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Lightning’s Lost Spark
In about two weeks, if all goes well, Apple will finally let the final vestige of the proprietary cable fall by the wayside. The iPhone will finally get USB-C, something it arguably would have had if...
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Dead-End Hardware
Today in Tedium: The great thing about a lot of technology is that even if its ideas fail, they often re-emerge elsewhere, influencing the thinking of others in the field to come up with something...
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Art Fights Back
Over the last year or so, deep questions have been raised about the value of art in a world where you can generate as much “art” as you’d like by simply filling out a prompt. (I’ve covered a few of...
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The Barenaked Truth
Hiding deep in the recesses of the Barenaked Ladies’ 30-plus years of musical output are likely to be more than a few misguided ideas. Did you know, for example, that the band once did a television...
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The Sad One
Hey all, Ernie here with a continuation of our partnership with Mountain Town Coffee Roasting, in which we dive into different types of cryptids based on the coffee they sell. Thus far, we’ve given...
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Based On A True Interpretation
At a time when Apple is releasing another iPhone today, of course I wanna write about a dead phone. I finally saw the BlackBerry movie last night, a film I had been quite excited about, and I gotta...
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Something To Sneeze At
In a way, the Food and Drug Administration deciding that something that people use every day is no better than a placebo is a lot better of a discovery than it could have been. They could have done...
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The Cash Machine Is Blue And Green
Today in Tedium: We live in a world where, conceivably, you can go without hitting an ATM for months, even years on end, as long as you have the right piece of plastic. After all, why carry money on...
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The Obvious Warning Sign
Over the last year or two, I’ve started to get back into gaming after a long break—and a lot of the games I have been appreciating have been of the indie variety. The starting point for me came with a...
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Network Lobotomy
The company Nexstar is no stranger to extreme makeovers when it comes to the television stations it owns. In 2021, it revamped the long-active legacy superstation WGN into a CNN competitor called...
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The Modem Tax
Today in Tedium: Earlier this week, my internet went out. It was an inconvenience. It knocked out my connection to the world, and knocked my little home server offline. But it was no big thing—I went...
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Kill It With Fire
Recently, my wife and I went camping in a national park, which is something that we apparently now do. Our thought process was essentially that, to avoid a recent tropical storm, we’d head to the...
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Next-Gen Roadblock
If you’re a television nerd, you’ve been looking at deep interest in ATSC 3.0 for many years. It’s a technology that’s supposed to make broadcast a lot better, to the point that intermediaries like...
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The Science Oven
Today in Tedium: Say what you will about the world in which we live, but the microwave has done more to shape it, for good and for bad, than any other individual food-cooking device. Having a device...
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RGB Revolution
When we took the steps we needed to develop RGB lighting, the red and the green light-emitting diodes were easier to develop than the blue ones. We had green LEDs in the 1950s, and red LEDs by 1962....
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Your Phone Will Ring Soon
If I ever have any deep regrets about running this newsletter, it’s that I wasted one of my best story ideas on a period in which nobody was reading Tedium. On January 22, 2015, less than a month into...
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Tune-In
Today in Tedium: More than 50 years ago, in the span of a career that included a couple of legendary television shows, numerous high-profile tribute ceremonies, friendships with some of Hollywood’s...
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The Post Of Revelations
Quick editor’s note: I’m taking a long-needed vacation starting this Friday, and while there will be a Friday issue this week, I will not publish the week of October 16 and will return the week of...
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Making Way For Wayland
Quick editor’s note: I’m taking a long-needed vacation starting tomorrow, and while there will be a Friday issue this week, I will not publish the week of October 16 and will return the week of...
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Yes, He Did That
Editor’s note: So, I’m on vacation for a week-plus after this issue, but of course I thought I would be sneaky and send my final issue while I was out on the trail. One mistake—no signal! As a...
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