Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.

You know that feeling where you want to get a game of Shufflepuck in, but you’re sitting at Starbucks working on your novel? Well, now you can do both. There are two emulators that you can compile and run under iOS.

No one can identify a bank robber because of his obnoxious tieGoogle Translate. I also learned from Going in Style to also put on fake tattoos.

Here’s my summary of the Apple event: Apple showed of some cool stuff that are total wants and not needs. They announced: AirTags - Track your Crap. Really cool, too expensive. Although I could see parents using these on their kids. I’m sure someone will come out with the kid AirTag collar. The tracking technology is very cool. Multi-colored M1 iMacs - These look pretty awesome, as long as you’re a Jay Leno fan.

I will admit I was wrong when Netflix switched to streaming. My own myopia to where things were going caused me to not see the genius in planning for the future. Unfortunately, this future also means the loss of the greatest movie library ever assembled.

Pretty amazing that NASA has flown a helicopter on another planet!

Here is Carrie Fisher’s screen test with Harrison Ford for Star Wars. It’s interesting how different the story is, along with her portrayal Princess Leia. I don’t know what accent she’s trying to do…

In Portland Oregon a pesky pandemic was going to stop the 43 year streak of the showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In college somehow I fell into the crowd that would go to the local showing of RHPS, so I went one time. I didn’t have props, and I hadn’t ever seen the movie, so it was all a new experience with me. At the end, I realized I had seen something truly amazing.

Taylor Swift had lost control of the masters of her first 6 albums, so she took things in to her own hands and have started to re-record her songs. Fearless (Taylor’s Version is a re-recording of her second album. Good for her, I’m hoping she posts the story over in /r/MaliciousCompliance.

This goes in the if you have to ask why you’ll never understand department.