Mandaris

I went to a local anime convention last weekend. It was pretty fun getting to see all the people there. I even had some fun with the foam fighting.

January of next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the event and I’m wondering about what I’ll dress up as if I go.

I decided to do a little thought experiment as Apple has an announcement on the 9th where they will most likely reveal when the new operating system will become publicly available.

According to Wikipedia, Mountain Lion was the last release that you had to pay for. It was available through the App Store at $19.99 in 2012 which is the equivalent of a dozen eggs or a roll of toilet paper in the United States as of this writing.

All jokes aside, I have been enjoying more than 10 years of updates to the operating system since then. Not every release equally, but I’m grateful for updates and new features to unlock more from hardware that I’ve already purchased. I feel that this should not be taken for granted as we’ve seen business move to subscription models.

At this moment, Liquid Glass has taken up a majority of my thoughts about the upcoming operating system(s). I understand that there are security fixes and maybe a couple other things, but I can’t name them off of my head.

At this point in time, - after running it all summer- I don’t feel I would pay the $28.13 plus tax for this upgrade.

I had never seen this movie, but I am familiar with the phrase we're going to need a bigger boat. I had no idea why a 50 year old movie about a shark could hold so much influence. In the end, I was happy to have seen it.

I had read on the internet that the mayor is The Real Villain and the shark is just trying to be the best shark that he can be. I think that’s just trying to simplify the problem of a community dependent on tourism having to balance the welfare of the residence versus the guests. Most of the townsfolk are content with little accidents until it becomes a directly affects them.

That was the scariest part of this movie.

The inconvenient truth that a whole group of people are ok with the idea that someone could die from going into the water… as long as it does not affect the bottom line.

But, going back to the movie in general, the acting and pacing are really good. I say this as someone who is battling a phone addiction.

Overview

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.

I didn't think that we needed another Superman movie. How can we make a story about someone who is almost invincible compelling?

This is a movie that I saw because people were talking about it.

I’ve been a little bored with some of the super hero movies that have been coming out and was ok with not checking this one out in theaters.

But, there was something about it. The word that caught my interest about this movie had hope. Maybe just because of all the things happening in this world that just feel wrong. I’m a fan of The Boys and Invincible, but I’ve grown tired of immoral super people. We’ve seen that too often and in different ways.

The movie is refreshing in that it doesn’t take the viewer through the origins of the characters. There’s no homework of other movies and comic books that you need to know in order to enjoy this movie. If you want that, you can do it on your own time.

I feel that the movie does a great job of showing the Man in The Man of Steel. He’s multifaceted while also demonstrating a type of sincerity that I haven’t seen enough of. In other Superman films, it felt as if every problem that he’d face would be fixed by some newly discovered power. This one has to use his brain and the connections that he has with other people in order to save the day.

Ultimately, the movie shows that you do not need to be Superman to be part of making the world a better place.

Overview

Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.

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There! I said it!

This feeling that I’ve been trying to wrestle with. For some reason, I couldn’t put a name to it. My mind didn’t want to. My heart wasn’t prepared for it.

But it has been bubbling up and now I have to admit to myself.

I have heard some people saying that they enjoy some of the changes, and I’m happy for you. What I don’t like is hearing it from people who later admit that they are not using it on their primary phone.

The design team at Apple have made things worse. This new design isn’t for me as a current customer. I don’t have faith that I’ll be someone they think of in the future as I don’t know what this release gives me other than all of my current set of applications with a harder to use interface.