Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 24
June 13, 2019
I’m so tired you guys.
I’m so tired you guys.
The beeping. So much beeping. And fireworks!
Go sports or whatever.
June 10, 2019
Cura, June 11, 2019
Note: The playlist embedded above will always be the most recent playlist and might not match the list below.
Cura is my Spotify mixtape. You can listen to it and subscribe here. I keep it as one playlist so it’s easy to subscribe to. I update it fairly frequently, but I also keep an archive playlist so you don’t have to miss a thing.
I hope you like it. I made it for you.
Here’s the track listing for this week:
Do It to Music By Juliana Hatfield
Heads Gonna Roll By Jenny Lewis
Blink Once If You Want Me to Pull the Plug By Elton John Cena
Calm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone By Ezra Furman
People Pleaser By Slingshot Dakota
More Things, June 11, 2019
It wouldn’t be a personal blog without a link list of stuff I liked around the web.
I Wish I Were a Fancy Men’s Magazine Editor
With Its New Release on DVD/Blu-Ray, An Ode to “Boom!” — The Ultimate Camp Film
Why We’re All So Turned On by Our Gender-Swapped Snapchat Filters
All I Want To Do Is Play 16-Bit Action RPGs
iTunes, Apple’s Groundbreaking Yet Maddening Mac Music Software, Dies at 18
Actually, Phone Calls Are Good
Intermittent fasting, but for Twitter
Let Drake Be An Asshole (Please)
What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong
June 9, 2019
Killing iTunes
Last week at WWDC, Apple announced it would break up iTunes into three different apps. At least on the Mac. On Windows, iTunes will stay the same, basically. It will continue to work, slowly, creakily. It will continue to whither.
I’ve been using two music libraries for years. Three, if you count Plex, but that was always piggybacking off of iTunes. iTunes Match was my favourite part, because it allowed me to be creative with how much music I kept on each device.
It’s not that iTunes isn’t something I’ve been using. I’ve been building year playlists, from 2018 going back to 1980, and I’ve been organizing them with iTunes. I’ve been doing this as an experiment to see if music players that weren’t phones could still have a place in my pocket. They don’t.
I’d keep iTunes around if I were an Apple Music guy, but I’m not. I’m on Spotify. That’s where my music is. That’s where my year playlists live. That’s where my weekly Cura playlist lives. That’s where my mood playlists live. It’s where I discover new music all the time. It’s where I’m frustrated that it still isn’t Rdio. It won’t be the only place I find new music. But it is where I’ll inevitably listen to it again.
June 7, 2019
So today my AirPods lasted for two hours and 16 minutes.
So today my AirPods lasted for two hours and 16 minutes. It’s possible that they are still lasting a little bit longer than I think but I thought it was valuable to actually do a test because it last few months they’ve lasted between three hours and half an hour at the minimum. Obviously, this is a dying device. But maybe there still a little bit of life left in them.
June 4, 2019
Blogroll
A little trimming and pruning on the site today. The “tags” header is gone, and its contents now live in the About section. I’ve also added a blogroll to the bottom. I got inspired by Phil Gyford’s blogroll, and it seemed like a useful list even if I’m the only one who uses it.
May 27, 2019
Cura, May 28, 2019
Note: The playlist embedded above will always be the most recent playlist and might not match the list below.
Cura is my Spotify mixtape. You can listen to it and subscribe here. I keep it as one playlist so it’s easy to subscribe to. I update it fairly frequently, but I also keep an archive playlist so you don’t have to miss a thing.
I hope you like it. I made it for you.
Here’s the track listing for this week:
Calm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone By Ezra Furman
Do It to Music By Juliana Hatfield
People Pleaser By Slingshot Dakota
Blink Once If You Want Me to Pull the Plug By Elton John Cena
May 24, 2019
More Things, May 25, 2019
It wouldn’t be a personal blog without a link list of stuff I liked around the web.
Bill Nighy Explains His Deep New Love of Pokémon
Status meetings are the scourge
Tracy Morgan Turns the Drama of His Life Into Comedy
Everything should take 20 minutes
The Big Bang Theory’s long reign, explained
An Interview with Khoi Vinh, Principal Designer at Adobe
Finally, the nostalgia industry has come for something I love
Switch Your Devices to Dark Mode to Give Your Eyes a Break
After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
May 23, 2019
Podcast Recommendations, May 24, 2019
Here are some podcast episodes I’ve enjoyed lately. Links go to Overcast.
This conversation will change how you understand misogyny — The Ezra Klein Show
Idea to Execution — Start With This — Overcast
Ref, You Suck! — Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Episode 03 - Kenny Omega: Volcel For Wrestling (Golden Lovers) — Wrestlesplania
Ep. 13: Stop Shoulding — Semi-Together
Savage Love Episode 653 — Savage Lovecast
