Fifty-plus and rain. I'll take it. The drizzle has bollixed up the 35W-94 exchange; on the way to the office traffic was backed up to the Iowa border, but that's becoming the norm these days. I'm sure they'll announce an overhaul sooner or later, and everyone will complain bitterly about the delays for three years, after which we'll whiz through the area without delay, completely forgetting the previous aggravation and taking the clean broad road for granted. Anyway, it would be nice if the rain came in snow form some time this month. Hard to get into the holiday mood when it's a damp early November day.
TECH The Daily App, as you've probably heard, is shutting down after two years, having tailed to attract enough people to pay for it. This makes sense to anyone who spent much time with it. While it had some nifty features - that 360 of Tahir Square was an eye-opener, and showed what the medium could do - it was, for the most part, sparkly and silly and weightless. Says allthingsd:
Yes. It crashed. Open the app: loads, freezes, crashes. Repeat. It's not as though the iPad was some device with so many wild variations developers couldn't know what they might experience. If you release something for the iPad and it crashes on the iPad, you're telling your audience "we're just throwing this out there because we're already late and its mostly stable and getting yelled at by the boss for the crashing is something we can put off until next week."
Exactly. It felt like USA Today - something you find outside a hotel room or read at McDonald's while you have breakfast because someone left it behind.
Meanwhile, in other tech news, Time says:
Here's the ad, the usual modern mish-mash aimed at people who actually use the term "bro" to refer to other men:
Who am I supposed to high five? Myself? A person sitting next to me? Verizon? Shouldn't I high-six someone, given the price?
