Carl
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Sometimes you take a photo because you see it in your mind without color.
Carl
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We found Elvis.
Carl
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Carl
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@crossingthethreshold Quick launch looks very cool! I’ve played with Shortcuts but always end up getting frustrated and giving up.
I’ll have to check out quick launch as that may be a missing piece for me.
And I would be interested in seeing the shortcut if you want to share.
Carl
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You’re welcome to hang out there little buddy. But you might be real unhappy about it soon.
Carl
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@crossingthethreshold What is this voodoo? :)
Carl
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I’m not sure exactly what’s going on it in here. Why is the snowman holding the arms and head of another? Where is the body?
Carl
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Setup. Email. Rules.
If you’re not filtering email you’re hurting yourself and your team. Why are there thousands of unread emails in your inbox?
Filter them. Sort them.
You do not need to see every message. You’re not really seeing nor action on them. Put them into cold storage then delete later.
Carl
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Have you looked at the moon. I missed the full moon by one day. But it’s so bright and beautiful tonight.
Carl
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My wife requested I find a copy of the Taylor Swift Reputation Tour and Eras Tour if possible.
I went looking with money in hand. I found both on the Internet Archive and they now live in my Plex server so she can watch on demand without fear of it vanishing one day.
Carl
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Wife: you don’t have to take a picture of every one you see. Me: yes I do! It’s my scavenger hunt for fiscal irresponsibility.
Carl
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@jessekelber pictures post is up. peroty.micro.blog/2024/08/1...
Carl
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Our Billy Bookcaseses (three tall ones with extension) to the right and a Vihals sideboard.
Replacing old metal racks for art supplies and thrifting side gig.
Carl
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For my next trick, placing rectangular Billy bookcases into a house that is anythingg but rectangular.
Carl
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@patrickrhone I’d second Google Maps. Served us well when we went a few years back.
Carl
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A majestic double rainbow from earlier today.
Carl
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The difference in cheers when Leon Marchand swam the breast stroke is hilarious and so fun!
Every time he surfaces a huge roar goes up. #olympics
Carl
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Olympics Opening Ceremony Time!
Watching it live on the US East Coast. Will be rebroadcast at 7:30pm tonight as well.
#Olympics
Carl
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Rugby is an aggressive game of keep away. 🏉 #Olympics
Carl
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Olympics!!!
Time to watch everything!
I’ve been having fun watching the athletes on TikTok roaming Paris and sharing their lives with us.
More athletes need to put their country / event n their bios so I can find them and cheer them on.
Watching Rugby now. Fiji is FAST! 🏃💨
Carl
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Sorting through 25,000+ photos. Trying to determine their actual creation dates using ChatGPT to help me write bash scripts to sort them and tag them properly.
Down to about 700 photos left.
Feels good getting these into one place. Next step is to remove duplicates using Digikam for Linux.
Carl
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Carl
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I took a little nap this afternoon and when I woke up me up, my wife looks over at me and says “in the maybe 30 minutes you were asleep, Biden has stepped down.”
So that’s happened. Now do we get to see Kamala savage Trump in a debate?
#VoteBlue
Carl
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Sitting on my couch with my wife watching Noah Kahan play Fenway Park. 🎸🎹🎻
Carl
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Days like this I don’t miss working in IT at the user support level. But there’s also a shared camaraderie that comes from replacing the same file over, and over and over and over again and getting people back to work that’s satisfying as it is mind-numbing. #Crowdstrike
Carl
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Had a marvelous time in Amsterdam. Taylor Swift puts on an incredible night of theater. The Van Gogh museum was excellent!
Then I came home to a cold and tweaked my back which kicked up my sciatica. Everything in balance I suppose.
Carl
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I told my wife I felt like a tottering old man. She said I think it’s doddering. Like daughter with a d. So I looked it up and she’s right.
Doddering is for old me. Tottering is for structures like a teeter totter.
Carl
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@alans Agreed! We are lucky Maryland has incentives as well ell as some federal ones when we bought. We get “sky money” every month which is a joy. It helps to pay for itself.
Carl
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@alans Solar is amazing! We were lucky that our county has run a series of co-ops for solar and were able to finance it a few years ago. We have a modest sized house and it’s just the two of us and most months the solar cancels out our bill. So we pay an $8 to be on the grid. But that’s it. ☀️ 💰
Carl
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@pratik Multi-charger. A branded version of something like this: www.promotionsnow.com/products/...
Carl
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@patrickrhone It’s sitting in my library Libby queue and I can’t wait to read it.
I also need to revisit 1984 as it’s been too many years. But it’s a personal favorite.
Carl
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@peroty Not sure if the embedded audio will come across to Mastodon, original post: peroty.micro.blog/2024/05/3...
Carl
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@odd Thank you! I do enjoy looking up what the gift is. But can’t say I’ve ever given one to match.
But I agree. No 🐘 or 🦏 were harmed in celebration.
Carl
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@humdrum If I'm not running it at 26.4 kbps over dial-up from a beige Dell box with a CRT, is it even Limewire?
Carl
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@cdevroe The magic of ✨multitrack editing.✨The discord bot we use that outputs each person as their own channel makes this much easier when we do stumble over each other.
Carl
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@manton This is literally all I want to use to AI for. Tag photos. Write alt text. Let me review it but compose it in a way that's helpful.
Carl
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@cdevroe Wife and I switched about two years ago after one of her sister's did and referred us. We're in the DC area and coverage has been great. Struggles at times inside some buildings like grocery stories at on the bottom floor of apartment buildings. But it cannot be beaten for the price.
Carl
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@amerpie I’ve seen all sorts of weird executive “requirements” before. I’ve often had execs, especially those that were wildly rich, make these demands and we supported whatever crazy thing they wanted.
Carl
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@Burk For me 👎👎👎 because password manager.
For most people, 👍 because it’s better than their child / dog / cat / birthdate.
Carl
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@manton Absolutely ridiculous. He looks like a "big kid" out there playing with younger kids. Love it.
Carl
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@Annie Thank you. I’m looking for meditations but also something to help me sleep. a buzzing CPAP machine is making sleep even harder than normal.
Carl
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@ddanielson thank you. I will check it out.