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  • July 16, 2022
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    Be there while being behind the camera

    Was I there for the photo, or for the adventure? We look at the photo as the goal, because it’s the thing we get to share. The adventure is our own, and it’s fleeting. And yet it’s the adventure I’ll remember, the morning’s promise of possibility even when I’d not lived up to my own photographic expectations. And I had to acknowledge that I was strolling empty streets in Rome, not sitting at my desk at home, with an espresso and a cornetto guaranteed before I arrived back at my hotel. And that’s still a good day.

    Una Mattinata Frustrante a Roma – Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations

    A good reminder for us all, from a talented photographer (and a nice guy!).

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  • July 14, 2022
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    #freeRowdy

    Soon Rowdy herself was on the receiving end of a chase, as her getaway set off a massive search involving airport and Lufthansa personnel, construction workers, and animal welfare advocates, as well as the use of wildlife cameras and safe-release traps.

    Despite numerous sightings, Rowdy always eluded her pursuers — but now, a little calm has been restored.

    Cat on the lam: Pet caught after weeks on the run at airport | AP News

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  • July 13, 2022
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    LEGO Icons 10305: Lion Knights’ Castle : The Brink Brothers Review

    LEGO Icons 10305 Lion Knights’ Castle is a massive, 4514 piece love letter to the theme that will be available to VIPs on August 3rd (and everyone on August 8th) for  US $399.99 | CAN $499.99 | UK £344.99.  This set is SO massive, in fact, that we had to split our our review of the twenty two included minifigures into “part two”. For starters, though, we take a very close look at the surprises and secrets in the Lion Knights’ Castle itself. Are you ready for a trip down memory lane?

    LEGO Icons 10305: Lion Knights’ Castle : Part One – The Castle [Review] – The Brothers Brick | The Brothers Brick

    I keep repeating “I don’t need a $400 LEGO set” to myself.

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  • July 12, 2022
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    Anker 735 Charger

    I’ve been meaning to blog about the Anker 735 Charger for a little while now. Amazon is having a little sale on it, and if you own a MacBook, iPhone, or a device that charges using USB-A you should think about getting one!

    It is far smaller than Apple’s chargers, and easier to pack if you ask me. Here it is stacked on a MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13 inch charger:

    It does stick out a little more than one might like in a wall outlet, but it is stable (I fear it’ll fall out but I’ve used it countless times and it never has).

    My favorite charger, ever!

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  • July 12, 2022
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    Stinky and Dirty are honored guests at breakfast

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  • July 10, 2022
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    Now is the time for me to open my bookstore

    Julie Ross quit her job in human resources at Google this year to open Pocket Books Shop in Lancaster, Pa., with two friends who left academia. They opened their “queer, feminist indie bookstore” — there is a table near the front with books about abortion — in a conservative part of the state, close to where one of her co-owners grew up.

    The pandemic “burst the bubble of believing we had any control over what was coming,” Ms. Ross said. “We had this moment of, ‘What are we waiting for?’”

    Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse – The New York Times

    See? Other people are doing it and it is working out. Strike just after the iron is hot. That’s what is say!

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  • July 9, 2022
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    The lack of an extra apartment is what’s keeping me from being a successful novelist

    I have an apartment I go to Monday to Friday, nine to five. It’s fairly private, with no internet, so there’s no distractions unless there’s a cricket match and I’m listening to the radio.

    Mick Herron: ‘I’m interested in incompetence, things going wrong’ | Thrillers | The Guardian

    Well, that and a lack of talent.

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  • July 8, 2022
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    Streak broken

    It was bound to happen! I forgot to post something to my blog yesterday, thus ending a 45 day streak of blogging.

    A moment of silence for the streak, please.

    However, the streak was made possible by a variety of things that removed friction from my blogging process:

    • I moved my blog from the venerable, but seldom updated over the last decade, Typepad blogging platform. I loved TypePad, but the mobile posting options were… poor.
    • Moving to WordPress gives me access to an iOS blog editor. I can’t tell you how often I searched for one that would let me post to TypePad and was thwarted by the lack of results. The WordPress app is pretty darned good (I’m using it to write this very post!).
    • Speaking of iOS, recent versions introduced a feature called “Shortcuts” which are basically little automations you can cobble together to do a variety of things. I never really could think of a use for them, so I didn’t do anything with them. However, once I moved my blog to WordPress I realized I could create a shortcut that would make it super easy for me to post a link, with some pithy commentary, to my blog. Which accounts for the new Links category that, honestly, was the only way I was able to maintain a 45 day streak!

    What the streak reminded me of was how much fun writing about the random stuff I’m interested in (or that happens to me) is! I was lured into the immediate pleasure of tweeting and doom scrolling (which, admittedly, isn’t that much fun… but it certainly sucks you in) and forgot that I actually like to write. Who knew?

    This is all a long way of saying I may have missed a day, but I won’t be going weeks without posting again. Maybe I’ll help usher in a personal blogging resurgence!

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  • July 6, 2022
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    Flashfood – save money on almost expired food

    Get massive savings on fresh food items like meat and produce that are nearing their best before date at grocery stores across Canada and the U.S.

    Flashfood | Save money and reduce food waste

    You and I both know that expiration dates on food are pretty much a scam, right? But what you and I didn’t do is… anything about it!

    The people at Flashfood aren’t like you and I. They are problem solvers, my friends. And they seemingly hate food waste!

    They created this cool app which is pretty simple: when you open it up it’ll display a list of Flashfood participating stores near you. Tap on one and then you’re greeted with a scrolling list of nearly expired food that you can buy for 50% off.

    My dinner today featured a chicken that was probably going to be thrown out and instead it is now in my belly… and I saved $4. Chicken and money? What more can you want, people?

    I also enjoy the fact that clearly someone who works at the grocery store has to take pictures of the food they post on Flashfood. I’m pretty sure that isn’t their favorite part of their job.

    Anyway, check it if you like saving money and aren’t too worried about expiration dates.

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  • July 5, 2022
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    How many stamps will it take to get my baby to Paramus?

    But when the parcel service began, all kinds of cargo showed up in the mail stream, including coffins, eggs, dogs and, in a few cases, human young.

    According to National Postal Museum historian Nancy Pope, the first known case of a mailed baby was in 1913 when Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beauge of Glen Este, Ohio, shipped their 10-pound infant son to his grandmother’s home about a mile away, paying 15 cents in postage and springing for $50 in insurance (because they were worriers). Records do not indicate whether Grandmother Beauge received her mail in a mailbox or through a letter slot.

    Mail that baby: A brief history of kids sent through the U.S. Postal Service – The Washington Post

    Sadly, in 1914 the USPS enacted a “no humans through the mail” policy. This is why we can’t have nice things.

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