Editorial shenanigans aside, I still subscribe to the digital versions of the Washington Post, New York Times, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune, as well as my local paper, the mostly excellent Rochester Post-Bulletin and will continue to do so.
Read moreš Finished the āDemon Copperheadā audiobook by Barbara Kingsolver. Book and narration are both excellent. Iāll have to read āDavid Copperfieldā in the future to compare.
Read moreš Next dead tree book is āAllow Me To Retortā by Elie Mystal. I like to mix up my fiction and non-fiction. This one is a collection of very opinionated essays. It might be a challenge.
Read moreš Finished āFuture Home of the Living Godā by Louise Erdrich. It is set in Minnesota so Iām familiar with many of the places. Excellently written, but as with most dystopian fiction it leaves much unresolved at the end.
Read moreWORDPRESS TO ZOLA TO TINDERBOX.
Iāve removed all my WordPress hosted blogs. One I pointed here. One I just trashed. One Iām moving to a new technology. I tried Zola for it but itās not quite doing it for me. Turns out I donāt want a blog, I want a highly linked hypertext since itās a genealogy site for the branch of family back from my maternal grandparents. Iām using Tinderbox as a static site generator.
Read moreš About ready to start reading āThe Future Home of the Living Godā by Louise Erdrich. I have a couple of her other books that I havenāt started yet. This one is from the public library. Iām at the point where I donate books to the library when Iām done with them.
Read moreš Current audiobook: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. About 2/3 of the way through. Thereās always a train wreck around the corner at this point.
Read moreDoing some cleanup and testing. Please ignore my noise for a bit. Thanks.
Read moreFiring up the micro.blog again. Pointing my root domain at it so I can trash the single page WordPress instance I had on the way to trashing all of my WordPress sites. Has anyone here on micro.blog done a WordPress import recently? How did it go? #microblog
Read moreRIP Spider John Koerner.
Read moreDoes anyone else add columns of numbers this way?
Read moreBookmarks. Iāve tried raindrop.io, omnivore, and pinboard. Pinboard is still my workhorse. Compact and easy to search. Dropped raindrop.io ā too noisy for me. Keeping omnivore, but not really sure itās going to be needed.
Read moreBacking off of Python back to Ruby and Pharo. I know Python is more popular, but having objects everywhere helps me think more deeply about the nature of programming problems.
Read moreI just loaded up KeyboardMaestro a couple of days ago. I have to say itās slicker than snot.
Read moreTired of getting up at 5:30 to move the thermostat from 65Ā° to 70Ā° so I installed a new Ecobee thermostat I can control while Iām still in bed. It should ālearnā our routine over the next few days.
Read moreCurrently reading: The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore š. Borrowed this from our local library. At over 1000 pages Iām only going to hit highlights this time around. Lots of interesting stories here. Will likely borrow again.
Read moreA bit chilly today. Might want to put on a jacket.
Read moreThinking that 2024 might be the year I try cultivated meat.
Read moreBTW, a shoutout to Shawn King (@KingShawn@mastodon.social) of BC. Professional explainer. Runs excellent and fun photo walks and beginner photography classes. Look him up if youāre in the Vancouver area.
Read moreOne of my project for the next year is to move from SmugMug back to Flickr. Yes I know itās the same company, but I think my style fits far better in Flickr for publishing.
Read moreLoading up on photo apps. Thinking of trying out Luminar Neo since it is in Setapp. Since the mods are āAIā powered I would not try to pass them off as original. Any experience with this beast?
Read morePot roast. Cheesy mashed potatoes. Garlicky carrots. Pumpkin cheesecake. Whatās not to like?
Read moreChess with my daughterās SO. He won. I need to brush up.
Read moreāTwas the night before Christmas and all through the hall a soft wimpering was heard The OS failed to installā¦ Sigh.
Read moreCurrently reading: The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya š. This is an audiobook. I listen to this while doing dishes or some other chore that doesnāt take a lot of mental energy. Decent narration for the topic. I wonder what he would have accomplished if he had not died at 53.
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