Season 3, Issue 10: Cosmic Cooldown
Quack quack, heat back.
1. The Week That Was
Last week Shawn talked about the good fortunes of his favorite basketball team. This week I get to talk about my favorite baseball team (Minnesota Twins) relinquishing first place in their division for the first time since April 10th. Actually, I don’t want to talk about it. Their division is terrible and the team is terrible and some big things will have to happen to make me care much about them for the rest of the summer. (This gives me more time for my burgeoning Immaculate Grid addiction.) Then maybe I can start getting excited for the fall and Timberwolves basketball. LOL. No.
Oh, we launched a thing! Quack (Beta) is a front-end implementation of an idea we had to provide a link to beautifully rendered markdown text. We think it’s quite pretty, fun, and a little unwieldy, but also useful! In case you’re curious, I wrote about the Why and the How.
Aside from launching Quack (Beta)… Lettini has also been hacking on one of our cosmic prototypes as well as helping us to give Spinal a try as a means to update the Good Enough blog. Arun has been playing with an elevated browser editing experience. And Patrick has been putting on his project management hat for a very exciting project or two. He’s feeling purple. ––BH
2. Taking a break
From late June to late July the Good Enough team has a flurry of absences. When Shawn and I started this company, one of our big challenges was wanting to balance our time between work and family. When our children are out of school in the summer, it is important to us to spend time with them and make memories as families.
It turns out our entire team is on a similar page as us! So almost everyone is taking a break in this stretch of time for various different vacations, downtimes, friend visits and more. The one person who isn’t taking time off now is planning for a good break later in the summer. Oh, and James is going to be visiting Patrick. We best have pictures soon! ––BH
3. At the Movies
Summer is a time for pools, beaches, vacations, getting outdoors, and getting indoors. Blockbuster summer movies have already started rolling in as a perfect way to catch some air-conditioned entertainment. Recently I was excited to learn about an entire, exhaustive playlist of Siskel & Ebert episodes from all of the show’s incarnations. I haven’t (re-)watched a single episode yet, but I surely will. My parents owned a small town movie theater for about fifteen years. In part because of that I would enjoy listening to Siskel & Ebert fight with each other about a movie on lazy weekend afternoons. If I had to pick a critic that I am most likely to align with, it would be Roger Ebert. (Check out the wonderful documentary, Life Itself, if you’re curious.) I don’t agree with him across the board, but we jive a lot more than we disagree.
This playlist also has me looking forward to summer movie season! I’m particularly interested in what my kids want to see this summer. One movie they’re excited about that I’m not too interested in is The Little Mermaid (live action). I’m not as strongly against Disney princesses as some are, but these live action remakes have generally felt, ironically, lifeless. They’d also like to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which brings about a morbid curiosity in me. We all want to see Barbie. The collection of talent around that movie is just too fascinating to resist.
And, yes, we’ve already seen, and loved, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse! ––BH
4. We Out
Thanks for catching up on our happenings here at Good Enough. With all the break-taking we’re doing, it looks like next week we’re down to one lonely soul, and that means no newsletter for the people. Look for us to be back at it in mid-July. In the meantime, please send us a postcard from your vacation! Our address is at the bottom of this email.
