Sometimes when I’m editing a client’s episode where they’re talking excitedly about AI replacing human jobs, I’m often reminded of Dave Rupert’s short story The Mammoth. I wonder how long until this is my reality?

Truth be told the walkers don’t need to be escorted. They could be easily be navmapped to where they need to be. In fact, they walk themselves back to the drop site after hours. But jobs like these came about as part of a federal initiative called “Humans@Work” to slow down hemorrhaging unemployment rates. Partnering with corporations and market research firms, the government developed the role of “Herder” so machines always seem as co-existing with humans. It’s supposed to help the machines seem more like useful farm animals rather than soul-less lumbering dinosaurs.

👋 to anyone needing / wanting to work late this fine Monday evening. Trying to get ahead of things a bit so that spring and summer getaways are a little easier to manage.

Carrot continues to be the best therapist I’ve yet to pay for. This is why I don’t go for walks in the woods.

carrot weather app widget that reads: “It’s the perfect day to go for a hike and get mauled by the local wildlife.”

“Apple expects to sell just one headset per day per retail store, and it has told suppliers that it expects sales of seven to 10 million units during the first year of availability.” If the $3,000 price is accurate, I look forward to the rich beta testing it for us. 💰 😝

In the past week we’ve had our 13 year old dryer and our 3 month old tv die. They don’t make them like they used to?

“Old school 80’s style selfie.” she says.

Picture of a sink with a spoon held so you can see a kid’s vague reflection in the spoon.

Finished reading: Shelterbelts by Jonathan Dyck 📚

Relationship goals. 🍔 ❤️

An older couple each on a scooter at a A&W drive through.

I broke my glasses a month ago and have survived on contact lenses only. Did ok other than a bit of stumbling around in the dark at night. 😆 👀 Last normal glasses before I get old person glasses I think.

Me with dark rimmed glasses.

Did I know I was going to be sourcing hurdy-gurdy covers of Linkin Park on YouTube as part of my work on a podcast this morning? No.

Was I happy to spend 20 minutes diving down the rabbit hole of hurdy-gurdy covers this morning? Absolutely yes.

Podcast tip: If you want people to listen to your podcast, have some sort of subscribe page so people can subscribe to your podcast. If you don’t want listeners, by all means, just put up a blog post with a podcast player embed and revel in the massive “listens to podcast on a web page” audience.

Good conversations with good people about how to heal from bad people and be good again.

Good night. 😊

I sure am glad for dark mode after getting my pupils dilated at the optometrist. I have no idea if this sentence was spelled correctly or not. :-)

Me: I never have any time to do any of the things because of how busy life is. 😭

Also me: Every spring finds time to watch 45 hours of playoff hockey every week. 🍻

A reminder that Apple’s online store has a refurbished section where you can save money on hardware that comes with a 1 year warranty and is like new.

It’s not just you: Apple’s Weather app isn’t working again for some people.

The fact that Apple is releasing Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad now bodes really well for the iPad as a platform. I can’t imagine they’d do the work to release those apps and not support it.

Electricity is pretty cool until it gets too hot.

Dryer randomly started smoking. Luckily we caught it in time before it got worse.

Image of the top of a clothes dryer with the top removed showing blackened circuit board area.

God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty, 2022 - ★★★

Watched on Saturday May 6, 2023.

A cool thing I discovered is that the audio repair tool I use has a bug where if the hard drive runs out of space, it just repairs part of the file without telling me anything was wrong. So guess who’s spent hours “fixing” audio files when I should have been cleaning up hard drive space?