📝 Born a Rockefeller - I’ve known since her middle school years that my oldest daughter was destined for a remarkable life - louplummer.lol/born-a-ro… | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Badgeify - Notifications in Your Menu Bar - In today’s connected environment notifications can be vital or they can be an unwelcome hinderance. It’s different for each individual. Personally, I don’t get so many that it interferes with my work, and I prefer … | Continue reading
The Funniest Sites on the Internet - A list of places to make you laugh when you are bored or sad - linkage.lol/the-funni… | Continue reading
📝 How to Get Lots of Internet Points - Getting lots of “engagement” on your “content” is gross. Just be a good writer about interesting stuff and follow IndyWeb principles. - louplummer.lol/how-to-ge… | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Try PDF Gear, It’s Good, It’s Free - When it comes to PDF software, people have very different needs. Some casual users may want nothing more than the ability to make a few notes and occasionally combine documents, while those working in legal offices are ve … | Continue reading
The 50 Best Breakfast Cereals Of All Time (complex.com) The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time (rollingstone.com) How to Win Radio Contests | WIRED Current Inventory - Boston Rare Maps The Perfect Couple - Netflix Four Different Types of Naps (and How to Choose One) | Lifehacker Wh … | Continue reading
Updated my /now page with the book I’m reading, the TV show we’re watching, what tastes good this week, what I wrote, where I went on the Internet. | Continue reading
Minor League Baseball - Minor League baseball is an affordable and accessible family activity and can build fond memories - linkage.lol/minor-lea… | Continue reading
📝 Easy Things vs. Hard Things - We all decided what skills make a person an exceptional athlete, but what about other talents and shortcomings? - louplummer.lol/easy-thin… | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Activity Watch - Free No Effort Time Tracker - Activity Watch is a free no effort time tracker that can keep track of how long you use every app on you Mac while running in the background. You can categorize your apps so that you can see how much time you sp … | Continue reading
Ramen is Classy - Once a staple of poor college students and prison inmates, ramen is today a respected restaurant dish - linkage.lol/ramen-is-… | Continue reading
📝 Breaking Things - I have a history of fighting computers until the wee hours of the morning after breaking them after questionable decisions - louplummer.lol/breaking-… | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Topgrade - Upgrade All the Things - One of the more useful Homebrew apps I’ve found is topgrade-rs, the currently maintained fork of topgrade, an updater for Homebrew, the Mac App Store, MacOS, VSCode extensions and Rust. It is supremely easy to use. Just en … | Continue reading
The 101st Stranger - I found a long-lost photo today from when I was working on my 100 Strangers project. This is Steve, a street guy whom I gave $2 and made him promise not to spend it on food. | Continue reading
Tattoo Facts - A full third of Americans have at least one tattoo and people have benn getting them for over 5,000 years. - linkage.lol/tattoo-fa… | Continue reading
📝 Non-Toxic Masculinity - Testosterone fueled chest thumping and belittling behaviors aren’t required and aren’t appreciated - louplummer.lol/non-toxic… | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Haste - A Web Search Utility - Haste, by Plastic Software, is a keyboard centric search utility that can access a wide variety of websites without you having to manually switch to your browser and type a URL or access a bookmark. You activate the search by t … | Continue reading
Slow Horses - The Books - The hit TV show, Slow Horses, is based on a series of spy novels by Mick Herron about misfit MI5 agents led by Jackson Lamb. - linkage.lol/slow-hors… | Continue reading
Books and More Books, Never Enough - I am a lifelong reader of a great variety of books, lowbrow and highbrow and I’ll never have enough of them. - louplummer.lol/books-and… | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - MacTube - An Ad-Free YouTube Player and More - Mac Tube is an ad-free YouTube player currently also supporting AppleTV, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Max, Disney+, Peacock, Tubi and CrunchyRoll as well as Vimeo, Twitch, Ted Talks, BigThink and TikTok. The dev … | Continue reading
Apple Watch Fall Detection and My Latest Accident - Apple Watches from Series 4 on up feature a robust and valuable fall detection feature that activated for me after an accident. - linkage.lol/apple-wat… | Continue reading
📝 Everyone Talks About the Weather - We may feel like we are in control of our environment, but mother nature has ways to prove that to be a fallacy. - louplummer.lol/everyone-… | Continue reading
Dawn over Tomales Bay near Inverness in Marin County, California #photography | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Keyboard Cowboy - Free and Open-Source Automation Software - If you’d like to take a crack at setting up some Mac automations without spending the money that Keyboard Maestro ($36) or Better Touch Tool ($24) will run you, then you should download and try Key … | Continue reading
Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control. Stop being human. A mindless bot who makes regular purchases is all t … | Continue reading
50 Years Later: Remembering How the Future Looked in 1974 - The New Stack Scientists Made a List of Lost Birds and Now They Want Us to Find Them - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Pastmaps: Maps for Historical Research The Beatles Media File : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming … | Continue reading
Moustaches Everywhere - The moustache has made a comeback, and I didn’t know it until I traveled away from provincial little city - linkage.lol/moustache… | Continue reading
📝 My Partner - I think my wife is awesome and she just keeps getting better. - louplummer.lol/my-partne… | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - ClipGrab, a free alternative to Downie - I am partial to Downie when it comes to downloading video from the Internet, but I recently discovered a good free alternative for those looking to use something without incurring a cost. ClipGrab is a video downloade … | Continue reading
People and Blogs - The newsletter and website, People and Blogs, by Italian blogger, Manu, offers some of the best the IndyWeb has to offer - linkage.lol/people-an… | Continue reading
📝 How to Be Yourself and Get Along Online - You can do two contradictory things and still have flourishing online relationships by taking some ancient advice - louplummer.lol/how-to-be… | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Air Battery - A Free App to Monitor Battery Levels - My search for a good multi-device battery monitoring app ended today when I discovered Air Battery. In just a few minutes I had a widget installed in notification center with accurate battery readouts of m … | Continue reading
How a Raging Atheist Like Me Became an Ordained Minister and Wedding Officiant - The story of my online ordination as a minister in the Universal Life Church and subsequent career performing marriages - linkage.lol/universal… | Continue reading
This Japanese Maple was only a couple of feet tall when my grandmother died. It was in her yard. My grandfather dug it up & gave it to me. Twenty-nine years later it greets me every time I walk out my front door. I love it. | Continue reading
A Curated Collection of Free Software - A collection of reviews and links to free Mac software - linkage.lol/a-curated… | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - A Curated Collection of Free Apps - Free Apps• Apparency - The Apps That Opens Apps • ToyViewer - A Preview Replacment • Chrome Remote Desktop - Free Remote Control • BBEdit - It Doesn’t Suck • Blip - Free Cross Platform File Transfers • FreeTube - Maybe the … | Continue reading
📝 Osa the Dog and the Last Goodbye - Sad news reunites a family to say goodbye to a beloved member. - louplummer.lol/osa-the-d… | Continue reading
Dazed and Confused - The 1993 movie Dazed and Confused is regarded as a classic today for its realistic depiction of the lives of high school students in the 1970s. - linkage.lol/dazed-and… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
📝 People Watching - A day spent traveling and tooling around one of America’s coolest cities provided excellent opportunities to watch people do their thing. - louplummer.lol/people-wa… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
You can be in my dream if I can be in your dream. - Bob Dylan | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Widget Wall - For the first time in years, I’ve started using my Mac’s desktop as a place to check for information and interact with my computer. For a long time, I kept the desktop hidden behind windows and full screen apps. I don’t save files to my desktop … | Continue reading
📝 We Are the Stories We Tell - Each of us is a collection of stories, our own and the ones we’ve collected through the years - louplummer.lol/we-are-th… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Screen Memory - I recently purchased the single purpose utility, Screen Memory on sale from Bundle Hunt for $6. On the developer’s website it goes for $27 and can be used on up to three computers. The app takes screenshots of your entire monitor (or monitors … | Continue reading
The Modern Martyrs - You’ve heard it said that people died for the right to vote - well here they are, by name. - linkage.lol/the-moder… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
How do I get a post to show up in the Writing feed on Discover here at Micro.blog? I have tagged entries with the 📝 emoji and assigned them to the category of Writing but they never get added to the feed. | Continue reading
✏️ Going to Texas - I have a trip planned to Austin, TX where I’m going to eat Tex-Mex and barbecue, visit HEB and Half-Price Books and enjoy my family. - louplummer.lol/going-to-… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - What’s In Your Menu Bar - What is in your menu bar? At Macworld 2014, Mac Developer Brett Terpstra turned heads when he revealed what he had running in his menu bar while sharing his screen. In all, he had 42 menu bar icons and people were amazed because he … | Continue reading
You’ve Got to Go to Key West - The tourist destination of Key West, Florida should be on everyone’s bucket list of unique American destinations. - linkage.lol/youve-got… #Blaugust2024 | Continue reading