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 week, some killer sandals and the web sites that made their way into my personal bookmarks.
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 side street. He was surprised that I knew them, and I was surprised he was listening to something that old. We agreed that Lauryn Hill is a genius.
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 wants to live near them. Life in a military town.
My Junited2024 page is up, with the first entry by @tracydurnell who wrote a classic piece last year on crafting a blog post.
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 tagged or sorted by any criteria. A universal app, Play can be curated on your Mac and then watched on your AppleTV. A great app.
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.
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 files and folders.
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 were groups of kids putting on cultural performances and it seemed like they all had one or two stressed out parents in tow.
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 10-year-old printer that hasn’t even had an update in years)
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 WeblogPoMo2024
Today on AppAddict - Two free apps from Objective-See, BlocKBlock and KnockKnock, both designed to alert you to the installation of persistent apps on your Mac. If you keep your Mac up to date and only install apps from the app store, you are probably OK. If you install from elsewhere, get these.
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 it’s the final resting place of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s ship.
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 12MB Photoshop generated PDF. The Horror
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 difference between a cell phone and cocaine. Today for WeblogPoMo2024.
Today on AppAddict - AnyList is my choice for recipes, groceries and general list management for things like packing and planning camping trips. I tried other apps like Paprika and Mela, but AnyList just hits the sweet spot.
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 ready to go look for her. He declined my offer to help and told me that he was sorry for not smiling.
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 neurodiversity in specific and diversity in general.
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 wouldn’t be 7,000 RSS articles behind. How I Internet for WeblogPomo2024
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. Things like this chase the toxic away.
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 actually easy to use and quite helpful. My five favorites
