The secret of Tom Cruise
I just watched Interview with a Vampire. Tom Cruise should only play villains.
This is why I never complain about my iPhone.
David Sedaris on the kookaburra in The New Yorker
I need to start reading the New Yorker, if only to read the occasional story by David Sedaris.
I’ve never been a watch guy, and by that I mean I’ve never been interested in wearing a watch. I’m never in a situation where there isn’t someway to tell time. Forgetting wall clocks, I always have my phone on me or there’s usually a computer nearby. In 2009, the watch has become something of a novelty. These days, it’s really nothing more than a piece of jewelry that just happens to have a function.
I’ve owned a surprising number of watches for someone who apparently despises the concept. I’ll using see one that looks really cool, but stop wearing after a few months… usually after I whip my hand into something and scratch the face of it. Anyway, a couple of years ago I bought a watch. I was in New York City and wandered into the massive Swatch Megastore in Times Square and bought this watch.
I don’t why, but it’s the only watch I’ve ever consistently worn. I’ve had a couple of watches there were much nicer than this one, but is something about this watch I love. It’s a swatch, so it has a good swiss movement and will keep great time… forever. It’s also a chronograph, which means nothing to me, but it looks really neat. It also has a plastic crystal, which I’ve messed up numerous times, but Brasso always manages to restore it.
Not sure why I felt like writing about my watch, but I did.
I’m not sure why this image of one of Apple’s new iPod Touch checkout terminals has my signature on it…
Put This On Review
Typically, I don’t watch video podcasts. Actually, I’m not a huge fan of video overall. I have a delusion that my time is important, and that having something occupy both my visual and auditory senses for any extended period is not a good use of my time. However, I listen to tons of audio (I subscribe to about 40 podcasts and listen to many of them regularly).
Put This On is the first video podcast that I have liked enough to actually subscribe to. It’s not too short and not too long. It grabs your attention and doesn’t let go until it’s finished. It’s extremely informative, but not boring or dry. It’s disturbingly perfect.
I want to pay Jesse, Adam, and anyone else who helped with the production of this episode to keep making them forever. As someone who has tried to produce a podcast of my own to limited success, this makes me want to shoot myself in the face. It’s so damn good.
I’m not just saying this because lonelysandwich made it and I want to fit in with the hip Twitter crowd. Hell, I don’t even use Twitter. This is fucking good and you might as well kill a baby if you do not subscribe to this.
DO YOU WANT TO KILL A BABY? WELL? DO YOU?
I didn’t think so.
Magic Mouse Review
The only reasons you shouldn’t get this mouse are if you are prone to hand camps or other hand and joint issues and/or you need auxiliary buttons for certain apps (usually CAD people like to have a middle click).
This is a great, simple mouse. Left Click and Right Click. Fantastic scrolling (Apple really knows how to do momentum scrolling right, after using the Wacom Bamboo touch I know that there is a right and a wrong way). Back and forward are a little awkward and they don’t work everywhere (I thought I would be able to use them for changing songs in iTunes).
Apple could do a lot this mouse in software. If they wanted to add a third button they could make a gesture where you tap the edges with both fingers or double tap in the middle of the mouse. It would be a shame if they just let it as is.
My desk… well the side of it anyway.
Magic mouse really sucked on the flat wood, but the mousepad raises it up to where it is comfortable.
Timeline
Version Control for Photoshop. This is brilliant.
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