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  • Friday, November 15th, 2024

    I know I mentioned one aspect of this yesterday, but another thing I like about this new design is that it’s clean not only when you’re reading it but also when I’m writing it. It wasn’t always this way with WordPress; the Classic Editor was an insufferable GUI, but it was the best you could do back then. This is true WYSIWYG for both of us. I start a new post with a blank dark blue canvas in front of me. If I go full screen on my Mac, it’s almost like those distraction-free writing tools that were so popular ten years ago. I didn’t see the use in them back then, I do now. I think I can get used to this.

    Possibly a podcast this weekend. It’s all hinging on whether I can get some other “HoneyDo” projects done first without tiring myself out. That’s something I’m having some trouble with lately. As it gets later in the day, I’m exhausted. I might make it to 9 pm on a given day, but I can not promise. I think it has something to do with the strength that my heart is ejecting blood. My first consult after the heart attack says that it was around 40 percent. That number needs to improve, and exercise is about the only thing that will do it. I can’t go straight back to lifting weights; I’ll never make it. No, I literally have to walk before I can run here. Just to get my heart rate up consistently. It’s all cardio, strangely enough.

    If there is to be a podcast, you will see it here in two places. One is here in a post on the front page. The other, for the more observant of you, will be the podcast page at the top right of the site. What it is to be remains to be seen, and I’ll yeet myself off that bridge when I get there. Hey, here’s a shocker, I’ll do whatever the hell I feel like.

  • LINK: Marty Krofft Dies at 86 →

    If you’re my age, this man and his brother Sid were responsible for a lot of your Saturday Mornings.

    I always found these live-action shorts more entertaining than the cartoons. Probably because my earliest memories involve the Banana Splits and shorts like Danger Island. Filmation had really great stuff as well, like Shazam and Isis, but Sid and Marty were the Kings.

    Thanks, Marty.

  • Thursday, August 10th, 2023

    I don’t know if this is the only place where it occurs, but the corporate world is one of the few places where a convoluted backwards process is replaced with another convoluted backwards process in an effort to ‘improve’ things.

  • Monday, August 7th, 2023

    The most recent episode of the Podcast (week ending 8/6/2023) really got some traction on TikTok, of all places. I seem to getting more engagement and views there than anywhere else, even the Podcast feed. Moreover, the total engagement over the original post and the video replies I made to the comment section, was between 1200 and 1300 views. That’s amazing, and I’m super happy about it. I will be continuing this format for the foreseeable future. I found a winning formula.

    That only took decades…

  • Thursday, August 3rd, 2023

    If you do a search for any particular news event worth remembering in the past 60 years or so, chances are you can find it on YouTube. Specifically, live news coverage. As a fan of that kind of thing, I have found myself down quite a rabbit hole. A personal favorite is the 1968 Democratic Convention on CBS. Yes, all the bad news you can think of is there as well. I don’t want to bring any specific bad news, but you do you, boo boo.

    I mention this as a public service. You may want to search for some coverage in the coming days.

    Like this, for example.

    Or this.

    Who can say, really?

  • Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

    There is no Culture War. It’s fiction.

    However, it’s a fiction that is going to define the next two years of our lives because of the loud minority that created the fiction, and the media that perpetuates it.

    There is no Culture War. It’s fiction.

    Real people in the real world know that no one gives a shit about your Holiday Starbucks Cup, or whether or not you say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, no one cares what Sally and Joe next door are doing, or what Sally and Joe and Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice are doing. No one cares about whether Little Priscilla needs to get an abortion for whatever reason. No one cares if Jim is Jeannie on the weekends down at Don’t Tell Mama’s, or if Jim really wants to be Jeannie full-time. No one cares if Little Priscilla would like to be known as Dylan and uses some other pronouns than she/her. Do you know why no one cares?

    Because there’s no Culture War. It’s fiction.

    Remember that when you hear someone screaming about all this stuff that no one in the real world cares about.

  • Monday, July 31st, 2023

    Last night was the first night in a while I was able to sleep most of the night uninterrupted. For a start, the weather broke and it got down to the high 60’s overnight. I’m not sure what the other part was. It could be that I did a podcast episode yesterday and felt good about completing something. I took a cold shower before bed, which may have helped under the circumstances. Also, because I occupied myself for most of the evening I didn’t eat or drink anything caffeinated close to bedtime. Might be a combination of all three, I don’t know. But since I’d like to sleep more than 4 hours at a time, I’m going to troubleshoot it and see what what the item or combination that’s keeping me awake.

  • I’m Not That Fancy

    So, here’s a little bit of a switch. As some of you may be aware, I’ve been a Squarespace customer for almost a decade. I like them, and their customer service has been excellent. However, over the course of the pandemic I’ve been thinking about what it is I actually *need* for a site, and that feeling has intensified over the last few weeks. I’ve also been giving thought to the anxiety I give myself trying to make my multimedia talents a thing, and I just don’t need to do that. I need to have fun doing this stuff, and this hasn’t been fun for a while.

    So I’m scaling back. I have made the switch back to a WordPress site, and the first decision I had to make was to whether or not to go look for a fancy theme or not. I don’t need some magazine theme or a portfolio theme, and I don’t need something that has my face plastered all over it like my last Squarespace site did. I need the content to be front and center; more steak than sizzle. This theme does that. It also serves as a platform for me to relearn some of the WordPress development things that I lost over the past ten years or so.

    This new experiment—and let’s be clear, this is me playing mad scientist for the first time in a dozen years or so— is meant to do one thing: force me to look at a blank background until I get annoyed enough to fill it with something. I make no promises, but if you’ve been with me for a while, you know this. Of course, you know where the door is if you’ve had enough.

    I haven’t.