Tom Woodfin

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@siracusa Corn buttering in WarGames: IIRC on the commentary track, the writer or director explains they got this totally random bit from some journalism about neo-Nazis of all things! It was such an oddball detail that they stuffed it in as color for the oddball dad character.

I noted this because, while my family are not neo-Nazis, we butter our corn using this technique. Can’t knock it! Even buttering and yummy melty buttered bread.

@gruber Just checking that you’ve seen this.

https://youtu.be/1mC90DnaY60

I hope Apple’s next CEO can genuinely talk at the level of subclassing device driver classes.

Also find it adorable that Jobs in 1993 was still calling hard disk drives “Winchesters”.

Steve Jobs NeXT Computer Expo Keynote May 25 1993 NeXTSTEP 3 1 Intel Intro Amazing Demos.

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@gruber Have you been watching “The Rehearsal”? The S2 finale is … uhh … quite something.

@gruber Have you seen the Apple (AT&T cobrand?) iPhone 16e ad with the used car lot tube man? “At a price you can’t ignore”! What the hell are they doing to the brand? Why??

If Steve were still around… OK, OK, but this combined with the justifiable bruhaha around the “crush” ad suggests to me somebody in marketing needs to grab the wheel.

@gruber Patting myself on the back for enabling Live Photos on the 6S and never looking back: Memories just popped a beautiful “slideshow” of my wife and then-newborn from 2017 full of videos of moments I never knew we’d saved.

Amazing compound interest from sustained innovation.