…just shut up and get in!"
A Note About My Blog Headers
Fuckin' Apple.
If you're using Safari as your browser, I've noticed a bug. (A bug with an Apple product? Impossible!) If you refresh my page, the header image (which is supposed to randomly select an image from my library and display it) doesn't refresh. I haven't tested this with IE or Edge (and really don't have any way to, since the only place I have access to those browsers is at work and my site is blocked there, so any of you IE/Edge users please let me know if it's working) but it does work fine with Chrome.
UPDATE: Well apparently it isn't a bug after all. Refreshing to get a new header only works when I'm logged in under my administrator account. So I don't know how the refresh thing works now. Is there a time limit between new images? I guess I may have to contact the template designer for clarification.
I'm Going To Hell
"Well that's just GREAT. Thanks to you, my husband has to sit on a fucking donut pillow all the way to Albuquerque because you didn't use any lube! And by the way, your restrooms are filthy."
Hunks of Yesteryear
The Kids Are Alright
Oh, Sah-NAP!
I Miss Cassini
Thankfully people are still pouring over all the data and refining and reissuing photos…
Quote of the Day
I think Apple has shown across multiple years and multiple products that they only care about making the keyboard thinner, and they will make some efforts to make the thin keyboard tolerable, but that they are no longer interested in keeping it a good keyboard if that means they can't make it thinner. And so I just have to kind of resign myself to accept that." ~ Marco Arment
UNF! (NSFW)
I'm Going To Hell
"Hurry up, Frank! Those Thai boys aren't gonna fuck themselves!"
Friday
I'm Going to Hell
"Girl, Bianca Del Rio ain't got nothin' on you!"
Gratuitous Nick Jonas
Hilarious!
Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro
The new MacBook Pro shows that Apple is finally becoming serious about developers.
Gone is the gimmicky TouchBar, gone are the four USB-C ports that forced power users to carry a suitcase full of dongles. In their place we get a cornucopia of developer-friendly ports: two USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt 2 ports, a redesigned power connector, and a long-awaited HDMI port.
Photographers will rejoice at the surprising and welcome addition of an SDXC card reader, a sign that Apple might be thinking seriously about photography.
The new MagSafe connector is a bit of Apple design genius. The charging cord stays seated securely, but pops right off if you yank on it. No more worries about destroying your $2k laptop just by accidentally kicking a cord.
What hasn't changed: Apple has kept the beautiful Retina display, and storage and memory are the same as before. The new machines will be slightly thicker (to accomodate the USB ports) and 200 grams heavier, but it's not clear how this will affect battery life.
Interestingly, Apple has removed the fingerprint reader and its associated dedicated chip, perhaps assuming that developers would not comfortable with a machine they don't fully control.
The most obvious change is the redesigned keyboard. Removing the Touchbar creates room for a row of physical function buttons and, in a nice touch, an escape key. This isn't a perfect solution: the function buttons map to a confusing series of actions that can send windows flying around the screen with an errant keystroke, and the new physical off switch is too close to the backspace key. But it is certainly a huge step forward, and it will be interesting to see how software developers take advantage of this clever new feature.
Everything about the new machine seems designed for typists. The trackpad has been made smaller, so you're less likely to brush against it with your palm. The keys themselves are much more comfortable to type on, with improved key travel, a softer feel, and more satisfying tactile feedback. You no longer feel like you're tapping on the glass surface of an iPad. And not having a TouchBar me ans no longer having to look down at your hands all the time.
Despite the many improvements, Apple is actually dropping the price on its flagship 15" MacBook Pro by $400, another sign that they're serious about winning over developers.
The release is an encouraging sign of life at Apple, whose products have not seen significant changes since the company introduced a separate operating system for its laptops in 2019. There's even speculation that Apple may refresh its antiquated Mac Pro and desktop macs, neither of which hav e been updated since their release in 2022.
Rumors are also swirling that the company will add a headphone jack to its already popular iPhone. The announcement could come as early as this month.
Shower Thoughts
Something we all need to keep in mind…
Yes, the world is a mess, but it's not near as crazy or hateful as the media and the Internet would like us to believe.
Amen!
Oh My
There seems to be quite a bit of thigh-against-crotch going on there…
It's Not Just For Those in Their 20s…
I was laughing so hard, this had tears streaming down my cheeks.
Quote of the Day
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars." ~ Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
I'm Going to Hell
"Fuck this shit. I wanna see the titty pix!"
Want.
New Music
Growing up, I was surrounded by classical music. Both my folks loved the great composers. Beethoven was their favorite. Bach, not so much (I had to discover his genius on my own). And while there were exceptions (Streisand and Herb Alpert immediately come to mind as being heard during my childhood), classical was by and large my gateway to the world of music. It probably also explains my love of movie soundtracks since the vast majority of them are orchestral in nature.
To my parents' horror, I discovered rock in high school. I blame most of it on my buddy across the cul-de-sac from us, who not only turned me on to hi-fi equipment but a lot of awesome music as well. His collection spanned everything from Chicago to Deep Purple, and while I didn't like all of it, I did latch on to many bands that remain favorites to this day.
I'm of the belief that the music you come to love in your 20s is the music that will resonate the most with you as you go through the rest of your life. With me—coming out and clubbing—it was disco and all the myriad mutations that came after. It's what still comprises the vast majority of my vinyl collection, and it seems each song has a special memory attached to it.
It wasn't until I hit my 40s that I discovered jazz via the wife of one of my employers. The gateway drug was Michael Feinstein, which in turn led me to seek out the "original" versions of the songs he sang. This lead me to Ella, Billie, Sarah, and countless others. I embraced it with a fervor matched only by my love of disco and dance music. It was augmented during our time in Denver with discoveries I made via KUVO.
I've always been a fan of electronic music, a genre that tends to cross over all others (rock, jazz, dance, and even classical—thank you, Wendy Carlos and Isao Tomita). Jean-Michel Jarre to this day gives me chills.
While not strictly electronic in nature, it was a few years ago that I started getting into what I guess could loosely be called "Ambient" and "Chill House". (Y'know, those ridiculously priced CDs that often have "Ibiza" in their names. ) Anyhow, as I've written before, one of my favorites in the Ambient genre has been Loscil, but there's also Biosphere, Weatherman and many others.
Very recently I discovered (via My Husband and I) the group Deep Dive Corp and I'm really grooving on them at the moment. It's the type of music I put on when I want to write or be productive. It definitely gets in my head in that regard.
So while I superficially identify with Sarah's comic above, I guess it's not really true at all. Even after all these years, I'm still discovering new music that can play me in so many different ways.
I'm Going To Hell
"Can you get one for me too? Old man Saunders grabbed my ass yesterday and it's going straight into his IV tonight. He's got the diabeetus, y'know."
Monday
Word.
Who Are You?
I had been rooting for Bendela, but we all know what happened there…
(And for what it's worth, IMHO Bendela showed more class, compassion, and humanity in those five minutes than I've seen in all of All Stars this season. Just sayin'.)
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Rise of the Furries
Men Will Be Men (NSFW)
Shower Thoughts
If you get pulled over and none of the five children in your car are wearing a seat belt you're probably going to jail. But if you get pulled over and none of the 20 children in the vehicle are wearing seatbelts, you're probably driving a school bus.
A Little Extraterrestrial Humor
