Covered this week; Lady Gaga’s new album ‘Joanne’… The Atlas Obscura has reached the 10k mark for locations documented… You heard that right, Mac’s are cheaper than PC’s… When the ’86 Mets destroyed a perfectly good Ozark Airlines DC-10… Dwayne Wade comes home for opening night 2016… The death of the Macintosh startup chime… Raves for the new MacBook Pro…
October 24, 2016
Finally got a hold of ‘Joanne’, Lady Gaga’s new album. I’m currently on my second spin and it’s already growing on me… I’ll update this post in a few days but in the meantime, here’s the reviews from Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound and Pitchfork.
Mark Ronson talks about collaborating with Gaga.
October 25, 2016
The Atlas Obscura has been a web stop of mine for a long time now… lots of great reads on the world’s most interesting place… they’ve now gone over the 10k mark with their documentation and have gone through the trouble of placing every last one of ’em on an interactive map… bookmark this page and refer to it before your next trip away from home…
October 26, 2016
IBM found that not only do PCs drive twice the amount of support calls, they’re also three times more expensive. That’s right, depending on the model, IBM is saving anywhere from $273 – $543 per Mac compared to a PC, over a four-year lifespan.
October 27, 2016
“On October 15, 1986, the New York Mets came back from a three-run deficit in the ninth and beat the Houston Astros in 16 innings to win the pennant. This film recreates the Mets’ infamous postgame celebration, from champagne in the jacuzzi to the destruction of a perfectly good Ozark Airlines DC-10.” Starring the voices of Lenny Dykstra, Dwight Gooden, Kevin Mitchell, and Darryl Strawberry. Directed, illustrated, and animated by James Blagden.
October 28, 2016
Whatever the Dwayne Wade era of the Chicago Bulls turns out to be… I gotta say, I like the new look to our team… with Rajon Rondo at the other guard, Robin Lopez coming over from the Knicks to play center all joining holdover Taj Gibson and Jimmy Butler in the starting lineup here on opening night. For Dwayne Wade it’s a return to where he came up… and tonight was a big night for him.
October 29, 2016
Hidden in a tech note for the new MacBook Pros is a death notice for the infamous Mac startup chime. Personally… bummer… this is one of those things that subtly addresses the lineage without hindering technology marching on… why not just leave it? This link also contains a link to a startup chime archive which turned out to be a happy couple minutes on Memory Lane.
October 30, 2016
People are absolutely loving the new MacBook Pros… gotta get over to the Apple Store to check them out once they roll in… Dieter Bohn writing for The Verge… Rene Ritchie reporting for iMore… David Pierce in a profile for Wired… and Christina Warren writing for Gizmodo…
