If I learnt one things ebiking around today it’s that I need to get some cameras on my helmet because drivers be crazy.
If I learnt one things ebiking around today it’s that I need to get some cameras on my helmet because drivers be crazy.
I’ve pre-ordered an Apple TV. Now I wait.
Just to be perfectly clear, I’m staying up until midnight tomorrow so I can order a new Apple TV.
I love how my TV complains it can’t access the internet. And I’m like, yeah, I know. I don’t want you to call home every 5 minutes. You get one hour every month to download updates. I’m treating you like a internet-obsessed teenager.
We literally couldn’t justify buying an electric car. We’ll be looking for a newish car in the next few months buy holy hell electric cars are expensive. I wanted our last car to be our final petrol car, but alas. It’ll be petrol. Even PHEVs are too expensive!
Today’s instance of a French word that sounds way cooler than the English word: moth - papillon de la nuit, butterfly of the night
eBike update. Now I’ve been riding for a week or so:
It’s great being able to see the South Island / Te Waipounamu in a certain morning light where you can see the colours of the hills and mountains rather than it being one crinkly silhouette.
Without a doubt, and symbolic of an end of a dark period of form over function, this is what I found most exciting about today’s Apple announcements. And there’s one button in particular.
New 24” iMacs and the new iPads Pro are pretty reasonably priced. Air tags are rip offs.
Apple TV is thrice the price of a Chromecast with Google TV but probably worth it. Especially if it lasts 4–8 years and both need to be plugged into the wall. Plus that remote!
Guess I’ll be buying a new Apple TV. I was going to get a Chromcast with Google TV, but since they both need to be plugged I to the wall, may as well get the better one with a better looking remote. But sweet Cthulhu, they’re expensive.
From riding an eBike around Wellington for a few days:
Took delivery of my eBike today! It’s a Benno Boost that’ll push me to 45 km/h. Got home from town in about twice the time it’d take by car, but with bird song and while getting exercise! Motorists: you’re welcome.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is horribly dull and boring. After the brilliant magnificence of Wandavision, I was expecting something a bit more engaging. But no, it’s just people shooting each other.
Currently sitting in a pub watching people taking a pub quiz I wrote. I am a professional pub quiz writer. Yes, I’m surprised it’s a job too.
The group that came up with HDMI really missed a trick not baking power delivery into the standard. Imagine plugging in an Apple TV or a Chromecast and not having to get an extra wall plug for either. Same for sound bars. Maybe media players (probably not games consoles…)
I’m sick and tired of having to pretend I’m interested in hunting.
You go through life thinking you can speak your native language really well. You’re even a scholar. And then you realise you don’t know if 40 is spelled fourty or forty and the correct way looks wrong and then both ways look wrong.
FOMOOFF: Fear Of Missing Out On Free Food
Why are all TV remotes so unbelievably ugly?
I’m pretty stoked New Zealand is one of the few temperate places on earth that scorpions never got to.
Given the ease of use of iCloud Keychain, I’m thinking of replacing my third party password manager with the native Apple one. Has anyone done this? Any stories to tell? Do security nerds out there have an opinion?
James Hoffmann is a funny man.
I apparently must remember to hit the subscribe button and the bell and of course smash the like button.
We did it. We ordered eBikes. I’m going to be cruising around in style and kicking people’s cars when they try and kill me through either malice, impatience or incompetence. Now I need to buy a go pro and maybe a baton?
