The ubiquitous sign in every skilled nursing facility stating day, date, year, president, and so on, had a local twist in northern Ohio.
[the] season is winter.
[the] weather is cloudy and cold.
I could not help but finish this slant-haiku:
daylight is fading.
Instead of a whimsical snowman brought to life with a magic hat, Cleveland snow looks like something possessed by a nether spirit, growing and shrinking with falls and melts, but with an ever darkening core. Do not eat this snow.
Peak #iPad Home Screen
Nearly a decade since I’ve flown, incremental changes towards the intolerable are more glaring to me, specifically the glare from the screen on the seat in front that could not be turned off. It makes the connecting flight on the no-frills tiny plane in bad weather somehow less disturbing.
You still have time to get in on Project Tapestry, a “universal, chronological timeline for iOS for any data that’s publicly available on the Internet,” developed by The Iconfactory and funded through KickStarter. It won’t work with spyware or garbageware, so no Meta or X platforms—no great loss.
Microsoft Devices continues its slow ballistic arc towards oblivion. At approximately $1.23 billion for Q224, you have to go back to Q215 to beat $1.1 billion, really Q214 at an inflation adjusted $1.17 billion. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite will not save Surface.
#Microsoft
Rick and Morty has been a dying star in my queue since season four, but then comes a supernova of one, “That’s Amorte,” s7e4. Like a work of art PSA for Buddhism confronting the cruelty that our “happiness” comes from the suffering of others, it then just walks away. Because we do too.
#RickAndMorty
Just a reminder: this is Apple Vision Pro Apotheosis Day. Hype and FOMO will ascend today, then be cast down as actual reviews drop tomorrow, followed quickly by a slew of unflattering memes. Some semblance of reasonable expectations may then arise.
#AppleVisionPro #VisionPro
I feel a little guilty about wiping out a possible microscopic civilization in my small intestines, but a month of boundless bacterial overgrowth has exhausted me. Hopefully, they transcended the material plane before I got the Xifaxan scrip. If not… sorry.
An hour or so later the pile of papers is gone, data entered, documents scanned, bills paid, calls made, letters written, appointments scheduled. All that remains is an empty tea cup and the iPad Pro, the computer for the stressed of us.
#iPadPro
