I had a full-sized wired aluminum Mac keyboard for years. I used it with the MacBook and later with the iMac. After the 2015 break-in, the police came and did that thing that reassures homeowners but that rarely yields usable results: dusting for fingerprints. That left me with a Mac keyboard that not only …
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BACKUPS (cont’d)
So, backups. On my Time Capsule (ca. 2015) I get the same bland unhelpful error message described on this blog post. I got the same error message when I moved the Time Machine backup to my Western Digital 2TB external drive (ca. 2010). I’ve been using the latter mainly for miscellaneous photos, DVD rips, and …
EVERYTHING IS A MESS AND ALL IS WELL
At the start of Awareness, Anthony deMello shares the secret divulged by all mystics of all faiths, [A]ll is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having …
SNOWSCAPES – DAY AND NIGHT
Durham NC got about 8-11 inches of snow today. Here’s a shot from our backyard (taken by Liz) this afternoon, and from our front porch this evening.
FROM CRASHPLAN TO BACKBLAZE
After I renewed my Crashplan subscription last August, they announced, bless their hearts, they were leaving the consumer space to focus on business-only plans. The Crashplan folks have generally been derided and criticized for that, but let’s count our blessings. They did not just pull the plug on my account so the data is unavailable. …
COFFEENOMICS
Liz and I have an informal tradition of going to a local bakery/deli place forbreakfast when there’s a federal holiday. It featured coffee urns in the center of the dining area where patrons could refill their cups. As the bakery is across the street from Duke’s East Campus, I’m sure people camped out at a …
RESTARTING MY DIET, SUCH AS IT IS – 2
The key tool for me will be a weight-tracking chart made with pen and graph paper. The chart format is described in the 1975 book Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week by Laurence E. Morehouse and Leonard Gross (long out of print). I first heard of this book through Mark Forster’s article. The goal …
Graham Linehan on Sitcom Geek podcast
James Cary, writer of numerous UK radio and TV sitcoms and of the excellent Sitcom Geek blog and of the Kindle ebook Writing That Sitcom, is also a co-host with writer Dave Cohen of the Sitcom Geeks podcast. The man is about sitcoms. Their podcast has just posted a two-part interview with the brilliant Graham …
RESTARTING MY DIET, SUCH AS IT IS – 1
I have paid for Herbalife, Diet Center (where I had to weigh in weekly and eat at least one large salad and one large apple a day), protein shakes, meal-replacement shakes, olive oil to do the Shangri-La Diet, lots of chicken breasts and veg for the South Beach Diet, lots of chicken, beans, and eggs …
RESTARTING MY EXERCISE PROGRAM, SUCH AS IT IS
I went to the Y and aerobics classes in the ’80s, used the weight machines with my gym memberships in the ’90s, bought a NordicTrack, went to yoga classes, bought my own set of dumbbells, bought a dozen exercise tapes and DVDs, and I don’t know what all. Since about 2007 or so, I settled …
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