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I noticed earlier today that some of my Apple Music library changes weren’t showing on my Apple TV. After attempting to initiate a cloud sync, Apple Music told me there was an error and it didn’t recognize my library. What? So the fix allegedly is to turn sync off and back on. No big deal, only 42,927 items.
\nI was going to continue the re-rip project but instead I’m waiting to see if the re-sync to the cloud actually works. No idea how long it will take. No progress bar nor item count.
\nUPDATE:
\nI was on pins and needles for about two hours. Nothing on screen that indicates “Success,” but everything I was hoping to see synchronized appears to have done so.
\nI made the “iCloud Sync Status” column visible in the Songs view. Eventually I will need to look into the large number marked “Duplicate” and a not as large number marked “Ineligible” or “Removed”
\nOne of the issues I have already mentioned is track duplication. Many albums that I have replaced with a re-rip had included one or more duplicate tracks. It feels good to clean those out. I will have gone one by one for each CD, but that does not account for items purchased from Apple or from other sources that were imported.
\nAs an incorrigible collector, I have music from many, many sources. There is some work that will continue once the CDs are all back in. In the case of cassettes or vinyl, should I try to find this music digitally? Or, should I find a way to record these in real time?
\nNot going to decide today, but I know it would involve “recording” a side at a time, taking those files and separating them into tracks, possibly compressing to a lossless format, and adding meta data and cover art. Maybe after I retire? Or maybe not at all. I really do enjoy having everything easily available and potentially much more portable. No idea what the future may hold.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-15T17:14:29-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2025/02/15/ah-the-joys-of-synchronization/", "tags": ["Music","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2025/02/09/theres-a-lot-to-be/", "content_html": "There’s a lot to be said for learning the hard way. I am deeply impatient with myself. I was attempting to restring a guitar I was gifted with many years ago—because I want to really dig in and learn. I broke the first new string in my eagerness. So now I wait for replacements to arrive.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-09T13:41:52-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2025/02/09/theres-a-lot-to-be/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2025/02/04/that-feeling-when-i-have/", "content_html": "That feeling when I have to reset the password I just reset because somehow it didn’t stick or what I thought I typed and confirmed isn’t what I typed and confirmed.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-04T11:55:20-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2025/02/04/that-feeling-when-i-have/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2025/01/31/when-your-first-few-hours/", "content_html": "When your first few hours of PTO include communication with co-workers to coordinate support, and a vendor who means well but didn’t quite email the correct folks.
\nBut I am sitting in my home office sipping coffee with my wife. So I have that going for me, which is nice. Which is nice.
\n", "date_published": "2025-01-31T10:42:29-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2025/01/31/when-your-first-few-hours/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2024/08/19/tonights-listening-included-in-through/", "content_html": "Tonight’s listening included In Through The Out Door and Meddle.
\n", "date_published": "2024-08-19T22:35:56-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2024/08/19/tonights-listening-included-in-through/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2024/03/17/i-just-wanted-to-start/", "content_html": "I just wanted to start watching a concert video for my wife. I was privileged to change my password twice so that everything started talking.
\nWe are streaming now, but it’s going to be a bit before I can relax after wanting to get destructive for a few moments.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-17T14:33:54-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2024/03/17/i-just-wanted-to-start/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2024/01/11/the-great-rerip-project-of/", "title": "The Great Re-Rip Project of 2024", "content_html": "I’m ripping my physical CDs one more time.
\nReally, twice each. Once ripped to WAV for Plex, a second ripped to lossless for iTunes.
\nI’m hedging my bets against Apple not letting me serve my collection locally any longer. ITunes continues to be iTunes. I can’t believe how slowly it all runs, aggravated by needing to use external storage—but it works.
\nWith Plex, I have a migration path to an open source OS and commodity hardware. This is assuming Plex remains viable as a project, of course. But with WAV files I sould be able to convert to other formats with ease, and I hope that need won’t arise for years.
\nStreaming is lovely, but rights being what they are, you can’t stream everything you remember hearing.
\nBack to iTunes, of course I have made a mess of my library. I have been using iTunes Match, which is a backup of sorts, and a streaming library of sorts, and boy it helped me through a massive file loss (self-inflicted) a few years ago.
\nWhat iTunes Match has done, which is pretty cool in a lot of ways, is replace low-bitrate MP3 files with higher bitrate AAC files on my local PC. So, many CDs that I ripped to MP3 (when disk space was more expensive) now have better sounding files on disk than I had in, say, 2003. I started ripping to MP3 circa 1998, so you might imagine.
\nThis did not go perfectly, naturally.
\nMany of my albums have matched AAC files in addition to some MP3 files. This inflates the number of tracks in an album. Track order is preserved, but there could be two copies of several tracks per album. Further, where re-ripping is concerned, if there is the slightest metadata difference, iTunes will not necessarily replace tracks or albums but add them as net-new.
\nSo. For each “album,” my process has been to find the one I’m replacing, delete the iTunes Match downloads, then I delete the album and the files from my library altogether. Finally, I import the CD, doing a spot check of the tracklist and production year. ITunes has been doing a decent job of finding cover art. I would estimate out of the discs I’ve ripped so far, the art matched 9 times out of 10.
\nTonight, though, I noticed an eventuality I hadn’t anticipated. With albums winking out of existence and back in, that is going to mess with the playlists I have been carefully curating since I went all-in on MacOS in 2005.
\nRemember a post ago I mentioned how I keep inventing new ways to lose information?
\nSo, unless I can figure out how to export playlists from iTunes wholesale, I am going to be recording my playlists here so that I can rebuild them. This a bit like how I take a screenshot of the taskbar on one Windows PC to replicate pinned applications and organization on another.
\nRe-ripping must pause.
\nWith this project, I’m repairing damage and in doing so I am creating more damage.
\nThe “Smart Playlists” I believe should be self-healing. It’s the ones I have created manually, and OMG there are so many, that are going to break.
\nThe plan is to create a new Playlist category here, then there will be individual titled posts per playlist, and the Archive page will collect them in one place.
\nFollow along if you like.
\n**Update
\nI found a method to export playlists in the online Apple Music User Guide.
\nThis will make my “backup” go faster than I feared.
\nRipping is still going to take a month of Sundays.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-11T00:28:20-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2024/01/11/the-great-rerip-project-of/", "tags": ["Music","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2023/06/28/saints-at-bat-versus-the/", "content_html": "Saints at bat versus the Stripers
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\n📷
\nStorybook ending to the game: Saints were down by one at the bottom of the ninth. Bases were loaded after 2 outs. Final hit of the game hit the home run wall. Saints won, 13-9.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-28T12:40:38-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2023/06/28/saints-at-bat-versus-the/", "tags": ["Photos","Brilliant","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2023/06/17/novice-that-i-am-made/", "content_html": "Novice that I am, made some DNS changes. Finally sunk in that I only need DNS from registrar, not also from my web host. Therefore I had my host remove DNS service. Added a txt record for an experiment. If I broke something, I assume I may not know for a day or two.
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-17T13:31:49-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2023/06/17/novice-that-i-am-made/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/12/28/i-just-wanted-to-watch/", "title": "I just wanted to watch a YouTube video on my AppleTV.", "content_html": "We were going to check out a comedian’s set after seeing a snippet on Tiktok.
\nEven though the TV audio was set as one of the Apple TV audio outputs, sound from the Apple TV was only playing via a HomePod Mini in a different room. I had to leave the YouTube app and the video I was watching to go into the system settings to set the audio output to the TV speakers only.
\nBut that didn’t fix the problem. The TV showed the volume was responding to the remote control, but there was still no sound.
\nSwitching to Apple Music gave the same result. No audio. No clicks, no pops, just silence.
\nBack to system settings to restart the Apple TV.
\nThat “worked.” I’m getting system sounds now as I move the focus and make selections.
\nI relaunched the YouTube app to watch the video I had previously started. YouTube makes no effort to remember what was happaneing previously, not the video nor my place in it. At least the app remembered my search.
\nNow, the audio is playing correctly, but the HDMI pass-through for volume control isn’t working. This means I have to restart my TV, via a hard power cycle.
\nI’ve been supporting technology for a long time, and I understand everything that can go wrong. On good days I’m grateful that everything works as well as it does as often as it does. But we aren’t doing ourselves any favors with the complexity.
\nI have to reset both the Apple TV and the TV itself to get everything back to nominal operation. I’m not doing anything unsupported, but the electronics and the software fail with alarming and disappointing regularity.
\nIt’s no wonder people hate technology. This is so stupid.
\nAlso broken? The iPhone QR scanning functionality. Because I wanted to sign into the YouTube app without booting my laptop. The YouTube app on the Apple TV and on my iPhone are allegedly supposed to be able to detect one-another to validate my sign-in. Naturally this detection failed, even after several tries. Method two is to scan a QR code. Allegedly, the QR Scanner function from the iPhone Control Center opens links in Safari, but God help you if you have to switch away for a Multi-Factor Authentication code in a different iPhone app. Because whatever you were doing just disappeared and you have to start again. While you’re doing so, your authenticator code times out, so that is a wholly broken system and that verification method necessarily failed. There’s also no sharing the shortcut from the QR code to open in an instance of Safari—because apparently you’re already there, in a way that is ephemeral beyond belief. You can leave any time you like but you can never come back.
\nFortunately I could get a code via SMS and Apple did thoughtfully allow me to easily paste that code from the clipboard into the authenticaton screen without having to switch to the messaging app or the code generator app.
\nI get it. It’s not necessarily the Apple TV on its own, it’s not the TV on its own. But isn’t it? Are these devices designed to a spec or aren’t they?
\nI don’t know. It works unless it doesn’t. It seems so dumb that everything suddenly requires a full reset to return to normal operation.
\nThank you for reading my rant. It’s my frustration at doing what seems to be all of the right things but still having consequences I can’t control or remediate.
\nI’m sure the engineers who design these things can tell me why I’m being unreasonable.
\n", "date_published": "2022-12-28T14:08:11-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/12/28/i-just-wanted-to-watch/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/12/23/social-media-waffling-migration-culture/", "title": "Social Media Waffling, Migration, Culture, and Hope", "content_html": "I’ve waffled on Twitter. Disabled, re-enabled, and again just diabled cross-posting. Before the edict on barring Mastodon links in profiles, I had used Debirdify to learn that about 106 of the accounts I follow had federated accounts elsewhere. That’s less than 10 percent of the total number of accounts I follow there. The news escaping the Twitter bubble about the owner and his policies and his actions don’t really give me hope.
\nThe interesting thing right this minute is dipping into the full federated Mastodon feed to see things I would otherwise have no idea how to find. The no-algorithm thing is cool in that sense.
\nI do think that things like boosting and likes will lead to much of the same “interaction-seeking” behavior from Twitter that can be leveraged in manipulative ways. I already see accounts whose output is primarily boosted toots, or broadcasting memes. My fear is that it’s just a matter of time until accounts are stolen and instances get weaponized as long as there is a financial or political incentive.
\nI worry about a commercial platform hosting speech and owning access to it, when the owner talks both about free speech and lawful speech. My sense is that culturally we will be now also facing battles over what is lawful speech, and protecting a specific point of view as lawful and anything other as not.
\nNevertheless, I do see more and more accounts coming over into non-Twitter spaces. I find that interesting and exciting. I think there is value in having more than one path to information. And I fully support an individual’s right to own their words and their art.
\nI’m about half way through @manton’s Indie Microblogging book. I see the wisdom of using the web itself and protocols we already have as the social network. Weird, right? Using the interconnected network we already use, itself, as the social network?
\nIn the end, I’m seeing aggregation sites (networks) as a single point of failure, and I’m seeing diaspora as the best hope for preservation and posterity.
\nIt takes more work to run my own ship, but I like that I can head to the ports of my own choosing with hosting, email, DNS, RSS, blogging, and Mastodon instance. Further, I’m happy to pay the people in those ports that are helping me and providing value.
\n", "date_published": "2022-12-23T20:22:32-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/12/23/social-media-waffling-migration-culture/", "tags": ["Status","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/09/21/just-learned-who-is-supplying/", "content_html": "Just learned who is supplying wood for my home remodel. Via certified letter. Nothing like “We are proud to supply this for you” or “Thanks for being a customer and we look forward to working with your team” or “Thank you for supporting our business.” Only, the wood costs this much. If your contractor doesn’t pay, we will put a lein on your property until payment is received.
\nI don’t care who you are used to working with or what you have been through, that is a fucked up way to start a relationship. But? We see you. We understand who we are dealing with and will respond accordingly. And then? Never again.
\n", "date_published": "2022-09-21T10:22:09-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/09/21/just-learned-who-is-supplying/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/06/26/why-i-hate-software-i/", "title": "Why I Hate Software (I Don't Really But Microsoft And Apple Are Still Frenemies)", "content_html": "Setting up iCloud on one Windows laptop actually went smoothly. Every tool did exactly what it was supposed to do. This, even though I have combined my vanity email domain with iCloud.
\nTo be fair, I actually send email from my personal account only slightly more often than I phone people from my personal number, which is close to (but not quite) never.
\nOn a desktop, this did not happen. Even with Office365 installed, the iCloud tool only synced calendars and contacts. The Apple installer told me if I need iCloud email, to set up an address online.
\nI also could not use my primary email address, which matches my AppleID, to set up my mailbox in Outlook. I had to use the original icloud.com email address, and set up an application password through my AppleID, in order to set up the service.
\nPossibly related, in the past I have used Google to host my vanity domain. Whenever the Outlook email setup wizard walked me through account setup, it wanted me to authenticate to Google. I don’t know if that is residual in Microsoft365, or if there is something in DNS that is making Microsoft go there. I really thought I had cleaned house at my provider.
\nIn the end, I can monitor my mailbox from a second Windows PC. That is what I needed. But the process took the better part of 2 hours of experimentation, including waiting several times on a “We’re getting things ready” message from Outlook while nothing happenned in the GUI.
\nNone of the Apple machines ever have trouble, and I was aware that doing iCloud on Windows could present challenges. But when things actually behaved well on one Windows 11 machine, I had hope it might go equally well on another.
\nAll of this to avoid the security hoops signing into iCloud through a web browser, or simply checking email on my phone. I want to avoid transcribing password reset links or login links. Even NVidia nags for a login for video drivers, holding some software functions hostage to it.
\nAs in all things technological, some days it’s deeply challenging to make software do the thing it is meant to do. I blame both companies for making me use wizards, and not giving me the option to set things manually. Even with the mailbox established, I cannot dig into Outlook to see what settings the software is using to connect (server names, ports, security protocols)
\nSo, if you can’t set up your iCloud mailbox in Outlook via the iCloud application, use the original icloud.com email address (me.com didn’t work for me) to set up an IMAP account. Use an application password that you will generate at appleid.apple.com for the password. Nothing I found online says it exactly that way, especially for those of us who have the vanity email domain.
\nLastly? You will be sending as your iCloud address, or via your default account in Outlook. I can theoretically use a reply-to address, but I think that looks sketchy.
\n", "date_published": "2022-06-26T16:36:26-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/06/26/why-i-hate-software-i/", "tags": ["Status","Tech Support"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/06/25/passwords-are-a-beari-have/", "content_html": "Passwords are a bear—I have to change every 90 days at work. Mandatory password change yesterday afternoon left me stumped this morning. In the process of recovery, I came back to what my password is. It helps me to use a phrase that sets intent. Because of intent, I got it back.
\n", "date_published": "2022-06-25T12:07:15-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/06/25/passwords-are-a-beari-have/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/06/04/purple-rain-tour-concert-film/", "content_html": "Purple Rain tour concert film on PBS just started. I’m in.
\n", "date_published": "2022-06-04T18:05:01-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/06/04/purple-rain-tour-concert-film/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/05/30/i-just-got-a-markdownnative/", "content_html": "I just got a markdown-native writing app, which I’m excited about. Particularly the Apple-native synchronization to iCloud and between devices. However, a new blank document is still a new blank document.
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-30T09:38:25-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/05/30/i-just-got-a-markdownnative/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/05/27/im-not-proud-of-apple/", "content_html": "I’m not proud of Apple if the union-busting activity is real
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-27T17:28:46-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/05/27/im-not-proud-of-apple/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/05/24/i-had-the-privilege-of/", "content_html": "I had the privilege of attending a diversity, equity and inclusion presentation today. The good news is that I’m not oblivious. The other good news, I suppose, is that I have many opportunities to improve understanding and empathy. Wow.
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-24T13:26:08-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/05/24/i-had-the-privilege-of/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/05/22/loved-the-reference-to-the/", "content_html": "Loved the reference to The Big Lebowski in Family Guy, tonight
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-22T19:58:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/05/22/loved-the-reference-to-the/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/05/22/asking-honestly-is-there-like/", "content_html": "Asking honestly: is there like a group of people who are super sick and tired of all the shadiness done by people with power but who are still working to and honestly desire to make the world a better place? There is no red pill. There is no blue pill. There is just us.
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-22T17:21:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/05/22/asking-honestly-is-there-like/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/05/21/starting-the-day-with-puppies/", "content_html": "Starting the day with puppies in my lap, coffee, Nintendo and Princess Bride.
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-21T07:43:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/05/21/starting-the-day-with-puppies/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/05/20/when-out-of-habit-you/", "content_html": "When, out of habit, you walk down the stairs of the atrium in your employer’s building, from the third to the first floor, to head back to your desk—and then realize the thing you need to do next is on the third floor
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-20T14:46:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/05/20/when-out-of-habit-you/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/05/18/so-wierd-journalists-are-shocked/", "content_html": "So wierd journalists are shocked that Apple continues to support a production product (like an operating system) well into the development cycle of the replacement version. It’s like people actively refuse to understand how they work. Cynical me remembers: headlines drive clicks.
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-18T13:43:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/05/18/so-wierd-journalists-are-shocked/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/05/08/turned-a-macbook-pro-into/", "content_html": "Turned a MacBook Pro into a slab book—I removed the non-functional display. It’s 2013 model and a replacement display is still $600. And it’s mostly my iTunes library and doesn’t move around the house.
\nUnintended consequences? Yes. The bluetooth and WiFi antennæ are in the display module and that matters. I’m wired into my LAN, but using the built-in keyboard and trackpad as intended because bluetooth is a no go.
\n", "date_published": "2022-05-08T20:08:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/05/08/turned-a-macbook-pro-into/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/02/19/i-realize-im-an-edge/", "content_html": "I realize I’m an edge case, but I wish you could put longer beards on Memojis.
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-19T18:11:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/02/19/i-realize-im-an-edge/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/02/07/that-thing-where-i-have/", "content_html": "That thing where I have remote starting for my car but do not remember to use it to my benefit
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-07T09:34:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/02/07/that-thing-where-i-have/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/02/03/wanted-to-watch-the-olympics/", "content_html": "Wanted to watch the Olympics but got talking heads. Moving on.
\n", "date_published": "2022-02-03T19:50:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/02/03/wanted-to-watch-the-olympics/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/01/31/can-i-say-as-an/", "content_html": "Can I say, as an IT person, I’m really tired of running updates. So little control over what is happening. No way to know before starting if this computer will take the update after some unknown interval of time, or not. All I can do is wait and pick up the pieces.
\n", "date_published": "2022-01-31T19:21:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/01/31/can-i-say-as-an/", "tags": ["Status","Tech Support"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/01/31/used-all-the-caffeines-to/", "content_html": "Used all the caffeines to power through a long work weekend. Today, I started my day early and my usual large amount is insufficient. My brain wants MOAR.
\n", "date_published": "2022-01-31T11:06:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/01/31/used-all-the-caffeines-to/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2022/01/11/true-fact-the-place-on/", "content_html": "True Fact:
\nThe place on earth with weather conditions most inhospitable to human life is whatever gas station you are at right now.
\n", "date_published": "2022-01-11T16:29:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2022/01/11/true-fact-the-place-on/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/12/29/read-nicholas-bates-your-word/", "content_html": "Read Nicholas Bate’s Your 2022 Word.
\nMy word for 2022 is Grow
\nIt’s not a resolution, nor a command. But it encapsulates so much on my mind.
\n", "date_published": "2021-12-29T11:59:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/12/29/read-nicholas-bates-your-word/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/12/19/inaugurating-the-movement-of-my/", "content_html": "Inaugurating the movement of my Den to the main floor of my house with a viewing of the R40 concert film. Playback started before wiring was complete, but halfway through everything seems well dialed in.
\n", "date_published": "2021-12-19T22:25:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/12/19/inaugurating-the-movement-of-my/", "tags": ["Music","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/11/28/was-just-introduced-to-the/", "content_html": "Was just introduced to the ideas of Ken Wilbur’s Integral Theory via the SLOWW Sunday newsletter.
\nThere’s a lot to unpack, here.
\n", "date_published": "2021-11-28T14:29:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/11/28/was-just-introduced-to-the/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","Status","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/10/31/status-tricked-and-treated/", "content_html": "Status: tricked and treated
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2021/109a9334a6.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2021-10-31T18:16:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/10/31/status-tricked-and-treated/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/10/28/friday-began-a-bit-of/",
"content_html": "Friday began a bit of an odyssey to discover that I have a massive sinus infection. The kind that has been wreaking havoc on my sense of balance and my hearing in one ear.
\n2 ER visits and two primary care visits later, I have the right meds that will allow me to sit upright and participate in family life and running a house.
\nI cannot express enough gratitude for the health care professionals who helped, and for the science behind the menu of medications that are helping me right now.
\nNow it is on me to heal.
\nMy heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the many who have really gone above and beyond to help me and my family.
\n", "date_published": "2021-10-28T18:12:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/10/28/friday-began-a-bit-of/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/10/08/adhd-tax-when-i-panic/", "content_html": "ADHD Tax: When I panic about losing my phone while I’m in a meeting. Phone was less than a foot from my person but I had set another object on top of it.
\n", "date_published": "2021-10-08T08:51:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/10/08/adhd-tax-when-i-panic/", "tags": ["Himself","Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/10/06/that-feeling-when-you-get/", "content_html": "That feeling when you get the email from the vendor that an item has shipped. Yet the tracking number reveals only that the label has been printed and the shipper has not yet taken possession of the item.
\n", "date_published": "2021-10-06T14:30:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/10/06/that-feeling-when-you-get/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/10/05/a-new-day-brought-new/", "content_html": "A new day brought new places to type and click to resolve more kinds of technical issues. There was significant terror over several days. If I make it through the evening without a phone call, I may relax.
\n", "date_published": "2021-10-05T17:28:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/10/05/a-new-day-brought-new/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/09/04/homeward-kill-devil-hills-nc/", "content_html": "Homeward: Kill Devil Hills, NC > Dayton, OH
\n", "date_published": "2021-09-04T20:11:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/09/04/homeward-kill-devil-hills-nc/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/09/02/status/", "content_html": "Status
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2021/bcb54037d8.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2021-09-02T14:43:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/09/02/status/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/05/31/remembrance/",
"title": "Remembrance",
"content_html": "My first name comes from Hjalmer Lindberg.
\nHad he lived, he would have been a great uncle.
\nIn World War II, he fought in the Battle of the Bulge with the 94th infantry. He was a sniper who was killed by another.
\nThe story I was told was that first, Hjalmer’s helmet was shot off. This revealed the position of the German sniper. Hjalmer quickly pivoted to return fire, but the German was faster. Hjalmer was shot in the head.
\nMany details are not known to me. A thousand questions have occurred to me after it’s too late to ask.
\nHjalmer was very good friends in the infantry with Erich Gerloff. They had such a strong bond that they made a pact. Should one survive the other, the survivor would travel to meet the other’s family.
\nErich’s own life had been dramatic at points. He had been born in Germany, and had crossed the Atlantic three times with his family to escape economic hardship.
\nHe was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and was kept briefly at a stalag. He was on a death march when, because he spoke German well enough, German soldiers told him to get out of the line. They thought he was a spy or agent and were afraid of punishment should he be put to death at their hands.
\nErich survived the war, rising in rank through battlefield promotions, assuming I’ve understood the details at all.
\nHe also honored his pact with his friend. He travelled from New York to Wisconsin to visit the Lindbergh family in Wisconsin and proposed to one of Hjalmer’s sisters within a few days.
\nThey married and had a family. Their eldest, a son, they named for Hjalmer, who they had both lost.
\nThat man, the son, was on a tour of duty in Vietnam, when his sister, my mother, was pregnant with me. And she wanted her brother to know she loved him.
\nHjalmer is my first name. Erich is my middle name.
\n", "date_published": "2021-05-31T10:04:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/05/31/remembrance/", "tags": ["Himself","Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/05/30/remembering-hjalmer-lindberg-and-erich/", "content_html": "Remembering Hjalmer Lindberg and Erich Gerloff, today.
\n", "date_published": "2021-05-30T07:04:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/05/30/remembering-hjalmer-lindberg-and-erich/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/05/28/heard-take-me-home-on/", "content_html": "Heard Take Me Home on satellite radio earlier today. Because I owned No Jacket Required, naturally, Sussudio is now an ear worm.
\nPhil Collins, y’all!
\nYou’re welcome.
\n", "date_published": "2021-05-28T16:20:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/05/28/heard-take-me-home-on/", "tags": ["Music","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/05/27/bless-you-coffee-machine/", "content_html": "Bless you, Coffee Machine
\n", "date_published": "2021-05-27T07:05:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/05/27/bless-you-coffee-machine/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/05/23/apple-beta-program-participation-disadvantage/", "content_html": "Apple Beta program participation disadvantage I haven’t seen mentioned before: media-sharing requires signing out and back in, or de-authorizing and re-authorizing—after applying each update. On AppleTV this means not being able to connect to my server or access iTunes Match
\n", "date_published": "2021-05-23T18:07:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/05/23/apple-beta-program-participation-disadvantage/", "tags": ["Status","Tech Support"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/05/15/second-dose-acquired-the-vaccination/", "content_html": "Second dose acquired.
\nThe Vaccination, Part II: Return to House Pfizer
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2021/a22e4be075.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2021-05-15T09:34:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/05/15/second-dose-acquired-the-vaccination/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/05/11/the-voice-seasons-seem-to/",
"content_html": "The Voice seasons seem to move really fast now. I don’t feel like I get to know the contestants and their personalities like we used to
\n", "date_published": "2021-05-11T18:51:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/05/11/the-voice-seasons-seem-to/", "tags": ["Status","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/04/27/have-lost-a-cousin-to/", "content_html": "Have lost a cousin to COVID today. It’s still killing people.
\nBe careful, everyone.
\n", "date_published": "2021-04-27T09:43:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/04/27/have-lost-a-cousin-to/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/04/22/my-work-day-started-with/", "content_html": "My work day started with my awesome new Logi MX KEYS keyboard not Bluetoothing to anything, anywhere.
\nI was worried I owned a nicely-weighted, space gray brick.
\nIt’s rechargeable and therefore sealed. The power switch didn’t change anything. None of the key presses in the Quick Start guide changed its behavior. None of the forum posts addressed what I was seeing. So I went rogue. After a lot of searching for any mention of what I was seeing, I began experimenting with long key presses and multiple key combinations and finally got to where I could pair the keyboard to my Mac again.
\nI was able to hold the fn and F13 keys to get it into pairing mode for device 1. Then, on my MacBook, I was able to use the Bluetooth preferences in the System Settings application and subsequently the Logi Options app saw it again, as well.
\nPhew.
\n", "date_published": "2021-04-22T10:55:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/04/22/my-work-day-started-with/", "tags": ["Status","Tech Support"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/04/20/when-you-dont-use-the/", "content_html": "When you don’t use the filter basket, the coffee maker doesn’t behave the same way.
\nI’m left astonished with wonder at how I failed to notice this while I did everything else in anticipatory preparation.
\nAfter cleaning up, I’m making a second attempt at coffee, now.
\nAlso: Coffee is hot. Because I have no patience, my thumb will continue to remind me of several failures throughout the day.
\nThe end result is I have cleaned my coffee maker and I will shortly be sipping hot, delicious coffee.
\n", "date_published": "2021-04-20T08:56:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/04/20/when-you-dont-use-the/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/04/18/til-the-trashmen-were-from/", "content_html": "TIL The Trashmen were from Minneapolis.
\n", "date_published": "2021-04-18T09:58:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/04/18/til-the-trashmen-were-from/", "tags": ["Music","Helpful","Status","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/04/16/this-just-in-covid-is/", "content_html": "This just in:
\nCOVID is still deadly.
\n", "date_published": "2021-04-16T08:02:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/04/16/this-just-in-covid-is/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/04/15/putting-some-thoughts-here-while/", "content_html": "Putting some thoughts here, while they are on my mind:
\nPolitical parties and news organizations love to pretend that an election is an ideological mandate. When the candidate you vote for wins, it’s fun to feel that way.
\nI think an election is simpler, it’s a snapshot in time, and it’s very much about who is on the ballot. Sometimes a vote is yes to a candidate, to a party or to a platform, but sometimes a vote is against a specific person. I suspect that the 2016 and 2020 elections reflect this in America more than Americans traditionally would admit.
\nI think the political parties are their own machines, representing their own self-preservation and the agendas of large donors. As such, neither party in the U.S.A. would ever change anything fundamentally.
\nI don’t think that political parties represent a mandate any more than an election does.
\nI think political parties aren’t representative of us, of We The People, because the parties generally and the candidates specifically are beholden to money.
\nI think Ranked Choice Voting is worth a try and might better represent overall preferences, or show where more of us actually agree. We really need to pay attention to what we have in common and fight hard for that.
\nI think it’s really hard to step outside of a bubble I have willingly been inside of for decades.
\nI used to wonder why George Carlin seemed so angry toward the end of his career. I’m starting to understand.
\n", "date_published": "2021-04-15T12:38:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/04/15/putting-some-thoughts-here-while/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/04/04/hot-coffee-and-cookies-on/", "content_html": "Hot coffee and cookies on a cool morning
\n", "date_published": "2021-04-04T07:03:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/04/04/hot-coffee-and-cookies-on/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/28/175200/", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2021/4f722f5bc0.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2021-03-28T17:52:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/28/175200/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status","Experiential"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/27/im-old-because-i-remember/",
"content_html": "I’m old because I remember MTV playing music video always, and I’m up early enough to watch AMTV
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-27T07:22:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/27/im-old-because-i-remember/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/24/unspoken-role-of-technical-support/", "content_html": "Unspoken Role of Technical Support: Absorb and correct for damage created by other companies
\nExample: large ticket volume this week created by issues stemming from a large operating system vendor’s critical updates. Some laptops are becoming unbootable and some folks are getting bluescreens simply from printing. This is all fixable, but fixes take time. None of this is a result of any decision made by anyone employed by my company.
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-24T10:00:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/24/unspoken-role-of-technical-support/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/15/til-curved-screens-are-fragile/", "content_html": "TIL Curved screens are fragile.
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-15T10:13:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/15/til-curved-screens-are-fragile/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/15/my-semiannual-plea-please-stop/", "content_html": "My Semi-Annual Plea: Please stop the madness with the clock shifting. Pick one and run with it.
\nPlease.
\nThe coffee isn’t working today.
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-15T08:43:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/15/my-semiannual-plea-please-stop/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/02/dishwasher-replaced-today-so-grateful/", "content_html": "Dishwasher replaced today. So grateful, I’m running my third load.
\nThis probably opens me up to jokes. So be it.
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-02T20:44:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/02/dishwasher-replaced-today-so-grateful/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/03/02/the-rate-at-which-i/", "content_html": "The rate at which I am losing elders in my family is alarming. I’ve made it into my fifties before feeling that way, for which I count myself fortunate. But I’m getting closer to the front of the line and it is sobering.
\n", "date_published": "2021-03-02T19:13:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/03/02/the-rate-at-which-i/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/28/blast-from-the-past-it/", "content_html": "Blast from the past: it was fun to hear music from The 5th Dimension on CBS Sunday Morning. I was born after they were already popular, but I heard a lot of their songs before I know it was them.
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-28T10:44:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/28/blast-from-the-past-it/", "tags": ["Music","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/26/joined-twitter-on-this-day/", "content_html": "Joined Twitter on this day in 2008. In those days we talked about ambient connectivity and hashtags were just becoming a thing.
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-26T06:57:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/26/joined-twitter-on-this-day/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/20/bluejays-and-cardinals-at-the/", "content_html": "Bluejays and cardinals at the feeder. They are lovely in the morning sun
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-20T10:13:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/20/bluejays-and-cardinals-at-the/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/15/from-an-email-subscription-today/", "content_html": "From an email subscription today:
\n\n\nSo be good to each other. Be humble and kind. Be generous. If you fight for anything, fight for justice and fairness. That’s what we were put here for.
\n
This is what I believe.
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-15T09:45:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/15/from-an-email-subscription-today/", "tags": ["Himself","Brilliant","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/14/listening-to-a-lot-of/", "content_html": "Listening to a lot of Echodrone, today. Bought two albums and am excited for a new release next month.
\nMusic saves.
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-14T12:13:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/14/listening-to-a-lot-of/", "tags": ["Music","Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/10/as-i-transitioned-the-sim/", "content_html": "As I transitioned the SIM in my phone from Sprint to T-Mobile, today, I learned I’ve been a Sprint customer for 21 years. I doubt that counts for much to the business, but I wish it carried some weight.
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-10T18:42:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/10/as-i-transitioned-the-sim/", "tags": ["Status","TIL"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/10/i-have-a-nonneurotypical-daughter/", "content_html": "I have a non-neurotypical daughter in a school system that has doubled-down on the use of law enforcement, restraint, and seclusion to control the student population. I’m not okay with this policy and we are opting out of the traditional school system after this school year.
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-10T12:04:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/10/i-have-a-nonneurotypical-daughter/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/04/when-the-wind-makes-it/", "content_html": "When the wind makes it feel colder than it is… 15 degrees Fahrenheit
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2021/09f89be291.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2021-02-04T18:34:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/04/when-the-wind-makes-it/",
"tags": ["Photos","Himself","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/04/my-biggest-professional-challenge-is/",
"content_html": "My biggest professional challenge is to adjust my thinking from a tactically-thinking individual to a more strategically-thinking manager. This is something I want to do well. Is there a support group for that? Is it called Everyone? Do they meet at the drinking-establishment?
\n", "date_published": "2021-02-04T12:24:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/04/my-biggest-professional-challenge-is/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/02/03/good-morning/", "content_html": "Good morning!
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2021/7447dc4162.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2021-02-03T10:00:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/02/03/good-morning/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/01/28/someone-at-work-today-made/",
"content_html": "Someone at work today made a clever reference to Whole Lotta Love, comparing project status to the middle section of the song.
\nSo naturally, I have listened to Led Zeppelin II in it’s entirety. Working through Mothership as I write this.
\n", "date_published": "2021-01-28T16:57:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/01/28/someone-at-work-today-made/", "tags": ["Music","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2021/01/06/it-doesnt-make-sense-for/", "content_html": "It doesn’t make sense for the left hand to punch the right hand, nor for the right leg to kick the left. We are part of the same body. We work better together.
\n", "date_published": "2021-01-06T18:20:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2021/01/06/it-doesnt-make-sense-for/", "tags": ["Himself","Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/26/listening-to-wolfmother-today-they/", "content_html": "Listening to Wolfmother today.
\nThey are a retro-looking blend of 70’s hard-rock, prog-rock and a little punk-rock. But with the vocal strength and musicianship to back it up. Not to mention cowbell and distorted organ.
\nI wish I could say I have been listening to them for a long time, but they came to me via a compilation from a friend. Today, I have been mining Apple Music for their back catalog.
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-26T12:48:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/26/listening-to-wolfmother-today-they/", "tags": ["Music","Brilliant","Status","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/25/and-mamma-in-her-kerchief/", "content_html": "“And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap…”
\n#MischiefManaged
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-25T01:27:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/25/and-mamma-in-her-kerchief/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/24/halfday-at-work-then-cleared/", "content_html": "Half-day at work, then cleared the drive of snow. Grateful for snow throwers. Husqvarna has been good to me.
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-24T16:42:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/24/halfday-at-work-then-cleared/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/24/on-main-viewer-the-polar/", "content_html": "On Main Viewer: The Polar Express (2004)
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-24T13:06:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/24/on-main-viewer-the-polar/", "tags": ["Status","Link"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/21/last-night-i-told-a/", "content_html": "Last night I told a speaker to play 80s New Wave. I remembered the future I once dreamed of included rack stereo systems and Nakamichi Dragons.
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-21T20:38:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/21/last-night-i-told-a/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/15/as-much-as-im-grateful/", "content_html": "As much as I’m grateful to Jardiance advertisements for bringing the skin of my perineum to mind, I did mild research into why they mention it. And stopped quickly.
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-15T20:48:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/15/as-much-as-im-grateful/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/15/i-will-say-it-again/", "content_html": "I will say it again: I wish I could update AppleTVs via the Home app in the same way that I can update my HomePods.
\nBut I will add: Quite honestly, it seems like the Home app would be a great place to start with personal/family device management
\n", "date_published": "2020-12-15T14:09:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/15/i-will-say-it-again/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/12/08/saturday-living-room-rearranged-sunday/", "content_html": "Saturday: Living room re-arranged
\nSunday: Tree selected and placed
\nMonday: Cranberry and popcorn garlands strung
\nTuesday: Garlands, lights and ornaments hung
Soundtrack: Mannheim Steamroller
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/57edf1079f.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-12-08T21:34:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/12/08/saturday-living-room-rearranged-sunday/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/11/13/hold-the-big-sur-and/",
"title": "Hold the Big Sur, and Unexpected Big Sur",
"content_html": "Deployed a new MacBook Air at work and asked my client to stay On 10.15.7 until 11.1 is released. I was hoping to avoid not-yet-known compatibility risks. I had only used a test machine for 90 minutes at work by that point.
\nAnother client wanting to stay on top of security updates demonstrated the thing I feared. Printing to a Canon workgroup printer from Big Sur did not work well. Canon’s American web site did not have macOS 15 drivers, which was not shocking. Big Sur did not want packages built for earlier versions of the OS, which was not helpful and quickly closed an avenue of inquiry.
\nStrangely, yet fortunately, Google lead me to Canon’s Singapore Web presence. Their support pages recognized Big Sur and provided working drivers. This was very unexpected but very helpful. I was really glad because suggesting the black-and-white-only Generic PCL drivers as a work-around would not have worked well for me in that specific case.
\nMy company has a tiny number of Macs. Given our embrace of the Office365 stack, I can’t imagine there will be too many difficulties. I did not run the Big Sur beta on work equipment because in the past that prevented me from accessing my Parallels VM. Last night I was able to update my work MacBook Pro and 24-hours later I have no regrets
\n", "date_published": "2020-11-13T19:55:17-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/11/13/hold-the-big-sur-and/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/09/19/im-a-longtime-fan-of/", "content_html": "I’m a long-time fan of Randall Carlson which I owe to the Joe Rogan podcast. Anyway, outside of liking and subscribing to YouTube channels and videos, here is another way I can start to support his work.
\nSo, yay! The iridescent Gnosis sticker is cooler than I hoped it would be!
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/62f9d9bbf4.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-09-19T10:37:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/09/19/im-a-longtime-fan-of/",
"tags": ["Photos","Brilliant","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/09/06/territories/",
"title": "Territories",
"content_html": "Spent some time this morning watching shows about politics and shows about the consequences of political conflict.
\nAny time we think of groups of people that include friends, neighbors and family as an enemy, I wonder if we aren’t then the problem. I’m including myself, here.
\nI do hereby disavow political parties. I will continue to study and learn. I will be performing my civic duty this fall to the best of my ability.
\nI’m neither happy nor hopeful.
\n\n\nThe whole wide world
\n
\nAn endless universe
\nYet we keep looking through
\nThe eyeglass in reverse
\nDon’t feed the people
\nBut we feed the machines
\nCan’t really feel
\nWhat international means
\nIn different circles
\nWe keep holding our ground
\nIndifferent circles
\nWe keep spinning round and round
—Lyric by Rush
\n", "date_published": "2020-09-06T10:20:40-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/09/06/territories/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/09/01/the-greeks-had-no-original/", "content_html": "“The Greeks had no original sin and no eschatology because they saw nothing inherently wrong with the world in the first place.”
\nThings you find reading papers from Academia for the joy of it
\n", "date_published": "2020-09-01T11:08:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/09/01/the-greeks-had-no-original/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/24/photo-sharing-isis-not-simple/", "title": "Photo Sharing Is/Is Not Simple", "content_html": "For all of the talk of ecosystems, it was easier to share from my Apple Photos library to Micro.blog and to Instagram from my iPhone. Not my iPad, for which there is no native Instagram app, and for which the work-alikes did not allow multiple selections. So, while my iPhone was charging, I downloaded the iPhone app to my iPad, did the pixel doubling so I could type, and did the work that way.
\nThere are probably more ways to do this, and really I wanted to do it elegantly from my MacBook Air, however I didn’t perceive a faster method than exporting and uploading, and I chose not to do that.
\nI feel that this might be a driver behind Catayst apps and unifying the underlying silicon.
\n", "date_published": "2020-08-24T10:57:14-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/24/photo-sharing-isis-not-simple/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/20/made-it-all-the-way/", "content_html": "Made it all the way through. It seems like this iteration is less “white” or “bright” than the first public beta. UI still feels fresh but more familiar.
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/19e74d3c84.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-08-20T21:33:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/20/made-it-all-the-way/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/06/made-it-bigsur-publicbeta/",
"content_html": "Made it! #BigSur #PublicBeta
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/543be19d4e.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-08-06T16:03:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/06/made-it-bigsur-publicbeta/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/06/here-we-go-bigsur-publicbeta/",
"content_html": "Here we go! #BigSur #PublicBeta
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/5fb91da604.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-08-06T14:52:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/06/here-we-go-bigsur-publicbeta/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/06/my-progress-bar-has-stopped/",
"content_html": "My progress bar has stopped moving but my Mac has continued to download additional data #beta #BigSur #macOS
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/8e05a9e9d2.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-08-06T14:16:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/06/my-progress-bar-has-stopped/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/02/status/",
"content_html": "Status
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/b525d2f06f.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-08-02T18:50:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/02/status/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status","Experiential"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/08/01/having-dietary-concerns-is-a/",
"content_html": "Having dietary concerns is a minefield. I dangerously assumed a special order I made for home delivery was correct. But the worst part is that I didn’t confirm and I ate it.
\n#celiac
\n", "date_published": "2020-08-01T13:52:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/08/01/having-dietary-concerns-is-a/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/07/29/just-dumped-out-a-bunch/", "content_html": "Just dumped out a bunch of water at my desk. It doesn’t happen often, but every time it does I’m frustrated that I’m not more cautious, that I’m not using lids.
\nWater bottles are kinda tippy.
\nLids are frustrating.
\nAnd around we go.
\n", "date_published": "2020-07-29T08:53:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/07/29/just-dumped-out-a-bunch/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/07/27/its-here-got-myself-a/", "content_html": "It’s here! Got myself a birthday present from @schoolstoic
\n
Is it just me with the disappointment that now even our TV screens must be rebooted?
\n", "date_published": "2020-07-24T17:36:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/07/24/is-it-just-me-with/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/07/18/rainbow-and-thunder/", "content_html": "Rainbow and thunder
\n\n", "date_published": "2020-07-18T19:42:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/07/18/rainbow-and-thunder/", "tags": ["Photos","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/07/18/just-was-emailed-directly-about/", "content_html": "Just was emailed directly about the Cyph service. Does anyone have experience with it? It was proposed to me as an alternative to Keybase, which is now under new ownership.
\n", "date_published": "2020-07-18T11:17:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/07/18/just-was-emailed-directly-about/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/07/10/first-sticker-microblog-thankyou/", "content_html": "First sticker! #microblog #thankyou
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/305ab28c65.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/6374f60679.jpg\")
Deeply grateful for the series of events that helped the human race to discover that menthol stops the coughing. Also grateful to the candy makers who experimented with flavors like menthol. The art of the lemon drop is the art of the cough drop. I can sleep and so can my family.
\n", "date_published": "2020-02-17T11:49:59-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/02/17/deeply-grateful-for-the-series/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/02/01/poring-over-blood-test-results/", "content_html": "Poring over blood test results this afternoon. I got the raw data and terse summary in today’s mail.
\nI found that Lab Tests Online has a Tests Index that is a great tool for translating acronyms or medical terms into terms I understand.
\n", "date_published": "2020-02-01T16:16:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/02/01/poring-over-blood-test-results/", "tags": ["Helpful","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/01/28/my-latest-gadget-i-have/", "content_html": "My latest gadget. I have work to do.
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/1c90faa8a9.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-01-28T20:21:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/01/28/my-latest-gadget-i-have/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/01/11/is-memorial-listening-a-thing/",
"content_html": "Is Memorial Listening a thing?
\nI think a bunch of old guys like me are thinking about Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, The Spirit of the Radio and similar topics whilst playing giant drum kits in our heads.
\n", "date_published": "2020-01-11T15:22:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/01/11/is-memorial-listening-a-thing/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/01/10/permanentwaves/", "content_html": "#permanentwaves
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2020/a056e680ee.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2020-01-10T18:50:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/01/10/permanentwaves/",
"tags": ["Photos","Music","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/01/02/i-have-been-using-foursquare/",
"content_html": "I have been using Foursquare (now Swarm) for location check-ins for 10 years, now. I’m not consistent with lots of technology tools, but this one has stuck.
\nIt’s fun to look back at where I have been. When I look at a sequence of check-ins, remembering where and why, it helps me to reconstruct a day. It’s a fun tool that has helped me personally and professionally.
\n", "date_published": "2020-01-02T09:47:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/01/02/i-have-been-using-foursquare/", "tags": ["Brilliant","Helpful","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2020/01/01/starting-with-extra-sleep-and/", "content_html": "Starting 2020 with extra sleep and lots of coffee.
\nThis bodes well. :)
\n", "date_published": "2020-01-01T09:53:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2020/01/01/starting-with-extra-sleep-and/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/12/26/that-feeling-when-i-had/", "content_html": "That feeling when I had left the edit window open but forgot what I had intended to write
\n", "date_published": "2019-12-26T22:45:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/12/26/that-feeling-when-i-had/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/12/24/230700/", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2019/ce3c09af0a.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2019-12-24T23:07:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/12/24/230700/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/12/24/one-last-rewatch-of-the/",
"content_html": "One last re-watch of The Polar Express before… Mama and Poppa perform elven magic
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2019/d7256d747b.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2019-12-24T20:44:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/12/24/one-last-rewatch-of-the/",
"tags": ["Photos","Brilliant","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/12/22/today-marks-the-first-day/",
"content_html": "Today marks the first day I was asked if I was eligible for a Senior Discount
\n", "date_published": "2019-12-22T19:41:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/12/22/today-marks-the-first-day/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/12/16/step-two-completed-lights-on/", "content_html": "Step two completed: lights on the tree.
\nStep three? Snacks
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2019/6394017940.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2019-12-16T22:07:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/12/16/step-two-completed-lights-on/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/12/06/api-group-oh-just-wrapping/",
"content_html": "APi Group. Oh, just wrapping up rework on an old ticket. Lots of time today reporting. Team stats, team meeting. Sharing updated knowledge articles…
\n", "date_published": "2019-12-06T18:12:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/12/06/api-group-oh-just-wrapping/", "tags": ["Status","swarm"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/11/30/today-is-strange-frozen-precipitation/", "content_html": "Today is Strange Frozen Precipitation Day in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. #mnwx
\n", "date_published": "2019-11-30T12:07:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/11/30/today-is-strange-frozen-precipitation/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/11/16/i-rewatched-johnny-mnemonic-last/", "content_html": "I re-watched Johnny Mnemonic, last night, for nostalgic reasons… it is still a bad action film with a sci-fi trappings. Too much Hollywood and not enough Bill Gibson…
\n", "date_published": "2019-11-16T14:09:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/11/16/i-rewatched-johnny-mnemonic-last/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/11/16/so-much-for-the-long/", "content_html": "So much for the long tail? Wanted to buy Staring at the Sea from iTunes, today but it’s not there. It was my first exposure to The Cure because I’m not that cool.
\n", "date_published": "2019-11-16T11:40:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/11/16/so-much-for-the-long/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/11/15/i-had-always-imagined-that/", "content_html": "I had always imagined that fatherhood would be instructive. I had no way to know how profound it might be.
\n", "date_published": "2019-11-15T10:47:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/11/15/i-had-always-imagined-that/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/09/13/my-favorite-eddie-money-song/", "content_html": "My favorite Eddie Money song was Think I’m in Love from his 1982 album No Control
\n", "date_published": "2019-09-13T17:11:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/09/13/my-favorite-eddie-money-song/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/07/21/i-feel-dumb-it-took/", "content_html": "I feel dumb. It took me too long to locate the song-rating functionality in the iOS 13 beta. I had thought Apple was removing it. I spent lots of time mentally architecting a solution that proved to be completely unnecessary.
\n", "date_published": "2019-07-21T13:06:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/07/21/i-feel-dumb-it-took/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/07/19/heat-lightning-storm-in-video/", "content_html": "Heat lightning. Storm in video is between Northfield and Redwing, Minnesota. Visible from Conway neighborhood in St. Paul. 83% humidity on a hot Summer night. Jupiter presiding.
\n\n", "date_published": "2019-07-19T21:51:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/07/19/heat-lightning-storm-in-video/", "tags": ["Photos","Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/07/14/hogwarts-clock-tower-phase-four/", "content_html": "Hogwarts Clock Tower, phase four. Including Professor Moody’s office
\n![\"mp-photo-alt[]=\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2019/d5ba4974e4.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2019/7fe228276f.jpg\")
Hogwarts Clock Tower phase two including bath and Dumbledore’s office
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2019/1cc3612e7d.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2019-07-14T14:42:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/07/14/hogwarts-clock-tower-phase-two/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/07/14/building-the-hogwarts-clock-tower/",
"content_html": "Building the Hogwarts Clock Tower kit
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2019/9dbb8f0ce1.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2019-07-14T13:47:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/07/14/building-the-hogwarts-clock-tower/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/07/07/assembly-complete-including-concessions-note/",
"content_html": "Assembly complete, including concessions (note chocolate frog) and dementor.
\n![\"\"](\"https://1-1.hjalmer.com/uploads/2019/9f5a1c383d.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2019-07-07T14:00:00-06:00",
"url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/07/07/assembly-complete-including-concessions-note/",
"tags": ["Photos","Status"]
},
{
"id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/07/07/til-i-need-a-work/",
"content_html": "TIL: I need a work light and a magnifying glass. For LEGO
\n", "date_published": "2019-07-07T11:45:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/07/07/til-i-need-a-work/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/06/10/the-more-i-think-about/", "content_html": "The more I think about writing, the more difficult the act itself seems to become.
\n", "date_published": "2019-06-10T21:55:00-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/06/10/the-more-i-think-about/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/04/11/it-has-been-a-long/", "content_html": "It has been a long time, Florida. Thanks for being kind.
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Status. #HDIConf #RobertVanWinkle
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"date_published": "2019-04-11T07:14:22-06:00",
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"content_html": "Status: Neither here nor there
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I still love dinosaurs!
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Special treat today: watching an Apple Keynote live
\n", "date_published": "2019-03-25T11:04:44-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/03/25/special-treat-today-watching-an/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/03/22/haikus-came-up-inconversation-so/", "content_html": "Haikus came up in\nConversation, so I smiled.\nI miss making art.
\n", "date_published": "2019-03-22T11:05:34-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/03/22/haikus-came-up-inconversation-so/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/03/12/that-feeling-when-you-go/", "content_html": "That feeling when you go to the break room, there’s nobody to wait for, the coffee carafe is full, and you make no spills
\n", "date_published": "2019-03-12T07:28:37-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/03/12/that-feeling-when-you-go/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/02/24/fragility-base/", "title": "Fragility Base", "content_html": "I watched two movies about the Apollo Space Program this weekend.
\nThe experience is very complex for me, emotionally. The experience of writing this post is an attempt to define what it means.
\nI had read recently about a film that was making its way through festivals and Friday I tried to figure out what it was called. But I might be wrong about its provenance. And while I couldn’t remember a title or find what I thought I was looking for, I did find some documentaries available online which seemed to cover similar ground.
\nThe first documentary is called For All Mankind. It was released in 1989, several years after the Challenger disaster.
\nIt was about all of the lunar missions, though the footage and narration was respective to the individual missions.
\nI found myself full of the same wonder today as I have always had.
\nIn my lifetime, there has always been a space program. For a while, while I was younger, I believed there would be an opportunity for me to at least get to orbit. After all, at Christmastime in my first year of life, we orbited the moon. And not long after that, mission after mission got us to the surface of the moon itself.
\nWhen the Shuttle program was announced, I felt it was a natural progression. Of course we were going to have space planes. Of course we were going to find ways to make space travel easier and less expensive.
\nI remember well in my senior year of high school when Challenger failed. I felt disbelief and horror. My Chemistry teacher had submitted ideas for experiments to be carried aloft on that flight. One of my classmates figured out early on that an easy way to derail his lectures was to ask about the space program and his chances. I loved it. My chemistry teacher did, too.
\nI checked out books from the school library full of illustrations and speculations about what space craft might look like. What would space stations be used for? Would we build colonies in space? Could we survive on other planets?
\nIt seemed, once, like there might have been an imperative. So many books and TV series and movies that I consumed pointed up to the sky and out of the solar system. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Six-Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Star Wars, Cosmos, Alien, Cosmos, even Blade Runner, all showed me this was not only possible but normal.
\nAnd so, the footage re-assembled in For All Mankind returned the feeling of wonder and the sense of the imperative to me. And I have missed that. As much as the movie is about the missions, it also is a fun window into a brief time and place.
\nThe second film I found is In the Shadow of the Moon. This is a much different film. While it is about the same events in the Apollo missions, the context and the subject is the recollection of the experience by many of the surviving astronauts. How they felt about their roles and what they remembered about their thoughts as events transpired.
\nI learned that the astronauts themselves were involved in the design of the craft they flew. I learned that astronauts were on the ground working as part of mission control as the missions were in progress.
\nAnd I learned the astronauts were taken by the perception of people around the world that we all were a part of the missions, that the success of the missions belongs to all of humanity. They have been greeted for the rest of their lives not with “You did it!” but rather with “We did it!”
\nI was profoundly struck by the final few minutes when clearly the astronauts were asked how they were affected, and how their perspective has changed. I found it deeply moving and I don’t want to spoil it for anyone considering watching it.
\nI’d definitely re-watch either film. For me it was very bittersweet. I hope someday we can stop poking at each other for sport. I hope someday we can take stock of the amazing gifts we have and consider the what we can leave behind for those generations we will never know.
\nPOSTSCRIPT
\nThe movie I had read about is called Apollo 11. It’s going to be released first in IMAX, then in traditional theatres shortly thereafter.
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-24T02:15:04-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/02/24/fragility-base/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/02/03/its-fun-to-live-in/", "content_html": "It’s fun to live in the future. I added a page to my blog and filled it full of thoughts from my head with a device small enough to fit in my hand–and with no cabling. It still feels like magic, even speaking as an old techy.
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-03T12:33:46-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/02/03/its-fun-to-live-in/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/01/26/installed-itunes-on-my-kindle/", "content_html": "Installed iTunes on my Kindle. Am tending now toward Apple-ification…
\n", "date_published": "2019-01-26T14:25:33-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/01/26/installed-itunes-on-my-kindle/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/01/20/my-favored-team-was-bested/", "content_html": "My favored team was bested in the sportsball match this evening.
\n", "date_published": "2019-01-20T21:20:32-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/01/20/my-favored-team-was-bested/", "tags": ["Status"] }, { "id": "http://hjalm.micro.blog/2019/01/14/again-i-must-record-that/", "content_html": "Again I must record that I have not learned to write music, so I cannot share what I hear. Must fix. Must fix.
\n", "date_published": "2019-01-14T22:14:56-06:00", "url": "https://1-1.hjalmer.com/2019/01/14/again-i-must-record-that/", "tags": ["Status","Experiential"] } ] }