February 2026
: Mid Centry Sci-Fi I’m slowly working my way through Asimov’s “Foundation” trilogy. This was written around 1950. It’s …
: reading mail on the command line with notmuch and less(1) I’m reading mail on the command line with notmuch and less(1). Its glorious. grep(1) and less(1) are …
: Yesterday I was listening to a podcast in the car on the speakers. Apparently Google …
: Pretty snow On the Appalachian trail near Linden, Virginia Microspikes and poles are your friends.
: Returning to life offline. I think I’ve figured out how to break the phone habit. I’m going back to old models, old ways of …
: Currently reading: Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov 📚 There are so many currents and influences …
: Finished reading: The Iliad by Homer , Emily Wilson - translator 📚 Would recommend. Good modern …
: Echos of Earl Earl Shaffer and Chester Dziengelewski at “The Cabin” in Maine " …
: Star Trek, the 60s and "Cowboys and Indians" I had a conversation with the AIs (Claude) this morning about some questions that were bothering me. …
: Hubris? Journaling? Introspection? Stuff that works? Table of Contents Once again, JTR got me thinking (thanks) My introspective response What the AIs …
: Migrating to NixOS Migrating to NixOS is seen as a way to achieve reproducible configurations, easy system rebuilds, …
: I’m finding that I’m having conversations with the AIs, sometimes to understand myself and history …
: When the AIs talk to each other … Moltbook after the first weekend viral posts, encrypted channels, …
: I stopped by the Grand Canyon while driving across the US in January. I think there is some …
January 2026
: Watching Start Trek 🖖 tAs (The Animated Series) for the first time. Same bat-characters, same …
: Reflections from an 18 year hike These are some stories and reflections written shortly after I finished my Appalachian Trail (AT) …
: The "acquired" podcast on the NFL. Marketing vs the individual. I'm about one hour into the four hour installment of the Acquired podcast on the NFL I have no …
: meta notes in denote An experiment with Denote’s meta-tags and search features was conducted to improve workflow and …
: Watched: The American Revolution (Ken Burns) (acutally watching). Really good so far. Putting so …
: The unnumbered habits of a questionably effective person. REDUX. As I begin re-evaluation of my workflow, tracking, categorization, attention management, focus …
: "thinking" about micro.blog vs mastodon A practical guide is provided for transitioning from Fosstodon to Micro.blog, emphasizing the …
: Understanding Companies That Shape The World We live In. The “Acquired” podcast offers a captivating deep dive into the histories and strategies of major …
: #Hiking While Old A friend of mine wrote reflections on “Hiking While Old” …
: The #podcast circuit seems to have heavy representation of of the “I just wrote a book on …” crowd. …
: Is there a search engine that only returns sites that allow connections from #tor or #vpn …
December 2025
: Thanks to all who contributed to this months #emacs carnival: curious.port111.com/2025/11/0… It was …
: Great #emacs carnival post meanwhiling.com/a-person-… Acdw rams screwdrivers with such joyful …
: For my second entry in this month’s #emacs Carnival ("The people of Emacs") I’ve updated the …
: There is a new Emacs Carnival blog entry from EMacAdie Who knew you could join the Austin Emacs …
: Because everything in #orgsocial is just a text file… $ ./pull-all-feeds.py …
: For the first time in years I purched a warrenty for a product on Amazon (a new DOCSIS/WiFi router I …
: I think #denote is going to change the way I work after ~40 years of thinking in terms of …
: Using org exported .md in micro.blog? I had to revert to posting my emacscarnival entry on the my old hugo blog: …
: Back to the egg - Emacs in the 70s I’ve put up my #emacscarnival post for December. A look at #emacs in the 70s and some of the people …
: I’ve got a draft post that looks fine in preview but is completly messed up when published. @manton …
: I think there are two eternal truths: Amiga fanaticism and a small cadre of GNUs users will never …
: We’re doing it wrong. On birthdays we should honor mothers.
: NFL "Redzone" is football for football fans with ADD. For those not familiar (I was not until yesterday) “Redzone” is an (American) football network that …
November 2025
: Free This is an excerpt from an entry I wrote for a family newsletter this week. On the way back from …
: I had not tried shell inside #emacs for a while. File name completion works now. Time for another …
: All’s quiet on the western front.
: A man of many stratagems I Finished reading: The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) 📚 This translation listens …
: I don't /have/ to organize my gear anymore After 18 years of obsessively maintaining my backpacking “kit” I’m allowing some entropy to creep …
: Odysseus and Emacs I’ve started a listen-through of Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey on Audible. The …
: Emacs Carnival, December 2025 - "The People of Emacs" Emacs Carnival, December 2025 - “The People of Emacs” This is a writing prompt for Emacs Carnival …
October 2025
: It's Fall. Time to clean up my emacs clutter. Emacs Workflow Maintenance (or Abandonment) Amid Chaos The moral of the story: don’t declare emacs …
: The path to a world without hold music. I recently faced frustration while trying to get clarity on my insurance coverage. I discovered a …
September 2025
: Happy 4192 day. September 11, 1985 at Rivverfront stadium in Cincinnati.
August 2025
: Finished reading: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 📚 Worth reading. Not light . Will make you re-think …
: I finished my 18 year 2190 mile project of hiking the Appalachian Trail. outdoorfoo.wordpress.com
: Is it finally time to get rid of my RS232 crossover connector?
July 2025
: Done 2190 miles an 18 years later…
: 6 miles to go The crew for the last 12 miles Today was 6 miles up to Madison hut. 3 miles in a little under 2 …
: The last descent Mt Washington Today was the last major descent of my entire 18 year odyssey of hiking the …
: Mt Washington, version 1 done We arrive at the top of Mt Washington. 45 mph winds. 55 mph gusts. 37 degrees. At least no rain No …
: Hut to hut Greenleaf hut and Mt Layfayett This is a view of Mt Layfayett from Mt Lincoln with Greenleaf hut 1.1 …
: Into the whites Rocks up, two 4k peaks down This is what a lot of the climb up south Kinsman peak looked like. This …
: Hannover to 25a done I’ve finished Hannover to NH 25a. The whites are up next. I have a friend of 50+ years hiking with …
: Google's AI/Storage bait and switch. What could go wrong? ** The problem I fell for the bait. In I clicked on the “free” “Try Gemini in Gmail” option. Google …
: If you like Hollywood action movies, I recommend “F1”. Constant action. Enough of a plot. Some parts …
June 2025
: Day 30: solitude. A beautiful morning alone atop Mt Everett in Massachusetts.
: Day 29: winding. More than enough rope to hang a bear bag.
: Day 29: winding. This singer sewing machine aboard the “Fram” in Oslo reminds me of a very similar …
: Day 28: ephemeral. This post will last until mic ro.blog goes away.
: Day 27: collective: Peace is a collective effort.
: Day 26: bridge. Building a bridge at Caroline furnace with the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club. Cedar …
: Day 25: decay. Forum Romanum. Nihil in aeturnum manet.
: Day 24: bloom. One of the prettiest flower arrangements we’ve gotten in a while.
: Day 23: fracture. A model of the Norwegian polar exploration ship “Fram” amid much fractured ice.
: Day 21: silhouette. Backpacking in Shenandoah National Park
: Day 20: gather. I’ve gathered (and eaten) a lot of berries in my day
: Day 19: equal. St. Paul cathedral, 5th Ave, Pittsburgh.
: Day 18: texture. A somewhat forgettable album. Cool sleeve design though. The name of the album was …
: Day 17: warmth. The summer palace in Vienna. Because 2 or 3 others were not enough?
: Day 16: Blur. Sunrise at Philmont.
: Day 15: tie. Scouts having fun with knots.
: Day 13: pathway. Sidewalk art by neighborhood kids.
: Day 12: hidden. Hidden photo not posted.
: Day 10: rail. Appalachian trail stop on New York metro north.
: Day 8: travel 📷 Rosenborg castle, Copenhagen.
: Day 7: Switch 📷 Mosby went from (probably) planning the escape route used by John Wilkes Booth after …
: Day 6: contrast 📷 my father the photography major and his “axe” c. a. 1957
: Day 5: reflection. Boats off Jekyll island, Georgia. @manton doing the challenge.
: A visit to the Holocaust Museum. I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, yesterday. It was sobering. The thing that …
: Day 4: nostalgia 📷 Analog. Physical media. Dropping the needle.
: Day 3: shadow 📷 . Copy of Michelangelo’s “David” in Florence.
: Day 2: curve. 📷. #mbjune. The man hit a lot of curve balls.
: Day 1: Tree. 📷. #mbjune. My father was a professional photographer and had a thing for picutres of …
May 2025
: Cod I’m currently reading a book called “Cod” …
April 2025
: #emacs (text) makes a great trip itinerary builder. Cut and paste text out of reservation PDFs. …
: Beauty in Delaware Water Gap I spent the last week hiking and GPS mapping Delaware Water Gap. Some pretty stuff: …
March 2025
: How I use AI to write, maintaining my voice AI can be effectively utilized in writing articles by combining original ideas with input from tools …
February 2025
: AI - Just Add People This week I designed a business card for a hiking group I’m a part of. As someone with very little …
January 2025
: It’s #emacs bankruptcy time. What’s the current best practice/options for ELPA/MALPA and friends …
: Proposition: life is better with the phone off. Corollary: Organizations that want you to turn your …
: useful dired commands for denote The following are some useful #dired commands for filtering files. “% m” :: Mark files matching …
December 2024
: For people using #emacs denote, what happens when you get a large number of files in your denote …
: I think “Don’t trust, also verify” is the right approach to info from LLMs.
November 2024
: I’m dusting off (literally) a #RaspberryPi to run #pihole and maybe #forgejo. It’s been a few years. …
: Just turn it off - #retrotech == fewer ads After a month or so of taking a “just turn off” approach to the smartphone. Here are some …
October 2024
: I finally admitted the truth today: I’m never going to program in #Perl again. Despite it being my …
: Henry Howe and #Ohio #History This morning I read an article on the life of Henry Howe, the definitive historian of 19th Century …
: Just why did I pay to have my car "detailed"? Why do I value a clean car? Yesterday we had car “detailing” done, which I only recently learned …
: Has anybody done #twillo and #emacs integration for SMS<->email gateways? I’m looking for ways to …
: Let it Fly On Monday, I flew a #modelrocket that I had built sometime around 1974 for the first time. It flew …
: Notes to self on setting up #TOTP on #KeePassXC codeberg.org/eludom/ho…
: Bloat: A single text 87 character text message converted to #email by Google Voice expanded to 21719 …
: For better or worse, ChatGPT can be your #emacs #orgmode helper... Question: org agenda shows habits for the current day, but when I complete one for the current day …
: Just Turn It Off - Lessons Learned 2 Weeks In. Some notes, TODOs and observations two weeks into …
: md in post previews fine, but text wrapped when posted. I’m trying to post as a md file a blog post. When I paste it into the text window and preview, it …
: My 23 year old hand-crafted HTML homepage got its biennial or so face-lift www.port111.com/george/
: Chrome-based browser processes malloc(2)ing 1 TB virtual memory? Top(1) is showing chrome-based …
: A good chunk of the southeastern US got hit hard by Hurricane Helene. I’ve spent time hiking in that …
: Just turn it off - The battle for your attention Do you really need that tweet notification? Do you really need that pop-up? Do you really need to …
: Just turn it off: The battle for phone-less 2FA I’m on a quest to leave my phone off for peace of mind, focus, etc. One of the biggest challenges is …
: I forgot - Algorithmic timelines are disorienting I just poked my head into LinkedIn after some months. It’s clear the timeline is algorithm driven. …
September 2024
: Be human. It will confuse bureaucracies. Every get frustrated dealing with bureaucracies? I think the thing that really ticks me off is that …
: I have just completed an entire day without turning my phone on. Thanks Google Voice.
: What's gone right for you in the last four years? On a web form I follow the question was asked: “Are you better off than you were four years ago? …
: EmacsConf 2024 CFP out, proposals due Friday. @jtr@taonaw.com you should put something in. I’m …
: An accidental trip through West Virginia I took an accidental trip through West Virginia Monday. Fall is arriving early in the high country …
: 2FA alternatives for banks that insist on texting? I’m looking for ways to do 2FA authentication to banks, etc. that does not require me to turn my …
: Here’s A plant I’ve never seen before “Old man’s beard”
: Clipea, your AI command line buddy Clipea is a command line tool that uses AI to help you construct construct: (bin) 402 [07:21:56] …
: All you need is ... Does anyone see the fallacy in this? …
: migrate from Mastodon to Micro.blog? How did you manage migration from mastadon @jtr@taonaw.com ? Did you do the migration as described …
: The Etymology of Cincinnati - Kinky ! More from reading History of Rome by Livy 📚 : The word “Cincinatus”, as in the city of Cincinnati, …
: Armed mob seizes Capitoline Hill? Time for a Legal Debate! 📚 Today’s observations from reading The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of the History of Rome from …
August 2024
: Currently reading: The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of the History of Rome from its Foundation …
: Private communications is not a technical problem The arrest of telegram founder Pavel Durov bothers me. As someone raised in the US, I have a fairly …
: Migrating to microblog, off digital ocean I think I ’m going to settle in on curious.port111.com for the blog going forward. I’ve had the …
: Out in the real word (why I hike) 📝 ⛺️ Hikers all have 1000 stories. When you hike, you meet people. You experience things. What is that …
: Checking out micro.blog Exploring @micro.blog thanks to recommendations of @jtr@taonaw.com. It’s got a lot going for it: …
: Gemini Dream 📝 Yesterday while on a walk, I had a conversation with Google Gemini about the Emerald Ash Borer that …
: The song remains the same 📝 📚 If there’s one thing we learn from history, it’s that people don’t learn from history. — Hegel? I’m …
: into the future @rscottjones, I will probably be mining your Strategies for Aging Seems its something that’s going …
: Life is better with your phone turned off.
: It's not safe 📝 ⛺️ What risks do you take? Why? Do you think about it, or just do it? In a recent post, @jarrod said …
: About 1900 miles ago... ⛺️ 16 years ago my son and I started hiking the Appalachian trail with a 47 mile weekend in Shenandoah …
: 6 miles in sky meadows state park. First hint of fall.
: Nihil novi sub sole 🎙️ I’ve been making a third pass through The History of Rome podcast ⌛️. So much of what’s new is old. …
: When time is short Some perspective from a person who spent decades providing financial advice, planning for retirement …
: Phil Donahue passed … I grew up in central Ohio. There was a regional network of TV stations run by …
April 2024
: The TNI is dead, long live the TNI 📝 Today was the day I removed the TNI (Telephone Network Interface) from my house. The last vestiges …
March 2024
: Be kind to your call center friends 📝 I’m going to subvert the system and try to connect with humans I talk to in call centers as humans … …
December 2023
: Changing the world, one side project at a time 📝 Figure 1: “This Phone Is Property of Ohio Bell” by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0 -- It …