I wrote the following piece as a Twitter thread a few weeks ago. However, at the time (and as I publish this), my Twitter feed is private, and a kind reader commented that they wished it were public so they could share this thread. I responded that I might turn it into a blog post. […]
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The Feed vs. the Archive
The longstanding photo sharing site Flickr recently was acquired from Yahoo by the much-smaller professional photo site SmugMug. As a 14+ year user of Flickr, I saw this as a good thing, since the service seemed to endure benign neglect under Yahoo’s unsteady stewardship. But, under the pressure of keeping the service economically sustainable SumgMug […]

$13 Is Cheaper than a New Blu-Ray Player
A number of years ago I bought a nice Yamaha Aventage Blu-Ray player. I bought this model because it’s a so-called “universal” disc player, able to deal with nearly any format in existence, including high-resolution SACDs and DVD-As. On top of that, reviews gave it very high marks for its audio quality for just playing […]
Weird Dreams
Weird dreams last night make for a weird morning eat some yogurt and granola try to shake it off
Sunday errands
Today I bought light bulbs salsa freeze-dried cat food then had a beer and poutine now I’m writing this