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Mar 24, 2025: Trump calls on Polis to remove ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado capitol Personally I hope Gov. Polis keeps the …
Mar 24, 2025: It’s spring. Even the leopard slugs are out smelling the flowers. Olympus E-M10 IV, Meike 25mm f/1.8 lens, 1/100s, ISO 160. Along Eugene’s …
Mar 24, 2025: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans Lots of people (including Congressfolks on both sides of the aisle) are shocked & …
Mar 24, 2025: Didn’t finish: The In-Between 📚. I’m interested in the subject (end-of-life care), and more so as I get older. Despite which, I gave up on …
Mar 24, 2025: “Inside of a Skunk” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 macro lens, f/7.1, 1/40s, ISO 500. Along Whispering Spruce Trail.
Mar 24, 2025: “Coltsfoot” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 macro lens, f/9, 1/40s, ISO 800. Along Saint Perpetua Trail.
Mar 23, 2025: Finished: The Last Wild Men of Borneo 📚. It’s a pretty meandering book, going from art collecting to the loss of native culture to protest …
Mar 23, 2025: “Bad Hair Day” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 macro lens, f/10, 1/60s, ISO 1600. Near Salmon Creek Falls.
Mar 23, 2025: “Vampire fungus” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 macro lens, f/16, 1/40s, ISO 640. Along Amanda’s Trail near Yachats.
Mar 23, 2025: “Splash!” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 100-400 f/5.6-6.3 lens + MC-20 teleconverter @ 800mm, f/14, 1/40s, ISO 200. Shot from Amanda’s Trail …
Mar 23, 2025: “Skunk Season” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/5.6, 1/25s, ISO 800. Cape Perpetua, Giant Spruce Trail.
Mar 22, 2025: “Laziness is our Middle Name” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 100-400 f/5.6-6.3 lens + MC-20 teleconverter @ 684mm, f/14, 1/40s, ISO 124. Shot …
Mar 22, 2025: An airport, Mount Rushmore and the $100 bill: Inside the GOP effort to venerate Trump while he’s still in office The latest from the Congressional …
Mar 22, 2025: 10 1/2 mile hike took me a ridiculous 6 hours. The fact that I shot 300 photos probably has something to do with that.
Mar 22, 2025: A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering I don’t think we are very many years from some small government or large …
Mar 21, 2025: Trump says student loans moving to SBA Small Business Administration plans to slash staff by over 40 percent amid agency-wide reorganization What …
Mar 21, 2025: Commerce secretary: No one but ‘fraudsters’ would complain about missed Social Security check I’m not sure how out-of-touch you need to be to …
Mar 21, 2025: “Beachgrass” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 41mm, f/11, 1/400s, ISO 400. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Mar 21, 2025: Trump suggests sending Tesla vandals to El Salvador prisons Or put another way, the increasingly lawless President wants to send American citizens to …
Mar 21, 2025: “Sentinel” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 30mm, f/11, 1/250s, ISO 250. ALong the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Mar 21, 2025: How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To I’m not the only one moving things out of the US - and micro.blog is right on …
Mar 20, 2025: “As Above, So Below” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/10, 1/200s, ISO 250. Near the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Mar 20, 2025: “Life Finds a Way” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/11, 1/30s, ISO 200. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Mar 20, 2025: Dr. Oz Is Now the Grown-Up in the Room A legitimately scary thought.
Mar 20, 2025: Didn’t finish: The Forgotten Man 📚 Revisionist history arguing that FDR’s policies didn’t help people out of the Great Depression. …
Mar 20, 2025: Finished reading: In the Garden of Beasts 📚 Larson’s dramatic history is always an easy read. This one, about the US ambassador to Germany in …
Mar 20, 2025: I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped Thought experiment: how do you suppose the Trump …
Mar 20, 2025: Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue This is just laugh-out-loud funny. Well, unless you happen to be driving …
Mar 20, 2025: “Windblown” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 32mm, f/11, 1/50s, ISO 200. Processed in Darktable. Along the John Dellenback Dunes …
Mar 20, 2025: A Livestreamed Tragedy on X Sparks a Memecoin Frenzy Memecoins are just an unadulterated barrel of crap.
Mar 20, 2025: Commerce secretary: Buy Tesla stock Looks like co-President Musk managed to buy national advertising as well as a seat in the Oval Office for his …
Mar 20, 2025: Finished reading: Gai-Jin 📚 An ideal bathroom book: action every page or two, comfortably exotic (while being, I suspect, wildly ahistorical), and I …
Mar 20, 2025: “Elephant Foot” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/9.5, 1/500s, ISO 200. Near the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Mar 20, 2025: Republicans want Musk to shut up about Social Security Yeah, I’ll bet they do. Losing the votes of everyone over 65 might possibly be a problem …
Mar 19, 2025: Dietary Guidelines in the MAHA era Vegetables: the latest leftist plot to pollute America’s precious bodily fluids.
Mar 19, 2025: “Plovers on Parade” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/10, 1/800s, ISO 1250. Oregon coast near the John Dellenback Dunes …
Mar 19, 2025: “Rain Pool” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 21mm, f/11, 1/30s, ISO 200. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Mar 19, 2025: WMO report documents spiralling weather and climate impacts That’s the World Meteorological Organization. Globally each of the past ten years …
Mar 19, 2025: Republican Behind “Trump Derangement Bill” Accused of Soliciting Minor The definition of schadenfreude.
Mar 18, 2025: NYT: In an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News, President Trump maintained his view that his administration is not actually defying the courts …
Mar 18, 2025: Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act blasted as abuse of power A roundup of responses to the administration attempt to send all the Venezuelans they can …
Mar 18, 2025: New filing in the Alien Enemies Act case If the president can designate any group as enemy aliens under the act, and that designation is …
Mar 18, 2025: Judge finds Elon Musk likely acted unconstitutionally in shuttering USAID The interesting thing is that this is an appointments clause decision - …
Mar 18, 2025: FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies Another break for poor oppressed billionaires.
Mar 18, 2025: Moscow and Beijing rejoice at looming death of Radio Free Europe, VOA The enemy of my enemy is (checks notes) a free press.
Mar 18, 2025: Minnesota bill labels Trump derangement syndrome as mental illness FFS.
Mar 18, 2025: 3 vaccine doses cut long-COVID risk by over 60%, analysis suggests Vaccines work. What a surprise.
Mar 18, 2025: NASA’s Webb Images Young, Giant Exoplanets, Detects Carbon Dioxide I’m a child of the Space Age (grew up in 1960’s SoCal) so to me …
Mar 18, 2025: Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support I was just thinking it might be time to apply for my Social Security, even though …
Mar 17, 2025: Update: the Newegg seller refunded the excessive markup. On the one hand, this makes me happier. On the other, I wonder how often they get away with …
Mar 17, 2025: I ordered a new laptop ethernet adapter from a Newegg seller because I’m trying to discontinue doing business with Amazon. So I was miffed when …
Mar 17, 2025: Judge lashes out at Trump admin over deportation flights As of right now, it appears to be the administration position that because of (pick one or …
Mar 17, 2025: “Droplets” Olympus TG6, f/4.9, 1/400s, ISO 640. Along the Ridgeline Trail.
Mar 17, 2025: Didn’t finish reading: Destiny’s Road 📚 Usually I like Niven’s work, but this one just never seemed to get anywhere, and I gave up …
Mar 17, 2025: “Rainy Day Flower” Olympus TG6, f/4.9, 1/400s, ISO 250. Along the Ridgeline Trail.
Mar 17, 2025: Trump’s border czar: “I don’t care what the judges think” Speaking of lawless.
Mar 17, 2025: Trump: Biden Jan. 6 panel pardons, others ‘void’ because autopen use Sorry, Presidents have used autopens for decades and there are court precedents …
Mar 17, 2025: “Rainbow Rays” Olympus TG6, f/4.9, 1/180s, ISO 125. Along the Ridgeline Trail. Really hard to capture what this really looked like, even …
Mar 17, 2025: 1 in 8 COVID survivors still have symptoms 2 years after infection, researchers say This is one big reason I’m still careful when COVID case …
Mar 17, 2025: People are using Google’s new AI model to remove watermarks from images Whether Google tweaks this particular feature or not, watermarking is …
Mar 17, 2025: Trump says he’ll speak to Putin Tuesday Trump says We are already talking about that, dividing up certain assets. Anyone else reminded of that time …
Mar 17, 2025: Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants Because sure, why shouldn’t we ignore a technology that has already …
Mar 16, 2025: Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US Seems legit.
Mar 16, 2025: VC Aileen Lee highlights how the broader investor exodus is worsening woes for unicorn companies When the VC General Partners stop showing up to …
Mar 16, 2025: "…some gang member subject to removal under the Proclamation had already been removed from United States territory under the Proclamation …
Mar 16, 2025: Surgeon and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order So now we have a professional who was in the US on an H1-B visa refused re-entry …
Mar 16, 2025: Just upgraded 6 ethernet switches from 1 gigabit to 2.5 gigabit. Discussion of the absurdity of living in a house with six ethernet switches will be …
Mar 16, 2025: Trump administration deports hundreds of migrants, despite judge’s order stopping removal I’m sad but not surprised about this. I have no …
Mar 16, 2025: “Red Mushrooms” I’m honestly not sure how I got this shot - flash misfire maybe. But I like the way it turned out, noise and all. …
Mar 16, 2025: This gaming mouse has a striking skeletonized design and hot-swap batteries Trimming grams from a mouse struck me as silly. And then I thought about …
Mar 16, 2025: Finished reading: Rogues in Hell 📚 14th book in a complex shared-world series featuring (mostly) historical figures in a bizarre & funny …
Mar 16, 2025: Life in the tower: Who controls Seattle’s drawbridges? Who knew that drawbridge operators need to check their blind spot before raising the bridge? …
Mar 15, 2025: Federal judge halts deportations after Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act He also ordered planes in the air heading for Venezuela to turn around and come …
Mar 15, 2025: Trump invokes wartime law to target Venezuelan gang and speed up deportations This appears to be not even remotely legal: we’re not at war with …
Mar 15, 2025: And speaking of Amazon idiocy…they sent me an email telling me my deleted seller account was reactivated at my request (no such request was …
Mar 15, 2025: “Walking into Spring” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/9, 1/30s, ISO 400. Hardesty Trail, the same day there was a foot …
Mar 15, 2025: Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States Absolutely cratered since the post-pandemic highs. So much for any stray thought I …
Mar 15, 2025: Donald Trump, In DOJ Speech, Calls CNN And MSNBC “Illegal” For Reporting Negatively On Him I need to start figuring out which non-US news sources to …
Mar 15, 2025: Finished reading: Rough Sleepers 📚 Tracy Kidder digs into the work of Dr. Jim O’Connell with the unhoused community in Boston. A scary look at …
Mar 15, 2025: “Snowdodendron” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 35mm, f/5.2, 1/125s, ISO 320. Along the Eula Ridge trail.
Mar 15, 2025: “Actually that IS the trail” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/4.5, 1/800s, ISO 320. Battling my way up Eula Ridge Trail …
Mar 15, 2025: Trump says he was being a ‘bit sarcastic’ when he promised to end Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours s/being a bit sarcastic/outright lying
Mar 15, 2025: Got up at 3:30 this morning. At my age that counts as sleeping in.
Mar 14, 2025: “Turning Over a New Leaf” Olympus TG6, Ultimaxx .43x Wide Angle Lens, f/4.9, 1/25s, ISO 1600. Along the Eula Ridge Trail.
Mar 14, 2025: C.S. Lewis prayed for Hitler and Stalin (among others). I pray for Trump and Musk. Not that I think it is likely to change them, but it may help …
Mar 14, 2025: US and Israel look to Africa for resettling Palestinians uprooted from Gaza I guess they think people have forgotten that Hitler & Eichmann wanted …
Mar 13, 2025: AI search engines give incorrect answers at an alarming 60% rate, study says Or, looked at another way, 40% better than the current White House Press …
Mar 13, 2025: Postal Service signs cost-cutting deal with DOGE Just when you thought mail delivery couldn’t get any worse. Makes me very glad I’m not …
Mar 13, 2025: Got a snail mail fundraising letter from the DNC today, over Kamala Harris’s signature. Given the number of people who directly blame Biden …
Mar 13, 2025: This bill may be referred to as the Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education or F.U.R.R.I.E.S Some nitwit legislator in Texas …
Mar 13, 2025: Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers Every new technology gets used for porn first, but worker control isn’t far behind.
Mar 13, 2025: How Children’s Eating Could Change After $1 Billion Food Cut State Dept: Let’s ruin kids' nutrition by cutting off foreign aid. …
Mar 13, 2025: Trump has decided that Chuck Schumer is ‘not Jewish anymore’ In any other Presidency, this would be top of the news. Now it’s just lost in all …
Mar 13, 2025: Just put in a Github pull request for the first time in quite a while - fixing a one-character typo in a README file. The perils of being an editor …
Mar 13, 2025: Elon Musk’s self-destruction Probably just wishful thinking, but one can hope. Smarmiest quote: After he took his four-year-old son, X, to the White …
Mar 13, 2025: Democratic Attorneys General Sue Over Gutting of Education Department I assume by now the NYT writers have a daily alarm set to fill in a template …
Mar 13, 2025: Trump Administration Launches All-Out Assault on Environmental Protection More depressing details on the Trumpian Environmental Non-Protection Agency …
Mar 13, 2025: Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook Cue the Streisand Effect.
Mar 13, 2025: I want this on a t-shirt Joan Baez: “We’re being run by a bunch of really incompetent billionaires.”
Mar 12, 2025: “Tree Gremlin” Olympus TG6, f/4.9, 1/100s, ISO 250. Yesterday at Mount Pisgah.
Mar 12, 2025: “Sweet Smells” Olympus TG6, Ultimaxx .43x Wide Angle Lens, f/4.9, 1/160s, ISO 100. Yesterday at Mount Pisgah.
Mar 12, 2025: E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’ If you’d rather die than support this administration, Trump’s stooges …
Mar 12, 2025: “Spring is Near the Ground” Olympus TG6, Ultimaxx .43x Wide Angle Lens, f/4.9, 1/400s, ISO 400. Yesterday at Mount Pisgah.
Mar 12, 2025: Nebraska lawmakers advance bill allowing parental notification for school library checkouts More performative legislating. Do they seriously think any …
Mar 12, 2025: Finished reading: A House Divided, by Pearl S. Buck. 📚 I inherited a 10-volume signed limited edition of some of Buck’s works. As far as I could …
Mar 12, 2025: More Republican Nonsense Restore Medicaid’s intent: Prioritize the most vulnerable over able-bodied childless adults Prepare for a lot of this ahistorical nonsense as the …
Mar 12, 2025: All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of products Personally, I look forward to the (unlikely) day when generative AI goes the way of the …
Mar 12, 2025: EBO Air 2 Companion Robot Regardless of their tagline, “playing with” your pets and kids via a $200 robot and your phone does not, in …
Mar 12, 2025: Senate Democrats appear ready to back down in government shutdown fight Have Senators not noticed that Musk&Trump are already shutting down the …
Mar 12, 2025: Why I Left the Washington Post Ruth Marcus traces the decline and fall of the WP under Jeff Bezos, Includes a copy of the column that they …
Mar 11, 2025: Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Directly Into Trump Political Operation The corruption really is right out in the open, isn’t it?
Mar 11, 2025: Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom The only mystery here is how co-President Trump managed to find time in his busy schedule of …
Mar 11, 2025: TikTok will play ‘calming music’ to remind teens to stop using the app It won’t work. No matter how good their AI-driven age verification …
Mar 11, 2025: What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X Looks like co-President Musk was flat-out lying when he claimed last night (on Fox News, …
Mar 11, 2025: File under "Things we used to know" Ran across this in the 1964 (!) ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA this morning in the article on AIR: Carbon dioxide in the air reduces the loss of heat by …
Mar 11, 2025: DOGE is subject to FOIA District Court ruling. Prediction: it will turn out that DOGE didn’t write anything down, and still won’t, and …
Mar 10, 2025: White House: Stock market plunge is not as ‘meaningful’ as business activity Looks like the next administration tactic is whistling past …
Mar 10, 2025: This is just the start The Verge reports on the status of Mahmoud Khalil. This sort of coverage is the reason that I became a subscriber this year. …
Mar 10, 2025: King Charles pays tribute to ‘marvellous’ Bob Marley as he shares favourite songs In these troubled times, it is comforting that King Charles listens …
Mar 10, 2025: I get an absurd amount of pleasure from swapping 10 watts of electrons with someone in Calgary.
Mar 10, 2025: Rubio says Ukraine will have to give up territory in a peace deal with Russia. Shameful. And I never expected to read this in my lifetime: “I can …
Mar 10, 2025: Top ‘Washington Post’ columnist resigns, accusing publisher of killing piece The hollowing out of WaPo continues.
Mar 10, 2025: Every time I have to deal with Xfinity I think about getting into business as an ISP. I could eat a handful of iron filings and crap out a more …
Mar 10, 2025: “Not quite still waters” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/6.3, 1/30s, ISO 1250. Larison Creek.
Mar 10, 2025: CBP launches enhanced CBP Home mobile app with new Report Departure feature Musk & Trump’s genius solution to the logistical impossibility …
Mar 10, 2025: NASDAQ is now down over 10% since January 20. At what point does “Trump Slump” become “Trump Crash”?
Mar 10, 2025: The Apprentice comes to Prime Video. This will likely be the year that I cancel Amazon Prime, after signing up within six months of when it was first …
Mar 10, 2025: Large Study of Dietary Habits Suggests More Plant Oils, Less Butter Could Lead to Better Health The researchers examined diet and health data from …
Mar 10, 2025: Generation Z Is Losing a Skill We’ve Had for Over 5,500 Years: 40% Can’t Communicate Properly Anymore Because…wait for it…handwriting is …
Mar 10, 2025: “Trail Door” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/7.1, 1/20s, ISO 2500. Larison Creek Trail.
Mar 10, 2025: Enough negativity for one morning. Have a grouse. (Seen on the trail a couple days ago. Alas, had a short lens mounted so this is heavily magnified.)
Mar 10, 2025: Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees And where is the $2 billion ($25K x 80K) for this supposed to come from? Oh, …
Mar 10, 2025: Republicans worry Trump’s tariffs could harm economy They’re just now figuring this out? Some people are a little slow on the uptake, I guess.
Mar 10, 2025: Trump’s Plan to Fix Egg Price Crisis Is Already Falling Apart What a surprise, wannabe dictator can’t magically make eggs appear from thin air.
Mar 9, 2025: Meidas Touch Network On the one hand, it’s nice to see progressive media trying to be as brash and popular as regressive media. On the other, …
Mar 9, 2025: “Dance of the Rhododendrons” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/6.3, 1/30s, ISO 250. Larison Creek Trail.
Mar 9, 2025: MOOSEHEAD BREWERIES INTRODUCES THE PRESIDENTIAL PACK If I wasn’t on the wagon I’d be ordering one.
Mar 9, 2025: “Green Trail” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 28mm, f/8, 1/5s, ISO 1250. Larison Creek Trail.
Mar 9, 2025: Vitamin A? Cod liver oil? Experts say there’s no replacement for measles vaccination The fact that this story even has to be reported is profoundly …
Mar 9, 2025: “Moss Buds” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/6.3, 1/125s, ISO 500. Shot at Silver Falls State Park.
Mar 9, 2025: “South Falls” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/3,5, 1/45s, ISO 200. In-camera HDR. Silver Falls State Park. Really …
Mar 9, 2025: “Behind the Curtain” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/10.0, 1/60s, ISO 400. Silver Falls State Park., behind Middle …
Mar 9, 2025: By the way, most of my photos are cropped to 16x9 aspect ratio. They’re CC-BY-NA licensed, so feel free to grab the full-size versions for …
Mar 9, 2025: “North Falls” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/3,5, 1/60s, ISO 200. HDR program plus some heavy-handed work in …
Mar 9, 2025: “Reach for the Sun” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/4.0, 1/125s, ISO 1000. Shot at Silver Falls State Park.
Mar 8, 2025: “Here Comes the Shroom” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/16, 1/15s, ISO 500. Along the Larison Creek Trail.
Mar 7, 2025: “Middle North Falls” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/22, 1/2.5s, ISO 200. Silver Falls State Park.
Mar 7, 2025: Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say Perhaps they can also fund a study on the connection between abusing dead bears …
Mar 6, 2025: The US now has a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.” Any bets on how long it takes North Korean hackers to drain it?
Mar 6, 2025: Prepare for Discord to Get Way Worse The IPO to enshittification cycle is apparently on the way. It’ll probably be time to find a new home for …
Mar 6, 2025: Ah, Eugene EUGENE, Ore. – Eugene police responded this morning to 911 reports of a man yelling and doing Tai Chi while appearing to wade deeper into …
Mar 6, 2025: One judge who gets it A President who touts an image of himself as a “king” or a “dictator,” perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, …
Mar 6, 2025: Trump Slump continues. Who could possibly have guessed that the markets would react poorly to high tariff rates that randomly change every day …
Mar 6, 2025: (Partially) Escaping Big Tech In the late 90’s and early 2000’s, I did a lot of work in the Microsoft ecosystem, including subcontracting that put a substantial amount …
Mar 6, 2025: Lab-grown caviar (if they succeed). I’m skeptical that there’s enough overlap between vegetarians and potential caviar eaters to make this …
Mar 5, 2025: From all the photos I’ve seen so far, Apple is pretty shaky on the meaning of “sky blue.” Maybe they need to let their engineers get …
Mar 5, 2025: AI-only search results are coming. Do. Not. Want. Fortunately for me, I’ve pretty much de-googled my life at this point.
Mar 5, 2025: Finished The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck. This is part of a longish-term project of working through the entire Biography of Manuel. These days …
Mar 5, 2025: Federal board orders USDA to temporarily reinstate dismissed probationary workers A 45-day reprieve for Forest Service employees (among others), …
Mar 5, 2025: Good Planet Sharp Cheddar Olive Oil Cheese Slices - Not even remotely sharp cheddar, but not bad as vegan cheese slices go, and definitely healthier …
Mar 5, 2025: Democracy.io - the easiest way to email your Representative and Senators. I just sent a note requesting a “no” vote on any so-called …
Mar 5, 2025: Which reminds me: you can still get science-based vaccine recommendations in English from Canada, the UK, and Australia. Maybe not 100% tuned for the …
Mar 5, 2025: RestoredCDC. A snapshot of the Centers for Disease Control website from before it was vandalized by little Donnie, Robbie, and Elon. It’s always …
Mar 5, 2025: We already knew that there are more bacterial cells in our body than human cells. Now it turns out that our human cells are full of plastic shards. …
Mar 5, 2025: Internet nostalgia + VC + AI = profit? I’m skeptical but not surprised. We’re at the point where we’re going to see a lot of …
Mar 4, 2025: Thank you Al Green.
Mar 4, 2025: Remember back in the 60s when we used to dream about the day when the government needed to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber? Now you can buy a t-shirt …
Mar 4, 2025: People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price. …
Mar 4, 2025: Trump Reveals Tariffs Plan to Ruin American Farmers’ Lives I don’t always agree with TNR, but they do have a knack for writing headlines with …
Mar 4, 2025: Scientists Just Created a ‘Woolly Mouse’ With Mammoth-Like Fur “These mice are massively adorable,” says Colossal cofounder and CEO Ben Lamm. “They …
Mar 4, 2025: “Snow Queen” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/7.1, 1/100s, ISO 800. Along the Youngs Rock trail. First wildflowers of the …
Mar 4, 2025: “The Pom-pom Tree” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/16, 1/125s, ISO 1000. Along the Youngs Rock trail.
Mar 4, 2025: Depressing news about local public lands: U.S. Forest Service firings across Oregon having serious impacts on people, places and things and Executive …
Mar 4, 2025: The era of pettiness is in full swing Nobody knows exactly how long ago a marbled and tender boneless short-loin steak came to be known across the United States as a New York strip. …
Mar 3, 2025: “Willow Flowers” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/16, 1/125s, ISO 2000. Along the Youngs Rock trail.
Mar 3, 2025: I was out hiking before dawn, and had to change my headlamp battery. In the dark, no moon, under trees, in the rain. That’s when I was reminded …
Mar 3, 2025: The competition for “biggest suckup in Congress” is heating up.
Mar 3, 2025: “Pine Twig” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/11, 1/40s, ISO 6400. Shot along the Youngs Rock trail.
Mar 3, 2025: “Cone” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/11, 1/125s, ISO 1000. Shot along the Youngs Rock trail.
Mar 3, 2025: If progressives don’t refer to this as the Trump Slump, they’re missing a good bet.
Mar 2, 2025: Finished The Quotable Lewis. I ran across this one in our local St. Vinnie’s thrift store and snapped it up; Lewis has long been one of my …
Mar 2, 2025: “Elegant Sunburst Lichen” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/13, 1/125s, ISO 320. Found at the base of Youngs Rock. No color …
Mar 2, 2025: “Moon Point” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/13, 1/160s, ISO 200. Shot from Youngs Rock Trail.
Mar 2, 2025: Scheduling a service call with Xfinity may be slightly less painful that a root canal. But I’m not sure about that. If we had any other …
Mar 2, 2025: “Baby tree” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/5.6, 1/100s, ISO 6400. Shot from Youngs Rock Trail.
Mar 2, 2025: Finished The Lost Painting (on audio, but I’m making the rules in this blog, and I say it counts as a book). I know nothing about art history, …
Mar 2, 2025: On Saturday, the number of active lawsuits in federal courts challenging administration actions reached 100. This would be better news if only I …
Mar 2, 2025: “Not Dead Yet” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/5.0, 1/1000s, ISO 200. Shot from Youngs Rock Trail.
Mar 2, 2025: “I suppose you’re all wondering why I called you here today” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/4.0, 1/125s, ISO 4000.
Mar 2, 2025: National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. How not to pay your taxes (and what might happen to you as a result). Just in case you reach the …
Mar 2, 2025: Trump, EPA Aim to Remove Finding That Mandates Action on Greenhouse Gas Pollution. One of the many ways in which the new administration is trying to …
Mar 2, 2025: $400 internet-connected toaster. Um, no. To add insult to injury, Wired says it doesn’t even make good toast.
Mar 1, 2025: “Snow Wave” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @42mm, 1/100s, ISO 200. Along the road to Warner Mountain Lookout.
Mar 1, 2025: “Young’s Rock” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @42mm, 1/100s, ISO 320. Shot from Youngs Rock Trail.
Mar 1, 2025: Removed the Washington Post from my morning reading, and replaced it with Wired. Not that I think Conde Nast is the greatest company in the world, but …
Feb 28, 2025: I’ve been reading the Encyclopedia Britannica (yes, start to finish - this is the sort of thing retirement allows) and an offhand reference to …
Feb 28, 2025: In Soviet America, comrade, government tells you what to think.
Feb 28, 2025: Some good news During the week of February 10, the latest week available, foot traffic to Target dropped 7.9% and 4.8% to Walmart. Foot traffic to …
Feb 28, 2025: “Looming Sisters” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 100-400 F5.0-6.3 with 2.0 teleconverter @ 400mm (1600mm FF equivalent), 1/250s, ISO 250. …
Feb 28, 2025: The People’s Union USA. This is the guy (or group, depending on your point of view) behind today’s “24 hour economic blackout” …
Feb 28, 2025: “Treacherous Stairs” Olympus E-M10 IV, TTArtisan 25mm f/2.0, 1/4000s, ISO 160. Near the top of Spencer Butte.
Feb 28, 2025: “Moss Muncher” Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens with Raynox 250 macro lens @ f/9, 1/30s, ISO 6400. Base of Spencer Butte.
Feb 27, 2025: “Fern shadows." Olympus E-M10 IV, TTArtisan 25mm f/2.0, 1/60s, ISO 200. Eugene Ridgeline Trail.