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 recalcitrant hard drive mount with two motherfuckers and one asshole.
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
Every Streaming Service Price Hike in 2023 and 2024 | Lifehacker
The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time (getpocket.com)
100 Best Books of the 21st Century - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
World Architecture Forum Awards 2024: World’s best new architecture revealed | CNN
How Celebrity Book Clubs Actually Work
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 browsing. Lots of stuff!
Mixtape Garden is a free service that crafts downloadable mixtapes crafted from the YouTube videos you specify
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”. It’s a privilege, not a chore.
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 hoop.
Today on AppAddict - an old mac troubleshooting tool is back and I am feeling nostalgic. [Network Utility is available for download from Devonthink](apps.louplummer.lol/post/netw… totally free. It was part of the OS from the very first days of OS X up until Big Sur.
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.” - Stewart Udall
Stranger In a Strange Land, Revisited - I’ve been reexamining Robert A. Heinlein lately. After nearly worshipping him as a young person, I later wrote him off as a militarist and a misogynist, but discussions with other progressives have me investigating him as man of his time.
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 shock at prices and some of my language choices reflect the difference between then and now.
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 he was getting his Wilmington, NC sandwich shop ready to open.
Today on App Addict - Disk Drill by Cleverfiles is data recovery software that comes with six free utilities including disk health monitor, Mac cleanup, duplicate finder, recovery drive, data protection and data backup.
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 people who have a download addiction. It’s done pretty good, been quoted in Lifehacker and the Verge and some developers have been quite nice. I❤️IndyWeb!
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” - Toni Morrison
“Nobody is free until everybody is free.” - Fannie Lou Hamer
These two powerful quotes from two giants of our time, one literary and the other from the Civil Rights Movement capture something that I believe at the very core of who I am. It’s the essence of responsibility.
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 was my current favorite. They all had a lasting impact on me. I’d love to see your list. - @amerpie
So far, five folks besides me have contributed their list of the 15 books that have had the most impact on them. I’d love to see more people join in. It’s a good way to see what led to people being who they are today. @tracydurnell @alexandra@social.lol @werd.io @goofpunk@mastodon.social @realityframeworks@mastodon.social
Taking a Mental Health Day - After too many meetings and too few decisions at work, there was only one cure for the stress,
From My 100 Strangers project - I caught Vanessa and her large personality downtown on a Sunday afternoon watching her break-dancing friends perform.
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 bookmark manager and a read-it-later app. It’s a one-time $9.99 purchase in the App Store.
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 browser extension makes it somewhat bearable by disrupting the algorithm and hiding the gross parts.