From my 100 Strangers Project - Stone (his name) manages this tattoo business. A few days after I shot this, I saw him again and we had a conversation. Turns out he is a photographer too. We talked about it for a while. He looked me up on Facebook and we’ve now been friends for 10 years.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/stone.jpg
If Apple makes macOS for the iPad, how will the bleeding Edge 1% crowd show us how to “really be productive” with our tablets? When my school district bought an iPad Pro for every HS teacher, they all started using Chromebooks to get work done. Normies don’t want what the 1% wants - ever.
I just found out that as a member of my favorite community of software junkies, AppRaven, I have the ability to create web pages with collections from the app store. Here’s the first one - Mac Apps I Own and Recommend
https://appraven.net/collection/76172474
From my 100 Strangers Project - I met Jenny at a craft fair, where she was smoking this big old stogie and composing poetry on a cloudy spring Sunday. How could I not get a picture of that?
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/jenny.jpg
Did you ever get in trouble in school for reading? I did…frequently. I got negative comments on my report cards for “placing pleasure reading above everything else”. Thankfully, I matured and never lost a job because of an errant paperback. WeblogPoMo2024 My Life Reading
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/books.jpeghttps://louplummer.lol/post/my-life-reading
"I write about how [Biden] is working to restore the principles of the period between 1933 and 1981, when members of both parties shared the belief that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. I write about how that liberal consensus broke down as extremists used the image of the cowboy—who wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone—to stand against “creeping socialism” that stole from hardworking white men in order to give handouts to lazy minorities and women. Heather Cox Richardson"
I’ve been maintaining a links blog since January. I use Raindrop.io’s embedded frames feature to share a collection which makes updating the page a breeze. I make it a habit to add a link a day, adding a little purpose to otherwise aimless web surfing.
https://amerpie.lol/my-bookmarks/
From my 100 Strangers Project - Eric and his partner were waiting for breakfast outside a busy diner when I approached them. He seemed kind of grumpy and I didn’t think I was going to get this one, but she told him it was OK, so in the end I got my man.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/grumpy.jpg
"CLICK ON START. START. ITS ON THE
BOTTOM LEFT CORNER. ON YOUR
MONITOR. START. CLICK IT. GO TO
CONTROL PANEL. CONTROL PANEL.
ITS IN THE START MENU. THE START
MENU. ITS WHAT POPPED UP WHEN
YOU HIT START. NO, DON’T HIT START
AGAIN. OK, HIT START AGAIN. DID THE
START MENU POP UP? THEN CLICK
START. NOW GO TO CONTROL PANEL.
CONTROL PANEL. CLICK ON IT. CLICK
ON CONTROL PANEL. THAT START
MENU DISAPPEARED? CLICK ON
START. OK, I’LL BE OVER."
If you only know how many times I have had this conversation in the last 30 years.
My favorite part of working in education is summer break. Sure, there are plenty of projects of high and low intensity, but there’s something super peaceful about a nearly empty campus.
From my 100 Strangers Project - Office Scott. I couldn’t tell if she was flattered or embarrassed, but she was cool with having me snap a photo. I take picture of police officers because it’s good for them to get used to it. I’m not pushy or confrontational about it and most of them don’t mind.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/officerscott.jpg
Any more extroverts married to introverts out there? Things my wife hates worse than death - 1) Going into a store to pay for gas in person 2) Someone sitting beside her at the movies 3) Invitations to anything but particularly from neighbors
100 Strangers Project - This lovely lady sold newspapers on an off ramp near my house for years in all kinds of weather, always smiling. I bought from her whenever I had cash.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/newslady.jpg
Jump starting Mother’s Day in the US. My mom lived the first 17 years of her life in a rural NC farmhouse with no indoor plumbing. She had two kids before age 20 and a couple of disastrous marriages. She ended up a highly regarded RN in the ICU and in her 70s has walked across England and Spain.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/img-3523.jpeg
This Weeks Bookmarks - Paleo is BS, Bye Harry Potter, Tech failures that didn't, Best books of the century, Travel destinations, Phones at protests, Clipboard managers https://amerpie.lol/2024/05/11/this-weeks-bookmarks.html
From my 100 Strangers Project - Jessica - a member of an anarchist pacifist theater group dating back to 1947. I saw them rehearsing in a park in NYC and struck up a conversation. The didn’t just talk at me though, truly curious they asked about my project and my own artistic history.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/jessica.jpg
From my 100 Strangers Project - This guy wanted to remain anonymous. I met him on the street in Charlotte where he was busy selling tickets before a Panthers football game, but not too busy to pose for a quick street portrait.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/scalper.jpg
From my 100 Strangers Project - Miranda, a real-life Roller Derby Queen. I thought Roller Derby died in the 70s and she told me that it had in fact done so but the 21st century has seen a revival. Miranda was a slight, if athletic woman with a definite energetic presence and a sense of enthusiasm.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/miranda.jpg
Question for people who have switched email accounts after a long time with one service - I’ve had the same Gmail account since 2005 but I’m thinking of switching to Proton or Hey! What were your biggest pain points?
"There are 600,000 children in Rafah. They have nowhere else to go. If you support an invasion of Rafah, you’re saying the lives and well-being of those children don’t matter. If you saw those children as your own, opposing the invasion wouldn’t be a question. If you don’t see them as your own, it’s because they’ve been dehumanized to you. Otherwise no person with a conscience would look at an innocent child, let alone 600,000 innocent children, and agree they deserve to be bombed and killed."
"https://social.lol/@QasimRashid@mastodon.social"https://social.lol/@QasimRashid@mastodon.social
"“I’ve been an artist myself. Anything I can do to promote art, I will. Art says things about its creator, whether it is good or bad.” - Robert"
100 Strangers - Robert is an artist & philosopher. I saw him sitting on a bench, legs crossed beneath him on the periphery of Central Park reading a book he’d just purchased from one of the stalls along the street. He wore a quirky pair of glasses that drew my attention. His reaction to my portrait request was a huge smile and 100% cooperation. I knelt on the sidewalk and gladly listened to his thoughts on art for several minutes.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/robert.jpg
I found out last week that you can download your Apple purchase history. The first app I ever purchased was on 9/18/2009, AppBoxPro and it is still available! The second app I downloaded was Facebook. It was a more innocent time, what can I say?
https://privacy.apple.com/accounthttps://apps.apple.com/app/id318404385
A street portrait from my 100 Strangers Project. This is Joey, an aspiring actor I met at a street festival. He was an agreeable model and we had a nice chat after I took his photo.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/100.jpg
Northern Ireland is like no other place in the English-Speaking World. It’s a beautiful country full of people friendly to outsiders and still suspicious about each other, twenty-six years after the end of The Troubles. What do you know about it? WeblogPoMo2024, Day 6
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/derry.jpeghttps://louplummer.lol/post/northern-ireland
I subscribe to lots of newsletters, including some commercial ones like Lifehacker and Tech Republic. I’m pretty good at staying on top of them usually but I’m here to publicly confess that I had to commit inbox suicide today and just “select all + mark as read”. It offends my completionist ethos.
"However big you think UnitedHealth is, it’s bigger than that:"
With a market cap of nearly $450 billion, it’s the fourth-largest company in the US by revenue this year, beating out Alphabet and Microsoft.
The company is eyeing a $24.7 billion profit in 2024.
One analyst estimated that more than 5% of US GDP flows through UnitedHealth’s systems daily.
Yay, capitalism.
Hiking in New Hampshire is scary at times. There’s a weather station on top of Mt. Washington where there’s a plaque to all the people who have died on the mountain. The scary part? They left room on the bottom of the plaque to add more names!
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/washington.jpg
"NYC Fun Facts"
There is no place to pee. I think you have to go to New Jersey.
Those 4-year olds on their scooters will run you over and laugh.
So many dogs!
The police all sleep in their uniforms. Someone give those people an iron.
There really are a lot of Chinese people in Chinatown. They don’t just call it that.
📷 #mbApr Bonus Day 31 - Unputdownable
My granddaughter, Jolene, named after the Dolly Parton song (note: I eventually did, in fact, put her down. She is a teenager now.)
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/unputdownable.jpeg
I feel like it would be a good idea to budget some time each week just for the forums I belong to for different software titles and web sites: Drafts, #Obsidian, Actions for Obsidian, OMG.LOL, the Automators Podcast, Tidbits, AppleInsider, Keyboard Maestro and Hazel. Good stuff to be learned there.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/automators.jpg
"“The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case, however, we must arrest and slander them. Free speech is the backbone of a vibrant academic ecosystem. Just this once, though, we must silence and punish any student who speaks out.”"
MESSAGE FROM THE CHANCELLOR
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-message-from-the-chancellor-on-the-recent-student-protest
I made a multi-reddit to browse tech topics from 28 different communities. Lately it’s been almost unusable because almost 75% of the discussions are from one group in particular, r/windowshelp. LOL, what a shit show.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/cleanshot-2024-04-30-at-15.17.122x.jpg
📷 #mbApr Day 30 - Hometown
Fayetteville, NC, The Hometown of the 82nd Airborne and Special Forces at Ft. Liberty (nee Ft. Bragg) - The quintessential military town. Barber Shops, boot repair, pawn shops, used car lots #photography
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/yadkin2.jpg
The governor of Mississippi declared April to be Confederate Heritage Month. I’d like to dedicate this song to him. Here’s to the State of Mississippi
https://song.link/i/111190562
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. - Ezekial 25:17"
National Talk Like Pulp Fiction Day
📷 #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
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/community.jpeg
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