Batman Returns

In the second of the blockbuster Batman films, the physically deformed criminal genius The Penguin threatens Gotham City–and, helpless, the entire city can only pray that Batman Returns. Only Batman (MichaelKeaton) can defend the city from total chaos as The Penguin (DannyDeVito) lays twisted waste to a great metropolis. Meanwhile, the Dark Knight may have met his equal in the lethally lithe Catwoman (MichellePfeiffer)–only he doesn’t know if she is feline friend … or foe.

There is something that happens quite often when I have a few beers in the evening. I get nostalgic, specifically about music. Last night for example I had a few beers, as you do, the girls went to bed and I was left alone. I put on a movie, Angel has Fallen, to me more specific, when then I picked up my phone and started browsing for music. When I do this I usually go down memory lane and into a rabbit hole.

This morning I woke up and after some coffee and time with the ladies, I decided to go out for my usual walk/sprinting thing I have been doing lately. Usually I would be walking and or running while listening to an audiobook, today though, I just wanted music. I open the music app, look for my downloads, songs and press shuffle. The first few songs that came on were the usual ones in my phone, or at least the ones I knew for sure I had intentionally downloaded. It’s about .30 miles from my house to the track. Once I got to the track, well, one of the random songs I had downloaded kicked it, X Gon' Give it to Ya by DMX, which it got me all pumped up and took of sprinting. Next was Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nothing Ta Fuck Wit, and I’m like “all right”! The next song, Girlfriend (feat. Nelly) by NSYNC.

What?

Right now, my local library is a mess! el-oh-el! I have everything from Wu-Tang Clan to Hilary Duff, to Britney Spears and or course, my favorite latin music!

Sometime in early April, the comic book artist Jock, known for books like WYTCHES, Batman, The Loosers, DREDD and many other books, did a book give away. Luckily for me, I happened to win a copy and it showed up today. GREEN ARROW The deluxe edition, I can’t wait to dive in on this one!

Zac Cichy (@zcichy): Apple evolves things slowly. They don’t just implement new features for the sake of doing so. When they finally happen to get to something that’s been on Android for years, people call it copying.

Curious. What could Apple do that wouldn’t be called copying?

Zac Cichy (@zcichy): When Apple’s competition has tried to squeeze in every feature they possibly could regardless of whether or not it was done well, there is very little Apple can do that someone else hasn’t tried at some point.

Reminder: Actual implementation and execution are everything.

Zac Cichy (@zcichy): Windows Live Tiles are the perfect example. Is Windows Mobile even a thing anymore? Nope. Did it have some good ideas? Yep! Were those ideas executed well?

Clearly not. Microsoft had to kill Windows Mobile (or Windows Phone) in 2015.

Zac Cichy (@zcichy): I remember having conversations with friends in 2014/2015 about how I believed iOS would eventually implement widgets. That widgets (if done right) could remove an abstraction layer between the user and the thing they want access to.

It’s the way iOS was always going to go.

Not wrong.

Today I did my walk/run thing. I walked to my nearby track and did some intervals, running the straight part of the track and walking the curves, about two to three laps of that. Then I walked out of the track and to the street. Walked my way back to the house, walking and sprinting the uphill parts for a total of 3.42 miles. Today it felt different than previous times, no pain on my feet or shins whatsoever. I call that progress. The goal is to be able to just run the 3 miles instead of the run/walk.