Good morning! May the 4th be with you! The worst of the Canadian tax season is over, and for the first time ever, that has been followed by one of the most beautiful weekends ever (weather-wise) in southern Manitoba. Our family has spent the last four days outdoors, soaking in the sun and the newfound free-time. I completely forgot what it was like to be home by 5:00PM.

Which leads into other discourse, to be sure. There's no "Snap, you're done!" when working through annual seasons of heavy work. There is only an off-ramp from the work — a long, slow off-ramp that begins with major pangs of anxiety and stress and culminates in a to-do list that never truly gets finished. This slow off-ramp for me always begins with getting sick. And it takes a few weeks to really come to grips with having free-time once again. In the end, if I can get my email list and to-do list down to a list of non-impactful tasks, then I've achieved what I need to achieve before the next annual heavy workload.

Work is worship. This is an important lesson in life. But we are directed to rest, as well. I'm very excited for the rest in the next few months. More so than ever before.

Paste

Paste has been one of those apps that I had to return to a few different times to get a hang of it. Initially, the app provided the same utility to me as clipboard syncing between Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and nothing more. Why pay for something that’s already built into each of the operating systems?

But I’ve recently returned to Paste (again) and have found it to be invaluable.

First, Paste is reliable and fast — hit Cmd + C on your Mac, hear the little clicking Paste notifier in the background, and you’ll have access to that copied element on your iPhone instantly. Paste has not failed once syncing between Mac and iPhone, whereas macOS’s clipboard syncing has been intermittent at best.

Second is Paste’s design — I quite like the big drawer that slips in from the bottom of the screen and provides huge buttons for all your latest clippings. It’s fast, intuitive, and feels like part of macOS.

Third are Paste’s collections — I grow annoyed of having email templates in my email app, letter templates in Notion or Word, and messaging templates in Notes. Paste does a great job of cleaning this all up and provides one specific spot for storing all your templates. And because everything syncs across all your devices, you can access those templates on each device — this seems like an obvious thing, but when working between macOS and Windows in Parallels and working with others in the office on different computers, having these templates handy inside Paste has been extra helpful.

It may be hard for some to commit to paying for a better clipboard manager. But Paste’s reliability on its own may make it worth the money, let alone its other handy features. Paste has become one of my favourite utilities on my devices in the last few months.

More About the Shroud of Turin

Over the last few months, more research has been published on the origins of the Shroud of Turin. The research has effectively dated the shroud to the early 30s A.D. and to a specific location around Jerusalem which has a native linen or flax fiber. But it’s the 3-dimensional photogenic image fused into the fabric which continues to baffle everyone:

This is a light scientist, and Paul Dazo states it took 34,000 trillion watts of energy. But it wasn't just the amount of energy; it was the speed. Think about when the Bible says we'll see Jesus in the twinkling of an eye. The Ania laboratory said this 34,000 trillion watts of energy traveled in a quarter of a billionth of a second to leave the image on the shroud. Otherwise, it would have scorched the image and destroyed it. And the image is just two or three microns thin. It disappears if you go closer than 8 feet to the shroud. And so this is what has baffled scientists. Scientists have confirmed it is not a work of art. It's not man-made.

Yeah, this thing is the real deal.

Mind-blowing.

The Second Cup

Nicholas Gould Photography

Nicholas Gould’s colour work is beautiful. For me, it’s the way he works with green. There’s something about the tint and vibrancy in his greens that just work. You can get his presets here.

Alfread

Automatically archiving articles after one month that you’ve saved later but haven’t read? This sounds about as daring as it gets for readers.

A Designer’s Dual Apple Studio Display Workspace in Canada

There’s a lot going on in this setup. But my commentary focuses on the dual Studio Displays. It’s easy to take for granted how much space two Studio Displays take up. These are big displays and you need a pretty serious desk to harness them. And things change if you want to use them ergonomically — i.e. with one of the displays in front of you and the other off to the side so you aren’t constantly cranking your neck left or right.

Inside a $23,500,000 New York Townhouse in The West Village

I’m more of an elegant or serene aesthetic guy myself, so this style is right up my alley. But the kicker for me — how much would it suck to have your dining area up one floor from your kitchen? I imagine those who have the cash to purchase this home could likely hire someone to cook for them, and then perhaps they don’t need to worry about transporting dinner up the stairs to eat at the table. Or perhaps the dinner table is just a prop and you eat at the island in the kitchen. Either way, this design element always gets me.

Happy Sunday. I hope you have an excellent week ahead.