It’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.

If this rumor is true about no new Mac Studio upgrades until 2025, then it will be one of the few times I bought Apple hardware at the perfect time instead of buying something and then having it obsoleted within 16 months.

I love the wide open prairie skies of Saskatchewan. I love the ability to think and process life stuff while driving across the prairies. 😀

Cloudy skies above a highway in Saskatchewan

Turns out it kinda does fix me to swap my office around. (Still evaluating the window behind me + glare on the monitor potential issue.)

  1. Before
  2. After same direction
  3. After looking other way.

Office with desk on right under windows. Office with desk on left and chairs under the window. Office with desk on left and chairs under window.

Current “I want a gaming PC” temptations are Helldivers 2 and Manor Lords. Just need to wait it out. Breath. This too shall pass. 😝

Ooooh! Marie Poulin dropped a new meal planning Notion template.

(Yes it’s ok to be as excited about this as a new album drop by your fav artist. There’s nothing weird about it.)

I added Gandalf to this clip from last night’s Oilers / Canucks game and it’s going around hockey tiktok in a non-toxic way. It’s nice to just have a laugh at silly things grown men on skates do sometimes.

Even 1993 Pearl Jam knew to pick the bear instead of a man.

Aw I’m sad Arc went corporate. The animated heart was a nice little surprise. This bland update notification feels like work.

Arc notification for an update with plain text.

I’m thinking if I swap my office around so I’m facing the other way, that’ll fix everything that’s wrong with me.

I love how a 27yo songwriter from Vermont can write a song that somehow connects to emotions inside of me that I haven’t fully processed or worked through.

Federico Viticci’s review of iPadOS is one of the few I’m willing to read since he’s actually tried to make iPad work in ways that most of us on the sidelines only snark about.

I don’t know of many bands that have a huge commercially successful first album that follow it up with an equally good second album like Pearl Jam did with Vs. Such a great album. Jeff Ament’s bass playing is next level good.

Squarespace being bought will almost certainly mean the end of whatever amount of “free-ish” ride podcasters have had on there. “…all seamlessly interwoven with intuitive GenAI.” 🤮

Happy Mother’s Day to all who celebrate.

Screenshot of a waitlist for a Yelp restaurant waitlist showing that we’re 114th in line.

Sonos can say it was courageous to roll out an app update all they want. All I know is that I was about to order one of their portable speakers, and convince my parents to update their speaker system with Sonos gear, and held off instead. Because of my courage? 😆

Apple not including the stickers in the new iPad boxes is more upsetting than that commercial.

I just want to do a little podcast where we talk about neat things that we like and maybe get to rant a little every so often and have everyone on who wants to be kind and scheduling isn’t hard and enough people listen that it’s validating but not so many that it’s mentally exhausting.

Me: Ok cool. Income taxes paid and sorted. Summer plans planned. There’s a few dollars left, maybe buy something fun?

My house: Starts shedding stucco. The hell you will!

Making emptying the dishwasher out more epic by playing this Best of Star Wars playlist on Apple Music.