2023-03-24: The Slump Test Again with a late reading of a blog post, Dr. Drang offered an amusing insight into one of the …
2023-03-24: The Behinder I Get Trying to catch up on my blog reading. Just read this post from Woeter Groeneveld from over a week …
2023-03-23: Death of DP Review So Amazon's killing DP Review. Unsurprised. Pretty stupid taking down the site though. I haven't …
2023-03-23: Blood Money The local blood bank comes to our community regularly and I donate. It's convenient and they give …
2023-03-23: Signal to Noise Both GE Superadios arrived, separately of course. The photos in the listings didn't include the …
2023-03-22: The Death of Democracy in Duval County They held an election in Jacksonville Florida last night. Ennui won walking away in a landslide. It …
2023-03-20: Extrapolations We watched the first episode of Extrapolations, an Apple TV+ series that looks at what the future …
2023-03-18: "Calling Rangoon, Come in Rangoon" Or Yangon, rather. The Panasonic RF-2200 arrived safely on Thursday afternoon. We were getting ready …
2023-03-16: True North Governor DeSantis made something of a revealing statement in theclosing of his State of the State …
2023-03-15: Going Broke "Thrifting" Technically, I suppose, I haven't been "thrifting." That is, I've just been buying junk online at …
2023-03-13: Living I think a thoroughgoing analysis will have to wait for another day, but do see this film. It's a …
2023-03-11: A Quick Test For Mark Just checking some export behavior here. Nothing to see. Originally posted at Nice Marmot 12:29 …
2023-03-11: So Many Rabbit Holes I can't say I've ever been diagnosed as having attention deficit disorder, but I do have a short …
2023-03-09: Little Blue Heron Crossed the street to walk on the multi-purpose path since the landscapers were edging the sidewalk. …
2023-03-09: Little Blue Heron Crossed the street to walk on the multi-purpose path since the landscapers were edging the sidewalk. …
2023-03-07: My New Toy I should probably set this up and do a glamour shot with a "real" camera, but I wanted to do a quick …
2023-03-06: This is why AI will destroy humanity. Skynet becomes self-aware, discovers what everyone is texting …
2023-03-05: The Fondness of Absence Or something. I am the master of the meaningless non sequitur, if that's not a tautology. Obliquely, …
2023-03-05: Daring Fireball, John Gruber: Josh Marshall: ‘The Deep Archeology of Fox News’ Republican reality is …
2023-03-05: Like a Hawk This morning's keeper. Not a great shot, but I hadn't seen a hawk in a while. The OM-1's bird …
2023-03-02: Jupiter and Venus Redux Clouds cooperated yesterday evening. Shot this with the 75-300mm zoom on the OM-1. Could've used the …
2023-03-02: Tinderbox Community On Sunday, I joined the weekly Tinderbox Zoom meet-up. (Alternates between Saturdays and Sundays at …
2023-03-02: Note to Mom I've undertaken a new project. Along with printing photo books (two completed so far), I'm going to …
2023-03-01: On Mark from St. Augustine, the Good German We have a public radio station within FM radio range of the 'chuck hole, (It's also available as a …
2023-03-01: This morning’s birds. Not necessarily “of a feather.”
2023-03-01: Venus and Jupiter Venus and Jupiter nearing their closest appearance in the sky. May not see them tonight, when …
2023-02-27: Almost There It was a busy week. Mitzi and visited the Cummer Museum and Gardens on Thursday to view a new …
2023-02-22: The Asterism Across the Street I don't think this evening's is as dramatic as yesterday's. Shot this with the E-M1X in handheld …
2023-02-22: Asterism Stepped outside yesterday evening to go collect the mail and was greeted by this. Having some …
2023-02-21: Of Toadies and Lickspittles and Sycophants It's funny, the things I think of in the shower. While we may recoil at the spiritual hollowness of …
2023-02-21: On Not Taking Money for NetNewsWire. I love this. Originally posted at Nice Marmot 06:40 Tuesday, 21 …
2023-02-21: Lost I played with the Suggested Links feature of Tinderbox this morning, looking at what it surfaced as …
2023-02-19: The weakness of "strong men." Originally posted at Notes From the Underground 09:02 Sunday, 19 …
2023-02-19: Exploration Just because I'm excited, not that you should be, a short post before I take my walk. I picked a …
2023-02-19: Serendipity, Part Deux Recently I mentioned that Spotlight wasn't behaving as advertised in my install of MacOS Ventura. …
2023-02-18: Serendipity The marmot is made with Tinderbox, the tool for notes. It's a remarkable application, very powerful. …
2023-02-18: Erasing Black History Florida faces genuine existential threats from climate change and sea level rise, which require …
2023-02-18: Ephemera Certain eastern spiritual traditions adhere to the notion of "the transient nature of all …
2023-02-13: Yellow Rumped Warbler An otherwise unremarkable shot, but I'm refining my process. (Fumbling around with it is a more apt …
2023-02-12: Sunday It was cloudy and breezy on the walk this morning. Brought along the E-P7 because I didn't think I'd …
2023-02-12: Nice Sunday read for creatives. Originally posted at Nice Marmot 13:20 Sunday, 12 February 2023
2023-02-11: The Weakness of "Strong Men" It's so commonly known, it's nearly a universal trope in narratives about bullies and bad bosses. I …
2023-02-11: Florida Leads the Way Heather Cox Richardson puts her finger on what's happening in Florida without mentioning it once. A …
2023-02-10: Poor Man Wanna Be Rich Rich man wanna be king. And a king ain't satisfied 'til he rules everything. For more than a …
2023-02-10: Get Cash Now Heard back from KEH.COM today. It seems I was a bit more conservative than I thought. They quoted me …
2023-02-10: Last Macs? Colin Devroe writes about something I've been thinking about recently. I bought the machine I'm …
2023-02-09: Bluebird Just needed to post a pic to make sure I remembered how to do it! It seems giving my E-M10 Mk4 to my …
2023-02-08: Luckily, We'll All Be Heavily Armed Those that are fortunate enough to still have property above the mean high water line will at least …
2023-02-08: Meanwhile, The Insanity Continues What's the notional life-span of a new apartment complex? I figure they'll be lucky to get 25 years …
2023-02-08: They'll Be Moving to North Florida It's doubtful that even the ultra-rich will find a way to adapt in Miami. And without a middle-class …
2023-02-07: Colder The National Weather Service thinks it's 49°F, but it's 44° here. Sun's up, so it should warm up …
2023-02-02: Another Moon I did remember to try again, bumping up the ISO. This one is at 400, and the shutter speed is …
2023-02-02: Lessons Learned It's Groundhog Day, and I did a thread on Twitter that I was thinking about yesterday. I was trying …
2023-02-02: Groundhog Day Moon Woke up about 0130 and couldn't fall back to sleep so I figured I'd try to photograph the Falcon 9 …
2023-01-31: Testing making a post from micro.blog the Mac app. #XZ-1 jpgs SOOC. #CCD.
2023-01-31: Storage Unrelated to my efforts at eliminating non-value-added stuff in my little sea cabin here, has been a …
2023-01-31: Another Editor's Note I have two blogs I maintain. One, Notes From the Underground, is specifically intended for political …
2023-01-31: The Purge Continues Not cameras. This time anyway. No, I've opened the big file drawers of my desk and emptied their …
2023-01-29: Fascism has a friendly face and a soft, guitar and piano soundtrack. Originally posted at Notes From …
2023-01-29: The State of Education, in "the free state of Florida." Originally posted at Notes From the …
2023-01-29: What's Different This Time Local Duval County Public Schools teacher Gregory Sampson explains how the Republican assault on …
2023-01-29: We've entered Fahrenheit 451. Originally posted at Notes From the Underground 06:35 Sunday, 29 …
2023-01-28: Editor's Note I don't intend for the marmot to just be a link-blog, but I've been a little busy. As mentioned a …
2023-01-28: John P. Weiss with another blog post well worth reading on making meaning. Originally posted at Nice …
2023-01-27: The Enshittification Lifecycle of Online Platforms. Kottke links and comments. The marmot concurs. …
2023-01-27: A Palm Beach Post article outlines the criteria for textbook exclusion on the basis of …
2023-01-26: Florida Power and "Light" Florida's eponymous power utility announced the surprise retirement of its CEO, Eric Silagy. This …
2023-01-26: American Pekin Something I've never seen here before. This appears to be an American Pekin domestic duck, much …
2023-01-26: Florida accounted for 20% of the nation's new enrollments in Obamacare last year. 3.2M Floridians …
2023-01-25: Unsettled Very breezy this morning, ahead of a line of thunderstorms expected this afternoon. E-M10 Mk4 with …
2023-01-25: Keeping Up With RSS Since I've cut back on my Twitter usage, I've subscribed to a lot of RSS feeds. I have two feeds …
2023-01-23: As We May Think I think about Apple's rumored virtual reality/augmented reality device in terms of something like …
2023-01-22: Watched The Menu last night. Brilliant. Loved it. Hard to say anything about it without spoilers, …
2023-01-21: With regard to the preceding post, it may be later than anyone thinks. Originally posted at Notes …
2023-01-21: If you're one of the lucky few people who thinks in terms of "generational wealth," and is looking …
2023-01-21: To be fair, Ron DeSantis is merely a symptom, the logical consequence of a political monoculture …
2023-01-21: Folks considering moving to Jacksonville, Florida's largest city, might want to listen to this most …
2023-01-21: Roughly 1K people move to Florida every day. Probably for "no state income tax," and the climate …
2023-01-21: Over a generation of one-party Republican rule, here's a reflection of Florida's safety net under …
2023-01-21: After more than a generation of one-party Republican rule, Florida ranks 35th in overall child …
2023-01-21: DeSantis has had a taste of power in his first term; and now he has an insatiable appetite for it. …
2023-01-21: While I'm reviewing streaming series, we watched Season 3 of Prime's Jack Ryan. Meh. Better than …
2023-01-21: Mitzi and I have been enjoying Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler on HBO Max. I probably …
2023-01-20: May I Have Your Attention Please If we're fortunate enough to preserve the working elements of this civilization, and eliminate the …
2023-01-19: The chilling effect of right-wing radical Ron DeSantis' "Don't say gay" bill was on prominent …
2023-01-19: DeSantis is focusing on transgender students in the state university system. And we know it's not to …
2023-01-18: Falcon Launch 1-18-23 Put the DJI Mini 2 up this morning for the launch. Not spectacular, but not terrible. The bright …
2023-01-17: Sold my Fujifilm X20 yesterday. Buyer was a young petty officer who was a totally squared-away …
2023-01-17: Like It's 1999 Shooting film. Decade-old CCD digicams. Super-8 movies. Static HTML. Retro is cool. Perhaps because …
2023-01-17: Click on this link in Safari on your iPhone (or other iOS device). Touch the "sharrow" and select …
2023-01-17: Unevenly Distributed On Sunday I posted an image I took from my driveway of a rocket leaving earth and two parts of it …
2023-01-16: ISS 16 Jan 23 I get a text alert from Spot the Station when the ISS will be visible overhead from Ponte Vedra. …
2023-01-16: Caret wrangling... Had an extra "^" in the RSS template. From too few to too many. Fixed. Originally posted at Nice …
2023-01-16: Falcon Heavy 15 Jan 23 Camera Two I set up two cameras last night. Had a 25mm/f1.8 lens on the 16MP E-PL8 and a 12mm/f2.0 on the 20MP …
2023-01-16: Learning As I Go It seems micro.blog can't ingest some html in an RSS feed, or I'm not doing something correctly. The …
2023-01-16: 🌎 January 15, 2023. Author: Heather Cox Richardson Date Retrieved: 1/16/23, 06:25 …
2023-01-15: Falcon Heavy 15 Jan 23 It was still twilight when Falcon Heavy USSF-67 Mission lifted off. This was from an Olympus E-PL8 …
2023-01-15: No matter what happens next weekend, Jacksonville and the Jags organization can be proud of what …
2023-01-14: Another modification to the post export template for posts without titles. This omits the wx data. …
2023-01-14: This post may be an example of why I might use title-less posts. Kind of like tweeting a link. This …
2023-01-14: This is a test post for untitled RSS posts. If this is working correctly, I'll modify the template …
2023-01-13: Cool Phone Wallpaper Follow the James Webb Telescope's Flickr account, get cool wallpaper. Click through to the official …
2023-01-13: Imposter Syndrome? Moi? I used to subscribe to the New Yorker because I like it and I wanted to support it. But since I was …
2023-01-12: What Time Are We Eating? Mitzi sent me a link to this article in the Washington Post. (No subscription required.) She said …
2023-01-11: Landing Since I was up early, I did do a bit of sitting. I'd installed an iOS app called Oak on my phone …
2023-01-11: Course Correction I don't know how they do it these days, what with GPS and automated helms and so on, but back in my …
2023-01-10: Missed the Big Show Walked back to the kitchen and saw a red sky for the first time in a while. Hustled back to get the …
2023-01-09: Sandhill Crane Things you don't see every day. Vocalizing like crazy. Seems to have lost its mate. Shortly after I …
2023-01-09: Freedom Isn't Taken, It's Surrendered Gregory Sampson is a teacher in Duval County Public Schools, and he has a blog called Grumpy Old …
2023-01-08: A Cluttered Desk One of the new (to me) blogs I found recently is John P. Weiss. I enjoy his writing and his …
2023-01-08: A Different Perspective I don't intend for the marmot to be a meta-blog about the marmot. I suppose it looks like that at …
2023-01-08: Updates I think I'm going to turn off the Flickr integration with micro.blog. The images are tiny, at least …
2023-01-08: Deer Island Because I've forgotten how this looks, I'm copying the embed code from Flickr. This is one of a …
2023-01-08: This Morning's Moon 1-8-23 Just because it's there, right outside my window. I never get tired of doing this. Handheld high …
2023-01-07: The Space Between Stimulus and Response Yesterday, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Jacksonville City Council's request to …
2023-01-07: This Morning's Moon 7 Jan 2023 Shot with #Olympus #E-M1X in handheld high-resolution mode, #HHHR, with the #mZuiko100-400mm zoom. …
2023-01-07: Good Morning, International Space Station International Space Station as it flew overhead Ponte Vedra Florida this morning. #ISS #Olympus …
2023-01-05: Playing around with micro.blog on iOS.
2023-01-05: In Darkness, You Never See Your Shadow One of the taglines I used on my old blog Groundhog Day was "It's about seeing your shadow." Much of …
2023-01-05: Still a Few Bugs In The System I think I've got everything wired up correctly again. I have an Automator workflow that is saved as …
2023-01-05: Grand Canyon This is a follow-up test. Shot last March from an overlook just south of the north entrance. …
2023-01-05: Moon Over Red Rocks Testing the automations set up for posting photos. This was from last March, one of my favorite …
2023-01-04: It's Darker Here Florida has been governed by the Republican Party for a generation. Every branch of state government …
2023-01-04: Brisk Business Banning Books Meanwhile, in next-door Duval County (go Jags!) the school district is doing King DeFascist's …
2023-01-04: Multi-Tasking For the moment, I'm posting local political stories over in the command cave. I had another …
2023-01-04: Not Best for Trans Kids Court backs St. Johns schools in transgender bathroom fight Hate has a home in St Johns County too. …
2023-01-04: Bubble St. Johns County rated best for children. St Johns County is the highest median income county in …
2023-01-03: In addition to sorting most of my USB cables into zip-lock bags, I’ve also been purging extra …
2023-01-03: Headlight Originally posted at Nice Marmot 12:49 Tuesday, 3 January 2023
2023-01-02: # Kind of a test post without a title. Also discovered I have to change the Automator application that …
2023-01-02: Things to do... Found yet another 2022 that needed to be changed to 2023. So instead of writing this post, I should …
2023-01-02: Fog Walk Even foggier than yesterday. Got a few shots with the Olympus Stylus 1s. Originally posted at Nice …
2023-01-01: Search and Replace Exists for a Reason Found another 2022 I need to change to 2023. Sigh. It was an unfortunate choice of text color and …
2023-01-01: Finding My Way in the Fediverse I found this link, which I will share in a moment, via Mastodon. As I was scrolling Mastodon, I was …
2023-01-01: Personal Blogging It feels as though there really is some momentum for a shift away from corporate social media silos …
2023-01-01: A Dim Sun A photo post test. I note that I have to update the script for the image URL. Manually edited in …
2023-01-01: Template Glitch Forgot to update the RSS template for 2023. Might work now. This is a test. Originally posted at …
2023-01-01: New Year Doing some maintenance around here to get the marmot configured for 2023. Dropped a post in the …
2023-01-01: New Year Doing some maintenance around here to get the marmot configured for 2023. Dropped a post in the …
2023-01-01: Last night’s fireworks at St Augustine Beach.
2022-12-31: Time to Make Some Changes Over at the Command Cave, I shared something that has crossed my mind from time to time. Today I'm …
2022-12-30: Closing Thoughts 2022 Although we have at least another day left in 2022, I thought I'd spend a few minutes down here and …
2022-12-25: Merry Christmas Wishing you and yours a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Originally posted at Nice Marmot 07:52 …
2022-12-23: Holidays We have a houseful here at Saul Hall. Mitzi's daughter, son-in-law, 6-month-old son and their dog …
2022-12-20: Test Sat It worked. So what's shaping up right now is that I can use micro.blog as a service to cross post to …
2022-12-20: Template Test Trying a new template for the RSS feed. If this works, there will be a link to the original post in …
2022-12-19: kottke.org, Jason Kottke: The Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Trying the share action in …
2022-12-19: BlogNote Dec 19, 2022 at 06:46 BlogNote Dec 19, 2022 at 06:46 🌎 The Good of the World Depends On Unhistoric Acts. Author: John P. …
2022-12-18: BlogNote Dec 18, 2022 at 07:33 BlogNote Dec 18, 2022 at 07:33 🌎 5 Little Habits to Get What You Want in Life. Author: John P. Weiss …
2022-12-17: Network I've been exploring various alternatives and innovations in social media platforms, primarily …
2022-12-17: Radio Check Test post to see what happens.
2022-12-17: Federal court delays Jacksonville City Council redistricting ruling until Monday I don’t know …
2022-12-17: Speaking of Cameras OM Digital Solutions released a firmware update to the flagship OM-1. One of the reasons I know …
2022-12-17: Old Habits One of the best things Twitter has going for it right now is inertia, the tendency of human beings …
2022-12-15: Test post from the iPad OS app, while seated in the recliner, typing on an Apple Magic Keyboard. …
2022-12-15: This is a test post to see what the cross-posting feature does with Flickr.
2022-12-14: Trying something new.
2022-12-14: Trying a link post. After Ian and Nicole, pollution spreads to St. Johns and other waterways.
2022-12-14: Ornamental Fog Kind of a test post to see what happens over a micro.blog. More about that later...
2022-12-14: This is a test, using micro.blog. An interesting feature is I can subscribe to the marmot’s …
2022-12-13: It's That Time Again It's "that" time again. The end of another year, when we seem to try to pause and reflect on the …