📷 #mbApr Day 28 - Community
March 19,2005 at Ft. Bragg, NC - Led by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Military Families Speak Out, the largest antiwar demonstration outside a military base since Vietnam was the culmination of the most intense work I’ve ever done as a community activist. #photography
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I’ve updated my /now page with all the usual stuff. I was on a writing frenzy this week, so there is links to all that, some good TV, my favorite blog post, a shirt from Basic Apple Guy and bookmark worthy web pages. My /now page
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📷 #mbApr Day 27 - Surprise
At the end of March one year, we were hiking in the Shining Rock wilderness in the NC mountains when we missed a turn on the trail and ended up having to pitch our tent on the appropriately named Cold Mountain. In the morning, we awoke to snowfall - surprise! #photography
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Well, I gotta confess. I argued with someone on the Internet today. Got offended is more like it. WTF. I know better, much better. The 30-second head rush I got while typing my outraged response to an accusation wasn’t worth it.
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Anyone else doing WeblohPoMo2024? Sponsored by @anniegreens, it’s a month-long challenge to write every day and post when you can on your blog, ideally around a common theme, but not necessarily. Sounds like fun to me and I’ll be missing the April photo challenge.
https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/weblog-posting-month-2024https://micro.blog/anniegreens
Mac people - excluding Apple’s own apps, what software have you been using the longest? For me it’s going to be BBEdit (released in 92) and ToyViewer (released in 95), both of which I’ve used since the 90s. Honorable mention to Launchbar and PathFinder.
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Today is celebrated as Liberation Day in Italy🇮🇹 where the country commigrates the partisans and allies who died fighting the fascists and Nazis in World War 2. I’d like to honor my grandmother’s brother, Gratton McFadyen, one of those who gave his life there. Never again.
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📷 #mbApr Day 25 - Spine
Wonder Woman navigating the spine of a mountain on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania. You can see one of the 80,000 white blazes that mark the way on the tree beside her.
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Our new CIO decided to take away local admin rights from all users, which from a security standpoint is the right things to do but from a cultural standpoint is a huge and unpopular change. As part of the public face of IT, it’s not been fun explaining this to folks.
I think I’m going to have to unsubscribe to another famous Apple pundit’s RSS feed, even though he seems to be on everyone else’s blogroll. His work is just corporate apologist propaganda these days complete with antiworker barbs and too much “Don’t you know who I am”. Daring it ain’t.
It’s Saturday, time to update my /now page - with book suggestions, what’s good on TV, the stuff I wrote (including lots of app reviews), the best socks money can buy and what I cool stuff I found on the Internet this week. My /now Page
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📷 #mbApr Day 20 - Ice
I usually post this sometime in late August with the title “Cancel School” when it’s 100 degrees outside and the kids have only been back a week.
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📷 #mbApr Day 20
I usually post this sometime in late August with the title “Cancel School” when it’s 100 degrees outside and the kids have only been back a week.
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📷 #mbApr Day 20
I usually post this sometime in late August with the title “Cancel School” when it’s 100 degrees outside and the kids have only been back a week.
From my 100 Strangers Project. This is Sana, photographed while heading for the subway near Wall Street in NYC. She was coming back from a Holi celebration, thus the chalk. #photography
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DNS over Wikipedia - a good article about a project to help get around the Google bans on reaching sites like SciHub and (the real) Pirate Bay. I’m all about getting to parts of the web the corporate overlords are trying to wall off.
https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia
"There’s a race of men that don’t fit in
A race that can’t sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain’s crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don’t know how to rest.
—Robert Service, Poet of the Yukon from “The Men that Don’t Fit In”"
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Reddit has gone nuts over the number of apps I have installed. There are 346 the root of my apps folder, plus another 38 in the SetApps folder. Exploring software is my hobby and an M2 MacBook Air with a 1TB drive can handle more than what I’m throwing at it. It’s not like they all run at once.
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Today’s Reddit idiocy - 1) Calling a fully functional app “abandonware” because it hasn’t been updated in 12 months. 2) Questioning why anyone would use multiple web browsers on a review of an app that searches the web history of multiple browsers.
The Saturday morning /now page update is complete. Includes a review of a great book, more peak TV, lots of blogging, my favorite Amazon purchase of the week and the web sites I found worthy of adding to my personal stash. My /now page
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This Week's Bookmarks: Cocunut Curry Red Lentil Soup, TV's Favorite Fake Beer, A Graph of Wikipedia, Real Places that Look Fake, Terrible Software Bugs, Missed Connection Ads, Voyager 1 https://amerpie.lol/2024/04/13/this-weeks-bookmarks.html
I started my grandson’s political education off on the correct path back in 2005. He’ll never vote for an imperialist! #mbapr Micro.blog photo challenge April 2024. Day 13: Page
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On the Appalachian Trail, there are Trail Angels who provide what’s called trail magic to hikers in the form of shelter, showers, rides to town and most importantly FOOD! When I thru hiked in 2013 I came across these organic apples and generic root beers in the Pennsylvania woods. #mbapr
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The XCOMP 10MB hard disk, which cost $3,398 in the early 1980s, would be about $11,900 in today’s dollars. The first computer I owned was an IBM 486/33sx with a 140MB, hard drive. I bought it at Circuit City in 1993. What was yours?
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"“DEI is just diversity, equity, and inclusion, by the way. That’s all it is. It’s become the new word that racists say when they want to say a slur but they realize they’re in mixed company. It’s a handy watchword for people who have decided that every problem is the result of the proximal existence of Black people and other marginalized people groups, because what they actually intend is to end the existence of such people, as soon as they can, with as much violence as possible.”"
–A.R. Moxon The Reframe
https://www.the-reframe.cm/blame-management
Clipboard Fusion - Clipboard sharing between Windows and iOS - a solution - There are plenty of Mac/iOS clipboard sharing solutions but not so much for Windows. I found an app I love and it runs on my PC, my phone and has an encrypted web version.
https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/clipboard-fusion-the-windows-to-iphone-solution
One of the things I love about #IndieWeb life is the global community. I live in a small city in the southern US where we have plenty of problems, but also a few bright spots. One of my goals is to be up front about all of that with the people I meet online. So I wrote about The Southern Problem
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Wonder Woman is in San Antonio, Texas for a conference and coincidentally, the eclipse, but she reports the skies are cloudy and she doubts she will see much. Well, there’s always the RiverWalk.
The best thing to happen in my relationship with my grown kids in the past year is my adoption of an iOS shortcut called Check on My Peeps that I found in the unlikeliest place, a forum for lovers of cheap apps. I use it to help me stay in contact with my crew. Make tech work for you.
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The green and granite summit of Lincoln as seen from the footpath of the Appalachian Trail atop Franconia Ridge in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. #SilentSunday #Photography #Hiking
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This Weeks Bookmarks: 100 greatest protest songs, Making art, How to help someone with a computer, Royal order of adjectives, The US can't support Israel in Gaza, Who lived when, The world's most expensive spice https://amerpie.lol/2024/04/07/this-weeks-bookmarks.html
After 12.5 hours on her sore and blistered feet, Wonder Woman elected to take the finisher’s medal for the 50-mile distance and call it a day. Many thanks to all who offered support through the race. #ultrarunning
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