Saturday, November 2, 2024
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Were four days away from what is the most consequential Presidential vote in my lifetime, perhaps the country’s lifetime. Voting is the most important thing you can do to save our democracy. I’ll leave it at that. I hope you enjoy the links. Pema Levy • Mother Jones Donald Trump may be a known quantity. He’s been a public figure for decades, a television star, and president from 2017-2021.
The Editorial Board • The New York Times
Donald Trump has described at length the dangerous and disturbing actions he says he will take if he wins the presidency.
At least The NY Times had the intestinal fortitude to do this.
Still blooming.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ This weeks post is going to contain a lot about politics and the upcoming Presidential Election here in the good old USofA. I wouldn’t be surprised if you skipped reading but I just feel the need to talk about it, not that it’s going to change anyone’s mind. I’m still blown away by the response of half of voters. People actually want a nation run by a psychopath who wants to run the country into the ground.
Done and done! I’ve done my part and voted to keep the United States of America a democracy!
Friday, October 25, 2024
I am all in on Kamala Harris being the next President of the United States. She is fully qualified and will bring an excellent staff on board to keep this country running. We’re at a critical time in our Nation. Fascism has been knocking on the door for sometime now and it’s time we squash it, forever. Trump cannot win. He will never leave office and will destroy the United States of America.
Mmmmmmm, Dragon’s Milk. 😋
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Last week someone was talking about Calvin and Hobbes. It’s a comic I love as well and have a fairly old book of them. Anyway, Kim showed me one back in the 90’s and said “This is Taylor.” Taylor is our youngest daughter and I saw the likeness instantly. It’s 100% her. She’s a goofy kid and I love her for it. 😄 Calvin making faces
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ I don’t know if allergies are trying to kill me or if I’ve picked up a cold somewhere. No matter, I’m so sleepy I can barely keep my eyes open. 😃 Ok, so, here we are, three hours later. 🤣 I passed out. Couldn’t keep my eyes open. Hope you enjoy the links. Dan Gillmor I became a blogger because of Dave. Blogging changed — in a great way — the trajectory of my career.
Uh, and by Christian I mean specifically evangelical Christian, obviously. You better not have any heretical ideas about God like this crap about loving thy neighbor and feeding the hungry and clothing the homeless. That’s the sort of idea that’ll get you in trouble in Trump’s America. But as long as you’re a white, straight, cisgender, evangelical Christian man, you’ll be fine.
Sure, everything will be fine.
Vote Harris-Walz if you want a free America.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ It’s finally getting a bit chilly overnight here in Charlottesville. Yesterday morning we managed to drop down to 39 degrees (Fahrenheit) overnight. It was 41 when I got up with the pups this morning. Coffee is made, first cup poured, time to put together some links and horrible commentary! 😂 John Naughton • The Guardian If you log into Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, you’ll find a constantly updated note telling you how many years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds the blog has been running.
Today is the 30th anniversary of this blog. Hola!
When I started my blog in February 2001 there were three folks who inspired me; Dave Winer, Ev Williams
, and Jeffrey Zeldman.
All these years later Dave is still digging, tweaking what it means to publish for the web, making new software, and writing on his blog every day.
I’ve always enjoyed Dave’s writing and hope that maybe someday I’ll be as good at it as he is.
Happy Birthday, Scripting News and congratulations on 30 years of blogging, Dave. 🥳
It’s even worse than it appears.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Jennifer Palmer, Paul Monies, Heather Warlick • USA Today Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ My coffee is nice and hot and I’ve collected a lot of material to share this week. There’s no way I can share it all. A lot of it centers around American Politics and the rift between WordPress and WP Engine. I hope you enjoy the links I’ve selected for you. 😁 The Carter Center ATLANTA — Today, The Carter Center and the world celebrate the 100th birthday of former President Jimmy Carter.
Monday, September 30, 2024
Please forgive my crude “artistry” but this is what I wish Mastodon would do for folks coming to sign up for the first time at joinmastodon.org. Don’t present them with a “Join mastodon.social” button and a “Pick another server” button. Just give them a single choice “Join Mastodon” so they get a mastodon.social account. Once they figure out how it works they can switch to another instance or just keep using the one they have.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ I know this is very late today. We have our grandson today and we’ve been go, go, go, go, go since he arrived. I’m already pooped but he is such a great kid and a joy to be around. 😁 Carmel Dagan, Alex Ritman • Variety Maggie Smith, Star of ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Harry Potter,’ Dies at 89 Goodbye Professor McGonagall.😔🪦 Vitaly Bragilevsky • JETBRAINS Blog
Saturday, September 21, 2024 →
Kim’s mini roses are extremely happy.
Saturday, September 21, 2024 →
Tinted with large icons. It’s interesting. I’ll definitely keep the large icons. The tinting is most likely going away.
I did this to see what Stream’s icon looked like tinted. It’s not good.
And, yes, I like orange. 🍊🎃🧡🍑
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Raw Story US guitarist and singer Tito Jackson, an original member of the legendary Jackson 5 group and older brother of pop superstars Michael and Janet, has died at the age of 70, his sons said late Sunday. 🪦 Evan Martin The “Windows emulator” half of retrowin32 is an implementation of the Windows API, which means it provides implementations of functions exposed by Windows.
Thursday, September 19, 2024 →
The leaves continue to change. 🍁
Before you know it all those trees will be gray sticks.
