Probably a good thing that I have a ‘reserved’ spot on the bed…
Looking through Google Play’s editors choice sections, I’m happy to see ArtFlow listed.
Think I’ve had this on my devices since the days of the Note series tablets. It’s become about the only drawing app on Android that I tend to care about.
Scrolling through old journal entries, interesting to come across A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked. The Story Behind Corning’s Vision. (2012) and my comments about it at the time.
In a lot of ways I still find Corning’s vision fascinating.
Something is also apparent to me in hindsight: casting. Bits like the car dashboard were still pretty foreign at the time. Approximately a year later, Google launched the first generation Chromecast. Devices like the Roku would likewise gain voice input and competitors like Fire TV weren’t far off just yet. Today in ’19 it isn’t abnormal to easily manipulate a screen but we’re nowhere near as cool as that video yet.
I don’t think any product like the Surface Hub was well known until a few years later. While iMacs and clones had already modernized by then I don’t wanna gander at history to see when more touch capable AiOs became readily available. Devices like the Surface Studio are Still. To. Damned. Expensive. Not to mention rare in people’s homes and work places.
Another thing that has changed since Corning’s video is the PC. Back in ’12 touch screen laptops were more of a novelty than an accepted thing. Hell, the modern tablet had just about come into its own, and was very unlike its PC based forebears.
A lot of things have changed in hardware and software since then and will continue to change. But I still hope the result looks more like A Day Made of Glass than 1984….hehe.
Odd thoughts: Pretzel stick for the dog, whiskey for the human.
Somehow this seems to suit all of us, lol.
Passing thought: Dad’s habit was reading a newspaper. Mine is called a tablet.
These do pretty much serve similar purposes. Except as a multi role thingamajig I’m going to say the other uses for a tablet tend to be more fun then what you can do with old newspapers.
You should be listening to video game soundtracks at work.
Actually this reminds me: I wanted to check out if Google Play Music includes any of the Final Fantasy sound tracks.
I find it curious and appropriate on so many levels that the road trip music in FFXV is pretty much video game music. Usually at work I don’t listen to the kind of tunes you’d find in an RPG. Country, rock, classic, folk, jazz, all sorts of stuff. But I will admit that Dragon Age and Mirror’s Edge sound tracks do show up in my playlists every now and then.
How a 1919 Army Truck Convoy Across the U.S. Helped Win WWII.
The daily log being made available kind of interests me in doing some reading.
Really I’m kind of surprised that the Army could make such good time with that assortment of vehicles. Most Americans alive today take for granted that the main problems getting around relate to traffic conditions, navigation off the main roads, and affording the expenses.
How awesome our road systems are is largely a modern thing. The growth of car ownership may have exploded out the wazoo during the twentieth century but that doesn’t mean suitable roads and bridges predate the Ford Motor Company. Today you can basically get in the car and go–the problem becomes affording a long vacation rather then can you get there by automobile.
The United States is not without our problems but we at least solved a few over the generations 😉.
Forbes: Netflix’s Worst Nightmare Has Come True.
I think the notion that Netflix will survive but shrink is likely true. They’re large and successful enough that they won’t go suddenly into the night but quietly over a couple decades.
Along with Hulu they’ve long enjoyed being one of the only whales in the game. Efforts at original content have been a mixed bag but I think this also owes to to simple facts.
One is Netflix isn’t built around making media. They’re not like the big TV networks with the huge pipelines for content and advertising. Their strength has been in their service, and that’s gone well enough that people like me will likely remain customers for many years to come.
Second is they don’t have anti-trust / holy crap that’s comically one sided rights to streaming content. Eventually everything you see in Netflix will end up impacted by a contract and neogotiating them. It’s not like certain old world network blocks that got given away with too little forsight 😝.
Moving towards where we may be nickle and dimed by various networks is still an improvement over the cable situation IMHO. Because greater control versus take it and like it. Net result being: if it’s not in the circle of stuff we subscribe to the we are either going to skip it ’til it is or eventually come to an arrangement.
I know that’s how my streaming subscriptions work, and how several decades as a cable customer worked.
Note to self
Google Photos show up in Blogger’s photos UI under “From your phone” regardless of source. Probably. Or at least when I use my tablet.
Impromptu dinner
Just when I decided on curry rice for dinner, I got home and realized that one of the lies we tell ourselves is: “I’ll do that before bed”.
Thus I came up with an alternative that works when I do dishes after dinner rather than before 😀.