Skip to main content
Banterability

Weeknotes 45: A Bespoke LED Problem

Chicago

  • Binging through Jamie Loftus’ Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) podcast, revisiting all of online’s main characters. We’re playing all the hits: coffee in the garden with my husband, slide cop, curvy wife guy, “Suck my dick and balls I’m working at NASA”, 30-50 feral hogs…

  • If these references mean nothing to you, your mind might not yet be clogged with internet-poisoning microplastics. There’s still a future for you; run while you can!

  • Wandered around the house Monday afternoon loading the new software on all the things. Best new feature across all platforms: subtitles automatically turn on in tvOS when you skip back 10 seconds or mute.

  • Saw The Matrix in theaters on Thursday night as part of its – memento mori – 25th anniversary. Truly wild how hard it holds up, both in terms of effects/production, and just as a good fun movie.

  • My Gen 2 Tidbyt finally showed up. I’ve been a huge fan of my original one, and I knew they were aiming for a slightly different look with the new version, and boy did people get mad.

  • I don’t necessarily mind the new squarer vibe from a few feet back, as they intend for you to view it from, but I’ll grant that a head-to-head comparison with a Tidbyt Classic (on the bottom) is pretty rough given that “sharper, crisper, clearer” was the pitch to Kickstarter backers:

  • You know who totally hit it out of the park in this category? Tuneshine with their album art display, which is beautifully constructed, syncs smoothly with every music service, and is basically as close to perfect execution on a product as I can recall. I adore this thing:

  • Do I have a small bespoke LED display problem? How dare you; I need all of these[1] for my work:


  1. c/o traintrackr. They also make them for many other fine transit agencies, and have some beautiful live weather maps. ↩︎

-30-