🏛 I just completed jury duty and, because Brooklyn is awesome, got a ton of work done thanks to court-supplied Wi-Fi.
🚘 Can you imagine if people walking on sidewalks acted the way many do while driving? You’d be walking, get up behind someone, and yell, at the top of your lungs, “GET THE EFF OUT OF MY WAY!” But no one does that. I wish everyone thought about that while driving.
👨🏾 On May 9, I had a small medical issue which resulted with me falling down some of an escalator at DeKalb on Flatbush Ave. A stranger helped me to my feet and made sure I had my belongings back. Thanks unnamed stranger. NYC is the best, biggest small-town yer going to find.
💻 Today is the first time (ever!) that I’ve gotten bitten by the “Apple changed the screws on a notebook to prevent you from doing anything fun.” Way to kill the fun, guys.
📺 The second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events is far darker (so far) than season one. Far less fun despite the acting being quite good. I can’t really say I want to watch more of it.
✊🏻 My son and daughter each walked out of their schools on Friday to protest gun violence. My daughter got four days of detention because of it. They are both learning to make good trouble.
🏫 💻 Apple created a Pro Workflow Team to study how professionals work in order to make better products. It’s time Apple do the same in education by starting its own school. This first-hand experience will identify gaps in products and allow key services to stay in Apple’s system.
📺 Using a scale of thumbs up/thumbs down I’d give the Netflix version of Lost in Space a thumbs up.
No episodes were as good as BSG’s first season, but now that’s LiS is done I’d be up for another season. While I grew to like some characters, I found Dr. Smith to be lacking.
⚖️ Now this what change looks like (before it actually changes).
These meddling kids are going to make things happen!
🏛 It’s one thing to be upset at the current administration, but this has been going on for decades. Seriously, why don’t we care about public education?
Endless budget cuts, blame for society’s ills, and public humiliation, I can’t image why anyone would go into public teaching.
📺 I watched the rebooted Lost in Space on Netflix tonight. Meh. I watched it because I’ll watch any danged thing that is sci-fi, but this was a snoozer.
I’ll give it another episode or two, but the acting was only okay, so I’m not yet attached to any of the characters.
🏫 My time to help my children pay for college is rapidly approaching. I am fortunate enough to be able to pay for at least some of their college costs. I know many others are not in that position. What a difficult choice some are going to have to face: Go to college and come out with a mortgage’s worth of debt or don’t attend.
It got me wondering what my college would cost in today’s dollars. I found a pretty reasonable estimate: $11,500/year. The shocker (that really isn’t shocking): Tuition at the school I attended is now $29,000/year.
While I was researching this, I found an article When College Went to Congress. I wonder how many of our elected officials release what their college costs for today’s young people.
💻 News of the Mac Pro not coming until 2019 doesn’t affect me at all, but I sure am glad they are still updating folks on the Mac Pro’s status.
More worrisome is the absolute silence on the Mac Mini. The need for the Mac Mini as it was once conceived is long gone which means the marketing department can explore new possibilities.
I sure would love to see a Mac Mini designed in an age of SSDs and remote login. Perhaps those days are long gone?
💻 I love Apple Pay, but I am not sure I’ve convinced anyone else to enable it.
These ads that Apple posted are fun, but are absolutely the wrong way to show off Apple Pay.
Apple needs to show how it works and why it’s secure.
📺 David Letterman’s show on Netflix is such a pleasure to watch. I wish it was weekly rather than monthly.