In an effort to celebrate the wins, big or small, I am happy to say I made an outstanding cup of coffee today. It’s one of those cups that you wish would never run out.

Today, of all days, I recommend listening to “Kid Logic” episode 605 of This American Life. Act one has moved me to tears nearly every time I have listened to it. If you haven’t heard it, I think you’ll enjoy it. Also, kids are awesome.

My library has a small exhibit about James Baldwin. One quote from Baldwin stood out to me:

The greatest danger is “when the loveless come to power.”

That is the perfect description of what is happening now in the United States of America.

Since everyone is up in arms about it, I would like to go on the record that I did not donate to Trump’s inauguration. And I find it ever more distasteful to learn of those that did.

For a long time one of the activities we’ve done during supper (as a family and now as just a couple, since the kiddos are off at college) is to watch the “news” with Late Night with Seth Meyers or Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue.

Since the election, however, we’ve bascally stopped. It’s simply too depressing.

My suggesion to Mr. Meyers is to have a weekly bit where Bernie Sanders won the election and do a fake news segment about that. Each week I’d like to hear some funny quips about what upset President Sanders and how the right (and, frankly, most of the Dems) are fighting his administration’s good ideas. Soup!

With the acquisition of Pixelmator, I wonder if Apple is going to make a Pro bundle software subscription to live under what it called Services. You’d have Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, and then this pro level photo editing package (maybe called Layers or Pixels?).

I have never been so wrong about anything than the way I told my family and all my friends to not be so anxious about the election, Harris was going to win. Both of my children were eligible to vote in this election and I was (and am) proud they both did vote, but wow was I wrong.

I was wrong about:

I’m going to be doing a lot of reflecting on what I didn’t see.

I have yet to see a single Apple Intelligence ad that isn’t 100% cringe. The ads are either super misleading or showing the worst people using them to be lazy. Basically, the ads are a really lousy depiction of the work done by folks at Apple.

The LA Times and The Washington Post have both chosen to decline to endorse a candidate for president. At this time of the election cycle? In this political climate? At this time of need? Localized entirely around billionaires? Our media will be our downfall, indeed.

Thanks to early voting in NYC, we just voted. Please, please don’t let this be the last election.

Did Elon Musk just invent the bus? I really wonder if he thinks that. Wait until the tech bros realize they can string a bunch of ‘em together!

EVs aren’t catching as much not because charging is hard and not because the range isn’t there, they are simply too expensive. When a new model comes out, I no longer first check range, instead I check price. Oh, look, the new Polestar 3 is very close to coming out. It’s $73,000. To start?!

I know I’m beginning to get up in years, but holy cow is that expensive. And at the risk of sounding old and cranky (maybe that older and crankier?), I sure would love to see something like the 2020 Honda HR-V (2024 and on are now too big) become completely electric. Don’t change anything else that doesn’t need to be changed. For god’s sake, don’t whizbangify the door handles! Good door handles are a solved problem. Glove box latches are a solved problem.

I wish this idea had become a reality.

I don’t think of John Amos as the father from Good Times or Kunta Kinte from Roots, but as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from The West Wing. RIP.

Why in the world are these new postal trucks constantly labeled as goofy while current F-150s, Silverados, and RAMs aren’t? You need a step to get into these machismo trucks, can’t reach the truck bed from the side, and, most importantly, you can’t see kids or passenger cars from the driver’s seat! The pickups also get crap fuel economy.

Anyway, I happen to think the new postal trucks are cool as heck. And the folks driving them love them.

Adams indicted today. Giuliani disbarred in D.C. today. When is the last time NYC has had a good mayor?

Granted it’s only been a few days, but I agree with this article iPhone 16 Pro not being new, but everything is better.

I likely should have gotten the non-pro iPhone 16, but I did want the other lens since I have no other camera. My only criticism of the iPhone 16 Pro is size and weight, but I’m coming from the best iPhone ever, the 13 mini.

I’ve decided to combine more of my streaming services into bundles to save a little money. So I had to cancel Disney+, Hulu, and HBO Now HBO Max Max. Only Max was subscribed via Apple’s services and cancelling was, as promised, a simple two-click operation. The other services? I swear it was 5 clicks each along with pleas to stay and small buttons to click.

Of course, I have to wait for the billing cycles to complete in order to really set this all up properly, but here’s hoping!

I am glad to read the iPhone 16 now has the highest repairability rating of any iPhone ever. I wrote in 2019 that I hoped it would be easier to replace batteries, and I’m glad to see Apple has done it. Finally.

Let’s hope this is a better design trend not a one-off design.

I so wish Apple would abandon the Image Playground feature it’s working on for iOS 18. This kind of creation is what people are best at so let it alone. Have the machines do some analysis or whateverthehell, but leave image creation to people. It’s more likely to go poorly than not, anyway.

I would like to propose an amendment that allows Tim Walz, once he’s elected to be vice president, to also be my governor and mayor because Hochul and Adams are both terrible at it.