Walt's Corner

Say it ain’t so! As far as I can tell, originating from across the pond on a sketchy at best, but usually containing some grain of truth, Daily Mail UK reports (NSFW) that ICE Barbie’s husband, Bryon Noem has been caught red-handed with his proverbial hand in the cookie jar, and they’ve got the pics to prove it. Click at your own risk!

Which takes us to an equally suspect news organization on our side of the pond, the New York Post, reporting that Noem’s representative’s response is that they are both devastated and blindsided. They toss around some heavy hitting words. Like fetish. And bimbofication. And adult performers. To quote a certain George, “OH MY!”

If true, could shed some light on recent allegations against the former Department of Homeland Security Chief of flying bedroom palaces and shared hotel rooms with a favorite boy-toy of hers.

If you want to read it from our very own national trash site, TMZ offers the scoop here.

And this awful picture for this post? It is my slop. Not AI or Microscope.

A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is arrested for murder. Unlike “Florida Man,”  here is a headline you don’t get to see everyday. Admit it, you had to read that headline twice, didn’t you?

At the age of 10 he contracted some bacterial infection resulting in amputation of all limbs to makeing sure to remove the infection. He later became very good at cornhole to the point of championship titles. 

According to the news story he was invovled in a disagreement with friends he was driving around. Shot one of them, then asked the others to help him slide the body out of his car. They refused and fled the scene in what I’m sure was some shit they were still trying to process. 

Out of all the questions running through your mind, first and foremost is probably, “How can he fire a weapon?” I present to you, Exhibit A: His YouTube Video.

Mid-world. Stephen King fans will recognize this place immediately.

King’s website announced the release of Other Worlds Than These, part 3 of the Talisman trilogy.

Late 1980s is when I read The Talisman and mid 2000s for Black House (you can google that shit yourself). It wouldn’t be until the 2nd novel that we realized the Territories is just another name for Mid-World, the main location for King’s magnum opus, though I suppose we should have known. Of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Peter Straub has an equal part in this story. He passed a few years ago.

Pretty stoked about this. Release date is set for October 6. TAKE MY MONEY!

Had my annual check-up at the VA yesterday. Like most years, I was asked if I wanted the shingles vaccine. Sure. Why not. Side effects? Injection site discomfort. Some body aches. Lethargic today. All of which beats the heck out of actually catching the shingles virus I suppose.

And this is just the first in a series of two. Next one is scheduled for May. I think. 

The golden unicorn. Or in my case, the Indigo unicorn. MacBook Neo. Apple computers/laptops have always been sold at a premium. Since my hardest processor hitting applications or utilities that I use can be easily handled on an iPad, I haven’t been able to justify buying an Apple computer/laptop for a while I’ve been computerless for over 10 years now. And happy about it. I haven’t missed hardly a thing from my laptop days. The one thing I have missed? BBEdit. Shit how I’ve missed that lowly text editor. From the days of version 5, circa 1999. And it was always available on the CD that accompanied MacAddict magazine. Bare Bones Software have never seen fit to make it available for iOS. So that made me gravitate towards iA Writer. In fact, I’m using iA Writer to write this very article.

My iPad Air coupled with the Magic Keyboard *is* my laptop. Everything I want to do can be done on this setup. Writing. Reading. Communication in its various forms. Web browsing. Domain admin. Music/video entertainment. Occasional video editing. Not very processor-intensive stuff. And it does it with pizazz! Fast! If I could put up with the small screen of my iPhone Air, my phone could handle all of the above.

I’ve often wondered why someone hasn’t yet developed the shell of a laptop – you know – the case, keyboard, screen, trackpad, and ports and all I do is open a door or something and place my iPhone in there. Bam! Laptop. Basically, this is what Apple has done, only they included the guts of an iPhone 16 Pro Max into it. Perfect. Certainly enough to handle what I do with ease and grace.

Which is why I pre-ordered the Indigo Blue MacBook Neo. It’s less expensive than my current iPad/Magic Keyboard setup.

Fast forward to now. A week after my MacBook Neo arrived. I’ve had a few days to put it through some tests. It has surpassed all expectations. I’ve downloaded BBEdit. MarsEdit. And iA Writer. Currently using iA Writer for Mac to finish this article. Seamless transfer as I would have expected. I hope to use MarsEdit to post this article directly to my blog, Walt’s Corner. We’ll see how that works. I’ll close out of here and open this text file on my iPhone.

Now I’m editing it on my iPhone. I’ll quit from here and open it up on my iPad.

Now on my iPad. Smooth transition. I’ll switch back over to my MacBook…

And finally back on the MacBook. Sweet. The only bummer is that you have to purchase the Mac version separately from the iOS version unless you want to purchase iA Writer as a subscription – which I don’t. 

Thinking about buying one? I read today that all orders accepted now aren’t expected to be fullfilled until the end of April. Apple can’t keep up with the demand.