10MAR2024
Happy Sunday, all! I've been laid out with a nasty flu or cold for most of the last week. The upside, is it gave me lots of time to make my way through Dune Messiah while winding down before my many much needed naps. No spoilers, but whoo boy, what a story! Feels like Shakespeare in space. If anyone has read the other books, drop me a note and let me know if I should keep going or stop after I finish Messiah?
On to the good stuff!
- 📷 Hasselblad 907X + CFV 100C - Tip of the hat to Señor BLC for giving me a new completely unaffordable photographic obsession. Hasselblad's newest camera is an absolutely stunning 100 megapixel medium format digital camera with a form factor very similar to the iconic Hasselblad 500cm (that I've been coveting for years). You can get one for just $8,199 (lens sold separately). Unrelated, anyone in the market for a spare kidney?
- 👩💻 Indie App Sales! - On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, Indie App Sales will be doing their annual event, where hundreds of indie app developers will run very nice discounts on their great software. Check out the website for the full list of participating apps and developers. Here are some apps that I personally have and recommend that will be participating in the sale March 12-13th-- CardPointers, Cardio Bot, Day Peek for VisionOS, FoodNoms, Longplay, My Vinyls, Paku Air Quality Monitor, TextSniper, and ToothFairy.
- 👯 Dancing to Gotye - My family and I are big fans of the dance competition show, So You Think You Can Dance, which just returned for its 18th season this week. With dance already on my brain, I was totally sucked in to this amazing video put out by the CDK Dance Company doing a group choreographed contemporary dance routine to the 2011 classic, "Somebody that I used to know" by Gotye. Beyond the great dancing, the touches of beige 70's office fashion in their costumes are also just so fun.
- 🎹 Controlling MIDI devices with Vision Pro - This is just a prototype of an app under development, but I'm so excited about the possibilities of what this could do for music production with synthesizers and drum machines.
- 🚗 Rivian R2 / R3 - Rivian announced two really great looking, "affordable" electric vehicles this week. The R2 (due in 2026) looks to be a Honda CR-V-sized little brother to the R1S and comes in at just $45k, compared to the R1S' $70k-$90k starting point, and the smaller, crossover-sized R3 should follow very shortly thereafter at an even lower price point. I've been wanting to trade in one of our cars for an EV at some point down the road... one of these just might be the one? In any case, I plopped down a $100 refundable deposit to get on the list for the R2 when it comes out in 2-ish years. I may move the deposit over to the R3 though when pre-orders go live for it, it looks so fun!
That's it for this week, be well everyone!