13 million to drive roughly 8,000 migrants to Washington and New York.

Arizona: $2,222 per person. Texas: $1,625 per person.

I can’t help but wonder how much it would costs those states to give support to those folks to get them on their feet and part of the economy instead of busing them to Democratic states in a political stunt.

→ 10:41 AM, Sep 16

Anti Trump Strategy

Why Is There Still No Strategy Against Donald Trump?

And then once Trump is nominated, he has some chance of winning, because nobody is executing an effective strategy against him.

The effective strategy against Donald Trump is one that the media can not follow. It is the simplest strategy there is:

Do not talk about the stupid stuff he says or posts.

Only talk about the facts: his actions, his decisions.

→ 10:24 AM, Sep 16

Today’s random thought of the day

I wonder who will be considered the great thinkers of today?
Who will be the Whitman, Emerson, Hemingway?
Who will history decide speaks for our era?
We do not decide that. The future decides that.

→ 12:11 PM, Sep 15

Sales Volume Isn't Measured in Enthusiastism

Matt Birchler concluding his post about ‘smartphone enthusiasts”.

I’m not saying that the Nothing Phone 1 is better than the iPhone 14 Pro, but I am saying that being an enthusiast of anything usually means appreciating things that are new and novel.

I agree. Sales volumes don’t make a phone compelling or interesting. Features, specifications, design choices, and fuctionality make a phone compelling.

The Google Pixel line of phones are great phones.
Are they the best selling phones? No.
Does that mean that they shouldn’t be considered great phones? No.

The same can be said of any number of phones that do not match the volume of sales of the iPhone. Just because a phone doesn’t sell as much as an iPhone doesn’t mean that it’s not interesting and worthy of being discussed or celebrated.

→ 12:06 PM, Sep 15

Gruber today Casio’s Pro Trek Biomass PRG300:

Apple Watch Ultra isn’t going to just makes watches like this one disappear.

Gruber yesterday Garmin Reacts to Apple Watch Ultra: ‘We Measure Battery Life in Months. Not Hours.’:

Bye-bye Garmin.

A radically different take.

→ 11:16 AM, Sep 13

Trump Threatens to Sue Fox News Over Lincoln Project Ads

Once again, I’m here to say, this is not a threat. This is a crazy old white man writing stupid shit on the internet. He’s not going to sue.

→ 8:43 AM, Sep 10

Fantastic art at the Miniature Calendar website.
Simply Fantastic.

Waffle Garden

→ 9:33 AM, Sep 6

Looking forward to the Pixel event in October to see what the 7 or 7 Pro features, as well as the watch. Hopefully, Google will give more details on the tablet.

→ 5:45 PM, Sep 5

Pro tip: If your salad can be eaten with a tortilla chip; it is a dip not a salad.

I mean. If it looks like a dip and tastes like a dip, then it must be a dip.

→ 11:18 AM, Sep 3

Is Hazy Shade of Winter by the Bangles going to get the revival that Running Up That Hill got?

Probably not, because the soundtrack was released in 2017.

Shame. It’s a good song.

→ 1:14 AM, Sep 2

Excuse me, sir. I am a Sophisticated Xenomorph. Thank you very much.

→ 1:06 AM, Sep 2

Elizabeth Taylor

→ 11:25 PM, Aug 31

New Archer episodes!

→ 5:41 PM, Aug 27

Remember pagers?

→ 1:41 PM, Aug 27

Sweet, found a new to me artist. Hieu Nguyen works with watercolors and digitally.

. A Moment to Rest

via My Modern Met

→ 11:24 AM, Aug 26

Home

Still good - 23 years later.

→ 11:03 AM, Aug 26