THE WRITTEN RECORD

Author: Chris

Newsletter #3

While living and working in multiple cities over the past twenty-eight years, there are plenty of opportunities for me to explore, and wow, have I explored. Over time, your pattern recognition techniques are honed, and you start to see the…

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Polaroid

When you see two packs of expensive Polaroid film discounted, you pick them up every time. 2 for $12 instead of $36? Yep.

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Finally.

The Quiet Room (Book 2 in Rabbits series) by Terry Miles 2024-02-07 to 2024-03-10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Microblogging

Microblogging is a combination of blogging and instant messaging that allows users to create short messages to be posted and shared with an audience online. Social platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have become extremely popular forms of this type of…

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Almost There

I have successfully switched my Apple ID to the current email address, signed out of most of my devices from old ID and logged in properly. There are some residual issues with the old ID on some devices that I…

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Gunboat Park Neon

A few more neon signs went up along Route 66 in Tulsa that I meant to capture before work travels and had forgotten. I was reminded by a recent drive-by and had to stop of course. Click here to find…

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Giving Up

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." - Mark Twain

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Apple ID

I am about to merge, consolidate and liquidate older IDs in favor of a new, more permanent Apple ID. I've made a mess of things these past few months. I hope for minimal damage and quick recovery process if it…

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TinkerFutzNPutz

Over the past few weeks, I have retired the silver fox website and migrated everything over from the last 23(!) years to an Archived website for posterity. I purchased a new domain name (chrisdenbow.website) that matches my own because I…

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Five Years Later

After decades using Windows and Linux operating systems, I had had enough with both of them. In 2019 I decided to go all in on the Apple ecosystem and purchased a used  MacBook Air from 2015. In 2021, I…

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Too Much Input

My appetite for well-written novels and articles in genres and on topics that I’m interested in, and the availability of all of those, are more than the time I have to read it. I am already staring up at the…

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Well, That’s Sorted

While going through all of my files, I discovered they were all scattered across multiple hard drives, backed up multiple times. A mess. I decided to make a master file and import all data into it. Then I started to…

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Night + Day

I geeked out just now watching my website switch from night mode to day mode automatically according to when the sun is scheduled to rise. Thanks to my Open Weather api script.

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On Civilization

Read it and weep. "Formerly the fewest men wrote books that were most valuable. Now anybody writes and prints anything he likes and poisons people’s minds. It has been stated that, as men progress, they shall be able to travel…

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Don’t Click Here

you've been visited by ‍cranky chris. Cranky Chris has a knack for working those dreaded customer service calls you've been putting off. Want to cancel your cable subscription? Need to speak with a CVS pharmacist? How about asking your significant…

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