My family and I are just recently back from a 2.5-week road trip to the east coast (specifically, Nova Scotia via Quebec and New Brunswick) to visit family and friends. It’s a gorgeous drive and the visits were fantastic. Couldn’t have asked for anything to go better. We’ve been trying to get our feet back…
Another bit of a stop-and-start month for reading, largely thanks to stopping a book I was enjoying but was on the cusp of not enjoying, then finding an unexpected gem at a thrift store, then having to put that one on pause when a library book I’d put on hold showed up. Here’s how it…
Just heard about Sinead O’Connor’s untimely death. She stood up for black musicians before they were officially recognized at award ceremonies. When told by her record label that she shouldn’t leak that she had a baby because it didn’t make for good optics, she looped her child’s onesie through her belt for her next public…
Bruce Schneier is a long-time digital and technology privacy advocate who’s written some of the most important and influential books on those and related subjects. He posted this brief article yesterday, nicely summarizing the grey area issue surrounding what constitutes fair use of material readily available to the public vs. what people should have to…
I was scrolling on Mastodon yesterday — the ad-free, federated social media I went to after finally leaving Twitter and Facebook for good a few years ago — and came across these two images that I modified. The Apple Store, where Apple devices get their apps, has long had a section deep on their app…
A marked improvement over last month, I’m happy to say. Started and stoppedHorus Rising – Dan Abnett ReadingThe Golem and the Jinni – Helene WeckerSavage Sword of Conan compendium Again, nothing I actually finished this month — that’s becoming a more common trend, which I’m not thrilled with — but I picked up and got…
For the sake of expediency, I won’t get into the needless background details about why this came about. But let’s just say that in the last 12 hours, I got a huge confidence boost — thinking I wasn’t yet ready to do something that I sat down and was able to figure out and start…
The LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) is the provincially-owned company that, until relatively recently, was the only place in the province you could legally get wine and booze. And it remains the only place to get the latter. The company has always supplied paper bags of various sizes for your various sizes of purchases….
As I recently mentioned, I’m looking at getting into voice over work to help bring in some money. I did some research and got a good (used) mic and a good (used) interface and in the spirit of continuing to keep costs down, went with a digital audio workspace (aka DAW, aka the recording software)…
Thanks largely to my prepping to dip a toe into the world of voice over work — the learning curves are long and steep and it doesn’t help when I just yesterday decided I should be recording and editing myself in a different program than I have been in making demos thus far, so it’s…