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Micro posts without a title will be mixed in here along with longer, titled posts. I've got another page set-up for short linked posts.

As of fall 2024 I am in the process of slowly rebuilding this archive. It will, no doubt, take a good long while. I have posts going back almost every year to 2003 and currently most of those are at Denny.micro.blog. I hope to clean up old posts a bit as I bring them over. Most will find there way over here in coming months.

2024

2024-12-01 # I've been listening to the From Under the Shadow podcast the past few days. I've long been aware of the broadstrokes of US policy in Central and South America. As I listen I think every US citizen should aquaint themselves with the details. This is the core truth of the US: It is an empire built on extreme violence in the name of democracy.

2024-11-30 #A local writer friend wrote this a couple days ago and I've found myself going back to it several times to enjoy the layers and tangles of it: Hachures.

2024-11-30 # Reading Molly White's post-election post Wind the clock and want to recommend it. She gets it.

2024-11-29 # I deleted my Facebook account nine years ago. I'd stopped using my Instagram account couple years ago, deleted it tonight. Done and done.

2024-11-29 #Other recent additions to my Blogroll:

2024-11-29 #Added the North American congress on Latin America to my Blogroll. They provide ongoing coverage and critique of US imperialism and political, economic and military intervention in the western hemisphere.

2024-11-28 #Thinking about Leonard Peltier this morning. I wonder how many Americans know his name? Do you know who he is?

2024-11-27 #I love the photo and explanation of the differences between the Hubble (visual light spectrum) and Webb (infrared spectrum) on yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day. NASA is such a gem.

2024-11-26 #It's 30°F this morning, 52°F in my cabin and I'm layered up to keep warm. I just finished homemade pumpkin butter on waffles for breakfast. Sipping coffee and reading about the flooding in the UK.

Living in the early days of the collapse.

2024-11-23 Getting there together

2024-11-16 Tech pundits don't understand the potential for Apple's Image Playground

2024-11-15 American empire, settler colonialism and indigenous resistance

2024-11-15 # Long overdue, I've begun updating my blog roll to include podcasts, blogs and websites by indigenous people who continue the struggle against the ongoing white settler colonialism rooted in the US.

2024-11-13 "This is not who we are."

2024-11-11 # Have we finished our mourning? Because we need to move onto community defense organizing. Don't be a "Good German". We can't be "Good Americans". Now is not the time to keep our heads down.

A lot of liberal folks spent the past few months warning that "democracy was on the line", that this was different, that Trump was an authoritarian. Well, I hope that they really understood what that meant. Authoritarians and fascists do not share power via elections. If you're holding onto "get through the next 4 years" drop that delusion now.

2024-11-10 # Reposting this: Community organizing and active citizenship. An introduction to what we can do today to get started in our community. Some nuts and bolts descriptions. We've got 2 months before the transition. Keep that in mind. After that conditions will begin to change.

Folks, our previous lives and norms are coming to an end. Some of us are safer than others. We can be "Good Germans Americans" which is to say, put our individual safety first and ignore the violence and breakdown going on around us or we can resist.

Commit and prepare.

2024-11-10 # Thinking this morning about community mutual aid projects. What can we do, on the ground, in small groups, to quickly build short-term beneficial and protective action while also building meaningful, longer-term relationships? Act>Connect>Build>Help

Blogging and social media is great for sharing ideas but it should be leading to additional, on-the-ground action. If it doesn't we're stopping short.

2024-11-10 #If You Force Me to be Your Property I Will Become a Wood Chipper
Leslie J. Anderson

I've been many things in my life—
a scholar, a mother, a laborer, a love,

a singer of songs that are mostly puns,
a dancer with my dogs in the living room,

but if you force me to be an object
I will become very sharp—
A blender. A garbage disposal.

Arsenic served our ancestors well
but have you considered
that we are being threatened
with the room where the knives live?

Someone once told me
the best poems are threats.
Well,
so am I.

2024-11-08 # Perhaps I'm going too far off the deep end but I keep seeing people referring to the notion of getting through the next four years. My question is how realistic is it to expect an election in four years? It's become popular (and correct) to say "When they tell you who they are believe them" or "When they tell you what they intend to do believe them."

What they've been telling us is that there will be no election because fascists and Nazis in power don't take turns by allowing elections. People are still talking about this from the bubble of history and previous norms. That seems delusional, magic thinking. It's the same sort of pretend reality that ignores the climate emergency.

So, explain it in realistic terms, why should we expect an election in four years.

2024-11-08 Remain calm. But Prepare.

2024-11-06 #Went to bed early. Woke up early. Time for coffee and a double shot of Irish Cream.

2024-11-04 #Just some obvious examples and points of likely failure as citizens that actually take democracy as a responsibility rather than as an afterthought. A brief survey:

  • When was the last city council meeting you attended?
  • When was the last county commission meeting you attended?
  • When was the last school board meeting you attended?
  • Have you ever served on a local advisory board or a non-profit board?
  • How often do you volunteer in your community?

2024-11-04 #There's a lot of anxiety and panic leading up to the election. Whatever happens, I hope it is understood that this election is just the most obvious, open fissure of very deep systemic problems and increasing pressure building up. We keep failing to learn the lesson that as citizens we have a full-time responsibility to be active participants in and watchdogs of "our" government. We abandoned our responsibilities long ago.

2024-11-04 # Spending this rainy morning watching The Cure. Their YouTube channel is a treasure of interviews, old videos and concerts. I'm on my second watch of their three hour long live stream from a couple days ago. What a show.

2024-11-03 # Out on a walk in the woods today I discovered a small patch of pawpaws on the trail and it occurred to me that now might be the best time to find them because their very large oblong leaves are currently pale yellow and stand out as most of the trees have already lost all of their leaves. I think there is a longer post to write exploring the different ways to learn to read nature. Trees, stars, birds, lichen all have their own language, their own patterns.

2024-10-31 Industrial battery recycling plant in nearby Fredericktown just burned down

2024-10-30 #I was sitting on my porch cracking walnuts and noticed a nasty smell. I couldn't see any smoke. Turns out the less-than-one year old battery recycling facility 3 miles south of me was on fire. I moved inside immediately but I'm guessing my 15 minutes of breathing in those particulates was a couple years worth of average exposure. Yay?

2024-10-29 Why Siri works for me

2024-10-28 Rocking the boat

2024-10-27 #Joe Biden has apologized to the indigenous people 'for what happened during the "Indian Boarding School era".

Now let's apologize and reckon with the rest. America has turned away from its foundational truth: It is a country built on white supremacy which is, even now, based in genocide, land theft, slavery and violence. In the years since its founding we've repeatedly and arrogantly pretended to be the champions of freedom and democracy.

The truth is we have become a violent empire with a thin veneer of democracy. The core is white supremacy, systemic violence and capitalism.

2024-10-25 The goodness of Walnuts

2024-10-25 # I'm happy to have been included in Manuel Moreale's ongoing People and Blogs series. You can read the interview here. There are 60 other interviews in his ongoing series. There are lots of interesting folks out there publishing blogs.

2024-10-24 The growing pains of the renewed small web

2024-10-22 #Watching season 2 of Pachinko and it's excellent. Also, I cannot resist watching the opening credits for this show. The smiles, the dancing, it's delightful.

2024-10-18 Ta-Nehisi Coates

2024-10-17 #Today's afternoon food experiments. Dinner was my usual sweet rice which is simple, just a bit of sugar, cinnamon, salt and soy milk. I'm out of soy milk so I subbed in peanut butter and also added 1/4 cup of canned pumpkin pie mix. Oh my that was good! Then some hot chocolate and because I'm out of soy I subbed in peanut butter again. Might sound odd but I just blend up a bit of water and peanut butter to make a frothy, nutty milk that works great for hot chocolate.

2024-10-17 #Morning breakfast that was so good it deserves a mention: Baked pumpkin oatmeal with walnuts. And coffee of course.

2024-10-14 Are climate delusions in Florida slowly breaking apart?

2024-10-13 #Morning coffee and oatmeal while listening to Tech Won't Save Us podcast. An excellent podcast and this particular episode is especially worth a listen. They just dig right in. Accessible but really dense in history, the facts and narrative of the current moment. No doubt I'll give it a second listen.

2024-10-11 Gaza Death Toll Perspective

2024-10-10 People working to build the personal web: Annie, Lou and Ela

2024-10-09 Foraging Walnuts

2024-10-09 Rabidosa rabida, rabid wolf spider

2024-10-08 #I've made a good bit of progress the past couple weeks getting my Images page setup. It's far from complete but I've got a good start. Each image linked to the matching blog post.

2024-10-08 #Sitting on the porch listening to a flock of birds in a nearby tree. I've not identified them visually but Merlin suggests Common Grackel or European Starling. They're having quite the conversation and and it is somehow very soothing.

2024-10-07 # A brief note of appeciation for Wikipedia. Such a gem. During a Facetime call with my folks this morning and I ended up down a rabbit hole about the history of race, relations, religion and language in the Middle East. In a very brief, lay-person sort of way of course. My poor parents. But Wikipedia got a donation out of the deal because I realized afterward that I needed to do a bit of follow-up reading and fact checking to confirm a few of the things I'd shared. After all these years I'm still amazed that a site like that came into existence and that it persists.

2024-10-07 A few thoughts on domain name-based identity being advocated by Jay Graber, Bluesky and others

2024-10-07 #Had an interesting five hour visit and conversation with a friend and fellow radical yesterday. One of the things discussed is our frustration with the lack of emphasis on, a commitment to, or even a notion of, daily citizenship. Trump succeeded in motivating half the country to anger and overt racism. But the other half of the country is still confined to the limited scope of electoral politics. That is a veneer of democracy, not the full depth and responsibility of meaningful democracy.

2024-10-07 # One year later and Gaza is now reduced to rubble. 41,000 dead (likely 100,000 when those buried under the rubble are included). 100,000+ wounded. Settler violence has increased in the West Bank as land theft has accelerated. Israel has expanded the war to Lebanon.War Crimes and genocide continue.

2024-10-03 Apple, Capitalism and 13 years under Tim Cook

2024-10-01 Daal and Naan: easy, simple home-cooked lunch

2024-09-30 The outlandish proclamations of the tech press

2024-09-29 # On a whim I started writing what I intended to be a quick response to Mark Gurman's comparison of Meta's Orion glasses to Apple's Vision Pro in his newsletter today. An hour later and I'm still writing, deleting, writing - something I may not even publish and don't care that much about. Stupid brain.

2024-09-29 Weaving the web but more like frogs visiting in a pond

2024-09-28 Want to help?

2024-09-25 Repairing rather than returning

2024-09-23 Pale Tiger Caterpillar

2024-09-23 Old man yelling at clouds

2024-09-22 Blue wax weed, Cuphea viscosissima

2024-09-18 Thoughts on single proprietor blog services and what if...

2024-09-18 Using devices as they were NOT intended

2024-09-17 RegEx and a stroll down memory lane

2024-09-14 20 years later

2024-09-12 Today's Mini-adventure in freelancing!

2024-09-12 Using the right tool for the job: Website coding, site management and blog posting from the iPad

2024-09-11 A break from my usual

2024-09-07 That time I resurfaced a gravel road by hand

2024-09-05 On doing things the "hard" way

2024-09-03 On canceling my Apple Music subscription

2024-09-03 Begin Again

2024-09-01 A blogging experiment that started with a bang of excitement but ends with a whimper

2024-09-01 Sunday morning health notes

2024-08-27 Covid finally got me

2024-08-25 A new process for exploring blogs

2024-08-25 We belong to our ecosystem

2024-08-24 Iced sumac tea

2024-08-24 A new process for exploring blogs

2024-08-23 Cardinal Flowers

2024-08-21 Pawpaw Harvest

2024-08-20 Will Biden supporters ever acknowledge his role in genocide?

2024-08-20 Morning porch time

2024-08-19 I have a large forehead.

2024-08-17 Saturday critter time

2024-08-15 A view of the countryside from my morning ride.

2024-08-14 Adding dark mode to my sites

2024-08-11 Free time blog exploration

2024-08-11 The challenge of the mundane

2024-08-08 Lucky observation of a pair of Yellow-billed Cuckoos

2024-08-07 Lichen

2024-08-06 Computer Chronicles on the Macintosh

2024-08-03 Cool morning conservation

2024-08-02 A quiet morning bike ride

2024-08-01

The sense we have of ourselves as permanent beings is a delusion. Nothing is permanent.

The mistake we make, is that we see ourselves as the rocks and the ground underneath a river, rather then the water itself.

We are always in a state of change. We are changed by our senses and by our moment to moment interaction with the world around us.

It's when we create attachments, anchors to the self, it is then that suffering arises.

Accept change. Peace is found within the flow of the water.



2024-07-31 Individual action adds up to collective action

2024-07-27 Seeing this quote on social media recently, attributed to Hannah Arendt. Can’t find a source though. Ironic that it may not be an actual quote. 😂

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

Hannah Arendt

Related:

🔗 Lying in Politics: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception and the Psychology of Defactualization

🔗 Disinformation and Democracy | Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities:

🔗 Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism

2024-07-25 A foggy morning sunrise

2024-07-19 Dancing in my tiny house to Footloose and various other cheesy hits from the 80s as one does on a Friday afternoon. Anything to avoid the existential dread that is now a part of daily life. And right on cue, the theme song to Ghostbusters pops up and seems appropriate to the moment.

2024-07-17 Flowers and little friends

2024-07-15

"Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

-Steve Jobs

2024-07-11

"Your kind never sees us whole. You miss the half of it, and more. There's always as much belowground as above."

"That's the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next. Creating the soil. Cycling water. Trading in nutrients. Making weather. Building atmosphere. Feeding and curing and sheltering more kinds of creatures than people know how to count."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

2024-07-11 Blackberries and friends

2024-07-09 Apple's marketing of the iPad as a general computing device

2024-07-02 Organizing and active citizenship

2024-07-01 Blackberry Lillies and Crab Spiders

2024-07-01 Tiny Life Journal - Waste Reduction

2024-06-30 The 2024 election is an opportunity for democracy

2024-06-29 Birdsong and Chicory

2024-06-28 Laundy day

2024-06-28 Birdsong and dewy grass

2024-06-28 The problem with American "democracy"

2024-06-28 The way forward in the US is not about a party or candidate or particular election, the way forward is about rediscovering democracy and redefining what democracy should be in America in 2024.

Democracy here is fundamentally broken at a systemic, foundational level and has been for many years.

2024-06-27 The middle class climate crisis

2024-06-27 Blackberry season has begun

2024-06-25 In a field of grass

2024-06-23 The Delight of the iPad

2024-06-22 Apple's LLM Training on the public internet

2024-06-21 Meadow grass and daisies

2024-06-20 Slime Mold!

2024-06-20 The sights and sounds of a morning walk

2023-06-17 Global perspective on income and climate

2024-06-13 Is Applebot a Problem?

2024-06-12 Mac Nerds: It's time for you to move on

2024-06-11 An interesting discussion of slavery in the movie Origin

2024-06-08 Caturday morning coziness with Rosie

2024-06-01 The myth of the over-powered iPad

2024-05-30 My Siri Confession

2024-05-27 The iPad is the touch first computer for the rest of us

2024-05-24 Collective delusions of humans in crisis

2024-05-23 Is Apple News a significant source of income for publishers?

2024-05-17 Concerning the state of iPadOS and a very tired Federico Viticci

2024-05-15 Federico's iPad confusion

2024-05-15 Life in the woods

2024-05-14 Tiny Fungi

2024-05-14 The perception of the iPad is stuck in a rut created by the Apple enthusiast community

2024-05-12 Apple’s iPad Pro Marketing Failure — They don’t even try

2024-05-10 Exploring how others use and view the iPad

2024-05-10 The Aurora in Missouri is looking spectacular.

2024-05-08 Why is Jason Snell so confused about the iPad use case?

2024-05-07 A few thoughts on Apple's "Let Loose" iPad event

2024-05-06 The next month of iPad punditry is going to be unbearable

2024-05-05 The iPad Pro is its own thing and should never be a Mac

2024-05-04 Flowers sparkling in raindrops

2024-05-03 Soft light and morning raindrops

2024-05-03 Speckled king snake

2024-05-02 Salt Marsh Caterpillar

2024-05-02 Cicada Hatch

2024-05-01 May Day 2024

2024-04-27 Writing and blogging from One Big Text File

2024-04-27 A brief exploration of alternative browsers on iPad

2024-04-18 Is text editing on the iPad a problem?

2024-04-17 Blogging from the OBTF

2024-04-17 A quick follow-up to my post earlier this morning about blogging from my OBTF. One issue I mentioned as a possible friction point was posts containing images. I solved it easily with a Shortcut that I’ll use for every post regardless of whether they contain images. It’s a simple Shortcut that shares the text as an individual file in Obsidian. This allows for the same, easy posting from iA Writer when I’ve got images in a post. I’ll go ahead and do this for every post as it will continue adding those individual files to the blog posts folder in Obsidian. If I decide in the future not to blog from OBTF all of my posts are still intact as individual files. I’ve also set the Shortcut to copy the post text and open a new post on the Micro.blog website. If you’re an Apple user and you’re not using Shortcuts you’re missing out!

2024-04-17 It was 85°F here yesterday (mid-Missouri). Forecast to be 83° today and 82° tomorrow. According to the Apple weather app this is 13° above average. Summer is going to be fun. 🥵

2024-04-14 A few spring 2024 iPad thoughts

2024-04-13 How do you define self?

2024-04-08 Clear skies for the 2024 Solar eclipse: totality

2024-03-31 I’ve seen it suggested that American billionaires should now be referred to as oligarchs. By the same logic, we should also now refer to the Republicans as Fascists, and the Republican Party as the Fascist Party. Call them what they are. Fascists.

2024-03-29 US History: We need to acknowledge the violence of white settler colonialism and slavery

2024-03-28 Rue Anemone on the trail today

2024-03-27 Pondering white supremacy in US society

2024-03-15 A review/check-in after 19 months of hosting on Micro.blog

2024-03-12 20 albums that stuck

2024-03-12 Plum tree bees

2024-03-11 Busy Bees

2024-03-10 A male relative today made a sexist, stupid comment, not for the first time. My reply, not for the first time: Your sexism isn’t funny and it’s never acceptable. Stop. I know that he won’t stop. I get the same from most of the other males in the family. Patriarchy has deep roots in our culture and in individual behavior patterns.

2024-03-06 My always evolving iPad set-up (and speculations on the iPad's future)

2024-02-29 A deeply broken country

2024-02-19 The Apple pundit club strikes again

2024-02-18 The iPad Pro, Mac and Vision Pro can all co-exist

2024-02-14 Apple getting weird?

2024-02-11 An easy hack for an ever present clipboard history for iPad!

2024-02-06 Reckoning with a storm

2024-02-05 Gaza Death Toll Perspective

2024-02-05 The ICJ ruling of plausible genocide

2024-02-01 Solidarity

2024-01-29 Happy Moss and Lichen

2024-01-26 Techbros are silent on the genocide

2024-01-25 Further explorations of Octavia Butler

2024-01-24 Hey Macintosh, happy 40th!

2024-01-21 Afrofuturism

2024-01-16 Thoughts on Octavia Butler's Parable series

2024-01-11 Lichen this take-over

2024-01-08 Four furballs on a futon

2024-01-07 What's a professional?

2024-01-04 iPad Case Study: Warner Crocker

2024-01-03 2023 Year in Review

2023

2023-12-31 Feeding 8 billion humans in a climate crisis

2023-12-31 Parable of the Sower

2023-12-28 GoodLinks for "read it later?"

2023-12-26 As the world celebrates the holidays Gaza burns

2023-12-24 Gall Wasp

2023-12-23 Caturday iPad Set-up

2023-12-23 Wasp gall and lichen

2023-12-22 Thoughts Micro.blog and it’s place in the fediverse

2023-12-21 Apple’s machine learning feels like magic

2023-12-18 Unexpected App surprises of 2023

2023-12-17 Silent Sunday

2023-12-17 Waffles

2023-12-14 A Mac shaped elephant in the room

2023-12-12 Subbing in a 15" monitor as a primary display

2023-12-09 A Day in the Life of Working with an iPad

2023-12-09 Apple Pundit Dick Moves

2023-12-05 When the past meets the future

2023-12-03 Mosses

2023-12-02 Fungi

2023-12-01 Trail Fungi and Lichen

2023-11-29 Experiments with iPad Set-ups

2023-11-26 Fuzzy White Cutie

2023-11-26 Obsidian and Interstitial Journaling

2023-11-25 America as a failed democracy

2023-11-24 Fall gold

2023-11-22 The precipice of authoritarianism: How and why did the US get to this?

2023-11-18 The soothing balm of minimalism

2023-11-18 Trametes Fungi

2023-11-15 Trying Obsidian... Again

2023-11-13-2 The silence on genocide is deafening

2023-11-13 Burning Bushes

2023-11-12 The Apple update cycle

2023-11-09 My second purchase of gasoline in 2023

2023-11-08 New keyboard day

2023-11-07 Building on-the-ground community democracy

2023-11-07 This is our genocide too

2023-11-02 Defining Genocide

2023-11-02 #Solidarity

2023-10-30 Apple's confused Mac line-up

2023-10-28 These woods are home

2023-10-26 My three furry friends hanging out on the porch today

2023-10-25 The iPad: Modularity and flexibility

2023-10-25 From Saturday's morning trail ride

2023-10-25 Morning walk with a bit of side-eye

2023-10-19 The Mac lineup is so confusing!

2023-10-18 Using Freeform to process and note what I'm reading on the web

2023-10-06 Freeform Social Experiment

2023-10-05 Permacomputing and tech waste

2023-09-29 Apple's Freeform as Social Media Collaboration Space

2023-09-24 Experimental iPad Configurations

2023-09-23 Lots of wheel barrel action

2023-09-20 Pages and Publisher on the iPad Compared Pt 2

2023-09-17 Pages and Affinity Publisher on the iPad Compared Part 1

2023-09-17 Upcoming post preview: Comparing Apple Pages and Affinity Publisher

2023-09-16 iPad Stories Follow up

2023-09-12 Copperhead

2023-09-11 Some recent iPad Stories

2023-09-04 Gravel road work

2023-08-31 iPad goal posts and hand wavy things

2023-08-29 Stage Manager: One person's "wrong" does not apply to all

2023-08-26 The iPad Failing Again: Summer 2023 Edition

2023-08-25 Mouse test

2023-08-25 Full citizen participation is needed to solve the climate crisis

2023-08-23 The Mythic I Computer

2023-08-20 My take on a personal climate impact assessment and plan

2023-08-19 Greta

2023-08-19 Tiny Witch's Hat Fungi

2023-08-18 Gravel road work

2023-08-16 Multitasking and Windowing on the iPad Pro

2023-08-13 A return to the iPad Mini

2023-08-10 Personal responsibility and action during two crises: Covid and Climate

2023-08-10 Maui Burning

2023-08-07 Don't Let Them Bury My Story

2023-08-07 Campanula americana, American bellflower

2023-08-05 Adventures in RSS apps

2023-08-05 Love Notes to Newton

2023-08-04 A pillow stand?

2023-08-03 Splitgill mushrooms

2023-08-02 Secret Pawpaws

2023-07-31 Oh, this cute boy wants attention

2023-07-30 My difficulty relating to my fellow humans

2023-07-29 A new favorite Apple Nerd

2023-07-29 Carbon and perpetual growth

2023-07-27 Towhee songs

2023-07-26 The wealthiest 10% caught in the Greece wildfires they caused

2023-07-23 What one person can do

2023-07-23 Shortcuts for quick text templating

2023-07-21 Perspective

2023-07-21 Stage Manager App Expose on iPad

2023-07-19 Blackberry oatmeal

2023-07-19 The New Siri improvements

2023-07-18 The personal accounting of the top 10%

2023-07-17 Capitalism is not compatible with solving the climate crisis

2023-07-17 Country road sunrise

2023-07-16 Hazy Sunrise

2023-07-15 Reframing our dependence on the condensed energy of fossil fuels

2023-07-14 Moving Safari tabs into tab groups

2023-07-14 Photos from the archive

2023-07-13 Waste Reduction

2023-07-12 iPadOS 17: Improved file content indexing

2023-07-10 Easy low-tech, low cost climate solutions

2023-07-09 Sunday morning reflection on our moment in the cosmos

2023-07-08 Apple's Weather App

2023-07-07 Yes, the iPad can be used for SOME coding

2023-07-06 On having and "loving" children in a climate emergency

2023-07-04 Morning walk, birdsong and a meadow

2023-07-03 A check-in with Siri and Apple's Machine Learning

2023-07-02 Button bush and friends

2023-06-19 A few thoughts on WWDC23, the Vision Pro and iPadOS 17

2023-06-18 Purple Coneflower Buffet

2023-06-17 Some global perspective on income and climate

2023-06-02 Trail photos!

2023-05-31 Carl Sagan's 1987 testimony to Congress on climate change

2023-5-31 iPad Workflow: Using Shortcuts to process an image for the web:

2023-05-29 An iPad Pro Revival

2023-05-26 A few recent photos taken around the cabin and on the trail.

2023-05-17 Apple pundit clickbait

2023-05-17 Why are Mac users so unhappy with their Macs?

2023-05-16 Today's fat bike trail ride

2023-05-15 A few thoughts on FCP/Logic on iPad...

2023-05-12 Morning walk, trail ride and friend visit

2023-05-11 Ants and bees

2023-05-10 The beauty of early spring!

2023-05-06 Spring trail ride

2023-05-05 Mayapple Trail

2023-05-03 Mayapples and wild comfry

2023-04-30 The Gini Coefficient

2023-04-30 Larkspur

2023-04-28 Hmmmm. Day two with Day One

2023-04-28 Apple Notes for Journaling and Blogging?

2023-04-27 Mulching the blackberry bed

2023-04-27 I took the dogs out and was greeted by the spring peepers singing off in the distance. Closer to the cabin a whippoorwill calling. I do love the simple life in the woods.

2023-04-25 Spring birds!

2023-04-22 Spring Creek Ride

2023-04-22 Orange slime mold!

2023-04-21 Wildflower trail ride

2023-04-20 Spring Bluebird!

2023-04-18 Spring

2023-04-16 Early spring trail ride

2023-04-18 Stable Diffusion

2023-04-11 Reducing plastic packaging

2023-04-09 Redbud flowers

2023-04-08 Furballs

2023-04-08 Moft Snap Case and Snap Float Stand Review

2023-04-06 Reducing plastic waste - laundry detergent

2023-03-07 Easy scanning and OCR with Notes and Files with an iPad

2023-03-02 20 years of blogging

2023-02-27 A simple but effective iPad photography workflow

2023-02-25 Cyanocitta cristata, Blue Jay

2023-02-24 Three Lichens, posted together for easier comparison.

2023-02-23 The iPad works better if you learn how to use it

2023-02-22 Fun multitouch gestures on the iPad

2023-02-20 Fan club moss

2023-02-18 Late winter ride

2023-02-17 Easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

2023-02-16 Lichen

2023-02-16 Exploring the Files App on iPadOS 16

2023-02-14 Cladonia, Pixie Cup Lichen

2023-02-12 Punctelia bolliana, Eastern speckled shield lichen

2023-02-07 The iPad, Apple pundits and reality

2023-02-04 Oh Rosie!

2023-02-02 Some iPad users really should just use a Mac

2023-02-01 Working with cats Part 2

2023-02-01 Cats are not compatible with working from home

2023-01-31 Winter blue jay

2023-01-30 Winter songbirds

2023-01-27 Snowy trail ride

2023-01-26 Snow Birds!

2023-01-25 Heavy snow!

2023-01-24 Eastern Towhee

2023-01-23 Whatever happened to the Apple oriented news media

2022

2022-12-30 192 Square Feet: Part 3

2022-11-10 Petunia

2022-08-04 Stage Manager

2020

2020-12-24 Gravity Bullseye Monster Long-term review

2020-12-21 2020 - My return to peddling

2020-12-14 Fat bike fitting: fixing a wide stance

2020-12-05 Gravel bike tires compared- WTB Nanos and Hutchinson Touaregs

2020-11-21 Comparing the fit and trail riding experience on the gravel and fat bikes

2020-11-08 Adventure Bike Wheel Sizes- 650b or 700c?

2020-11-02 2020: Ugly and Uglier

2020-09-13 Exploring on two wheels

2020-09-08 Poseidon X Review Follow-up

2020-08-24 Going Slow

2020-08-04 Poseidon X Review

2020-07-31 1,000

2020-07-14 Bike and Trail Updates

2020-07-10 4am

2020-06-21 A month of trail riding

2020-05-28 Ride, ride, ride

2020-05-16 Road Ride

2020-05-10 In the woods

2020-05-09 Riding the trails

2020-04-27 Gravity Bullseye Monster Fat Bike Initial Impressions

2020-04-17 Trail Building Fun

2020-04-11 Chunky gravel and punctured tube

2020-04-05 Outside for the season

2020-04-05 iPad and a Magic Trackpad 2

2020-03-31 iPad Journal: A Decade of iPad

2020-03-18 Some GoPro fun

2020-03-12 Back Country

2020-03-11 Busy on two wheels!

2020-02-28 Rover Rides and more on Local Cycling Project

2020-02-20 Roving with the Rad Rover

2020-01-25 Cycling Project Update

2020-01-25 400

2020-01-17 Next Stop, 400 Miles!

2020-01-17 Fredericktown Cycling Project

2020-01-15 One Hour Adventure

2020-01-12 240 miles

2020-01-12 20x4 Fat Tires

2020-01-10 Madison County Cycling Proposal

2020-01-05 1 Point 5

2020-01-05 14 Days of E-Bike Fun

2016

2016-08-04 192 Square Feet: Part 2

2016-07-21 192 Square Feet: Part 1

2016-01-05 Discovery 12.5 Dobsonian: Initial Thoughts

2015

2015-09-05 Space Exploration Themed Posters Part Two

2015-06-25 Pigweed!

2015-06-17 Video: Swale Update

2015-06-08 Permaculture Poster Design (and Affinity Designer First Impression)

2015-06-05 Ducks, the universe and turning 46

2015-06-03 The U.S. Political System is BROKEN

2015-05-04 Permaculture Progress

2015-04-19 Permaculture at Make-it-Do

2015-03-30 Busy Spring!

2015-03-04 Recycled Wood Shelving

2015-03-04 Staying Warm

2015-02-20 A Sentient Being

2015-02-16 Idealism, Diplomacy, and the Pale, Blue Dot

2015-02-12 Illustration: Common Components of Vaccines

2015-02-12 It Could Happen

2015-02-11 Apple and the environment

2015-02-10 Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science

2009

2009-01-26 Winter Business

2009-01-18 An animal walking in the woods

2009-01-18 Time stands still

2009-01-09 Want hands on experience with ecological gardening and permaculture?

2009-01-02 Climate change and the need for drastic action

2008

2008-12-24 Coming together

2008-12-24 The right way to burn wood

2008-12-17 This small town

2008-12-12 Quiet days

2008-11-21 Understanding the Greater Depression

2008-11-17 Climate change, global depression and consumption

2008-11-11 Homesteading Self-reliance

2008-11-06 Living with a wood burning stove

2008-10-08 Forest Garden Update

2008-10-05 Autumn Olive Update

2008-09-29 Peeling the Onion: What’s Behind the Financial Mess?

2008-09-06 Autumn Olive!!

2008-06-30 Five gallons of water

2008-06-27 Our Missouri Permaculture Project

2008-02-21 An Aperture 2.0 mini review and my confirmed switch to Lightroom

2008-02-07 Switching from Aperture to Lightroom?

2007

2007-12-23 .Mac and iWeb

2007-12-18 Growing Native

2007-12-14 Burden

2007-11-26 Fall Light

2007-11-15 Bento

2007-11-05 Leopard: Quick Look and Finder's Cover Flow

2007-11-03 A Flower

2007-10-10 Summer Ends

2007-10-08 An eco-friendly way of dealing with fall leaves

2007-10-05 New England Aster

2007-10-04 Gray Tree Frog

2007-09-27 Hey Buddy

2007-09-16 Chickory

2007-09-16 This is funny

2007-09-15 Yellow Wood-Sorrel

2007-09-10 Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes in Greenland

2007-09-08 An ice-free Arctic in just 23 years?

2007-09-04 Saddleback Buddies

2007-08-04 From iPhoto to Aperture: Saving Space

2007-05-27 Dictatorship Directives NSPD 51 and HSPD-20

2007-06-19 On giving up

2007-05-24 Bush Issues Directives Giving Bush Complete Power: NSPD 51 and HSPD-20

2007-05-21 Al Gore's climate change hypocrisy

2007-04-28 Cutting grass without gas

2007-04-23 Of bees and flowers

2007-04-15 Where Have the Honey Bees Gone?

2007-04-12 Climate Change Round-up

2007-04-11 Gray Tree Frog

2007-04-09 John McCain's Iraq Delusions

2007-4-09 Fly Away

2007-04-03 Climate Change Roundup

2007-03-22 Bloodroot

2007-03-21 Sea Level Rise Could Accelerate

2007-03-21 Arctic could have iceless summers by 2100

2007-03-20 One day a tomato

2007-03-14 Northern Spring Peeper

2007-03-13 The fish are dying

2007-03-13 Honeybees Vanishing

2007-03-13 Tree Bud

2007-02-26 Winter Sunset

2007-02-12 Climate change and the meat industry

2007-02-12 Recreating society for the new tomorrow

2007-02-02 Revisiting iWeb

2006

2006-07-07 Where have all the butterflies gone?

2005

2005-10-17 Apple Problems and AppleCare Problems

2005-08-09 Social Networking for the Uber Geek: O'Reilly Connection

2005-08-09 DTV: Internet TV via RSS

2005-06-08 Tagbag! - Dashboard widget utilizes Spotlight for GTD

2005-06-06 They did it-Apple is moving to Intel!

2005-05-28 Automator Action: Scale and Send via Bluetooth

2004

2004-12-29 RealClimate: Blogging by climate scientists

2004-12-29 Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

2004-12-28 Self-determination

2004-12-27 Will Kerry Unconcede?

2004-12-27 Grass now established in warmer Antarctic

2004-12-27 Bush ordered torture in Iraq

2004-12-23 Ohio and the crumbling facade of democracy

2004-12-22 Blogs: do we learn from disagreement?

2004-12-22 Getting to know Direct Action

2004-12-22 Americans are killing their Christ

2004-12-21 German solar energy development shows the way

2004-12-20 Oil and Empire

2004-12-18 American Jesus

2004-12-18 Thousands of U.S. troops have deserted since invasion of Iraq

2004-12-16 Pentagon nervous about Germany’s war crimes case against Rumsfeld

2004-12-15 Public life and public space: Europe and the U.S.

2004-12-14 Ohio Recount: Blackwell Locks Out Recount Volunteers

2004-12-14 What is before us?

2004-11-16 Fuzzy Falluja Math

2004-11-16 Civillian deaths in Fallujah

2004-11-15 One of these things: Falluja, Ping Pong, Macs

2004-11-13 There is a secret world concealed within this one…

2004-11-12 War Corporatism and the New American Century

2004-11-11 If it’s not sexy: Freedom Journal

2004-11-11 Firefox Goodness

2004-11-09 Delicious Library, Quicksilver, Sorry Americans, and Polar Bears

2004-11-09 A human that is me: manifesto version .1

2004-11-08 The Arctic is warming at twice the global rate

2004-11-07 Black Box Voting Fraud

2004-11-06 Film Strip: Bush is an asshole… it’s educational… really!

2004-11-05 Post-election ramble

2004-11-04 George Bush loves Jesus

2004-11-04 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties follow-up

2004-11-04 Tell us what you really think

2004-11-02 Terrorism and the illusion of democracy in the U.S.

2004-11-01 Freedom Journal - The podcast

2004-10-31 Freedom Journal is up

2004-10-30 Freedom Journal

2004-10-29 George Bush: International Terrorist and Lying Scumbag

2004-10-29 Everyday citizenship

2004-10-29 U.S. may have killed 100,000 in war

2004-10-27 Confounded by Christians

2004-10-26 Tuesday Randomness: Jon Stewart on C-Span, Cards vs Sox and more!

2004-10-25 Anarchism, part 3

2004-10-23 Cardinals vs the Sox

2004-10-23 Anarchism and Liberalism

2004-10-22 Anarchism, part 2

2004-10-09 The internets

2004-10-08 It must be said

2004-10-06 George, the voices in your ear are not divine

2004-10-03 Iraq's destruction based on aluminum tube lies

2004-10-01 Russia approves Kyoto, U.S. alone

2004-09-30 Why, Why, Why would anyone vote for George Bush?

2004-09-27 Global Oil Production

2004-09-26 Iraq out of control

2004-09-25 It's a snake eat frog world

2004-09-22 I'm ready for the fall

2004-09-22 The New Threat: Cat Stevens

2004-09-22 Anarchoblogs

2004-09-18 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

2004-09-16 Capsula Mundi, the biodegradable coffin

2004-09-14 What is real? (Iraq is just great. Really.)

2004-09-14 A little Jokey Joke on my friends at the MeDiA Co-op

2004-09-13 Bill Maher on the stupidity of treating symptoms

2004-09-04 MeDiA Co-op: Digital Film Fest

2004-09-02 From Republic to Empire, Give in to your hate, RNC Protest Photo

2004-08-30 Protesting the RNC Convention 2004

2004-08-29 Who's the terrorist?, Iraq News

2004-08-28 RNC roundup, Global Oil Reserves January 2002

2004-08-05 Lucky the Goldfish

2004-08-04 The Loss of Citizenship

2004-08-02 Changes

2004-07-31 Real Time with Bill Maher

2004-07-29 9-11 Commission Report

2004-07-28 Our decentralized future

2004-07-27 Repeat after me

2004-07-26 Mac App: Voodoo Pad

2004-07-25 The Boston Revolution? I don't think so

2004-07-25 Previously "Lost" Bush Nationl Guard Documents Found

2004-07-24 Torture of chickens

2004-07-24 Frogs

2004-07-24 Eye to eye with a dragonfly

2004-07-24 Why are humans cruel?

2004-07-23 George Bush does the perp walk

2004-07-22 Bush lied about mass graves in Iraq

2004-07-21 Bush's plan for perpetual war

2004-07-19 Imagine the sand is water

2004-07-19 Weekend Project - MeDiA Co-op Website

2004-07-18 George Bush: Son of God?

2004-07-17 This Land is Your Land starring Bush and Kerry

2004-07-16 Yet another prison abuse scandal: secret detention facilities

2004-07-15 US government has videotapes of children being sodomized at Abu Ghraib

2004-07-15 Condi Rice lying about the election delay dud

2004-07-14 Switch to Firefox

2004-07-14 George The War Criminal Bush

2004-07-13 Iraq Security to be headed up by private thugs

2004-07-12 Priming the public for a Delayed Election Day

2004-06-09 Airport Express rocks the house

2004-05-30 Missouri Countryside

2004-05-30 Visiting the Florida Coast

2004-05-24 At the ocean

2004-05-17 Don't Just Vote... No More Presidents

2004-05-13 Irregular Times

2004-05-13 The American Lawn

2004-05-02 A tent and.... stuff

2004-04-07 Small garden pond for habitat

2004-04-04 Fallujah, Iraq

2004-04-03 LaunchBar 4 - New and Improved

2004-03-31 Digital Garden

2004-03-30 January 03 Anti-War Demonstration

2004-03-28 Turning the Tide

2004-03-28 Ya gotta see this

2004-03-26 Military Government?

2004-03-26 Not so funny Georgie

2004-03-19 Perhaps Spain should be our next invasion?

2004-03-19 Donald Rumsfeld caught in the act

2004-03-19 Spain's rejection of the Iraq War

2004-03-19 Iraq on the Record

2004-03-16 Mac OS X 10.3.3 Update- networking finally fixed??

2004-03-14 Tip for Burning in iDVD to External DVD Burners

2004-03-13 The beginning of a life

2004-03-07 Mac OS X 10.3 Speech Recognition

2004-03-06 Need a database? Try FileMaker Pro

2004-02-28 Ralph Nader

2004-02-25 What am I doing?

2004-02-15 The war criminals on the defensive

2004-01-31 Apple’s iBook Logic Board Repair Program

2004-01-29 Airport Extreme and Linksys Wireless problems

2004-01-27 U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq: graphed

2004-01-25 The missing WMD

2004-01-24 Direct threats require ‘decisive action’

2004-01-24 What is CBS afraid of?

2004-01-19 A brown bird and memories

2004-01-18 Intellectual property and trade

2004-01-17 Apple iBook and PowerBook Problems

2004-01-15 George Bush’s space plans

2004-01-15 Top Ten Reasons George W. Bush Wants To Put A Man On Mars

2004-01-14 Panther Bugs!!!

2004-01-11 Home?

2004-01-08 Posting to a Moblog from Cingular MMS?

2004-01-07 The iPod mini and other Apple News

2004-01-06 No longer a volunteer military?

2004-01-05 Welcome to the U.S.

2004-01-04 It is the world around you

2004-01-04 Hollywood stars need more money

2003

2003-12-30 $87 billion…

2003-12-24 An idea

2003-12-22 Mac DHCP “vulnerability”

2003-12-22 Take No Prisoners

2003-12-19 You know you are a geek if you get this…

2003-12-17 Our Frankenstein

2003-12-17 The Return of the King

2003-12-15 A bodysuit of horns

2003-12-14 Unelectable?

2003-12-13 Media Manipulation

2003-12-13 Moblog!

2003-12-12 Chaos Manor: an excellent blog

2003-12-11 Are you an unwitting Spammer?

2003-12-11 Anti-spam legislation may prove to be ineffective

2003-12-09 The Two Towers Extended DVD

2003-12-06 Heating with wood

2003-12-05 A very funny but accurate Googlism

2003-12-04 LaunchBar Rocks the House

2003-12-01 The EMBRIO: super Segway?

2003-11-29 Final Cut Pro 4 - A short review

2003-11-29 Screw you, I’ve got some shopping to do…

2003-11-28 Melting Glaciers

2003-11-27 Bush is a stand-up guy after all!

2003-11-26 9/11 : Interesting Connections

2003-11-25 iPod’s Dirty Secret

2003-11-25 Bushwacked 2

2003-11-24 Dixie Chicks' take on lies and the war in Iraq

2003-11-23 The FBI is watching

2003-11-22 Military Government in U.S.

2003-11-22 SubEthaEdit

2003-11-21 George and Tony

2003-11-20 Instanbul bombing

2003-11-20 FTAA IMC

2003-11-20 Why destroy homes in Iraq?

2003-11-19 What to do?

2003-11-19 Bill Joy interview at Wired

2003-11-18 Something about the weather

2003-11-17 Calling all Mac GUI freaks

2003-11-16 THE MEATRIX

2003-11-15 Windows XP, Longhorn, and OS X

2003-11-15 PNG and GIF

2003-11-14 Bush in UK

2003-11-12 Interviewing the Patriot Act

2003-11-11 A Directory of Wi-Fi Hotspots

2003-11-11 Veteran’s day

2003-11-09 We’re not innocent

2003-11-09 iPod problems

2003-11-06 Is the draft coming back?

2003-11-04 OS X 10.3 Has Built-in File Defragmentation

2003-11-03 They Hate Freedom

2003-11-02 Redesigning

2003-10-31 Network browsing in Panther

2003-10-30 Mozilla Firebird

2003-10-29 I couldn’t help myself

2003-10-26 Michael Moore on Troop Haters

2003-10-26 Search text of books at Amazon

2003-10-26 Melting the Arctic

2003-10-23 Leaves falling

2003-10-22 The new iBook G4

2003-10-21 Panther today or Longhorn in 2006?

2003-10-19 Here today, gone tomorrow

2003-10-18 Accomplish or experience?

2003-10-18 Webcam fun

2003-10-15 Fall

2003-10-15 Kill Bill

2003-10-13 Windows printer sharing via Panther

2003-10-12 Finger report

2003-10-11 Bush Defending the Iraq “War”

2003-10-09 Panther networking

2003-10-09 My documentary at Indie Memphis

2003-10-08 Kinda spooky

2003-10-08 Panther Part 2

2003-10-07 Zombo

2003-10-06 Panther

2003-10-05 Ouch

2003-10-01 Good times

2003-09-28 Goodbye ocean... for now

2003-09-27 Being human

2003-09-26 Dolphin Report

2003-09-25 Sunset

2003-09-25 There's something very wrong here

2003-09-24 Just a fish

2003-09-23 Dolphins: Part Two

2003-09-22 Life outside

2003-09-14 Bush pushes for revolution

2003-09-02 Not getting it

2003-09-02 Dolphins

2003-08-31 Labor Day

2003-08-29 False intelligence

2003-08-27 Dying in Iraq

2003-08-26 The Occupation

2003-08-24 Class, Race, and Community

2003-08-22 Cooperation

2003-08-17 Macs can do it... Really!

2003-08-16 Soldiers left in filth, heat, garbage?

2003-08-16 Why Windows or Linux when there is Mac?

2003-08-13 Speak out but be prepared to suffer

2003-08-12 Free so long as we agree?

2003-08-12 Crisis of Insecurity

2003-08-11 U.S. Income Astronomy

2003-08-11 Killing the truth

2003-08-11 Community and Democracy

2003-08-10 August 10, 2003

2003-08-09 Community Technology or How Do We Grow Our Tomatoes?

2003-08-09 First moblog!

2003-08-07 Ballot tampering in the next election? 

2003-08-07 To TypePad, or not to TypePad

2003-08-06 Pixels and Paper

2003-08-04 Executive Order 13303

2003-08-02 New client site design: Simply Shutters