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#Apple #Mac #Obsidian #AppalachianTrail Working in educational IT since the 90s (K-12 and Higher Ed). Smarter than Reagan. Left of Liberal.
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😱 I live in fear of accidentally cross-posting a profanity filled tirade about something like font characteristics or icon design to LinkedIn and exposing the real me to my professional contacts.

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The Phones of Normal People https://louplummer.lol/post/the-phones-of-normal-people Now, I realize that there are some folks in the geek space who still make use of default apps. Robb Knight's project from the winter of 2023 taught us that. By and large though, the things that people in tech related fields do with our phones, laptops and tablets fall...

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From my 100 Strangers Project - Stone (his name) manages this tattoo business. A few days after I shot this, I saw him again and we had a conversation. Turns out he is a photographer too. We talked about it for a while. He looked me up on Facebook and we’ve now been friends for 10 years.

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One Star Review https://rknight.me/blog/one-star-review/

The tale of my one star review for a beloved movie

amerpie,
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@robb The English Patient was the worst movie ever made and I will die on that hill.

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Prison Break https://louplummer.lol/post/prison-break Note: As an unabashed and outspoken progressive, I feel like I need to explain how I came to be a part of the prison industrial complex in the south. If you are interested in how that happened, you can read this explanation.

On a Friday afternoon in the spring of...

amerpie,
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@alexandra I had to stay awake for 48 hours so there was no "getting drained" just coffee and cigarettes and more adrenaline. When it was over - that's when I just about collapsed. My 23-year old self could handle all that. Today's version of me could not!

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The story of the biggest prison escape I ever worked on, the day three prisoners went through a fence while under fire and I had to go after them in the woods with the bloodhound handler. Also known as one of the reasons why I switched careers. https://louplummer.lol/post/prison-break

amerpie,
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@maique Yes, and I am glad it was 36 years ago and not today!

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I don't decide on the day's topics until I sit at my laptop at the end of the day. I keep telling myself to write during lunch time at work but I'm always distracted by something else. Personally, I'd love to read something about living in the bay area. My brother lives in Marin county and that whole part of the state is fascinating to me.

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From my 100 Strangers Project - I met Jenny at a craft fair, where she was smoking this big old stogie and composing poetry on a cloudy spring Sunday. How could I not get a picture of that?

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@amerpie saw tornado warnings for Fayetteville. Hope y’all are safe.

amerpie,
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@greg Our phones went nuts and we headed to the bottom of our split-level but the all-clear has sounded and we are fine. Thanks, Greg.

amerpie,
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@greg Supposedly down by St. Paulnin Robeson county, south of here

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🌐 I do not understand the 100+ tabs open at the time people. Not saying you're wrong, I just don't get it. Did you get attacked by a bookmarks.html file as a young child? Is yours the laptop with a petabyte of RAM? What gives?

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😬 Apologies friends, I have apparently been blogging incorrectly by paying $5/month for my Micro.blog https://micro.blog/pricing and $0 a month for my GitHub Pages website.

Even if I upgraded to add a newsletter and podcast, I would still be $13,820 short of the $ 14,000-a-year blog you all deserve. https://writing.exchange/@ernie/112439603336814847

amerpie,
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@webology I'd rather read 14,000 $1 blogs than one $14,000 blog

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Sorry folks, there’ll be no reminiscing post about my time in the military, today. I’ve been as sick as a dog most of the night. I’ll check in with you all tomorrow.

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@alexandra I hope you feel better soon!

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Enjoying a Life of Crime!
Ah, I love Monday evening TV which, tonight, consists of:

Brokenwood Mysteries — a police series set in New Zealand
The Vanishing Triangle — a true story of a serial killer set in Ireland
Harry Wild — a PI series also set in Ireland

I love Acorn TV for the choice of shows offered from all over the world. Which includes lots of murder-mysteries, police dramas, and all things crime. https://acorn.tv/brokenwoodmysteries

amerpie,
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@alexandra Have you seen Blue Lights yet? It's on BritBox I think - set in Belfast about rookie cops on the PSNI. I loved it!

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"CLICK ON START. START. ITS ON THE
BOTTOM LEFT CORNER. ON YOUR
MONITOR. START. CLICK IT. GO TO
CONTROL PANEL. CONTROL PANEL.
ITS IN THE START MENU. THE START
MENU. ITS WHAT POPPED UP WHEN
YOU HIT START. NO, DON’T HIT START
AGAIN. OK, HIT START AGAIN. DID THE
START MENU POP UP? THEN CLICK
START. NOW GO TO CONTROL PANEL.
CONTROL PANEL. CLICK ON IT. CLICK
ON CONTROL PANEL. THAT START
MENU DISAPPEARED? CLICK ON
START. OK, I’LL BE OVER."

If you ... https://amerpie.lol/2024/05/13/click-on-start.html

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Things I Like: Ham Means One https://rknight.me/blog/things-i-like-ham-means-one/

I can't stop thinking about this.

amerpie,
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@robb I eat at Waffle House all the time and I've never seen a hint to this.

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For @maique

amerpie, to random
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Any more extroverts married to introverts out there? Things my wife hates worse than death - 1) Going into a store to pay for gas in person 2) Someone sitting beside her at the movies 3) Invitations to anything but particularly from neighbors

amerpie,
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@robb And yet you are the opposite on the Internet! I have to beg her to make social media posts public when I want to share them. Oh well, I love you guys even if I will never understand you. ❤️

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Apparently I’ve been hanging on to these computer part boxes since 2016 “just in case”

amerpie,
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@sophie If you need an iPhone 5 box, just let me know

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Bean - A Free, Lightweight Word Processor https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/bean-a-free-lightweight-word-processor For years, Bean, a free word processor for macOS has been my go-to when I needed to create a document with rich text, tables and images. Weighing in at only 8MB, it starts instantly and places little demands on even my wife's 10-year-old machine. It reminds me of Microsoft's WordPad... Apps

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Here's the aurora through conifer trees & sunspot complex 3664 that produced the solar storm. (Large dark area on the right limb of the sun). It's 17x larger than the Earth! Richard Carrington made a drawing of a similar spot in 1859 that produced a solar storm which lead to the Carrington Event. A Carrington Event today would severally damage satellites, power grids, & communications. In 1859, it caused fires in telegraph offices & the aurora was so bright people could read by it!

amerpie,
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@elaterite That picture through the trees is my favorite from all the may photos I've seen today

amerpie, to Mac
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FreeTube - Maybe the Most Underrated App https://apps.louplummer.lol/post/freetube-maybe-the-most-underrated-app YouTube in undeniably a force in the modern world. My 77-year-old father watches it daily as does my four-year old granddaughter. If you watch YouTube on a PC running macOS, Windows or Linux, I suggest you do it with FreeTube. FreeTube is a privacy lover's dream, using no trackers and... Apps

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