What Lex is up to right now.
A snapshot of the shows, games, and shenanigans currently eating my brain — so when someone asks “what are you working on these days?” I have somewhere to point.
Here’s what’s happening with me now:
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On stage
Three Saturdays, three shows.
August has arranged itself into a tidy little run — two nights of improv and one afternoon of rock and roll, all conveniently on the same day of the week.
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Aug 8 SaturdayRefereeing ComedySportz Shore Thing Theater, Asbury Park
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Aug 15 SaturdayPlaying the Long Branch Car Show with Kimme’s Project Long Branch, New Jersey
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Aug 22 SaturdayPerforming with ComedySportz Shore Thing Theater, Asbury Park
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New modes
Gimme A Second has new ways to lose.
My music guessing game, Gimme A Second, is on iPhone and iPad: pick up to ten of your favorite bands, then name their tunes from a one-second sliver of audio. Miss it and you earn another second, up to five.
New since launch: a fresh set of challenge modes to work through, for when the daily puzzle stops feeling like enough of an insult to your memory. (There’s a web version too, if you want a taste first.)
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My apps
Gnome now keeps your GIFs in sync.
Gnome is my fast-GIF-sharing app, built for one very specific problem: I want to paste an animated GIF into Slack/Messages/email right now, and I do not want to open a browser to do it. Hit a keyboard shortcut (or, on iPhone, open the app), search a GIF, tap it — it’s on your clipboard, ready to paste wherever you were typing. Joke saved. World improved.
The big new thing is a slew of improvements to syncing your GIF library across devices: the GIFs you collect on the Mac show up on your phone, and vice versa, without you having to think about which machine you were on when you found the good one.
Gnome also uses Apple’s built-in vision tech to read the text inside your GIFs, so you can search for “don’t call me Shirley” and actually find the Airplane GIF. The Mac app is $7, unlocked forever; the iOS version is in the App Store.
(Why “Gnome”? Because that’s how I pronounce the “G” in “GIF.”)
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New page
So many apps, there’s now an Apps page.
I have so many apps to keep track of now that I gave them a home of their own: a standalone Apps page. If you want the full lineup in one place, that’s where to look.