I’ve always found the song The Boys of Summer by Don Henley to be a great song, but it also felt like a guilty pleasure. It shouldn’t – there should be no such thing as a guilty pleasure, but that’s how it felt.
I learned today from a YouTube clip that the music for The Boys of Summer was written written by Mike Campbell from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Now I can feel like I knew it was cool all along.
If the original is pure 80s, this cover of The Boys of Summer by The Ataris is pure 2000s.
I’m not even going to bother reading the article. This headline alone sounds like good advice: If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It.
I hope that one day, maybe within my own lifetime, scientists will be able to create a vacuum hose that children don’t want to stand on.
Today’s news that President Trump (still can’t believe those words) was indicted was big. How big? On CNN.com, it was 102.05714 pixels big.
If you are trying to think in REM units in the Figma design tool, you can use the simple built-in math capabilities on most numeric inputs. You can enter a width like 16*24 and it will automatically resolved to 384.
Until Figma learns about units other than pixels, this helps a bit. Math!
Cultural relevance curiosity: What do these stripes mean to you (if anything)?
Answer in a reply (and avoid the replies if you want to considering without seeing the answer).
It occurred to me today that building “AI” tools that can detect content generate by “AI” tools is a bit like saying that the best defence against a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.
My brother Tim, who is the Chief Electoral Office for our province, is going to pick some songs as the Friday SpinTime DJ on CBC Radio this week. As I was the SpinTime DJ back in 2019, we’ve reached 2/5 of the Garrity siblings in this pinnacle of cultural relevance on Prince Edward Island.
Update: Here’s the audio. Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, and Matt Maher.
As far as I noticed, there were two guitars featured during Super Bowl El Vee Eye Eye.
During the half-time show, Nuno Bettencourt was supporting Rihanna with a theme-appropriate bright red edition of his signature Washburn, presumably the N4 model.
Before the game, Chris Stapleton performed the US National Anthem with what looks like a Fender Telecaster Custom.
Update: I missed Babyface playing America the Beautiful on an American-Flag Taylor acoustic. Interesting arrangement here, as it’s strung for right handed players, but he’s playing “upside-down” left-handed. Thanks to pmac for letting me know.
Tune in again next year for episode 2 of Guitars of the Super Bowl.
That was Nuno Bettencourt playing guitar behind Rihanna during the Super Bowl. Yeah, the More Than Words guy.
