The notion of automatic local backups to far off clouds is a good one. I had been using Google Drive since it came out a few years back and with Apple’s new iCloud offering and my new iPhone I thought I’d migrate once Yosemite came out.

I opted for the 250GB plan and drug all our photos (gigs and gigs and more gigs) to the iCloud folder in Finder. Needless to say, it didn’t go too well.

What they really mean when they say…

Any kind of file. On all your devices.”

… is …

All of your files. On all your devices.

Sure enough Apple’s iCloud moved the whole photo collection up to their cloud but they also tried to move the whole photo collection down to my 8GB phone. Smooth move Apple.

I was greeted with, You have one thimble of space left on your phone when I picked it up to see what the Internets had tonight. I had to fritter about and drag the photo collection back to the Google Drive folder. I also downgraded to the 20GB plan and hope my iPhone does the right thing and takes them off the phone.

Funny thing is that I can’t even see them on my phone since Apple implemented the sync so it “just works” and therefore you can’t actually see all the files you sync.

And then there’s iCloud’s Mail that seems to thrash about for a good 5 minutes whenever I move an email from one folder to another. So I’ve stopped using that service completely (old IMAP is a hundred times more reliable) and don’t even get me started again on how Apple jacked up Mail.app.

The hell is up, Apple, with all these shitty implementations?

Google creeps me out anymore so the revert is just a temp thing. Maybe I’ll have another look at Dropbox’s pricing plans.

PS— Ever wondered why iCloud sucks?

#apple #icloud #fail

Leaves on our hike in this beautiful 50° weather. Prob be the last of this for the year.

#photos #naturerocks

Drone reveals footage of a city decaying after Chernobyl explosion

A frozen Ferris wheel, poisoned forests and paint sloughing off an empty swimming pool; these are the remains of a city devastated by a nuclear disaster nearly 30 years ago.

Pripyat in Ukraine, once home to a population of 50,000, was just a few miles from the Chernobyl power plant which exploded in 1986.

Now, a Devon-based documentary maker, Danny Cooke, has captured the area in decay by flying around the abandoned area using a camera attached to a drone.

#meanwhile #videos #chernobyl

I never watch Once Upon a Time but M. loves it. Whenever there’s a really intense part, she has to fill me in with what’s going on. I suppose it’s her way of processing the intensity.

#tv

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A tad #creepy

#socialmedia #fail

The best stories ever told always end with the words “and then I got the hell out of…”

Jack Nicholson’s Prep Before Shooting the Ax Scene in The Shining

This clip shows Jack Nicholson preparing for a scene in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. In the scene, Nicholson’s character Jack Torrance chops into a locked bathroom door to get to his wife, for whom he has a violent plan. To prepare for filming the scene, Jack gets amped up by jumping up and down in place like a boxer would, grabbing the ax and vocalizing.

The clip is from The Making of the Shining, which is a short documentary film made during production by Stanley Kubrick’s then 17-year-old daughter Vivian. The documentary is packaged with The Shining Two-Disc Special Edition as a special feature. Another documentary about the making of the movie is Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ by Howard Berry, which is a fantastic series of interviews of people involved with the film. The aforementioned Kubrick-endorsed documentaries, as well as the (previously featured at Neatorama) Room 237, make interesting viewing for any fan of Kubrick’s horror masterpiece.

This is how I start my day — watching clips of The Shining.

#theshining #videos

Me: we can get the pub cheese and share.

Maggie: Dad, that cheese is drunk.

#maggie

Grand jury reaches decision in case of Ferguson officer

A grand jury has decided whether to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown, sources close to the process said. News conferences are expected later tonight.

…

Although a parallel federal civil rights investigation of the shooting is continuing, federal investigators have all but concluded that they do not have a case against Wilson, law enforcement officials have said. Federal investigators are also conducting a broader probe of the Ferguson Police Department.

If Wilson is not charged, government officials are bracing for protests in the St. Louis area and nationwide. They have discussed emergency plans in the event of a violent reaction, while protest and community leaders have mapped out their response in hopes of avoiding the unrest that exploded after Brown was killed.

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#ferguson

Maggie: that cupcake sure hit the spot.

If you haven’t had a cupcake lately, treat yourself. It’s the little things for sure.

#maggie #cupcakes