One of my favorite paintings I’ve seen in person.

Landscape with a Calm

Landscape with a Calm by Nicolas Poussin on view at the Getty Center.

Excellent

Heavenly Hundred

Clare Woods

For when you need to know.

Cafe

It’s either a Doppio, Flat White, or Macchiato for me.

I keep seeing these ‘iPad Disappointment’ blog posts shared and talked about.

My 2 cents:
If you want the iPad to be a MacBook: you should use a MacBook.

Are there technical limitations that would stop the iPad Pro from running MacOS? I assume not, they come with the same SOC now.

A river runs through it.

Calm river in the foreground and pine trees along the far bank.

Zoe is relaxing on this cloudy Caturday evening.

Photo of a cat laying on a blanket taken from above

Bare witness to my magnificent death

Alchemy of the Souls has some excellent translated dialog

Why do sales and marketing people think all jobs are sales and marketing jobs?

Seth Godin.

But real security lies in creating value.

Sometimes a dead end job is a dead end job.

All I hear reading this is

Wah, I can’t use this to do things it’s not made to do.

Why I gave up on the iPad-only dream

How Well Do You Know the 90s? Test Your Knowledge [Quiz]

I got 10 out of 15 and I lived through the 90s.

Future-proofing Evernote’s foundations, from Federico Simionato gives me hope that Evernote will not be used and abused but actually maintained in the future.

I think I’ll keep using it for my notes and tasks … for now.

I’m thinking of trading in my Kindle Fire and my Kindle Signature edition and getting a Kindle Scribe. The main draw for me is the larger screen.

My Current Home screen.

Just updated it today. Will give it a week to see how I like the absence of apps and widgets.

Screenshot of home screen. A personal photo of the Taj Mahal with a Now Playing widget overlaid.

McWay Falls

Stunning. Simply stunning.

source

What the hell is this story about?

The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices

Nobody thought streaming was going to be free forever and ever. The apps didn’t do anything except react to the market and lose content when the studios started their own apps.

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye.
I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind.
I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

The Gunslinger

Whelp

Rapture

I genuinely LOL’d at this one.