I’m floored, touched, and so grateful for the lucky number 7(!) people who have chosen to support my online meanderings via the One a Month Club. 🥰 Y’all are a bunch of dinguses and I love you.
Alright, I finally checked out Lex’s games (at its cool new domain name: lex.games)
I solved Mini #9 in 3 minutes, 37 seconds!
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I solved Six Appeal #2 in 3 minutes, 14 seconds.
Real words guessed: 2 × 100 = 200
Remaining guesses: 2 × 200 = 400
Time bonus: 106
Total score: 706
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🆕📝 Micro.blog is becoming the fabric of the open social web of your dreams
Everything should begin and end on your site at your domain name, and Micro.blog is the best place to help you do that.
Red Rocks Trip, Day 3
Really, more like Day 1 since today was the first day of actual climbing.
Willow Springs Area
- Peaches, 5.7 — Decidedly tricky. Followed the thinning crack up (too far?) until I felt forced to escape on a blank traverse. Then cruiser to the top.
- Tonto, 5.5 — Mike’s second-ever trad lead. More wet than we would have liked, but fun and interesting climbing. He did awesome.
- Coronary Bypass, 5.5, 2 pitches — Spent an hour or so trying to get to the Mossy Ledges Crag from two different directions, only to find that without a guidebook or pictures from Mountain Project, we couldn’t be sure what we would be climbing. Ended up evaluating the wrong climb for almost an hour, then finally found what we thought might have been the actual route on our way down. Pictures later confirmed. Still a cool hike despite not getting on the route.
- Motorcycle Mama, 5.6 — Wanted to get in one more climb while we could. Heinous approach (we took the wrong path again) to an excellent climb. Felt super solid and flew up with only three pieces in 90 feet. Practiced a double-rope rappel on the way down with my new rap cord. Feeling ready for a big 7-pitch climb tomorrow.
Post Climb
Made it off the Scenic Drive just in time. Back at hotel and showered within an hour. Walked down the strip to a taco joint filled with people. Quite the ordering experience, but resulted in excellent food.
Stopped at Walgreens on the way back for snacks and beer. Saw a quick circus act when we got back to our hotel/casino, and spent the rest of the night showing Mike the Vision Pro and watching Dodgeball.
Good day.
I’m about a third of the way through the “John Siracusa Windowing Method” video and, so far, even though it’s not how I use my Mac, I’m on board. 👍
🆕📝 Scott Yu-Jan’s Macintosh Studio
You may have heard of Viticci's MacPad, but how about a desktop version with...an iPad mini? This thing looks awesome!
Blogrolls, weird and wonderful tech that reminds me that we're in the future, old-school tech that's still awesome, a couple of wild websites, and that one jazz album.
Alright friends-with-long-hair, I’m going for it for the first time. Should I be doing anything special during this awkward mid-length phase? Get a trim? Just let it go?
Here we are again… 🥱 Gonna be the first person American Airlines sees when they come to work. ✈️
I’ve found myself with some unexpectedly free hours in a tiny hotel room in the middle of a blizzard…so…Ask Me Anything!
Or help me decide… What I should do first?
- Catch up on Crashing Clockwise blog posts
- Watch Killers of the Flower Moon
- Release my ‘Markdown Memes’ shortcut
- Finish For All Mankind
Welp, my travel plans are well and truly bungled. Was supposed to fly out at 3:40pm today. Canceled. Rebooked for tomorrow at 5:11am. Canceled. Now the earliest seat they could find is 5pm on MONDAY. I took it, but you can bet I’ll be at the airport at 5am tomorrow to snag any seat that opens up. ✈️
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Someone from the soup kitchen (one of the staff — not a volunteer) made a statement about not letting the guests have too much choice. Too much choice, I thought, these people barely have any choices. The least I could do was offer them some agency in what donut they would get!
Let’s not default to denying people the dignity of choice where we can. A little autonomy goes a long way when you feel like you have none elsewhere in your life.
Experiencing Moon Hooch tonight without any prior knowledge about their band was such a treat. Masters of their craft.
(A few videos are in my Instagram story.)
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I hope what you take away from this post is that while Apple Pay is a great way to pay for things and that Apple did a great job mainstreaming digital wallets like this, what they do is not unique in the industry. DPANs are great for making it harder to track one person’s purchases across multiple merchants and they make customers less at risk in the event of a data breach of payment card info.
@matt@isfeeling.social has the deets only an industry insider would know and only a blogger could explain to this crowd.
🔗 Why I redesigned my home page? — om.co // Om Malik
And of course, I still blog. In other words, I write posts. I ponder on things. I link to good work around the Internet. I curate as much as I create. In my early days as a blogger, my day job was writing for magazines. My features and interviews, what is now known as long reads, were published by them. Today, my essays and interviews find home on my website.
🔗 U.S. DOJ Sues Apple Over its “Monopoly” on iPhone, the Device Apple Created
If you want to buy and use a smartphone, you never have to give Apple a dime and still participate in the vibrant economy of modern apps and services available today[…]. You can read ebooks, purchase digital movies, buy sleazy in-app game upgrades, and watch Netflix, all on a device not made by Apple.
How is this possible? You can use an Android phone on any of the same U.S. wireless carriers that power the iPhone. You can live your entire life participating in the modern tech world and never use an Apple product.
Some example photos and videos from the Meta Ray-Bans in my recent posts. (Pretty good, I must say!)
/cc: @ericmwalk
Took advantage of stellar weather last week to climb at The Gunks! I was very fortunate to meet some new friends willing to take on an orphan climber into their gang. Got on a bunch of new climbs and shook off the rust. Ended the day with delicious pho. 10/10 would recommend. 🧗📷
I think people overplay the “I’m 30 now so my body is breaking down and I’m old” to a frustrating degree. But I can’t deny that my body is jittering uncomfortably after a single (small!) caffeinated beverage today. I used to pound Mountain Dew like it was going out of style.
Probs a good thing, TBH
I had the distinct pleasure of summiting Giant Mountain with Hector and Renata this past weekend. And because they were such awesome hikers, we tossed in Rocky Peak Ridge for good measure! There’s still snow in those hills, folks. Stellar day out with great views and even better company. 🏔️ 📷
Our new favorite restaurant in the ADK, the underappreciated @thewoodshedonpark, has an excellent duck dish special this week. Superb service, amazing atmosphere, and delicious food and drink. Perfect date night location. 😉 📷
Great use case for Vision Pro: keeping an eye on baby monitors while watching other media. www.threads.net/@shabzco/…
Another “ugh.” I’ve procrastinated making these posts because they required going through a bunch of photos and framing them just right. And then Instagram pulls this shit. (Been stuck for 20+ min.) Gonna have to do it all again. Glad I at least composed the captions in Drafts.
