My short little Letterboxd review of Prey (2022).
Good action, good CGI, believeable characters. Entertaining movie.
If your book was just one sentence…
Not a book.
Busing Migrants is Expensive
Transfers of Migrants Have Democratic Leaders Scrambling
Arizona has sent about 1,800 migrants on 50 buses to Washington, at a cost of about $4 million, the governor’s office said. Texas has spent about $13 million to drive roughly 8,000 migrants to Washington and New York.
Arizona: $2,222 per person. Texas: $1,625 per person.
I can’t help but wonder how much it would costs those states to give support to those folks to get them on their feet and part of the economy instead of busing them to Democratic states in a political stunt.
Anti Trump Strategy
Why Is There Still No Strategy Against Donald Trump?
And then once Trump is nominated, he has some chance of winning, because nobody is executing an effective strategy against him.
The effective strategy against Donald Trump is one that the media can not follow. It is the simplest strategy there is:
Do not talk about the stupid stuff he says or posts.
Only talk about the facts: his actions, his decisions.
Today’s random thought of the day
I wonder who will be considered the great thinkers of today?
Who will be the Whitman, Emerson, Hemingway?
Who will history decide speaks for our era?
We do not decide that. The future decides that.
Sales Volume Isn't Measured in Enthusiastism
Matt Birchler concluding his post about ‘smartphone enthusiasts".
I’m not saying that the Nothing Phone 1 is better than the iPhone 14 Pro, but I am saying that being an enthusiast of anything usually means appreciating things that are new and novel.
I agree. Sales volumes don’t make a phone compelling or interesting. Features, specifications, design choices, and fuctionality make a phone compelling.
The Google Pixel line of phones are great phones.
Are they the best selling phones? No.
Does that mean that they shouldn’t be considered great phones? No.
The same can be said of any number of phones that do not match the volume of sales of the iPhone. Just because a phone doesn’t sell as much as an iPhone doesn’t mean that it’s not interesting and worthy of being discussed or celebrated.
Gruber today Casio’s Pro Trek Biomass PRG300:
Apple Watch Ultra isn’t going to just makes watches like this one disappear.
Gruber yesterday Garmin Reacts to Apple Watch Ultra: ‘We Measure Battery Life in Months. Not Hours.’:
Bye-bye Garmin.
A radically different take.
Trump Threatens to Sue Fox News Over Lincoln Project Ads
Once again, I’m here to say, this is not a threat. This is a crazy old white man writing stupid shit on the internet. He’s not going to sue.
Looking forward to the Pixel event in October to see what the 7 or 7 Pro features, as well as the watch. Hopefully, Google will give more details on the tablet.
Pro tip: If your salad can be eaten with a tortilla chip; it is a dip not a salad.
I mean. If it looks like a dip and tastes like a dip, then it must be a dip.
Is Hazy Shade of Winter by the Bangles going to get the revival that Running Up That Hill got?
Probably not, because the soundtrack was released in 2017.
Shame. It’s a good song.
Excuse me, sir. I am a Sophisticated Xenomorph. Thank you very much.
Elizabeth Taylor
New Archer episodes!
Remember pagers?
Sweet, found a new to me artist. Hieu Nguyen works with watercolors and digitally.
via My Modern Met