⏱📱💪 As time marches on, it feels (literally) like the iPhones are going in the direction of cars. Heavier, bigger, and more expensive. The iPhone 11 Pro weighs as much as the iPhone 7 Plus. The smallest iPhone for 2019 is bigger than the biggest iPhone from 2016. I know that’s good for some people, but it’s a worrisome trend. Hypocrite alert: I am getting the iPhone 11 Pro.
🤱🏫🖕There isn’t any bridge that’s too far to cross, is there?
No war crime too horrendous to prosecute: Bush.
No killing of children too great to enact real gun control: Sandy Hook.
No raping of children too heinous to accept money from the rapist: MIT and Harvard and Bard High School Early College Queens. That NYC school one hits close to home. And it’s way after his conviction in 2008.
🚀📚😐 I finished The Last Astronaut by David Wellington. While I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of the book, I found the second half to be slow and, overall, none of the characters ever developed enough for me to care about any one of them.
I thought it was going to be a mix of The Martian (which I loved, loved, loved) and, once I understood the premise, maybe a little of Old Man’s War (the whole series is a blast). But The Last Astronaut never got as sciency as The Martian and never got as fun as Old Man’s War.
☠️☠️☠️ There’s not a single person running for president who is talking about repealing the second amendment. They’ll talk about compromise, but compromise is how we got here.
📺🤰🤯 Has anyone else watched the documentary [The Handmaid’s Tale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale_(TV_series)? It’s good.
🖕🖕🖕Hey person in charge of upholding the law but is actually a pretty terrible person who often says awful things on social media. Good news! We’ll delete it for you.
I posted recently about living in the novel 1984, and boy was I right. This scrubbing of social media literally is the Memory hole!
👳🏽♀️👨🦳🇺🇸The president of the United States regularly leads two minutes of hate. Well done right wing nut jobs.
🍿😂😢 Defying Hollywood’s long-standing precedent of sequels being the pits, Toy Story 4 knocked it out of the ballpark.
I didn’t think Pixar could come close to Toy Story 3 (which was so good I didn’t think the series needed another), but I am glad to be wrong. What a delight.
🤬 🤓 🛠 With Jony Ive gone, Lisa Jackson needs to throw some face around to impress upon engineering to make the next round of Macs easier to upgrade and therefore end up lasting longer.
🧑🧑🏽👱♀️ I think we’ll see a Warren/Harris ticket for Dems. Maybe be Warren/Castro ticket, but Warren/Harris is probably better.
I also think it doesn’t matter because Trump will win the electoral vote but not popular.
The more interesting idea I have is that Trump won’t pick Pence as running mate. He’s going to pick Ivanka. Can you imagine a Trump/Trump ticket? A literally daddy/daughter dance.
I also think, not long after they win the election, Trump’s health will be so far gone (dementia) that Ivanka will be named successor.
☠️☠️☠️ Where are the mass graves?
🤒🤷♂️🏛 Dementia makes for a better Manchurian candidate.
🏫👫❤️Many months ago I wrote about traditions. I guess it’s hypocritical of me to have poked fun at the idea of them when, holy hell, I make them too.
For almost their entire school lives, on the last day of school, I’ve taken my children to have lunch by the fountain in Grand Army Plaza. It’s not a food destination. There are no restaurants, no tables, no food trucks. It’s just a big fountain in the middle of a particularly busy traffic circle in Brooklyn.
Every year I take the day off from work and make sandwiches to bring to the fountain and we sit in the grass and eat our food. I make sure they understand how proud their mom and I are of them and how next year will be another great year in school. Sometimes we’d walk over the to the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch to pick out a few books. You know, to start off the summer right.
This year, however, was different. This year was the last last-day-of-school-lunch while my daughter is still a NYC student. Next June (that is, June 2020), she will have graduated from NYC’s public school system and be headed off to who knows where. So, while I expect us to still have that lunch next year, today was a marker.
I have savored every minute of those lunches. That includes every car honk, every spray from the fountain, every book from the library. Every single last-day-of-school-lunch they ate with me. I ate it all up. And I’ll always be grateful.
🗽☠️⛺️ How long before we’re invaded because of our concentration camps?
💩👎🤷♂️ Wait wait wait. Huawei thought if this didn’t go well it could “destroy its reputation”? are you telling me it got close enough to production and then someone wondered if this could ruin them?
How the frak is this company run?!
💸🏫🖕Boomers pay just $10 per college credit. Nice! Now how about the rest of us?
👋🇺🇸🤒 Thanks to John Stewart for convincing Congress to do the right thing. Now how about the rest of us?
🍓🤤❤️ My local grocery store (Park Slope Food Coop) has the good strawberries right now and I honestly can’t get enough of them. They’re only here for three to four weeks per year and ever since I discovered them, I long for the season while also dreading how short it is.
I never ate strawberries growing up (fussy kid), but I’m considering going into work late tomorrow to make sure I get a few more pints.
🤓🖥💪 It would be something if the folks who clamored for a pro Mac find the computer they actually want is the iMac Pro.
🤕 👩⚕️ 🖕 Holy forking shirtballs! This is NOT awesome. It’s the perfect example of how forked our healthcare system is. Need a walker? Go the Home Depot. Need a wheelchair? Go to AutoZone. Need new intestines? Go to the plumbing supply store.