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  • I packed my big camera bag for the first time in years, bundled up for minus ten degrees and went out to a design show happening across the city. DesignTO is a fairly typical Toronto festival in that it happens and some people notice but most don’t. This city is awful at getting awareness out…

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  • My current “run” of using iTunes began at the beginning of the pandemic. I bought a new computer that had a ton more storage space, and one project I wanted to do was finally organize my music properly. I looked at the options available, and found iTunes to be the one most compatible with the…

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  • I found a video with some advice for shooting with my Canon M50. I don’t often use the kit lens but this one suggested working with it at 35mm. He suggests taking most shots in portrait, which is something I’ve been trying to practice more. I chose “monochrome” for the colour styles, so these’ll be…

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  • ⁠Mikey ⁠and ⁠Sawyer ⁠talk about CM Punk, iPhone 15 Pro Max, Readwise, and video games. Show Notes: CM Punk returns and Has Plenty To Say! | 6/17/23, AEW Collision – YouTube CM Punk calls out Reigns, Rollins and more in epic mic drop: SmackDown, Dec. 8, 2023 – YouTube The Rock returns and wants The Head…

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  • Sawyer’s TV Log, 2023

    Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020 See: My Personal Interpretation of Star Ratings ⭐ You can always follow me on Trakt, a pretty good site for logging tv shows. Good New Shows Oshi no Ko 🎤 Scott Pilgrim Takes Off 🛼 Zom 100 🧟 The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today 😹 Rurouni Kenshin ⚔️ Tomo-chan is a…

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  • Good Music, 2023

    Here’s a playlist with my favourite songs of the year, available in Apple Music, Spotify, and Youtube.

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  • Sawyer’s Movie Log, 2023

    Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020 See: My Personal Interpretation of Star Ratings ⭐ You can always follow me on Letterboxd, the only good social network, for reviews as I see them. Letterboxd Wrapped I watched 76 films this year. 13% of them were from 2023. My favourite Stars were Michelle Yeoh, Barbara Stanwyck, and Dorothy Malone. Hell…

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  • Sawyer’s Game Log, 2023

    Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020 See: My Personal Interpretation of Star Ratings ⭐ Games finished The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Switch ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Persona 5 Royal, Switch ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Zipper, Playdate ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Legend of Zelda: breath of the wild, Switch ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Switch ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cocoon, Switch ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Super Mario Wonder, Switch ⭐⭐⭐⭐…

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  • Readwise is a computer program that runs in the cloud that accomplishes a few interesting things with text. It costs money. I’ve been trying to this stuff with text for years with a series of different apps, but Readwise does this text stuff so well and charges a fee for their good work, so I…

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  • Thoughts on iPhone 15 Pro Max

    General thoughts I took my sweet time upgrading. Jason Snell’s yearly reviews feature an invaluable section: what do you get if you’re coming from an older phone than just one year. His list goes back now to the 11, the phone that came out one year after my XR, which came out in 2018. Coming…

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