Every year between September and February, it seems I am my most creative and ambitious.
I am starting to feel it again here real soon.
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The test flight of Aero Mojo, the new drone, was a successful one. I almost lost it over the bypass but recovered nicely as shown in the video. The flight ended in a hard crash when encountering a pine tree but survived nicely!
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t”
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
Ernest Hemingway
‘Between life and death there is a library,’ she said. ‘And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices… Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?’
Someone
Advertisement blockers. Pop-up blockers. Social media blockers. Tracking blockers. Apple’s Hide My E-Mail. Apple’s Password Generator. Virtual Private Networks (VPN).
These are the best additional software apps to have and use.
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!
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
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.
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?
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
Anton, No Country For Old Men
“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