George Jones

Curious Musings

Dec 2025

I think #denote is going to change the way I work after ~40 years of thinking in terms of directories and folders.

Dec 2025

Using org exported .md in micro.blog?

I had to revert to posting my emacscarnival entry on the my old hugo blog: curious.galthub.com/blog/2025… . I rea...
Dec 2025

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 who threw me i...
Dec 2025

I’ve got a draft post that looks fine in preview but is completly messed up when published. @manton ? Have a look micro.blog/account/p…

Dec 2025

I think there are two eternal truths: Amiga fanaticism and a small cadre of GNUs users will never perish from the earth.

Dec 2025

We’re doing it wrong. On birthdays we should honor mothers.

Dec 2025

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 constant...
Nov 2025

Free

This is an excerpt from an entry I wrote for a family newsletter this week. On the way back from Boston, we visited the...
Nov 2025

I had not tried shell inside #emacs for a while. File name completion works now. Time for another look.

You should always second guess yourself if you have to do something outside emacs.

Nov 2025

All’s quiet on the western front.

Nov 2025

A man of many stratagems

I Finished reading: The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) 📚 This translation listens very well in modern eng...
Nov 2025

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 in. ...
Nov 2025

Odysseus and Emacs

I’ve started a listen-through of Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey on Audible. The introduction alon...
Nov 2025

Emacs Carnival, December 2025 - "The People of Emacs"

Emacs Carnival, December 2025 - “The People of Emacs” This is a writing prompt for Emacs Carnival for Decemb...
Oct 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 bankruptcy in t...
Oct 2025

The path to a world without hold music.

I recently faced frustration while trying to get clarity on my insurance coverage. I discovered a solution that spares m...
Sep 2025

Happy 4192 day.

September 11, 1985 at Rivverfront stadium in Cincinnati.

Aug 2025

Finished reading: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 📚

Worth reading. Not light . Will make you re-think many things about how you view the world, people, etc.

Aug 2025

I finished my 18 year 2190 mile project of hiking the Appalachian Trail.

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Aug 2025

Is it finally time to get rid of my RS232 crossover connector?

Jul 2025

Done

2190 miles an 18 years later…
Jul 2025

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 hours. The next 4 took ...
Jul 2025

The last descent

Mt Washington Today was the last major descent of my entire 18 year odyssey of hiking the Appalachian Trail. Something l...
Jul 2025

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 lightning! We hiked ...
Jul 2025

More huts. Actual Trail?

Zealand Falls hut. These are mostly unedited daily notes to self: – read 1st chapter of book about Joe Dodge.&nbs...