Jarrod Blundy
I’ve found myself with some unexpectedly free hours in a tiny hotel room in the middle of a blizzard…so…Ask Me Anything!
Or help me decide… What I should do first?
Welp, my travel plans are well and truly bungled. Was supposed to fly out at 3:40pm today. Canceled. Rebooked for tomorrow at 5:11am. Canceled. Now the earliest seat they could find is 5pm on MONDAY. I took it, but you can bet I’ll be at the airport at 5am tomorrow to snag any seat that opens up. ✈️
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Someone from the soup kitchen (one of the staff — not a volunteer) made a statement about not letting the guests have too much choice. Too much choice, I thought, these people barely have any choices. The least I could do was offer them some agency in what donut they would get!
Let’s not default to denying people the dignity of choice where we can. A little autonomy goes a long way when you feel like you have none elsewhere in your life.
Experiencing Moon Hooch tonight without any prior knowledge about their band was such a treat. Masters of their craft.
(A few videos are in my Instagram story.)
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I hope what you take away from this post is that while Apple Pay is a great way to pay for things and that Apple did a great job mainstreaming digital wallets like this, what they do is not unique in the industry. DPANs are great for making it harder to track one person’s purchases across multiple merchants and they make customers less at risk in the event of a data breach of payment card info.
@matt@isfeeling.social has the deets only an industry insider would know and only a blogger could explain to this crowd.
🔗 Why I redesigned my home page? — om.co // Om Malik
And of course, I still blog. In other words, I write posts. I ponder on things. I link to good work around the Internet. I curate as much as I create. In my early days as a blogger, my day job was writing for magazines. My features and interviews, what is now known as long reads, were published by them. Today, my essays and interviews find home on my website.
🔗 U.S. DOJ Sues Apple Over its “Monopoly” on iPhone, the Device Apple Created
If you want to buy and use a smartphone, you never have to give Apple a dime and still participate in the vibrant economy of modern apps and services available today[…]. You can read ebooks, purchase digital movies, buy sleazy in-app game upgrades, and watch Netflix, all on a device not made by Apple.
How is this possible? You can use an Android phone on any of the same U.S. wireless carriers that power the iPhone. You can live your entire life participating in the modern tech world and never use an Apple product.
Some example photos and videos from the Meta Ray-Bans in my recent posts. (Pretty good, I must say!)
/cc: @ericmwalk
Took advantage of stellar weather last week to climb at The Gunks! I was very fortunate to meet some new friends willing to take on an orphan climber into their gang. Got on a bunch of new climbs and shook off the rust. Ended the day with delicious pho. 10/10 would recommend. 🧗📷
I think people overplay the “I’m 30 now so my body is breaking down and I’m old” to a frustrating degree. But I can’t deny that my body is jittering uncomfortably after a single (small!) caffeinated beverage today. I used to pound Mountain Dew like it was going out of style.
Probs a good thing, TBH
I had the distinct pleasure of summiting Giant Mountain with Hector and Renata this past weekend. And because they were such awesome hikers, we tossed in Rocky Peak Ridge for good measure! There’s still snow in those hills, folks. Stellar day out with great views and even better company. 🏔️ 📷
Our new favorite restaurant in the ADK, the underappreciated @thewoodshedonpark, has an excellent duck dish special this week. Superb service, amazing atmosphere, and delicious food and drink. Perfect date night location. 😉 📷
Great use case for Vision Pro: keeping an eye on baby monitors while watching other media. www.threads.net/@shabzco/…
Another “ugh.” I’ve procrastinated making these posts because they required going through a bunch of photos and framing them just right. And then Instagram pulls this shit. (Been stuck for 20+ min.) Gonna have to do it all again. Glad I at least composed the captions in Drafts.
If you’re gonna move over to your Threads account for Fediversing, it’d be awesome if you make a post like this so we know to follow you there!
PSA: I have started federating my Threads posts via @alexheath, which means they should now be visible on here, though I can’t reply to / follow Mastodon users from Theads yet.
My posts will be at that profile going forward, and hopefully I’ll soon be able to redirect this account to avoid any confusion.
🆕📝 All eBooks Are Not Created Equal
I got a nasty surprise when I purchased an ebook version of a climbing manual this week.
Whoa! Slick new place that Apple is linking to all their products' documentation.
Blue Ice makes some of my favorite climbing gear and they just redesigned my go-to cragging backpack, the Moonlight. Redesigns are always nerve-racking because you don’t want them to screw up something you love. But in this case, every change looks good and they address my small quibbles with v1. 🎒
I’m kicking the tires some more with Micro.blog’s new Blogroll/Recommendations feature. My main site has a more complete list of sites I follow, but I’m starting with my must-reads on this list. Just five folks on there now, but I’ll be adding more. 👍
Anyone else curious what the rest of that help text for the ‘About’ field says? 😆 /cc: @manton
🔥 First bonfire of 2024 last night. I think it’s going to be a good friends-by-the-fire year.
🔗 Apple Is Not the Reason I’m Buying Apple Products - These People Are — havn.blog
I like all my Apple hardware. Heck, I even love some of it! I also like the operating systems, the general focus on privacy, and the way the different parts of the ecosystem work together. But I think I could enjoy a Framework laptop, Asus phone and some Sony earbuds as well! The things Apple makes and does isn’t the main reason I keep buying Apple products. It’s all the fantastic third-party developers, mostly indie, who make great software for the Apple platforms.
Congrats to @robb@social.lol and @johnvoorhees@macstories.net on bringing Ruminate to MacStories. It’s a super fun show with the best artwork, and even better hosts. 😁
🍕 Ruminate is Joining to MacStories https://rknight.me/blog/ruminate-is-joining-to-macstories/
Mine and John's podcast we've been doing for over 7 years is now part of MacStories! All the same nonsense with a new home. Check out the post on MacStories too: https://www.macstories.net/news/ruminate-joins-macstories/