Rob Fahrni

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Saturday Morning Coffee

I got a nice little treat with my coffee this morning. Kim made some pumpkin spice cinnamon rolls. šŸ¤¤

Pastries and coffee are perfect together.

Frap

Robin Rendle, hat tip Om šŸŽ©: ā€There are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own. Your career will thank you for it later and no-one can take it away. But donā€™t wait up for success to come, itā€™s going to be a slogā€”there will be years before you see any benefit.ā€

If youā€™re reading this you have to know by now I love blogging. I donā€™t see giving it up. Sure, Iā€™ve gone through extremely dry spells over the years but I still enjoy it.

In the early 2000ā€™s Iā€™d do little one line posts and it was fine. When Twitter became a thing I felt like my blog posts needed a title for some strange reason. When I switched back to this domain for my blog I started posting stand-alone short posts without a title and pictures.

I like the way itā€™s going. I post more frequently.

The Daily Beast: ā€Dearie, a semi-retired federal judge in Brooklyn whoā€™s playing the role of temporary referee, wants to speed up the process and get federal agents back on track. And while Trump has been alleging on social media that he already declassified the records he swiped from the White House, Dearie is demanding that Trump put up or shut up.ā€

The judge that setup this whole mess by allowing for a Special Master was just passing the buck. Itā€™s nice to see Judge Dearie call B.S.

Itā€™s amazing how big a grifter, gangster, bully, TFG is. He really does deserve some jail time, of course he wonā€™t get any, but he deserves some.

The Iconfactory : ā€Introducing Wallaroo - the quickest and easiest way to browse and set wallpapers on your iOS devices. The Iconfactory has been crafting custom wallpapers for the Mac and iOS community for over 25 years, and now weā€™ve packaged them up in a fun, handy app thatā€™s available today on the iOS App Store.ā€

Iā€™m a huge fan of The Iconfactory. Iā€™ve been a Twitterrific user for years and years and years and Iā€™m composing this post using Tot, their simple note taking app.

When I saw the post for Wallaroo I installed it straight away and subscribed. I love seeing a subscription that is going to provide me with high quality iPhone wallpapers for the length of my subscription, one year.

Iā€™m currently rocking the Jack-O-Lantern from the Spectral Selfies collection. Itā€™s a beautiful piece of work.

Highly recommended.

I was also surprised to see Apple relax the rules around the Dynamic Island (Do you say Dynamic Island in a big booming voice in your head or is it just me?)

Regardless. Itā€™s nice to see Apple allow for this whimsical treatment of the island.

Who know, next week they may reject it? šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø

The Washington Post: ā€The issue Wednesday went far beyond a single statue. Residents ā€” neighbors, families ā€” plunged into an emotional discussion about identity and who gets to define it, provoking a heated defense of local heritage. Much of it was couched in an unreconstructed view of history in which the Lost Cause is noble, the Confederacy was a bastion of statesā€™ rights and Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was an unprincipled butcher.ā€

This is something I really hate about the South. There is a reality distortion field around this so called heritage. Yeah, itā€™s a heritage of slavery. The imprisonment and mistreatment of human beings to serve your needs. Itā€™s pathetic.

Every one of these Jim Crowe era statues and monuments need to be destroyed. Melt them down and make them something beautiful or put them in a museum to shame them. It would be a museum similar to the Holocaust Museum. We canā€™t forget the Civil War and we need to tell it for what it was. It was all about slavery.

The Confederacy was a disgusting attempt to overthrow the government. Itā€™s a stain on our history.

Gotta give this asshole props for being honest enough to say what these right wing extremists believe. Most of the MAGAā€™s dance around the subject. Not this dude. He comes right out and says ā€œIā€™m a racist bastard.ā€

Disgusting.

ESPN: ā€CLEVELAND – Nobody, at least still living, knows for sure how Brownie the Elf came to be the first official mascot of the Cleveland Browns some 76 years ago.ā€

Letā€™s end on a happy note, shall we?

I know Brownie the Elf is controversial in Cleveland and around the country but gosh darnit Iā€™m here for it! Not every NFL team needs some macho mascot.

I hope the dress him up for the holidays. A Christmas elf would be nice.

Oh, I also really love that he covers a gigantor part of the field. Nicely done Cleveland.

Now, letā€™s get him on the helmets. šŸ˜

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