Alas, my Series 4 Apple Watch and my 2019 MacBook Air are not going to get the next OS releases this fall. Everything else is rolling forward and I will have to think about what eventually will get replaced or recycled.


Spent the night with an awesome group of people hosted in Minneapolis to hear Chuck LeMonds.


Me and my Little Buddy


When your mom is a Queen super fan and she takes you to One Vision of Queen at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair


I’m federated everywhere I can, except on Meta products. I want them to be endpoints and Meta wants me to put them at the top of the pyramid. If they allow inbound posting, I’ll include them, too. Deleted X a while back. Occasionally I follow a link to a post there but generally don’t miss it.


Blasted my ears tonight doing yard work and listening to Echodrone. I have favorited Tranquility and Energy on their new album The Curvature of Sound.


We all want to be seen and accepted just as we are.

Many of us have been taught again and again to keep our masks tightly in place.

Because of terrible things visited on us by those whose acceptance we have sought, we visit those things on others.

Reinforcing the patterns we wish to break.


I am amazed. I haven’t had a hibiscus bloom like this before

📷🌺


One fun thing in the midst of my CD Re-rip project has been digging into the contents of the “Enhanced CD.”

For the most part, I just grab anything that has the MOV extension.

But it’s a window into a brief period of history when playing video on our computers was amazing. Further, it made production sense to try to cram several video files into the space a song occupies, instead of delivering the content online. It would have taken many hours to download each of those small files.

The later Enhanced CDs really are just interfaces to launch hyperlinks to content on a server somewhere, and probably long offline by now.

The artists seem so young and little, though they were once giant to me.


23andMe is running a decent promotion for July 4th in the USA: $79, down from $119