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I was/am a huge fan of Robin Williams. I first met him here in Vancouver while he was shooting Jumanji and I interviewed him in San Francisco at a Macworld Expo. We corresponded for a time and I treasured the little piece of him I had. I remember this bit well and this is a great dissection of it.

Obviously, the headline is (unnecessarily) hyperbolic but the issues discussed in the piece make a lot of sense. Self-driving cars will get here – that’s inevitable – but I don’t think it will happily nearly as fast as its proponents think or hope.

Lots of people, amateurs and pros alike, have been waiting for this camera from Nikon. I’d love to try one out but, at a price point starting at $3400.00 US, I’d have to sell one of the children.

The Foundation series was the first series of books I ever read as a kid, scifi or otherwise, and I reread it several times in the ensuing years. I’m really excited and a little worried about this as a TV series. It’s an incredible series, spanning worlds, galaxies, and time. I hope they do justice to it.

Are you old enough to remember your first “pocket calculator”? We weren’t allowed to use them in school and my dad wouldn’t let me use one for my homework – I had to do the math by hand and he would check it with his calculator.

I loved this game but I’m not clever enough to imagine what kind of movie they could make from it.

I had no idea car door locks were so insanely complicated.

Anyone else remember these movies? As a kid, I loved watching them but I saw one a few years ago and started to watch it out of nostalgia before I realized, they are really quite awful.

Obviously, no one should rely on step counters for accuracy but they can help regardless.

Mastodon is being touted as a “replacement” for disaffected Twitter users but there’s absolutely no chance of that happening if only because of the confusion surrounding how Mastodon works and is used.

I interviewed the FiftyThree principals back when Paper was announced. It’s a beautiful app and I hope it continues to have a place after this acquisition.

I’m a big fan of both of these apps (according to the Pocket email I get at the end of each year, I’ve been in the top 1% of their readers for the past 3 years!) and love squirrelling away articles for later reading.

This is obscene and I bet it triggers some sort of (completely ineffectual) Congressional investigation.

I was at that launch. The company I was working for at the time really wanted to have wifi-enabled laptops but the cost for cards and access points was prohibitively expensive – wifi wasn’t something for consumers at the time. I came back from Macworld Expo and told them they should invest in “this new Apple stuff. It’s going to blow up the world of laptops and internet access”. Of course, they ignored me.

How corporations deal with governments has always fascinated me, even more so when the corporation’s goals and values are significantly different than the country’s.

As an amateur cook, I’ve had chef friends say, “You must use real vanilla!” I had no idea it would make that much of a difference but it really does. That being said, the price of real vanilla has skyrocketed in the past few years.

I love these stories from the “Age of Discovery” when it seemed that scientists, amateur or otherwise, were discovering things we now take for granted almost every day.

A teenager hacked Apple, Twitter killed the APIs that developers use for their apps, Dave found a cool new feature on the Apple Watch, and—surprise— Google tracks you, even when you don’t want them to.

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Sometimes (yes – far too rarely), Twitter brings me a great deal of joy. This thread is an example of that.

This is definitely more interesting than useful. Just a historic artifact.

I still remember the first time I saw the iMac in real life at the 1998 Macworld Expo in New York City. I watched Apple techs set up several dozen of them in Apple’s booth at the Javits Center ahead of the Steve Jobs Keynote. I will always maintain that the iMac saved Apple. Without it, the company wouldn’t have survived long enough to accomplish all the amazing things it did in the ensuing years and we would all be the poorer for it.

These “changes” will also affect those of us who use Twitterrific as well as any other third-party Twitter client. Amazing to watch Twitter slit its own throat almost in real time.

I’ll be in Sienna next year but the timing is wrong and I’ll sadly miss this incredible spectacle.

I’ve been to Bozeman, Montana and, no offense to anyone who lives there, you’d have no reason to expect a museum with this level of AMAZING stuff in it. Turns out, it’s very real and absolutely incredible.

While I liked the 60’s Mustangs, I was never a huge fan of the car in general. That being said, my first car was the 1994 redesign and I loved that car.

Apple is caught between a rock and a hard place on this but it’s a situation of their own making.

Dave and I kicked off the show talking about a street musician playing Pink Floyd in Rome and then went right into Apple Music and the service’s new Friend’s Mix playlist, which is rolling out to customers.

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I don’t know if I’d call it an argument or hilarious but it is an at times testy exchange between the two and a little insight as to what all involved have to deal with in order to get us safely through the air.

I’m really hoping the weather holds for us this weekend because I want to teach my son how to capture “shooting stars”. If you have the gear, it’s fairly easy to set up. Then you need a bit of luck to get good shots.

I followed this story from a link in the Washington Post and it’s fascinating.