🎵 Mike Love Playing Bridge Over Trouble Water on a Baratone Ukulele 📽

Mike Love Playing Bridge Over Trouble Water on a Baratone Ukulele

And here’s a Telegraph article (paywall) on the feud between Simon and Garfunkle when making the album.

The Transfiguration Sketchnote

I’ve been taking an intro to the New Testament class for the last couple of months. During that time we’ve been learning how to read a text in terms of textural, cultural and historical context using the transfiguration in Matthew as our reference point. Basically, the aim was to read the text as the author intended their audience to. On Tuesday we presented our text and our professor expanded on some points we hadn’t mentioned. This is a #sketchnote I made as he was speaking and describing how the climax of the transfiguration text and how it contrasts with the voice at Jesus’ baptism saying “listen to him”. Before the transfiguration the disciples say he is the messiah but don’t get that he must suffer, after they are distressed that he must suffer and die. Made with paper by we transfer on the iPad Pro.

The Easiest to Use

I’m weighing up three different email newsletter services.

I realy can’t choose.

And then I had a thought:

“When you can’t choose between two options, go for the one which is easier to use. The easier it is to use, the more you will use it.”

Suddenly, that decision doesn’t seem so tricky anymore. I suspect this principle would work for other tool decisions too.

P.s. Yes, I know there are times when you need “more power” and so the simplest isn’t the best. But you can only need more power if you’ve started using something, so start with simple.

That's Not My MacBook

I was reading my daughter “that’s not my owl” and started to wonder what a version for adults would look like. Now I’d like to present the ATP “that’s not my MacBook” bed time story.

A simple writing tip: adjectives and adverbs are lazy

Avoid adjectives and adverbs. Choose precise verbs and nouns.

Yes, there is adjectives in this tip, but sometime there’s no alternative (please do prove me wrong!). Also I break this rule all the time and it dilutes my writing.

Welcome to beta season, where all we can talk about is the beta

I really hate that the next couple of months of Apple podcasts will be almost completely about unreleased features and the beta. I get that there is demand for this content (doing for the clicks) but it just feels kind of pointless. Especially with the condescending advice that you shouldn’t download the beta (unlike us experts) but here are all the things you should wish you had. Then again I find the endless speculation to also be kind of pointless. I really enjoy the podcasts where you learn what you can do with the technology you have and not endlessly dream and complain about what you don’t have.

WWDC Hopes And Wishes 💻

Dear Tim Cook Clause, This year I’d like…

iOS updates

  • Fix whatever the hell happened to editing in text fields with mobile safari
  • A ‘Worktime" feature to compliment “Downtime”
  • Adding start dates to reminders
  • iMessages on windows (I have to use windows at work…so this would be like a glass of water in hell)
  • a bit more refining of how to search through photos (It can be really tricky to get to the right photo and you never want to accidentally go to the start of your photostream)
  • Siri improvements (I too can use Google…it’s not that impressive Siri)

iPadOS updates:

  • Improvements to “desktop class safari”
  • some new homescreen improvements (widget stuff?)
  • Keyboard short cuts for multitasking windows
  • Keyboard shortcuts to trigger shortcuts
  • FinalCut for the iPad
  • A magical fix for the dead pixel in my iPad screen

WatchOS updates

  • More faces
  • 3rd party faces (that don’t majorly drain the battery)
  • Sleep tracking built in
  • more rings (Like a mindfulness one and a sleep one)

Mac Updates

  • stablity. Sorry, Bug fixes and performance enhancements.
  • ARM Macs

Hardware

  • ARM Macbook air type thing
  • Homepod Mini
  • Homepod with screen
  • Apple watch 6 with new sensor

Thank you Tim Cook Clause Here are some cookies

p.s. The thing with Hey sucks. Don’t be that guy.

Not good Apple. Not good at all.

I honestly can’t believe Apple’s attitude to Hey. I really hope this is one or two people in Apple who’ve misunderstood certain policies but that’s happened before. While there are many areas where Apple appears to set the standard that other tech companies follow, this is not one and is horrifically anti-competitive. It seems utterly crazy that this should all emerge when Apple is rumored to allow the ability to set non-Apple apps as the default. I wonder how this will all shake out…in the meantime, maybe I ought to look at companies like fairphone again.

Some illogical camera upgrade thoughts

I really want a new camera…I really don’t need a new camera but I want one. Features I -need- want that I don’t have

  • weather sealing
  • 4k video
  • more pixels (because why not)
  • the new fuji film simulations espeically acros

Camears I want:

  • Ricoh GR iii (has non of the features I listed but has IBIS and I do love my ricoh gr)
  • Fuji X100v (the obvious choice. I REALLY love my x100t…but price)
  • Fuji X pro 2 (lacks some of the features of the V and is bigger…)
  • Sony A7 of some sort (I don’t know why I want this one…but I do)

I really should think about x100V… but all the others are so tempting.

30 Creative Prompts — activities to get you exercising your creative muscles

I didn’t feel like sharing this earlier in the week with everything going on but I made a little ebook and course of 30 creative prompts. These are fun little challenges to get you thinking differently and exercising your creative muscle so you can be creative on demand. It was a little creative challenge from my wife and was suppose to take me a month to do…well, life happened and it took a few extra months to actually put it together and get it up, but draft one is here. In the future, I hope to add more prompts and perhaps show some examples. It’s normally $10 but for Micro.Blogranauts, I have a special discount where you can get it for $1 (plus tax). Just use the code MICROBLOG.
Enjoy!