I just noticed something in the new Music App for MacOS Catalina.  The search box has been moved into the left-hand menu box along with the links to Apple Music and all of your playlists.  In iTunes it was in the header box on the right side.  I’m not sure if recent iTunes versions could still search within a playlist or not, but this new app does not seem to be able to do that.

Hey Apple, iTunes used to be able to search within a playlist.  Can we have that function back again please?  I know it’s not a big deal, and most people are probably moving on from playlists in general, but I still like them and I would still like to be able to search within a playlist.

Thanks!

Ahead:

Behind:

After singing Weasley is Our King all night last night, and finding out that I could pull images from my Google Photos account, I figured I’d grab some Hogwarts/Hogsmeade/Diagon Alley pics from our stop at Universal Studios last year.

Note: Pulling old pictures out of Google Photos into the WordPress.com editor is a royal pain in the ass.

Addendum: I replaced the Google images with Flickr images in order to save wordpress storage space. Ooops.

I wanted to write something today but I can’t come up with anything.  I blame the Minnesota Twins who were eliminated from the MLB post season last night by the muthertrucking New York Yankees (again).

The new MacOS, Catalina, was released to the masses yesterday and I didn’t install it.  Once again I fail to stay on the Apple cutting edge.

Speaking of Apple, we watched the movie Yesterday the other day, the movie about a guy who wakes up one day to find The Beatles never existed.  My one missed-name-drop-opportunity in the story was that people were using iPhones but they never explicitly mentioned Apple.  That was a missed opportunity because everyone knows Jobs and co named their little garage based company Apple in tribute to The Beatles.  No Beatles, no Apple.  At least no company called Apple.  The movie could have found out what Steve Jobs’ second favorite band was and named the company that sells the iPhones after them.  That would have been funny… and sufficiently nerdy for me.

Anyway, I am thinking about installing Catalina onto my MacBook Pro tonight.  I’m curious to see how the breakup of iTunes works.  I read that the new Podcast app is a port of the iPad version.  Not sure I like the sound of that.  I wonder if the music app will just be iTunes circa 2004 or so.  I kinda hope so, only with Apple Music baked in.  The Sidecar app seems interesting, but I already used Duet Display, and haven’t had any need for it since I started using the laptop itself as a second monitor (I have always used my laptops with a desktop monitor.  For years I kept them closed because I had a small desk.  Now I have a humongous desk and can keep the lappies open next to the big monitors).  Maybe if I spend some time recording into GarageBand in my bedroom where my amps are setup, I will use the iPad as a second monitor so I can see Trello in a browser window too.  Could be.

I booked a vacation day for Friday before I knew that I wouldn’t be driving up to Burlington, VT.  I kept that vacation day even though I don’t have a use for it anymore.  I’m thinking about making Friday a music day.  Part of me wants to work on my four year old, often discussed but rarely worked on, re-recording project.  Another part of me thinks that maybe it’s time for an album in a day project.  Another part of me also thinks I’ll probably just binge watch TV while eating hard boiled eggs and green grapes (both zero points) all day.

My brain is starting to hurt.  I think I’ll click Publish now.

This song is stuck in my head, and now it’s stuck in my wife’s head too.  Soon it will be stuck in all of your heads as well.

Weasley cannot save a thing,
He cannot block a single ring,
That’s why Slytherins all sing:
Weasley is our King.

Weasley was born in a bin
He always lets the Quaffle in
Weasley will make sure we win
Weasley is our King.

Weasley is our King,
Weasley is our King,
He always lets the Quaffle in
Weasley is our King.

If you listen to the audio book of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, narrator Jim Dale sings this.  He doesn’t just read it, he has a melody that he sings too.  I don’t know where the melody came from, but the lyrics were apparently written by Draco Malfoy.

This was the name of my first public blog, which ran from 11/08 to 12/12.

This was the title of this public blog which I’ve been using for a couple of years now.

Now look up at the title at the top of the page.

Ain’t I a stinker?

Nice parking, douche.

This is a test.  I just pulled this photo from my Google Photos account without ever leaving the WordPress.com editing tool.

A whole new world.  Now let us link directly to Flickr, please.

I did something that’s almost impossible for me.  Yesterday, Sunday October 6, 2019, I went through the entire day without ingesting any caffeine.  Not by choice.  I picked up breakfast for my wife at Dunks and grabbed a 20 oz bottle of Diet Coke for each of us.  Unfortunately, one of the bottles had a bad seal and we let paranoia take over and we dumped it.  I gave the other bottle to Jen because I am a nice guy.

There was a 16.9 oz bottle of Diet Pepsi in the refrigerator but I never touched it.  Until this morning before work, of course.  Seven hours of sleep sounds like it should be enough to charge me up, but I was dead on my feet from the word go today and I gave in and drank the soda.

The irony here is that on Saturday while waiting in the drive through line (for a loooong time) at the very same Dunks, my wife and I had a little discussion about how much caffeine is in our favorite caffeinated beverages.  She said that Diet Coke had more caffeine than Diet Pepsi, and that Diet Pepsi wasn’t all that far removed from decaf coffee.  Regular coffee though left Diet Coke in the dust.

She had actual numbers to prove out her statements, because she’s brilliant, and I almost immediately forgot them, because I am a dolt.  That lead me to spend part of my lunch break on The Google, which lead me to this page.  I made a little chart for future reference:

Drink	Serving Size	Caffeine (mg)
Diet Coke	20 oz.	76
Coca-Cola, Coke Zero, or Diet Pepsi	20 oz.	56-57
Dunkin’ Donuts, Panera, or Starbucks Decaf Coffee	16 oz.	10-25
Maxwell House Decaf Ground Coffee	12 oz.	2-10
Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee	14 oz.	210

So Diet Coke has more caffeine than regular Coke, Coke Zero, and Diet Pepsi.  Diet Pepsi can potentially have less than double the caffeine of decaf coffee, if you get it from Dunks, Panera, or Starbucks.  That’s pretty fascinating, wouldn’t you say?  Almost as fascinating as my bad-ass HTML table writing skills, am I right?  Look at how impressed you all are with my 20th century coding.  I can see it in your face, you are utterly blown away.

Of course all of this is trumped by taste.  Diet Pepsi tastes better than Diet Coke (literally the only Pepsi product that is preferable to the equivalent Coke product) while both Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke are infinitely better than any coffee ever, and if you don’t like it you can kiss my large pasty white ass.

So what is the point of this post?  Simple.  My wife is awesome.

You’re welcome.