One of two state aquariums in North Carolina. | Continue reading
I've been keeping a journal of some sort consistently for many years. My motivations aren't that complex. I like journaling because it gives me something to do. To me, the act of organizing and recording my thoughts is just an enjoyable activity in its own right. I also enjoy loo … | Continue reading
Gems Here are a few small apps I found this week from my usual sources and tips from Internet friends: Sentinel - from indy dev, Alin Lupascu, the guy behind the popular uninstall utility, Pearcleaner, Sentinel has a couple of Gatekeeper related functions: Removes app from quaran … | Continue reading
Celebrities are monetizing spirituality with the most popular app on the iPhone - Hallow - The thing about meditation is that it's totally pointless unless you can somehow monetize it. /s As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What’s Next - His World History … | Continue reading
Site Analysis One year ago I posted my first app review on AppAddict. I'd recently subscribed to a new blogging service and I was trying to figure out what to write. I figured that my love of downloading and testing new software was something worth sharing. Besides, I was trying … | Continue reading
Lake Mattamuskeet, Dare County, NC, one of the world’s premier spots for spotting waterfowl. | Continue reading
Early evening, April four Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride Pride, In the Name of Love - U2 Shortly after 6:00 PM on this date in 1968, the bullets of an assassin took the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the on … | Continue reading
GitHub There are plenty of apps and websites that allow you to download vast quantities of information as single comma separated value (CSV) files. You can get Your entire Netflix viewing history All your Letterboxd reviews Books you entered in Goodreads Purchase histories from v … | Continue reading
I've written before about my enjoyment of regional dishes. . Close behind that is my enjoyment of iconic regional chains. I'll grant you that they rarely serve haute cuisine but I don't care. Fast food is popular because it's usually reasonably palatable and consistent. Often, I … | Continue reading
I brought this tree home from my grandparents old house when it was a couple of feet tall in 1996. Today it’s taller than my roof and shades my front porch. It reminds me of them whenever I see it. | Continue reading
Wonder Woman and I are taking two of our high-schools aged grandsons on a road trip to Gainesville, Florida on Friday. We are going so that Connor, the 17-year-old, can participate in a charity bike ride for Friedreich's Ataxia, the degenerative nueromuscular illness he lives wit … | Continue reading
1 1/2 lbs pork shoulder 2 garlic cloves, peeled 1 tablespoon cumin powder 2 onions, chopped separated 4 garlic cloves, chopped and separated 2 tablespoons oil 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 teaspoon cayenne 2 tablespoons annato powder 1 tablespoon salt 1/4 teaspoon oregano 4 cups … | Continue reading
Charleston, SC is a charming city and one of my favorite places to visit. | Continue reading
This is my entry in the April IndieWeb Carnival hosted by Jamie Thiglestad on Renewal. One of the things I miss about working in public schools is the comfortable rhythm of the annual cycle. Unlike teachers and junior administrators, i worked twelve months of the year, not ten mo … | Continue reading
TeraCopy I'd stayed away from TeraCopy for Mac for a long time because it didn't have good reviews. It was updated for Apple Silicon earlier this year, so I decided to try it out. I have some huge folders with tens of thousands of images and audio files that I need to copy to and … | Continue reading
There are many reasons sharing files between computers for even the most basic of home users: Backup Moving documents to a computer connected to a local printer Information shared between your and your partner or spouse Installation files for programs you want on more than one co … | Continue reading
No wonder Van Gogh painted these. Aren’t they beautiful? | Continue reading
Syncthing I first heard about the free and open-source file syncing app, Syncthing, when I started using Obsidian and may people were suggesting it as the back end of their DIY vault syncing strategy. I ended up using another method for Obsidian, but larley I have been exploring … | Continue reading
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” ― Joseph Stalin During the pandemic, while half of America was arguing that COVID-19 was no worse than the flu, the city government of New York was hiring refrigerated trucks to keep bodies in because they ran out of … | Continue reading
One of the largest races in the world is the annual Bridge Run in Charleston, SC | Continue reading
Probably the most influential time in my life were the years I lived on my uncle's farm, roughly 1979-1983. Although both of my parents were the children of farmers, I didn't have much exposure to agriculture before a fateful Easter vacation I spent with my uncle at an industrial … | Continue reading
Photo Management I'm going to turn the tables today. Instead of giving YOU information on software, I'm going to ask you to give me some recommendations. Specifically, I am looking for a photos app. Since I am eliminating Google and Amazon from my online life, I won't have access … | Continue reading
One of the fat ass squirrels from my backyard. I tried feeding them directly in an effort to get them to stop robbing my bird feeders but the greedy little bastards just laughed at me. | Continue reading
If you ever visit western North Carolina, it’s worth getting up early to catch views like this. | Continue reading
I'm lucky. All four of my grandparents lived into my adulthood. They were each wonderful people in their own way and each had a tremendous influence and helped me become the person I am today. I loved them all obviously and rarely does a day go by when I don't think of them in so … | Continue reading
I was directly involved in supporting education in a K-12 environment for a couple of decades and the in higher ed, at the university level, for a few more. My customers were the people who conveyed knowledge and, indirectly, to their students. I listened to plenty of enthusiasti … | Continue reading
Keyboard Warriors. A global keyboard shortcut is a combination of keys you can press while in any application on your Mac to execute an action belonging to a background process. I typically have a half dozen or more apps running in the background that use glocal keyboard shortcut … | Continue reading
The mountains in northern Georgia, taken from the patio of the lodge at Amicalola Falls State Park, home of the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. | Continue reading
Privacy Guides: Independent Privacy & Security Resources - Privacy Guides is a not-for-profit, volunteer-run project that hosts online communities and publishes news and recommendations surrounding privacy and security tools, services, and knowledge. Cleanse - The 21-day Cyber-Cl … | Continue reading
RCLONE There are quite a few apps with GUIs available for Macs that let you connect various cloud services to upload, download and move files. Most of them are costly. Today I needed to move files from Google Drive to a kDrive, a cloud storage company in Switzerland, Instead of u … | Continue reading
I love a parking garage for getting pictures of lines and shadows. Sometimes urban photography can be quite fun. | Continue reading
There is a saying in the recovery community that if I could do anything to my worse enemy, I'd make him self-centered. There's nothing worse than continually being concerned with "How am I doing today?" I'm not knocking therapy. It's helped untold numbers of people, including me. … | Continue reading
Street scene, downtown Charlotte, NC. | Continue reading
One of the reasons that the United States is in the middle of an existential crisis is that too many damned people believe everything they read on the Internet. For these people, the Internet is not the information super highway. It is a cesspool of lies, misinformation, manipula … | Continue reading
Mastodon Mascot When it comes to the new breed of social media, I prefer the federated and independent nature of Mastodon over everything else. I want nothing to do with Threads or anything else tainted by Meta. I like the atmosphere at Bluesky, but we have to face that it is a c … | Continue reading
On the Appalachian Trail in New England, you spend all day moving the through the woods of Connecticut to suddenly come upon this cleared field with its breathtaking view of Western Massachussets in the distance. My god, it was so beautiful. One of best moments of my hike. | Continue reading
Broser Extensions This is a special edition of AppAddict. Tonight, I'm covering one of the best sources of computing functionality that often goes overlooked in the hunt for productivity enhancements and better work flows. There are many browser extensions that replace or enhance … | Continue reading
Fun times in the spring with a maco lens. You have to get these shots before the mosquitoes get too bad! | Continue reading
I like Wednesdays. On Wednesdays, Wonder Woman usually gets to work from home, so I get to spend the day with her, even if we don't get a chance to interact all that much. I just like to be able look across the room to see her sitting with her laptop on the couch. When I make tea … | Continue reading
I haven't been arrested in 39 years, I came close a couple of times during demonstrations against the war in Iraq, but some wise elders advised me to cooperate with pushy police officers to avoid it, so I did. Most of my run-ins with the law happened when I was a teenager and the … | Continue reading
KeyKeeper I've been working on getting all my software licensing information into KeyKeeper, an app by the same team that operates Bundlehunt. I've been buying Mac software since the days of the classic OS. Believe it or not, some apps I purchased as far back as 2004 are still fu … | Continue reading
One of the unfortunate stories being written and rewritten lately is about how (wait for it), liberals/progressives/"the left" are in an information bubble because they've forsaken Twitter and canceled their subscriptions to the Washington Post. Supposedly, people like me are out … | Continue reading
You are probably familiar with Betteridge's Law of Headlines whether you know its name or not. The law is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It's a common sense analysis of a journalistic practice where publications s … | Continue reading
Scan Results For anyone with a home lab or who is invested in the Internet of Things, the ability to scan your network is a tool that you want in your management arsenal. Additionally, if you live in an urban environment, being able to monitor the devices on your Wi-Fi network is … | Continue reading
The largest private home ever constructed, the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC. It’s a nice place to visit. I’ve cycled and kayaked on the estate. Good times. | Continue reading
This is the 52nd week of this blog's life. It doesn't seem like I've been doing this for almost 365 days, but I have. I think I may have missed a day in there somewhere, but i made up for it the next. In fact, I've posted 377 times since March 28, 2024. It's a good thing I'm not … | Continue reading
UTM Gallery I recently converted my Windows laptop to Ubuntu. I don't rely on Windows for anything personally any longer so I didn't need a dedicated machine for that OS. However, as the extended family tech support guy, there are occasions when I need to use Windows 10 and Windo … | Continue reading
The view from the walkway of the Manhattan Bridge. | Continue reading