Tag: Journal

August 16, 2022 / Journal

Lately I’ve been playing ping-pong in my brain about changing platforms. I set myself up on a 14-day trial to host this site on another server and within 14 minutes decided it was too much of a struggle.

I’ve spent hours, months and years to get this site where I want it.

As a geek, however, I have the prerogative to change my mind at any time and without notice!

August 15, 2022 / Journal

I can never be all the people I want and
live all the lives I want. I can never train
myself in all the skills I want. And why
do I want? I want to live and feel all the
shades, tones and variations of mental
and physical experience possible in my
life.

– Sylvia Plath

August 14, 2022 / Journal

As opposed to griping about people on their phones, it may be best to make use of my own iPhone and discover some of those benefits. Some use cases that works for me:

Blog and write with the phone

I use iA Writer on all my devices to write these articles, then press send. From there it is automagically published to my websites.

Process Images

Reviewing my images on Apple devices with Apple Photos is so pleasurable that it reminds me of the analog photo contact sheets. For quick edits of images taken from the phone, to again, publishing them to my website(s.)

Voice Dictation

Forget Siri. I’ll occasionally use this tool for quick Notes or in the Reminders app. Bonus usage in iA Writer too. Writing and blogging by voice is almost 90% accurate so I need to talk slower and enunciate.

Successful test

Reading

Apple Books or Libby

Reading digital books with these apps is a joy. What better way to spend your time when you are waiting in line in public?

August 11, 2022 / Journal

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

Anton, No Country For Old Men

August 11, 2022 / Journal

Joy

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy

August 11, 2022 / Journal

Even if few people read it, I think a blog/archive/notebook is good to have. 

August 11, 2022 / Journal

“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.”

Seneca

August 8, 2022 / Journal

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway

August 8, 2022 / Journal

50

‘I’ve taken a million pictures – 50 were good’

Ferdinando Scianna, photographer

August 7, 2022 / Journal

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

August 4, 2022 / Journal

A new Geocache hide has been placed that overlooks the city of Tulsa from the Midland Valley Trail. This will be my third stash and is currently submitted, waiting on final approval. It will be loaded with a log, pencil, trinkets and a travel bug.

“Skyline View”

**UPDATE**

This has been ”muggled” by someone and is no longer there. I’ll have to buy a nano container to replace it and try again.

August 3, 2022 / Journal

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Jack Kerouac

August 3, 2022 / Journal

Only the essentials for my MacBook Pro.

August 2, 2022 / Journal

I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway

Houston Metro Lightrail circa 2016