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My photo "Don't Know How Much Longer I Can Wait" was added to Flickr Explore

I believe for the first time since Flickr parent SmugMug tweaked the algorithm, a photo of mine made it into Explore December 30th, 2023. I took this photo December 28th, 2023, and developed it in my digital darkroom the next evening. Photo Gear Nikon D7000 35.0 mm f/1.8 ƒ/2.8 1/50 (the slowest shutter speed I can reliably use without a tripod) ISO 400 Location: At the intersection of Lincoln,…

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Voter Turnout Is Essential To Re-Defeating Trump

Trump lost in 2020 by more than 7 million votes ((he lost the popular vote in 2016 too)) and hasn’t made much inroads into reducing that margin. Or even attempting to! Especially since the Republican agenda is very unpopular with a majority of eligible voters. Continuing to strip abortion rights is at the top of their list, but there are many other abominations in the GOP plan for…

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HMS Black Joke Seems Like A Hollywood Film Waiting To Be Written

via Wikipedia I read about this historic ship today, built in Baltimore in the 1820s, used to transport slaves to Bahia, Brazil for a few years before the British Navy captured it. It was a fast, small and fierce ship, so they kept it in service as a slaver catcher. From 1828 until it was decommissioned in 1832, HMS Black Joke freed thousands of slaves by capturing the boats transporting…

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Annual Daylight Savings Kvetch

Today is the day we are allowed to lament the collective stupidity and inaction regarding Daylight Savings, right? I think at this stage of civilization, we could collectively choose a time and stay there all year, without moving it around on a whim. Sometimes in a year, based upon where you live, and the season, it will be dark when you get up, sometimes it won’t. Some parts of the year you’ll…

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Weather Overload

Sometimes I think the weather forecasters get bored, and just want to publish something, no matter if it really is important. To whit: Cook County Weather Alert: Dense Fog Advisory issued November 5 at 12:33AM CDT until November 5 at 10:00AM CST by NWS Chicago IL * WHAT…Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog. Yeah, ok…

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Shrinkflation Strikes Again

The bottle on the right held 120 sublingual B complex lozenges, bottle on the right that I just purchased holds 60… Source Naturals basically doubled the price in something like 3 years. I don’t take B vitamins every day, only a few times a month, so a bottle lasts for a while.

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The Weight Of The World's Woes Rested Heavily Upon His Brow

A Hipstamatic photograph of a solitary leaf that fell on my car’s sunroof during last night’s rain. Lowy Lens and BlacKeys B+W Film As far as the sentiment, you can probably guess as to its meaning without me being explicit. Right?

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Turning my blog into a Fediverse server

I’m adding this as a weekend project for myself. Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse writes: If you have a WordPress blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse server, which means people will be able to follow the blog and comment on it from Mastodon etc. This is now possible for all kinds of WordPress blogs, including free blogs on wordpress.com, paid blogs on…

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Trouble Logging Into UT Alumni Email hosted by Google

Great, I am having trouble logging in to my UT Alumni Google email ((my name followed by @Utexas.edu)) . That’s the problem with “free” email I guess, if you need tech support, you might as well be asking a brick wall for advice about differential equations. Nothing has changed on my side, and at least as of now, I can still receive/send email using my Mac’s mail program, but I cannot log in to…

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Keep My Real Life Shining

Cloud Gate, aka The Bean, a favorite subject of tourists and photographers. (click to embiggen) Nikon D80 Lens 18.0-135.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 ƒ/8.0 28.0 mm 1/250 100 ISO I took this photo February 4th, 2007, and processed it in my digital darkroom in July, 2023. I remember it being a very cold day, and that my iPod battery died from being too cold, and then so did my Nikon D80 battery. Still took a…

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Short Posts

I really should be less reluctant to write short posts. In the golden age of blogging, I’d think nothing of typing a sentence or two and publishing, these days I ruminate endlessly, and then publish nothing. I am happy with Mastodon as a replacement for XTwitter aka Xitter, btw. I guess that is my current stand-in for pithy posts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Unnamed Yet Delicious Rum Based Cocktail

  I wish I could source this cocktail, find it mentioned somewhere in one of my many bartending books, or on a recipe site. On the social media site, Mastodon, I follow the hashtag, cocktails, and about 2-3 months ago, someone posted this recipe. I’ve since made ((and consumed joyfully!!)) several, they are just so damn deliciously refreshing! Lime – half a freshly sliced lime, juice…

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The United States vs Donald Trump, part 2

The long awaited, long speculated upon indictment of Donald Trump for his attempted coup plot has finally arrived. January 6th, 2021 was a horrible day for all people who respect the United States Constitution, myself included. Trump and his cult did their best to end our country. If you haven’t read the actual indictment, I urge you to do so. It is only 45 pages, and without much legalese or…

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I faved by wjcordier embiggen by clicking: https://flic.kr/p/2oS34gY

July 27, 2023 at 12:33PM

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I faved I Wouldn't Change It If I Could by Thomas Hawk embiggen by clicking: https://flic.kr/p/2oRZ8iN

July 26, 2023 at 05:15PM