Microposts
This Joe Ricketts seems like a right bampot: shutting down publications just because the workers join a union.
The trouble with NaNoWriMo is obsessing over your word count. As I write, I’m constantly checking that figure.
It’s not a big trouble.
Carrot Weather is hooked into the news today.
I love it when bloggers surprise me. I read Brett Terpstra for Apple-related tech and software development, and such. But here’s a great piece on his experience with yoga.
Star Trek is really getting back to its sixties roots. Magic mycelium, “A hit of speed…” Groovy stuff.
Mixed feelings: somebody dies; the reaction makes you check out their work; you find you’ve been missing something great. You’ve got a great new band to explore. But it’s like coming in at the end of a movie.
And the guy is dead. (He was my age.)
The Tragically Hip. Very good.
You ever watch a scene and it shocks you, even though you know what’s going to happen? My Buffy rewatch just reached ‘Seeing Red.’
Watched The Last Jedi trailer. Didn’t do a lot for me. Don’t worry, though: I’ve booked my ticket for opening night.
I’m not going to say much about Blade Runner 2049 yet, except: I felt disappointment more than enjoyment. All the critics are praising it unreservedly, and I didn’t enjoy it that much. I have a whole lot more written, but I’m going to wait a while before posting it.
So why has no-one told me about Milk Kan before? God With an iPod, for example, is brilliant. From 2008.
Brett Terpstra is offering the chance to win a copy of the new 60 Mac Tips book and the (updated) old one. All you have to do is register. Sounds great.
Star Trek: Discovery, episode 3, ‘Context is for Kings,’ keeps up the good work, in case you were expecting otherwise. And I forgot to say the other day that, although the IMDB people were negative, there is a very positive review on Tor.com. Much positivity in the comments there. too.
I received one of the stranger pieces of spam or phishing I’ve ever seen. Not because of what it’s trying to do — obviously it wants me to click on a dodgy link — but because of the weird, almost surreal ineptness of the content. Take a look:
Isn’t that its own special thing? Almost poetry, in a disturbed, fractured way.
Twitter going to 280 characters. Clearly emulating Micro.blog. Congratulations [@manton](https://micro.blog/manton).