And miss the opportunity to become famous on the internet?
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There are different genres of podcast:
- Two or more people sitting around talking. Usually about something they’re expert about. Often the subject matter wanders away into other areas for large parts of the podcast. Sometimes the putative subject matter is only a small part of the podcast—in that case, the real subject is the hosts and their relationship. Example: MPU, of course.
- One person talking about a subject they’re knowledgeable about. I listen to a couple of history podcasts like this. Examples: Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, the Age of Napoleon.
- Scripted drama or comedy, with voice actors.
- Old time radio from the 1930s-50s.
- Radio-style newscasts.
- Audio documentaries, like “This American Life,” which I’ve listened to as a podcast far longer than I have listened to it as a radio show, or the recent “The Prince,” about the life and career of Xi Jinpng.
The former.
I just think it’s good to be able to control what your emails look like to the outside world – it may be that you don’t want your emails to appear as 18-pt Comic Sans. I totally get that this is an opinion contrary to Apple and most of our users. It may stem from having long been indoctrinated with Microsoft Outlook, which aligns with this functionality. Also Spark does as well, I believe. If anything, Apple Mail is a bit contrarian about it. I understand the arguments like yours, I just happen to find the counterpoints in favor of controlling the appearance of your emails stronger. But again I know it’s contrary – that’s why I decided to have fun and post it again in this thread! (I’ve long since given up that it will be changed).
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Totally agree, the key is knowong how you hadnle and process new information and what allows you to focus vs not.
Tht’s why i said for me. I have learned that there are far more people who need or tolerate music or audio inouts to learn and process info but I am the exact opposite. All styles of learning are ok, just need to know what works for you so you can adapt to handle it.
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These are the main things I listen to, particularly when driving. It’s not uncommon for me to drive 8-10 hours in a day and the podcasts give me some good entertainment and information during the drive. I mix it up with a variety of subjects I enjoy but heavy on science and technology. For old radio, I’m a big fan of the Johnny Dollar series.
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Johnny Dollar was brilliant. I’d love to see a revival in the genre of audio drama and sitcoms, along with the podcast boom. There are some.
BTW, the reason I posted that podcast taxonomy is to suggest that maybe someone who thinks they dislike podcasts isn’t listening to the right kind of podcast.
It’s like saying you hate TV when all you’ve ever seen are sitcom reruns from the 1970s.
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I’m confused: Can’t you just create an email as rtf or html that will use whatever you choose in apple mail fonts etc and they will get it like that?
…of course if the recipient has settings that counteract this then that is that…
E-mail is cross platform (Windows PC, Mac, flavors of Unix, etc). Users have a large number of e-mail clients to choose from. The technical definitions of the fonts you chose probably aren’t embedded in your e-mail. If the recipient’s platform or client app does not have those fonts, they will not see your message as you sent it.
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Exactly. The web gets around this problem by quite literally sending fonts to the user with the page data. Please let’s never do that for email. 
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That was me for most of last year. I moved to something’, then to something else, doing a lot of data converting and syncing along the way,
I did stick with some of the new tools & tech that I discovered. But, in some cases I moved back to where I started! I started a home technology simplification effort last December that is still in progress. I ask myself, “what is the simplest, lowest cost way of reaching my goal?” for each problem and go from there.
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I used to think that way until a neighbor’s house burned down. Off-site back up is critical.
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Absolutely. I maintain my physical file arrangements on the Apple File System. But then I index everything in DT and have the best of both worlds. Logical File Organization in DT and Physical File Organization on the file system. Yes, Logical and Physical can be different. For example, videos are big. I keep all of my videos on the file system in one place. That way I can manage them as a group (perhaps moving them to a different hard drive). But then I can organize logically by subject matter in my DT databases.
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100 percent this. Whether it’s something online like Backblaze or a copy on a hard drive off site.
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+1 on offsite backups.
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You’ll want to avoid Moby Dick then. Tedious.
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Definite agree. Also, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, unless you are into endless, endless descriptions of fish. All the fish.
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Goodness, thank you for this. I have been trying to read Moby Dick because hey, it’s Moby Dick. But it is a slog. A real slog, and it shows no signs of going anywhere yet and I’ve already given up twice.
I have wondered if it’s just my Internet brain atrophying to the point of being unable to follow complex writing. I’m sure that’s part of it, but at least now I know I’m not alone!
Well, for what it is worth, I’m pretty well read. I’ve read many many of the classics as well as more contemporary works. I’ve read extensively in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, and theology. I’m conversant with epistemology, apologetics, and more. With that humble introduction 
to this comment, I started reading Moby Dick for the same reason you stated. A third of the way through, I quit. It was a bore. Moby Dick may be one of those books that’s great for a few to read and then give us the short version and the primary theme. Perhaps a few
selected quotes. Though, I don’t like to quote from people and books that I have not actually read.
In contrast, I recently reread The Grapes of Wrath. It’s a good, perhaps great, book.
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