That’s about 75 miles worth of food and water. Wonder Woman (Mrs. Amerpie)is ahead of schedule after the first 12-mile loop and back out on the course. #ultrarunning
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/cb5de7e560.jpg
I added a new app to my wish list today, Rond Life Mapper and added some details on this Scribbles post. It’s one of those apps that logs your location and activities, but this one, unlike many has a good privacy policy and promises not to be a battery hog.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/rond.pnghttps://scribbles.page/write/2480
One of the practical aspects of tech is using it as a tool to boost mental health. Using two journaling tools (Day One and #Obsidian) for more than just recording geeky data I maintain a years long habit of making a daily gratitude list. Here’s why it helps.
https://louplummer.lol/post/the-gratitude-habit-fhipsvhb
I was working in publics schools at the turn of the century when we “got the Internet”. We ordered these things by the pallet. They floated around for years. #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 3: Card
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/card.jpg
"“Experience” is rarely the verb you’re looking for. Reword your sentence with a more clear and muscular focus on what actually happened—and who or what caused it to happen. So, maybe don’t say “I am experiencing technical difficulties” if you really mean “I broke the internet.” You’re not fooling anyone."
Merlin Mann
Seven years in prison. As a progressive older adult, I can’t believe that I worked in the correctional system, but the callowness of youth and limited opportunities in the rural south put me on a gun-tower in the late eighties and early nineties. I can still feel the effects. - Prison Time
https://louplummer.lol/post/prison-time-u8tqewyf
How to Talk to Tech Support - I Beg You to Use These Techniques to Get Your Issues Solved Quickly and Efficiently While Keeping Your Cool and Getting Back to Work! #technology https://amerpie.lol/2024/04/01/how-to-talk.html
My grandson doesn’t quite grasp the concept of lawn maintenance yet. He thinks his toy lawnmower doubles as a snowblower. #mbapr
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/toy.jpeg
At the end of the street where I’ve lived for thirty years stands an unassuming blue building housing Zorba’s Gyro on a Spit, a restaurant I’ve frequented for even longer. An ode to my favorite diner, a comforting home away from home, a place where I watch everybody but me group up.
https://louplummer.lol/post/ode-to-zorba-s-gu-yf1gj
This Week's Bookmarks - Subscriptions worth paying for, book summaries online, unofficial holidays, a rare bird, best small town in every state, 50 historical photos, things that don't work https://amerpie.lol/2024/03/30/this-weeks-bookmarks.html
Saturday morning, time to update my /now page. This week I read a great article from The Atlantic, wrote a bunch, found some new links and bought the best charger ever from Anker.
https://amerpie.lol/now
If anyone needs more storage, Amazon has an external Seagate 4TB hard drive on sale today for $99. It’s not my affiliate link, it’s just a good short-time deal.
https://tinyurl.com/4tbamazon
I couldn’t resist the urge to participate in the Scribbles experiment, so I decided to put my free domain from omg.lol to use (once I get all the DNS details). In honor of the heritage of the IndieWeb, my first contribution is a repost from 1997, GeoCities style - The Road Trip
https://scribbles.page/j5g1kbym/posts/the-wayback-machine-mb6bz4tz
How many places do you back up your photos? I currently using iCloud, Google Drive and Amazon Photos because they are all set it and forget it and they are all part of subscriptions I have for other reasons anyway.
I found a great feature in the Raindrop bookmarking app I wasn’t aware of - you can create public pages of shared bookmarks that don’t require anything from the viewer. no login, no account. I put together a list of worthy sites to share to test it out. Cool Tools and Websites Take a look!
https://raindrop.io/lou-plummer/amerpie-42821248
I love free and open-source software and the people who work on it. I have plenty of it installed on my machines. I have also worked all my life to afford the things I want and sometimes I want the damn Cadillac of screen-shot apps instead of what the OS offers. That’ll get you killed on Reddit. LOL
I run two updater programs every day on my Mac because I’m fanatical about keeping my 300+ apps at the current version. Imagine my surprise when I installed the HomeBrew version of the Mac App Store and ran updates from there. It found a half dozen apps that were several versions behind. WTF?
"“Donald Trump ordered a cheeseburger at a campaign stop” is accurate to the extent that nothing about it is false, but it is not a true story—not if you care about the full context. “Donald Trump is a popular and politically empowered fascist running to become a dictator, and he intends suppression and oppression and murder, and he ordered a cheeseburger.” That’s the true story."
–A.R. Moxon
It’s Saturday which means it’s time to update my now page. This week I’m reading a long Atlantic article and revisiting my favorite book, watching a Guy Ritchie series on Netflix, browsing some helpful web sites, enjoying a lifetime guarantee on a basic but necessary product and loving today.
https://amerpie.omg.lol/now
This Week's Bookmarks - Coolest Street in the World, Funniest Novels, Movies That Couldn't Be Made Today, Greatest All-Time Albums, Photo Award Winners, Scientific Mysteries, and More! https://amerpie.lol/2024/03/23/this-weeks-bookmarks.html
To my fellow IT support people - how many times have you seen executive types who get a laptop/docking station and then they get a second laptop because they can’t be arsed to disconnect/reconnect their primary machine? Is this as common as it seems or am I working in the Twilight Zone?
I have to SMDH at how personally offended some of the usual suspects in the Apple Pundiit World are acting over the DOJ lawsuit. I’m like ,“Dude, it’s a trillion dollar corporation, not your Mom. Calm TF down.”
This was March 19, 2004, nineteen long years ago today at Ft. Bragg, NC. My son was on active duty, and I hated the war in Iraq with a furious urgency. I feel like I’ve been protesting all my life, but my work in that movement remains something about which I will always be proud. #VetsForPeace
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/march19.jpg
My job recently converted our helpdesk/ticketing system from the ancient Novell Service Desk to Jira/Atlassian and I just completed my first two projects, the first of many to come. Bitlocker and Firewalls for everybody!!!
"Drug Company - “This medicine works really good so lets make it really expensive”"
"Insurance Company - “This drug is really expensive, so lets make it really hard for people to get”"
"Drug Rep - “This doctor really likes tacos. I’ll get him some so he will prescribe my drug and I can go to Cozumel”"
"Doctor - “I like tacos”"
"Patient - “I’m in pai—Yes, I’ll hold”"
"Doctor’s Office Employee - Hangs up on patient. Eats leftover tacos."
"We’ve updated the rules of our flagship server mastodon.social today. Most are the same with some clarifications, but one rule is new: Content created by others must be attributed, and use of AI must be disclosed. Profiles that only post AI-generated content will not be tolerated."
Eugene Rochko, founder of Mastodon and admin at mastodon.social
At some point, someone decided that vacuum cleaners were an acceptable topic on tech websites, blogs and YouTube channels and ever since then there have been way too goddam many reviews of Roombas and their kind. This is not a good thing and it needs to stop.
I asked Google Gemini how to get my API key for the service and it told me it wasn’t available for use in third-party apps. I asked Google the same thing and it gave me the URL to get my key. Really confidence inspiring, Google.
Posted the weekly update to my /now page with shout outs to a couple of IndieWeb stalwarts, a good Netflix show, some interesting reading and other highlights from 2024-Week 11.
https://amerpie.lol/now
This Week's Bookmarks - Disney Adults, 1-Star Reviews of National Parks, Steve Job's Biggest Rival, 90's Band Name Origins, How Maps Distort the World, Printing any Web Page, Making Google Better #Links https://amerpie.lol/2024/03/16/this-weeks-bookmarks.html
The paycheck I get every two weeks should be sufficient motivation but I gotta say when a professor or student (or fellow staff member) sincerely thanks me for solving their computing problem, I feel like I’m making a positive difference in someone’s education, and it pumps me up.
I used ChatGPT to craft a Python script today that edited 500+ markdown files (my imported Raindrop.io bookmarks) from my #Obsidian vault. It moved text in the form of an inline properties field for URLs from the body of the note into the YAML front matter. I knew next to nothing about #Python.
App of the Day is Clipboard Fusion - Syncs your clipboard between your Mac, PC and phone, iPhone or Android. Allows for saved clipboards for frequently used text. I keep my OpenAI api key on mine. It’s a real solution if your work OS is different than your home OS.
https://www.clipboardfusion.com/
Enjoying The Gentlemen on Netflix 1) Because it’s a well done piece of dark British comedy and 2) I don’t have to wait a week to see new episodes like a barbarian from the 70s. #television
https://www.netflix.com/search?q=the%20gentlemen&jbv=81437051
List 10 albums that have stayed with you over the years in some way. Don't take too long on the list - just a few minutes. These don't have to be great records, or critical darlings, just ones that mean something to you personally. https://amerpie.lol/2024/03/12/list-albums-that.html
Today and tomorrow only - price reduced software at the Indie App Sale - My purchases: Audracity, Nametag, Photoscope, Evo, Logger, Mastowatch, Presets, Relog
https://indieappsales.com/
"I just visited a website.
The top half was a popup about GDPR.
The rest of it was a popup about cookie consent.
When I cleared both of those I got a popup about a newsletter.
When I cleared that I got a popup about an offer.
When I cleared that I got half an article then a paywall.
The internet, 2024."
@kestral@hackers.town
https://micro.blog/kestral@hackers.town
Watched The Gentlemen, S1E1 by Guy Ritchie on Netflix. After being in the heart of darkness for weeks with True Detective, Criminal Record and Shogun, it’s good to have something a little lighter to take the edge off. #Television
https://trakt.tv/shows/the-gentlemen/seasons/1/episodes/8
"FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately. You can enjoy your favorite content and creators without your habits being tracked. All of your user data is stored locally and never sent or published to the internet. FreeTube grabs data by scraping the information it needs (with either local methods or by optionally utilizing the Invidious API). With many features similar to YouTube, FreeTube has become one of the best methods to watch YouTube privately on desktop."
Freetube - The best ad-free YouTube experience.
https://freetubeapp.io/
I love the Internet and I love milestones. Reddit is still one of the most informative sites on the Internet despite the knuckleheads there among the users and management. Today, my Reddit account is old enough to vote. Happy Cake Day To Me!
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/reddit.pnghttps://www.reddit.com/user/amerpie/
It’s Saturday and my /now page is updated with American and British jounalists, a tale from 17th century Japan, iOS and #Obsidian news and a tasty sandwich. What’s up now
https://amerpie.omg.lol/now
"Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable to sit alone with images on a screen given to us by people who do not love us but want our money and that’s fine in low doses but if it’s the basic main staple of your diet you’re gonna die."
David Foster Wallace
Mac People - I am mostly keyboard centric when it comes to launching and accessing apps but there are times when using the dock is just unavoidable. I’ve been using Ubar but it’s buggy. Just downloaded SpeedDock which is supposed to be like the late great DragThing. Anyone got any more suggestions?
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