Just heard from the Apple Repair Depot - they have fixed my broken MacBook Air display at no charge to me and have already shipped it back to me. There’s a tech at the depot is trying to do right by the customers. I’m lucky he pulled my ticket. I thought I’d be paying $598 for the repair!
I’m reminded today that the web is an ephemeral place and there is no promise that the people who are here today will be here tomorrow. It has always been that way, of course but it hurts more deeply when one is happy with the status quo. Those looking for a sense of permanence need look elsewhere.
Save the web by being nice, my #Junited2024 entry
"There are different levels of Niceness but roughly from least to most effort:
Liking or upvoting a URL on a forum or social media that someone else posted.
Commenting on a URL somebody else posted saying how much you enjoyed the content.
Posting a URL on social media/discord server yourself, suggesting that others might also like to read it.
Dropping a quick note of appreciation to the author via email or DM.
Actually paying money for the content via Patreon, etc.
Junited, a love affair with blogs
https://sheep.horse/2024/4/save_the_web_by_being_nice.htmlhttps://louplummer.lol/page/junited-a-love-affair-with-blogs
"A great description of professional athletes
“They exist for history, and we take joy from them because we accept that they are superior at an arbitrary assortment of skills that we have collectively decided have value.”"
From my 100 Strangers Project - Doug, the old-time rock and roller. I took some pictures of him and his friends jamming at a local park (Steppenwolf covers were tops!) and then talked with him later. He’s been playing guitar for nearly 50 years. He looks the part.
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Absolutely gutted - opened up my MacBook after returning home from a weekend trip to a broken display. Got no idea how it happened. Nearest Apple Store is 75 miles away. FML for real.
I have been poor in my life. I grew up in a variety of family situations between my parents' marriages and remarriages and time spent living with other relatives. I wore hand me down clothes from my cousins and was glad that my grandmother could sew for my sister Y’all, They Lied
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From my 100 Strangers Project - Larry - This is the difference you can make in someone’s attitude in just a few seconds if you smile at them, say “thank you” and give them a thumbs up. Shortly after I took this is when I started talking first and photographing second.
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It’s Saturday and for the 22nd week in a row, I’ve updated my /now page with info on some very good blogs, TV shows, what I wrote this week, some killer sandals and the web sites that made their way into my personal bookmarks.
https://amerpie.omg.lol/now
From my 100 Strangers Project - Brandon gladly pulled off his headphones to talk when I asked him what he was listening to (The Fugees) on a Charlotte side street. He was surprised that I knew them, and I was surprised he was listening to something that old. We agreed that Lauryn Hill is a genius.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/brandon.jpeg
There is the perception that it is full of 18-year old GIs with shaved heads and belligerent attitudes, that prostitution is rife and that the standard of living is low - none of which is accurate. Our crime metrics are lower than that of Durham, the home of Duke University or Charlotte, the state’s largest city and an international banking center. People also look down on Jacksonville, NC home of Camp Lejeune, the Marine base.
What do you hate the most about Windows and why is it printing? (After a single user’s computer started demanding driver updates to a 10-year-old printer that hasn’t even had an update in years)
From my 100 strangers project - Tonya from Raleigh was in the coastal town of Beaufort, NC to attend the annual Pirate Festival held there because it’s the final resting place of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, his ship.
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From my 100 Strangers Project - Al was starting to feel a little anxious. He’d gotten separated from his wife at the flea market and was getting ready to go look for her. He declined my offer to help and told me that he was sorry for not smiling.
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I have referred to my wife, the ultra-running grandma, as Wonder Woman for years. Today a gift from a random Internet stranger arrived in the mail. Things like this chase the toxic away.
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I enjoy writing an app review every day and I have gotten so much positive feedback but all it takes is one asshole to go negative at me and I start to question myself. I’ve been on the Internet way too long for stuff like that to bother me, yet it still does sometimes.
I will always believe we should honor fallen troops by doing everything we can to make sure no one ever dies in dubious future wars. When we sacrifice our young people, it should mean something lasting. This is my grandmother’s brother, Gratton McFadyen, who died fighting fascists in Italy.
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From my 100 Strangers Project - Eric and Lisa were hanging out with the other Drama Club kids outside the Arts Center downtown when I asked them to pose, which they did in totally appropriate fashion.
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Tomorrow for #WeblogPoMp2024 I’m posting the story of what happened when I wore a Clinton-Gore t-shirt to a gun show in the South the same year of the Oklahoma City bombing.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/gun-show.webp
From my 100 Strangers Project - Her name is Isabella. She is from Ghana in West Africa. I had a bowl of spicy peanut butter soup she prepared and brought to me in her restaurant.
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I’ve updated my /now page with details on a classic book, a new TV series, links to lots of writing and app reviews, info on a great place in NC to visit and the various bookmarks I collected this week. Amerpie.lol/now
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My riff on minimalism and how it’s not for me for WeblogPoMO2024. Despite driving a 2005 Camry, wearing basically the same thing every day and not moving house once in 30 years, I am not a minimalist. I don’t go for expensive things but rather the things I like in great cluttered numbers.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/books.jpghttps://louplummer.lol/post/not-a-minimalist
Our grandson Connor is kind of stoic and not given to big expressions of emotion, but last night when he found we’d been able to get a car for him that can be outfitted with the hand controls he needs because of mobility issues, he was all smiles. I can’t tell you how much I love this picture.
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Today on AppAddict - Lockdown Privacy Desktop[apps.louplummer.lol/post/lock…) - A simple free open-source firewall with pre-configured rules, a good choice if you are setting up a Mac for less advanced users or want no hassle protection.
https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/lockdown-privacy-desktop
From my 100 Strangers Project - Lydia - The very first street portrait I ever took. It was totally spontaneous. This woman walked by my wife and I on the sidewalk with our cameras and spoke to us. I instantly asked he if she let me take her photo. She told me she’d modeled some before tattoos.
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When my kids were little my wife went on a trip and my daughter made a list to give her when she got home of “Mean Things Dad Did While You Were Gone”. There was one thing on the list. Allegedly, I had not only slammed a pot pie on her plate, but I had made it touch the rice already there. That’s it
Apple’s Top 10 Albums are a joke, designed 100% to pander to the demographic their market study said would be most likely to subscribe after seeing it. Aretha > Beyonce. Al Green > Fran Ocean. Where are the Stones, Led Zeppelin, REM, The Clash, Van Morrison? GTFO
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From my 100 Strangers Project - I didn’t even ask Bob and Sherry about the beer cans they were wearing around their necks. I’ve always loved the fun look in her eyes in this photo though.
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From my 100 Strangers Project - Rusty was at the West Columbia Riverwalk Park in Columbia, SC walking his dog when I asked if I could get his picture. Despite his punk rock appearance, he was a seemingly shy, soft-spoken man with a very friendly labrador for a companion.
https://amerpie.lol/uploads/2024/rusty2.jpg
"Charles Babbage’s Analytic Engine was never fully designed because he had to keep tinkering with the Difference Engine (a more limited version) which he could never finish (nowadays several computer history museums have working models from his original specs) because the printer would never work properly. We commemorate this early milestone in computing today by having our printers never work also."
Small Robot Army
From my 100 Strangers Project - DJ was fishing off the pier at Sunset Beach in Brunswick County, NC during the annual blue fish run when I interrupted him long enough to take this portrait.
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Saturday and time for an update to my /now page, featuring a great novel/audiobook, three TV shows, links to 16 blog posts, the best work pants and the crazy websites I added to my personal bookmarks this week. Enjoy!
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From my 100 Strangers Project - Meg was sitting at a table on the sidewalk outside a bar, doing a little day drinking and having a smoke on a crisp December afternoon. Her comment when I explained my project - “How fun!”. And, she said it with a big smile. I love the reflection in the window.
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From my 100 Strangers Project - I met Shawn and Erica at a demonstration jump by the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team who are stationed at Ft. Liberty adjacent to the town where we live. Erica was happy to pose for me. Shawn was a little reticent and reserved, but a good sport, nonetheless.
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"BREAKING: Gov Abbot pardons Daniel Perry despite Perry’s plan to kill Muslims & Black people—then succeeding in killing a BLM protestor (who was a Veteran). “All lives matter” crowd proudly celebrates killing Muslims & Black people."
"A reminder once more that a system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect."
Qasim Rashid
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