One Man's Notes

Perception, in short, cannot be purchased with either learned degrees or dollars; it grows at home as well as abroad, and he who has a little may use it to as good advantage as he who has much. As a search for perception, the recreational stampede is footless and unnecessary.

— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚

Broadly speaking, a piece of scenery snapped by a dozen tourist cameras daily is not physically impaired thereby, nor does any other resource suffer when the rate increases to a hundred. The camera industry is one of the few innocuous parasites on wild nature.

— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚

David Allen Green’s examination of Boris Johnson’s actions is excoriating:

“All these advantages meant that the process was heavily biased: but heavily biased in Johnson’s favour.}

“And somehow, Johnson still lost.”

This might be interesting to the mobile journalism types: a shotgun mic with built-in wireless.

What Apple Vision Pro means for journalism… 😇

I bought the first iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

There goes that streak.

That’s the sort of keynote I like from Apple. Lots of new features for devices I already own, no temptation to spend any money. 👍

Ah, crap. I just got it.

The two big “secret” Apple projects: the headset and the car.

They’re basically the same project: spatial computing.

Low latency real time computing integrated into the physical world. Their spacial computing tech is the real story here.

If I was on the Meta Quest team, I would not be looking forward to the next team meeting with Zuck.

Ok. Apple Vision Pro looks really interesting. AR first, not VR.

But I still can’t see myself buying one.