New on the blog: Lucy Rose Cover of U2’s With or Without You

Add another casualty to the Google chat RIP pile. Not that I ever used it but apparently I had it set up somewhere, somehow. šŸ˜†

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Another year, another ring around the internet for the pride of 2000’s Saskatchewan marketing efforts: “Pork. The One You Love”.

Photo of a billboard from Saskatchewan reading ā€œPork. The One you loveā€ showing a man barbecuing meat on a grill while a woman hugs him from behind.

I really just want to blog and podcast all my thoughts and feelings out into the internet but sadly I have to work? WTF is this?

Finished reading: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn šŸ“šSomehow I hadnā€™t read it back when it came out. Intense and better than I remember the movie being.

Thinking about how ā€œpreaching a sermon on a passage from the bibleā€ vs ā€œgiving a 35 minute speech on a pet peeve I haveā€ is often the same thing. šŸ¤”

Big time mistake on a Saturday in the middle of the to do list: sitting down.

It’s time for my annual gaming PC research drive where I try to sort out what all the numbers mean and end up not buying anything - 2024 edition database here.

No, this is not a Shoresy season 3 promo video. It’s a Canadian Heritage Minute commercial with the star of Shoresy.

Pixelmator Pro continues to be the best value for any image editor I’ve paid money for.

Time to reset the clock on days since I’ve been jump-scared by someone coming into my office while I’m editing a podcast: 0.

I try to leave the house as little as possible, but when I do I make sure to hit up a local coffee shop. (Citizen Cafe this time.)

Interior of a local coffee shop in the background with a panini sandwich and iced Americano in the foreground

Anyone had a real world comparison of the Sonos Beam vs Sonos Arc soundbars? If I can get away with just the Arc soundbar that might be worth it if the Beam ā€œneedsā€ a couple of rear speakers?

You can tell how much self reflection someone has done by their attitude towards Bluey.

New (98% AI) blog post: How to Shift Votes Away from the Hold the Sask Party Has on Some Parts of Saskatchewan

Thanks to Justin Jackson for this sweet AI generated soundtrack to my business. I feel like I need to make a commercial now.

Iā€™m rewatching ā€œMad Max: Fury Roadā€ in preparation for seeing ā€œFuriosa: A Mad Max Sagaā€ on Thursday.

I canā€™t believe it came out in 2015. 9 years ago already.

Web apps: “We’ve got AI in all the things to help you be more creative and work more efficiently!”

Me: “Can you automatically rename files you create with some sort of date stamp so I can tell them apart?”

Web apps: “…. … … We’ve got AI in all the things!”

Todayā€™s Quartiles (Apple News+ game) is stupid and I hate it and itā€™s definitely not me thatā€™s the problem.

Itā€™s a Vietnamese Iced coffee kind of day.

Iced coffee on a table in the foreground with an empty plate and a Kobo reader beside it in a coffee shop.