Watched: A Christmas Story 🍿
This movie has been usurped as a Christmas Eve tradition, just slightly, by Die Hard, and is now a Christmas tradition.
Watched: Die Hard 🍿
Somehow this movie has been elevated to a Christmas Eve tradition.
Day 8 of the 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge on challenges.micro.blog is Grinch. This is as close as I could get, he’s a lot older and wiser now.
A Week Around Florida: Homestead to Okeechobee Day 5
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Day 7 of the 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge on challenges.micro.blog is Solstice… the longest night of the year🕯️
I started the 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge on challenges.micro.blog a little late but here is my Day 6 for Sparkle.
I’m so thrilled I came back to micro.blog there are just so many things that have improved this service.
Right now I’m testing to see how well the publish to draft works from Obsidian and iA Writer. My preference would be to publish directly from markdown files, but you have to just create drafts (unless you get into way more technical stuff with git than I want to do), which is better than nothing.
Interestingly, iA Writer has this baked in (Obsidian does not) but it doesn’t work quite as well as creating the original file inside Obsidian.
A Week Around Florida: Key West to Homestead Day 4
We made it to Day 4 post on our Florida trip. This morning was the most amazing Sunrise walk along the beach that I can ever remember. Sunrise at 72° on an empty beach in the Keys, it was surreal. I didn’t even take my DSLR, just my phone, but it was good enough. shantytravelers.com/a-week-ar…
A Week Around Florida: Tamiami to Bahia Honda Day 3
This was one of my favorite days down in Southern Florida, the Florida Keys are always just so amazing! Warm 78° humidity on the ocean in December is so peaceful, but getting to camp looking out over the ocean never ever gets old. shantytravelers.com/florida-v…
A Week Around Florida: Tampa to Tamiami Day 2
Day 2 took us just to the outside of Miami where we will head to the Keys the next day. Fast trip, lots of driving, but so beautiful. One of the reasons we wanted to do this trip now was to feel the warm humid air in South Florida, and wow is it fantastic! shantytravelers.com/florida-v…
A Week Around Florida: Auburn to Tampa Day 1
Starting to get my daily posts going for our Florida trip that I’m posting over on our travel site shantytravelers.com. This trip is going to be a bit of a drive around the state of Florida. It is a shake down cruise for our van build. shantytravelers.com/florida-v…
Top Gun (1986)
Watched: Top Gun 🍿 Such a classic and has survived the test of time. letterboxd.com/scottfill…
Some Great Books on Technology
Every year I wish I had read more books. Once i get into a book I’m good, but when i finish it takes me forever to get back into that groove of the “next” book. I tend to bounce from book to book until I find that next one. That next one right now is Tony Reinke’s new book, God, Technology, and the Christian Life. There are so few tehcnologically deep, well written, books that combine faith and technology, but this is one of them, so far.
iPhone 13 Pro Max Macro Mode
I love macro photography. True marco 1:1 magnification (or greater) has been a long time favorite of mine for many years. The butterfly in this post was one such shot I took a while back with a Nikon 105mm Macro lens. When Apple announced the new iPhone 13 received a “close focus” lens i was really looking forward to trying it out, yet I rarely remember to use it. When I do remember to get in close with the iPhone I’m quite pleased with the results.
Thoughts on Feedly, Inoreader, and RSS Readers
I love the RSS feed and think it’s one of the most powerful tools someone can use to filter and currate content on the web. It’s also one of the most undervalued and underused options. Unfortunately on March 13, 2013, Google announced they were discontinuing Google Reader, stating the product had a loyal but declining following, and at that point, Google pretty much killed the popular use of RSS. My RSS reader still has several hundred feeds that transferred over to Feedly when Google shut down, but I haven’t opened Feedly in some time.
Fresh Fog with Micro.blog
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