The MacBook Neo is a charming device at a great price, and hits a nerve emotionally as a fun and interesting #Apple product introduction.

It’s interesting how my lizard brain wants one, even though I already have all the computers I need.

It was helpful to go visit one at an Apple Store and see it next to an M5 MacBook Air, which is a much more elegant and powerful machine. Of course, $$$ more but the experience cured the irrational itch to buy a Neo for some vague FOMO reason.

Whew!

Somewhere between #TimeMagazine and #AppleNews, something has broken and the news feed is flooded with stories from a year ago, dated as if they are from the last few days.

Dunno whose fault this is, but quality control on #Apple software and services seems to continue a deeply disappointing decline.

Excellent hardware alone won’t keep the base happy, Tim…

WARNING: I live in the mid-Atlantic east coast of the US. There is an unfamiliar giant bright object in the sky… it looks almost like some kind of fission furnace. It seems really really bright — it hurts to look at it even for only a second or two…

It is vaguely familiar, but I cannot seem to remember the last time there was such an odd object visible in the sky….

“Why shouldn’t the executive suite of a company be replaced by AI?”

This is a dumb question. The answer is obvioius.

It’s because they hold the decision making power and will do anything to protect their jobs and compensation.

$16 matinee prices. Thirty-five minutes of ads blaring at high volume. $7 bottled water and $12 popcorn. Broken seats, torn upholstery, and some kind of weird goo on the arm-rest.

I wonder why movie theater attendance is down?

I’ve spent most of the last decade writing in #Go, but I’m trying to branch out. Today, I’m spending a snowy day indoors learning about #Rust garbage collectors.

So far, this is my favorite:

Maybe one of the biggest lessons of this millennium so far… never depend on the veracity of news or opinion fed to you via media owned by the 1%.

Which, sadly, means nearly every traditional news source these days.