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Red Shale Ridge Vineyards, Hegins, PA – June 2016
Red Shale Ridge Vineyards, Hegins, PA – June 2016
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Hiking Lackawanna State Park: Abington Trail, Joey’s Trail, Turkey Hill Trail, Ranger Trail
_This post is part of a series of posts in my goal to hike every trail of Lackawanna State Park. Also see park map._ Hiked in September 2016 – Approx. 6.0 miles – I parked my car in the small parking area on Rowland’s Road where Kennedy Creek and Abington Trails meet. I started walking south […]
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Sunset at Crystal Lake, Greenfield, PA – August 2016
Sunset at Crystal Lake, Greenfield, PA – August 2016
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Watching the Jaws anthology
For the sake of humanity, and because Netflix took the time, effort and expense of adding these movies to their library, I’ve watched Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3-D, and Jaws: The Revenge. Do you know how sometimes your memory of a thing can make that thing seem better than it really was? This seems to […]
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A few updates to my site
Late last week and over the weekend I’ve made a few subtle updates to my site. I saw that this weekend was Indie Web Camp in Brighton and while I can’t travel a few thousand miles to hack on my blog I can sit at my desk and do a bit of hacking. The main things […]
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Hiking Lackawanna State Park: Dam, North Woods Trail and Orchard Trail
_This post is part of a series of posts in my goal to hike every trail of Lackawanna State Park. Also see park map._ Hiked in September 2016 – Approx. 7.5 miles – I parked in the last parking lot along the main road of the park; Lake View Drive. It is the same lot […]
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My father’s coat and hat, Carbondale, PA – August 2016
My father’s coat and hat, Carbondale, PA – August 2016
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Hiking every trail in Lackawanna State Park
For several weeks I’ve been slowly tracing my way through the trails found within the confines of Lackawanna State Park and I’m just about halfway through my goal of hiking every trail. The park boasts over 18-miles of hiking and 15-miles of multi-use trials (hiking, horseback riding, biking) giving me plenty of places to explore. Counting […]
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Hiking Lackawanna State Park: Ranger Trail and Rowland’s Road
_This post is part of a series of posts in my goal to hike every trail of Lackawanna State Park. Also see park map._ Hiked in August 2016 – Approx. 2.5 miles – This first hike I completed with my father one Sunday morning. We meandered our way over Ranger trail just off of Route […]
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DV8 (now, DVEIGHT) Magazine on a bench in Ba & Me in Honesdale, PA – November 2015
DV8 (now, DVEIGHT) Magazine on a bench in Ba & Me in Honesdale, PA – November 2015
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Remy’s decade of blogging
Remy Sharp recently celebrated 10 years of blogging. What is he most happy with? More importantly, every single URL on my blog that’s ever been published still works, and even better than that (for me) is my archive showing off the decade of writing I’ve been producing over all this time. My blog archive is […]
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Dan Rubin’s iPhone 7 Plus ring light portraits
Friend Dan Rubin took the new iPhone 7 Plus out for a test-drive using a ring light. On whether or not the iPhone 7 Plus is the best smartphone to get for jumping into photography: Is it the best place to start if you’re just trading up to a smartphone for photography? I don’t think […]
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Hop Bottom, August 2016
Hop Bottom, August 2016
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I’m working on a serious update to The Watercolor Gallery. It is coming along nicely and I hope the community will dig the update.
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We are firmly into wool sock weather this morning.
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I would like to invent a new season. One with fall days and summer nights.
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Today is wait for the cable guy day.
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Disappearing apps and services
Alexei Baboulevitch (archagon) in a comment on Hacker News: These indie apps are often marketed as beautiful, wholesome alternatives to grimy corporate or open source software, but how could I possibly rely on these products for essential tasks like note-taking if they’re just going to disappear out from under me in a few years? The […]
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Digging Session Buddy for Chrome.
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Jogged three miles this morning. Calves are hurting because some portion of it was a steep hill.
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Two YouTube subscription recommendations: Alastair Humphreys and the brand-new channel from David elsewhere.
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I multiplied my daily average step count by five this week.
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Tip: Walk during phone calls. Just earned 7,000 steps during a business meeting.
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Walked up to a young skater bro last evening and asked if I could shoot video of him — both in slow-mo and with the UAV — and he immediately thought it was a great idea. Just another "you don’t know unless you ask" lesson.
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I’m considering a return to jogging.
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Documentation by Stack Overflow
Kevin Montrose of Stack Overflow explaining Documentation: Documentation is community-curated, example-focused developer documentation, based on the principles of Stack Overflow. A natural extension to Stack Overflow and a welcome one. I should likely make this my homepage.
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How can I get into programming?
Linus Torvalds in 2004 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML): To me, the biggest thing with small patches is not necessarily the patch itself. I think that much more important than the patch is the fact that people get used to the notion that they can change the kernel – not just on an […]
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Rocket
I had bookmarked Rocket by Matthew Palmer almost two weeks ago and today I finally took the time to install it. Game changer on the Mac. Recommended. Also, give it an up-vote on Product Hunt if you like it.
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Today is going to be a headphone-mode type of day. Lots to catch up on after a week off.
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"Let’s make the zippers as loud as possible." – Tent Manufacturers
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"Let’s make a bag that only fits the tent once and never again." – Tent Manufacturers
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Warning: Gmail affected by Google Drive space
A few months ago I gave Google Photos a trial. I wanted to give the service a real, honest test so I purchased one of Google’s larger Drive plans (1 TB) and started uploading. Google Photos is great. In fact, the only reason I didn’t stick with it was because — like so many Google things […]
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Did some tweeting last night while Juno was preparing to slow down and enter Jupiter’s orbit.
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Broke my GoPro Hero 3+ Silver Edition’s waterproof case yesterday. Excuse to go Hero 4 Black?
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I hope @NASA’s Juno mission has a great day tomorrow. Will be an awesome 2016 if they do.
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Going to try a slightly different social approach for one week. Share here, and everywhere else separately.
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A remote workers review of Cocoon Coffeehouse in Hawley, PA
Yesterday Kyle and I wanted to get out of our home offices and work somewhere new. He suggested Cocoon Coffeehouse next to the Silk Mill in Hawley. A panoselfie of yours truly. It turned out to be a nice little spot to get work done. Comfortable chairs. Easily accessible wifi. Good food (I tried the […]
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Vestal, New York – June 2016
Vestal, New York – June 2016.
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Building a single page web site using an Excel spreadsheet
Need something like this? Consider hiring me for your next project. I was recently asked by a client if I could use an existing Excel spreadsheet and create a single-page web site from it. This way, their team would be able to use the work they’ve already done and the data they’ve already keyed in and wouldn’t need […]
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Lavender fields, Hope Hill Lavender Farm, June 2016
Lavender fields, Hope Hill Lavender Farm, June 2016
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Loren Brichter on web apps
K. Q. Dreger interviewed Loren Brichter about his recent sale of Letterpress (my favorite iOS game). The interview is full of little behind-the-scenes tidbits on Letterpress and how it was made and where it is going. However, when Dreger asks Brichter what he’s been up to and what he will be doing next, I thought […]
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The Evernote slide continues
Evernote just announced a price increase. A rare thing to see. Back in November of last year I wrote about Simplenote having a "moment" due to the exodus from Evernote that was seemingly happening. I’d be willing to bet that is about to accelerate. Back then, I wrote: Anecdotal evidence suggests that the people that […]
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The iPhone turns 9
Nine years ago today Eliza, John Gruber, Rob Sandie, Matt Regula and I were standing in line for the original iPhone. Here are a few photos: John, before having a computer in his pocket. It was quite a day. Looking back on it now, that day changed everything we do now.
Writing helps me think more clearly and to form or transform my opinions. I write about what interests me such as blogging, photography, technology, social media, and my personal creative projects.
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