No Idea

This mashup is freaking genius!

Genius.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here forever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

– Virginia Woolf

“Betty, you think Velcro is impressive.”

Poker Face has some pretty great dialogue.

Caturday. With River watching Planet Earth.

We Tivo Wheel of Fortune during the week to watch on the weekend and one our our pet peeves is people who do not wait for Vanna White to tap all the letters before deciding to spin the wheel.

John Gruber

That’s like asking for “measurable criteria” for evaluating a movie or novel or song or painting.

But, there are measurable criteria for evaluating every one of those things that exist outside of the artistic aspect of the works.

There are a lot of assumptions here by Gruber and Birchler and I do not think those assumptions provide a solid foundation to stand upon when making these comparisons.

Poker Face is a pretty good show.

Sir. Sir Give me the grenade, sir. Sir, give me the grenade.

“Uh, … Yeah”

Playing around with themes this morning. Just Because.

Nothing to see here.
Just Plotting.
Move Along.

Daring Fireball, John Gruber:

…only to eventually cede the entire touchscreen revolution in personal computing to Apple and Android.

So you can get a touchscreen laptop from Apple now? I like how ‘personal computing’ is now only phones to Gruber so he can get a dig in.

My Modern Met, Jessica Stewart: Strange UFO-Shaped Cloud Formation in Turkey Causes a Stir Online

Wait. Wait a minute. Hold on. Give me a second.

People think UFOs are always circular or spherical and only circular or spherical?

Theory:
The death of Twitter the tech press is reporting now is not the actual death of Twitter, just tech Twitter.

The people who care about 3rd party app support are; tech adjacent and not the main stream. Until celebrities and influencers leave … Twitter will remain.

A Layman’s Blog (Steve Layman):

What if this life is the paradise we were promised, and we’re just squandering it?

We were never promised a paradise; our religions just tell us that to get us to believe in their beliefs.

evernote.com | Blog, Emily Dumas: 5 Ways to Manage Social Media Like a Pro

You really only need 1 step to manage Social Media:

1. Don’t

Daring Fireball, John Gruber:

…but it makes no sense to me that Facebook doubled its headcount after 2019…

How do you create a Virtual Reality future if no one wants your Virtual reality future? You double your workforce .

Pixel Envy, Nick Heer:

But the investor class is happy because of course it is.

What the fuck is ‘the investor class’?

Rainy Saturday in Southern California

Pixel 7 Pro Edited in VSCO

Well, this photo of a woman on a payphone is pretty great.

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