“Starships that do not run on propane are WITHOUT HONOR!”

This looks shopped.

I can tell by the pixels and by having seen quite a few shops in my days.

Santa’s Workshop is Mainland China.

This is why I love the movie Elf. It shows elves making brand-name toys and learning how to build current-gen graphics processors for electronics that get requested.

As a teacher, I’ve come to the realization that almost everyone wasn’t hugged enough as a kid.

It breaks my heart every time I realize I’m the first person in a kid’s life that believed in them or told them that they were smart.

Weighted blankets are used for a number of health reasons.

People who have a lot of stress or struggle falling asleep at night benefit from them as well.

Calling the stage units prototypes is being nice. The reality was that at that point the iPhone had barely gotten to a proof of concept stage. Months before this event, the developers were still using a giant desktop tower to simulate the phone’s hardware.

That the photos of the phone were real and not concept art, that the stage units weren’t just unusable rubber dummies was a magic trick itself.

When the developers revealed years later that the iPhone presentation (just the presentation, not even the actual launch) was a make or break moment for the company, they absolutely were not kidding.

And then they went from “should not even be working” test units to fully functional production units in six months!

Whatever your opinion of Jobs or Apple, credit where credit is due.

No, at that age, if you told me I had 42 chicken nuggets all to myself that I could eat whenever I wanted, I would call that a good Christmas present.

Beans (Japanese sweets)

“Siri, what’s the weather today?”

Siri: “BAD!”

That’s not what Grandfathered means. Basically, original subscribers are being forced onto a new contract.

Depressed tardi-pepper.

POV: You wake up in a liminal space with signs everywhere. After a while you realize many signs can only be seen by looking at them in a mirror.

…What was that noise?

IIRC, this was made using AI.

‘Microsoft, the company that allowed the app to bypass its gatekeepers, was surprised by getting caught in the act and now promises to come up with an excuse that shifts the blame away from them as soon as possible.’

It’s a really cool discovery, but I don’t know how Apple is suppose to program against it.

What surprises me is how much of a time range each photo has to work with. Enough time for Tessa to put down one arm and then the other. It’s basically recording a mini-video and selecting frames from it. I wonder if turning off things like Live Photo (which retroactively starts the video a second or two before you actually press record) would force the Camera app to select from a briefer range of time.

Maybe combining facial recognition with post processing to tell the software that if it thinks it’s looking at multiple copies of the same person, it needs to time-sync the sections of frames chosen for the final photo. It wouldn’t be foolproof, but it would be better than nothing.

I love Billy Ocean’s music. RIP

I have a family, a job I love, and I still play video games.

Believe in yourself.

I’m sorry, Jon, you have carbon monoxide poisoning.

It’s true though.

Publish instruction on how to use IKEA parts to make custom builds and they will send a lawyer to talk to you for free.