Bob Schulties

The media will be our downfall part infinity.

As little as I have loved Republicans the past few years, coinciding with the rise of our own little autocrat, at least Donald Trump knows how to dress. I can’t imagine that even he would demean his office or his country by dressing down, as is now the “code” for senators. Clothes might not make the man or woman, but they do tell us a great deal about them.

Yeah, fuck those actions. It’s what you are wearing. The fact we* are talking about Fetterman’s dress means we aren’t paying attention (or don’t care) about what is going on. “Call me old fashioned,” says the old white lady. I’ll do you one better. You are a problem.

*We being our media.

As I’ve written in the past, if Earth was described in a science fiction story, it wouldn’t be believed.

Look at these pictures: The Earth is wonderful. And these photographers are so awesome at their jobs. Thanks, photographers!

If this quote is accurate

We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. -Tim Cook, 2009

Hardware

Intel: Apple makes its own CPUs
NVIDIA: Apple makes its own GPUs

Apple appears to be making a real (or at least much better effort) in the gaming market, but there’s still so much to do. Is Apple content waiting?

If not, there’s more to be done.

Software

Epic’s Unreal Engine: Epic will never work with Apple again.
Unity: They are pissing off off the developers.

It sure seems like Apple is putting a lot of effort into gaming to still be at the mercy of others.

Apple should do what they did years ago in order so that wonderful software like Acorn can exist (it’s written by one dude).

The same steps should be taken by creating a gaming environment. Apple should then make some of its own games to show off what can be done. I can’t figure out why Apple is pouring billions into the hardware side without the follow through on the software side.

Apple has a whole-ass TV division, surely they can create a gaming division, too.

We do love our children so.

I listen to the Apple New Today podcast every day. I find it to be the best of the <10 min morning news summaries. I have noticed that in the last few months ANT has been adding more and more sound bites from ESPN. With all the talk about Apple buying Disney, I wonder if Apple in particular wants ESPN.

I have no good feelings for Mitch McConnell. At all. On any level. That being said, when he froze up and then regained a bit of lucidity, his assistant asked reporters, “Any more questions?” 1) That’s incredibly callous, bordering on eldercare abuse and 2) How was the very next question not, “Are you going to call an ambulance, you fucking monster?”

McConnell not doing something while he is clearly declining really represents America at the moment.

We do love our children so, part 6,291.

We’re at a hotel’s freebie breakfast and some dad just walked by with a cup of sausages.

Mrs. Bob and daughter announced at supper tonight they are going to see Barbie on Tuesday (the day after we drop the boy off at college). I turned to him and started to say, “Tuesday is me and you, bud” but I stopped myself half way through. I couldn’t swallow. I couldn’t speak. My TV buddy, my movie buddy, my news buddy is heading off to start a new chapter. I am so proud of him. But wow does it hurt.

This Cadillac mocks the whole green movement.

So, I was reading this article about curvy walls and it, of course,* made me remember a scene from Veep (best. show. ever).

*At least how my brain works.

Ever since I switched my #wordle starting word to AUDIO I’ve been far more successful than in the past.

How I measure a successful weekend now: I used $25 Target gift certificate that’s been sitting in my inbox since 2016.

I just got back from vacation and am announcing here first that I’m to marry Glacier National Park. #nationalpark

So I’ve given up on Instagram, Twitter, and now Reddit. Just a little more to go.

Murder! Our media will be our downfall.

I complain a lot about the world (rightly so!), but this weekend was excellent. My family made a really nice Father’s Day(s) for me and I feel really good.

I finally got around to fixing up my Piggy. The stabs were overlubed and now they are just right.

This is the Piggy with White on Lilac in the DSA profile. The switches are Emerald Silks which are unfortunately no longer available, but these NovelKeys silks are the same, just in a different color.

It’s like the show Extrapolations outside my window here in NYC.

Tech sites: Man, traffic is down, ad sales are down… Maybe Apple will create something we can all have hot takes on.
Intern: Even without using the thing?
Tech sites: Yes.
Apple: Here’s our idea for a new kind of computing.
Intern: I wrote up 1,000 words about how this will make us all sad forever.
Tech sites: Without using the product?
Intern: Yes.
Tech sites: Attaboy!

Apple was dreaming of Apple Silicon since Steve Jobs came back to Apple. Heck, many of their products were built as if they were already using their own chip design: Power Mac G4 Cube, original MacBook Air, 2013 Mac Pro.

Can you imagine if the cylinder Mac Pro came out today with Apple Silicon? What a great Mac that would be with the high-end M1 Ultra, 128GB of RAM, and 8TB of storage!

I hope next week we see a totally different Mac Pro designed with Apple Silicon in mind.

The United States’ answer to “why can’t we?”

We do love our children so, chapter 128.

I came across this tweet about a basking shark. Amazing.

I stand by my long-time stance that if Earth was written about in science fiction it wouldn’t be believed. It would be a step too far. How many languages? How many species of animals and insects? How much water? How much land? How much beauty?