Thinking about the possibility of becoming religious after being lucky enough to have a scheduled day off on CrowdStrike Friday. Somebody deserves the credit. | Continue reading
I See Color - When people talk about race, they use the line “I don’t see color” to prove they aren’t prejudiced. I make the argument that you better see color, or you will find yourself in the same old segregated spaces you’ve been in before. It takes intentionality to end socie … | Continue reading
From my 100 Stanger’s Post - I didn’t get this guy’s name because when I started my usual rap with him, he started hitting me up for money. Even in NYC, I’d never had that happen before. We weren’t in Times Square or anything but a little further uptown than where I’d taken most … | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Updater apps for Mac - I cover MacUpdater, Latest, CleanMyMac X, Topgrade, Raycast extensions and Applite. | Continue reading
I wish more products came with practical life advice. One of the best things The Rolling Stones ever wrote were the instructions on the LP for Let It Bleed. | Continue reading
I’m not a fan of Steve Jobs hagiography at all, but the other Steve, the humble one, the nice one, the generous one - him I like The Right Steve | Continue reading
Getting Caught With the Feels - My personal experiences with quiet crying, emotional vulnerability, and coping mechanisms, highlighting the power of the written word in self-expression and emotional regulation | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - Diya, a seventh-grade student from Cary, NC was hamming for the camera when I caught this wide-eyed shot. Her Mom gave her grief for playing around but I have always liked the photo. | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Coherence and Unite are two apps based on Chromium and WebKit respectively, that improve built-in site-specific browser (SSB) functionality, offering extra tools like ad blocking, incognito mode and extension support. | Continue reading
I ditched social media for about 18 months during a time when I decided to dedicate my life to just doing healthy stuff: long daily walks, meditation, reading etc. I was able to do all of that but I missed the good parts, the sense of community, making new connections, keeping up … | Continue reading
Taking a look at Internet Trolls, their origin, history and most infamous campaign, Gamergate, the one that gave rise to the alt-right, r/theDonald and the Trumpification of disaffected young white men | Continue reading
Looking at the quandy caused by feeling optimistic about my own circumstances while so many others are in a panic. Writing this brought me to tears | Continue reading
From my 100 strangers project - Deb and Jules were busking in a tunnel in Central Park. Despite the Led Zeppelin t-shirt, they were doing a Beatles tune, Here Comes the Sun. I threw dough in the guitar case for the song, the photo and conversation were on the house. | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Explore Little Tagger, a budget-friendly alternative to Hazel for automating basic tagging tasks on your Mac. Learn about its features, pros, and cons, and consider joining the beta for the developer’s upcoming, more advanced tagging app. | Continue reading
When people have acted hysterically and you point that out, they get hysterical again. Case in point the recent Internet meltdown over the Bartender app where none of the predictions of evil have come true. Still can’t get folks to get off that ledge. Been fighting rando for two … | Continue reading
After water, tea is the most popular beverage in the world and I do my best to to consume my share of it in a way much different than my fellow southerners. | Continue reading
We use the phrase “Absolute Legend” so often it loses meaning. Well, here is a real legend, Grandma Gatewood, the first woman to solo hike the entire Appalachian Trail, at age 68 in 1955. Link | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - Mose the artist, from Raleigh, NC. Although I prefer to do portraits in B&W, the colors in his artwork and clothing need to be seen to be appreciated. One day, I’ll hang a print of this one in my living room | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Cryptomator, a free and open-source encryption tool designed to be used with cloud utilities like Google Drive, Dropbox and One Drive, it provides end to end 256-bit AES encryption. There are also versions for Windows and Linux and a paid version ($12.99) for … | Continue reading
I’m rather proud of having more than 400 apps installed on my Mac. According to Lingon X, I have 102 apps either as login items or running in the background as helper apps. I have a hobby blog, AppAddict where I write an app review every day, always something I have downloaded, i … | Continue reading
A riff on what it’s like being sick as an adult vs. being sick as a kid with a hat to tip some of my favorite care givers. | Continue reading
A while back I published My Rules for Me, my self-written guidelines for living. This guy has 100 rules and they are all worth reading. | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers Project - Irish Mike was walking the streets of Wilmington, NC appropriately clad in green to go with his red hair. He claimed to be a ‘feckin’ leprechaun" when we spoke. Also, he made have had a drink or two. | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - A look at text expansion choices for power users - ranging from the native macOS tool to Keyboard Maestro, Raycast/Alfred, Better Touch Tool and single purpose apps like my choice, Text Expander and Expanso. | Continue reading
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that 76% of 642 websites tested used so called “dark patterns”, deceptive practices that put your wallet and your privacy at risk. | Continue reading
Trump’s weaponized incompetence cost countless lives during the pandemic, his commitment to stripping health care from millions is murderous. His courting of war criminals is grotesque. How dare anyone accuse others of not being a good lefty for not handwringing over his near-dea … | Continue reading
POSSE, Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, is a foundational tenet of the Indy Web. Do you do it? How? On cross posting | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - Big Jim works for the rescue squad and they had been called out for some mysterious goings on at an old car wash in a rural area a few miles from Ft. Liberty. He would not tell me what was going on, but he let me take his picture, so it wasn’t a to … | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Step 2 Offers Two Factor Authentication in a Desktop App With parts of Authy deprecated and others hit by security breaches, you might be looking for a new solution. | Continue reading
This landscape is our home, and we rarely stray long from it, or endure anywhere else for long before returning. This may seem like a lack of imagination or adventure, but I don’t care. I love this place; for me it is the beginning and the end of everything, and everywhere else f … | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
30 amazing images of our Universe – Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 shortlist announced | BBC Science Focus Magazine Uses This / Interviews Every Streaming Service Price Hike in 2023 and 2024 | Lifehacker The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time (getpocket.com) 100 Best … | Continue reading
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! | Continue reading
Mixtape Garden is a free service that crafts downloadable mixtapes crafted from the YouTube videos you specify | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.” - Stewart Udall | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
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 quit … | Continue reading
“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 … | Continue reading
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 … | Continue reading
Taking a Mental Health Day - After too many meetings and too few decisions at work, there was only one cure for the stress, | Continue reading
From My 100 Strangers project - I caught Vanessa and her large personality downtown on a Sunday afternoon watching her break-dancing friends perform. | Continue reading