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Any week is as good as any other. It's a bit of a slow burn as you get used to Harry's idiosyncrasies and usual bugaboos (crypto, ai, elon, nuclear power, catholic church abuse, the army corps of engineers, etc.)

New Release, New artist to me. This is good. Already looking forward to listening again. ex.

This is a very cool feature. I can’t wait to have my parents take the test.

Indeed. "When" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for Apple Intelligence, as in "When X becomes available, you will be able to ..." "Small, but fierce"

70s retro meets modern doomerism and I'm here for it.

I have continuously not posted this on the incorrect belief that I already had. The single best podcast there is is Le Show by Harry Shearer. https://harryshearer.com/le-show/

Best mate sold his UK software company and is in the process of moving to Portugal. Said this is the inspiration.

Recently bricked my M2 MacBook Air by the simple expedient of drunkenly spilling bourbon into the keyboard. Luckily I had AppleCare coverage and just told them it suddenly stopped working and they were like whatever just send it back and get an M3, which I did. It has 24 GB of RAM and gotta say, it's snappy. Both kids are still on iPhone 13s and will get an upgrade to 16s. I like my 15 Pro Max just fine so I'll probably stand pat.

RIP Teri Garr.

But the power button placement! https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/10/29/apple-stuck-the-mac-mini-power-button-on-the-bottom

RIP Tarzan! Such a tragic story of his son and wife.....! https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/12743284/tarzan-ron-ely-son-murder-wife/