ethanschoonover

ethanschoonover, 6 days ago to random

Really excited to find out this week if I just give up on the iPad ever being useful or not

ethanschoonover, 7 days ago to random

Pretty sure the best "just the basics, doesn't distract" smart phone replacement I've used is my Apple Watch Ultra 2. I get phone calls & can do the basics. No hyper gamified apps clamoring for attention, and my family can reach me on chat or calls. I leave my phone behind regularly now.

ethanschoonover, 7 days ago to television

Watching Abbot Elementary on Prime it's averaging something like 2 minutes of show between Prime ad inserts.

Then after the insert the show audio is muted (on the Prime stream itself, we aren't muting the ads) for 5 seconds.

Out of all the streaming services we use, #PrimeVideo sucks the most.

ethanschoonover, 10 days ago to random

One of the first 5 Choose Your Own Adventure books from the 80's, The Mystery of Chimney Rock really spooked me as a kid in the absolute best way.

I still think about it as a sort of "horror benchmark" for the right kind of scary vibe.

ethanschoonover, 10 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

Me calmly deleting everything in my email inbox

ethanschoonover, 13 days ago to random

Ok my guy, let’s set aside the fact that you haven’t read any philosophy that hasn’t been posted to hackernews. I can give a solid example of an idea that has “a long shelf life”: my decision to cancel my Spotify subscription the moment you paid joe rogan 100 million dollars.

That idea? Timeless.

ethanschoonover, 15 days ago to Seattle

Yo fellow #Seattle #library nerds: given that SPL is down due to ransomware, remember: you also live in King County which has an excellent library system and online services: https://kcls.org

ethanschoonover, 15 days ago to random

Pro tip for guys using the internet: immediately block any content with the word "tactical" in the title.

ethanschoonover, 16 days ago to random

Our current AI tech-finance-industrial-complex is what happens when you want to shape humanity without having taken the humanities.

ethanschoonover, 17 days ago to HikingPics

Fixing a minor flaw in the cheap and cheerful Outdoor Research Equinox Cape Cap #backpacking #hiking https://youtu.be/ik4te4RtkaY?si=iT-14iCUOt7AWupu

cheribaker, 21 days ago to random

I love the intro sequence to Murder She Wrote. She's fishing, writing, biking, waving at people, gardening, snooping in the dark with a flashlight... I think to myself: Yes, Jessica Fletcher is the very essence of a self actualized woman.

ethanschoonover, 22 days ago to random

All AI voices should just be HAL 9000 so we start from a position of adversarial hostility and always carry the pod bay door key with us.

ethanschoonover, 22 days ago to random

YEARS back before Evernote was stripped for parts I used to use my ScanSnap to dump scans directly into it.

I missed that and built a free little script to do the same in #AppleNotes

https://youtu.be/KrVcf2nN0b8?si=rMxEQHpaGtkGXhOT

ethanschoonover, 23 days ago to random

I loved iRobot as a kid but the idea that a robot wouldn't be programmed by code but would instead be negotiated with through natural language and "robot psychology" seemed like 1950s scifi missing the mark to my 1980s computer nerd sensibilities.

Machines hallucinating? Daydreaming? inconceivable

ethanschoonover, 23 days ago to HikingPics

Continuing the biennial "completely rebuild my #backpacking water filtration and storage system" (DIY quick release bite valve so I can plug in my gravity filter to the same inlet)

ethanschoonover, 24 days ago to random

My wife and I both play Quartiles (one of the word puzzles in Apple News)

Me, seeing my wife score 103 on Quartiles: "Nice... but I got 107"

My wife, 5 minutes later: "112"

Me, 20 minutes later, sweating: "ha! 113"

My wife, 2 minutes later: "117"

Me, crying softly, 40 minutes later: "117, let's call it a tie"

ethanschoonover, 26 days ago to random

Disney could throw money at management consulting firms all day and not get a post mortem this comprehensive and insightful. It's like a top notch HBR case study with extra plush toys.

https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4?si=ywcF6V0fsEOkcgBh

ethanschoonover, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to random

Did my Wilderness First Aid course today and I've never see that much Arc'teryx in one room before

(edit: this includes my hoodie, so I'm not judging... it's good gear albeit $)

ethanschoonover, 30 days ago to HikingPics

Added a dedicated crane-type scale to my sliding #backpacking / #hiking gear storage

ctietze, 1 month ago to random

@ethanschoonover I have a link to one of your Tweets where you recommended a book series on 'rich urban world building', but the Tweet is gone and I haven't written down the actual book names anywhere
https://twitter.com/ethanschoonover/status/1481043810943602689

Do you have any recollection what that might've been?

ethanschoonover, 2 months ago to random

Send Later should be a built in option for every app that can send or post. Texting. Social media. All the things.

Can’t believe out of all the modern apps it’s just humble Mail that has this built in.