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👽 Predator writers sue for their rights
The screenwriters of ‘Predator’ are suing Disney to regain control of their creation. The first movie was awesome, and the second one kept the party going. After that, it was all downhill. Speaking of the first movie, Shane Black, who played Hawkins, went on to write several Lethal Weapon movies along with Iron Man 3 and The Last Boy Scout.
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🖥 Why the M1 iMac still has a chin
At the Apple event, Apple brought out the multi-colored iMacs. I’m sure these will be a big hit with social influencers and YouTubers. The general consensus is that they look great, except for one thing. The chin. Apple could have install the computer behind the screen and eliminated the chin at the expense of making the computer thicker. Heaven forbid we have a Mac that is thicc. But, I have a theory…
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👴 Social influencing isn't just for the young
Just when you think you may be too old for the internet game along comes eight senior citizens showing you how it’s done. There’s hope for me yet!
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
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🖱 Configuring an iPad Pro as the ultimate classic Macintosh
You know that feeling where you want to get a game of Shufflepuck in, but you’re sitting at Starbucks working on your novel? Well, now you can do both. There are two emulators that you can compile and run under iOS.
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🚓 Note to self, wear obnoxious clothes when committing crimes
No one can identify a bank robber because of his obnoxious tieGoogle Translate.
I also learned from Going in Style to also put on fake tattoos.
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🍎 In case you missed it, there was an Apple event
Here’s my summary of the Apple event: Apple showed of some cool stuff that are total wants and not needs. They announced:
AirTags - Track your Crap. Really cool, too expensive. Although I could see parents using these on their kids. I’m sure someone will come out with the kid AirTag collar. The tracking technology is very cool. Multi-colored M1 iMacs - These look pretty awesome, as long as you’re a Jay Leno fan.
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💿 What we lost from Netflix
I will admit I was wrong when Netflix switched to streaming. My own myopia to where things were going caused me to not see the genius in planning for the future. Unfortunately, this future also means the loss of the greatest movie library ever assembled.
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🚁 NASA flies for the first time on Mars
Pretty amazing that NASA has flown a helicopter on another planet!
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👽 Watch Carrie Fisher's screen test for Star Wars
Here is Carrie Fisher’s screen test with Harrison Ford for Star Wars. It’s interesting how different the story is, along with her portrayal Princess Leia. I don’t know what accent she’s trying to do…