I realize this makes me more of a slave to the Apple iCloud service, but I’m loving the Hide My Email feature for signing up to online services or giveaways. No worries about my main email addresses going into lists or syncing across services.
Is Substack still the devil it was earlier this year? I can’t tell anymore because a lot of writers I follow are setting up on Substack as a possible new home in lieu of all the fun things happening here on Twitter. It’s certainly an enticing platform they’re building.
Ice, Ice, Baby
There’s a lot of sounds, besides the obvious one of people talking, that gets picked up by microphones and I get to hear while I’m editing podcasts.
One that triggers an instant “Ooh I want that!” is the sound of someone drinking something with ice. It could be iced coffee, pop, alcoholic beverage, soda water, juice - I have no idea what’s actually in the glass. But that clinking sound of ice in a cup as it’s being tilted up to someone’s mouth and then back down triggers an almost pavlovian response in my brain to want to go get myself some sort of drink with ice in it.
Here’s a clip of the sound I mean from a recent edit with all identifying sounds removed other than the ice. (You may have to click a few “x"s to let Dropbox just play the video in your browser)
How about you - want a drink?
I hate how searching for things, like the origins of the phrase “if anyone is not hungry for justice, it may be because they are too full of privilege”, yields Amazon pop up items like this. Woof.
I really can’t tell you how thrilling it’s been to have a dude with no idea what’s he’s doing, or any ability to admit when he’s wrong, ruin my church community, and now getting to experience it again with Musk and my Twitter community.
Got the notification that our Apple One bundle pricing is going up from $33.95CAD to $37.95CAD starting end of November.
I get that it’s complicated, but as one of the world’s richest companies, I wish Apple would take a small hit on “services” to help the rest of us out.
Is anyone using custom email domain that Apple offers for iCloud+ users? Seems like a great way to break some of the Gmail dependency I’ve got.
A week after what we thought was the last kid to get the cold that ran through our family, youngest is out with something today. Is this a new thing? The same thing? Last fall with mostly masks at school was so much easier. 😷 🤒
Got boosted and flu-shot’d today and the nurse basically prepped me for 2-3 days of being down and out. 😳 “Hope you’ve got a lot of movies to watch or you can sleep!”
On days like today when the techbros try to ruin everything for profit, I like to reread @davatron5000’s excellent short story, The Mammoth.
Lots of great brain nuggets in Monday’s episode of ShopTalk Show with @samkap - but this section right here is particularly great. You’ll have to listen to find out! And you’ll have to buy the book to find out more about Inclusive Design Communities.
Not enjoying having to spend the day dealing with a dead minivan battery. On the upside, it died in our garage so we could charge it enough to be able to drive it to a mechanic and get a new battery swapped in. On the downside, that costs money.
