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I love that it’s 32°F/0°C and we get new flowers d...
Most days I am like… but some days I am&hel...
Trader Joe’s really brings it for flowers, but my ...
Weihnachtstod, “Christmas death,” is t...
Sublime sweet potato chai at Ashville Chocolate, s...
Is this a glitch? Is Charlie Brown Thanksgiving th...
At Dobra Tea in Asheville, green tea for my wife, ...
I’m pretty sure psych grad students are doing A/B ...
One last fine day. If only human senescence was as...
Along the French Broad River in Ashville, a chain ...
Reconstruction of the Black Creek Greenway is leav...
Fish are nice, but these turtles got a real Gamera...
From the mountains to the sea, the Pine Knoll Shor...
Ten seconds of video from the Pine Knoll Shores aq...
A Gulf Fritillary doing brunch outside the Pine Kn...
Another Sandpiper at Emerald Isle with acquaintanc...
Getting a close-up with a Sanderling at Emerald Is...
Looking a little more weathery early in the mornin...
A surprising number of deer strolling about Emeral...
Emerald Isle, not exactly sunrise, four minutes la...
They blend right in.
Tis the season to enjoy fried dough with sugar, lo...
Looks like it’s Boogen season.
#RickandMorty...
A sign of the times at the downtown arts festival....
Too far for a decent photo (AI “enhanced&rdq...
The Gleaners Branta
#Art
A couple of Bambis and their moms came through the...
Monkey grass, lilyturf, whatever, it’s endemic in ...
Not an insta filter, but the view from inside out ...
Butterfly bush has been busy lately, one of six sw...
Arriving for my 30,000 mile service, I forced myse...
My embarrassed wife had to literally drag me away ...
Having traveled with only a (large) carry-on each,...
The most memorable meals in Montreal, poutine—frie...
Some of my favorite pieces at the Montreal Museum ...
Part of an earthenware exhibit at the MMFA, a 12th...
Dog Monkey something bronze from inside the Montre...
A century ago a priest of the Notre-Dame Basilica ...
On the way to visit the Notre-Dame Basilica in Mon...
Ten days was nine days too many for Liquid Glass o...
Double tap the top of the screen in the iPadOS 26 ...
Since the iPadOS beta seems solid, the macOS beta ...
As iconic and polarizing as McDonalds, the Apple S...
To an American tourist like me, Montreal is best d...
I installed the iPadOS 26 public beta, no issues s...
Starting a course of SNRIs to reset my vagus nerve...
Fantasizing about a Vision Pro for my birthday&nda...
Running outside under an umbrella in a thunderstor...
A quick pick of a northern flicker was pretty blur...
Our tomtoc Slims have arrived! Bold Ocean Blue, un...
This was the line outside the DMV office at 05:30....
Marriage saved!
#Nintendo
I will die on this moniker, #Nintendo.
Divorced
Wherein I get divorce.
Right on the tire track line, just sitting there, ...
No joy thus far using Switch Sniper to remove a fr...
Pay
Wherein Tim and I each confront our own painfu...
The new model of flower eating machines has arrive...
This raccoon gets up before sunset when I take in ...
Surprised by COVID, never again will supply chain ...
Absent an abscessed tooth and grafted with a bit o...
When my wife drags me to an “antiques wareho...
We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinki...
I think I just had my first “Liberation Day” exper...
Undecided as to whether I’m still actually &...
I think about the little house during the auto-ref...
Apple finally let people migrate purchases (merge ...
A tale of two tulips, dark and bright, though not ...
Turtle fam sunning at a pond in Duke Gardens. That...
Turtle doing yoga at a pond in Duke Gardens, more ...
The dream of every husband whose wife works from h...
ChatGTB
Wherein the mask slips.
Not much to be done about crazy high tree pollen c...
The back deck turns yellow as spring is in the air...
Another day, another Apple Intelligence failure. T...
While weeding in the yard around the steps to the ...
Lent Minus Thirty-Nine
Wherein a bitter truth is c...
The southern flying squirrel, or bird seed ninja, ...
I got a survey from Apple about my iPhone 16e, but...
It’s spring around the mailbox.
I used the 2X telephoto of iPhone 16e for the firs...
A tan leather skin from dbrand makes for a nice fi...
It was 26°F (-3.33°C) this morning, but apparently...
E is for AI
Wherein I get a ChatGTP phone.
When feeling threatened, like by someone within te...
Was there a slide puzzle difficulty contest betwee...
The will to live.
#Coffee
Evergreen year round and flowering twice, Camellia...
Juncos waiting patiently for me to throw birdseed ...
Overnight my iPad hides the nightingale, the weath...
Way back when iTools was a thing, I signed up with...
After updating to iPadOS 18.3.1 three lights in Co...
After updating to iPadOS 18.3.1 my Midnight (black...
Envy with Green
Wherein I count the cost.
Our municipality really leans into my chlorination...
A One Minas Kind of Guy
Wherein my battery dies.
A pleasant surprise this morning, the first measur...
Heat Death Comes Early
Wherein I wrongly blame mys...
Never Tweet Your Heroes
Wherein I fail to read the...
1,076 days later is not an awkwardly named horror ...
An Attic Dismembering
Wherein I sorted through som...
I prefer serene to merry, but still.
How it started and how it’s going for the Ja...
Tired of French bread slices not fitting the toast...
Appalled to find my wife listening to audio for a ...
Tired of trying to grow grass on a rain runoff slo...
Satechi announced their Mac Mini M4 Stand & Hu...
Since Apple egregiously upsold me to the glorious ...
If you want to use an M4 Mac mini with a Touch ID ...
Surprised FedEx has fallen behind UPS and Amazon(!...
Sometimes—not all the time—you have to zoom in to ...
Preordered! Moving from an M1 iMac to an M4 Mac mi...
Not buying it.
Trader Joe’s comes through big this week with the ...
More than half of North Carolina has voted, includ...
In our neighborhood, this was a kind of stop-motio...
Nothing quite like Wendy’s fries and Goodber...
A Northern Flicker woodpecker is apparently large ...
In this likely tiny interval of calm between perso...
Happy #iPadmini Day! My wife will happily be choos...
Walking along a paved path next to a busy road bis...
Bird boned and tiny wristed or not, #AppleWatch 10...
Little Ernie and Big Ernie (my wife thinks raccoon...
Carolina mantis enjoying a longer, warmer, wetter ...
Tinting to the tone of Frank Lloyd Wright wallpape...
Evolutionary tradition has the first Camellia bloo...
As of WatchOS 11, the Siri face is no more. No dou...
From Hell to Purgatory
Jean-Paul Sartre troublesho...
I returned the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro. Hefty ...
Placing a late bet on the beta of #iPadOS 18 had a...
Bambi stopped by the backyard, posing for about th...
The new iPad Pro in All Its Splendor has made my ...
Five years ago I bet on a root canal over tooth ex...
59½
You can’t fight The System.
Butter chicken tacos with pico de gallo and fries ...
A last vestigial limb of the Steve Ballmer era at ...
Fox and Raccoon was not quite the Disney short I e...
Downy woodpecker is not well pleased with me watch...
The bird feeder seemed a bit “light” i...
Hot and dry for weeks, three of ten or so birds we...
A squirrel at rest, possibily pondering the record...
Two weeks since I scrounged my last six pack of Pe...
Challenge rejected, as Pepsi-Cola Made with Real S...
My wife likes counting rabbits on walks in the nei...
A dear deer friend stopped by for dinner.
Fearless Hummingbird Moth on a Butterfly Bush woul...
I love the minimalism of the iPhone mini, except f...
Oh, Apple Maps! It’s been two years since th...
Lots of tech enthusiasts hyping new Surface device...
I’m pouring one out (Caffè Misto) for the Sm...
How I solved the “No AirPrint Printers Found...
Mr. Turtle does not seem well pleased by my attent...
I thought it was plastic.
A few very rare yard lilies not (yet) eaten by our...
From a forest near Asheville, I think this is a Fl...
After my mother-in-law fell off a sidewalk curb in...
Frustration.
I replaced a fifteen year-old HP DeskJet with a ne...
Four happy years of fast internet later, I was beg...
Once again feelings upon waking match the data: ti...
Every spring I argue with my wife over eliminating...
History repeats:
“We are not aware of–...
I wanted something that kept me from losing my App...
A faulty “thermistor” may be causing m...
The “gotcha” season has begun for flor...
How I know I am old: an incoming call notifies me ...
The ubiquitous sign in every skilled nursing facil...
Instead of a whimsical snowman brought to life wit...
Peak #iPad Home Screen
Nearly a decade since I’ve flown, incremental chan...
You still have time to get in on Project Tapestry,...
Microsoft Devices continues its slow ballistic arc...
Rick and Morty has been a dying star in my queue s...
Just a reminder: this is Apple Vision Pro Apotheos...
I feel a little guilty about wiping out a possible...
An hour or so later the pile of papers is gone, da...
No Vision Pro for me. My hyperopia/astigmatism wel...
My tires hate me. I favor “performance&rdquo...
A few of our dear deer friends stopped by this mor...
Wanting to change drive icons, instead of tedious ...
Serendipity of the Day: an entire package of fabul...
Apple may be trying a new Magic Keyboard, but the ...
Is there an app setting or lawyer that I can selec...
Q423 Surface revenue was $1.1 billion, down 20 per...
It does make a sound. Also, a small dent in the gu...
Five seconds of snow captured on video, likely the...
My wife got three bouquets of flowers. Her father ...
Once again, #AppleWeather radar fails to provide b...
Before Bing chat was lobotomized, I asked it to &l...
A Red-shouldered hawk sat on this branch looking f...
I tried to tell the gas company rep that a 40 perc...
Always #Microsoft #Surface has existed upon the su...
Saturation so high, this Camellia japonica bloom l...
Eight hours and an evocation later, the plumbers/s...
A brief history of desktop computing:
1980 Atari ...
This year Redvember falls on the 28th, the brighte...
A box turtle with evil eyes made a run for it acro...
I made pretty good quesadillas for lunch, but the ...
The DSC-QX10 once again fills in for the missing 1...
Like most teenagers, this red-bellied woodpecker i...
I don’t tell the woods in back how much I ap...
Other World Computing should call it the Envy Pro ...
Like any addict, be they opioid user, Love Island ...
Starlight at rest.
Windows Phone Redux
My wife says there are now two Swallowtails visiti...
Seeing this infrequently, looks like iPadPro has v...
This Rabbit hanging in the yard evenings spooks if...