When Sacha Baron Cohen was casted as Freddy Mercury I was really happy, I can’t think of someone that has the looks and act like that. When I saw the movie I understood perfectly an article I read about Sacha leaving the project. Rami Malek is a great Freddie, it just took me few minutes to stop seeing him as Elliot Alderson from Mr. Robot, in fact one thing I can’t complain is the cast. Everybody looks like the original. But the band was afraid of making a real movie, and get naked; How they expect the members a band named Queen for its excesses leave Freddy alone mid party to go with their wives, not to mention the party itself was already pretty conservative and left a lot out, but probably it was the only way the movie was getting all the right for the songs.

In the movie there is a part when the band has issues with the length of bohemian rhapsody and how it was going to be hard to air on the radio; you don’t even hear the complete song in the movie, and the movie is called after the song!

Still it is really entertaining and watchable, at least you know the soundtrack is going to be amazing. You probably wont learn anything new, and for the ones that didn’t know much you can learn more in a quick infographic about the song.

After every episode I still wonder if it is a feminist masterpiece or just a hyper-realistic TV series.

It is hard to watch and not feel bad to be a man, and it is even harder to think that most of the injustices portrayed are still pretty much on-going.

On advertising agencies things have leveled up (a bit) but for IT which is now THE industry, things are the same; The men to women ratio is disproportionate, meetings still feel like frat parties and this “slight” permanent harassment disguised as compliments or niceness.

What I’m a little scared of is that probably it won’t be so evident for a lot of people that will just look up to “how cool” Don Draper is, being a white, powerful, rich man , or how funny it is how they treat women.

On the other hand all the female characters are adorable and so real, even when they aren’t feminist but showing the years of oppression and psychological damage by the system.

Anyway I’m just starting season 2 so lets see how everything continues

Before software companies had extenuating QA to leave out most of the bugs, because the next opportunity would be on a Service Pack or in the next major version.

You could go without updates for years, that is what made Windows XP almost immortal at some point; Every government office, old person’s computers and any non-tech guy’s or gal’s computers could run smoothly without any update.

Then internet updates came.

And we became the beta-testers.

It’s more common that version x.1 is few days after x.0. Sure, now pretty much all updates are free but also most of them are bug zapping. Last year you could have root access to any Mac and the patch took ages to come.

One of the reasons we slowed space exploration is the cost of updating the technology and remain practically without any major errors specially when errors at that level mean dropping the ball hard, or in this case dropping the Falcon 9.

Having a great idea and turning into an App is easier than ever, rather you are like Eric Barone and spend 5 years in making of Stardew Valley all by yourself or part of the testing team in Google, we need better QA and/or better coding so we can have another IT Space Age.

If you want to watch all the AA series you have to pay for: HBO, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Crunchy Roll (anime anyone?), Hulu, etc. Cable is not for everybody and internet was the chosen one.

Youtube has ads, which I supported at first because was a free service and we were all part of it. We watched everybody’s videos, the viral videos were made strangers or they were masterfully made. Then youtubers came, but they started getting revenue, agencies started managing them, now we have youtube gossip shows about youtubers and we literally have commercial breaks in videos that are long as a show. TV can’t be made by us, Youtube was the chosen one.

At some I paid a Rapidshare account to be able to download more than one album at the time from blogs, then Megaupload came along with all this cloud storage services, luckily it became easier to stream and now I dont need to have my 160Gb iPod Classic all the time with me.
In the early days, buying music was not for me, physical stores only had mainstream music and iTunes had really short catalog. Now days there are really few albums or songs that I have physically (physically meaning MP3) and they are legally owned having really few exceptions as the Sonar Barcelona DJ set of Nicolas Jaar. But still my iPhone insists in using Apple Music, Alexa is stubborn and always wants to use Amazon Music and we all had that that scare with Tidal.

Uber was born under the shared economies concept, if an architect had a meeting until noon and nothing else he could drive few hours to have an extra income. Obviously we did it again, people buying N number of cars and putting them to work basically as taxis; At least at first it was marketed as a premium service, drivers wore suits and they gave you bottled water, now you only wait to get home safe. I have a folder of Apps that are basically the same.

We have found a way to corrupt crowd sourcing, crowd funding, investing, let’s remember cryptocurrencies, audio streaming, video streaming, live streaming (meerkat should have been at least bought), and I cant wait to try all the new ones and have nostalgia of when they were cool.