(October 14, 2025) These are the things that I am doing, watching, reading, listening to, and thinking about in no particular order.
Doing
I'm enjoying the slightly cooler weather. Here in North Carolina, it is still warm, but not blazingly hot, and the evening temperatures are nice and cool. I've been watching the Carolina Panthers more this year, and have been able to go to a few games.
Watching
I'm still watching the latest season of Tulsa King. The new documentary about John Candy is excellent.
I'm excited about the new NBA season, which kicks off on NBC on October 21. Aside from that, I have been watching a lot of YouTube, specifically anything BMW related.
Reading
I’m still reading Jurassic Park on Google Play Books. (I'm a really freaking slow reader in the sense that I tend to only pick up novels when I'm on vacation.)
Listening To
Zach Bryan, ROLE MODEL, R.E.M., LIVE, Bowling for Soup, Arrested Development, A Tribe Called Quest, and Rage Against the Machine. The new Taylor Swift album recently dropped, so that is what I've been listening to when driving around with my wife.
Thinking About
I thought about making this a full blog post, but I don't really have the time right now, and frankly, I don't think there is enough here to justify it. That said, I'm disappointed with iOS 26. I'm not as pressed about Liquid Glass as some are, but certain icons are blurry unless one uses glass for those icons. Definitely more than a little annoying.
I'm also extremely disappointed that Apple is still not allowing third party browser engines on iOS. I like Chrome's UI (and syncing capabilities, since I'm not a macOS user) much better than Safari, especially with the new UI changes in Safari, and I really wish that Chrome had parity with the desktop version. Apple allows this on the Mac, why not iOS? Surely iOS is not so inherently insecure that allowing another rendering engine for an app downloaded from Apple's App Store (where the code can be reviewed) would pose a risk to users. That said, I do wish Google would incorporate some of Safari's features, like the ability to remove distracting things from a web page and a true reader mode.
I'm also disappointed that there is still no true multitasking in iOS, such as the ability to view two apps on screen at once. Android has had this feature for so long now, and it's not like the screen on an iPhone 16 Plus is too small for it or the processor is too weak.
The iOS Mail app on iOS 26 is also annoying. I use it for my iCloud account, and in iOS 26, when I flip the phone into landscape mode to view an email that does not render well in portrait mode, it now activates a side menu that one cannot remove, thus rendering landscape mode unusable.
If it were not for the fact that my iPhone 16 Plus is so new to me (got it in May), the fact that iMessage is a thing, and the fact that Find My is a thing, I would probably switch to a Galaxy Z Fold 7. I have a coworker with one, and that phone looks amazing.