Purple corn, with occasional flowers.
@manton I’m always shocked how good EarPods sound. I struggle with ear fit at times but sonically they are worth the price of admission.
@Denny I intentionally put on “Land of Confusion” by Genesis earlier today and went from there down an 80s rabbit hole.
@JohnPhilpin wonderful photos btw!
@JohnPhilpin iPhone X?
@manton Likewise. Obama chose him as VP for his relationships and ability to negotiate in the Senate. He has wielded those traits as President admirably today considering the clown car that is Congress. He is a genuine positive force and has done a lot to support this country. His age certainly doesn't concern me. 🇺🇸
jagibson.org@help I have the micro.blog family plan and have been playing around with a test/second blog. Nothing urgent but I can't post anything there as it states I need to upgrade my plan.
Man, I sure miss Bowie.
Today I posted a Stone Temple Pilots drum snippet and a lame attempt at playing samba.
@caseyliss well, I did replace the brake light housing and wiring under warranty 6 times due to melting, so I suppose the lack of an engine would one less thing to worry about 😁
My go-to beer is the Run Wild IPA from Athletic Brewing but it’s hit or miss finding it in the stores here (or any NA beer besides like O’Doules). Today they had Stella NA and I was skeptical but it tastes great!
@caseyliss unsolicited advice but as a former Hyundai owner, stay away. Their engines are crap and they make you jump through hoops for recall work. www.cars.com/research/...
@mcaloney Sober Carpenter makes a good hoppy NA IPA, I believe they are from Alberta.
Summer, signaling its beginnings.
I’ve been enjoying posting little short snippets of my drum playing on YouTube but I think I’m going to transition to hosting them here instead.
@chartier lots of things can come into play but I will note that Verizon (spectrum’s partner for cell service) and ATT both had extensive outages throughout the week last week. Group texts are typically sent through the mms network (using data) so if they indeed resolved those issues can try power cycling the devices and test again to see if that works.
Frozen fruitcicles
Friday last week, we installed the pedals on my son’s balance bike and he didn’t skip a beat, was successfully pedaling on his first try.
I posted another drum cover short on YouTube. Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins) is a great drummer but I never loved the Pumpkins that much. This song is from Jimmy’s jazz/fusion/rock band Jimmy Chamberlin Complex and Billy Corgan provides the vocals. Wonderful song.
Incredibly disappointed I missed Godzilla Minus One in the theaters but super happy it was released on platforms today. It was excellent.
My (other) tribe
I am this close to some day capturing a lightning bolt.
It’s so silly, but I love that Call and Oates is still active, many years ago I saved the number in my contacts and tried it today and it worked! For those not familiar here’s the npr story from 2011.
@numericcitizen yeah, personally I find reaching to a laptop screen to zoom takes too much effort for me vs a good trackpad or mouse, but I’m happy to chalk that up to being a gen x person 🤣
@numericcitizen anecdotally from what I have observed with people using touchscreen laptops, scrolling has been the biggest use case. I still have a surface book 3 that I use for certain things but never really got into the touchscreen when in laptop mode. I always just removed the screen to navigate the device in tablet mode.
@Denny thanks! all credit to @numericcitizen who talked about the Spectre app and I used it once on that windy day.
@holgerfrohloff indeed it was! Very grounding (no pun intended)
@Denny Chromebooks became popular for that very same low maintenance reason (granted at a much lower price but I would argue iPad has more power features while still maintaining low maintenance). I suspect the mini will still keep the A series chips this year.
Lots of jumping and rolling in the grass today.
@Denny great write up. The notion that iPadOS needs to essentially be Mac OS in order for there to be value for the hardware is misguided. Anecdotally the iPad usage I have seen in the last few years have exceeded from just Netflix gadget. I imagine iterative improvements to stage manager and things like that coming in the next version of iPadOS.
I bought a family member an iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard (she’s been a windows user since forever) as her main machine and she is enamored about how she just doesn’t have to put effort into her computing needs, and she didn’t realize how much effort she was putting previously even with her OS comfort level in Windows. The iPad Pro will last her for a significant amount of years and the stability will carry on with her general computing needs.
I still wish for an iPad mini with full screen stage manager support when connected to a monitor. I don’t need to be full time iPad computing but occasionally plugging in to a monitor with some decent windowing support with a keyboard and mouse would give me the best of both tablet and general computing machine. Alas, I may cave and get the 11 inch air if the mini doesn’t get those enhancements soon.
Wild asparagus, with occasional grapes.
@jarrod would be lovely to get external monitor w/ stage manager support. Seems unlikely.
@JohnPhilpin outstanding photo!
I appreciate marveling very much
@JohnPhilpin hey cheers for the mention!
@JohnPhilpin saw this just now on Daring Fireball, so much better! twitter.com/rezawreck...
Steve Jobs:
It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
Apple:
The clouds yesterday put on quite a show 📷
If the internet went away tomorrow, I think we would all be just fine.
Patience
