Bask in the glow

A darkened house with illuminated windows stands against a twilight sky.

I am not sure how I accomplished this effect with the Pixel’s Night Sight mode, but I like it.

Voted for Kamala.

And YES to adding a new article to the Maryland Constitution’s Declaration of Rights establishing a right to reproductive freedom, defined to include “the ability to make and effectuate decisions to prevent, continue, or end one’s own pregnancy.”

I voted sticker from Maryland with an Oriole bird, blue crab, jockey on horseback surrounding a flower in the middle with parts of the Maryland state flag between the animals.

A vibrant sunset with streaks of yellow and orange light peeking through silhouetted trees, against a blue to golden gradient sky.

A sunset with golden hues paints streaked clouds above silhouetted trees on the horizon.

Tired of being awake early by awake early enough to greet the morning sun. But the show is nice.

The last three nights we’ve watched the Eras tour vicariously through the kindness of people with their phone streaming it.

Tonight, there is no Eras order to watch, and I’m at a little bit of a loss as to what to do.

I really need a way to look at the (likely terrible) sci-fi movies on the streaming serviced and determine if or how they’re terrible.

I love watching them and I know I’m going to regret most of them. But what are the diamonds in the rough?

Or at least the decent ones.

Birds flying across a twilight sky gradient with silhouetted trees and a house in the foreground.

Birds commuting home at sunset. The color was subtle but lovely.

For all the people canceling The Washington Post subscriptions, does this hurt Bezos? Or does it hurt the reporters working for the paper?

I get that you’re upset. I am too. But I don’t think the pittance of newspaper subscriptions are going to even register to its billionaire owner.

The only Return To Office I want to see is Ovi’s return to his office. #GoCaps

Showing my wife Final Destination. Then Final Destination 2, for the cultural context of why we don’t follow trucks loaded with logs. 🛻 🪵 ☠️

It’s fun going back and watching 20 year old movies.

Watching The Eras Tour from the comfort of my couch with my wife. Glass of wine. Nerds gummy clusters. Cookies in the oven. 🥂

Strands (part of the Wordle / Connections / Strands Trifecta) has a deep cut from In Living Color. (1990-1994, I checked.)

I had to explain Homey D. Clown to my wife.

Field Notes | Birds and Trees of North America Don’t mind me, just sobbing at this video of the life’s work of Max Brasher and his beautiful bird paintings (and effort to make his work public and create a museum).

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

If I never, ever see “Allow Paste” again on my iPhone it will be too soon. It’s making me miss my Pixel 4a. My light, smaller device without annoying nannying of my usage of it.

I went back to iPhone for the Watch/Mac ecosystem. But I grow weary.

This absolutely wild ride from McDonalds to an incredible artist and designer left me in tears and in awe. Incredible talk by @cabel@panic.com

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“I am not a mad enough max.”

I overheard this in a video my wife was watching. It was someone’s response to surviving the apocalypse.

It lines up with my philosophy of “Drive towards the blast. Don’t wait for the fallout.”

Growing near Mount Weather during the Cold War the humor is dark.

A single blue Hershey’s Kiss candy wrapper rests on a metallic ledge against a blurred urban backdrop with foliage and passing cars.

A little kiss in the sun.

With all the “more ads coming to streaming services” I’ve never felt better about my ongoing quest to buy and rip DVDs and Blu-Rays from my local thrift stores into Plex.

$2-$5 discs are very affordable and I’ve for the hard drive space so I don’t need to load the disc every time.

Green leaves on a car windshield with a blurred background of a forest canopy.

Fall is here. I walked outside to a car covered in leaves.

Finally starting the upgrade for the NAS from 10TB -> 14TB drives I bought on sale months ago. It’s a well-documented process from QNAP. How can I expand the Storage Pool/Static Volume by replacing the disks with larger capacity drives? | QNAP But it still makes me nervous to pull drives.

I’d like to take a Spotify playlist and find the songs on that list outside of Spotify since that’s all I really listen to.

Is there any tool or app I can use to take that list of songs and find them elsewhere where I could buy DRM free versions to own?

I’d like to pay the artists for their music.

Sausage and Tortellini Soup Recipe

I made this soup for dinner and it’s just as good as I remember.

A hummingbird perches on a tree branch.

A hummingbird perched on a branch nearby as I worked outside today. It’s the first time I had seen one near our house.

A few minutes later the neighbors pet bird went wild and I looked over to seer a fox trot through my back yard.

Working outside has been a great decision for wildlife.

Ceramic figures of three pigs in bathtubs, with the largest opens up as a cookie jar and the two smaller pigs with holes in their heads for salt and pepper.

Two ceramic pig figures sit with holes in top of their heads for salt and pepper.

I found the originalal pig in a thrift store. It’s a cookie jar and the pig lifts up from the bath tub made. The smaller pigs are salt and pepper shakers.

There do not appear to be anymore of these bathing pigs in the set. But they’re so ridiculous. I love them.

I don’t know where this portal leads but I’d love to find out.

Tall green trees under a clear blue sky with branches snaking out to create a portal into the sky.

Sometimes you take a photo because you see it in your mind without color.

A weathered outdoor staircase scattered with leaves is bordered by a black metal railing and white brick walls.