True Confessions - My Life on the High Seas Back in the beginning days of the web, when Napster had 80 million users and torrents were a new thing, I might have downloaded some stuff. | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - William self-described himself as a reformed old drunk and said he has now dedicated his life to helping people. | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Mac Uninstallers - App Cleaner vs. Pear Cleaner one is more bare bones but thorough. The other has more features but occasionally misses a few files. | Continue reading
have to admit that it’s breaking my heart to watch a new generation of anxious parents think that they can address the struggles their kids are facing by eliminating technology from kids' lives. I’ve been banging my head against this wall for almost 20 years, not because I love t … | Continue reading
I wrote 50 more blogging prompts to round out my collection to an even 100. If you get stumped on a topic for a post, take a look at these. | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers - This is Disha, photographed with her mother’s blessing, at the NC India Festival held in the fall of the year at Dorton Arena in Raleigh. She was nervously waiting to participate in a dancing exhibition. | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - An Unemotional Look at Clean My Mac X - I look at the controversial app without hyperbole or bias and point out its strong and weak points. | Continue reading
If anyone wants to play along, make a list of the 15 books that have had the most impact on you and share it. 15 Books with the Most Impact | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers Project - I met Bryan at the farmer’s market in the small coastal town of Beaufort, NC where people sell their goods under a huge canopy of live oak trees a couple of blocks from the waterfront. He was pretty taciturn and did not have a lot to say. | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Downie - Video Downloader - Downie can download from more than 1000 sites with more being added on a bi-weekly basis. It can download 4K video and audio-only streams. | Continue reading
Female hair is either long or political. Sexual orientation is either heterosexual or political. Gender identity is either cis or political. Clothing is either gender stereotyped and boring or political. City infrastructure is either car-focused or political. Energy is either fos … | Continue reading
I put my thinking cap on this afternoon and came up with 50 Ideas for Blog Posts. Hopefully, some of y’all will get some use from them. | Continue reading
Awesome Mac - Browse a Huge Selection of Mac Applications - I have 449 applications on my MacBook. After browsing this site, I’m about to have a few more. | Continue reading
My Favorite Newsletter Subscriptions - A list of free and worthy reads on subjects ranging from tech to history to current events from writers like Heather Cox Richardson, Joan Westenberg, Ed Zeron. | Continue reading
“There are moments when you cannot help but feel that your life is being controlled by some not-entirely-benevolent god. You skirt down a ridge only to climb it again; you climb a steep peak when there is an obvious route around it; you cross the same stream three times in the co … | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Clop - Copy Big, Paste Small, Send Fast - a utility that automatically resizes files simply by copying and pasting. Works on images, video and PDFs. Clop can also downscale images from 90% t0 10% of the original size. | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers Project - A rare color picture, to capture the multi-colored chalk on Danielle’s face after she and a friend had been to a Holi festival in lower Manhattan. I caught them heading for the subway. | Continue reading
Updated my /subscriptions page with a couple of new entries - Paramount+ so I can watch Mayor of Kingstown ($60 for a year) and BearBlog ($5 a month) so I can be on every blogging platform I hear about. | Continue reading
Can Democracy And Evangelical Christianity Co-Exist? | (Backyard Church) Goi Ga, a Crunchy Vietnamese Chicken Salad Recipe (foodandwine.com) 25 Easy, Scenic, and Short National-Park Hikes (outsideonline.com) The Life Anti-Checklist Common Goal - a list of things you definitely do … | Continue reading
Freckles, The Bull, The Bean, and Cajun - The story of the most memorable animals from my life, a Dalmation, a Black Angus Bull, a Dachshund and an Amazon Parrot | Continue reading
It’s Saturday, the day I regularly update my /now page. This week I’m touting a great newsletter, Werd.io, four streaming shows, listing a week’s worth of blog posts and turning you on to a great cheap fine tipped ink pen. As always, there’s also the links I saved into my collect … | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Day One is popular for a reason. I have five journals with 18K entries made over the past 10 years, many of them automated records from social media, weather reports, clipped news articles, RSS feeds of my blogs as well as pictures and video. | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers Project - Jaleesa and Moniek were hanging out with their friends in front of the Art Center downtown for an impromptu, old school break-dancing sesh. #photography | Continue reading
My daughter today walking through the lavender fields in the Luberon area of France. | Continue reading
Maps of Content, or MOCs in Obsidian lingo are just notes that built around a collection of links to other notes with some sort of commonality. You can make them manually be just creating links by hand when you want to add a note to a collection. You can also create them automati … | Continue reading
Once upon a time, human beings bought their music at glorious record stores with knowledgeable, if slightly arrogant clerks, who could tell you about new releases and do the whole “If you like the Grateful Dead, you will probably like Phish” trip. Now we have Album Whale | Continue reading
I’ve been punching a clock for 44 years and I’ve had all kinds of bosses and coworkers during that time. I learned a while back to take my own inventory to see if I was causing problems, because sometimes it’s me. Sometimes, it’s not, however and this is how I dealt with that rec … | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - Claire was straddling her bike on the east side of Zucotti Park in NYC. I commented on her jersey proclaiming, “Runs on Plants” and she told me that she is a vegan athlete who manages to participate in endurance sports while sticking to her consump … | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - OnlySwitch is a free Mac menu bar app that offers instant access to numerous system settings like Dark Mode, Bluetooth, Mute Mic as well as mini-applications like keep awake, Internet Radio and hiding the notch on MacBooks. | Continue reading
The most tired I have ever been was not after 100-mile bike rides or backpacking over mountains. It was after a full day of farm work, especially during corn pulling season when I was a teenager. | Continue reading
From My 100 Strangers Project - Alex - a super friendly guy from somewhere other than NC (Russia, actually) wearing a Duke shirt and reading a book about Vikings. I met him while he was sitting in a small Manhattan park with his book. | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Plus AI from MacPlus Software an AI app that lives in the background, works on selected text and can be used in any app, is a convenient and easy to use way to incorporate the parts of AI that don’t rip people off into your workflow. | Continue reading
Consider the quintessential traits often attributed to every younger generation - regardless of the era. Idealism. Technological savvy. A desire to challenge the status quo. An anti-authority bent. Flip through the pages of history, and you’ll find these same attributes ascribed … | Continue reading
I wrote a whole lot more than normal yesterday so when it came time to update my non-technical blog I was about out of energy and feeling kind of low. My remedy for that was to make a quick list of things that make me happy. It includes: Robert Duvall People who tip wait staff we … | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - I caught up with Roland near the Wall Street Bull down in the financial district at the southern tip of Manhattan. He was a British fellow, slightly amused by this forward American who wanted to take a street portrait. He wasn’t up for much gabbing … | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Stats is a free menu bar app that monitors various hardware components on your Mac, providing colorful, easy to read, configurable charts and graphs plus a way to terminate misbehaving apps. | Continue reading
A Free Tool That Lets You Follow Any RSS Feed via The Fediverse - Birb via RSS Parrot. Do you have any favorite bloggers who just aren’t interested in social media? I do, and I use this tool to follow them on Mastodon. I’m always too far behind on my RSS reader, but I can keep up … | Continue reading
I often make the comment on Reddit or Mastodon that Obsidian, a cross platform note taking application, is my favorite piece of software since Netscape Navigator 2, the browser that practically everyone used when we transitioned from AOL and CompuServe to the real Internet back i … | Continue reading
I made folks laugh yesterday when I commented that I’m an almost 60-year-old man with grandchildren who now can’t cuss on my blog anymore because my mother found it and reads it every day. I thought I might explain the reasons why - When You Cuss in Front of Your Mama, You Can’t … | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - I met Jamie along with her friend Miranda at a street fair where the two of them were promoting their roller derby team, a sport I thought was long dead. | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Trickster keeps track of recent files you’ve been using on your Mac and gives you super easy and lightning fast access to them.. For writers, developers, photographers and anyone else who works with files. Has a learning curve but worth the time investment. | Continue reading
The New York Times Style Magazine assembled a group of editors to determine which 25 photos from 1955 until today are the defining images of the modern age. Some are of news events, and you’ve surely seen them. Other images in the collection were new to me, but still very powerfu … | Continue reading
Straight Old White Guy’s Guide to Talking About Race, Abortion, Feminism and LGBT issues - Straight Old White Guys (SOWG) need to be quiet, listen and learn, not pontificate on how great they are because they stopped being backwards. | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Amphetamine offers granular control to keep your Mac from sleeping while a certain app is running, for a period of time, until a certain time of day and more. It will keep your MacBook awake while the lid is closed or while a backup drive is attached. | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - While taking Austin’s photo, I caught an unplanned selfie as the reflection in his sunglasses captures me leaning into him to get the shot. | Continue reading
I Have Some Strong Opinions on Privacy Freak Outs Yes, your privacy is under assault, but unless you are willing to take certain uncomfortable steps, quit making everyone miserable with performative hysterics. | Continue reading
The 23 Best Time Travel Novels - a collection dating from the 1950’s through today. Despite paradoxes, time travel is a fascinating concept and makes a great read. | Continue reading
From my 100 Strangers project - Specialist Erroll was downtown for a performance of the 82nd Airborne Infantry Division Band where he played a mean trumpet. He was a gracious and friendly guy and I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with him between performances. #photography | Continue reading