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  • Sawyer’s Movie Log, 2022

    Previously: 2021, 2020 See: My Personal Interpretation of Star Ratings ⭐ What a tepid year for films, with one major exception. See How They Run – ⭐⭐⭐ We get 500 superhero movies a year and like one whodunnit. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – ⭐⭐⭐ May we never get so jaded that we stop enjoying silly things Everything…

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  • Sawyer’s TV Log, 2022

    Previously: 2021, 2020 See: My Personal Interpretation of Star Ratings ⭐ You can always follow me on Trakt, a pretty good site for logging tv shows. My favourite new TV shows from 2022 Spy X Family on Crunchyroll 🕵️‍♂️🕵️‍♀️🥜 The Bear on Disney+ 🍝 Call of the Night on HiDive 🧛‍♀️ Andor on Disney+ 🖤 Slow…

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  • How I Streamed and Selected Music in 2022

    A quick aside before I begin: When I use a ❤️, it means “like” or “favourite”. 💔 means “dislike.” ⭐ means star, or rating. Rail means rail. And yes, I use both, even though it’s probably redundant. Streaming vs Selecting I think there’s two ways of listening to music that cover every single instance. First,…

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  • Mikey and Sawyer discuss Italy, The Canon M50 Mark ii, the iPad Mini, rating things, and vacation blogging.

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  • How I rate songs

    I like to use a 5-point rating system. What the points mean differs slightly from medium to medium, so here’s what it means for songs. A few rules. No half or quarter points. We’re not splitting hairs here. We’re categorizing. Every song starts with no ⭐. In Apple Music, all songs rated ⭐⭐⭐ or above get…

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  • Photos and Stories From My Trip to Italy

    This is gonna be a long post. TL:DR, here’s some photos I liked from my trip to Italy in September 2022, with links to google maps to restaurants and areas. The ideal reader of this is a) us, to remember what we did, and b) anyone curious about stuff we did. It’s not really a…

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  • Notion & the Digital Shelf

    The Shelf, Real & Digital Fifteen years ago, in 2007, most of my media was physical. I read printed books, played DVDs, inserted cartridges and discs into video game consoles. I listened to music digitally, but I still owned a good number of CDs. I didn’t own any vinyl. There wasn’t a ton of use…

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  • Mikey and Sawyer discuss the middle device between a phone and a computer, which is almost always an iPad. They review Mikey’s iPad Mini and figure out exactly the one thing the iPad does best. Topics include: why the iPad didn’t eat the computer, why it might eat the phone, and why the Surface Duo…

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  • Experiments in Adobe Dimension

    Adobe Dimension is a 3D design software that allows users to create images by combining 2D and 3D assets. It can be ideal for mockups, product visualization, and branding. Here’s a few samples from my experiment with the app this month.

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