In this extended episode of the hellyeah! show, we discuss medications, the Surface 3, television, the city of Stockton, CA, Mario Kart 8, coconut chips, Comcast, CableCARD, and TiVo, along with a whole slew of news from WWDC about iOS 8, OS X Yosemite, and more.
Emory’s stuff
- campus is less crowded these days
- birthdays and car trips
- Alan’s recommendation: I Want My Hat Back
- new meds are new
- the amazing nature of psychiatric medication
- related: Alexander Shulgin died, 88
- pioneering pharmacologist, the tim leary of ecstacy
- medical industry and research hamstrung by ignorance
- MDMA is schedule 1, and that’s bad medicine
- autism, ptsd, depression, alcoholism
- assisted psychotherapy, death-and-dying and trauma
- MAPS’ (multi-disciplinary assoc for pschedelic studies) $18M push to approve MDMA by 2021 for prescription medicine
- my dad wants a Surface 3
- I bought an antenna for my television because handlebar mustaches are too weird
Alan’s stuff
- Stockton, CA
- fast food reviews
- McDonald’s self-seasoned fries
- Mario Kart 8
- dang coconut chips
- Twitter notifications
- Comcast negotiations
PSAs
- CableCARD and TiVo are the way to watch TV
WWDC
- continuity
- SOUND FAMILIAR
- stateful computing further realized
- integration between iOS and OS X to seamlessly slip between the two
- extensions
- widgeting for iOS and OS X notification centers
- plug-in architecture is pretty slick
- software development
- new cloud services for iCloud and App Store
- new programming language: swift
- search
- spotlight overhauls for OS X and iOS
- duckduckgo to iOS
- integrating web searches with local search
- iOS 8
- health
- very interesting dashboard for health data
- allows services and apps to interact sanely — this is awesome for privacy
- will require some developer involvement
- home automation
- revised Photos and editting like Aperture/LR
- Family Sharing!
- associate accounts with each other
- share media, books, etc
- fantastic addition but iCloud/AppleID still confusing
- Messaging
- UNSUBSCRIBE
- group conversations can be unsubbed or muted
- self-destruction
- voice messaging
- tying SMS to desktops and non-mobile devices
- location sharing, media browsing
- quick reply to notification inside other apps
- omg keyboards
- new text input is good
- third-party keyboards will be fantastic
- health
- OS X Yosemite
- UI tune-up
- Spotlight takes the stage and hangs out with Alfred and Quicksilver
- Today screen in Notification Center
- new notification center looks awesome
- more useful than a shelf of messages to collect and clutter
- answer/place calls on your mac
- SMS on OS X via your iPhone
- hand-off to iOS
- iCloud drive
- word to your mother
- inexpensive and familiar
- oddly exciting considering other options
