Nice. The Guthrie is doing a “Dicken’s Holiday Classic” streaming in December. Should be fun.
Lady Ta-Da stretching in the sun.
Saint Francis contemplating the hosta.
Computing: The Human Experience – The story of computing is the story of humanity.™
Up late to watch the Perseids. Was out for 30 minutes. Saw two bright ones and I think I saw some very dim ones but it’s hard to tell.
Today I gave my 90th blood donation. I was surprised.
Latest peeve: Seeing staunch used instead of stanch when describing something that needs to be restricted or contained. Makes my teeth hurt.
Ann and I are back to hiking in MN State Parks. Great River Bluffs was the last. We’ll revisit in autumn. The colors should be awesome!
A view of the Mississippi valley from Great River Bluffs State Park just south of Winona MN.
RIP Fran Allen. IBM Fellow Emerita.
I’m beginning to really dislike Markdown for technical doc. All of our system’s special values begin with *. Unix-style pathnames contain /. I wish I could turn off the highlighting for those characters in tools like iAWriter, Bear, and Ulysses.
History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of men.
Listening to Stephen Fry read Mythos. Very entertaining. 📚
📚 So Far, So Good Ursula K. LeGuin’s final book of poems. Each one a gem. #mbmay
📚If you haven’t read Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. Read it. Read it now. #mbmay
Violet(s). #mbmay
Indigo. #mbmay
Blue. #mbmay
Green. #mbmay
Yellow. #mbmay
