13AUG2023
Last week of summer here in Austin, Tx with all the kiddos heading back to school tomorrow. Lots of "last Summer hurrah" vibes abound. Hope wherever you are, things are starting to cool down.
- 🎬 Callsheet - Casey Liss has a new iOS app out this week called Callsheet designed to make it easy to quickly look up cast and crew information for movies and tv shows— It’s way, way cleaner and faster than using IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes. I've already found myself using it at least once a day to check what else some actor has been in, or who wrote an episode of a show we're watching. Definitely worth checking out.
- 💃🏾 American Smooth by Rita Dove - The New York Times put together a really lovely detailed analysis of poet Rita Dove’s poem, “American Smooth.” My wife and I just started taking dance classes together and so this beautiful poem really hit home, but getting to see all the hidden extra layers she built in to this poem via the analysis really took my appreciation for the poem to the next level.
- 🫐 Blueberry Cheong - I posted a snap over on Mastodon a few weeks back of my attempt at this amazingly tasty (and simple) syrup from Johnny Kyunghwo. After letting it sit for a good long while we recently strained out the berries and we've been enjoying it in everything from Blueberry Old Fashioned to Blueberry Matcha Green Tea. Highly recommended. Johnny's got lots of great inspiration for other Cheongs to try-- Next up, we're doing Strawberry.
- 🕹️ Retroid Pocket 3+ - Going further down the retro gaming rabbit hole, I picked up a Retroid Pocket 3+ this last week... and after an admittedly grueling several hour configuration process, I'm really happy with it! It emulates everything from old Atari and Commodore 64 to Playstation 2 and Nintendo Wii games. Killer screen and impressive performance for a little device that's half the price of a Nintendo Switch and about 2/3's the size. Now I just need to find some time to actually play more than 5-10 minutes a time.
- 👾 Low Rez Jam - Speaking of retro video games, I just stumbled across the Low Rez Jam, a sort of minimalist video game hackathon that's going on right now. A bunch of teams around the world are competing to make a winning video game playable at 64x64 resolution. Tons of great pixel art and game imagineering going on under the #lowrezjam hashtag on Mastodon (and I presume X, if you're still visiting Elon's vanity project.) The development period wraps up August 15th, and then the games will go up for voting. It will be fun to see and try all the final products.
That's it for this week, hope everyone has a great week!