HEISENBERG’S CURSE

I Guess I Must Be Hearing Things Now

But my wife heard it too

Apple makes some nice speakers they call HomePods.

Translation for the Apple haters: Apple makes some crappy, unbelievably over-priced speakers that sheeple like me buy.

I have a wall switch that controls our Apple TV, the TV itself, and two HomePod Mini’s. I forgot that the switch was off yesterday when I asked the HomePods to play some music.

You can specify what and where. I happened to be in our bedroom, standing near one of the OG HomePods I bought when they first came out, so I said, “Hey Siri, play some chill piano music everywhere.”

Everywhere would be the bedroom and the two HomePod Mini’s in the living room. It would have included another OG HomePod in my office if I hadn’t carelessly neglected to protect that one from a storm that made it forget that it was part of a family and forever after refuse all reprogramming. I gave that one away to someone happy to have an OG HomePod, demented or not.

Here’s the mystery. The living room Mini’s played my music choice. These things require being plugged into the wall, which they were, but the outlet is controlled by the wall switch that was off. I didn’t remember that it was off, so I wasn’t surprised they…