πŸ“· Day 30: Solitude

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Photo Challenge Day 24: Bloom πŸ“·

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Micro.blog Photo Challenge: Day 20: Gather

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Micro.blog photo challenge πŸ“· Day 19: Equal

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Micro.blog Photo Challenge πŸ“· day 18 - texture

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2025 Reads: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin πŸ“š

Good book. Makes you ponder life and your major life decisions.


β€œThat you feel something to be right may have its cause in your never having thought much about yourself and having blindly accepted what has been labeled right since your childhood.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Finished reading: Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer πŸ“š


1 Astronaut, Many Cameras and 220 Days of Amazing Images From Space Don Pettit brought a photographer’s eye to orbit, capturing the artistry of the cosmos and our planet.

Gift Article:

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/1…


Powerful Photography.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/2…

A young woman holds a flower in front of a line of soldiers with bayonets.

Finished reading: Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green πŸ“š

Excelllent book. A book that should be read by everyone.

1.25 Million people die every year from TB. Experts say that no one should die, every case is curable.


Koofr and pCloud

Well, I’m uploading 2TB of photos to Koofr, so far, so good.

I’m new to them, and setting everything up has been straightforward so far.

I also signed up with pCloud and set it up, but I haven’t used it much yet. I can say I prefer pCloud’s interface, which looks and feels better to me.

After using both, I’ll let you know the pros and cons.

#koofr

#pcloud


Custom CSS for your Markdown in DEVONthink - Who Knew!

This link comes from MacStories, but it’s too good to not share.

If you are a DEVONthink user, this is a really nice touch. I’ve downloaded and used jsloop’s custom CSS, and it’s terrific.

I had no idea you could do this in DT, and it makes all the difference in the world.

There are directions for both DEVONthink 3 and DEVONthink To Go 3, and you are free to use jsloops CSS to get you started. Then it’s easy to make tweaks after that.

The two links:

https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250327-markdown-stylesheet-jsloop

https://jsloop.net/2025/03/22/markdown-theming-in-devonthink-3


Through a newspaper article, I learned about Hiroshi Yoshimura and his Ambient (Sound Design) music. It’s really nice background music to have playing. I’ve listened to three albums now, and “Surround” is my favorite.

music.apple.com/us/album/…


This always brings back so many memories of sitting by a fire in the dark drinking beer, and someone would recite The Cremation of Sam McGee from memory.

You can listen to a pretty good audio version here:

‘The Cremation of Sam McGee’ πŸ”— / alaska.org

β€œThere are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge ? I cremated Sam McGee.β€œ


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Is that song truly Yacht Rock or Nyacht? Find out here:

www.yachtornyacht.com


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Short Walk in Omaha / The Rest of the Daily Shots | February 26, 2025

iPhone 16 ProMax shot/processed (shot in RAW)

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ElevationLab has a new AirTag Camera Plate that is Arca-compatible. Ordered one to try it out.

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I have Tailscale up and running on the Synology NAS. There is very good step-by-step instruction here. It’s pretty cool to be able to use the Sharesheet and send whatever you need to it from any device.