Oh, wow — well, that’s it for Google+, folks. It was probably only a matter of time, but going out on a customer-data exposing bug is a bad way to go.
Geekery
Whatever I’m geeking out about at the time.
Book thirty-six of 2018: Flash Gordon: The Witch Queen of Mongo, by Alex Raymond and Carson Bingham. ⭐️⭐️
“Yakko’s World” — the Animaniacs song with all the countries of the world — just got a brand new verse with all the countries added since the song was written!
Book thirty-five of 3018: Flash Gordon: The Time Trap of Ming XIII, by Alex Raymond and Con Steffanson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Siri shortcut for “xyzzy”
Old-school geeks will (well, maybe) be amused by this: a very simple, very stupid, tiny iOS 12 Siri shortcut. Tap it in Shortcuts and Siri will reply with, “Nothing happens.” Or if you set it up to respond to your voice, you can say “XYZZY” and she’ll say, “Shortcuts says: ‘Nothing happens.’ Done!”…which is less than ideal, but seems to be how it works. The joke is still there, at least.
(If you don’t get the joke, this might help.)
Report: Disney re-animating parts of Wreck-It-Ralph sequel after Princess and the Frog criticism. I’m impressed that Disney is doing this. Good for them for listening and actually taking action.
My first MeMoji
Just a little bit of silliness, playing with iOS 12’s new “MeMoji” customizable character emojis.
E.T. phone home! E.T. phone home!
If you ever get the chance to see E.T. in the theater, with a crowd full of kids who have never seen it before, I highly recommend it. I’ll admit that I got kinda choked up at the resurrection scene, and I think a large part of that wasn’t even the movie itself, but from being in the crowd and hearing the gasps, cheers, and claps of the kids (a few of whom we’d heard sniffling or outright sobbing in the preceding few minutes). A good audience can make a huge difference when watching a film, and today’s was definitely a good one.
Book thirty-four of 2018: Flash Gordon: The Lion Men of Mongo, by Alex Raymond and Con Steffanson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Well, crud. I was worried this would happen, but hoped it wouldn’t: Apple has discontinued the iPhone SE. While it doesn’t affect me directly, it does make it probable that when it’s time to upgrade, my wife will move away from Apple in order to get a comfortably sized phone.