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00:00:00 ◼   ► I made the mistake of going to the grocery store today.

00:00:02 ◼   ► I figured, you know, if I go, yes, it's Thanksgiving week,

00:00:06 ◼   ► but if I go on Monday at noon,

00:00:09 ◼   ► no one else is gonna be there yet.

00:00:10 ◼   ► It's way too early and it's the middle of the day.

00:00:12 ◼   ► - People take off the whole week, I think.

00:00:14 ◼   ► I didn't understand where everybody was

00:00:15 ◼   ► when I went to work today.

00:00:16 ◼   ► It was a little traffic,

00:00:17 ◼   ► there wasn't a lot of people in the parking lot.

00:00:19 ◼   ► Yeah, don't go to any places that sell food

00:00:23 ◼   ► or beverages this week.

00:00:25 ◼   ► - All of the traffic was in my grocery store's parking lot.

00:00:27 ◼   ► (laughs)

00:00:28 ◼   ► Apparently everybody else in the world had the same idea that I did.

00:00:32 ◼   ► No one's gonna be there on Monday at noon.

00:00:35 ◼   ► I didn't realize you live in a retirement community.

00:00:37 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

00:00:38 ◼   ► Oh, man, I feel like we need something fun and clever to start the show with.

00:00:43 ◼   ► Maybe we can do a little bit of follow-out, Jon's favorite topic.

00:00:47 ◼   ► The internet has given us a gift today.

00:00:49 ◼   ► And by the internet, I mean David Galetly.

00:00:52 ◼   ► I'm so sorry that I probably pronounced that wrong.

00:00:55 ◼   ► But David has given us the John Siracusa paper doll kit, which this is really a call out

00:01:03 ◼   ► to Reconcile All Differences, which...

00:01:05 ◼   ► Yeah, this is a different podcast.

00:01:07 ◼   ► You guys confused about what podcast we're doing?

00:01:08 ◼   ► No, no, no.

00:01:09 ◼   ► This is what follow out is, John.

00:01:10 ◼   ► Keep up or take notes.

00:01:11 ◼   ► John, are you acknowledging that follow out has a solid meaning and you are arguing over

00:01:15 ◼   ► what it is?

00:01:16 ◼   ► I don't know what follow out means.

00:01:17 ◼   ► All I know is that this is a topic for a different podcast.

00:01:18 ◼   ► We'll probably talk about it on that other podcast.

00:01:20 ◼   ► It's like when you say like, "Airing on another network."

00:01:23 ◼   ► We can't even name the other podcasts, but it's like,

00:01:25 ◼   ► if I can tell the difference,

00:01:25 ◼   ► you should listen to it.

00:01:26 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:01:28 ◼   ► Yeah, all right, go ahead, fine.

00:01:30 ◼   ► If you wanna do "Paper Dolls," fine.

00:01:31 ◼   ► - No, I just, I wanted to make,

00:01:33 ◼   ► I just wanted to call everyone's attention

00:01:35 ◼   ► to this absolutely phenomenal tweet from David

00:01:39 ◼   ► with the John Siracusa "Paper Doll."

00:01:42 ◼   ► Your nose was a little Rudolph-y for my taste.

00:01:44 ◼   ► If you'll-- - That's a style.

00:01:46 ◼   ► That's not, it's not a reflection on my actual nose.

00:01:49 ◼   ► - Didn't even notice the, "Long Island 1992" shirt.

00:01:52 ◼   ► That's delightful.

00:01:53 ◼   ► - Yeah, I don't think, it would be better

00:01:55 ◼   ► if he knew what the running shirts look like.

00:01:57 ◼   ► I should put a picture of him,

00:01:58 ◼   ► but he's got the hypercritical shirt in there.

00:02:00 ◼   ► Just thinking of printing this out

00:02:01 ◼   ► for my kids to play with.

00:02:02 ◼   ► - Oh my God, they would lose it.

00:02:04 ◼   ► - Also, I should have the ATP shirt edition, obviously.

00:02:07 ◼   ► - Can we get this printed on like a sheet of magnet things

00:02:10 ◼   ► so that you could actually move them around like magnets?

00:02:13 ◼   ► Is that, is like, is there a company that does that?

00:02:15 ◼   ► I'm sure there is.

00:02:16 ◼   ► - Oh God, that's amazing.

00:02:18 ◼   ► - He's done some other pictures of me as well.

00:02:21 ◼   ► I think one where Merlin's riding on my back, you know that one?

00:02:24 ◼   ► Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:25 ◼   ► Ooh, the layers are in folders.

00:02:27 ◼   ► Accessories, torso, pants, footwear.

00:02:30 ◼   ► So you can, oh this is actually, you don't even need the magnet, you can actually toggle

00:02:33 ◼   ► everything right from here, as long as you're willing to launch Photoshop.

00:02:36 ◼   ► That's what people have been doing where they compose the different versions of me.

00:02:41 ◼   ► So fantastic.

00:02:42 ◼   ► We'll put a link to the, we shouldn't put a link to the tweet, we'll put a link to the

00:02:45 ◼   ► website where you can see all the other stuff.

00:02:48 ◼   ► This really is incredible.

00:02:49 ◼   ► So you guys, we all did a very terrible job explaining why this exists.

00:02:52 ◼   ► Oh yeah, that's true.

00:02:54 ◼   ► All right, well anyway, on Reconcileable Differences, which is a podcast I did with Merlin Mann,

00:02:58 ◼   ► we talked about clothing at one point, and this was Merlin's idea that someone should

00:03:02 ◼   ► make a paper doll version of me to help dress me.

00:03:05 ◼   ► Because he got it into his head that he wants to do a... not a makeover, like, you know

00:03:10 ◼   ► those sort of Queer Eye type shows where there's someone who doesn't have any fashion sense

00:03:14 ◼   ► and then other people with fashion sense want to fix him?

00:03:17 ◼   ► That's what Merlin wants to do to me, or wants other people to do to me.

00:03:19 ◼   ► So here you go, paper dolls.

00:03:21 ◼   ► Tattoos?

00:03:22 ◼   ► Wait, what?

00:03:23 ◼   ► There's a tattoos layer.

00:03:24 ◼   ► Oh, God.

00:03:25 ◼   ► I hope there's a question mark after it in the layer, too, because the answer is none.

00:03:30 ◼   ► Except that one that nobody talks about.

00:03:32 ◼   ► Nope.

00:03:33 ◼   ► None.

00:03:34 ◼   ► Wow.

00:03:35 ◼   ► I don't really get tattoos, personally.

00:03:36 ◼   ► I've never ever, ever, ever desired to have a tattoo on me.

00:03:40 ◼   ► You know what that means, that you're going to have one in six months.

00:03:42 ◼   ► Yeah, that's true.

00:03:44 ◼   ► Actually knowing my history.

00:03:45 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:03:46 ◼   ► That's exactly true.

00:03:48 ◼   ► Oh God, no.

00:03:49 ◼   ► Goodness.

00:03:50 ◼   ► No, I just, anything I would want,

00:03:52 ◼   ► anything I would like enough to put on my body,

00:03:55 ◼   ► like A, it would probably be like some sort of consumer BS,

00:03:58 ◼   ► but B, inevitably I would end up hating it.

00:04:01 ◼   ► So, oh God, I just can't imagine.

00:04:03 ◼   ► - So I love, so I have configured now

00:04:06 ◼   ► the rugby shirt, dad jeans, A6 shoes,

00:04:10 ◼   ► and the John glasses, but the bow tie.

00:04:15 ◼   ► It's a fantastic combination, Hiro.

00:04:17 ◼   ► Both eyes are cool and you would get that reference

00:04:19 ◼   ► if you watched more TV.

00:04:20 ◼   ► - Yeah, I got nothing.

00:04:23 ◼   ► - Neither one of you, neither one.

00:04:25 ◼   ► - What was it? - Top four TV shows my butt.

00:04:28 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:04:31 ◼   ► - Which speaking of, I think I've gotten to the point

00:04:34 ◼   ► that I hate listening to top four

00:04:36 ◼   ► because so much of what you guys say,

00:04:39 ◼   ► like I've never listened to a podcast

00:04:41 ◼   ► that makes me wanna yell at it more.

00:04:43 ◼   ► - I think it's working as designed

00:04:44 ◼   ► far as I can tell. No, I think you're right. I absolutely think you're right. And the thing is,

00:04:48 ◼   ► like, I genuinely do enjoy the show. And there are times, like, I tweeted at both of you earlier

00:04:53 ◼   ► today, I genuinely thought that the way you handled the pizza discussion was perfect. Because,

00:04:58 ◼   ► without question, it is so much easier to find good pizza in New York, or the surrounding area,

00:05:03 ◼   ► than it is anywhere else in the country. Don't say it. Don't say it, but. There's good pizza to

00:05:08 ◼   ► be had in other places in the country. Which I did say. Which you said. I haven't listened to

00:05:12 ◼   ► this episode yet but I assume I will hate it.

00:05:15 ◼   ► - No, no, no, I thought Marco,

00:05:16 ◼   ► you guys both handled it perfectly, I really did.

00:05:19 ◼   ► Oh, this is perfect.

00:05:22 ◼   ► He just faced it.

00:05:23 ◼   ► - Isn't it great?

00:05:24 ◼   ► - Oh God, this is magnificent.

00:05:26 ◼   ► - It's just like the standard John plus a bow tie.

00:05:29 ◼   ► - Plus a bow tie.

00:05:30 ◼   ► - I don't think the bow tie fits with the rugby shirt.

00:05:33 ◼   ► I don't think that's, it doesn't, that doesn't fit.

00:05:35 ◼   ► - I think you should try this one day,

00:05:36 ◼   ► maybe next year WBC, something like that.

00:05:39 ◼   ► - I showed this to my wife and she said,

00:05:41 ◼   ► "Why do you look so angry?" I said, "I'm probably angry about either being half-naked

00:05:49 ◼   ► or about other people dressing me." Yeah, I couldn't imagine you'd be incredibly happy

00:05:54 ◼   ► about either of those states. So I think it's the appropriate expression.

00:05:58 ◼   ► Oh, God. But anyway, I was very happy with how you handled that. But the thing of it

00:06:05 ◼   ► is, I think part of the reason I was so perturbed at Top Four today is because I don't like

00:06:08 ◼   ► Indian food with the exception of naan, which is delightful. But the thing of it is, it

00:06:12 ◼   ► very, very well could be that I've just made terrible choices whenever I've gone for Indian

00:06:17 ◼   ► food. Like, I don't even know what I've eaten, but I can tell you I've not liked any of it.

00:06:22 ◼   ► And so I was very perturbed that Indian ranks so high in your list. However, I concur with

00:06:27 ◼   ► pizza, I concur with Panera and delis. I think you were a little harsh on Quiznos and Subway,

00:06:33 ◼   ► but I can get past that.

00:06:35 ◼   ► (laughs)

00:06:36 ◼   ► - No, I mean, if you're in a place

00:06:38 ◼   ► where the best options you have are Quiznos or Subway,

00:06:41 ◼   ► just go to the grocery store and buy cold cuts

00:06:43 ◼   ► and make your own sandwich at home.

00:06:45 ◼   ► It's better that.

00:06:46 ◼   ► Honestly, when I did live in those places,

00:06:48 ◼   ► that's what I did because it was better.

00:06:50 ◼   ► - Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:06:52 ◼   ► For the most part, I did agree

00:06:53 ◼   ► with most of what you guys said, so.

00:06:55 ◼   ► - And you can't forgive the Subway triangle

00:06:58 ◼   ► cheese tessellation issue.

00:07:00 ◼   ► - Yes, you are spot on on that.

00:07:02 ◼   ► I completely agree.

00:07:04 ◼   ► To give context for this, this is Top 4, the podcast that Marco does with Tiff, his wife,

00:07:10 ◼   ► and they supposedly rank the Top 4 whatever.

00:07:15 ◼   ► So Top 4 takeout restaurants, Top 4 Halloween candies.

00:07:19 ◼   ► What they actually do on the show is only vaguely related to that, and they're now lately

00:07:23 ◼   ► both having trouble coming up with Top 4 anything.

00:07:26 ◼   ► And most of their opinions are terribly wrong.

00:07:28 ◼   ► Anyway, that's why you listen to the show, because it is both entertaining and infuriating.

00:07:32 ◼   ► it short, so there you go. Have we concluded the advertise other podcast sections of this

00:07:37 ◼   ► podcast yet?

00:07:38 ◼   ► Yes, you know, you should complain about the fact that I have brought up the two podcasts

00:07:43 ◼   ► that my co-hosts have done, and I have not brought up any of my extracurriculars. But

00:07:47 ◼   ► yes, you continue to be upset, Jon.

00:07:48 ◼   ► Well, that's just your personality, Casey. You didn't even mention robot or not.

00:07:52 ◼   ► Well, now we have. Are you satisfied? Would you like me to bring up The Incomparable?

00:07:56 ◼   ► You were on The Incomparable. It's practically your show now.

00:07:59 ◼   ► I hate you so much right now, Jon.

00:08:04 ◼   ► One episode only.

00:08:07 ◼   ► I understood that reference.

00:08:08 ◼   ► All right, so now that you've ruined follow-out for me, just as you had planned, can we do

00:08:13 ◼   ► some follow-up and talk about what Ben wrote in and said?

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00:10:08 ◼   ► - All right, so John, tell us in this follow-up section

00:10:11 ◼   ► what Ben G wrote in and said.

00:10:13 ◼   ► - We were talking about the iPad Pro screen

00:10:16 ◼   ► and how it wasn't quite as good in terms of color accuracy

00:10:19 ◼   ► as the Surface Pro 4 and also not as good

00:10:21 ◼   ► actually some of the earlier iPad screens Apple had made or the smaller ones anyway.

00:10:25 ◼   ► And I wondered, I said it was kind of a shame that it didn't have the new sort

00:10:31 ◼   ► of wide spectrum or whatever the correct term is it a large gamut? Anyway, display

00:10:38 ◼   ► that the iMac does, the P3 specification which is supposedly bigger

00:10:42 ◼   ► than sRGB and Ben wrote in to tell us that one of the reasons the iPad Pro

00:10:46 ◼   ► can't do that is because it requires an RGB backlight. So these screens that we

00:10:50 ◼   ► call LCDs but sometimes also LEDs. The LED just refers to the backlight so

00:10:54 ◼   ► you've got a bunch of you've got this semi-transparent thing in front with

00:10:58 ◼   ► little colored sections that you can turn on and off in different amounts and

00:11:01 ◼   ► behind it behind most screens you just have a big white light that's just on

00:11:05 ◼   ► all the time over the entire screen for computer screens anyway and apparently

00:11:10 ◼   ► the iMac has instead of a big white light behind it an RGB backlight so it's

00:11:15 ◼   ► a backlight that can be different colors instead of just white and I didn't know

00:11:19 ◼   ► I know televisions do that and televisions do all sorts of weird tricks with the backlight to try to make the image look better

00:11:24 ◼   ► But it makes sense that if the iMac has an RGB backlight

00:11:28 ◼   ► Perhaps they can't get that small enough or low power enough to be in a iPad Pro just yet

00:11:34 ◼   ► Come we have to wake up more years, I guess

00:11:36 ◼   ► Fair enough. Well, I did not know that I really didn't have any idea that it was an RGB backlight. That's very cool

00:11:42 ◼   ► Tell me about iMac Insomnia

00:11:44 ◼   ► Yeah, my new my wife's new

00:11:47 ◼   ► 27 inch retina iMac I was saying last week that it seems to have insomnia

00:11:54 ◼   ► Put it to sleep and then it will wake up again

00:11:56 ◼   ► Or we'll just walk away from the computer after using it and then come back an hour later

00:11:59 ◼   ► And it's still awake, and I wasn't quite able to figure out why lots of listeners sent in suggestions

00:12:05 ◼   ► One common one was the the IR receiver if it's in the line of sight of

00:12:10 ◼   ► Something that sprays IR like a remote control or one of those IR blaster things or whatever

00:12:15 ◼   ► It's conceivable that the IR receiver on the Amac, which I guess it has one.

00:12:19 ◼   ► I don't even know that it had one, and I didn't even check if it did have one.

00:12:23 ◼   ► But the theory is that for our computers that do have an IR receiver, if it's near your

00:12:28 ◼   ► television or something like that, you could keep it awake just with IR input.

00:12:32 ◼   ► I don't know if that theory is correct because my thing is definitely not in the line of

00:12:36 ◼   ► sight of any IR, and I don't even know if my thing has an IR receiver.

00:12:40 ◼   ► Probably does, but who knows.

00:12:41 ◼   ► Anyway, the next guess was Bluetooth.

00:12:44 ◼   ► If you go to the Bluetooth preference pane, this is annoying that this is an inside energy

00:12:48 ◼   ► saver but it's not, you gotta go to the Bluetooth preference pane, then you have to click on

00:12:51 ◼   ► advanced.

00:12:52 ◼   ► Then there's a checkbox that says "allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" and that was

00:12:57 ◼   ► checked by default.

00:12:58 ◼   ► So I unchecked it and I think my problems are solved.

00:13:01 ◼   ► Because I've got, the reason that feature exists is if you have, like the new iMac,

00:13:04 ◼   ► if you get it with the recommended Apple crappy cripples Bluetooth keyboard and the recommended

00:13:11 ◼   ► Bluetooth mouse, then you don't have your mouse or your keyboard connected with a wire

00:13:15 ◼   ► to your computer.

00:13:16 ◼   ► So when your computer goes to sleep, if you don't have the setting checked and you hit

00:13:19 ◼   ► the space bar like to wake up your computer or wiggle the mouse or click the mouse button

00:13:22 ◼   ► or something, the computer won't actually wake up.

00:13:24 ◼   ► I don't have that problem because we've got a wired keyboard attached to it and actually

00:13:28 ◼   ► a USB mouse that's wireless to the keyboard.

00:13:31 ◼   ► Anyway, so I uncheck that thing and so far so good.

00:13:35 ◼   ► The computer has not had insomnia.

00:13:37 ◼   ► It hasn't woken up spontaneously and when it goes to sleep, it stays asleep.

00:13:40 ◼   ► So I'm pretty well convinced that I've solved my problem.

00:13:43 ◼   ► Excellent.

00:13:44 ◼   ► I wouldn't have guessed it was Bluetooth acting up, but I'm glad you figured that

00:13:49 ◼   ► out.

00:13:50 ◼   ► I also don't understand how you could have wires on your desktop, but teach their own.

00:13:54 ◼   ► It's a keyboard tray, so the wires go underneath.

00:13:56 ◼   ► You're not going to see them.

00:13:57 ◼   ► Oh, a keyboard tray.

00:13:58 ◼   ► Yeah, you've got to have the keyboard at the right height, you know?

00:14:00 ◼   ► Put the desk at the right height.

00:14:01 ◼   ► Well, the desk feels too low, and then you need something to prop the computer up.

00:14:07 ◼   ► Yeah, that's easier than managing a keyboard tray.

00:14:09 ◼   ► I think the main reason my wife likes the keyboard tray is that it gives her more room

00:14:13 ◼   ► to put junk on the desk.

00:14:15 ◼   ► Because the keyboard tray is underneath, the entire surface of the desk in front of you

00:14:18 ◼   ► is free for just having papers and stuff.

00:14:21 ◼   ► Sometimes it's good because you're referring to them, other times you're just piling stuff.

00:14:24 ◼   ► But it really is convenient.

00:14:26 ◼   ► Even if I didn't need it for ergonomic positioning, even if I had a desk that went up and down

00:14:30 ◼   ► and I could get it the right way, in fact I had that at work.

00:14:31 ◼   ► My desk at work is somewhat adjustable.

00:14:34 ◼   ► I tried putting it down at the level that it should be for the keyboard, and I just

00:14:37 ◼   ► like the desk higher and to have the little tray underneath it is just what I'm used to.

00:14:41 ◼   ► All right, any other follow-up? That was another quick round of follow-up. I'm very proud of

00:14:46 ◼   ► us. Well, this is a short period of time after

00:14:49 ◼   ► the last episode, I'm sure. Yeah. And also, it's slow for the holidays. I feel like we

00:14:53 ◼   ► need to have like a laid-back holiday episode. Oh, I should have poured a drink. I didn't

00:14:58 ◼   ► realize that was the plan. Yeah.

00:15:00 ◼   ► Oh, goodness. All right, so speaking of holidays, Jon, you came up with an idea for this episode.

00:15:05 ◼   ► Yeah, because we're recording this on a Monday only a few days after we recorded the last episode because we're all off for our

00:15:11 ◼   ► holidays or Thanksgiving holiday vacations and travels and so on I thought what better way to

00:15:17 ◼   ► Celebrate Thanksgiving which is a holiday here in the US people outside the US can look it up

00:15:23 ◼   ► It's pretty dumb as far as holidays go. But anyway, it is a holiday and we get off work

00:15:26 ◼   ► Oh slow down you're gonna have to explain yourself on that one. It's one of those holidays that really is

00:15:34 ◼   ► It doesn't really make much sense.

00:15:37 ◼   ► It's not really that historically significant.

00:15:39 ◼   ► It's only because the people involved in it were the important enough people to celebrate

00:15:42 ◼   ► something.

00:15:43 ◼   ► It's like they're celebrating – anyway, you can read the story of Thanksgiving, but

00:15:45 ◼   ► bottom line is we – you know, people, Europeans came to this country and slaughtered all the

00:15:49 ◼   ► indigenous people and took all their land.

00:15:50 ◼   ► Not that we're supposed to feel guilty for it and stuff, but having a holiday, kind of

00:15:54 ◼   ► celebrating how nice it was that we all cooperated is like weird.

00:15:57 ◼   ► It's like, yeah, and then we lived together happily ever after, right?

00:16:01 ◼   ► No, we don't want to fall – anyway.

00:16:03 ◼   ► It's not as bad as Columbus Day, but it's close.

00:16:07 ◼   ► But we don't care because it's just the holiday season and we have turkey and gather around

00:16:10 ◼   ► with family and argue about politics or however your Thanksgiving is going to go.

00:16:15 ◼   ► I don't want to make this into a downer.

00:16:16 ◼   ► Bottom line is we get off work.

00:16:17 ◼   ► Let's concentrate on what's important here.

00:16:19 ◼   ► But only for Thursday.

00:16:21 ◼   ► You have to take a vacation day for Friday.

00:16:23 ◼   ► Or just be retired like some of us are.

00:16:26 ◼   ► Well, even Marco has to visit family on Thanksgiving.

00:16:30 ◼   ► Thanksgiving, I would rather work for the rest of the year full-time than deal with

00:16:36 ◼   ► Thanksgiving family drama.

00:16:37 ◼   ► Untrue.

00:16:38 ◼   ► You don't know my family.

00:16:39 ◼   ► Well, I don't know.

00:16:41 ◼   ► I think you underestimate what it would be like to work for the rest of the year, waking

00:16:44 ◼   ► up and getting into an office and commuting through graphic at nine o'clock every day.

00:16:49 ◼   ► I'm not going to get in the middle of this one.

00:16:51 ◼   ► Anyway, I don't want to make this into a downer.

00:16:53 ◼   ► The whole point is, it's Thanksgiving, which, like I said, even though it's a stupid holiday,

00:16:57 ◼   ► it is a holiday.

00:16:59 ◼   ► And one of the good things about Thanksgiving is a time of year when, in theory, you are

00:17:02 ◼   ► supposed to reflect on what you are thankful for.

00:17:06 ◼   ► That is usually the part of the evening before people get drunk and angry and start arguing

00:17:09 ◼   ► about politics.

00:17:10 ◼   ► Sometimes you go around the table and say what you're thankful for, or whoever is the

00:17:15 ◼   ► most willing and able to induce embarrassment in your extended family usually makes this

00:17:20 ◼   ► happen.

00:17:21 ◼   ► So I guess I'm filling that role here on the podcast.

00:17:23 ◼   ► And so I had to ask the assembled group of hosts, "What 2015-ish tech things are we most

00:17:33 ◼   ► thankful for?"

00:17:34 ◼   ► They don't have to be this year.

00:17:35 ◼   ► They could be like a three- or four-year-old tech that you just discovered this year.

00:17:37 ◼   ► I don't know.

00:17:38 ◼   ► The year of framing is loose.

00:17:39 ◼   ► But anyway, what kind of things are we thankful for?

00:17:41 ◼   ► I figure we'll just go around in circles until we're all exhausted and don't have anything

00:17:45 ◼   ► left to be thankful for.

00:17:46 ◼   ► I hope you have more than one thing.

00:17:48 ◼   ► Oh, great.

00:17:49 ◼   ► I have a whole list.

00:17:50 ◼   ► Really?

00:17:51 ◼   ► Is it four?

00:17:52 ◼   ► trying not to invoke the "Ghost of Top Four" by making Marco have a list. It's like,

00:17:56 ◼   ► "Well, I'm not the most thankful for this, but it's probably around number five."

00:18:00 ◼   ► I actually have five.

00:18:01 ◼   ► Uh-huh. Are they all number five? Or...

00:18:03 ◼   ► No, there's a very clear number one.

00:18:06 ◼   ► All right. All right. Marco seems like he's ready to go first, so go ahead.

00:18:09 ◼   ► Yeah, I did not do my homework on this. I thought about it for like ten minutes about

00:18:13 ◼   ► half an hour ago. Goodness, if Marco's doing more homework than I am, something is seriously

00:18:17 ◼   ► broken there.

00:18:18 ◼   ► I gave you like three days' notice.

00:18:19 ◼   ► - No, I just kind of forgot.

00:18:21 ◼   ► Oh goodness, all right, go ahead Marco.

00:18:22 ◼   ► - Well, my clear number one,

00:18:25 ◼   ► I thought of it immediately when you said this,

00:18:27 ◼   ► and there is no contest,

00:18:29 ◼   ► MDNS responder.

00:18:30 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:18:33 ◼   ► Suction number one.

00:18:34 ◼   ► So, if anybody doesn't get the joke,

00:18:37 ◼   ► this is the old version of Discovery D,

00:18:41 ◼   ► which is the system daemon that's responsible

00:18:45 ◼   ► on Macs and iOS devices for network name lookup,

00:18:49 ◼   ► finding Bonjour devices, et cetera,

00:18:52 ◼   ► or whatever Bonjour is called.

00:18:53 ◼   ► Well, oh no, that's the new name.

00:18:55 ◼   ► It used to be called Rendezvous, right?

00:18:57 ◼   ► Anyway, so it's very much responsible for

00:19:01 ◼   ► Macs and Apple devices finding other servers and devices

00:19:05 ◼   ► on the network and coordinating things with them.

00:19:07 ◼   ► So for things like file sharing,

00:19:08 ◼   ► probably involved in things like AirDrop,

00:19:11 ◼   ► definitely like network shares,

00:19:13 ◼   ► Apple TV kind of stuff, AirPlay.

00:19:15 ◼   ► And Discovery D was the new version of this,

00:19:19 ◼   ► the rewrite of this.

00:19:20 ◼   ► It shipped with Yosemite and with iOS 8.

00:19:23 ◼   ► It was so buggy and it caused so many problems

00:19:27 ◼   ► for so many people.

00:19:28 ◼   ► You know, if during the era of Yosemite and iOS 8,

00:19:31 ◼   ► if you ever had things like other Macs on your network

00:19:35 ◼   ► disappear and just not be visible in Finder

00:19:37 ◼   ► for browsing or for sharing,

00:19:38 ◼   ► or if you had things like you'd have the computer name

00:19:41 ◼   ► with a number after it, like, you know,

00:19:44 ◼   ► TIFF's computer, seven.

00:19:46 ◼   ► And it's like, what?

00:19:47 ◼   ► And then where, you know,

00:19:48 ◼   ► or some crazy number like that.

00:19:49 ◼   ► So that was the kind of problem you'd see with this,

00:19:52 ◼   ► but it caused so many other problems

00:19:54 ◼   ► that some people just got lucky,

00:19:56 ◼   ► like the HDMI CEC unicorns, and just never hit it.

00:20:00 ◼   ► I hit all of these problems.

00:20:01 ◼   ► So you'd have problems like certain network printers

00:20:05 ◼   ► that had Bonjour interfaces would frequently fail

00:20:08 ◼   ► and just never be connectable anymore.

00:20:11 ◼   ► Airplay would fail constantly.

00:20:13 ◼   ► Airdrop would fail constantly.

00:20:14 ◼   ► So many problems with various network

00:20:18 ◼   ► and inter-Mac, inter-iOS communication things.

00:20:21 ◼   ► And this was honestly, this was a major driver

00:20:24 ◼   ► behind my well-circulated piece,

00:20:26 ◼   ► Apple Has Lost the Functional High Ground,

00:20:27 ◼   ► from last winter, because it shipped with Yosemite

00:20:32 ◼   ► and iOS 8 in the fall of 2014.

00:20:36 ◼   ► And it took until, what, summertime?

00:20:39 ◼   ► Something like that, before they issued an update

00:20:41 ◼   ► that reverted it back to the old,

00:20:43 ◼   ► they reverted DiscoveryD back to the old one,

00:20:45 ◼   ► MDNS Responder, which just fixed all the problems.

00:20:48 ◼   ► And so it was a good six months,

00:20:51 ◼   ► something like that, of using this.

00:20:53 ◼   ► And the number of problems I encountered

00:20:55 ◼   ► for those six months just made me question

00:20:57 ◼   ► everything about Apple, just like,

00:20:59 ◼   ► how could they possibly have let this go for so long,

00:21:01 ◼   ► how could they have shipped this?

00:21:02 ◼   ► And it was making all the stuff

00:21:03 ◼   ► that makes Apple devices usually really pleasant,

00:21:06 ◼   ► like so much of it was crumbling

00:21:08 ◼   ► or was at least unreliable for me.

00:21:10 ◼   ► And when they went back to MDNS Responder,

00:21:14 ◼   ► a massive amount of these problems

00:21:16 ◼   ► just disappeared immediately for me.

00:21:18 ◼   ► And so now I can do things like browse the iTunes share

00:21:23 ◼   ► from the Apple TV and watch movies

00:21:25 ◼   ► that are on my home server on the Apple TV

00:21:27 ◼   ► and just stuff like that.

00:21:28 ◼   ► I can reliably connect to the Mac Mini

00:21:30 ◼   ► that serves this live stream.

00:21:31 ◼   ► I can reliably connect to Tiff's computer and share files.

00:21:34 ◼   ► I can print and it works every time.

00:21:36 ◼   ► Like this is stuff that used to work very reliably,

00:21:40 ◼   ► didn't for like six months and now does again.

00:21:43 ◼   ► So number one by far for me is the return

00:21:46 ◼   ► of MDNS Responder.

00:21:47 ◼   ► - I like that the number one thing you're thankful for

00:21:49 ◼   ► is really just a sly way to complain about something.

00:21:52 ◼   ► - No, it's honestly like, I wrote an update article

00:21:56 ◼   ► once I was pretty sure that this had fixed everything,

00:21:59 ◼   ► and I really want to be clear that,

00:22:01 ◼   ► yeah, it was really bad before.

00:22:03 ◼   ► And also, I'm really happy now because now they have fixed

00:22:07 ◼   ► that massive class of problems.

00:22:09 ◼   ► And Apple stuff has all sorts of other problems still.

00:22:11 ◼   ► And I'm sure we will spend,

00:22:14 ◼   ► we will spare no moment talking about those.

00:22:16 ◼   ► But that really did fix a ton of them that I was having.

00:22:21 ◼   ► And it says a lot about Apple that they were,

00:22:24 ◼   ► you know, that was a big mistake to ship that

00:22:26 ◼   ► and to stick with it for so long.

00:22:27 ◼   ► But it does say a lot about Apple that

00:22:29 ◼   ► rather than just like double down on that

00:22:32 ◼   ► and just like try to crank through

00:22:33 ◼   ► and figure out all the problems,

00:22:35 ◼   ► they just said, "No, we'll just go back."

00:22:36 ◼   ► Like, I don't think they've really done that very often.

00:22:40 ◼   ► And I can't even imagine what had to go on

00:22:42 ◼   ► inside the company to convince whoever needed

00:22:44 ◼   ► to be convinced to roll back, to just abandon

00:22:46 ◼   ► this whole rewrite of this thing and just roll back

00:22:48 ◼   ► to the previous version.

00:22:49 ◼   ► But I'm really glad they did, because it really did fix

00:22:52 ◼   ► a massive number of problems that I was having.

00:22:55 ◼   ► - As I mentioned when this originally happened,

00:22:57 ◼   ► MDNS Responder had a terrible reputation

00:23:00 ◼   ► in the early years of OS X, because it was the process

00:23:04 ◼   ► that it was always hanging and making stuff not work

00:23:06 ◼   ► on your computer.

00:23:07 ◼   ► All that kind of like basic functionality

00:23:09 ◼   ► of connecting to servers and loading web pages

00:23:11 ◼   ► and stuff like that.

00:23:12 ◼   ► Oh, you got to kill an MDNS responder,

00:23:14 ◼   ► it's hung or it's constantly crashing.

00:23:16 ◼   ► And eventually it got to the point

00:23:18 ◼   ► where I guess it was stable,

00:23:19 ◼   ► but they're probably motivated to replace it

00:23:21 ◼   ► because it was old and crusty and never really worked right.

00:23:23 ◼   ► And they had rung out most of the bugs,

00:23:25 ◼   ► but it was still probably like not easy to change

00:23:28 ◼   ► or add features to for like, you know,

00:23:29 ◼   ► handoff or whatever the hell.

00:23:30 ◼   ► I don't even know if that was a,

00:23:32 ◼   ► what their motivation for discovery,

00:23:34 ◼   ► with us, but I just said every time they've gone and replaced some part of the system

00:23:37 ◼   ► with some newer thing, that's something you have to do periodically. You just got to not

00:23:41 ◼   ► screw it up. Like, the idea behind the effort was good, the execution was bad. So I really

00:23:47 ◼   ► hope that if not DiscoveryD, that something else comes back because it's not like they're

00:23:52 ◼   ► replacing these things for the health. There was motivation behind it, it's just they just

00:23:55 ◼   ► botched the execution.

00:23:56 ◼   ► Yeah, we'll also put a link in the show notes to a friend of the show, Craig Hockenberry,

00:24:01 ◼   ► talked about this. It's a little bit strong on the language because Craig is a little perturbed,

00:24:05 ◼   ► but it's a really good write-up as to what went wrong with Discovery D and why.

00:24:09 ◼   ► All right, shall I go next Jon, or would you prefer to go next?

00:24:13 ◼   ► No, you're up, Casey.

00:24:14 ◼   ► All right, because I didn't have a lot of time to, or didn't spend a lot of time thinking about

00:24:19 ◼   ► this, my selection is...

00:24:20 ◼   ► You had my entire Discovery D rant.

00:24:22 ◼   ► Fair enough. You know, the first thing I'm thankful for, which I'm really, really excited

00:24:28 ◼   ► about is actually live photos. I really, really, really enjoy live photos. You can make an

00:24:34 ◼   ► argument that it's gimmicky, and maybe it is, and maybe in a few years I'll think it's

00:24:38 ◼   ► silly. But sitting here now, I love live photos. Being able to have a little bit of context

00:24:44 ◼   ► around what's happening, especially when you have a really young child in the house, is

00:24:48 ◼   ► really, really awesome. And there's been a couple of live photos that I've gotten just

00:24:53 ◼   ► by pure happenstance that have been really awesome. Like once I took a picture of Declan

00:24:58 ◼   ► when we were out to eat and he decided to make this like just mammoth yawn right as I'd taken

00:25:06 ◼   ► the picture so you can see this like huge yawn as he's eating at this restaurant. And it sounds

00:25:12 ◼   ► silly describing it, but it was just the funniest live photo. And I don't know that I would have

00:25:19 ◼   ► captured that moment had it not been for the fact that what I thought was a picture was

00:25:23 ◼   ► actually a very very short movie. And so I love live photos.

00:25:27 ◼   ► The only thing I don't like about live photos is now it makes me question whether or not I want to use my big

00:25:32 ◼   ► semi-fancy camera or my iPhone to take pictures. And generally speaking I do reach for the big camera,

00:25:39 ◼   ► but it doesn't make me feel guilty anymore

00:25:42 ◼   ► if I don't have the big camera handy when I'm trying to capture a shot because I love having that context.

00:25:46 ◼   ► Do you have burst mode on your big fancy camera?

00:25:48 ◼   ► I do.

00:25:49 ◼   ► I never ever ever use it though.

00:25:51 ◼   ► Blast away and make your own live pictures.

00:25:53 ◼   ► Well, and maybe that's one way of looking at it, but I very rarely shoot in burst mode.

00:25:58 ◼   ► And the handful of times I've done it, it has come out pretty well.

00:26:02 ◼   ► But then I'd have to post-process it, turn it into a movie, and blah blah blah.

00:26:06 ◼   ► Not to say that this is egregious, but it's pretty magical just whipping out the thing

00:26:11 ◼   ► that the phone that's in your pocket and snapping a picture and having that little bit of context

00:26:17 ◼   ► behind it. I just really, really love it.

00:26:19 ◼   ► Kind of in that vein, I'd like to – this is not on my list. Sorry, Jon. This is par

00:26:23 ◼   ► for the course. Go ahead.

00:26:24 ◼   ► Yes, that's exactly right.

00:26:25 ◼   ► I'd like to add to that just how incredibly good the video is from the iPhone 6S and 6S+.

00:26:31 ◼   ► This year, I finally, after seven years, upgraded my main good camera from a Canon 5D Mark II

00:26:38 ◼   ► to the Sony A7R II.

00:26:40 ◼   ► And it's a fantastic camera in every way,

00:26:42 ◼   ► and I love this thing.

00:26:43 ◼   ► I love the pictures I get out of the Sony.

00:26:45 ◼   ► It's incredible.

00:26:47 ◼   ► It is incredibly expensive too, so it's not for everybody.

00:26:49 ◼   ► But when you buy a camera every seven years,

00:26:51 ◼   ► it can be justifiable somehow.

00:26:54 ◼   ► But anyway, love this camera.

00:26:57 ◼   ► And it shoots 4K video,

00:26:59 ◼   ► and it's one of the relatively few cameras

00:27:02 ◼   ► on the market today that shoots 4K video.

00:27:04 ◼   ► They're getting more and more numerous,

00:27:06 ◼   ► but there's still relatively few in number.

00:27:08 ◼   ► But the iPhone 6S came out and the 6S also shoots 4K video.

00:27:13 ◼   ► And having shot now with both of them a reasonable amount,

00:27:17 ◼   ► the difference between them is not that big.

00:27:19 ◼   ► Like here's this camera that's being hailed

00:27:22 ◼   ► as one of the best cameras overall ever made

00:27:26 ◼   ► and one of the best cameras that can shoot 4K.

00:27:28 ◼   ► And the camera that's in every iPhone

00:27:32 ◼   ► of the current generation shoots 4K video

00:27:35 ◼   ► that to my eye as a casual observer

00:27:38 ◼   ► is almost just as good.

00:27:40 ◼   ► The quality you can get out of the iPhone in 4K mode,

00:27:44 ◼   ► granted, it isn't 60 frames a second, it's only 30.

00:27:47 ◼   ► I don't know what shoots 4K at 60 frames a second,

00:27:49 ◼   ► but I've never seen anything that offered that.

00:27:52 ◼   ► It seems like 4K everywhere these days

00:27:54 ◼   ► is basically limited to 30.

00:27:55 ◼   ► But if you're willing to deal with the lower frame rate,

00:27:57 ◼   ► it looks incredible just to have that resolution.

00:28:01 ◼   ► It really does look like a moving photo.

00:28:03 ◼   ► It looks like a real live photo.

00:28:05 ◼   ► And live photos are great, like you know,

00:28:08 ◼   ► they're great for when you didn't intend to take a video.

00:28:11 ◼   ► But when you do intend to take a video,

00:28:13 ◼   ► the quality you can get out of the iPhone camera

00:28:15 ◼   ► in 4K mode is just ridiculously good.

00:28:18 ◼   ► And for people like us who have kids

00:28:21 ◼   ► and get all sentimental about how cute our kids are,

00:28:23 ◼   ► it is just stunning how much this captures life

00:28:28 ◼   ► in the way it looks in real life.

00:28:30 ◼   ► And I'm very, very glad to have this

00:28:32 ◼   ► because almost every parent at some point says,

00:28:36 ◼   ► you know, I really wish I shot more video.

00:28:37 ◼   ► I really wish I shot more photos.

00:28:39 ◼   ► And I've been that way for video, certainly.

00:28:42 ◼   ► But we shoot plenty of photos,

00:28:43 ◼   ► but we don't shoot enough video.

00:28:45 ◼   ► - Yeah, I'm the same way.

00:28:46 ◼   ► I reflect and look back on the pictures and video

00:28:51 ◼   ► I've taken in the last year,

00:28:52 ◼   ► 'cause Declan's just over a year old now,

00:28:54 ◼   ► and I couldn't agree more that I've taken

00:28:56 ◼   ► a lot of really great pictures.

00:28:58 ◼   ► I'm really proud of the pictures I've taken,

00:28:59 ◼   ► but I haven't shot near enough video.

00:29:01 ◼   ► And I think that part of the problem is, is that it's not often, especially early in life,

00:29:07 ◼   ► like super early in life, that I can capture something that's quote-unquote "remarkable"

00:29:12 ◼   ► as it's happening.

00:29:13 ◼   ► And I think that that's the wrong attitude to have, and I should be better about just

00:29:16 ◼   ► capturing everyday life, because it'll be interesting to look at, maybe not in a year

00:29:20 ◼   ► or five years, but maybe in 10 or 20 years.

00:29:23 ◼   ► And so I'm trying to train myself to start taking video of things that seem really boring.

00:29:28 ◼   ► And like you were saying, Marco, I really, really like that this camera that's in my

00:29:35 ◼   ► pocket always takes 4K video, which is kind of an insurance policy, right?

00:29:42 ◼   ► There will eventually be video that is crisper than 4K, but sitting here in 2015, 4K is going

00:29:49 ◼   ► to look pretty good for a while, I think.

00:29:51 ◼   ► And so I'm really happy that I'm getting really high-resolution video out of the camera I

00:29:56 ◼   ► I am most likely to have on me always.

00:29:58 ◼   ► - Yeah, and it really does not look like

00:30:01 ◼   ► like an inferior quality camera.

00:30:03 ◼   ► Like when you're shooting 4K with the iPhone,

00:30:05 ◼   ► it does not seem inferior quality at all.

00:30:08 ◼   ► In fact, like, you know, compared to my like,

00:30:10 ◼   ► you know, quote, real camera,

00:30:11 ◼   ► which granted is not a dedicated video camera,

00:30:12 ◼   ► but a lot of people use these things for video.

00:30:14 ◼   ► The things like the audio are actually better.

00:30:16 ◼   ► The audio is way better on the iPhone.

00:30:18 ◼   ► The autofocus is way better on the iPhone.

00:30:21 ◼   ► It shouldn't be, there's no reason why it should be.

00:30:23 ◼   ► Hardware wise, the Sony kicks its butt in so many ways.

00:30:25 ◼   ► But the iPhone just has really nice automatic defaults

00:30:29 ◼   ► and does really good audio processing such that

00:30:31 ◼   ► you, with no effort, you get pretty great video

00:30:35 ◼   ► out of the iPhone compared to this professional camera.

00:30:39 ◼   ► It's amazing how good it is.

00:30:41 ◼   ► So yeah, I'm very thankful for how good the 6S is

00:30:45 ◼   ► at shooting video because it is making me shoot more video

00:30:48 ◼   ► and for parenting nostalgia purposes, that is just awesome.

00:30:53 ◼   ► - Don't forget to take videos of your kids screaming

00:30:55 ◼   ► and crying because we tend to take pictures of kids when they're smiling or happy, take

00:30:59 ◼   ► pictures of them when they're crying, and take videos so they can hear the noise that

00:31:02 ◼   ► they made because they won't believe you when you try to describe it. And sometimes it's

00:31:06 ◼   ► nice to look back when you're far, far distant from it and say, "I remember that terrible

00:31:09 ◼   ► screeching that didn't leave our house for X number." Declan always looks like he's smiling.

00:31:14 ◼   ► But anyway, at some point he has to be screaming and crying. Capture that.

00:31:17 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, we try to occasionally. It's funny you bring that up because just before the

00:31:21 ◼   ► show we were talking we when we were at my parents this past weekend we did like

00:31:27 ◼   ► a literally five or ten minute photo shoot with them where they took a bunch

00:31:31 ◼   ► of pictures of the three of us that would maybe be that will maybe use in

00:31:33 ◼   ► our Christmas card this year and I think the pictures look good but Declan's kind

00:31:38 ◼   ► of like nonplussed about the whole thing and you know oftentimes he's pretty

00:31:43 ◼   ► easily it's pretty easy to make him pretty happy and in these he's kind of

00:31:47 ◼   ► like whatever. And Aaron and I were discussing, well, you know, that is a better representation

00:31:52 ◼   ► of real life, you know, because he's usually a fairly chipper kid, but he's not always,

00:31:56 ◼   ► you know, super excited about everything. And so we were debating and didn't really

00:31:59 ◼   ► reach a conclusion before before I came in to record. Yeah, maybe we should just use

00:32:03 ◼   ► one of those and that's okay. And so well, I'm trying to do better about capturing the

00:32:09 ◼   ► annoyed Declan and the upset Declan as time goes on. All right, John, I think it's your

00:32:15 ◼   ► turn.

00:32:16 ◼   ► Well, you might think since I suggested this exercise that I have some really clever, interesting

00:32:21 ◼   ► things on my list, but I don't.

00:32:22 ◼   ► That was your guys' job.

00:32:23 ◼   ► I'm just the idea man.

00:32:27 ◼   ► So my first one might be a surprise, but I don't think so based on what I've talked about.

00:32:32 ◼   ► It's kind of like Marcos is like a qualified recommendation, but it is the first thing

00:32:36 ◼   ► I thought of.

00:32:37 ◼   ► The first tech thing I'm thankful for this year is photos.

00:32:40 ◼   ► Apple's photo thing where they finally gave you a way to have access to all your photos

00:32:44 ◼   ► everywhere and to put all your photos up in the cloud and charge you money for the storage

00:32:49 ◼   ► but the prices are not so bad.

00:32:51 ◼   ► I've had a lot of weird issues with it but I have to say all of the bugs and stuff that

00:32:56 ◼   ► I've encountered so far have been delays not roadblocks.

00:33:00 ◼   ► Like it's done weird things and it's been spooky and it's been weird but always eventually

00:33:04 ◼   ► at the end of it I come out the other side with a, as far as I'm aware, completely functioning

00:33:08 ◼   ► and working library that is all synced up and is in the cloud everywhere and is available

00:33:13 ◼   ► on phones and now on my Mac, the photo actually performs in an acceptable manner.

00:33:18 ◼   ► Most of the time still ignores my spacebar about 50% of the time when I hit it.

00:33:22 ◼   ► But anyway, it's got a long way to go, but I like the fact that this is a fairly new

00:33:25 ◼   ► program that's already been updated and the update has added minor features and improved

00:33:30 ◼   ► performance and I'm just so glad that Apple finally has gotten their photo library up

00:33:36 ◼   ► online and onto their servers and, you know, not stranded on one machine.

00:33:41 ◼   ► They still have a long way to go when it comes to dealing with families and multiple photo

00:33:46 ◼   ► libraries, but this is supposed to be a list of things I'm thankful for, not complaints.

00:33:50 ◼   ► So photos is my number one.

00:33:52 ◼   ► So this really does get the John Syracuse a seal of approval?

00:33:55 ◼   ► Wow.

00:33:56 ◼   ► Well, it's just because it's so much better than iPhoto.

00:33:59 ◼   ► And a lot of people use other services like they use Google or Amazon's cloud storage

00:34:04 ◼   ► or whatever.

00:34:05 ◼   ► I'm not saying this is the only solution for you.

00:34:06 ◼   ► In fact, it's probably not even the best solution for the Mac.

00:34:08 ◼   ► everything that I've heard Google's photo solution seems to be much more

00:34:11 ◼   ► reliable and have more features and be really cool I just we've always had our

00:34:15 ◼   ► photos in iPhoto and so photos is the obvious and only you know transition to

00:34:20 ◼   ► stay in the Apple you know completely the Apple ecosystem and iPhoto like

00:34:25 ◼   ► towards the ends of his life was really terrible but in the beginning and middle

00:34:29 ◼   ► it was pretty good especially when our library was smaller so I'm glad that

00:34:33 ◼   ► Apple's continued to develop a program that essentially did import my iPhoto

00:34:36 ◼   ► library in a sane way. I had to coalesce my ratings down into favorites, but I'm okay

00:34:41 ◼   ► with that. Yeah, so I still have plenty of complaints about it, but it's just so long

00:34:47 ◼   ► for them to do the obvious thing. We all talked about Everpix and Merced when it went out

00:34:52 ◼   ► of business and now Apple's finally getting including, so yeah, we can upload all their

00:34:56 ◼   ► pictures and make it so that they don't have to all be on the device, but you have access

00:35:00 ◼   ► to them everywhere. Good idea, Apple.

00:35:03 ◼   ► Now I've been very trigger shy on photos.

00:35:06 ◼   ► I am a pretty devout user of Picture Life, which I really, really like.

00:35:12 ◼   ► And I've been afraid to really get into photos just because, I don't know, it's

00:35:18 ◼   ► always felt like I didn't want to trust Apple with this because I don't want it

00:35:22 ◼   ► to go bad.

00:35:23 ◼   ► Even though I have backups, like I have Picture Life and I have two or three copies locally.

00:35:27 ◼   ► But it just scared me.

00:35:28 ◼   ► But to hear that it pretty much has a John Syracuse's seal of approval, that might change

00:35:31 ◼   ► my tune.

00:35:32 ◼   ► You shouldn't though, all I would say is it's like online backup.

00:35:35 ◼   ► You just have to have, everyone should be doing this.

00:35:38 ◼   ► If you have your photo library, there should be some place that you upload it to.

00:35:41 ◼   ► If it's picture life, if it's Google Photos, if it's Apple's Photos thing, wherever it

00:35:44 ◼   ► is, the whole point should be that, worst case scenario, you should still have online

00:35:49 ◼   ► backup and you should still have local backup and you should still have local clones.

00:35:52 ◼   ► But I like having yet another thing that is actually dedicated to photos.

00:35:57 ◼   ► Despite all those things I just described like using backblaze or you know time machine or super duper clones

00:36:03 ◼   ► You know you're backing up over your network to whatever you write

00:36:07 ◼   ► On top of that to have another thing that says oh and by the way

00:36:11 ◼   ► Every time you take a picture with your phone it gets uploaded to this cloud thing and then it gets downloaded onto your Mac and

00:36:15 ◼   ► Every time you import photos from an SD card onto your Mac it gets uploaded into the cloud and download onto your

00:36:20 ◼   ► Onto your phone, and you don't have to have all your photos everywhere

00:36:23 ◼   ► But on a particular Mac you can't say please download your photos everywhere the one with the big hard drive

00:36:27 ◼   ► So having that extra system on top of all your backups just makes me feel better about

00:36:32 ◼   ► pictures.

00:36:33 ◼   ► So it doesn't really matter if it's photos or picture life or you go back in time and

00:36:36 ◼   ► use Everpix or another product that we might discuss in the later part of the show if we

00:36:41 ◼   ► don't go long on this Thanksgiving stuff.

00:36:44 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm not specifically endorsing photos.

00:36:47 ◼   ► I'm endorsing the idea of Apple doing the obvious thing for photo services and it not

00:36:51 ◼   ► being terrible.

00:36:52 ◼   ► Yeah, and you know, and we had been talking and many people have been talking before they

00:36:56 ◼   ► announced this, of like, there are other various photo solutions, things like PhotoStream before

00:37:01 ◼   ► this, which is kind of like a half solution, and we've been calling them to do something

00:37:06 ◼   ► like this forever, but no one thought they actually would. And then, not only did they

00:37:11 ◼   ► do it, but it was good. Even from version 1.0, it wasn't perfect in 1.0, but it was

00:37:17 ◼   ► pretty good, and the imperfections were only limited really to the front-end app. The actual

00:37:23 ◼   ► end, the storage and the syncing engine, in my experience, and from what I gather, I think

00:37:28 ◼   ► most people's experience worked solidly from day one.

00:37:32 ◼   ► Well, there was always, like I said, there was bugs, but as long as they're not intractable.

00:37:37 ◼   ► A lot of times, early on, people are like, "I just have a bunch of black squares," or

00:37:40 ◼   ► in my thing, it would be like, "It thinks it has to re-upload everything, and it's mistaken

00:37:44 ◼   ► about that," or all sorts of problems where either operations are taking a long time,

00:37:50 ◼   ► or a couple over like crashing in the middle of the import or whatever.

00:37:53 ◼   ► But the bottom line is, is if you just kept trying, eventually it reached a point where

00:37:57 ◼   ► it settled down, which is not true of, for example, the time machine and spotlight thing

00:38:00 ◼   ► that I described fighting with last time that never settled down.

00:38:04 ◼   ► The best you can say about photos is sometimes it screwed up.

00:38:06 ◼   ► 1.0 had weird bugs, but in my personal experience is I never had to nuke and pave, right?

00:38:12 ◼   ► Some people did.

00:38:13 ◼   ► So, you know, obviously it's not without its bugs, but from my personal experiences, even

00:38:18 ◼   ► Even when it was weird, it just eventually powered through with me not doing anything

00:38:22 ◼   ► other than maybe repeatedly trying and settles into a state now where when I take a photo

00:38:28 ◼   ► or when my wife takes a photo because the library is hers, I don't want to get into

00:38:31 ◼   ► this, anyway, on the phone and then I go to the Mac, eventually the picture shows up and

00:38:36 ◼   ► that's all I ask for.

00:38:37 ◼   ► - Again, you guys keep naming stuff I like too, that really the Photos app is very, very

00:38:43 ◼   ► good and it was very good since 1.0 and it's only gotten better with 1.1 and I still do

00:38:49 ◼   ► all of my editing first for photos that I shoot with the big camera, I still do editing

00:38:55 ◼   ► first in Lightroom and then I kind of like pick and edit in Lightroom and then export

00:39:00 ◼   ► as full quality JPEG into photos because I don't care for photos editing tools too much

00:39:06 ◼   ► but for iPhone shot pictures, they're fine and on the iPhone, I like having that ability

00:39:12 ◼   ► and you know my fancy pictures,

00:39:15 ◼   ► once I do like a first pass edit with Lightroom,

00:39:18 ◼   ► I'm probably never gonna touch them after that.

00:39:20 ◼   ► So like, you know, just do it there,

00:39:22 ◼   ► export into Photo Library, then it's faster

00:39:24 ◼   ► 'cause it doesn't have this giant RAW file to deal with.

00:39:26 ◼   ► And it's nice, it really is nice.

00:39:28 ◼   ► I have no regrets about Photo Library.

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00:41:55 ◼   ► Marco, do you wanna go again,

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00:41:59 ◼   ► - As a snake draft?

00:42:00 ◼   ► No, Marco goes next.

00:42:01 ◼   ► All right, all right.

00:42:02 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:42:03 ◼   ► My number two, after all your other,

00:42:07 ◼   ► I gotta have like 10 now.

00:42:08 ◼   ► - After you're 1.2, 1.3.

00:42:11 ◼   ► - So my next one on the list, Jon,

00:42:13 ◼   ► is the continued growth of podcasting.

00:42:17 ◼   ► I have made, I have really focused my career recently

00:42:22 ◼   ► on podcasting on a number of fronts.

00:42:24 ◼   ► You know, we do this podcast,

00:42:26 ◼   ► I have the podcast with my wife, Top Four,

00:42:28 ◼   ► I have the podcast with Underscore David Smith

00:42:30 ◼   ► called Under the Radar,

00:42:31 ◼   ► and of course I make a podcast app called Overcast.

00:42:34 ◼   ► I really, see Casey, this is how you plug things.

00:42:36 ◼   ► Now I'm really, I'm just very thankful that this industry

00:42:41 ◼   ► continues to not only exist and be healthy,

00:42:43 ◼   ► but to thrive and to grow.

00:42:46 ◼   ► I really, I love podcasting.

00:42:48 ◼   ► I love it as a listener, I love it as a producer,

00:42:51 ◼   ► I love it as a programmer, it is great.

00:42:53 ◼   ► There is tons of opportunity as a programmer,

00:42:56 ◼   ► as a listener, podcaster just in my life.

00:42:59 ◼   ► I've been a podcast listener for long before

00:43:02 ◼   ► I was really involved in them,

00:43:03 ◼   ► and I just love listening to podcasts.

00:43:06 ◼   ► I don't have to explain that to most people

00:43:08 ◼   ► listening to this probably.

00:43:09 ◼   ► And also as a podcaster, I love the act of podcasting.

00:43:13 ◼   ► And I was, I kinda had this tweet vomiting,

00:43:16 ◼   ► what was it, tweet storm, what do they call it

00:43:17 ◼   ► when you just tweet too much?

00:43:18 ◼   ► - Tweet vomiting, I think that's it, you got it.

00:43:20 ◼   ► - Yeah, yeah.

00:43:21 ◼   ► So I tweeted all over the place earlier today about,

00:43:24 ◼   ► I've been pulling back a lot from blogging recently

00:43:28 ◼   ► because the expectations and the reactions

00:43:32 ◼   ► that you get out of blogging, for me,

00:43:34 ◼   ► have become just really negative. Whenever I've blogged about anything substantial recently,

00:43:40 ◼   ► I have often regretted it afterwards because the amount and the type of attention that

00:43:46 ◼   ► results from it is not good for me. It's not pleasant. It's not satisfying. It actually

00:43:53 ◼   ► just feels like a burden and has resulted in a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of tension,

00:43:59 ◼   ► a lot of flames and a lot of sensationalism that I just do not want.

00:44:05 ◼   ► Blogging also takes a long time. You know, writing is difficult. If you don't write,

00:44:09 ◼   ► you might not realize, but writing is really quite difficult and time consuming, especially

00:44:14 ◼   ► if you're trying to do it well. It's very, very hard to really do well. If I wanted to

00:44:20 ◼   ► do things, like if I wanted to write this as a blog post of just like, here I am talking

00:44:24 ◼   ► about how great podcasting is compared to blogging, this would take me probably four

00:44:29 ◼   ► hours to write as a blog post, and it wouldn't say it as well. Meanwhile, in a podcast, I

00:44:35 ◼   ► can, basically with no preparation, spew out random thoughts like this for about four minutes

00:44:41 ◼   ► and have it all covered and have expressed pretty much all the same ideas, possibly even

00:44:47 ◼   ► better, in a more informal way that you people listening to this can hear me as a human being.

00:44:54 ◼   ► You know me from the context of the rest of the show and for any other shows you've listened

00:44:57 ◼   ► that I've been on, you kind of give me the benefit

00:44:59 ◼   ► of the doubt because you have some sense

00:45:01 ◼   ► of my personality from this,

00:45:03 ◼   ► and it's just a much more humane medium.

00:45:06 ◼   ► So with podcasting, I don't get many flames.

00:45:09 ◼   ► I hardly ever get any kind of negativity

00:45:11 ◼   ► about things I say on a podcast.

00:45:13 ◼   ► I'm able to get out way more ideas per unit of time,

00:45:18 ◼   ► effort put into it, and it just feels better.

00:45:22 ◼   ► It's hard to explain in full how it feels,

00:45:26 ◼   ► but I just think for me it is right now

00:45:30 ◼   ► a more natural communication form and a safer one

00:45:33 ◼   ► because I'm kind of burnt out on the negativity

00:45:36 ◼   ► that I get whenever I write anything.

00:45:38 ◼   ► This isn't to say that I'm going to stop writing,

00:45:40 ◼   ► but I've certainly dramatically slowed down

00:45:42 ◼   ► and it's no coincidence.

00:45:43 ◼   ► As I do more podcasts, I write less

00:45:45 ◼   ► because I just find podcasting works better

00:45:49 ◼   ► for me right now at this point in my life.

00:45:51 ◼   ► - Yeah, I agree.

00:45:52 ◼   ► I've really been phenomenally lucky

00:45:54 ◼   ► to have been a part of neutral of this show of analog. My other show on Relay FM with

00:46:01 ◼   ► Mike Hurley.

00:46:02 ◼   ► Good job, Casey. Wait a plug.

00:46:04 ◼   ► Finally.

00:46:05 ◼   ► All right.

00:46:06 ◼   ► We keep setting you up for the shot. You just keep walking away.

00:46:08 ◼   ► Wow, that's both of you with a sports metaphor. I'm very proud of you both. Anyway, so I've

00:46:14 ◼   ► been very thankful to be a part of this and to be able to participate. And, you know,

00:46:18 ◼   ► As we've discussed some on the show and I've discussed quite a bit on analog, I have always

00:46:25 ◼   ► felt some modicum of guilt for kind of having just found my way on here by accident.

00:46:31 ◼   ► [music]

00:46:32 ◼   ► But no, the community's been really good to me and it's been a really phenomenal—I've

00:46:38 ◼   ► been phenomenally lucky to be a part of this and a part of the community that we're in.

00:46:43 ◼   ► Maybe next year we can finally convince you that, like, you didn't--you aren't just, like, here accidentally.

00:46:48 ◼   ► Like, you are a host of this show. You are one of three hosts of this show.

00:46:52 ◼   ► You are not just some guy who we stuck in a chair. Just sit there while we talk.

00:46:56 ◼   ► [laughs]

00:46:57 ◼   ► Yeah, on an infinite time scale, perhaps I'll believe that. But, um, but anyway, I can hear Jon rolling his eyes right now.

00:47:03 ◼   ► Um--

00:47:04 ◼   ► We're all here accidentally is what I was thinking.

00:47:06 ◼   ► [laughs]

00:47:07 ◼   ► That's true, actually.

00:47:09 ◼   ► That's true.

00:47:10 ◼   ► But no, but it's been really phenomenal and I couldn't be more thankful.

00:47:15 ◼   ► I was going to make this joke in a really cheesy way, but I'm going to say it genuinely.

00:47:19 ◼   ► I couldn't be more thankful to be doing it with you two fine gentlemen.

00:47:22 ◼   ► And I'm really, I'm so unbelievably proud of the work that we've done here and unbelievably

00:47:28 ◼   ► thankful that it's gone on as long as it has and that any of you listening to this right

00:47:33 ◼   ► now have stuck around and have listened to the show as long as you have.

00:47:38 ◼   ► So thank you to you guys and to everyone listening

00:47:41 ◼   ► because this has been really phenomenal.

00:47:44 ◼   ► - I think I would write more if I didn't have a job.

00:47:46 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:47:48 ◼   ► - Amen, brother.

00:47:49 ◼   ► - 'Cause Marco's right that like, you know,

00:47:51 ◼   ► if you podcast more, like you can get a lot of ideas out

00:47:54 ◼   ► that you would otherwise have to write up

00:47:56 ◼   ► and you feel like, well, I already said it on the podcast,

00:47:57 ◼   ► it's like out of my system.

00:47:58 ◼   ► You feel like if you have something

00:47:59 ◼   ► you just need to express, right?

00:48:02 ◼   ► But mainly for me, I feel like it's just,

00:48:05 ◼   ► it's not enough hours in the day.

00:48:06 ◼   ► And it's like Marco said,

00:48:07 ◼   ► just so much more efficient to just ramble for a couple minutes on a podcast and you

00:48:11 ◼   ► feel like, "Well, that got that out of my system," when it would take way longer to

00:48:15 ◼   ► write it in a nice form.

00:48:16 ◼   ► But I feel like if I had, if I didn't have to go to work every day, I would have all

00:48:21 ◼   ► those extra hours, and I probably would do the thing that Marco's done it occasionally

00:48:24 ◼   ► and so have I, although less so now that I don't write anything anymore practically.

00:48:29 ◼   ► But where you either talk about something on a podcast and that inspires you to write

00:48:33 ◼   ► it up, or you write something on your blog and that inspires you to talk about it on

00:48:37 ◼   ► the podcast. That synergy I still enjoy. I just never have time for the part where you

00:48:41 ◼   ► write anything.

00:48:42 ◼   ► [laughter]

00:48:43 ◼   ► fair enough. All right, so does that make it my turn I take it?

00:48:48 ◼   ► It does.

00:48:49 ◼   ► All right, so I'd actually, this is a little bit of a cop-out, but I have other options

00:48:53 ◼   ► as well. I actually am super thankful for my big semi-fancy camera. I have an Olympus

00:49:00 ◼   ► OM-D E-M10, which is a terrible name. It is a micro four-thirds camera, and for a long

00:49:06 ◼   ► especially after Marco and Tiff and Aaron and I got reacquainted after Marco and I lost

00:49:12 ◼   ► touch for a long time.

00:49:14 ◼   ► I've always been, I don't know if jealous is the word I'm looking for, but I've always

00:49:18 ◼   ► been intrigued by really nice camera equipment.

00:49:23 ◼   ► And I've always fancied myself, like interested in photography, but I wouldn't say I've ever

00:49:28 ◼   ► been particularly great at it.

00:49:30 ◼   ► But right before Declan was born, we finally bought this Micro Four Thirds camera, which

00:49:36 ◼   ► was a fair bit of money. I mean, it was something like $1,500 for the camera and a couple of

00:49:40 ◼   ► lenses, or the body and a couple of lenses. And I wasn't sure if it was really worth it,

00:49:44 ◼   ► and Aaron wasn't sure if it was really worth it because, you know, we had, I think, a 6,

00:49:48 ◼   ► an iPhone 6 at the time, which takes, it takes and took really great pictures. But I am so

00:49:54 ◼   ► thankful for big digital cameras still being a thing because having a camera with, with

00:50:02 ◼   ► glass that's bigger than a fingertip just makes for some incredible pictures. And it's

00:50:11 ◼   ► been really awesome to see some of the pictures I've been able to capture of not only Declan,

00:50:16 ◼   ► but my whole family and extended family through this camera that really in the grand scheme

00:50:20 ◼   ► of things is not that terribly much money. And so I'm extraordinarily thankful that it

00:50:24 ◼   ► exists and I'm extraordinarily thankful that I bought one and that I've been able to make

00:50:33 ◼   ► some decent pictures come out of this camera.

00:50:36 ◼   ► And so digital photography in general, not just live photos, that's what I'm thankful

00:50:40 ◼   ► for.

00:50:41 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm still jealous of all your nice cameras, but I felt like I'm going through my old photo

00:50:47 ◼   ► library because I was gathering photos for holiday things as you do, and also playing

00:50:53 ◼   ► with the performance of photos and the new iMac and enjoying the fact that I can scroll

00:50:57 ◼   ► and do stuff.

00:50:59 ◼   ► Although I got it, let me put an item in the notes about my latest photo complaints, because

00:51:02 ◼   ► I don't want to do it now, but I have one.

00:51:04 ◼   ► But anyway, we'll see that for the less thankful episode next week.

00:51:06 ◼   ► Yeah, back to our normally scheduled complaining.

00:51:11 ◼   ► But like as I scroll backwards in time towards when like my oldest child was a baby, you

00:51:17 ◼   ► do see the quality of the pictures go down.

00:51:20 ◼   ► I think it's going to be less pronounced for Declan because I think like, you know, the

00:51:25 ◼   ► curve is starting to level off a little bit because there's sort of the limit of the human

00:51:31 ◼   ► visual system and what feature sizes you can resolve at typical distances and blah, blah,

00:51:36 ◼   ► blah.

00:51:37 ◼   ► But we got our very first digital camera ever before my son was born, my first child.

00:51:44 ◼   ► And it was not very good quality because those were early days and you can really see it.

00:51:50 ◼   ► So it's kind of a shame I can't go back in time with a fancier camera.

00:51:52 ◼   ► And I think, well, maybe I'm thinking the same thing now with the current pictures I'm

00:51:55 ◼   ► taking with my kid with my camera that does not cost as much as a good used car.

00:52:00 ◼   ► And they're fine, they're good, but I can tell the difference between my camera and

00:52:06 ◼   ► a fancy camera.

00:52:07 ◼   ► Like, it's impossible not to be able to tell the difference, especially if there is not

00:52:11 ◼   ► 100% blazing sunlight on a clear day, then all of a sudden I can tell the difference.

00:52:16 ◼   ► So I very often do consider buying fancy camera and maybe someday I will, but for now I'm

00:52:21 ◼   ► limping along with my silly super zoom cameras and my iPhone.

00:52:26 ◼   ► So that's not that bad.

00:52:27 ◼   ► I'm trying to figure out what used car that's pretty good you could get for $1500.

00:52:32 ◼   ► Honda Accord.

00:52:34 ◼   ► Of course.

00:52:36 ◼   ► Of course.

00:52:37 ◼   ► Alright, so John, what else are you thankful for?

00:52:39 ◼   ► Alright, my next item on the list is probably not surprising and boring to everybody who

00:52:45 ◼   ► who is a tech nerd, including both of you,

00:52:47 ◼   ► but I put it on my list anyway because I feel like

00:52:50 ◼   ► this was not the summer of George,

00:52:52 ◼   ► this was the year of big SSDs in my house.

00:52:54 ◼   ► SSDs have been around forever.

00:52:57 ◼   ► Everyone's been like, "Oh, you gotta get an SSD,

00:52:58 ◼   ► it'll change your life, blah, blah, blah."

00:52:59 ◼   ► But I'm like, I'm not interested

00:53:01 ◼   ► until I can put all my stuff on it.

00:53:02 ◼   ► Even when Fusion Drive came out,

00:53:04 ◼   ► which I think was a really great idea,

00:53:05 ◼   ► and from all accounts has worked really well,

00:53:06 ◼   ► I'm like, but for me, I just wanna hold out

00:53:09 ◼   ► until I can put all my crap on one SSD.

00:53:11 ◼   ► I remember on podcasts many years ago,

00:53:13 ◼   ► Was it this podcast? Was it some other one?

00:53:15 ◼   ► I was like, I just want to hold out for a one terabyte SSD.

00:53:18 ◼   ► Like, oh, good luck.

00:53:19 ◼   ► It was going to be so expensive.

00:53:20 ◼   ► You can get one today, but it's like thousands of dollars.

00:53:22 ◼   ► Like, yeah, I just want to wait for them to be cheap.

00:53:24 ◼   ► Oh, well, you're gonna be waiting a while.

00:53:25 ◼   ► Well, I did.

00:53:26 ◼   ► I waited a really long time.

00:53:27 ◼   ► And eventually one terabyte SSDs became

00:53:30 ◼   ► less than ridiculously expensive.

00:53:32 ◼   ► Still very expensive.

00:53:34 ◼   ► But as soon as they came down in price

00:53:36 ◼   ► to like three digit prices, you know, 500, $600,

00:53:39 ◼   ► I got one for my Mac.

00:53:42 ◼   ► And it made a big difference, as you would imagine,

00:53:44 ◼   ► from spinning this to an SSD.

00:53:45 ◼   ► But the big thing for me is that they are big SSDs

00:53:48 ◼   ► that I can fit all of my stuff.

00:53:50 ◼   ► And the size of all of my stuff

00:53:52 ◼   ► has changed a lot over the years.

00:53:54 ◼   ► And like you're always trying to keep

00:53:57 ◼   ► the all of my stuff size somewhere within the bounds

00:54:00 ◼   ► of economical hard drive size,

00:54:02 ◼   ► but hard drives started getting so big,

00:54:03 ◼   ► like one terabyte, two terabyte, three terabyte,

00:54:05 ◼   ► four terabyte spinning disks.

00:54:07 ◼   ► It was like, oh no,

00:54:08 ◼   ► I gotta make sure my stuff doesn't fill up.

00:54:09 ◼   ► Well, it turns out my stuff has been growing more slowly

00:54:12 ◼   ► and my stuff comfortably fits in one terabyte.

00:54:15 ◼   ► So now I have a terabyte SSD.

00:54:16 ◼   ► When I bought the iMac, it has a terabyte SSD.

00:54:19 ◼   ► And now finally the two main computers in the house

00:54:23 ◼   ► are all SSD out of all of our stuff on them.

00:54:25 ◼   ► And I'm very happy about it.

00:54:27 ◼   ► - Yeah, I held out a really long time

00:54:30 ◼   ► before getting an SSD because the first computer I had

00:54:34 ◼   ► with an SSD was my old work computer,

00:54:36 ◼   ► which I got in the middle of 2012,

00:54:40 ◼   ► was a late 2011 Hi-Rez Antigler 15-inch MacBook Pro. And I had always thought, as I often

00:54:48 ◼   ► do with these things, "Oh, I'm sure it's faster, I'm sure it's great, but it can't possibly

00:54:54 ◼   ► make that much, oh my God, it makes that much of a difference." It's just night and day.

00:55:00 ◼   ► And because of that, I'm still rocking one of those, an identical computer to that work

00:55:04 ◼   ► one except with a platter hard drive as my personal computer, and I never touch the thing

00:55:10 ◼   ► because it's just unusable,

00:55:11 ◼   ► because it has a platter hard drive.

00:55:13 ◼   ► Get yourself an SSD, even if you get a little tiny one,

00:55:15 ◼   ► and you have to put all your other data elsewhere.

00:55:18 ◼   ► Just, it makes a world of difference.

00:55:20 ◼   ► Definitely spend the money.

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00:57:03 ◼   ► - All right, Marco, what's next for you?

00:57:05 ◼   ► So next for me is Slack.

00:57:07 ◼   ► - Interesting, okay.

00:57:08 ◼   ► - That's a good one, I would have put that on there

00:57:10 ◼   ► if I had thought of it.

00:57:11 ◼   ► - Yeah, I agree with that.

00:57:12 ◼   ► - So first of all, Slack is really just good.

00:57:14 ◼   ► As a product, Slack is good.

00:57:17 ◼   ► It is like, when I first saw it, I thought,

00:57:19 ◼   ► well, that's just IRC, just fancied up IRC.

00:57:24 ◼   ► And that's true, it is just fancied up IRC,

00:57:27 ◼   ► but it's really good.

00:57:28 ◼   ► Turns out fancied up IRC is really nice.

00:57:31 ◼   ► - I think the key feature is not that it's,

00:57:33 ◼   ► like fancy. IRC, the key feature is that like it is a name brand company thing.

00:57:38 ◼   ► You can get the Slack app for the platform of your choice and it is Slack.

00:57:42 ◼   ► IRC has always been like, I guess you like get an IRC client or something.

00:57:46 ◼   ► I don't really know how your client works.

00:57:48 ◼   ► Just type slash something like, you know, it was like a client.

00:57:51 ◼   ► Just just get Slack and then you've got it and you don't have to worry about

00:57:54 ◼   ► people figuring out it's all point and click and limited amount of command line

00:57:58 ◼   ► silliness.

00:57:59 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:57:59 ◼   ► And IRC, you know, really it has a lot of shortcomings compared to Slack, you

00:58:03 ◼   ► you know, not just the client thing,

00:58:04 ◼   ► but just like the complexity, the geeky roots of it,

00:58:07 ◼   ► and the limitations of it not being persistent

00:58:10 ◼   ► on the client, like you know, it's not, yeah.

00:58:12 ◼   ► IRC has its place, for sure, but Slack does too.

00:58:17 ◼   ► And I think Slack is by far the more friendly option

00:58:19 ◼   ► of the two, and it also just has way more features,

00:58:21 ◼   ► and it's pretty nice.

00:58:22 ◼   ► Anyway, so I like Slack a lot, and I like that,

00:58:26 ◼   ► kind of related to earlier how I mentioned

00:58:28 ◼   ► I was kind of worn out from negativity

00:58:32 ◼   ► I've gotten from being so public online, Slack allows me to have these small private

00:58:37 ◼   ► groups of friends that things that I would have previously posted to Twitter, now a lot

00:58:43 ◼   ► of those things are going to Slack. And a lot of the conversations that I'm having,

00:58:48 ◼   ► a lot of the keeping up with friends and what they're doing, a lot more of that is happening

00:58:52 ◼   ► in Slack now than on Twitter for me. And I think that's good because for so long we've

00:58:58 ◼   ► we've had things on the web where the best communication methods on the web were so often

00:59:04 ◼   ► public or at least semi-public, like Facebook, where it's supposed to be private most of

00:59:10 ◼   ► the time, but sometimes you mess up a setting and everything gets public or it's public

00:59:13 ◼   ► by default or whatever. It's nice to have something that is private. I do think there's

00:59:18 ◼   ► a place for those things and there's a balance to be struck. It's nice that we are willing

00:59:24 ◼   ► to explore that balance rather than just make everything public and ad-driven on the entire

00:59:30 ◼   ► internet in every way we communicate. And so it's nice. Having Slack for me has been

00:59:36 ◼   ► a nice kind of, I don't know, like a mental reprieve from everything being in public.

00:59:42 ◼   ► Because the fact is, so many of my friends are people who I've met in this business,

00:59:48 ◼   ► people like you guys who I work with, who I don't live near. It's not like I can

00:59:53 ◼   ► and have lunch with you guys every day,

00:59:56 ◼   ► I work at home for myself.

00:59:58 ◼   ► I have lunch with my wife and my kid and my dog,

01:00:01 ◼   ► but my friend interactions are limited

01:00:02 ◼   ► mostly to online stuff.

01:00:04 ◼   ► So it's nice to have just like a kind of like private,

01:00:06 ◼   ► safe place for that to happen.

01:00:08 ◼   ► And not only does Slack provide that for me,

01:00:11 ◼   ► but from what I hear from a lot of other people,

01:00:13 ◼   ► it provides that to lots of people.

01:00:14 ◼   ► It isn't just like a that's fine for Marco thing,

01:00:17 ◼   ► like a lot of people use Slack this way

01:00:20 ◼   ► in small groups with their friends.

01:00:21 ◼   ► And it's really great for that.

01:00:22 ◼   ► I'm very thankful that such a thing not only exists,

01:00:26 ◼   ► but is getting enough traction to be useful.

01:00:28 ◼   ► - The comedy of this is that, as we record,

01:00:31 ◼   ► today Slack was down for many people for like half the day.

01:00:34 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:00:35 ◼   ► - I wasn't gonna mention that, but yeah.

01:00:36 ◼   ► - Doesn't matter.

01:00:37 ◼   ► This is the first time I've ever seen downtime.

01:00:40 ◼   ► - This is the honeymoon period

01:00:41 ◼   ► before Marco goes on a big rant

01:00:42 ◼   ► about Slack being a centralized thing

01:00:44 ◼   ► under control by a single company

01:00:45 ◼   ► and how they're screwing all the clients

01:00:47 ◼   ► and messing up their API

01:00:49 ◼   ► and are foisting ads on people who use Stack.

01:00:51 ◼   ► So enjoy it while it let-- no, I'm being negative.

01:00:53 ◼   ► Anyway, I echo everything that Marco said, basically,

01:00:56 ◼   ► like in the big continuum of between public and like I am

01:00:59 ◼   ► is the private thing.

01:01:00 ◼   ► It's like a small group, one on one, completely private.

01:01:03 ◼   ► You have instant message.

01:01:04 ◼   ► And then out in public, you have web forums or comments

01:01:08 ◼   ► or bulletin boards and then later things like Twitter

01:01:10 ◼   ► and stuff like that.

01:01:11 ◼   ► And then Slack is a nice middle ground,

01:01:13 ◼   ► kind of the same middle ground that Google+

01:01:14 ◼   ► was going for but missed, where it's not one to one like I am

01:01:18 ◼   ► and it's not in public, or email for that matter,

01:01:21 ◼   ► and it's not in public like message boards or Twitter,

01:01:24 ◼   ► it's in between and it's nice.

01:01:25 ◼   ► The only downside of course is now that we're all

01:01:27 ◼   ► in a million different slacks because these in between

01:01:29 ◼   ► things are sort of self organizing groups of people

01:01:33 ◼   ► around particular interests or institutions or whatever.

01:01:37 ◼   ► And those circles overlap a lot,

01:01:39 ◼   ► but we have to be in all of them.

01:01:40 ◼   ► If you want to keep up with this group of friends

01:01:42 ◼   ► and that group of friends and that group of friends,

01:01:43 ◼   ► then you're in three slacks that form

01:01:45 ◼   ► this weird Venn diagram.

01:01:46 ◼   ► Sometimes I have trouble keeping track of what slack I said which it was all in the

01:01:52 ◼   ► same application.

01:01:53 ◼   ► It's one stupid single window.

01:01:54 ◼   ► Work on that guys.

01:01:55 ◼   ► You know I like windows.

01:01:57 ◼   ► John Siracusa says, "I need more windows please.

01:02:00 ◼   ► What a surprise."

01:02:01 ◼   ► More than one?

01:02:02 ◼   ► Call me crazy.

01:02:03 ◼   ► I've got a big screen here.

01:02:06 ◼   ► I lose track of where I said things and which group of friends I said them to and who is

01:02:11 ◼   ► on what page about what.

01:02:13 ◼   ► But I think anyway, I think that's a good problem to have and I have liked having this

01:02:16 ◼   ► middle ground, even though it has meant one more place for me to check for things that

01:02:21 ◼   ► have gone on. I am not a Slack completionist, so I don't have that problem. But still, I

01:02:26 ◼   ► do have to. And Slack, to its credit, gives you lots of really cool options for how you

01:02:30 ◼   ► want to be notified and about what. So I like it, too. I'm sad that I didn't put it on my

01:02:38 ◼   ► list. No, I'm the Marco stealing things from other people's lists. I should have thought

01:02:41 ◼   ► of that. Marco is the TIFF.

01:02:44 ◼   ► I completely agree with Slack.

01:02:46 ◼   ► And it doesn't matter who your particular group of friends is or whatever the case may

01:02:51 ◼   ► be, just having a group of people, even be it friends or family, that you can communicate

01:02:57 ◼   ► with often geographically all over the place is just really fantastic.

01:03:02 ◼   ► And one of the things I love about Slack that has in some ways ruined me for like iMessage

01:03:08 ◼   ► and other things is the rich text previews or whatever you call them.

01:03:12 ◼   ► So if you put a link to a tweet into a Slack channel, it will do its best to expand that

01:03:18 ◼   ► tweet and show you the contents of the tweet and maybe even a picture if there's media

01:03:21 ◼   ► attached.

01:03:22 ◼   ► And oh my god, I wish I could have that for iMessage.

01:03:26 ◼   ► That would be so, so useful.

01:03:28 ◼   ► And I really love that feature.

01:03:29 ◼   ► It's such a silly thing, but it makes a world of difference.

01:03:32 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:03:33 ◼   ► So it's my turn.

01:03:34 ◼   ► This is a weird one.

01:03:35 ◼   ► I am super thankful for my lightning to HDMI adapter, which is an odd thing to say. But

01:03:45 ◼   ► this past weekend, as with many weekends in the fall, Aaron and I went to see the University

01:03:53 ◼   ► of Virginia play football. Aaron is a Wahoo. I am actually a Hokie, which means I went

01:03:57 ◼   ► to Virginia Tech. We are big rivals. Just go with it, Marco.

01:04:00 ◼   ► This is like when John talked about Destiny. This is just another language.

01:04:03 ◼   ► Yep.

01:04:04 ◼   ► We're gonna cut this out just like the Cooley stuff, right?

01:04:06 ◼   ► [laughter]

01:04:07 ◼   ► That cuts deep, John. So anyway, so, um, we, so basically we are big rival schools.

01:04:13 ◼   ► So Marco, this is like TIFF going to Michigan. Does that make more sense to you?

01:04:17 ◼   ► Yes. That is the one sports rivalry that I'm familiar with, simply because I grew up in Columbus, so that's...

01:04:22 ◼   ► You couldn't not know about that one.

01:04:25 ◼   ► Fun fact, the correct answer is actually Penn State. But anyway, the point is that...

01:04:28 ◼   ► Wait, what?

01:04:29 ◼   ► ...we went to rival schools. Just let it go.

01:04:31 ◼   ► Wait, wait, like OSU and Penn State are rivals?

01:04:34 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:04:35 ◼   ► Not Michigan?

01:04:36 ◼   ► And Michigan.

01:04:37 ◼   ► Well, no, no, no.

01:04:38 ◼   ► You are right to say Michigan and Ohio State, but in the same conference as Penn State,

01:04:43 ◼   ► both my younger brothers went to Penn State, so that's where my association is.

01:04:49 ◼   ► But anyway, so the point, I bring all this up, because we went tailgating.

01:04:52 ◼   ► Sports.

01:04:53 ◼   ► Yay, sports ball!

01:04:54 ◼   ► So when we went tailgating, you know, we've, over the years, we've been doing this for

01:04:57 ◼   ► few years now. We've upgraded our tailgate setup from, you know, just a grill to a grill

01:05:04 ◼   ► and a kind of okay generator to a grill and a kind of fancy generator and so grill, fancy

01:05:12 ◼   ► generator and TV. And this year, this past weekend actually, it just so happened that

01:05:19 ◼   ► my beloved Virginia Tech Hokies were playing a noon game that I really wanted to watch

01:05:25 ◼   ► and the UVA game was at 3.30.

01:05:27 ◼   ► And so we were tailgating while the Hokies were playing,

01:05:31 ◼   ► and it was on ESPN.

01:05:33 ◼   ► The problem with that is we have an over-the-air antenna

01:05:35 ◼   ► that we bring to the tailgate.

01:05:36 ◼   ► And it's full HD, so we can watch all the local channels

01:05:40 ◼   ► in Charlottesville on HD in the middle of a parking lot,

01:05:44 ◼   ► basically, at the University of Virginia,

01:05:46 ◼   ► which is really incredible.

01:05:47 ◼   ► And I'm thankful for that, too.

01:05:48 ◼   ► But in this case, it was ESPN.

01:05:51 ◼   ► And so what I did was I got on my phone,

01:05:54 ◼   ► And I plugged my phone into the Lightning T HDMI adapter, plugged an HDMI cable from

01:05:58 ◼   ► that into the TV, and we were able to watch my beloved Virginia Tech Hokies lose as we're

01:06:05 ◼   ► sitting in the middle of this parking lot at UVA.

01:06:08 ◼   ► Which is just, I mean, to think about it, like, I remember watching Nickelodeon as a

01:06:12 ◼   ► kid and watching, like, Double Dare and some of those game shows, and you would see that,

01:06:18 ◼   ► like, the grand prize was this god-awful terrible video phone.

01:06:22 ◼   ► But this was like, you know, the early 90s.

01:06:25 ◼   ► And so you could probably only video dial like two other people in the entire country.

01:06:29 ◼   ► But you know, it was this little postage stamp size, like black and white video phone, and

01:06:34 ◼   ► it was amazing.

01:06:37 ◼   ► And I remember thinking to myself, how could that possibly be that you could see video,

01:06:41 ◼   ► you know, on a telephone?

01:06:43 ◼   ► And then fast forward, what is it, 15, 20 years, whatever the case may be, and I'm sitting

01:06:47 ◼   ► in a parking lot with a full 32 inch TV showing a picture that's coming off my cellular telephone.

01:06:53 ◼   ► Like it's just ridiculous that that's a possibility. And so this little obscenely expensive $50

01:07:00 ◼   ► lightning to HDMI adapter made all that possible. That and my data, which of course it was like two

01:07:06 ◼   ► weeks ago that I finally ditched my unlimited data plan, which is perhaps not a good choice.

01:07:09 ◼   ► But so it only cost me like two or three gigs of data for the two or three hours that we were

01:07:14 ◼   ► watching the football game.

01:07:16 ◼   ► So I'm really thankful for that.

01:07:18 ◼   ► You should take your old Apple TV once you get your new one, duct tape it to the back

01:07:22 ◼   ► of your TV, and then you just airplay it.

01:07:23 ◼   ► You can just airplay to it.

01:07:24 ◼   ► You can get a refund on the $50 cable that'll cut into the price of the new Apple TV.

01:07:27 ◼   ► Yeah, and then you could also charge your phone.

01:07:29 ◼   ► Yeah, that makes it so much better.

01:07:31 ◼   ► Well, I was able to charge my phone because one of the ports on the Lightning to HDMI

01:07:35 ◼   ► adapter is another Lightning port.

01:07:37 ◼   ► Oh, I didn't know that.

01:07:39 ◼   ► Yeah, so it passes through power, and since we had a generator right there, I passed through

01:07:43 ◼   ► power to the phone, which worked out really well.

01:07:45 ◼   ► I'm concerned about how much noxious fumes you're inhaling with this generator that's

01:07:49 ◼   ► like running next to your car in a parking lot with a bunch of other people, or is this

01:07:53 ◼   ► a Mr. Fusion where you just put banana peels into it?

01:07:55 ◼   ► No, no, no. So it's actually a very, very fancy generator. It's not ours. It's one of

01:07:59 ◼   ► the guys we tailgate with. But it's an inverter generator, so it emits a perfect sine wave,

01:08:04 ◼   ► which is pretty cool.

01:08:05 ◼   ► No, no, I'm talking about the...

01:08:07 ◼   ► No, no, no, no, no. I know. I understand what you're saying. I was just an aside. So,

01:08:12 ◼   ► But we bring like these 50-foot extension cords. So the thing is like 50 feet away from us,

01:08:16 ◼   ► probably near somebody else. But it's in the other air, right? Okay, I got it.

01:08:20 ◼   ► Not our problem. And strictly speaking, like where we tailgate is actually not, it's not a

01:08:26 ◼   ► parking lot. We're in a little field in front of the astronomy building, EVA, don't be creepy.

01:08:31 ◼   ► And so it's a small field. And we try to point the generator pretty much away from everyone else,

01:08:37 ◼   ► but it's not near us. And yet I remain concerned. How about just like, can't you just have Marco

01:08:42 ◼   ► come and just park his Tesla next to you and use the big battery? If I would kill to have Marco

01:08:48 ◼   ► come to a football game with me that would be amazing. But no, it's not quite that simple.

01:08:53 ◼   ► But I think that would do it though. Like the generator, you just need electric power, right?

01:08:56 ◼   ► So if you go there in an electric car with a huge battery fully charged, that'll do you for

01:09:02 ◼   ► tailgating, right? Probably. Maybe. I mean the TV we use is old so it's probably not very efficient.

01:09:08 ◼   ► But there are times when we'll use like a griddle. So for example this upcoming weekend,

01:09:12 ◼   ► it's our big game. It's Aaron's team and my team playing each other, and this year it's in

01:09:17 ◼   ► Charlottesville, so we're going to go. And we are probably going to use a griddle, which is a heating

01:09:23 ◼   ► element, which is, you know, a million watts. And so for that you'd probably want a generator

01:09:27 ◼   ► because it would drain Marco's Phantom Tesla in like three and a half seconds.

01:09:32 ◼   ► I don't think it would.

01:09:32 ◼   ► Being a little facetious here, but...

01:09:35 ◼   ► Let's do the math. Someone in this chat room, get out of the slide rule.

01:09:38 ◼   ► - Well, for one thing, I know that to charge a Tesla

01:09:43 ◼   ► from like a 40 amp outlet still takes like 10 hours.

01:09:47 ◼   ► You don't realize how much power they have.

01:09:49 ◼   ► Now granted, it's not perfectly efficient

01:09:50 ◼   ► while converting the power, but it takes a ridiculous

01:09:53 ◼   ► amount of power to move a car like that.

01:09:55 ◼   ► - Yeah, you should realize how much power it is just by

01:09:58 ◼   ► is not even doing the math, by thinking about

01:10:00 ◼   ► they're taking this multi-thousand dollar car

01:10:03 ◼   ► and accelerating it and decelerating it

01:10:05 ◼   ► and pushing it through the wind for, you know, 300 miles.

01:10:08 ◼   ► Anyway, this is the future of tailgating.

01:10:10 ◼   ► Mark my words, electric powered pickup trucks,

01:10:12 ◼   ► or the entire bed is a bunch of lithium-ion batteries.

01:10:15 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:10:16 ◼   ► - You're probably right.

01:10:17 ◼   ► Quick real-time follow-up, two quick things.

01:10:19 ◼   ► First of all, it occurred to me that tailgating

01:10:21 ◼   ► is probably a uniquely American thing.

01:10:23 ◼   ► - I sure hope so.

01:10:24 ◼   ► - Maybe the Australians get it,

01:10:25 ◼   ► 'cause they're America-lite.

01:10:27 ◼   ► - Oh, God, please email Casey.

01:10:29 ◼   ► - Yeah, please email me.

01:10:30 ◼   ► I didn't mean that in a defensive way,

01:10:31 ◼   ► but I'm screwed now.

01:10:32 ◼   ► Anyway, so what that means is,

01:10:34 ◼   ► So before a football game or egg ball game, depending on how you look at it, a lot of

01:10:39 ◼   ► times what people will do is they will go to the parking lot outside the stadium they're

01:10:44 ◼   ► going to and they will consume adult beverages and, you know, just kind of chat and hang

01:10:50 ◼   ► out and grill food and eat food and do all the things you would expect a bunch of Americans

01:10:55 ◼   ► to do, but do it outside.

01:10:57 ◼   ► And so some people take it a little more seriously, like we do, and bring a generator so they

01:11:00 ◼   ► can watch other football games while they're waiting to watch the football game they want

01:11:04 ◼   ► to see. That's what tailgating is, and the etymology there is because oftentimes you'll

01:11:10 ◼   ► hang out around the tailgate of a pickup truck, although neither of us have pickup trucks.

01:11:15 ◼   ► And the other piece of real-time follow-up, it is not the Lightning to HDMI adapter. The

01:11:18 ◼   ► official name is Lightning Digital AV Adapter, which I would have known had I done my homework.

01:11:23 ◼   ► So John, your turn.

01:11:25 ◼   ► John: This is my last one on my list, unless I can think of something else before we do

01:11:29 ◼   ► the next round, although we're coming to the end of the show anyway, so maybe this will

01:11:31 ◼   ► be...

01:11:32 ◼   ► one more I want to talk about but carry I know so well you guys will have the lightning round after this

01:11:36 ◼   ► In case you guys did his lightning item. I know I was about to say I

01:11:40 ◼   ► Was too early on that one this one should be easy to guess for anyone who's been listening to me on this or any other

01:11:46 ◼   ► Podcast the my third item is destiny

01:11:49 ◼   ► Which counts of course tech product? Yeah?

01:11:51 ◼   ► Like not since quake 3 arena and unreal tournament 2004 have I spent this much time playing a single video game my playstation 4 is

01:12:00 ◼   ► Essentially a destiny machine especially since I've removed it from the television for terrible burn-in reasons

01:12:05 ◼   ► All I do on that thing is play destiny and I play it a lot and I'm afraid to look at the total number

01:12:11 ◼   ► of hours recently about

01:12:13 ◼   ► You would think it would get boring but you know obviously it's an MMO

01:12:17 ◼   ► So you're playing with other people and that extends life of the game

01:12:19 ◼   ► It's the same reason quick through arena and unreal tournament were for so long because you are playing with other people

01:12:24 ◼   ► So the game is much less predictable than playing like a single-player game

01:12:28 ◼   ► Or a game against computer-controlled opponents because people are inscrutable

01:12:31 ◼   ► And kind of like quick theory in an unreal tournament. There is a steady flow of content

01:12:37 ◼   ► Back in the old days it was maps that other people would make so you download new wraps for

01:12:42 ◼   ► Quake or new maps for unreal and you try them out sometimes the new maps would come from the people who made the games most

01:12:47 ◼   ► of the times not and in the case of

01:12:50 ◼   ► Destiny all the new contents coming from Bungie

01:12:53 ◼   ► But they've had a steady stream of expansions that yes you pay for but like I was talking about this someone

01:12:58 ◼   ► recently like the dollar per hour of enjoyment I've gotten a destiny there

01:13:02 ◼   ► its ratio is phenomenal compared to pretty much anything else like because

01:13:07 ◼   ► yeah it is 60 bucks for the game 30 bucks for an expansion 40 bucks or no

01:13:10 ◼   ► expansion but do the division on the number of hours and you're like oh this

01:13:14 ◼   ► is like the cheapest entertainment dollars ever so the expansions really

01:13:18 ◼   ► have kept it fresh for me and you know the constant adjustments to the game and

01:13:24 ◼   ► the systems in the game and the items and everything that Bungie is doing for

01:13:26 ◼   ► Just from week to week not just for the expansions, but from week to week

01:13:29 ◼   ► They're doing little tweaks here and there and explaining why they do them. That's an interesting sort of surrounding

01:13:34 ◼   ► Context for the game where there's the game and then there's the talking about the game

01:13:39 ◼   ► Then there's the reading about the future things that are gonna be down in the game, and I think for the most part

01:13:43 ◼   ► Bungie has been keeping things moving in the right direction

01:13:46 ◼   ► It's a few you know questionable decisions that they're going back and forth on but 2.0 the big 2.0 change to the entire game

01:13:52 ◼   ► engine really addressed a lot of the worst parts of the progression system in the early

01:13:57 ◼   ► game. So Destiny is my first MMO because I generally hate MMOs but I really like first

01:14:03 ◼   ► person shooter games and Destiny is a really good first person shooter and as far as I

01:14:08 ◼   ► can tell having never played any MMOs before I think it's a really fun MMO too so thumbs

01:14:12 ◼   ► up on Destiny. Did you ever get into Counter Strike out of curiosity? It's not quite the

01:14:17 ◼   ► same kind of game. I mean but it is though. You're playing against other human beings

01:14:21 ◼   ► and so it's much more interesting than playing it by yourself.

01:14:23 ◼   ► I tend to stay away from the more militaristic first-person shooters.

01:14:30 ◼   ► They've never really appealed to...

01:14:32 ◼   ► The closer they get to real-life guns,

01:14:34 ◼   ► because I'm not a real-life gun aficionado,

01:14:37 ◼   ► so the closer they get to real-life guns and real-life military,

01:14:40 ◼   ► I just find it off-putting, even though Counter-Strike is still, you know,

01:14:42 ◼   ► basically like I say about Quick 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament,

01:14:46 ◼   ► it's basically a game of tag.

01:14:47 ◼   ► It has very little to do with actual guns,

01:14:50 ◼   ► but it's close enough that it sort of repels me a little bit, which is why I prefer completely fantastical, you know,

01:14:56 ◼   ► space marines or shooting aliens or powered armor or whatever other weird stuff you've got in franchises like

01:15:03 ◼   ► Halo or even something like Gears of War kind of, I guess, but I tend to stay away from the military things.

01:15:10 ◼   ► And Destiny, I guess technically they're kind of the military, but it's really just like lasers and pew pew and space aliens.

01:15:15 ◼   ► [laughter]

01:15:18 ◼   ► I only ask because I logged a lot of time playing Counter-Strike when I was at Virginia Tech and not doing the things

01:15:24 ◼   ► I should have been doing like studying. But yeah, I loved Counter-Strike and I loved Quake as well. I think Quake 2

01:15:30 ◼   ► was so long ago. I think that was my jam, but gosh, it was forever ago.

01:15:34 ◼   ► All right.

01:15:37 ◼   ► Does that mean we're out of sponsors? So I guess Marco, want to do your lightning round entry?

01:15:42 ◼   ► It's it's a little bit this barely made on the list really because I'm still a little bit like 50/50 on how much I like

01:15:49 ◼   ► It but pretty safe to number six

01:15:51 ◼   ► I'm gonna go with the Apple watch

01:15:55 ◼   ► because it really has

01:15:57 ◼   ► driven a positive influence in my life and

01:16:01 ◼   ► The Apple watch itself. I keep this is another one of those blog posts

01:16:04 ◼   ► I keep trying to write and starting to write and failing to write

01:16:07 ◼   ► I keep meaning to write my Apple Watch six months in post,

01:16:11 ◼   ► which of course now it's like seven months in.

01:16:14 ◼   ► (laughs)

01:16:14 ◼   ► I started writing it when it was three months in.

01:16:17 ◼   ► And the Apple Watch, it's easy to just look at it now

01:16:22 ◼   ► and assume it's always been here

01:16:23 ◼   ► because I do wear mine every day.

01:16:26 ◼   ► I've tried going without it for a few days

01:16:28 ◼   ► and I don't miss it as much as I think I would

01:16:32 ◼   ► before I do it.

01:16:33 ◼   ► And there are parts of it that haven't been

01:16:36 ◼   ► as sticky for me just because they aren't that reliable.

01:16:40 ◼   ► And the things that I like about it,

01:16:44 ◼   ► there's an asterisk after each one.

01:16:46 ◼   ► I do love it for notifications.

01:16:48 ◼   ► I do love it for very quick Siri things.

01:16:52 ◼   ► I do love it for the activity tracking.

01:16:55 ◼   ► And I do love having the weather thing on the face

01:16:58 ◼   ► and the other complications.

01:16:59 ◼   ► But all those things are kinda like 75% there.

01:17:04 ◼   ► So this is kinda tentatively there.

01:17:06 ◼   ► I'm very happy this product exists,

01:17:09 ◼   ► but I think it still needs a lot more work

01:17:12 ◼   ► on both the hardware and the software

01:17:14 ◼   ► before it's very good.

01:17:15 ◼   ► But I do like where it is now,

01:17:17 ◼   ► and it did something that I didn't think was possible,

01:17:20 ◼   ► which is it transformed me into being a watch person.

01:17:24 ◼   ► As I mentioned when it was new,

01:17:26 ◼   ► I hadn't worn a watch before this since high school.

01:17:29 ◼   ► Now that we're in the cell phone revolution,

01:17:31 ◼   ► I really didn't see the point of a watch.

01:17:33 ◼   ► But now that I have one, I like it a lot,

01:17:35 ◼   ► And so now I'm starting to look at other watches

01:17:37 ◼   ► that don't have screens and don't have batteries.

01:17:41 ◼   ► - That's when you need another expensive hobby, right?

01:17:44 ◼   ► - Isn't that great?

01:17:45 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah.

01:17:46 ◼   ► And I'm starting to take joy in the design of nice watches.

01:17:51 ◼   ► And so it's kinda nice, you know?

01:17:54 ◼   ► So we'll see what happens.

01:17:56 ◼   ► But I like the Apple Watch in general.

01:17:59 ◼   ► It's a good product.

01:18:00 ◼   ► I wouldn't say it's necessarily a great one yet,

01:18:03 ◼   ► but it is a good product now.

01:18:05 ◼   ► and it has driven positive change in my life.

01:18:07 ◼   ► So I appreciate that.

01:18:09 ◼   ► - You know, it's funny you bring up the Apple Watch

01:18:11 ◼   ► as your lightning round entry,

01:18:12 ◼   ► because my lightning round entry is the Apple Watch.

01:18:15 ◼   ► I was going to say the exact same thing,

01:18:17 ◼   ► and I think the piece that is most startling to me

01:18:22 ◼   ► is the notifications, which you brought up a moment ago.

01:18:27 ◼   ► I haven't heard my phone,

01:18:30 ◼   ► except when I've accidentally turned the ringer back on,

01:18:33 ◼   ► since I received my Apple Watch, which was what,

01:18:36 ◼   ► like May or something like that?

01:18:37 ◼   ► - Yeah, about that.

01:18:38 ◼   ► - So I haven't heard my phone since then,

01:18:41 ◼   ► and I think that's a good thing.

01:18:43 ◼   ► And I had, even before the Apple Watch,

01:18:46 ◼   ► I had called a lot of my notifications

01:18:48 ◼   ► and brought that number way, way, way down.

01:18:50 ◼   ► And I turned off a lot of Twitter notifications.

01:18:52 ◼   ► I turned off Instagram notifications,

01:18:54 ◼   ► a lot of those that I really didn't need

01:18:56 ◼   ► to be notified about, I had turned off.

01:18:58 ◼   ► And even with all of those notifications off,

01:19:02 ◼   ► I haven't turned those back on since I've gotten the watch,

01:19:04 ◼   ► but even what remains, things like text messages,

01:19:08 ◼   ► or emails from VIPs or what have you,

01:19:11 ◼   ► nobody else has to know when that stuff is happening.

01:19:14 ◼   ► I get a nice little tap tap tap on my wrist,

01:19:16 ◼   ► and that's that.

01:19:17 ◼   ► And I really, really, really love that.

01:19:21 ◼   ► And I too have, in my list of things to do,

01:19:24 ◼   ► my six months in, now seven months in Apple Watch post,

01:19:27 ◼   ► I too have been procrastinating

01:19:29 ◼   ► because I haven't figured out what my angle is really,

01:19:32 ◼   ► But I completely concur with you that, especially for a device that has with most things I hemmed

01:19:38 ◼   ► and hawed about, I'm really glad I got it.

01:19:41 ◼   ► I love it so much for just keeping that noise clutter out of my life.

01:19:48 ◼   ► And yes, of course, I'm still getting notified about these things, but I don't know, just

01:19:51 ◼   ► having it be silent, I just like so much.

01:19:55 ◼   ► And maybe it's just because I feel like it's kind of disrespectful to have your devices

01:19:58 ◼   ► binging and bonging while other people are around.

01:20:02 ◼   ► And I just love that my phone has been silent since May, and that's really awesome.

01:20:06 ◼   ► Bing bong!

01:20:07 ◼   ► Oh, God, now I'm sad.

01:20:10 ◼   ► Now I'm sad.

01:20:11 ◼   ► Yeah, you brought it up.

01:20:12 ◼   ► I was going to say, if you two had not mentioned the Apple Watch, it would have been weird

01:20:16 ◼   ► to have none of us mention Apple's new product line, like the latest big thing—I guess

01:20:25 ◼   ► we're not counting Apple TV, which none of us also mentioned. But the latest big thing from Apple,

01:20:29 ◼   ► the Apple Watch, kind of towards the end of our list. I probably wouldn't put it on mine,

01:20:34 ◼   ► mostly because the Apple Watch has not changed the fact that I am not a watch person. I do not

01:20:40 ◼   ► like things attached to my wrist. My wife is currently real-time heckling me about how often

01:20:44 ◼   ► I forget to put my watch on. And my plan, what I'm doing is I plan to always wear it to work,

01:20:51 ◼   ► but I very often forget. When I do wear it to work, I find it convenient, just like you said

01:20:55 ◼   ► Casey, to have the little tap taps on the wrist, to be able to have it track. Even though I don't

01:21:02 ◼   ► do what Marco does with actually trying to fill the circles and stuff, I do like to get the stand

01:21:06 ◼   ► up reminders and I do make a little bit of extra effort to be more mobile at work. Because it

01:21:10 ◼   ► basically reminds you, it's like all those apps I have run various times for RSI and my Mac to

01:21:15 ◼   ► to remind you, hey, I know you're kind of like in the zone

01:21:18 ◼   ► on some issue, but remember to get up and just like,

01:21:22 ◼   ► go refill your water cup or, you know,

01:21:24 ◼   ► take a walk around or do something else.

01:21:26 ◼   ► And I do find it especially convenient,

01:21:29 ◼   ► so I don't have to take out my phone,

01:21:33 ◼   ► even if my phone is sitting on the desk,

01:21:35 ◼   ► it just seems so much, and even with touch ID,

01:21:38 ◼   ► it seems like so much more of an effort

01:21:39 ◼   ► to pick the thing up, put my thumb on the thing

01:21:41 ◼   ► on my incredibly slow iPhone 6 without the S

01:21:44 ◼   ► to wait those extra seven milliseconds

01:21:46 ◼   ► for the thumbprint to go on.

01:21:48 ◼   ► Whereas in the watch, none of that is involved

01:21:50 ◼   ► and you can just look at it.

01:21:51 ◼   ► And Apple Pay on the watch, I find it also much nicer

01:21:54 ◼   ► than doing Apple Pay on the phone.

01:21:55 ◼   ► I do like Apple Pay, I use it whenever I possibly can,

01:21:58 ◼   ► I use Apple Pay and the double tap on the watch is nicer

01:22:01 ◼   ► than again, putting the phone new to the thing

01:22:03 ◼   ► and trying to do the thumbprint,

01:22:04 ◼   ► no, it's not reading my touch ID

01:22:05 ◼   ► and then it's just automatically unlocked on your wrist.

01:22:08 ◼   ► So I wouldn't put it on my list

01:22:10 ◼   ► because it is just reinforced that I'm not a watch person.

01:22:12 ◼   ► I can also say that the watch is like something that, I'm not going to say I wouldn't have

01:22:18 ◼   ► bought it on my own because I did buy it on my own, but it was kind of like, well, I should

01:22:22 ◼   ► probably buy it to see, but all the fuss is about like, it's kind of like I bought it

01:22:26 ◼   ► for work, work being this podcast.

01:22:28 ◼   ► Whereas if I wasn't on a podcast and wasn't writing about tech stuff, I probably wouldn't

01:22:32 ◼   ► have bought it.

01:22:33 ◼   ► In the end, I'm still glad I bought it, but let's put it this way, I'm not going to be

01:22:38 ◼   ► rushing out to buy the next version of the Apple Watch.

01:22:40 ◼   ► wait a couple of revisions until it gets way thinner.

01:22:43 ◼   ► Because I think a lot of my resistance to the watch is not the Apple Watch specifically,

01:22:47 ◼   ► but watches in general.

01:22:48 ◼   ► I just don't like things on my wrist.

01:22:49 ◼   ► So if they can make things smaller and lighter and less like an Airstream trailer, that will

01:22:52 ◼   ► make it more attractive to me.

01:22:54 ◼   ► Oh, God, that's fantastic.

01:22:57 ◼   ► All right.

01:22:59 ◼   ► And I know I said it earlier, but it would really be wrong of me not to say thanks to

01:23:03 ◼   ► all our listeners one more time and our sponsors as well.

01:23:05 ◼   ► So thank you to our listeners and to our three sponsors.

01:23:09 ◼   ► Space, Automatic, and Bushel.

01:23:11 ◼   ► - All right.

01:23:13 ◼   ► And we will see you next week.

01:23:14 ◼   ► Are we doing a tag team?

01:23:15 ◼   ► I got the, I'm with you.

01:23:16 ◼   ► We will see you next week.

01:23:18 ◼   ► Do you say we will see you?

01:23:19 ◼   ► We don't actually see them.

01:23:21 ◼   ► - I do say that.

01:23:22 ◼   ► Thank you for ruining it now.

01:23:24 ◼   ► - All right, it's fine.

01:23:25 ◼   ► I just, I don't want you to, don't overthink it.

01:23:27 ◼   ► (upbeat music)

01:23:30 ◼   ► ♪ Now the show is over ♪

01:23:32 ◼   ► ♪ They didn't even mean to begin ♪

01:23:35 ◼   ► ♪ 'Cause it was accidental ♪

01:23:37 ◼   ► ♪ Accidental ♪

01:23:37 ◼   ► Oh it was accidental John didn't do any research

01:23:42 ◼   ► Margo and Casey wouldn't let him Cause it was accidental

01:23:48 ◼   ► It was accidental And you can find the show notes at ATP.fm

01:23:56 ◼   ► And if you're into Twitter You can follow them @CASEYLISS

01:24:05 ◼   ► That's Casey List, M-A-R-C-O-A-R-M,

01:24:10 ◼   ► Auntie Marco Armin, S-I-R-A-C,

01:24:15 ◼   ► USA, Syracuse.

01:24:17 ◼   ► It's accidental.

01:24:18 ◼   ► It's accidental.

01:24:20 ◼   ► They didn't mean to.

01:24:23 ◼   ► Accidental.

01:24:24 ◼   ► Accidental.

01:24:25 ◼   ► Tech podcast so long.

01:24:30 ◼   ► That was awesome.

01:24:31 ◼   ► That was a really good idea, John.

01:24:32 ◼   ► I do want to add one more kind of bonus one.

01:24:34 ◼   ► - Of course you don't.

01:24:35 ◼   ► - Oh, here we go.

01:24:36 ◼   ► - So one is the Apple Pencil,

01:24:38 ◼   ► and this is a really short one

01:24:39 ◼   ► because it's easy when you say,

01:24:41 ◼   ► you know, what's the best of the year?

01:24:43 ◼   ► The stuff that came most recently

01:24:44 ◼   ► tends to be more weighted in your mind.

01:24:47 ◼   ► So I don't know what I'm gonna think long term about it,

01:24:49 ◼   ► but the Apple Pencil is really cool.

01:24:51 ◼   ► And yes, the Apple TV is also new.

01:24:53 ◼   ► The Apple TV, I think, is more of a mixed bag

01:24:55 ◼   ► in terms of complexity

01:24:57 ◼   ► and some of its remaining shortcomings and everything.

01:25:00 ◼   ► But the Apple Pencil really only does one thing,

01:25:02 ◼   ► and it does that one thing already today from day one,

01:25:05 ◼   ► and it does it shockingly well once you can find one.

01:25:09 ◼   ► But it does it shockingly well, and it is so good,

01:25:13 ◼   ► and it's so nice to use that it is making me

01:25:16 ◼   ► keep borrowing Tiff's iPad Pro,

01:25:19 ◼   ► and keep wishing I had more of a reason to use this pencil.

01:25:23 ◼   ► Because I am not a visual artist,

01:25:26 ◼   ► I don't illustrate things, I don't make diagrams,

01:25:29 ◼   ► I don't take notes.

01:25:30 ◼   ► I don't really have a good reason to use it,

01:25:33 ◼   ► but I wish I did because it's just so pleasant

01:25:36 ◼   ► and delightful and just like technically satisfying

01:25:40 ◼   ► like once I know how good it is.

01:25:41 ◼   ► Like it's just so nice to use.

01:25:43 ◼   ► - So what are you doing with it?

01:25:45 ◼   ► - Right now I'm just playing around.

01:25:47 ◼   ► Maybe I should start trying to take notes on things.

01:25:49 ◼   ► I don't know, I don't know.

01:25:50 ◼   ► Right now I'm just playing around.

01:25:51 ◼   ► And then the second thing is Tesla.

01:25:56 ◼   ► I don't own a Tesla yet.

01:25:57 ◼   ► I'm planning on buying one soon,

01:25:58 ◼   ► but I don't own one yet.

01:26:00 ◼   ► But one thing I like about Tesla,

01:26:02 ◼   ► and I think in 2015 they really came into their own

01:26:04 ◼   ► with this, that, you know, in the absence of Steve Jobs now,

01:26:09 ◼   ► the world is kind of low on genius billionaires

01:26:14 ◼   ► that are kind of near the tech industry

01:26:15 ◼   ► that are making things really interesting for everybody.

01:26:18 ◼   ► And it's fun to be in one of those groups.

01:26:21 ◼   ► Like it was fun to be a fan of Apple

01:26:24 ◼   ► when Steve was really at his peak,

01:26:27 ◼   ► which is unfortunate right before he died.

01:26:29 ◼   ► But it's fun to be a fan of a crazy billionaire company

01:26:34 ◼   ► that's doing crazy good things.

01:26:37 ◼   ► Jeff Bezos has always almost been that kind of person,

01:26:40 ◼   ► but not that kind of person.

01:26:42 ◼   ► Steve Jobs definitely was,

01:26:44 ◼   ► and I think Elon Musk is that kind of person,

01:26:46 ◼   ► and where, yeah, he's out of his mind,

01:26:48 ◼   ► but he's also a genius, and he also is very driven

01:26:52 ◼   ► to keep making really interesting products

01:26:55 ◼   ► that are pushing things forward in this area

01:26:58 ◼   ► that he's working in.

01:26:59 ◼   ► And so I think what Tesla's doing is really cool.

01:27:04 ◼   ► Even if I don't end up buying one,

01:27:06 ◼   ► which honestly I probably will buy one,

01:27:07 ◼   ► I've pretty much decided that now,

01:27:09 ◼   ► but it's just really cool to be in one of those fandoms

01:27:14 ◼   ► of these kind of products by these crazy billionaires again

01:27:17 ◼   ► because they do things that seem so audacious.

01:27:22 ◼   ► And when they do them well, it's really nice.

01:27:26 ◼   ► And Apple did it well.

01:27:27 ◼   ► And now Tesla seems to be doing it well.

01:27:30 ◼   ► And so that's pretty cool.

01:27:31 ◼   ► - Activision is kind of like a crazy billionaire.

01:27:33 ◼   ► Maybe we should try Destiny.

01:27:35 ◼   ► - Wow.

01:27:37 ◼   ► - You should do some googling for Activision.

01:27:39 ◼   ► They are actually pretty crazy.

01:27:41 ◼   ► [BEEP]