May Useless Observations
Hello,
April has come and gone and it finally feels like spring is upon us in Georgia. Time continues to fly by at warp speed, but I prefer that to the opposite feeling of months dragging by. Fun fact: I know nine people that have April birthdays. I’ll spare everyone the details and get into the reason why you all are here: another Useless Observations newsletter! Last month’s edition can be found here. Let’s get on with the show.
UO #1: I hate whenever someone starts a sentence with “fun fact”, which confuses me considering how much I love useless observations.
UO #2: YouTube TV has sports channels that are in 4K resolution. They don’t have halftime shows for English Premier League soccer games on these channels. There’s no broadcast team during halftime and they only show highlights of other games around the league. Because of experiencing games in this manner, it dawned on me how useless halftime shows are. Networks having halftime commentators is insulting to the viewing audience’s intelligence. I don’t need to have someone explain to me what I just finished watching.
UO #3: I recently took part in a photo shoot for new headshots and I’ve used the new photos on LinkedIn and Instagram. I used to think that no one looks like their LinkedIn photos, but I now realize that photographers are wizards and can make magic happen.
UO #4: There’s a new video game in development right now called Unrecord. It is a first-person shooter game that allows you to play as a police officer, and the entire game is viewed through your bodycam lens. I’m not sure how I feel about it, and I may write more about this once the game gets a release date.
UO #5: MSCHF, the same company that put out the big red boots that I was unable to obtain, has done it again. Their new shoe, titled the BWD, is a shoe that can be worn the normal way or backward through the opening where the toe would normally be. I need a pair!
UO #6: When a movie is made that is “based on historical events”, I wish the movie would tell you which parts are historically accurate and which ones aren’t. These types of movies usually blur the line between fact and fiction to tell a compelling story, but I feel like they should clarify what is movie magic and what happened. For example, the Mark Wahlberg film Patriot’s Day is based on the Boston Marathon bombings, but Wahlberg’s character Sergeant Tommy Saunders is not a real person. Saunders is a mashup of several different real people. I feel like they should have to disclose that this isn’t an accurate retelling of those specific events.