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Jul 27, 2024: Computer People Computer People , How people react to computer issues now as opposed to the early days of widespread PC usage , louplummer.lol/computer-…
Jul 27, 2024: Today on App-Addict - Witch from May Tricks is a window switcher that lets you ⌘+tab to an open tab in the Mac browser of your choice, not just …
Jul 27, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Tony remarked that he was an African-American making me a Korean version of a Mexican dish in an American restaurant. …
Jul 26, 2024: My 77-year-old Dad is a diehard YouTube fan. He’s recovering from heart surgery today, so I made him a playlist to give him something to do …
Jul 26, 2024: You Can't Love Both You Can’t Love Both , #100DayToOffload I’ve reached my lifetime limit of pretending that Republicans can love Trump AND Jesus at the same …
Jul 26, 2024: Today on AppAddict - MenuWhere - its single purpose is to pop up the frontmost app’s menus at the current mouse location. By default, it is …
Jul 26, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - I met Joe downtown outside of a locally owned coffee shop. He was having some java and smoking a cigarette through a …
Jul 25, 2024: Vivian Maier - Street Photographer Vivian Maier - Street Photographer , Vivian Maier was an American street photographer whose work was not discovered until the time of her death. , …
Jul 25, 2024: Living Out Loud Update Living Out Loud Update , Just an update on what’s going on in various projects and personally lately. , louplummer.lol/living-ou…
Jul 25, 2024: Today on AppAddict - focusedOS lets you create a distraction free workspace by blocking apps, websites and interface elements and by playing ambient …
Jul 25, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Spike was getting a drink from a convenient water fountain when I spotted him near Zucotti Park in the Financial …
Jul 24, 2024: To Die With Che To Die With Che , A poem about the left , louplummer.lol/to-die-wi…
Jul 24, 2024: Today in history, 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos with Australian Peter Norman wearing an OPHR badge in …
Jul 24, 2024: Stuff in a Time Machine Stuff in a Time Machine , A vintage post from 1997 where I look at my tendency to be a bit of a hoarder , louplummer.lol/stuff-in-…
Jul 24, 2024: Worst Computer Virus Ever Worst Computer Virus Ever , The MyDoom computer virus cost the economy %52 Billion and once was responsible for one if four email messages sent every …
Jul 24, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - I met Tammy at the mall late on a winter afternoon as she was about to head inside for her shift at one the …
Jul 24, 2024: Today on AppAddict - a look at task managers and to do apps for Mac with my personal choice, Things 3 highlighted. A two-time Apple design award …
Jul 23, 2024: JD Vance throws his bacon grease in the garbage can.
Jul 23, 2024: A quick guide to translating Trumpsters: “Soros” = Jews “Chicago” = Blacks “Detroit” = Blacks “Fucking …
Jul 23, 2024: What it’s like being Trump’s campaign manager - It’s like being Charlie Manson’s foxtrot instructor. You go out there, you …
Jul 23, 2024: Get Toby Get Toby , Toby is a browser extension for saving bookmarks and tab collections to your default new browser page , linkage.lol/get-tony/
Jul 23, 2024: I'm Not Sure What Class Actually Means I’m Not Sure What Class Actually Means , I’m not sure what class I belong to, and I don’t care what class you are in …
Jul 23, 2024: From my 100 Strangers collection - Panchito was fascinated not just with my camera but with the whole process of taking photos and examining the back …
Jul 23, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Qspace File Manager is a multi-paned file manager and a replacement for the Finder on macOS. After using Path Finder for 20 …
Jul 22, 2024: The Blog Directory - that @jedda@social.lol and I started last week is booming with 123 blogs currently available for your review. If your blog is …
Jul 22, 2024: An Obsidian Gem An Obsidian Gem , Nicole van der Hoeven makes helpful and informative YouTube videos about Obsidian a PKM and note taking software title. , …
Jul 22, 2024: Baseball Names as Poetry Baseball Names as Poetry , A list of my favorite baseball players, selected solely on the poetic and literary quality of their names #100DaysToOffload …
Jul 22, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Steve was profoundly over dressed for a hot afternoon street fair in Raleigh all the way down to his fingerless …
Jul 22, 2024: Today on AppAddict - TRANSNOMINO is a free file naming utility with professional capabilities using wild cards, regular expressions or file …
Jul 21, 2024: The March on Washington for Job and Freedom, 1963 The March on Washington for Job and Freedom, 1963 , We got married on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to establish a connection with what’s …
Jul 21, 2024: Keyboard Maestro Macro to Copy #Obsidian Daily Note to Day One I use my Obsidian Daily Note to capture all kinds of data: Task of the day Weather Appointments What I learned What I did What I am grateful for …
Jul 21, 2024: “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” - Jean Paul
Jul 21, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - I momentarily interrupted their workout, but Eddie and Vice didn’t seem to mind answering my questions through …
Jul 21, 2024: Free Blogging Advice Free Blogging Advice , Seven Practical Steps and Services for Getting Started on the IndyWeb , louplummer.lol/free-blog…
Jul 21, 2024: Today on AppAddict - In Windows, when you hover over an app on the taskbar, the operating system shows you the open windows for that app, a useful …
Jul 21, 2024: My Top 10 Police Shows of All Time My Top 10 Police Shows of All Time , A list of American and British police procedurals from the 80s to the present , louplummer.lol/my-top-10…
Jul 20, 2024: Let’s cut the bullshit and spell out a few things. The IT security industry is about as trustworthy as the food supplement and vitamin industry, …
Jul 20, 2024: This Weeks Bookmarks - Gay Rodeo, Death Valley Heat, Interactive Historical Maps, Boundry Setting Language, Top 100 Athletes of the 21st Century, Nerd Poker, Drone Footage of Everest Drone footage of Mt. Everest from base camp to the summit Queer cowfolx are bucking tradition at the gay rodeo (19thnews.org) What 129 Degrees Feels …
Jul 20, 2024: It’s Saturday, so I updated my /now page with info on my new project with @jedda@social.lol , a blog directory, plus info on what TV I watched, …
Jul 20, 2024: The Power of Online Community - After six months on the Indy Web, on Mastodon, Micro.blog, Scribbles and BearBlog, I share what I have learned about …
Jul 20, 2024: The Power of Online Community The Power of Online Community , I share my experiences with online communities and discuss the many benefits they can offer. , …
Jul 20, 2024: Today on AppAddict - I was reviewing the free and open-source app, Later, designed to save and reopen workspaces when I got a weird warning from …
Jul 20, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Kiesha was waiting for the train to go to work with her brother, Marcus when he got bored and started to chase her …
Jul 19, 2024: Mindhunter was a Netflix show that although it only ran for two seasons, was a high quality portrayal of the early days of the FBI’s profiling unit …
Jul 19, 2024: Thinking about the possibility of becoming religious after being lucky enough to have a scheduled day off on CrowdStrike Friday. Somebody deserves the …
Jul 19, 2024: I See Color - When people talk about race, they use the line “I don’t see color” to prove they aren’t prejudiced. I make the …
Jul 19, 2024: From my 100 Stanger’s Project - I didn’t get this guy’s name because when I started my usual rap with him, he started hitting me up …
Jul 19, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Updater apps for Mac - I cover MacUpdater, Latest, CleanMyMac X, Topgrade, Raycast extensions and Applite.
Jul 18, 2024: I wish more products came with practical life advice. One of the best things The Rolling Stones ever wrote were the instructions on the LP for Let It …
Jul 18, 2024: I’m not a fan of Steve Jobs hagiography at all, but the other Steve, the humble one, the nice one, the generous one - him I like The Right Steve
Jul 18, 2024: Getting Caught With the Feels - My personal experiences with quiet crying, emotional vulnerability, and coping mechanisms, highlighting the power of …
Jul 18, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Diya, a seventh-grade student from Cary, NC was hamming for the camera when I caught this wide-eyed shot. Her Mom gave …
Jul 18, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Coherence and Unite are two apps based on Chromium and WebKit respectively, that improve built-in site-specific browser (SSB) …
Jul 17, 2024: When I Quit Social Media I ditched social media for about 18 months during a time when I decided to dedicate my life to just doing healthy stuff: long daily walks, meditation, …
Jul 17, 2024: Taking a look at Internet Trolls, their origin, history and most infamous campaign, Gamergate, the one that gave rise to the alt-right, r/theDonald …
Jul 17, 2024: Looking at the quandy caused by feeling optimistic about my own circumstances while so many others are in a panic. Writing this brought me to tears
Jul 17, 2024: From my 100 strangers project - Deb and Jules were busking in a tunnel in Central Park. Despite the Led Zeppelin t-shirt, they were doing a Beatles …
Jul 17, 2024: Today on App Addict - Explore Little Tagger, a budget-friendly alternative to Hazel for automating basic tagging tasks on your Mac. Learn about its …
Jul 16, 2024: When people have acted hysterically and you point that out, they get hysterical again. Case in point the recent Internet meltdown over the Bartender …
Jul 16, 2024: After water, tea is the most popular beverage in the world and I do my best to to consume my share of it in a way much different than my fellow …
Jul 16, 2024: We use the phrase “Absolute Legend” so often it loses meaning. Well, here is a real legend, Grandma Gatewood, the first woman to solo hike the entire …
Jul 16, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Mose the artist, from Raleigh, NC. Although I prefer to do portraits in B&W, the colors in his artwork and …
Jul 16, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Cryptomator, a free and open-source encryption tool designed to be used with cloud utilities like Google Drive, Dropbox and One …
Jul 15, 2024: if I Could Only Install 20 Mac Applications I’m rather proud of having more than 400 apps installed on my Mac. According to Lingon X, I have 102 apps either as login items or running in …
Jul 15, 2024: A riff on what it’s like being sick as an adult vs. being sick as a kid with a hat to tip some of my favorite care givers.
Jul 15, 2024: A while back I published My Rules for Me, my self-written guidelines for living. This guy has 100 rules and they are all worth reading.
Jul 15, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Irish Mike was walking the streets of Wilmington, NC appropriately clad in green to go with his red hair. He claimed …
Jul 15, 2024: Today on AppAddict - A look at text expansion choices for power users - ranging from the native macOS tool to Keyboard Maestro, Raycast/Alfred, Better …
Jul 14, 2024: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that 76% of 642 websites tested used so called “dark patterns”, deceptive practices that …
Jul 14, 2024: Trump’s weaponized incompetence cost countless lives during the pandemic, his commitment to stripping health care from millions is murderous. …
Jul 14, 2024: POSSE, Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, is a foundational tenet of the Indy Web. Do you do it? How? On cross posting
Jul 14, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Big Jim works for the rescue squad and they had been called out for some mysterious goings on at an old car wash in a …
Jul 14, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Step 2 Offers Two Factor Authentication in a Desktop App With parts of Authy deprecated and others hit by security breaches, you …
Jul 13, 2024: This landscape is our home, and we rarely stray long from it, or endure anywhere else for long before returning. This may seem like a lack of …
Jul 13, 2024: Cursing at computers 100% makes them run better and anyone who doesn’t know this need to up their troubleshooting game. I can make a …
Jul 13, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks - Tools people use, Every streaming service price hike, 50 best movie soundtracks, 100 best books of the 21st century, 30 amazing images of the universe, World architecture forum award winners, how celebrity book clubs work 30 amazing images of our Universe – Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 shortlist announced | BBC Science Focus Magazine Uses This / Interviews …
Jul 13, 2024: It’s Saturday and time to update my /now page with what I’ve been reading (and what I quit reading), watching, writing, buying and …
Jul 13, 2024: Mixtape Garden is a free service that crafts downloadable mixtapes crafted from the YouTube videos you specify
Jul 13, 2024: Time is What You Make of It - someone asked me when I had time for myself because I write a lot, but my writing time is my “me time”. …
Jul 13, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Susie was hanging out by the Cape Fear River down on the Wilmington waterfront when I caught her trying out her hula …
Jul 13, 2024: Today on AppAddict - an old mac troubleshooting tool is back and I am feeling nostalgic. [Network Utility is available for download from …
Jul 12, 2024: “We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.” - Stewart Udall
Jul 12, 2024: Stranger In a Strange Land, Revisited - I’ve been reexamining Robert A. Heinlein lately. After nearly worshipping him as a young person, I later …
Jul 12, 2024: Time Capsule Atlanta, 1997 A blog post from way back in the day after I spent my first overnight in a big city a year after it hosted the Olympics. My …
Jul 12, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - This is a candid shot I took of Scott rather than a portrait, but I liked it the best of the shots I took of him while …
Jul 12, 2024: Today on App Addict - Disk Drill by Cleverfiles is data recovery software that comes with six free utilities including disk health monitor, Mac …
Jul 11, 2024: Today marks 100 consecutive days that I have posted a review on AppAddict, a little website that I started on a whim to be able to talk to other …
Jul 11, 2024: “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” - Toni Morrison “Nobody is free until everybody is free.” - Fannie Lou Hamer These …
Jul 11, 2024: I think you can figure out a lot about a person if you know what books have had the most impact on them. At one point or another, each of these books …
Jul 11, 2024: What the web looked like in 1994
Jul 11, 2024: Taking a Mental Health Day - After too many meetings and too few decisions at work, there was only one cure for the stress,
Jul 11, 2024: From My 100 Strangers project - I caught Vanessa and her large personality downtown on a Sunday afternoon watching her break-dancing friends perform.
Jul 11, 2024: Today on AppAddict - [GoodLinks])(https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/goodlinks) is a dual-purpose app with a lot going for it. It’s both a …
Jul 10, 2024: Facebook Purity a Browser Extension That Removes Some of the Evil - If you are on Facebook out of choice or through family obligations like me, this …
Jul 10, 2024: True Confessions - My Life on the High Seas Back in the beginning days of the web, when Napster had 80 million users and torrents were a new thing, I …
Jul 10, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - William self-described himself as a reformed old drunk and said he has now dedicated his life to helping people.
Jul 10, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Mac Uninstallers - App Cleaner vs. Pear Cleaner one is more bare bones but thorough. The other has more features but occasionally …
Jul 9, 2024: have to admit that it’s breaking my heart to watch a new generation of anxious parents think that they can address the struggles their kids are …
Jul 9, 2024: I wrote 50 more blogging prompts to round out my collection to an even 100. If you get stumped on a topic for a post, take a look at these.
Jul 9, 2024: From my 100 Strangers - This is Disha, photographed with her mother’s blessing, at the NC India Festival held in the fall of the year at Dorton …
Jul 9, 2024: Today on AppAddict - An Unemotional Look at Clean My Mac X - I look at the controversial app without hyperbole or bias and point out its strong and …
Jul 8, 2024: If anyone wants to play along, make a list of the 15 books that have had the most impact on you and share it. 15 Books with the Most Impact
Jul 8, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - I met Bryan at the farmer’s market in the small coastal town of Beaufort, NC where people sell their goods under …
Jul 8, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Downie - Video Downloader - Downie can download from more than 1000 sites with more being added on a bi-weekly basis. It can …
Jul 7, 2024: Female hair is either long or political. Sexual orientation is either heterosexual or political. Gender identity is either cis or political. Clothing …
Jul 7, 2024: I put my thinking cap on this afternoon and came up with 50 Ideas for Blog Posts. Hopefully, some of y’all will get some use from them.
Jul 7, 2024: Awesome Mac - Browse a Huge Selection of Mac Applications - I have 449 applications on my MacBook. After browsing this site, I’m about to have a few …
Jul 7, 2024: My Favorite Newsletter Subscriptions - A list of free and worthy reads on subjects ranging from tech to history to current events from writers like …
Jul 7, 2024: “There are moments when you cannot help but feel that your life is being controlled by some not-entirely-benevolent god. You skirt down a ridge only …
Jul 7, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Clop - Copy Big, Paste Small, Send Fast - a utility that automatically resizes files simply by copying and pasting. Works on …
Jul 7, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - A rare color picture, to capture the multi-colored chalk on Danielle’s face after she and a friend had been to a …
Jul 6, 2024: Updated my /subscriptions page with a couple of new entries - Paramount+ so I can watch Mayor of Kingstown ($60 for a year) and BearBlog ($5 a month) …
Jul 6, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks - Democracy and the church, Vietnamese chicken salad, 25 hikes, Life's Anti-Checklist, 50 ways to fuel a conversation, Life of a tennis player, Daily routines Can Democracy And Evangelical Christianity Co-Exist? | (Backyard Church) Goi Ga, a Crunchy Vietnamese Chicken Salad Recipe (foodandwine.com) 25 …
Jul 6, 2024: Freckles, The Bull, The Bean, and Cajun - The story of the most memorable animals from my life, a Dalmation, a Black Angus Bull, a Dachshund and an …
Jul 6, 2024: It’s Saturday, the day I regularly update my /now page. This week I’m touting a great newsletter, Werd.io, four streaming shows, listing a …
Jul 6, 2024: Today on App Addict - Day One is popular for a reason. I have five journals with 18K entries made over the past 10 years, many of them automated …
Jul 6, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Jaleesa and Moniek were hanging out with their friends in front of the Art Center downtown for an impromptu, old …
Jul 5, 2024: My daughter today walking through the lavender fields in the Luberon area of France.
Jul 5, 2024: How to Create Maps of Content (MOC) in #Obsidian Maps of Content, or MOCs in Obsidian lingo are just notes that built around a collection of links to other notes with some sort of commonality. You …
Jul 5, 2024: Once upon a time, human beings bought their music at glorious record stores with knowledgeable, if slightly arrogant clerks, who could tell you about …
Jul 5, 2024: I’ve been punching a clock for 44 years and I’ve had all kinds of bosses and coworkers during that time. I learned a while back to take my …
Jul 5, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Claire was straddling her bike on the east side of Zucotti Park in NYC. I commented on her jersey proclaiming, “Runs …
Jul 5, 2024: Today on AppAddict - OnlySwitch is a free Mac menu bar app that offers instant access to numerous system settings like Dark Mode, Bluetooth, Mute Mic …
Jul 4, 2024: The most tired I have ever been was not after 100-mile bike rides or backpacking over mountains. It was after a full day of farm work, especially …
Jul 4, 2024: From My 100 Strangers Project - Alex - a super friendly guy from somewhere other than NC (Russia, actually) wearing a Duke shirt and reading a book …
Jul 4, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Plus AI from MacPlus Software an AI app that lives in the background, works on selected text and can be used in any app, is a …
Jul 3, 2024: Consider the quintessential traits often attributed to every younger generation - regardless of the era. Idealism. Technological savvy. A desire to …
Jul 3, 2024: I wrote a whole lot more than normal yesterday so when it came time to update my non-technical blog I was about out of energy and feeling kind of low. …
Jul 3, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - I caught up with Roland near the Wall Street Bull down in the financial district at the southern tip of Manhattan. He …
Jul 3, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Stats is a free menu bar app that monitors various hardware components on your Mac, providing colorful, easy to read, …
Jul 2, 2024: A Free Tool That Lets You Follow Any RSS Feed via The Fediverse - Birb via RSS Parrot. Do you have any favorite bloggers who just aren’t …
Jul 2, 2024: IndyWeb Carnival - Tools, How #Obsidian Cured My Depression, Saved my Job and Gave Me Purpose I often make the comment on Reddit or Mastodon that Obsidian, a cross platform note taking application, is my favorite piece of software since …
Jul 2, 2024: I made folks laugh yesterday when I commented that I’m an almost 60-year-old man with grandchildren who now can’t cuss on my blog anymore …
Jul 2, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - I met Jamie along with her friend Miranda at a street fair where the two of them were promoting their roller derby …
Jul 2, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Trickster keeps track of recent files you’ve been using on your Mac and gives you super easy and lightning fast access to them.. …
Jul 1, 2024: The New York Times Style Magazine assembled a group of editors to determine which 25 photos from 1955 until today are the defining images of the …
Jul 1, 2024: Straight Old White Guy’s Guide to Talking About Race, Abortion, Feminism and LGBT issues - Straight Old White Guys (SOWG) need to be quiet, …
Jul 1, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Amphetamine offers granular control to keep your Mac from sleeping while a certain app is running, for a period of time, until a …
Jul 1, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - While taking Austin’s photo, I caught an unplanned selfie as the reflection in his sunglasses captures me …
Jun 30, 2024: I Have Some Strong Opinions on Privacy Freak Outs Yes, your privacy is under assault, but unless you are willing to take certain uncomfortable steps, …
Jun 30, 2024: The 23 Best Time Travel Novels - a collection dating from the 1950’s through today. Despite paradoxes, time travel is a fascinating concept and makes …
Jun 30, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Specialist Erroll was downtown for a performance of the 82nd Airborne Infantry Division Band where he played a mean …
Jun 30, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Text Sniper is an OCR app for your Mac that can read text from YouTube videos, PDFs, images, online courses, screencasts, …
Jun 30, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging {micro maique}, the wonderful photo blog of Maique, resident visual artist, role model and superstar of …
Jun 29, 2024: For the 26th week in a row I’ve updated my /now page with a new to me blog discovery feed, four TV shows, the 16th blog posts I wrote, a new app …
Jun 29, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks - Movie Monster Sizes, Maximizing life, Best American towns to visit, Spending across generations, America's best pizza joints, Best Lake Towns, 50 True Things About Israel/Palestine The Relative Size of Movie Monsters | First person view (youtube.com) 44 One-Line Reminders to Maximize Life after 44 Years - Mike Thompson …
Jun 29, 2024: A good article by @jhpot@mastodon.social on the case for De-Googling and links to help you out. Lots of resources
Jun 29, 2024: Today on AppAddict - I make the case for Microsoft Edge for a certain class of Mac users who also use Microsoft Office, Outlook and One Drive. I use …
Jun 29, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging, And So it Goes, the blog of Kerri Ann Krueger, one of my favorite Mastodon follows and Indy bloggers. The post …
Jun 29, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Michelle is a member of a belly-dancing club that performs at street festivals. I ran into her before their …
Jun 28, 2024: A web site for baby bloggers or even experienced ones needing some fresh ideas, 32-Bit Cafe has plenty to explore. It has guides and tutorials, page …
Jun 28, 2024: Every once in a while, I just have to blog about the day that has been, with the good and the stuff that I wouldn’t describe that way. A Day in …
Jun 28, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Mark was at the Beaufort, NC Pirate Festival. In fact, I took this picture only a few hundred yards from where …
Jun 28, 2024: Today fo #Junited2024 I am plugging the blog of Molly White, one of the few “famous people” I follow on social media, mainly because she …
Jun 28, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Pie Menu is a mouse + keyboard driven alternative to memorizing menu bar commands. It is a fully configurable tool for activating …
Jun 27, 2024: I think I am in heaven. I just found an online gallery of portraits by renowned street photographer, Ryan Weideman. I’ve done street portraits …
Jun 27, 2024: Cool Tools is a web site which recommends the best/cheapest tools available. Tools are defined broadly as anything that can be useful. This includes …
Jun 27, 2024: Debate? No. The only thing I’d watch Donald Trump do for two hours is burn at the stake.
Jun 27, 2024: Some really hot takes in this article on web design! Those who continue to host one on their own domain like this site tend to treat it as a …
Jun 27, 2024: President Joe Biden will issue a proclamation giving mass clemency to US service members convicted of charges under a Cold War-era purge of gay and …
Jun 27, 2024: I had a lot of fun writing a lookback at my most memorable TV moments from 1969 through today. I linked to many old shows, news events and sports. …
Jun 27, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging the blog of Parker Molloy, a well know blogger who writes about communication in our hyperconnected world. Her …
Jun 27, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - This great big smile belongs to Lawrie who was visiting the historical coastal town of Beaufort, NC with her friends.
Jun 27, 2024: Today on AppAddict - I list my favorite apps from SetApp with details about their purpose and what they would cost if stand alone. I also posted a …
Jun 26, 2024: Hitler Was Incompetent and Lazy and His Government Was an Absolute Clown Show - Lot’s of similarities to his orangeness and company, like it or not. …
Jun 26, 2024: What do we look for in the people we meet online? - I’ve got to say that the people I meet online are a varied group, a lot more so than the …
Jun 26, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging the blog of Manuel Moreale, famous in the IndyWeb community (and deservedly so) for his People and Blogs …
Jun 26, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Sequel, a unique player in the media database space, tracks TV shows, movies, books, audiobooks and video games. Well designed, …
Jun 26, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Jerry asked me if I knew that you could catch fish at the State Fair. I wasn’t interested in buying a …
Jun 25, 2024: There are too many cool people online to waste time with buttheads. I’ve gone on a little blocking spree today on a certain orange hued social …
Jun 25, 2024: Another 10 Random #Obsidian Tips This is the third in a series of things I figured out on my own in Obsidian, but that I wish I’d seen elsewhere to save me some time! 10 Random …
Jun 25, 2024: Watching a Better Youtube - info and links to free YouTube resources: transcripts, summarizer, an online RSS service and an ad free, privacy first …
Jun 25, 2024: Are you still listening to the same songs you liked in high school (like me) or are you one of those brave souls who is always looking for something …
Jun 25, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Unclutter - Three Utilities in One App - a clipboard manager, a file shelf and a floating notes interface. Free trial, one time …
Jun 25, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging the blog of Matt Langford, one of the superstars of Micro.blog, the designer of TinyTheme and one of a hand full …
Jun 25, 2024: Loving The Outlaws, Season 3 on Amazon Prime Video
Jun 25, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Arty had a concession at the state fairgrounds in Raleigh. He told me he was in the Central Highlands of Vietnam with …
Jun 24, 2024: If anyone would like to contribute a post about their favorite food memories (grandma’s, mom’s, that $500 meal you had in Paris, basic …
Jun 24, 2024: I want to encourage anyone who hasn’t done so to add your blog to Feedle, a search engine for blogs. It’s great resource if you are …
Jun 24, 2024: YouTube Creator, Dann Berg who specializes in primarily Obsidian and productivity apps, also has a monthly newsletter that is worth subscribing to.
Jun 24, 2024: What are your favorite food memories? Your grandmother’s cooking, dishes from childhood, your spouse’s specialty? Here are mine.
Jun 24, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I’m plugging the blog Beardy Guy Musings by @Denny. You never know what you’re going to get there. It might be tech …
Jun 24, 2024: Today on App Addict - Upscayl - a Free and Open-Source Image Enlarger and Enhancer - takes low resolution images from old phones and digital cameras …
Jun 24, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - I met Tim down at the bus station when I was down there one day taking pictures of travelers. He was super friendly …
Jun 23, 2024: Lots of things that were wildly unpopular and sneered at in the past are now part of ordinary life: Abolition Women’s suffrage Access to birth …
Jun 23, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging the blog of Johnny Noble AKA Johnny Decimal, @johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io, truly one of the nicest people on the …
Jun 23, 2024: I’m extremely emotional over this and was up all night in tears. - How the sad case of a missing cat saved me from getting fired last week.
Jun 23, 2024: Remember When They Called It Netiquette? - Once upon a time, we all had to figure out what constitutes manners in our online communities but over the …
Jun 23, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Veronica - She had a table selling jewelry at a street fair. I noticed her because of the pink hair. I took my first …
Jun 23, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Spaces for macOS an app for opening everything you need for different task scenarios - writing, coding, editing photos. It sets …
Jun 22, 2024: Me and my 3-year-old grandson. Tracy - Why am I sticky? Lou - Because you’re eating ice cream Tracy - Why am I eating ice cream? Lou - Because I …
Jun 22, 2024: 12 Helpful iOS and macOS Shortcuts for #Obsidian To avoid awkward copying and pasting and the sometimes long wait before Obsidian is ready to accept text on mobile, iOS and Mac shortcuts are …
Jun 22, 2024: Looks like today’s trend is people writing up and sharing their blogging journeys, here’s mine. Send yours to @birming@mastodon.world.
Jun 22, 2024: The poets were right. There is something especially poignant about an athlete dying young. Some of the best sports writing of the past decade - Steve …
Jun 22, 2024: It’s Saturday, so I have updated my /now page - with info on ZEALOT: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Rasa Aslan, four TV shows, App …
Jun 22, 2024: Will It Still Be Social? - what do you think about the proposal allowing people to turn off or limit replies on the Fediverse? Will it turn it into a …
Jun 22, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks - Cool art gallery, Leftist purity, Beautiful streets, Music covers, NY Sandwiches, Landmarks, Biggest Dog Home - Oakoak street art What the Failure of American Communism Should Teach the Left - The Atlantic (archive.ph) 71 Beautiful Streets Around the …
Jun 22, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging the blog, Life Is Such A Sweet Insanity by J.P. Wing, a guy with an interests list a mile long: flying, hiking, …
Jun 22, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - I was taking someone else’s portrait outside a bar in Wilmington when Charles looked at me and smiled. I …
Jun 22, 2024: Today on AppAddict - a great single purpose app to create quote graphics. Text Shot by developer @chrishannah@mastodon.social. I saw @robb@social.lol …
Jun 21, 2024: Looks like I’ve missed the debate on being able to make Fediverse posts that no one is allowed to respond to. Anyone got a link to info on this. …
Jun 21, 2024: Hey, I’m soliciting any cool Mac apps you’d like to see on AppAddict, especially if you an indy dev looking for exposure. I just got …
Jun 21, 2024: I love it when someone interviews Bob Dylan and instead of asking him the same bullshit questions, he’s been asked a million times like …
Jun 21, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging the blog, Canned Dragons by Robert Rackley, @mineinmono@mastodon.world, yet another North Carolinian spreading …
Jun 21, 2024: in 2024, it shouldn’t be too hard to talk about mental health issues, especially when it’s a success story. I was diagnosed with bipolar …
Jun 21, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Ed, a volunteer at the NC Zoo seemed completely baffled as to why I would want to get a photograph, but the camera …
Jun 21, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Angry Ip Scanner - Ever had the sneaking suspicion that someone was using your Wi-Fi? This free and open-source, easy to use …
Jun 20, 2024: The Sopranos 25th Anniversary - an interview with the cast members from the iconic HBO show on the 25th anniversary of its premiere with a few …
Jun 20, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 - Vocal Shortcuts Will Let You Create Voice Triggers For Any Command (Without Saying Siri) by …
Jun 20, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - I’d seen Karl walking around town for years with his blue and gold macaw. When I finally caught up with him and …
Jun 20, 2024: Today on AppAddict - I bought the disk cloning software SuperDuper! in 2004 and have been receiving updates ever since. It’s great for bootable …
Jun 19, 2024: The Case for Using #Obsidian Sync When i used iCloud to sync Obsidian, I saved a whopping $4 a month and got next to no granular control over the process. As an Obsidian sync …
Jun 19, 2024: Down With Southern Mythology, We’re Tired of It It sickens me that after the murder of George Floyd, across the south we managed to finally …
Jun 19, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I’d like to suggest a GTD post from the blog of Ariadne, Noisy Deadlines, a Brazilian living in Canada who loves winter. …
Jun 19, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - As is often the case, I started by taking a few pics of Sherry’s dog who wasn’t really much to look at and …
Jun 19, 2024: Today on AppAddict - The venerable iA Writer, a well-designed Markdown editor, long a favorite of writers and bloggers, with built in checks for …
Jun 18, 2024: For the past six weeks I’ve been on a manic tear, cranking out 16-17 blog posts a week – seven app reviews, seven personal, non-technical …
Jun 18, 2024: The Voices in My Head - Supposedly some people don’t have an inner dialog. I don’t know what that would be like because the voices are …
Jun 18, 2024: Today for #Junited2024, I am featuring an astute post by a blogger I just discovered yesterday, historian Mark Stoneman, @markstoneman@zirk.us, about …
Jun 18, 2024: My favorite book about the Vietnam War is Dispatches by Michael Herr based on the reporting he did for Esquire. This article from 1968 about the …
Jun 18, 2024: Today on AppAddict - HistoryHound by St. Clair Software is the ultimate search tool for your web history. It covers multiple browsers and RSS readers …
Jun 18, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Joseph let me photograph him after I explained the project in detail and gave him a card with the address of where he …
Jun 17, 2024: Murder in Mississippi - the most powerful artwork I have ever seen in person. Many right-wingers refuse to believe this painting is by Norman …
Jun 17, 2024: Why I’m Still on Facebook - Yep, being fully aware of its awfulness, I’m still there for reasons.
Jun 17, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Carlos and another security guard were standing on the front steps of the library when I asked to take the photos. I …
Jun 17, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I’d like to recommend one of my favorite bloggers and all-around friend to the IndyWeb community, Alexandra Wolfe whose …
Jun 17, 2024: Today on AppAddict - The Many Apps of Sindre Sorhus - Wunderkind, Sindre Sorhus is responsible for more apps on my Mac than any other developer. His …
Jun 16, 2024: I’ve completed the /Slash Page Challenge and made as many as I could. 📸Photos 📘 Bookmarks 📰 Blogroll Interests ⚒️ Colophon 📱 Defaults …
Jun 16, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I am plugging James' Coffee Blog. James is a Scottish technical writer with some truly classic posts on things you can do with …
Jun 16, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks - Recipe finder, Excellent advice, Quitting Google, Mullets!, Miss AI contest, Driving cities, Bookshelf creator Recipe Search with Typesense - Search 2 Million recipes - 25 Bits Of ‘Excellent Advice For Living’ That Apply To Adventure - Semi-Rad.com How to …
Jun 16, 2024: Today on AppAddict - PopClip is a must have in my productivity stack. It performs a variety of actions on any text I select with the cursor, including …
Jun 16, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - I photographed Fred’s friend first and really didn’t have any intention of asking for anything else, but …
Jun 15, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I’m plugging @jhpot@mastodon.social, my favorite tech writer for sites like Lifehacker, WSJ, Wired and more. His recent …
Jun 15, 2024: All you have to do to bridge your Mastodon account to Blue sky is follow @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy on Mastodon. That will automatically create a …
Jun 15, 2024: Mac Menu Bar is a great resource for recently released apps. Here are the latest ones.
Jun 15, 2024: I’ve updated my /now page with info on the classic American novel I am re-reading (Lonesome Dove), the three TV shows I’m balancing, all …
Jun 15, 2024: Today on AppAddict - BetterTouchTool Favorites - I go over the basics of BTT and list my favorite use cases.
Jun 15, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Alan was standing outside a fancy hotel smoking a cigarette. We talked about the weather for a minute. He told me he …
Jun 14, 2024: After about 15 seconds of internal debate, I decided to join the /nope page revolution, a @jbaty@social.lol idea.
Jun 14, 2024: After a lot of practice, I have been very happily married to the same person for over a decade! The Fourth Time Is a Charm
Jun 14, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I’m happy to plug HeyDingus, the blog of @jarrod and one that features a weekly links post with ongoing music …
Jun 14, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Keep It Shot leverages AI to rename screenshots in bulk or as you take them and provides a private keyword-based search of your …
Jun 14, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - When I asked Curtis if I could take his picture for my project he readily agreed and then struck this “gazing …
Jun 13, 2024: The Most Popular Apps I've Reviewed I’ve been amazed since I started writing app reviews online at AppAddict Some of the reviews have been viewed thousands of times. I’ve had …
Jun 13, 2024: Shopping in America Q- Can I get three boxes of Sudafed? A - No, by law that’s too much Q - OK, well, can I get three guns and a pallet of …
Jun 13, 2024: War is such unpleasant business and the ones we had in the 21st century dragged on so long that people stopped paying attention long before the blood …
Jun 13, 2024: Today for #Junited2024, all the way from the south of England, I bring you Barry Sampson’s post on adding a banner to his blog for Pride Month. …
Jun 13, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Daisy Disk, the best in class disk space analyzer is still only $9.99. It’s the fastest app of its type and a three-time …
Jun 13, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Esteban was in a city park in Columbia, SC taking a walk with his dog. The dog was not walking. He was. I didn’t …
Jun 12, 2024: 10 Useful #Obsidian Plugins That Won't Affect Your Plain Text Data One understandable reason some people are hesitant to use community plugins is the fear that the plain text data they’ve worked hard to create …
Jun 12, 2024: Our rights and liberties are not gifts from the state, but “the inheritance of a long history of struggles” by abolitionists, labor …
Jun 12, 2024: Coffee Buying and Referral Linking is my take on how we aim to get a little back from our IndyWeb endeavors. There are lots of ways to support each …
Jun 12, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I want to shout out Marco @esamecar and his µ.blog. He writes great week notes, chock full of juicy software tips. I always …
Jun 12, 2024: Today on AppAddict - If you have an older Mac and you’d like to run a new and unsupported version of macOS on it, you are in luck. Open Core …
Jun 12, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - John, in the black fedora, looking every inch the jazz musician he is in real life. I caught him having a smoke and a …
Jun 11, 2024: I don’t watch YouTube ads but the kids on Reddit do and I’ve found they have a belief that advertising there makes a company unethical. I …
Jun 11, 2024: My #Obsidian Wish List As an enthusiastic Obsidian user, I’m happy with the way it works and grateful to the developers for the hard work they have put into the app. I …
Jun 11, 2024: Artificial Intelligence and Me, an Average Guy - how much has AI had an impact on me and my life as Lou the Computer Guy just living my life down here …
Jun 11, 2024: Today for #Junited2024, I’m giving a shout out to one of my favorite microbloggers @pratik. I appreciate his political perspectives, tv and …
Jun 11, 2024: Today on AppAddict - My first negative review. Yep, definitely not recommending MagicMenu from iBoysoft due to limited functionality, bait and switch …
Jun 11, 2024: From my 100 Strangers project - Teresa and Peter proved that people will accommodate you if you have a camera. The frame was not my prop, it just …
Jun 10, 2024: I did the IT onboarding for the technology director of our new medical school today. When it was time to set up 2FA, she handed me her phone and I …
Jun 10, 2024: Today I continue my 59-year streak of not installing beta software on my thousands of dollars' worth of Apple devices because I’m too goddamned …
Jun 10, 2024: The suppression of speech which criticizes Israel or puts forth a Palestinian point of view is antithetical to what are supposed to be the values of …
Jun 10, 2024: I don’t start judging you until you get up to Untitled Folder (3) or Downloaded_File_3
Jun 10, 2024: The phenomena of Trail Magic on long distance hiking trails like the AT, PCT and Continental Divide Trail. 100DaysToOffload 10/100
Jun 10, 2024: Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde
Jun 10, 2024: Today for #Junited2024 I’m featuring the blog of Chicagoland’s own Jason Kratz and his recent post on social media usage.I love the gut …
Jun 10, 2024: Today on AppAddict - I explore the world of keyboard driven application switchers featuring the FOSS app AltTab, a hidden Keyboard Maestro feature and …
Jun 10, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Hippie Mike was hustling t-shirts at the flea market and had no problem having his portrait taken or giving me a free …
Jun 9, 2024: Working on my /slash page homework from @robb@social.lol - Today I’ve updated my /defaults. There have been some additions since I created this …
Jun 9, 2024: My 10 Favorite Things About #Obsidian 1. The Fiddling A pox on people who complain that it’s too tempting to fiddle with your Obsidian setup and therefore their ability to make more …
Jun 9, 2024: Today for #Junited2024, I’m featuring a post by @petebrown@social.lol, Apologies and Forgiveness Are Not Transactional. Pete’s blog, …
Jun 9, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Applite is like an App Store for the entire Homebre Catalog. It downloads and updates apps. It’s free and open source.
Jun 9, 2024: In the 1970s, for two idyllic years, I lived in a small North Carolina town beside the Cape Fear River in at atmosphere reminiscent of Mayberry from …
Jun 9, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Bethany was playing a Neil Young song I could hear before I saw her. She didn’t even have an open guitar case …
Jun 8, 2024: Saturday, the day I update my /now page - with info on a great book by Octavia Butler, three entertaining TV shows, all the stuff I wrote and reviewed …
Jun 8, 2024: This Weeks Bookmarks - Nickelback Hate, Kitchen Tips, Beach Reads, Best Sci-Fi books, Best Cities for Food, Most Expensive Paintings, 25 Era Defining Photos Why Do People Hate Nickelback So Much? A Statistical Analysis (statsignificant.com) 91 Kitchen Tricks and Tips From Our Expert Cooks (realsimple.com) …
Jun 8, 2024: Adults Making Friends - for some adult men, including this one, making new friends can be challenging - unless you are an IndyWeb blogger. Some …
Jun 8, 2024: Today on AppAddict - EtreCheckPro, System Report on Steroids - a great free app for finding out more about your Mac. It’s often used in …
Jun 8, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Leon, the fish whisperer, taken on North Carolina’s Outer Banks in the fishing village of Buxton. I like to take …
Jun 7, 2024: My Longest Day - On goal setting and the time I tried and failed to ride my bike 200 miles on the hottest day of the year, and lessons learned.
Jun 7, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Dropover, Best in Class - There are no shortage of shelf apps on the Mac, but Dropover rises to the top because of its feature …
Jun 7, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Bobby from New Jersey (with the accent to prove it), who I met while he was in the city for the day on unspecified …
Jun 6, 2024: Everyone, I hope, has memories of their favorite teacher from school. Mine was Chuck Stanton, my 11th grade English teacher. He was a prince among men …
Jun 6, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Apps to Enhance Apple Shortcuts - I have dozens of Shortcuts that I use every day, including ones designed to work with …
Jun 6, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Kenny, manager of a skateboard park, lover of haters
Jun 5, 2024: Just heard from the Apple Repair Depot - they have fixed my broken MacBook Air display at no charge to me and have already shipped it back to me. …
Jun 5, 2024: Don't Be Afraid to Use the Linter Plugin in #Obsidian One of the most powerful and seemingly complicated plugins in the Obsidian directory is Linter. With nine different tabs in its settings panel, it …
Jun 5, 2024: This year, more pictures will be taken than in the first 150 years of photography’s history. I wonder how people interact with their photos …
Jun 5, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Seasons Streaming Companion aims to help you figure out how to alternate what you watch. to allow you to turn off streaming …
Jun 5, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - This gentleman’s name is Thor. He repeatedly cautioned me to stay safe “out here”.
Jun 4, 2024: Not to beat a dead horse any more than need be, but I feel like I should give a little background on why I am so offended by ESPN’s decision to …
Jun 4, 2024: Who in their right mind is going to give over any more of their precious life’s minutes to watch this heartbreaking asshole soak up any more …
Jun 4, 2024: I’m reminded today that the web is an ephemeral place and there is no promise that the people who are here today will be here tomorrow. It has …
Jun 4, 2024: I am 100% on Team Work to Live vs the other way around. Some ruminations on the meaning of work and where it fits in with the rest of life. On Work
Jun 4, 2024: Save the web by being nice by Andrew Stephens, my #Junited2024 entry There are different levels of Niceness but roughly from least to most effort: …
Jun 4, 2024: A great description of professional athletes “They exist for history, and we take joy from them because we accept that they are superior at an …
Jun 4, 2024: Today on AppAddict - A Privacy and Security Toolkit featuring Nord VPN, Little Snitch Firewall, BlockBlock real time scanner and uBlock Origin for …
Jun 4, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Officer McGuire, taken right after he made a big show of scolding a woman for taking two steps away from her suitcase. …
Jun 3, 2024: What’s Your Super Power? - mine is the ability to sleep at any time in any place, one of the very usable skills that the Army taught me. All you …
Jun 3, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Doug, the old-time rock and roller. I took some pictures of him and his friends jamming at a local park (Steppenwolf …
Jun 3, 2024: Today’s share the love link for #Junited2024 is a recent one from @jsonbecker - Takes Spread Like Wildfire
Jun 3, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Have you heard all the nerds talking about Obsidian but you’re not sure what you can do with it? Today’s post is for …
Jun 2, 2024: Absolutely gutted - opened up my MacBook after returning home from a weekend trip to a broken display. Got no idea how it happened. Nearest Apple …
Jun 2, 2024: I have been poor in my life. I grew up in a variety of family situations between my parents' marriages and remarriages and time spent living with …
Jun 2, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Apps that do one thing well - Three apps that haven’t succumbed to bloat and can’t order you an Uber - Mission …
Jun 2, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Larry - This is the difference you can make in someone’s attitude in just a few seconds if you smile at them, …
Jun 2, 2024: I have updated my #Junited2024 page with a link to a great post from Brent Simmons entitled Corporations Are Not to Be Loved. @brentsimmons
Jun 1, 2024: 10 More Random #Obsidian Tips Last week I posted some of the things I learned to do in Obsidian through trial and error and it went over pretty good, so here are 10 more. I want to …
Jun 1, 2024: This Weeks Bookmarks - 50 things to know, Weird roadside attractions, Summer movies, Toxic reality TV, Recipes, YouTube games, Free money 50 things I know - by Sasha Chapin #1 is 1. I know what makes people grow more reliably than anything else. It is: taking on a difficult project with …
Jun 1, 2024: It’s Saturday and for the 22nd week in a row, I’ve updated my /now page with info on some very good blogs, TV shows, what I wrote this …
Jun 1, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Brandon gladly pulled off his headphones to talk when I asked him what he was listening to (The Fugees) on a Charlotte …
Jun 1, 2024: With apologies to REM, my new post Stand in the Place Where You Live examines the paradox wherein everyone professes to support the troops but no one …
Jun 1, 2024: My Junited2024 page is up, with the first entry by @tracydurnell who wrote a classic piece last year on crafting a blog post.
Jun 1, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Play: Save Videos, Watch Later is a $2.99 app in the App Store that lets you add videos to your watch later list that can then be …
May 31, 2024: Looking forward, sometimes it’s OK not to live in the moment but instead to revel in what’s coming. For WeblogPoMo2024, the last entry.
May 31, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Default Folder X an OG App for Mac Power Users. It’s used to streamline and enhance finding, opening, saving and moving …
May 31, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - This is Amayra, her mom and auntie at the India Festival held yearly at the NC state fairgrounds in Raleigh. There …
May 30, 2024: What do you hate the most about Windows and why is it printing? (After a single user’s computer started demanding driver updates to a …
May 30, 2024: I like your blog if… - my criteria for adding blogs to my RSS feed. I’m not too picky. You’re probably in there already. For …
May 30, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Two free apps from Objective-See, BlocKBlock and KnockKnock, both designed to alert you to the installation of persistent apps on …
May 30, 2024: From my 100 strangers project - Tonya from Raleigh was in the coastal town of Beaufort, NC to attend the annual Pirate Festival held there because …
May 29, 2024: For all of you who have ever done tech support, here’s what happened when an entire company changed their email signatures to a 9,000x14,000 …
May 29, 2024: Dont’t worry about it was my grandpa’s solution for anxiety. We know it isn’t quite that simple, but please folks, there’s a …
May 29, 2024: Today on AppAddict - AnyList is my choice for recipes, groceries and general list management for things like packing and planning camping trips. I …
May 29, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Al was starting to feel a little anxious. He’d gotten separated from his wife at the flea market and was getting …
May 28, 2024: We watched the series finale of The Good Doctor tonight, after having watched all seven seasons of it as they happened. It was a good show celebrating …
May 28, 2024: Do you use the Internet the way you want to? I don’t. In order for me to do that, I’d need an extra few hours every day and i …
May 28, 2024: I have referred to my wife, the ultra-running grandma, as Wonder Woman for years. Today a gift from a random Internet stranger arrived in the mail. …
May 28, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Homebrew for Mac, a command line package manager offers a wide variety of tools that may look scary to non-CLI users but are …
May 28, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - In Charleston, SC, it seems that many of the working-class people are in the service industry. I found Joquandre and a …
May 27, 2024: I enjoy writing an app review every day and I have gotten so much positive feedback but all it takes is one asshole to go negative at me and I start …
May 27, 2024: I will always believe we should honor fallen troops by doing everything we can to make sure no one ever dies in dubious future wars. When we sacrifice …
May 27, 2024: The Mayor of Kingstown, one of the the best TV shows of the past few years is back this week for season 3.
May 27, 2024: That time in the 90s when I went to a gun show in a Clinton-Gore t-shirt just to screw with the crazies, whose level of insanity I severely …
May 27, 2024: Today on AppAddict - I did a comparison of file finding apps before settling on Houdah Spot as my top pick for its customizable templates and huge …
May 27, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Eric and Lisa were hanging out with the other Drama Club kids outside the Arts Center downtown when I asked them to …
May 26, 2024: Tomorrow for #WeblogPoMp2024 I’m posting the story of what happened when I wore a Clinton-Gore t-shirt to a gun show in the South the same year …
May 26, 2024: My favorite man - without a doubt, it’s my son Drew, relentlessly upbeat, funny, an autodidact and all-around good guy and role model. For …
May 26, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Lingon X, a tool for examining everything running in the background on your Mac and for scheduling your own events (app launches, …
May 26, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Her name is Isabella. She is from Ghana in West Africa. I had a bowl of spicy peanut butter soup she prepared and …
May 25, 2024: 10 Random But Helpful #Obsidian Tips 1. Sort All Your Attachments in A Folder That Mirrors Your Vault With the Attachment Management community plugin, you can have all your attachments …
May 25, 2024: People who use nothing but the terminal are different than the people who flex by telling you they use nothing but the terminal.
May 25, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks- Learning guides, free transcription, A better Google, income info, YouTube transcripts, communication secrets, Apple's Top 100 albums The Curricula is a website to help you learn “anything” by generating a guide and resources. I’ve been curious about the history ot …
May 25, 2024: I’ve updated my /now page with details on a classic book, a new TV series, links to lots of writing and app reviews, info on a great place in NC …
May 25, 2024: My riff on minimalism and how it’s not for me for WeblogPoMO2024. Despite driving a 2005 Camry, wearing basically the same thing every day and …
May 25, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Keka triples the types of compressed files you can open vs. what is built into macOS. It also increases the types of compressed …
May 25, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Sarah, a history teacher, dressed in antebellum clothing
May 24, 2024: Robert Birming is organizing a June blogging activity for folks who enjoyed the April Micro.blog photo challenge and this month’s WeblogPoMO2024 …
May 24, 2024: I was 14 when the Greensboro Massacre occurred. Despite being recorded on videotape, the KKK and Nazis were able to gun down left-wing labor …
May 24, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Just Press Record is the OG of audio recording and transcription apps. It’s a $4.99 purchase in the app store and unlike …
May 24, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - I asked, “What’s your name, young man” and he said “Bobby, sir” and every time I see …
May 23, 2024: Cheer up Texans and Floridians, maybe you don’t live in the most backwards states after all. Here is NC, our legislature is close to banning all …
May 23, 2024: I made a Colophon at https://amerpie.lol/colophon if anyone can be arsed to take a look and see if I did it right. 24 hours ago, I didn’t even …
May 23, 2024: Our grandson Connor is kind of stoic and not given to big expressions of emotion, but last night when he found we’d been able to get a car for …
May 23, 2024: My rules for me - A few years back, I wrote my own secular version of the 10 Commandments (actually 12), a set of principals I wanted to try and live …
May 23, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Lockdown Privacy Desktop - A simple free open-source firewall with pre-configured rules, a good choice if you are setting up a …
May 23, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Lydia - The very first street portrait I ever took. It was totally spontaneous. This woman walked by my wife and I on …
May 22, 2024: When my kids were little my wife went on a trip and my daughter made a list to give her when she got home of “Mean Things Dad Did While You Were …
May 22, 2024: Apple’s Top 10 Albums are a joke, designed 100% to pander to the demographic their market study said would be most likely to subscribe after …
May 22, 2024: Brushes With Celebrity - Celebrity culture is weird. Even if we reject it, there is still a certain feeling when a brush with it happens to us. …
May 22, 2024: Today on AppAddict - MusicBox is a read-it-later service, except it’s for music, not text. If you find a song or album from Spotify, Apple Music …
May 22, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - I didn’t even ask Bob and Sherry about the beer cans they were wearing around their necks. I’ve always …
May 21, 2024: April was the photo challenge on Micro.blog. May has been all about WeblogPoMo2024. Is there anything going in June?
May 21, 2024: Using Obsidian as a Life Record Obsidian is powerful and extensible enough to fill many roles: academic notes, CRM, blogging center etc. One space it fills admirably is as a life …
May 21, 2024: One of my favorite things about Micro.blog and the IndyWeb in general is the international flavor. Putting the World in the WWW - for WeblogPoMo2024
May 21, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Omnivore - a free, open source read-it-later universal app that supports highlights and notes, has RSS and newsletter …
May 21, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Daniel was a Civil War re-enactor for the winning (Union) side at the Battle of Ft. Fisher near Wilmington, NC.
May 20, 2024: My favorite story from 30 years in IT
May 20, 2024: If you set www.google.com/search%s&udm=14 as your default search engine in your browser, you can use Google minus the ads, sponsored content and …
May 20, 2024: Reminiscing about The Great Satanic Scare of the 80s, when everything from the rock group KISS to the kid’s TV show The Smurfs was supposedly …
May 20, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Bebop Quick Notes is a new app designed for the quick capture of text notes. Its killer feature is the ability to save notes in …
May 20, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Rusty was at the West Columbia Riverwalk Park in Columbia, SC walking his dog when I asked if I could get his picture. …
May 19, 2024: Charles Babbage’s Analytic Engine was never fully designed because he had to keep tinkering with the Difference Engine (a more limited version) …
May 19, 2024: My obsessive pursuit of 10,000 cycling miles in a calendar year, what it took and what it cost - The 10,000th Mile for WeblogPoMo2024
May 19, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Two recommendations for File Sync Utilities Free File Sync and Sync Folders Pro. They’ll meet all your needs including …
May 19, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - DJ was fishing off the pier at Sunset Beach in Brunswick County, NC during the annual blue fish run when I interrupted …
May 18, 2024: Just a slice of life, a road trip with Wonder Woman. My WeblogPoMo2024 post for Saturday.
May 18, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks - Your musical taste, Habits, Reverse Dictionary, Floppy Disks, Random entertainment, No car vacations, Subplots cut from movies How alternative is your music taste? Find out with this tool. Obscurify Music 30 Small Habits To Lead A More Peaceful Life (lifehack.org) Reverse …
May 18, 2024: Saturday and time for an update to my /now page, featuring a great novel/audiobook, three TV shows, links to 16 blog posts, the best work pants and …
May 18, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Velja Browser Picker - a free and open-source app that opens URLS in the correct app (Discord, App Store Teams, Zoom etc.) or in …
May 18, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Meg was sitting at a table on the sidewalk outside a bar, doing a little day drinking and having a smoke on a crisp …
May 17, 2024: What's Your Browser Setup? Hundreds of Tabs? Multiple Windows? Something in Between? Recently, I posted on Mastodon, “I do not understand the 100+ tabs open at the time people. Not saying you’re wrong, I just don’t …
May 17, 2024: Taken at the FiveBoroBikeTour in NYC, this cyclist was channeling his inner Elton John #photography
May 17, 2024: I wrote an old fashioned #FollowFriday post but I gave some reasons why these 10 people from Mastodon are worthy of being added to your list. The …
May 17, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Zavala, a free, open source, minimalist outliner with iCloud syncing. It’s a universal app for Mac, iPhone and iPad with …
May 17, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - I met Shawn and Erica at a demonstration jump by the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team who are stationed at …
May 16, 2024: BREAKING: Gov Abbot pardons Daniel Perry despite Perry’s plan to kill Muslims & Black people—then succeeding in killing a BLM protestor (who …
May 16, 2024: The phones of normal people do not look like your phone and the needs of normal people do not match the wants of the content generation conglomerate. …
May 16, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Stone (his name) manages this tattoo business. A few days after I shot this, I saw him again and we had a …
May 16, 2024: Today on AppAddict - MarsEdit which makes writing and publishing to Micro.blog and other platforms a breeze. Not a subscription, thankfully, and also …
May 15, 2024: If Apple makes macOS for the iPad, how will the bleeding Edge 1% crowd show us how to “really be productive” with our tablets? When my …
May 15, 2024: I just found out that as a member of my favorite community of software junkies, AppRaven, I have the ability to create web pages with collections from …
May 15, 2024: The story of the biggest prison escape I ever worked on, the day three prisoners went through a fence while under fire and I had to go after them in …
May 15, 2024: Today on AppAddict - CleanShot X hits the sweet spot for price and features among the many screen shot utilities for macOS, including several new …
May 15, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - I met Jenny at a craft fair, where she was smoking this big old stogie and composing poetry on a cloudy spring Sunday. …
May 14, 2024: Did you ever get in trouble in school for reading? I did…frequently. I got negative comments on my report cards for “placing pleasure …
May 14, 2024: I write about how [Biden] is working to restore the principles of the period between 1933 and 1981, when members of both parties shared the belief …
May 14, 2024: I’ve been maintaining a links blog since January. I use Raindrop.io’s embedded frames feature to share a collection which makes updating …
May 14, 2024: Today an AppAddict - Maestral, a free, open-source Dropbox client that lets you keep your files whereever you want, allows selective sync and …
May 14, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Eric and his partner were waiting for breakfast outside a busy diner when I approached them. He seemed kind of grumpy …
May 13, 2024: Just read my first story about the cool stuff they get in the EU that the rest of the world does without and now I have a little bit of an attitude. I …
May 13, 2024: CLICK ON START. START. ITS ON THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER. ON YOUR MONITOR. START. CLICK IT. GO TO CONTROL PANEL. CONTROL PANEL. ITS IN THE START MENU. THE …
May 13, 2024: 15 Example #Obsidian Vaults from Around the Internet I’ve been collecting these for a while and sharing them out of my Google Drive but it would probably be better for you to see the original …
May 13, 2024: My favorite part of working in education is summer break. Sure, there are plenty of projects of high and low intensity, but there’s something …
May 13, 2024: My WeblogPoMo2024 entry for today - On Writing - we all have a “why” to explain our need/desire/want to put ourselves out there for the …
May 13, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Dropzone 4 a pricey but versatile menu bar app (included with Setapp) that can make uploading media to Micro.blog a snap if you …
May 13, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Office Scott. I couldn’t tell if she was flattered or embarrassed, but she was cool with having me snap a photo. …
May 12, 2024: Task Management with Things 3 and #Obsidian Many people choose to do their task management in Obsidian exclusively using different plugins and workflows. The tasks plugin is #5 in downloads at …
May 12, 2024: Any more extroverts married to introverts out there? Things my wife hates worse than death - 1) Going into a store to pay for gas in person 2) Someone …
May 12, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Bean a free lightweight word processor that’s kind of like WordPad on Windows, only better. Weighing in at only 8MB, it …
May 12, 2024: I reflect on Reddit after using it since 2006, the ups and downs and how it has changed for my WeblogPoMo2024 post today.
May 12, 2024: 100 Strangers Project - This lovely lady sold newspapers on an off ramp near my house for years in all kinds of weather, always smiling. I bought from …
May 11, 2024: Jump starting Mother’s Day in the US. My mom lived the first 17 years of her life in a rural NC farmhouse with no indoor plumbing. She had two …
May 11, 2024: This Weeks Bookmarks - Paleo is BS, Bye Harry Potter, Tech failures that didn't, Best books of the century, Travel destinations, Phones at protests, Clipboard managers Hahaha, all those gym bros have been eating an artificial man made caveman wannabe diet Stone Age Paleo diet was not rich in meat, scientists say | …
May 11, 2024: It’s Saturday and I’ve updated my /now page with links to a full week or app reviews on AppAddict and my WeblogPoMo2024 posts, as well …
May 11, 2024: Today on AppAddict - FreeTube may be the most underrated app in the Mac ecosystem. It’s a privacy first, ad free player for YouTube that offers …
May 11, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Jessica - a member of an anarchist pacifist theater group dating back to 1947. I saw them rehearsing in a park in NYC …
May 11, 2024: All roads lead back to Vietnam, the story of relationship with my distant father today for WeblogPoMo2024.
May 10, 2024: I think the world is definitely better with you in it!
May 10, 2024: My Favorite Actions for Hazel, the Preeminent File Management Software for the Mac Hazel, by Noodlesoft Software is a Mac utility for automating file management. You select a folder and provide criteria about what you want to happen …
May 10, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - This guy wanted to remain anonymous. I met him on the street in Charlotte where he was busy selling tickets before a …
May 10, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Music Harbor helps you stay on top of new releases and videos from the artists you listen to. It’s so good it told me about …
May 10, 2024: My first computer was an IBM 486/33 SX PS1 Consultant, purchased in December of 1993 for $1800 but there is more to the story than just numbers. For …
May 9, 2024: 8 Use cases for Drafts - The First Automation App I Ever Installed, Still on my Dock 10 Years Later Drafts was the first app I installed when I became interested in iOS and Mac automation. The power users of the world explained it to me as the …
May 9, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project - Miranda, a real-life Roller Derby Queen. I thought Roller Derby died in the 70s and she told me that it had in fact …
May 9, 2024: Nothing too sexy about it, just a day in the life of Mr. and Mrs. Amerpie for WeblogPoMo2024.
May 9, 2024: Today on AppAddict - RapiDMG - a $1 App that automates mounting DMG files, extracting the app to the Applications folder, dismounting and deleting the …
May 8, 2024: For purely practical and non-sentimental reasons, I still have the current version of the very first iPhone app I ever downloaded on my phone fifteen …
May 8, 2024: Question for people who have switched email accounts after a long time with one service - I’ve had the same Gmail account since 2005 but …
May 8, 2024: I’m always on the lookout for a good police procedural from the folks across the pond. They’ve got that genre down. Right now, we’re …
May 8, 2024: Another sticker for @maique - The building this is stuck too belongs to American photographer Jay Maisel in NYC and it serves as an impromptu art …
May 8, 2024: The Road to Hell - a book review. I stayed up all night on the day I checked this out of the library to finish it. It hit very close to home. …
May 8, 2024: Today on App Addict - Blip - Free, encrypted, cross platform, instant file transfers of unlimited size
May 7, 2024: There are 600,000 children in Rafah. They have nowhere else to go. If you support an invasion of Rafah, you’re saying the lives and well-being …
May 7, 2024: #Obsidian Maintenance - The Steps to Take and Plugins to Use to Keep Your Vault Up to Date, Backed Up and Organized Depending on how you use Obsidian, your maintenance tasks may vary, but these are some good general tips. Set these as recurring tasks in your task …
May 7, 2024: When the NY Times, WaPo and Pro Publica all win Pulitzers (again) and National Review, Washington Times and The Federalist all go zero for forever, it …
May 7, 2024: “I’ve been an artist myself. Anything I can do to promote art, I will. Art says things about its creator, whether it is good or …
May 7, 2024: In today’s WeblogPoMo2024 entry, I wrote about five times I’ve taken the streets with like-minded comrades over, well, things that people …
May 7, 2024: Today on App Addict - ProNote - a plugin for Apple’s Notes App that allows you to use Markdown, a formatting toolbar or slash commands. It also …
May 6, 2024: I saw @superdavey talking about his perfect album earlier. Here’s mine. I remember the night I bought it at the record store, lying on the floor …
May 6, 2024: How do folks pronounce these two products where you live? In NC it’s “Ree-see” and “Vigh -ay-nee”
May 6, 2024: I found out last week that you can download your Apple purchase history. The first app I ever purchased was on 9/18/2009, AppBoxPro and it is still …
May 6, 2024: A street portrait from my 100 Strangers Project. This is Joey, an aspiring actor I met at a street festival. He was an agreeable model and we had a …
May 6, 2024: Northern Ireland is like no other place in the English-Speaking World. It’s a beautiful country full of people friendly to outsiders and still …
May 6, 2024: Today on AppAddict - The Battle of the Clipboard Mangers - I settled on using Raycast with the CopyQ extension installed after being a PastePal user …
May 5, 2024: Trying to crowdsource a good place to mail order Nespresso pods. Do any of you people with “Coffee” in your bio have any tips?
May 5, 2024: I’ve already said that we’re not banning books to keep kids safe, we’re banning books to keep afloat a view of the world that seemed to be dying. …
May 5, 2024: What happens when the state violently disapproves of student protest. Today is the anniversary.
May 5, 2024: From My 100 Strangers series of street portraits - When I told her that she had a beautiful smile, she thanked me. I meant it.
May 5, 2024: I know that VS Code is the most popular editor and has approximately 1 million features and plugins but I’ve never cared for its non-standard …
May 5, 2024: One Man’s Obsession is Another Man’s Passion - a multi-generational tale of compulsive lawn mowing, incinerated rifles, talking birds and …
May 4, 2024: I subscribe to lots of newsletters, including some commercial ones like Lifehacker and Tech Republic. I’m pretty good at staying on top of them …
May 4, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks - Mostly Music and Photographs, Defending tech from overanxious parents, lessons for writers ♪ David Byrne | Radio | David Byrne Presents: The Power of Song to Give Voice is Eternal ♪ The Nostalgia Machine - Find the Top Hits From Any Year 📷 …
May 4, 2024: However big you think UnitedHealth is, it’s bigger than that: With a market cap of nearly $450 billion, it’s the fourth-largest company in the US by …
May 4, 2024: It’s Saturday again, so I have updated my /now page where I talk about WeblogPoMo2024, some good TV, links to the 19 (!) blog posts I wrote this …
May 4, 2024: The battery on my M2 MacBook Air lasts so long it seems like it’s from a science fiction novel. To maximize the lifetime of the battery and to …
May 4, 2024: Everyone has their favorite moments, their favorite memories. These are mine. None of them are particularly monumental and thankfully some of them are …
May 3, 2024: Hiking in New Hampshire is scary at times. There’s a weather station on top of Mt. Washington where there’s a plaque to all the people who …
May 3, 2024: Free and Cheap Web Tools For Bloggers: Graphics, Design Tools, Editors, Analytics and More Who doesn’t like free stuff? As horrible as the web is supposed to be these days, you can still find an amazing variety of tools to help you …
May 3, 2024: Free online service upscales images for you
May 3, 2024: NYC Fun Facts There is no place to pee. I think you have to go to New Jersey. Those 4-year olds on their scooters will run you over and laugh. So …
May 3, 2024: Inspired by @maique, a sticker spotted on a building in the Bowery, NYC
May 3, 2024: A story from thirty years ago when I was trying to figure out how to keep three adolescents fed without going bankrupt. For WeblogPoMo20224 - Feeding …
May 3, 2024: Today on AppAddict - Forget all the fancy apps, Raycast, the Google Gemini website, all the AI stuff on SetApp, because my favorite way to conduct a …
May 2, 2024: Automating #Obsidian - Generate Notes About Your Media Consumption via RSS - Books, TV, Movies, Music Automation How would you like to have notes automatically created for you in Obsidian to keep track of your media consumption? You could then add your …
May 2, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Bonus Day 32 - Unputdownable My granddaughter, Jolene, named after the Dolly Parton song (note: I eventually did, in fact, put her down. She …
May 1, 2024: I feel like it would be a good idea to budget some time each week just for the forums I belong to for different software titles and web sites: Drafts, …
May 1, 2024: My Top 10 Keyboard Maestro Macros Keyboard Maestro by Stairways Software is the preeminent automation application for macOS. It acts on nearly 30 triggers to perform almost any Mac …
May 1, 2024: Today on AppAddict - a bargain if you can find it on sale, Alarm Clock Pro has multiple alarms, world clocks, timers, stopwatches, and automates …
May 1, 2024: I decided to start off my participation in WeblogPoMo2024 with a bit of humor, so I wrote A Treatise on Office Decorations. If you are a golfer and …
May 1, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Bonus Day 31 - Bubble At the North Carolina Dogwood Festival in Fayetteville
Apr 30, 2024: “The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, …
Apr 30, 2024: 🔗The Godfather of #Ultrarunning, Lazarus Lake, walks across America…again
Apr 30, 2024: I made a multi-reddit to browse tech topics from 28 different communities. Lately it’s been almost unusable because almost 75% of the …
Apr 30, 2024: I retired in 2020 and it was a huge mistake. I didn’t have a plan to make use of my time and consequently, tried to set a record for the most …
Apr 30, 2024: Today on App Addict - Toy Viewer a fast, free and dependable replacement for Apple Preview when viewing graphics or making minor edits. See my review
Apr 30, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 30 - Hometown Fayetteville, NC, The Hometown of the 82nd Airborne and Special Forces at Ft. Liberty (nee Ft. Bragg) - The quintessential …
Apr 29, 2024: Having lived my entire life in the South, I don’t know if pickled eggs are a Southern delicacy, or if they are enjoyed nationwide. (Please feel …
Apr 29, 2024: OK, maybe I don’t hate Reddit anymore. Today has been the busiest day my little blog has ever seen.
Apr 29, 2024: I wrote a review of a 59-year old album because I’m a big old Bob Dylan Fan and maybe some of you have never given him a chance. Well, you ought …
Apr 29, 2024: Have you heard about the uninvited AI bloatware that Logitech injected into their Logi Options mouse driver last week? It’s objectively terrible …
Apr 29, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 29 - Drift Heading down Bogue Sound near Swansboro, NC #photography
Apr 28, 2024: The governor of Mississippi declared April to be Confederate Heritage Month. I’d like to dedicate this song to him. Here’s to the State of …
Apr 28, 2024: 77 Types of Notes to Keep in #Obsidian A scratchpad for temporary text snippets Published blog posts Bookmarks via Raindrop.io People you work with (co-workers) Customers/Clients A record …
Apr 28, 2024: Today on App Addict, Backup Status, a notification center widget that gives you the status of your Time Machine backups at a glance. It’s the …
Apr 28, 2024: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of …
Apr 28, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 28 - Community March 19,2005 at Ft. Bragg, NC - Led by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Military Families Speak Out, the largest antiwar …
Apr 27, 2024: I’ve updated my /now page with all the usual stuff. I was on a writing frenzy this week, so there is links to all that, some good TV, my …
Apr 27, 2024: Tomorrow is National Talk Like You’re in Pulp Fiction Day. Drop me your favorite quote.
Apr 27, 2024: This Weeks Bookmarks - Free fries, best condiments, web history, free advice, Google graveyard, Shakespeare's inventions, best national parks Wendy’s giving away free French fries every Friday for rest of 2024 (usatoday.com) 57 Best Condiments in the World - TasteAtlas The Analog Web …
Apr 27, 2024: MyApplications is a database and launcher for all the apps on your Mac. It breaks them down by publisher and category, gives you detailed info on each …
Apr 27, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 27 - Surprise At the end of March one year, we were hiking in the Shining Rock wilderness in the NC mountains when we missed a turn on …
Apr 26, 2024: Now that Shogun is over, Wonder Woman and I have moved on to season two of The Tourist starring Jamie Dornan, who I love. The season was filmed in …
Apr 26, 2024: Well, I gotta confess. I argued with someone on the Internet today. Got offended is more like it. WTF. I know better, much better. The 30-second head …
Apr 26, 2024: Subscriptions - Not as much as I thought...and worth it So Worth It! I finally bit the bullet and added up all my subscriptions and I must say that I’m relieved. I thought I was spending much more …
Apr 26, 2024: Path Finder by Cocoatech has been around as long as Mac OS X. Its dual pane file navigation and depth of features make it a must-have tool in my app …
Apr 26, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 26 - Critter Red Panda, native to eastern Himalayas and southern China. #photography
Apr 25, 2024: Mac people - excluding Apple’s own apps, what software have you been using the longest? For me it’s going to be BBEdit (released in 92) …
Apr 25, 2024: My 10 Favorite #Raycast Use Cases (and all the apps it replaced) I’ve been using a keyboard driven application launcher since 2006. For the majority of that time, I was a devout Launchbar fan. installing it on …
Apr 25, 2024: KeyClu is a free app for aspiring power users. Once installed and running, all you have to do is press the command key twice to bring up a cheat sheet …
Apr 25, 2024: Today is celebrated as Liberation Day in Italy🇮🇹 where the country commigrates the partisans and allies who died fighting the fascists and Nazis in …
Apr 25, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 25 - Spine Wonder Woman navigating the spine of a mountain on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania. You can see one of the 80,000 white …
Apr 24, 2024: Did you ever have a manic phase that let you just turn out good stuff for a prolonged period of time? It sucked when it ended, didn’t it? I had …
Apr 24, 2024: 10 Lesser Known But Super Useful Obsidian Plugins The most popular Obsidian community plugins, Excalidraw, Dataview and Advanced Tables have over a million downloads apiece. The Obsidian forums and …
Apr 24, 2024: Favorite logo? I’m definitely flying the rainbow flag on this one. #Apple
Apr 24, 2024: Custom Shortcuts by Houdah Software is a free Mac application that allows you to assign your own keyboard shortcuts to any menu item in any …
Apr 24, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 24 - Light Sunset at Edenton Harbor #photography
Apr 23, 2024: If they’re smart enough to fix a 46-year old computer from 15 billion miles away, everyone can STFU about the competence of government employees …
Apr 23, 2024: Our new CIO decided to take away local admin rights from all users, which from a security standpoint is the right thing to do but from a cultural …
Apr 23, 2024: Doc Watson, the blind folk guitarist from the NC mountains been gone for 12 years now but before he passed away, I got to see him perform live. It was …
Apr 23, 2024: Back in the days of the pre-OS X classic Mac OS, you could configure the Apple Menu to serve as an app launcher and conduit to the folder system. …
Apr 22, 2024: The Sympathizer 1x02 "Good Little Asian" As he adjusts to life in Los Angeles, the Captain is forced to find someone to implicate when the General begins to suspect a mole.
Apr 22, 2024: I think I’m going to have to unsubscribe to another famous Apple pundit’s RSS feed, even though he seems to be on everyone else’s …
Apr 22, 2024: Adventures in Camera Land - The story of a recent weekend spent chasing good snaps, featuring the Easter Bunny, some Green Berets, hookah-smoking …
Apr 22, 2024: If you hate trying to read articles on Medium but would really like a way to see the content, all you have to do is go to archive.ph and paste in the …
Apr 22, 2024: The Wire - Season One, Episode One, Scene One - The Masterpiece That Kicked It Off I knew from the very first scene in the very first episode that The Wire was a going to be a great television series. Nothing before or since has …
Apr 22, 2024: Apparency by Mothers Ruin Software is an app that also serves as a plugin for the macOS QuickLook feature. After installing Apparency, you can select …
Apr 22, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 22 - Blue Blue Jay taking the bait on my back deck. #photography # bird
Apr 21, 2024: My weekly checklist in Things 3 - a Sunday chore that helps successfully wrap up a week.
Apr 21, 2024: In the pre-streaming days when my kids were young teenagers (circa the mid-90s) we could go rent movies on Friday nights and get an entire …
Apr 21, 2024: If you use more than one browser or non-standard apps for things like YouTube, getting links to open in the app of your choice can be a pain. Using …
Apr 21, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 21 - Mountain Pike’s Peak as seen from Colorado Springs #photography
Apr 20, 2024: Pro tip - when browsing #Obsidian plugins, click the arrow in the browsing interface to change the sort order and see those most recently released. …
Apr 20, 2024: I’ve come a long way from my Mom’s table in the 70s eating the Old El Paso variety with grated cheddar cheese and shredded iceberg …
Apr 20, 2024: The One a Month Club's I've Joined So Far Ever since @jarrod started the One a Month , I’ve looked for people to acknowledge with that token contribution. It’s not much, obviously, …
Apr 20, 2024: It’s Saturday, time to update my /now page - with book suggestions, what’s good on TV, the stuff I wrote (including lots of app reviews), …
Apr 20, 2024: This Weeks Bookmarks - Internet Fame, Bizarre Golf Courses, Stadium Names, Nature Photography Winners, SNL's Best Clip Ever, 10 Words You Mispronounce, Penguins! Winners 2024 — WORLD NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS The 10 most bizarre golf courses in the world | CNN A history of the American economy through stadium …
Apr 20, 2024: iOS has a list of triggers you can use to launch shortcuts but for some reason Apple chose not to include that feature in macOS. Shortery from UnitNo5 …
Apr 20, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 20 - Ice I usually post this sometime in late August with the title “Cancel School” when it’s 100 degrees outside and the kids have only …
Apr 19, 2024: Just placed my order for the coolest t-shirt I’ve seen in years. IYKYK
Apr 19, 2024: Sugar 1x03 "Shibuya Crossing" Melanie and Sugar get caught in a dicey situation—and make a new enemy. Sugar reunites with old friends, but he senses some are keeping secrets.
Apr 19, 2024: MarkDownload - The Browser Extension that Works With #Obsidian There are a variety of ways to get web content into Obsidian, but the one I find myself using most frequently is the MarkDownload Web Clipper. With …
Apr 19, 2024: Better Display is a Mac app that lets you reach and control the full potential of your built in and connected displays. Your screen never looked so …
Apr 19, 2024: From my 100 Strangers Project. This is Sana, photographed while heading for the subway near Wall Street in NYC. She was coming back from a Holi …
Apr 19, 2024: The Beatles #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 19: mood #birthday
Apr 18, 2024: Sugar 1x02 "These People, These Places" Sugar suspects Melanie's not telling the full story. Meanwhile, he and Ruby may not be the only ones looking into the mysterious body in Olivia's …
Apr 18, 2024: DNS over Wikipedia - a good article about a project to help get around the Google bans on reaching sites like SciHub and (the real) Pirate Bay. …
Apr 18, 2024: Browser Extensions Personalize The Web Like Nothing Else Can - What Are Your Favorites? Most of these extensions were designed for Chromium browsers. I am an unashamed user of Microsoft Edge. It can use the same extensions available to …
Apr 18, 2024: There’s a race of men that don’t fit in A race that can’t sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the …
Apr 18, 2024: Listy is a private list manager for iOS, iPadOS and macOS. It tracks media in the form of movies, books and TV by metadata and web sites like YouTube …
Apr 18, 2024: The streets of Wilmington, NC #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 18: mood #photography
Apr 17, 2024: Sugar 1x01 "Olivia" After solving a case in Japan, private eye John Sugar returns to LA to help find a missing woman with ties to a Hollywood legend.
Apr 17, 2024: Ian Betterridge, with 30+ years of review experience, gives props to MKBHD for the Humane takedown and schools Daniel Vassallo and the tech-bro cave …
Apr 17, 2024: What It Feels Like to 15 Be Years Sober (Hint - Pretty Damn Good)
Apr 17, 2024: I’ve been collecting quotes for a long time. I currently use the free app, Thoughts - Inspiration Manager along with Obsidian to manage my …
Apr 17, 2024: Mural from the Falls Road in Belfast, Bobby Sands, Northern Irish Hunger Striker, died May 5, 1981 in the H Blocks of the Maze Prison as an elected MP …
Apr 16, 2024: Apple Magic Trackpad and Better Touch Tool - What Are the Best Use Cases, Tips and Tricks? I got a new 24" M3 iMac at work last week and decided I wanted to try using Apple’s Magic Trackpad with it. I picked up a refurb on Amazon …
Apr 16, 2024: Shōgun 1x09 "Crimson Sky" Mariko arrives in Osaka for the fight of her life. Blackthorne and Yabushige scramble to save their own heads as their options dwindle.
Apr 16, 2024: Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. –Coco Channel
Apr 16, 2024: My 10 Favorite Books - Most of them life changing in some way, a couple just for entertainment and one for survival.
Apr 16, 2024: What’s your favorite habit-tracker? I’ve used Apple Design Award Winner Streaks for years. It’s helped my make things like …
Apr 16, 2024: Livery Man #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 16: flâneur #photography
Apr 15, 2024: Open at Login - The Balancing Act: Every App You Run Has the Potential To Slow Your Computer Down But Some Stuff You Just Can't Live Without We buy our computers in order to use them. Some of them get used at work so that we can earn a living. In a lot of ways they are like shovels or …
Apr 15, 2024: The Good Doctor 7x05 "Who at Peace" Asher's views on the construct of marriage complicate his future with Jerome. Meanwhile, Asher also briefly revisits his religious past to aid a …
Apr 15, 2024: Reddit has gone nuts over the number of apps I have installed. There are 346 at the root of my apps folder, plus another 38 in the SetApps folder. …
Apr 15, 2024: From the lips of Brett Terpstra to my ears. He’s got a whole website devoted to little pearls like this. #dimspiration …
Apr 14, 2024: 3 Body Problem 1x08 "Wallfacer" A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.
Apr 14, 2024: My Daily Digital Checklist - Staying Organized and Tracking the Important Stuff. Easy to Implement. Easy to Follow. I use three of my favorite apps to create a daily digital checklist that I run through in the last hour of the day before bed. I have a template in …
Apr 14, 2024: Today’s Reddit idiocy - 1) Calling a fully functional app “abandonware” because it hasn’t been updated in 12 months. 2) …
Apr 14, 2024: If you use multiple browsers or just want a super-charged database for searching your web history and bookmarks, HistoryHound from St. Clair Software …
Apr 14, 2024: The cacti of Austin, Texas #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 14: Cactus #photography
Apr 13, 2024: When the Writing Was Easy - The writing process and how it differs for me when engaged in real life vs. while on a grand adventure.
Apr 13, 2024: 3 Body Problem 1x07 "Only Advance" A bold proposition for the Staircase Project puts the group at odds. Will weighs his options. Ye returns to a familiar place.
Apr 13, 2024: If you find the floating note useful in Raycast, you need to check out Scrap Paper by Wegner Labs, the ultimate scratch pad. It’s a menubar app …
Apr 13, 2024: The Saturday morning /now page update is complete. Includes a review of a great book, more peak TV, lots of blogging, my favorite Amazon purchase of …
Apr 13, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks: Coconut Curry Red Lentil Soup, TV's Favorite Fake Beer, A Graph of Wikipedia, Real Places that Look Fake, Terrible Software Bugs, Missed Connection Ads, Voyager 1 Coconut Curry Red Lentil Soup l Panning The Globe - “I love everything about this Coconut Curry Red Lentil Soup, from the tender red lentils …
Apr 13, 2024: I started my grandson’s political education off on the correct path back in 2005. He’ll never vote for an imperialist! #mbapr Micro.blog …
Apr 12, 2024: Supporting Something New, An IndieWeb Developer Releases a New Tool and I Get in on the Ground Floor louplummer.lol/post/supp…
Apr 12, 2024: Geeking out on a New M3 Mac after Being Strapped to an Aging Dell for the Last Year and Half After using an i3 5th gen. Dell AIO for the past year and a half at work, my new M3, 24-inch iMac with 24GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive was delivered …
Apr 12, 2024: A little patience, some sugar water and a backyard deck equal a photo like this #photography #birds
Apr 12, 2024: On the Appalachian Trail, there are Trail Angels who provide what’s called trail magic to hikers in the form of shelter, showers, rides to town …
Apr 11, 2024: I look back at the kind of father I was and wish I’d been a better one. I wasn’t a natural at it. But it turns out that I do have skills …
Apr 11, 2024: How come no one ever told me about The FreePrints App which works with Google Photos and Apple’s Photos and gives you up to 85 4x6 prints a …
Apr 11, 2024: Shōgun 1x08 "The Abyss of Life" Toranaga's defeated clan moves to Edo and awaits their fate. Blackthorne must decide who he fights for - the lord who has turned his back on him, or …
Apr 11, 2024: Using #Obsidian on an iPhone - Troubleshooting Advice from All Over The Beginning When I started using Obsidian in December of 2023, I had an iPhone 11 Pro and I was using iCloud to sync. Whenever I launched the app, …
Apr 11, 2024: Atlantic sunrise at Carolina Beach, near Wilmington, NC #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 11: Sky #photography
Apr 10, 2024: The XCOMP 10MB hard disk, which cost $3,398 in the early 1980s, would be about $11,900 in today’s dollars. The first computer I owned was an IBM …
Apr 10, 2024: What Mastodon client do you use and why? I’m partial to Ivory by Tapbots. I use it on my Mac, iPad and Phone. The only feature I wish it had is …
Apr 10, 2024: For creative people, there are few things more important than the formative experiences that shaped them. For me, a lot of that shaping took place in …
Apr 10, 2024: CSX locomotive in the snow #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 10: Train #photography
Apr 9, 2024: “DEI is just diversity, equity, and inclusion, by the way. That’s all it is. It’s become the new word that racists say when they …
Apr 9, 2024: Clipboard Fusion - Clipboard sharing between Windows and iOS - a solution - There are plenty of Mac/iOS clipboard sharing solutions but not so much …
Apr 9, 2024: One of the things I love about #IndieWeb life is the global community. I live in a small city in the southern US where we have plenty of problems, but …
Apr 9, 2024: A crispy fall morning on the Cape Fear River Trail #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 9: Crispy
Apr 8, 2024: The dilemma I had with street photography was whether my enjoyment of the finished product was worth the chance of getting yelled at by folks who …
Apr 8, 2024: Wonder Woman is in San Antonio, Texas for a conference and coincidentally, the eclipse, but she reports the skies are cloudy and she doubts she will …
Apr 8, 2024: AppRaven is what the Apple App Store would be if it were interactive. Features include app-specific message bords, price drop notifications, advanced …
Apr 8, 2024: Maybe I should start a blog featuring the worst of the day from Product Hunt
Apr 8, 2024: The rear end of the Wall Street Bull, guarded by one of NYC’s finest #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 8: Prevention …
Apr 7, 2024: The best thing to happen in my relationship with my grown kids in the past year is my adoption of an iOS shortcut called Check on My Peeps that I …
Apr 7, 2024: My #Obsidian Week - Breaking Down the Notes I Created by Area and Workflow This week I created 61 new notes in Obsidian. Some of them were original content - things I wrote. Some of them were automated. Others were the …
Apr 7, 2024: The green and granite summit of Lincoln as seen from the footpath of the Appalachian Trail atop Franconia Ridge in the White Mountains of New …
Apr 7, 2024: 3 Body Problem 1x06 "The Stars Our Destination" With the world in a state of panic following a momentous declaration, Wade gathers the world's greatest minds to prepare a defense plan.
Apr 7, 2024: Launcher is the king of widget apps. I use it on my lock screen, my home screen, and in my work focus mode. It does much more than just launch apps, …
Apr 7, 2024: This Weeks Bookmarks: 100 greatest protest songs, Making art, How to help someone with a computer, Royal order of adjectives, The US can't support Israel in Gaza, Who lived when, The world's most expensive spice Say It Loud! 100 Timeless Protest Songs (popmatters.com) Benjamin Andrew : “My top reasons to love Richard Serra: 1. His beautiful list of …
Apr 7, 2024: I’m a day late with an update to my /now page. Yesterday, my normal update day, I found that crewing an ultramarathon in the woods for my wife …
Apr 7, 2024: Wonder Woman Riding in New River Trail State Park, VA #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 7: Well-Being
Apr 6, 2024: After 12.5 hours on her sore and blistered feet, Wonder Woman elected to take the finisher’s medal for the 50-mile distance and call it a day. …
Apr 6, 2024: Changing shoes and socks and doctoring blisters before miles 36-48. #ultrarunning
Apr 6, 2024: That’s about 75 miles worth of food and water. Wonder Woman (Mrs. Amerpie)is ahead of schedule after the first 12-mile loop and back out on the …
Apr 6, 2024: On the streets of Raleigh, NC #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 6: Windy
Apr 5, 2024: I spent my high scool years doing farm work so my opinion of the modern cult of cleanliness is colored a bit by my experience. Talking Dirty
Apr 5, 2024: Got something you’ve been wanting to watch (like Oppenheimer) on Peacock but haven’t wanted to add another damn subscription? Mad because …
Apr 5, 2024: I added a new app to my wish list today, Rond Life Mapper and added some details on this Scribbles post. It’s one of those apps that logs your …
Apr 5, 2024: Manhattan Bagel Cat #photography
Apr 5, 2024: Lake Mattamuskeet, Dare County, NC, one of the world’s premier spots for spotting waterfowl. #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day …
Apr 4, 2024: Shōgun 1x07 "A Stick of Time" Outplayed by new alliances in Osaka, Toranaga is forced to carve out a new deal with a long lost family member.
Apr 4, 2024: One of the practical aspects of tech is using it as a tool to boost mental health. Using two journaling tools (Day One and #Obsidian) for more than …
Apr 4, 2024: How many times a day do you open #Obsidian? When do your record data? When do you reference data? What are your habits? I have Obsidian in the dock on my iPhone and MacBook Air and in the taskbar of the Windows machine I use at work. Obsidian is always within reach for …
Apr 4, 2024: The hard stuff is supposed to be hard but can the easy stuff just be easy today? Please?
Apr 3, 2024: 3 Body Problem 1x05 "Judgment Day" As threat levels rise, a secret mission to retrieve enemy intel ventures into dangerous territory. An ominous message reaches Earth.
Apr 3, 2024: Not All Boomers - the story of a recent visit with my 77-year old Dad that unfortunately exemplified a bunch of Boomer stereotypes in a very …
Apr 3, 2024: Winter in Charleston, SC #photography
Apr 3, 2024: I was working in publics schools at the turn of the century when we “got the Internet”. We ordered these things by the pallet. They …
Apr 2, 2024: 3 Body Problem 1x04 "Our Lord" Jin seeks justice after a death rattles the group. Investigators learn of an extremist group devoted to an otherworldly entity ahead of a major …
Apr 2, 2024: “Experience” is rarely the verb you’re looking for. Reword your sentence with a more clear and muscular focus on what actually …
Apr 2, 2024: Seven years in prison. As a progressive older adult, I can’t believe that I worked in the correctional system, but the callowness of youth and …
Apr 2, 2024: #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 2: Flower
Apr 1, 2024: More info on Wonder Woman, my #ultrarunning wife.. I found out today that she has to leave on a business flight for Texas, just hours after staying …
Apr 1, 2024: The Good Doctor 7x04 "Date Night" Shaun and Lea struggle to balance their parental duties with their personal lives. Meanwhile, Park and Morgan try to find the time and space to …
Apr 1, 2024: How to Talk to Tech Support - I Beg You to Use These Techniques to Get Your Issues Solved Quickly and Efficiently While Keeping Your Cool and Getting Back to Work! #technology I started working in IT support right after Windows 95 was released. I’ve worked in manufacturing health care, banking and insurance, but …
Apr 1, 2024: My grandson doesn’t quite grasp the concept of lawn maintenance yet. He thinks his toy lawnmower doubles as a snowblower. #mbapr Micro.blog …
Apr 1, 2024: Is Micro Monday still a thing on Micro.blog? Regardless, I want to shout out one of my favorite blogs, HeyDingus by @jarrod. He also founded the One a …
Apr 1, 2024: The trees at Ft. Fisher, the scene of a Union victory on the coast of NC during the Civil War #photography
Mar 31, 2024: View from the Blue Ridge Parkway #photography
Mar 30, 2024: 3 Body Problem 1x03 "Destroyer of Worlds" Obsessed with their virtual reality quest, Jin and Jack race to solve a complex riddle — but advancing to the next level brings harrowing …
Mar 30, 2024: At the end of the street where I’ve lived for thirty years stands an unassuming blue building housing Zorba’s Gyro on a Spit, a restaurant …
Mar 30, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks - Subscriptions worth paying for, book summaries online, unofficial holidays, a rare bird, best small town in every state, 50 historical photos, things that don't work Six Subscriptions Actually Worth Paying for, According to Reddit | Lifehacker - The article discusses different subscription services that Reddit …
Mar 30, 2024: Saturday morning, time to update my /now page. This week I read a great article from The Atlantic, wrote a bunch, found some new links and bought the …
Mar 30, 2024: Street Portrait, Fayetteville, NC #photography
Mar 29, 2024: 3 Body Problem 1x02 "Red Coast" Auggie's countdown jeopardizes her nanotech work. Jin becomes engrossed in an otherworldly VR game. Ye Wenjie follows through on a radical idea.
Mar 29, 2024: My Daily Note in #Obsidian - Byte Sized Chunks for Customizing Every Element, Plugin Recommendations and Links I love a good shared Obsidian Daily Note post. My own daily note is an amalgamation of elements I’ve gleaned from other people. I’ve …
Mar 29, 2024: Ian Betterridge’s 10 Blue Links - One of my favorite link newsletters complements of @ianbetteridge@writing.exchange. This week there are some …
Mar 29, 2024: “Joy has nothing to do with ease and everything to do with the fact that we’re all going to die.” — Ross Gay
Mar 29, 2024: Paratrooper Outside an Army Surplus Store Near Ft. Liberty, NC #photography
Mar 29, 2024: I gotta quit taking my iPad to bed or I’ll keep waking up at 1am and watching vintage Johnny Cash videos although I can think of worse lullabies.
Mar 28, 2024: 3 Body Problem 1x01 "Countdown" Unsettling events put a group of brilliant friends on edge as a mystery unravels with origins tracing back to China during the Cultural Revolution.
Mar 28, 2024: Saw a great post today from writer @jhpot@mastodon.social about how we can screw with corporate social media by not joining the outraged chorus after …
Mar 28, 2024: If anyone needs more storage, Amazon has an external Seagate 4TB hard drive on sale today for $99. It’s not my affiliate link, it’s just a …
Mar 28, 2024: Good riddance to Joe Lieberman, the man who helped defeat Universal Health Care when the Affordable Care Act was passed during the Obama …
Mar 28, 2024: The Charlotte Blues #photography
Mar 27, 2024: I couldn’t resist the urge to participate in the Scribbles experiment, so I decided to put my free domain from omg.lol to use (once I get all …
Mar 27, 2024: Shōgun 1x06 "Ladies of the Willow World" Lady Ochiba returns to Osaka in order to accelerate the Regents' campaign against Toranaga. In Ajiro, Toranaga tests Mariko's loyalty to his cause.
Mar 27, 2024: How to Talk to an Actual Person at Amazon For confusing situations, skip the forms and bots. An Amazon customer service rep will call you if you know this trick. While logged into your Amazon …
Mar 27, 2024: How many places do you back up your photos? I currently using iCloud, Google Drive and Amazon Photos because they are all set it and forget it and …
Mar 27, 2024: Connecticut looking into Massachusetts on the Appalachian Trail #photography #hiking
Mar 26, 2024: The Good Doctor 7x03 "Critical Support" Shaun continues to be tested by Charlie when their newest case prompts her incessant stream of questions – all in pursuit of an answer. Meanwhile, …
Mar 26, 2024: I found a great feature in the Raindrop bookmarking app I wasn’t aware of - you can create public pages of shared bookmarks that don’t …
Mar 26, 2024: I love free and open-source software and the people who work on it. I have plenty of it installed on my machines. I have also worked all my life to …
Mar 26, 2024: A Dozen Reasons to Try SetApp - #Mac Apps I Use Every Day and How Much I Save SetApp is a monthly subscription service that offers access to 240 different Mac apps starting at $9.99 a month. I currently have 37 different …
Mar 26, 2024: The coast of Northern Ireland near Ballycastle #photography
Mar 25, 2024: The Gentlemen 1x08 "The Gospel According to Bobby Glass" A familiar face returns to settle a score with Freddy. Bobby decides it's time to retire and wants Eddie and Susie to make the necessary arrangements.
Mar 25, 2024: App Update Workflow for Macs Using HomeBrew and the CLI version of the Mac App Store. It Finds Updates Other Apps Miss. #macOS I’m one of the lucky people whose hobby and work coincide. I’ve been working in IT support since the 90’s, yet i still enjoy …
Mar 25, 2024: I run two updater programs every day on my Mac because I’m fanatical about keeping my 300+ apps at the current version. Imagine my surprise when …
Mar 25, 2024: Height of Land, Rangely, Maine on the Appalachian Trail #photography #hiking
Mar 24, 2024: Web 4.0 is the phase where you spend a lot of time deleting accounts from all the web 2.0 properties that enshittified or turned evil. –John …
Mar 24, 2024: A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans A story about how today’s college students don’t …
Mar 24, 2024: Shōgun 1x05 "Broken to the Fist" Blackthorne and Mariko struggle to contain the secret that could get them both killed. Yabushige searches for the spy who has betrayed his intentions …
Mar 24, 2024: “Donald Trump ordered a cheeseburger at a campaign stop” is accurate to the extent that nothing about it is false, but it is not a true story—not if …
Mar 24, 2024: Street Portrait, Blind Guitarist, Austin, TX #photography
Mar 24, 2024: “Today is the worst AI will ever be.” — Alex Irpan
Mar 23, 2024: Hay Street Cyclist #photography
Mar 23, 2024: It’s Saturday which means it’s time to update my now page. This week I’m reading a long Atlantic article and revisiting my favorite …
Mar 23, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks - Coolest Street in the World, Funniest Novels, Movies That Couldn't Be Made Today, Greatest All-Time Albums, Photo Award Winners, Scientific Mysteries, and More! If you are working on your bucket list or maybe you just have the travel bug, here are some ideas for you - 30 Coolest Streets in the World Right Now …
Mar 23, 2024: View from the walkway of the Manhattan Bridge #photography
Mar 22, 2024: My #Obsidian Journey and the Resources That Helped Me - Sample Vaults, Videos, Web Sites, Newsletters and Communities After retiring from my IT career in public education in 2020, I found myself less engaged with technology news and updates. My previous habit of …
Mar 22, 2024: Jasmine Paris has just become the first woman ever to finish The Barkley Marathons. IYKYK
Mar 22, 2024: To my fellow IT support people - how many times have you seen executive types who get a laptop/docking station and then they get a second laptop …
Mar 22, 2024: Everybody’s America, Five Points, Columbia, SC #photography
Mar 21, 2024: I have to SMDH at how personally offended some of the usual suspects in the Apple Pundit World are acting over the DOJ lawsuit. I’m like …
Mar 21, 2024: Garden of the Gods in the Spring Snow, near Colorado Springs #photography
Mar 20, 2024: The Gentlemen 1x07 "Not Without Danger" Bent on vengeance, Susie goes against her father's orders. Eddie offers to help her but is less certain than ever about where his allegiances lie.
Mar 20, 2024: Inoreader - Absolutely Worth It or Why I Love My RSS Provider Like most of us these days, I spend a fair amount of money on app and service subscriptions. Some of it is pretty painful (Evernote!) but the cash I …
Mar 20, 2024: Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad near Raeford, NC #photography
Mar 19, 2024: The Gentlemen 1x06 "All Eventualities" Eddie's doubts about Susie continue to grow. But there's 15 million pounds of dirty money to be laundered before she'll consider leaving the estate.
Mar 19, 2024: This was March 19, 2004, nineteen long years ago today at Ft. Bragg, NC. My son was on active duty, and I hated the war in Iraq with a furious …
Mar 19, 2024: My job recently converted our helpdesk/ticketing system from the ancient Novell Service Desk to Jira/Atlassian and I just completed my first two …
Mar 19, 2024: Drug Company - “This medicine works really good so lets make it really expensive” Insurance Company - “This drug is really …
Mar 19, 2024: Farm Pond at Sunset, Grey’s Creek, NC #photography
Mar 18, 2024: We’ve updated the rules of our flagship server mastodon.social today. Most are the same with some clarifications, but one rule is new: Content …
Mar 18, 2024: The Gentlemen 1x05 "I've Hundreds of Cousins" Distribution issues in Europe and a theft on the farm cause a headache for Eddie and Susie — until they make a new acquaintance who can help them out.
Mar 18, 2024: At some point, someone decided that vacuum cleaners were an acceptable topic on tech websites, blogs and YouTube channels and ever since then there …
Mar 18, 2024: I asked Google Gemini how to get my API key for the service and it told me it wasn’t available for use in third-party apps. I asked Google the …
Mar 18, 2024: White Headed Mouse Bird, native to East Africa #photography
Mar 17, 2024: My Bookmark Workflow in 2024 using #Raindrop.io and #Obsidian I recently found a backup of my browser bookmarks from 2009. It was a trip down memory lane looking at what i was most interested in 15 years ago …
Mar 17, 2024: A green tree python, native to New Guinea. #Photography #Snake
Mar 16, 2024: Posted the weekly update to my /now page with shout outs to a couple of IndieWeb stalwarts, a good Netflix show, some interesting reading and other …
Mar 16, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks - Disney Adults, 1-Star Reviews of National Parks, Steve Job's Biggest Rival, 90's Band Name Origins, How Maps Distort the World, Printing any Web Page, Making Google Better #Links For parents and grandparents, the Walt Disney Company is nearly inescapable, such is the corporation’s reach into American society, but for a …
Mar 16, 2024: Greenfield Park, Wilmington, NC #Photography
Mar 15, 2024: The Gentlemen 1x04 "An Unsympathetic Gentleman" Susie is keen to expand the business. Eddie is determined that it won't be on his estate, so the Hornimans search for alternative locations.
Mar 15, 2024: Avon Pier, Outer Banks, North Carolina #photography
Mar 14, 2024: A Lovely Routine - The Digital Checklist That Brings Me Joy Every Day and The Hunt for Links I have a digital checklist I try to complete every day. It helps me do the mundane things we all have to do, stay on top of my email, organize my …
Mar 14, 2024: The Good Doctor 7x02 "Skin in the Game" Shaun struggles to accommodate the newest member of his surgical team, Charlie, who interferes in a patient’s relationship with his daughter. …
Mar 14, 2024: The paycheck I get every two weeks should be sufficient motivation but I gotta say when a professor or student (or fellow staff member) sincerely …
Mar 14, 2024: CloudHQ - Adding Functionality to Google Services: Gmail. Google Drive and Search My Original Problem I still have my “Welcome to Gmail” message dated February 21, 2005. When Google Drive was introduced in 2012 I adopted …
Mar 14, 2024: The Scarlet-faced Liocichla, native to Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and southern China. #Birds #Photography
Mar 13, 2024: I used ChatGPT to craft a Python script today that edited 500+ markdown files (my imported Raindrop.io bookmarks) from my #Obsidian vault. It moved …
Mar 13, 2024: Shōgun 1x04 "The Eightfold Fence" Blackthorne and Mariko test their new alliance as they train Toranaga's gun regiment for war. Yabushige must navigate his past promises to Ishido when …
Mar 13, 2024: App of the Day is Clipboard Fusion - Syncs your clipboard between your Mac, PC and phone, iPhone or Android. Allows for saved clipboards for …
Mar 13, 2024: Window to the past. Think of the conversations held around that table. McDougald Road, Mamers, NC #photography
Mar 12, 2024: Enjoying The Gentlemen on Netflix 1) Because it’s a well done piece of dark British comedy and 2) I don’t have to wait a week to see new …
Mar 12, 2024: The Gentlemen 1x03 "Where's My Weed At?" Jimmy gets distracted on the job. As supply chain issues delay deliveries, the Horniman brothers take a risky ride to placate a dissatisfied customer.
Mar 12, 2024: List 10 albums that have stayed with you over the years in some way. Don't take too long on the list - just a few minutes. These don't have to be great records, or critical darlings, just ones that mean something to you personally. The River - Bruce Springsteen Who Are You - The Who Graceland - Paul Simon Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads Automatic for the People - REM …
Mar 12, 2024: Today and tomorrow only - price reduced software at the Indie App Sale - My purchases: Audracity, Nametag, Photoscope, Evo, Logger, Mastowatch, …
Mar 12, 2024: Coffee People, Hay Street, Fayetteville, NC #streetphotography
Mar 11, 2024: The Gentlemen 1x02 "Tackle Tommy Woo Woo" The toffs and their gamekeeper hunt a new kind of prey. Susie enlists some help to clean up the mess, and Halstead Manor is blessed with a holy …
Mar 11, 2024: From The Virgina Creeper Trail, Mount Rogers National Recreation Area #hiking
Mar 10, 2024: I just visited a website. The top half was a popup about GDPR. The rest of it was a popup about cookie consent. When I cleared both of those I got a …
Mar 10, 2024: For any users of the Little Snitch firewall program on Mac. I just found a terrific blocklist via Reddit for 135K sites with trackers, malware, etc. …
Mar 10, 2024: Watched The Gentlemen, S1E1 by Guy Ritchie on Netflix. After being in the heart of darkness for weeks with True Detective, Criminal Record and Shogun, …
Mar 10, 2024: The Gentlemen 1x08 "The Gospel According to Bobby Glass" A familiar face returns to settle a score with Freddy. Bobby decides it's time to retire and wants Eddie and Susie to make the necessary arrangements.
Mar 10, 2024: FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately. You can enjoy your favorite content and creators …
Mar 10, 2024: How to Ruin Your Web Page (My advice circa 1997 to other GeoCities Webmasters) - A Blast From the Past I wrote this 27 years ago in the midst of the first blogging boom on the brand new Internet. Since then the skill of the average blogger has long …
Mar 10, 2024: I love the Internet and I love milestones. Reddit is still one of the most informative sites on the Internet despite the knuckleheads there among the …
Mar 10, 2024: Carousel at the Dogwood Festival, Fayetteville, NC #StreetPhotography
Mar 9, 2024: This Week's #Bookmarks: Free PDF tools, Alexa safety, online museums, amazing photos, emoji news and an RSS family tree Bookmarks for Week 10 of 2024 Maybe you need this I don’t know. We all have phones these days with voice assistants and may of us have one or …
Mar 9, 2024: It’s Saturday and my /now page is updated with American and British journalists, a tale from 17th century Japan, iOS and #Obsidian news and a …
Mar 9, 2024: On the Northern Part of the Grand Strand, Cherry Grove, SC #photography
Mar 8, 2024: Shōgun 1x03 "Tomorrow Is Tomorrow" After Blackthorne survives a brazen assassination attempt, Toranaga realizes he must ferry his allies out of Osaka or risk certain defeat.
Mar 8, 2024: The #iOS Apps I Use Every Day - Broken Down by Time of Day and Purpose Early AM Things 3 (Task management) Ivory for Mastodon (social media) Product Hunt (Because I’m a software junkie) Obsidian (Inbox app, used …
Mar 8, 2024: Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient and more and more …
Mar 8, 2024: White Mountains Sunset from Lake in the Clouds Hut, near Mt. Washington, NH on the Appalachian Trail #Photography #Hiking
Mar 7, 2024: Shōgun 1x02 "Servants of Two Masters" Blackthorne's arrival in Osaka stirs up a hornet's nest of rivalries. Mariko is trapped between her cause and her faith when she must translate for …
Mar 7, 2024: Mac People - I am mostly keyboard centric when it comes to launching and accessing apps but there are times when using the dock is just unavoidable. …
Mar 7, 2024: For any #Raycast Pro subscribers - there is a new release out today with some significant improvements to the AI features. [Raycast Change …
Mar 7, 2024: The Blue Pacific, Pt. Reyes, California #photography
Mar 6, 2024: Shōgun 1x01 "Anjin" Destinies converge in Japan after a barbarian ship washes ashore in a poor fishing village. Meanwhile, in Osaka, Lord Toranaga finds himself outplayed …
Mar 6, 2024: Shōgun 1x02 "Servants of Two Masters" Blackthorne's arrival in Osaka stirs up a hornet's nest of rivalries. Mariko is trapped between her cause and her faith when she must translate for …
Mar 6, 2024: Shōgun 1x03 "Tomorrow Is Tomorrow" After Blackthorne survives a brazen assassination attempt, Toranaga realizes he must ferry his allies out of Osaka or risk certain defeat.
Mar 6, 2024: My Dataview Use Cases in #Obsidian One of the most downloaded community plugins in the Obsidian universe is Dataview. It allows you to treat you vault as a searchable, queryable …
Mar 6, 2024: Looks like the transcript feature for Apple Podcasts is working for some older episodes. I tested it on a recent edition of Mac Power Users.
Mar 6, 2024: All the Apple fanboys (#NotASlur) wishing they lived in the EU today so they could take advantage of the new features in iOS 17.4.
Mar 6, 2024: Garden of the Gods at Dusk, Colorado #photography
Mar 5, 2024: One of my favorite things about having a blog is the daily search for a link to share in my weekly bookmarks post that I put together on Saturday …
Mar 5, 2024: Life & Beth 2x10 "Road to Nowhere" Beth and John return home from a trip upstate and attend Jen’s surprise birthday party, which turns out to be more surprising than expected. Beth …
Mar 5, 2024: Life & Beth 2x09 "Toxic" Beth is there for Jess in a time of need. Reflecting on her past, Beth realizes what she needs from John in order to feel safe again.
Mar 5, 2024: Trying not to regret my December purchase of an M2 #MacBook Air now that the M3s are out for the same price. The M2 may be the best laptop I’ve ever …
Mar 5, 2024: East Tennessee Mountains from the Appalachian Trail #photography
Mar 4, 2024: Life & Beth 2x08 "Shower Sex" John takes it upon himself to remodel the house, making a construction site of their home. Beth feels more and more isolated both by the mess and by …
Mar 4, 2024: Life & Beth 2x07 "That's What Friends Are For" After life gets in the way, Beth realizes she hasn’t spent much time with her friends. She plans a get together for Maya, Jen, and Jess at the …
Mar 4, 2024: I believe two-factor authentication to be the most universally hated aspect of university life.
Mar 4, 2024: Pike’s Peak from Colorado Springs #photography
Mar 3, 2024: I don’t see the cool kids (outside of Reddit) talking about #Raycast much. I used Launchbar for years and enthusiastically switched last …
Mar 3, 2024: Francis Marion National Forest, SC - The Swamp Fox Trail #photography
Mar 2, 2024: All the Ways to Get Web Content Into #Obsidian Many of us were introduced to note-taking apps by the once great but now diminished Evernote who’s web clipper helped move it to the forefront …
Mar 2, 2024: It’s Saturday morning and that means it’s time for an updated /now page. This week I share a couple of articles on BlueSky and Amazon. I …
Mar 2, 2024: This Weeks Bookmarks: Photos from History, Infinite Mac, Amazon Secrets, YouTube Summarizer, Streaming Service Survival Guide, Old Software List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia - Be prepared to stay down this rabbit hole for awhile if you have any interest in …
Mar 2, 2024: #Manhattan, taken from Brooklyn (Brooklyn Bridge on left, Manhattan Bridge on right)
Mar 1, 2024: Friday nights are for relaxed research so I can get up early on Saturday morning, make coffee and write. I love being on the Indieweb where creating …
Mar 1, 2024: Life & Beth 2x06 "The Work" Beth accompanies her true-crime-lover sister, Ann, to the Dupree Murder House. During the reenactment, the sisters reveal too much about themselves to …
Mar 1, 2024: Life & Beth 2x05 "Claire" Matt leans on Beth when something from his past catches up with him and makes him reevaluate his life.
Mar 1, 2024: #Charleston, SC Fire Department under streetlights
Feb 29, 2024: I was today years old when I found out you can install fonts on an iPhone. Now I can use my beloved Atkinson Hyperlegible and JetBrains Mono in …
Feb 29, 2024: Life & Beth 2x04 "This Soup Is Gonna Be Good" Beth and John look for a therapist that can help them with the communication problems that are cropping up in their relationship. We visit younger …
Feb 29, 2024: Life & Beth 2x03 "Nothing Can Get Me Down" Beth, John, and their friends wake up from a raucous night in NOLA and spend the day trying to recover. After meeting LaVar and Denisha’s son, Beth …
Feb 29, 2024: Jon Stewart says goodbye to his dog. See if you can get through this without crying. I could not. Goodbye Dipper
Feb 29, 2024: A picture of the wonderful melting pot that still is America from the walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC #StreetPhotography
Feb 28, 2024: I’m still getting value here, even though I’m all in on #Obsidian, but damn, that’s a lot of dough for a note taking app. If it …
Feb 28, 2024: Life & Beth 2x02 "Who Dat?" Beth, John, and friends visit New Orleans. Beth meets an old friend of John’s who deepens their appreciation for the city and one another. Her friends …
Feb 28, 2024: Life & Beth 2x01 "Trust Me" Beth begs off work and meets her friends at Maya’s new fancy spa gig in Manhattan. She revisits her first love. Later that night, Beth and John meet …
Feb 28, 2024: I’m in love with the Image Modification plugin for #Raycast. Apply filters and transformations to various image formats and convert between …
Feb 28, 2024: Me and my 18-year old Reddit account just got invited to the Reddit IPO at the preferred price so y’all look at the landed gentry over here. LOL
Feb 28, 2024: Attachment Management Made Easy in #Obsidian; A Workflow Downloading Web Content A question I see frequently on Reddit and other Obsidian community hubs regards importing web pages and managing the images …
Feb 28, 2024: There is something poetic about a picture of Obama in B&W if you know what I mean. Anyway, street vendor, NYC, 2015.
Feb 27, 2024: I want my main Mastodon feed to be composed of the real people I follow. I’m unfollowing media accounts, preferring to get my news via RSS. I …
Feb 27, 2024: Life & Beth 1x10 "Kiss from a Rose" Beth decides she can’t waste any more time on regrets. She makes a plan to move forward, cut some old ties, and forgive.
Feb 27, 2024: Life & Beth 1x09 "MRI" Beth gets an MRI to find the source of her back pain and, while inside, she reflects on her tumultuous childhood.
Feb 27, 2024: If you search for Microsoft Authenticator in the #iOS app store, the top hit is a $40 paid app. The second hit is the actual Microsoft (free) product. …
Feb 27, 2024: Man on Hay Street, Fayetteville, NC
Feb 27, 2024: I compiled all my #Obsidian articles onto one page. There’s info on backing up your vault, complementary software, emailing to Obsidian, using …
Feb 27, 2024: Old Agfa #camera at the flea market, State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, #NC
Feb 26, 2024: He was playing with Lego during Y2K, ruminations of an old timer We hired a new network engineer at the university where I work. This is my semi-retired job. I had an IT career in public education and retired in …
Feb 26, 2024: Life & Beth 1x08 "Homegoing" A newly unemployed Beth helps John at the farmers’ market. She and John attend a funeral, which makes Beth reevaluate a lot of things in her own life.
Feb 26, 2024: Life & Beth 1x07 "Leonard" Ann helps Beth move the last of her things out of her and Matt’s apartment. Beth enlists her father’s help in wining and dining a big client.
Feb 26, 2024: Just getting around to watching Life & Beth on Hulu with Amy Schumer and Michael Cera. It’s comfort TV but not too comfortable as it raises …
Feb 26, 2024: Mourning dove in the snow #birds
Feb 25, 2024: The Good Doctor 7x01 "Baby, Baby, Baby" Shaun and Lea adjust to parenthood as they debate the importance of schedule and routine for Steve. Meanwhile, Shaun takes on his first case back at …
Feb 25, 2024: A rainbow lorikeet. native to eastern and southern Australia, as well as southern New Guinea and Tasmania.
Feb 24, 2024: Life & Beth 1x06 "Boat" Beth traps Ann into spending the day with her and John on John’s boat.
Feb 24, 2024: Life & Beth 1x05 "Fair" Beth spends more time with John at the vineyard and tags along with him to the annual fair. There, she has an awkward run in with a childhood friend.
Feb 24, 2024: Updated my /Now Page with some info on a good newsletter, a new to me TV show a couple of blog posts and some pretty high quality training videos …
Feb 24, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks: Disk shopping, Industry secrets, No more rice, Things unexpectedly named after people, NOT the world's oldest dog, AI tips Disk Prices is a bare-bones, text-only website lists the prices of hard drives, solid-state drives, and USB drives available on Amazon. It’s a …
Feb 24, 2024: A turquoise tanager, native to Central and South America #birds
Feb 23, 2024: Life & Beth 1x04 "Pancakes" Beth’s friends encourage her to get back into the hookup game now that she’s back on the Island, but Beth has formed a crush on a farmer at the …
Feb 23, 2024: Life & Beth 1x03 "Out on the Island" After her breakup, Beth decides to leave Manhattan and head back to Long Island, at least for now. To make it work, she takes on a very “Long Island” …
Feb 23, 2024: Not to try and make anyone feel old, but the movie Office Space was released 25 years ago this week. Making people feel nostalgic for cubicles.
Feb 23, 2024: Just read where Tiago Forte, the Second Brain Guy, rejected #Obsidian, Tana and Mem in favor of sticking with Evernote. I don’t think he’s …
Feb 23, 2024: Car show favorite
Feb 22, 2024: Happy Birthday 🎂 to my Gmail account. As of today, I’ve had the same email address for 19 years.
Feb 22, 2024: Criminal Record 1x08 "Carla" A wave of public outrage pushes Hegarty and June to work together before it's too late.
Feb 22, 2024: Obsidian Great but Not Perfect- Complementary Software for PKM #Obsidian Obsidian: Awesome, Yet Imperfect I’m a big fan of Obsidian for note-taking. It’s built around plain text, the ultimate in portability. …
Feb 22, 2024: The great eastern pine forest near Charleston, SC
Feb 21, 2024: Carolina Beach Pier, NC at dawn
Feb 20, 2024: Looking for tips and advice. I just installed #Devonthink and imported my Raindrop.io bookmarks and my #Obsidian vault. What’s next? …
Feb 20, 2024: Little Pink House , Atlantic Beach, NC
Feb 19, 2024: Gotta give good ol' #BBedit a shout out tonight for doing multiple search and replace operations across hundreds of markdown files in my #Obsidian …
Feb 19, 2024: Street scene, Charlotte, NC
Feb 18, 2024: Installed Reor today, an easy to add front-end for a local LLM running on my Macbook. Reor uses my #Obsidian vault as a knowledge base and all queries …
Feb 18, 2024: The driveway at the old RCA radio station, Marin County, California
Feb 17, 2024: I’m not saying my #Obsidian daily note template looks as tricked out as my 2004 My Space page, but Weird Al thinks it does.
Feb 17, 2024: Here’s an update on what I’ve been up to this week - what I’m reading, watching, making and enjoying. My Now Page
Feb 17, 2024: This Week's Bookmarks: Mixtapes, A History Game, Internet Museum, a Recipe, Article of the Week, Mastodon Hacking and a Newsletter Mixtape Garden [Mixtape Garden](mixtape garden Mixtape Garden is a site for making mixtapes together! Here’s how to use it: Make an account and …
Feb 17, 2024: What's In My #Obsidian Vault - Info on Plugins, Workflows, Tags and Philosophies on #PKM A curious Redditor asked me to explain my vault structure to him and I obliged, such is the nature of most people in the Obsidian community. …
Feb 17, 2024: Flea market, North Carolina State Fairgrounds
Feb 16, 2024: My entire working life in IT has been dealing with stuff that doesn’t work. That’s my job. It feels so good when everything just does what …
Feb 16, 2024: Obsidian Tip of the Day: Three Templater Snippets for All Your Note Templates in #Obsidian If you use the Templater community plugin (and you really should) you have three snippets available to you which provide a real asset in creating …
Feb 16, 2024: Farm pond in winter
Feb 15, 2024: Got my first same day Amazon order delivered today. I guess the future has arrived in the form of some USB-C cables.
Feb 15, 2024: I posted a shortcut on Routine Hub for capturing entire web pages in #Obsidian, including image links and a link back to the source article. You can …
Feb 15, 2024: From atop Wayah Bald on the #AppalachianTrail in North Carolina
Feb 14, 2024: Copy down verbatim quotes, when you feel like it… I’ve shifted away from the dogma that “real” engagement means you must always summarise or …
Feb 14, 2024: I love getting a new #iPhone but I also hate getting a new iPhone. At least I’m going through this in the comfort of my home and not an Apple …
Feb 14, 2024: Tomales Bay, Marin County, California
Feb 13, 2024: Worked with Google Gemini today on a python script for an hour that never worked. Meanwhile an anonymous human being on the #Obsidian forum solved my …
Feb 13, 2024: Central Park, New York, New York
Feb 12, 2024: There are exactly three potential outcomes for That Technology Thing You Like: It will be changed in ways that you don’t like by the person or …
Feb 12, 2024: The Outer Banks of #NorthCarolina
Feb 11, 2024: Automating Your #Obsidian Backup, Let Me Save You Some Hassle The current sale underway at Bundlehunt offers over 40 Mac apps for under $5.00 apiece. There are some definite bargains but two I want to point out …
Feb 11, 2024: Somewhere in Alaska
Feb 10, 2024: The never-ending war against paywalls continues with a new resource, Archive Buttons with links to proven sites like archive.is and 12ft.io. I …
Feb 10, 2024: Is there a person in the world that doesn’t hate their cell phone company? Trying to buy a new phone today only to be told my current plan …
Feb 10, 2024: What I Found on the Web This Week This week’s bookmark collection includes a magnificent time suck at the Internet Archive, thanks to Jarrod Blundy from HeyDingus.net.. Also …
Feb 10, 2024: Mount Katahdin, Maine in Baxter State Park - The day before I climbed it. The Northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
Feb 9, 2024: I shit you not. We actually had a user call the help desk today to tell us she has a doctor’s note to excuse her from having to use two-factor …
Feb 9, 2024: What little extras do you #Obsidian people add to your daily note? I have Templater snippets for a daily quote and to link to yesterday and …
Feb 9, 2024: I live the cross-platform life, Windows by day. #MacOS at night. I need clipboard syncing with iOS on both. There are many Mac choices. I use …
Feb 9, 2024: If you’re looking for a way to save web pages to #Obsidian on mobile, check out this shortcut to save markdown to #Drafts …
Feb 9, 2024: On the Virginia Creeper Trail at dawn.
Feb 8, 2024: On link management Oh boy, what a rabbit hole we could go down here. Right now, my read-later links go to Pocket. My watch-later links go to Play. My …
Feb 8, 2024: Just in case you need some, the only remaining seller of floppy disks in the world is US based Floppydisk.com who says their business isn’t …
Feb 8, 2024: Lake Mattamuskeet, NC
Feb 7, 2024: I’ve been collecting quotes for years. Getting into #Obsidian has given me a new way to catalog them. Anyone out there want to trade ZIP files …
Feb 7, 2024: Getting really good customer support from #Omnivore. They’re working with me to find a way to share from my RSS service, #Inoreader, right into …
Feb 7, 2024: Pond at dawn.
Feb 6, 2024: The Iconfactory just released a video about the API they’re building for Project Tapestry. It’s a bold claim to say you can make a universal …
Feb 6, 2024: Three Plugins to Simplify Your Metadata Management in Obsidian Introduction In the world of markdown note-taking, maintaining tidy metadata in Obsidian is crucial for advanced functionality. Whether you rely on …
Feb 6, 2024: Do I judge you if you have this movie playing on your desktop? Yes, yes I do.
Feb 6, 2024: I wish I could make a filter that would work for the whole Internet. I’d never have to see another article on crypto or Apple Vison Pro or …
Feb 6, 2024: The Dark Hedges, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Feb 5, 2024: I’m retired from a career supporting Macs in K-12. My post-retirement “fun” job is in higher ed, supporting PCs. The CIO of the …
Feb 5, 2024: On Friday, it’s National Pizza Day. Or, as some bosses call it around the office, Please Don’t Unionize Day. Morning Brew Newsletter
Feb 5, 2024: I said, “Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my …
Feb 5, 2024: Gothic angel
Feb 4, 2024: Smart micro.blog people - How do I prevent double posting to Mastodon? I want to post as @amerpie@social.lol when I post on micro.blog and stop from …
Feb 4, 2024: OMG - my Open.AI account finally refunded, meaning I spent $5 since November 29 - with almost daily use of some sort.
Feb 4, 2024: How to Send an Email to Your Obsidian Vault If you are a Mac user who doesn’t mind hacking together a few common services and applications, you can configure a way to use your email …
Feb 4, 2024: If you’ve been wondering if you should watch Mr. and Mrs. Smith…yeah, you should. Donald Glover and Maya Erskine have some of the best …
Feb 4, 2024: Why the Right Hates Public Education I wrote this 10 years ago today and it’s just as true today as it was then. Well, I’m just going to say it. Here’s why education is …
Feb 4, 2024: Cory Doctorow is good at the Internet.
Feb 4, 2024: Cardinal, back yard, the year I became friends with all the birds.
Feb 3, 2024: The weekly update to my /now page, with my thoughts on True Detective: Night Country, some of what I’ve written this week, info on cross posting …
Feb 3, 2024: I put together an updated collection of links to share, part blogroll, part blogging tools, part web geek fun stuff, part curiosities. It’s my …
Feb 3, 2024: Phanpy - A Web-Based Mastodon Client with Features You Have to Pay for Elsewhere - Check it out! Phanpy Summary - A web-based Mastodon client with some useful features; 1) Visually separate original posts and re-shared posts (boosted posts), 2) …
Feb 3, 2024: Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad, North Carolina
Feb 2, 2024: Google just killed cached pages Whenever Google crawled a web page, the company would take and store a snapshot, giving users an archived view. The …
Feb 2, 2024: App of the Day: Due, a Hybrid Reminders and Alarm Clock App Due is a hybrid of a reminders app and an alarm clock. You can set one time or persistent reminders for things like moving the trash to the curb, …
Feb 2, 2024: Texas Lake, located on Ft. Liberty, NC
Feb 1, 2024: Something big is being announced by the Browser Company today #Arc = just got an email full of promises: Our belief in a new category of software …
Feb 1, 2024: # Two Helpful Dataview Snippets for Obsidian I like to have a note in my vault that shows all the notes created on the current day. I’ve been using a query that I have to update each day …
Feb 1, 2024: I was going to delete Indie App Santa from my phone as all good things come to an end but I’ll be damned if the folks behind it haven’t …
Feb 1, 2024: A male eclectus parrot, one of the world’s most beautiful birds.
Jan 31, 2024: I knew this day was coming. I’ve been using #Evernote for 16 years. It’s integration with IFTTT, the web clipper and the mail to Evernote …
Jan 31, 2024: To worship at the altar of mega-scale and to convince yourself that you should be the one making world-historic decisions on behalf of a global …
Jan 31, 2024: The geek in me is celebrating the conversion of a 236-line CSV file to markdown files this morning. Now the quote collection I’ve been piecing …
Jan 31, 2024: If you don’t harbour a deep-seated, conflicted, fundamental resentment for tech, well… you’re probably not a very dedicated geek. Matt Gemmell
Jan 31, 2024: Charlotte, 2015
Jan 30, 2024: So, IFTTT just raised prices by 33% and you know what, I’m just going to pay it and keep going. I get so much value out of the automations I …
Jan 30, 2024: Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet - by Chris Dixon, explores the possible when internet services are controlled by users instead …
Jan 30, 2024: Maybe your picture of a sunset looks basically (or even exactly) the same as a thousand other peoples' photos of sunsets, but the journey you took to …
Jan 30, 2024: Kure Beach Pier, NC at dawn
Jan 29, 2024: I had to wait for my wife to get back from a trip to start the latest season of True Detective but now that I’m into it, I’m going to have …
Jan 29, 2024: I updated my LinkedIn profile for the first time in ten years. It’s changed a lot in a decade and I’m not sure it’s all for good.
Jan 29, 2024: The new [Arc Search](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6472513080) app for iOS The new Arc Search app for iOS is better than just a chatbot on top of a search engine. It builds you a web page (with sources) to answer your search …
Jan 29, 2024: We build these crazy contraptions using fifty different sets of mismatched tools, connect them all together with chewing gum and twine, and then pile …
Jan 29, 2024: Lucky pic of a grizzly in the early morning light.
Jan 28, 2024: The easiest way to capture a screenshot on an iPhone is to say “Hey Siri, screenshot this.” It’s hands-free and idiot proof.
Jan 28, 2024: When I was growing up this gentrified street was a mess of GIs, prostitutes and street hustlers - not fountains and flower pots.
Jan 28, 2024: The Installer from the Verge We all get too much email. It’s tough finding a worthwhile newsletter because most are filled with links to buy crap we aren’t looking …
Jan 27, 2024: I’m tired of worrying about Apple and the EU. It’s time for some effin cuteness Reader Chosen:100 Cutest Photos
Jan 27, 2024: The Omnivore to Obsidian Connection Enhanced Taking Advantage of Omnivore One of the people I follow on Micro.blog - the prolific creator @numericcitizen had a great idea recently: I just …
Jan 27, 2024: I rode by this house a thousand times on my bicycle before ever stopping to realize how cool it looks.
Jan 26, 2024: I’m thinking of moving to Europe just so I can run my favorite browser natively on my iPhone.
Jan 26, 2024: Vicks, a local landmark for 40 years, torn down to make room for an overpass.
Jan 25, 2024: Because we all need to see this picture every so often. Woodie Guthrie - American.
Jan 25, 2024: Sunset on the Isle of Skye, Scotland 2024/01/24
Jan 24, 2024: Yet another “Link in Bio” service - but this one was just announced as Product of the Year on Product Hunt. Check it out - Amerpie on …
Jan 24, 2024: #MyFirstMac - The school system I worked for supplied me with a brand-new titanium Powerbook G4 in 2001. It was an amazing computer and dual booted OS …
Jan 24, 2024: 32-Bit Cafe - Website Ideas You’ve just made a website, but now you’re unsure where to go from here. Here are some ideas for things to add …
Jan 24, 2024: A picture from my wife who is currently in the Scottish Highlands on her way to the Isle of Skye.
Jan 23, 2024: Just a southern mill pond like a thousand other ones
Jan 23, 2024: I found a new website launched yesterday for all the #Obsidian fans out there - Obsidian Addict
Jan 22, 2024: Mama gorilla, NC Zoological Park, Asheboro
Jan 22, 2024: found a good Mastodon tool last night - Followgraph. It looks up all the people you follow on Mastodon, and then who they follow. Then it sorts them …
Jan 21, 2024: Updated my /now page with quotes from the best stuff I read this week, what I’m watching, what I’m making and where I’m eating. …
Jan 21, 2024: Bodie Island Lighthouse, Outer Banks, NC
Jan 20, 2024: An update to a classic article on how to make the web less annoying, Full of good tools and tips for escaping the evils of overly commercialized …
Jan 20, 2024: Married Software My wife and I both sit at a computer for most of our work day. Our mornings and nights also include a fair amount of screen time. Even our …
Jan 20, 2024: Spotted on a bicycle ride in Cumberland County, NC
Jan 19, 2024: I have just discovered feedle - a search engine for RSS feeds. Look for what’s interesting to you. My search for #Obsidian information led me …
Jan 19, 2024: Old train station, Fayetteville, NC
Jan 18, 2024: The Pogues - Shane MacGowan - Body of an American - to me this will always be the real theme music to #TheWire with apologies to Tom Waits' Way Down …
Jan 18, 2024: Finally got DNS fixed (because it’s always DNS) thanks to @manton and now amerpie.lol is a real thing
Jan 18, 2024: Inside a covered bridge outside of Sanford, NC
Jan 17, 2024: A fitting end to Fargo, Season 5. Everyone is right where they deserve to be. …
Jan 17, 2024: I’d use #KeyboardMaestro or #Raycast for snippets but #TextExpander is cross platform with #Windows and #iOS. The same snippets work everywhere. …
Jan 17, 2024: Edenton, NC a quaint colonial era town on the inner banks
Jan 16, 2024: One reason I love Inoreader as my RSS service is the filters they offer. I just stopped 107 articles about the Apple Vision Pro from appearing in my …
Jan 16, 2024: I work in a small IT shop at a private university, and we let our help desk person go last month. Somebody has to do password resets and I got picked. …
Jan 16, 2024: Although there have been some truly remarkable US cop shows (#TheWire), the Brits seem to be the master of the genre. Case in point, the new Apple TV …
Jan 15, 2024: If you like the floating notes concept in Raycast on the Mac, you’ll love this. Call it with a hotkey or menu bar click, have it stay on top of other …
Jan 15, 2024: Ft. Macon, Atlantic Beach, NC, built 1834. These are the troop barracks.
Jan 15, 2024: Today’s micro.blog challenge is figuring out how to configure DNS A Records and CNAME Records to point to the $1.50 domain I bought at …
Jan 14, 2024: Getting Help on Mastodon I had a good Mastodon experience yesterday. I posted about my frustration with the #Obsidian dataview plugin and by the end of the day …
Jan 12, 2024: I dusted off an iPad Air2 to use as a server for #Pushcut, an Apple #Shortcuts automation app. It’s maxed out at iOS 15.8 but I’m …
Jan 11, 2024: Open.AI opened up the GPT store today but only to plus subscribers. Those of us with pay as you go API keys are left out in the cold with the rest of …
Jan 11, 2024: Just installed Microsoft 365 for a new user and found out that it doesn’t include Outlook anymore. Evidently, they want you to get the …
Jan 11, 2024: For all my fellow #Obsidian fans looking for resources, the Discord page has a post with nominations Obsidian related plugins, articles, videos, …
Jan 10, 2024: The lack of an easy to configure #Obsidian browser extension is regrettable. I finally got one working on a PC today but on my Mac I’m still relying …
Jan 10, 2024: Every time I use an #Obsidian plugin, I marvel at all the smart people on the Internet
Jan 9, 2024: Microsoft Edge Really Doesn't Suck Last year, the small private university where I work purchased new laptops for the staff and I was charged with deploying them, a process that had me …
Jan 8, 2024: After reading about the massive amount of cash @jarrod spent testing his awesome new AI powered multimedia uploading shortcut, bit.ly/3H9Gtbg, (a buck …
Jan 6, 2024: Drafts by Agile Tortoise It’s crazy how many things can be automated by the app Drafts | Where Text Starts (getdrafts.com) I’ve been using it for years to move …
Jan 6, 2024: Spaces vs. Workspace I keep seeing plugs for Spaces for macOS. I have access to what appears to be a similar app, Workspaces on Setapp | Your things well-organized. Has …
Jan 6, 2024: Amerpie's Default Apps 2024 Default Apps Shortly after this trend started, I discovered Robb Knight’s collection of posts at https://defaults.rknight.me/. I imported the …
Jan 5, 2024: Blame it on RSS Over the past two months I’ve rediscovered my love of RSS after a multi-year lapse. Since I’ve been gone the whole IndieWeb scene has …