I’m not proud of Apple if the union-busting activity is real
When, out of habit, you walk down the stairs of the atrium in your employer’s building, from the third to the first floor, to head back to your desk—and then realize the thing you need to do next is on the third floor
LinkedIn is testing a new ‘no politics’ setting
Wishing more large services offered similar. At least some offer filtering.
That thing where I have remote starting for my car but do not remember to use it to my benefit
Used all the caffeines to power through a long work weekend. Today, I started my day early and my usual large amount is insufficient. My brain wants MOAR.
Just listened to an album from 1991 that I had forgotten about, Culture Beat’s Horizon.
I got the cassette as a promo from a record store I worked at. Clearly it was in-store play, because it had one of the stickers we used. And it was something I liked enough to put my initial on, to claim once it was rotated out in favor of something newer.
That’s the main reason I looked it up to stream. Because back then, I had to wait for it. And I kept it after a lot of exposure to it.
It’s super much a statement of the time, with several tracks leaning heavily on other popular tracks and popular samples. One of the tracks was so much like Pump Up the Jam that a decent DJ could probably have faded between the two tracks very easily.
I did not buy the whole album digitally, but a few tracks stood out. Namely No Deeper Meaning, due to the sampling of Change by Tears for Fears, which still makes me squee.
The second half of the album, roughly Side 2, is much less caught in 1991, if still referential (if not reverential). The drums from Running Up that Hill in the outro was a nice touch.
That was a fun time machine ride.
Read Nicholas Bate’s Your 2022 Word.
My word for 2022 is Grow
It’s not a resolution, nor a command. But it encapsulates so much on my mind.
It’s an old microwave but it still warms my heart. The first button is for making popcorn 🍿
There’s a Moon over Margaret Street tonight…
In Apple’s Post-Jobs, Post-Ives design era, I feel like device industrial design is looking a lot like Jobs-era design, before Ives spoke and presented during product releases.
In other words, the devices look very familiar.