Some app updates make me hungry.
The building blocks of Saturday.
Giving up on New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Usually love his books, but this is a mess of a novel. Story is all over the place and characters are two-dimensional. Really doesn’t read like him.
No iPhone X for me. Rational reason is cost saving, but there’s something else. I struggle with staring at my screen when life is happening around me, and an iPhone that’s all screen is a metaphor too clear to ignore. So checking out of the upgrade race this year.
Embracing Friday.
Reddit’s favorite learning books, from 3.5B comments redditfavorites.com
From a quick glance, useful page.
Read-It-Never: Instapaper and therapeutic self-delusion carefultech.net/2017/11/r…
Ouch — the it hurts because it’s true kind
In iOS 11, you can customize how the Notes app works when it’s triggered from Control Center
News to me and very useful.
Finished Red Oaks last night. Probable the best summer tv show I’ve seen. Enjoyed it a lot, and it even made think a few times. Hight recomended (it’s on Amazon).
3 episodes in, and Red Oaks may be my favorite TV Show this year.
Derretido.
We’re ok. No power right now. Cell phone signal intermittent. Building dancing like the Macarena but shutters and impact windows on site.
First day of class.
Palm #eclipse2017 Shadows
Flying from SJO to Miami. Empty seat next to me, but not looking good. At least there’s not carry-on space drama.
Finally playing with the micro.blog app. Deciding on subdomain for mateu.me.
There must be a German word for being lucky in love but my bag always leaving the airplane last #schadencarryun?
Facial ID that requires you to mouth a password — using micro expressions — sounds like iPhone 8 stuff.
Baby Driver is a fun and exciting ride with a soundtrack that has so much character, it’s borderline a musical.
Highly recommended.
The new Hulu AppleTV app is so bad, it finally pushed us to cancel subscription (and we do watch a few shows).