Early morning fisherman, Lackawanna Lake – September 2016
Early morning fisherman, Lackawanna Lake – September 2016
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What I saw this week #13: September 30, 2016
I'm resurrecting an old series of posts that I used to publish here called "What I saw this week". In this series I'd publish a single post per week with some of the things I came across that week that I thought were interesting. It allowed me to link to interesting things without posting too many individual posts…
Save your Faces before upgrading to macOS Sierra
I've been tweeting, and created a Moment, regarding the fact that Photos on macOS Sierra has gotten rid of the "Faces" feature in favor of a new "People" feature. This wipes out all of your hard work tagging people in photos. Personally this means I've lost hundreds of hours. But, you don't have to. And it should be pretty…
Hiking Lackawanna State Park: South Branch Trail, Messimer Preserve, Grist Mill Road, 524, Abington Trail, Basset Path
_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 in the Cole Road parking area which, incidentally, is where I caught a snapper earlier this year. I began my trek on the South…
Black & Brass Roasting Company, Honesdale, PA – August 2016
Black & Brass Roasting Company, Honesdale, PA – August 2016
YouTube has replaced TV for me (and, how to use the Watch Later playlist)
I've been watching a lot of YouTube lately. More specifically, I've been watching a lot of YouTube on my TV lately. Here is how I do it but first, a bit of background on my personal YouTube habits. For the first few years of YouTube the only videos that I would see were the viral or massively popular ones….
Top of the world, Dunmore Pine Barrens, Dunmore, PA – September 2016
Top of the world, Dunmore Pine Barrens, Dunmore, PA – September 2016
Creating your own hiking checklist
Have you ever bolted out the door to go hiking (or kayaking, photographing, cycling, it doesn't matter) and when you arrive at your location you realize you forgot something at home? Say, a camera battery or a water bottle? Here is a simple way to reduce the number of times this happens to you: make a checklist. It doesn't matter…
Red Shale Ridge Vineyards, Hegins, PA – June 2016
Red Shale Ridge Vineyards, Hegins, PA – June 2016
Nominated for Tech Blog of the Year
NEPA BlogCon 2016 is fast approaching and with it comes this year's nominations for Blog of the Year in several categories. Out of nowhere last night, as I was hiking the Dunmore Pine Barrens (again), my Twitter notifications were springing to life as I realized that my blog has been nominated in the Tech category. I'm humbled and…
10MacApps over 10 years later
Ten and a half years ago I was asked by Zach Hale to jot down my 10 favorite Mac apps and then ask a few others to do the same. Wow, ten and a half years ago. Pre iPhone. Now, with the Mac seemingly a second-class citizen both in hardware upgrades and app popularity, now may be the…
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 happen a lot…
Sunset at Crystal Lake, Greenfield, PA – August 2016
Sunset at Crystal Lake, Greenfield, PA – August 2016
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 on Rowland's Road…
My father’s coat and hat, Carbondale, PA – August 2016
My father's coat and hat, Carbondale, PA – August 2016
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 you'd park to…
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 I updated were…
Low lying brush, Dunmore Pine Barrens – September 2016
Low lying brush, Dunmore Pine Barrens – September 2016
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 407 and walked…
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 a bit of…
The UAV took a bad tumble
Yesterday Jehu II took quite a tumble. I've been doing a lot of flying. Nearly every day. And though the Syma X8G would be considered by most to be a "toy" (which is a designation I agree with for sure) it has enabled me to get quite good at flying. So much so that two local aero clubs…
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 a source of…
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
Hop Bottom, August 2016
Hop Bottom, August 2016