2025

2025-01-19 # Listening to This Machine Kills podcast episode 390 "We all live in the firestorm". They do a fantastic job of exploring the interconnections of the global polycrisis. I know a lot more about how the system works having listened. Illuminating.

2025-01-16 #Liberals in the US rightly criticize MAGA folk as being delusional in regards to the truth of Trump. But when I see those same liberals praising Biden while ignoring his ongoing support of genocide in Gaza I feel the deepest disgust. History will remember Biden for his role in genocide. Why Aren't You In The Hague!: Journalists Dragged Out Of Blinken Press Conference

2024-01-15 Days of ice and snow

2025-01-12 #Reading folks' thoughts and reactions to the wildfires and connecting it to climate. I can't help but think most people are still pretty delusional about where we are at in this crisis and our chances for averting worst case scenarios. And, crucially, their lack of understanding of the steps we need to take. Uninformed and not at all serious.

2025-01-12 Wildfires in California explain the recent climate-art protests

2025-01-05 #I really enjoyed reading James Thompson's blog post about building the first pre-OS X Dock. Fun story and bit of Apple history. Also, Jason Snell's MacWorld article about OS X back in February 2000 where he highlights all of the big changes that were announced. I'm sure I read it back in the day, fun to re-read today on the 25th anniversary of the MacWorld reveal of OS X. I remember the excitement of the announcement and then installing the public beta. Good times.

2024

2024-12-26 #Watched the ForeverNotes videos on YouTube and considering trying it out as a supplement to the OBTF that I've been happily using the past 9 months for a basic daily notes that primarily serves as a springboard for blog posting. A helpful minimal implementation of ForeverNotes might cover non-blog text for tracking projects that I would otherwise not add to Reminders app. Maybe deeper notes for nature studies like bird observations?

2024-12-25 Winter Fungi

2024-12-22 # So, Luigi Mangione is labeled a terrorist by the same government that deliberately carries out a War on Children?

"In November, over a year into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a report by the Gaza-based Community Training Center for Crisis Management produced a grim statistic: “Nearly all children in the embattled Palestinian enclave believe their death is imminent — and nearly half of them want to die.”

That's interesting.

2024-12-22 #"What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass." - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

2024-12-21 # Bernie Sanders: Elon Musk and US Oligarchy. The US has never been a real democracy. It is a thin facade of democracy with just enough social spending to maintain stability. From first days it has been governance by a tiny, wealthy elite. It's neoliberalism.

2024-12-21 # Enjoying my morning coffee and listening to an inspiring interview with Deenaalee Hodgdon, Co-Executive Director of Smokehouse Collective in the podcast Landback for the People. The SC is a collective of Indigenous people who are working to organize local solutions for self reliance and climate adaptation. They offer a sharp contrast to the privileged of white middle class America who claim to be powerless to affect change.

2024-12-20 # I'd started to write a post on the lie we tell ourselves about being a civilized nation that solves its problems through politics. LuckyBlackCat on YouTube has already taken care of it with their video "Violence Has No Place In Politics" OH REALLY?:

“Violence has no place in politics.” Politicians say this any time political violence is used by or on behalf of the victims of this violent system, and they’re saying it again after Luigi Mangione has been charged with the assassination of the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson. This video is a vehement response to that statement

2024-12-20 # Qasim Rashid on Mastodon:

Dylan Roof killed 9 Black people with the motivation to incite a race war—NOT charged with terrorism.

Luigi Mangione killed 1 CEO with the motivation to rebuke healthcare injustice—charged with terrorism.

Class warfare is when wealthy CEOs are a protected class but working Black people are not.

2024-12-19 Federico is rediscovering the joy of using the iPad

2024-12-18 #This guy is burning a righteous fire on the violence of economic class war. And another. Honestly, I don't see much evidence that America will correct itself. The foundational genocide and violence for white male privilege will continue.

2024-12-17 # Recommended: Vulture by Lee Weyland.

2024-12-17 # Recommended: United Health by Jessie Welles. Luigi Mangione, the surprise hero of 2024.

2024-12-17 Split gill mushrooms and other woodland treasures

2024-12-15 Sycamore Seed Pod

2024-12-15 #I'm too easily distracted. Reading Gurman's email about a foldable, mega large iPad Pro and now I'm experimenting with two iPads on my lap desk, side-by-side. With continuity and iCloud file sync, 2 iPads side-by side almost feel like one device. Handy for certain workflows/projects.

2024-12-13 #This post by Robert Evans about Luigi Mangione is worth a read. What sticks the most are the questions at the end. What comes next? Mangione may have changed the course of gun violence in the US. Will future shooters focus on corporate executives rather than school children?

2024-12-12 There is a use case for Apple's Image Generation

2024-12-11 #On the question of violence as a solution to our problems, I'm generally agreed with the Liberal Redneck's take that fits with many others: "You can only push people so far before they push back with the barrel of a gun, in broad daylight, to near universal acclaim."

2024-12-02 Update on using the OBTF and Textastic for publishing from the iPad

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

🔗 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