Spirited, 2022 - ★★★★

Watched on Sunday December 22, 2024.

The hoar frost is extra hoary today.

A snow-covered outdoor hockey rink is surrounded by frosty trees under a cloudy sky.

What’s the semi-unrealistic thing on your Xmas list that you were sure Santa wouldn’t be getting for you, but you got anyway?

Mine was a CD burner for my computer. I didn’t think my parents would know how to buy it, or could afford it. I was shocked when I opened the box.

Haven’t done one of these in a while: I’m headed to Costco… on a Saturday… three days before Xmas… anyone need anything? 😆

You should literally follow me if you want to make sure to get the slowest line at the Costco gas bar.

Don’t let this darkness fool you All lights turned off can be turned on

Screenshot of lyrics from Noah Kahan’s “Call Your Mom” Don't let this darkness fool you&10;All lights turned off can be turned on&10;I'll drive, I'll drive all night

I don’t know why, but as much as I’d love a new Bond film, I’m kind of happy to see Amazon eat shit on their $6.5 billion purchase of MGM and the Bond franchise: For 007, Amazon is Not Enough

“Substack Is At It Again”. Please don’t use Substack. There’s so many better options that not only aren’t Nazi-loving, but also much more fun to use for both you the writer and your readers.

Every time I have to go to Delisle, Saskatchewan for my kid’s hockey game, there’s blizzard conditions. IPSO facto, if they’d stop scheduling my kid’s hockey games in Delisle, Saskatchewan, we wouldn’t have blizzards.

Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.

I did a TikTok Live for ~3 minutes and “earned” $0.01 so… I guess I can finally shut down the podcast editing business and focus on TikTok in 2025.

Accidentally clicked on a client’s audio recording file on macOS, and now it’s opening Apple Music…

"This Little Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Years" is a memorable quote uttered by the character Cooper in the 2014 science fiction film Interstellar.

Acorn’s “Data Merge” feature sounds like the perfect reason to own the image editing app for Mac, even if I never touch it for anything else.

A reminder that if you ignored it when it went around the first time, the director’s cut of Coldplay’s All My Love video with Dick Van Dyke is a beautiful moment to take into the holidays.

Currently reading: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 📚 Finally getting around to his most popular book - the movie based on the book is on Netflix called A Man Called Otto.

Nice musical discovery via TikTok: Amble is an Irish acoustic trio. They have a couple of EPs out, no official album yet. But great music to put on with a coffee in the morning.

Before > After of Neville Dogbottom’s first adventures in getting his hairdid.

A shaggy flooofy looking golden doodle sits on a chair in front of a Christmas tree. A much cleaner cut golden doodle sits on the floor. Feels like he could be a different dog.

You can have a Crumbl cookie at home anytime you want - just be willing to add a pound of butter to any cookie recipe you currently make. 😋 (My butt will thank me for the extra insulation when it’s -40C in January.)

If you’re self employed or a small business owner, how transparent are you about your finances? People IRL sometimes ask me “how’s business going?” and I never know how to answer it because… it depends. And sometimes it changes from week to week. But nobody really wants a annual statement. 😉

Nice.

Screenshot showing my Raycast Wrapped 2024 edition. Raycast is a quick launcher app for macOS, so the stats are nerdy and show things like how many times I’ve launched the app (1,643), total actions (3,177), most active hour (11am) and more.

I have to imagine this will help sell a bunch of AirTags which is effectively Apple + the consumer doing the work of the airlines in finding luggage.