Pooooooor Aggies!!
And it’s good bye to A&M
— Will Baizer (@baizer.bsky.social) November 30, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Why don’t telcos block known spam risks and telemarketers?
The better question is why do US telcos know that calls are telemarketers or dangerous spam calls yet just label them and send them through?
Shazam hits 100 billion, mostly from my kid
Approximately 1% of these are from 9 year old who discovered she can Shazam from her watch a couple weeks ago.
She especially loves when she’s one of the first 50 people to ever Shazam a song like she has been on a bunch of random Broadway musical deep cuts.
Apple product name wallpapers
Never noticed the “AIR” or “iMac” before this post. I like the iMac one and I actually used the Mini one on my iPad mini for a long time because I liked the colors.
The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ dies at 83
The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ dies at 83. A high school favorite amongst my friend group. Will need to play it for the kids on the drive Thursday. RIP Alice.
Goodreads challenge and last 5
Creativity, Inc. – ★★★★
Interesting background on the history of Pixar, good thoughts on fostering a creative culture, and really liked the focus on giving and receiving difficult feedback, but disappointed in the fact that every anecdote seemed to end with “and then the team worked 100 hour weeks for months and never saw their family but we got it done.” Or “then they worked two straight weeks instead of taking their Christmas vacation.”
Rating: 4 stars
Crossposted on Goodreads
Everything you know about some chocolate is wrong and German Chocolate Cake
As a German growing up in German parts of Texas eating German Chocolate cake I was super excited to add some German Chocolate cake knowledge but it’s covered in the link and now instead I want discuss the coconut slander going on in the kottke.org comments.
Bloglines > Google Reader
Bring back Bloglines!
Find me on Bluesky
So I’m on Bluesky as @bhrnd.fun now, I posted about why and about my first impressions over on my name.com site