RichC | January 24, 2021
"if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." — 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Tags: america, bible, chronicles, country, Faith, filler, heal, healing, peace, pray, prayer, united states, usa, verse
RichC | January 15, 2021
Years ago when RAM was expensive, it was common to set up a SWAP space file for additional memory on computers and servers with plenty of fast hard drive space … especially when speed was not as important as preventing crashes. As applications get a little more demanding and server traffic increases, memory use steadily […]
Category: Blogs, Computer, Raspberry Pi, Software, Technology |
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Tags: Computer, linux, ram, server, swap, tech friday, techfriday, terminal, virtual memory
RichC | January 14, 2021
One of my favorite January traditions is looking at the Lake Superior State University’s Banished Words listing that get posted on December 31. I can’t believe LSSU has been doing it since 1976 and it is fun to look at their archives! For the year ending 2020 (or 2021’s list), LSSU selected COVID-19 as the #1 […]
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Tags: annual, banished, cancel culture, covid19, list, lssu, tweet, twitter, words
RichC | January 12, 2021
The Storming United States Capitol 1/6/2021 and White House plus multiple cities protests 2020 In recent years, NPR has not been my source for balanced reporting and commentary, but I still occasionally pick up a morsel or two that resonates. This time it was shared by a politically liberal/progressive friend on her daily Life Logs […]
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Tags: antifa, blm, capitol, cookie jar, election, free speech, handley, incitement, looting, npr, opinion, president trump, protest, riot, violence
RichC | January 8, 2021
A simple blog upgrade project that I’ve been contemplating for a while now was one of my 2021 New Year’s resolutions … so I’m worked on it this past week’s Music Monday post. I’m not sure how long the new button and player will remain unchanged since I seem to keep testing and tweaking it; […]
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Tags: audio, blog, css, player, tech friday, techfriday, update, upgrade, wordpress
RichC | December 25, 2020
Since it is now Christmas day, I will finally post a couple of the woodworking projects that I’ve been working on for gifts this year. Ellerie was my primary focus since I’ve made quite a few items for Annalyn in the past, but I’m trying not to leave anybody out either. So … for the […]
Category: Archive, Blogs, Holiday, Personal, Photos, Woodworking |
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Tags: animal, annalyn, christmas, dessert, ellerie, family, pi, pie box, presents, projects, stool, woodworking
RichC | November 28, 2020
Although I’ve worked with my friend Pastor Keith Thomas on his GroupBibleStudy.com site for years, I’ve been happy for him that his daughter has taken on the volunteer job of webmaster. As I warned him, be careful when it comes to maintaining the day to day site management … as once the new design ambition […]
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Tags: alisa childers, alistair begg, bible, blog, devotional, groupbiblestudy, keith thomas, link, podcast, study, truth for life
RichC | November 8, 2020
The menu “navigational links” just under the header of My Desultory Blog are primarily there for my own short-cuts … and I haven’t changed them for years. A few aren’t really used much anymore, with improved browser bookmarks – one click bookmarks are just much more convenient. This past week I made a change. I […]
Category: Audio, Blogs, Faith |
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Tags: alistair begg, bible, blog, christian, christianity, devotional, Faith, link, menu, mydesultoryblog, religion, truth for life
RichC | September 17, 2020
What kind of grandparent would I be to not include Ellerie’s first tooth on MyDesultoryBlog since I post on practically everything else? Katelyn mentioned in a phone call that Ellerie was teething and could see her first tooth the other day … so I requested she send a photo. Little did I know just how […]
Category: Archive, Blogs, Memories, Personal, Photos |
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Tags: ani gif, anigif, annalyn, baby, ellerie, eyes, family, first, katelyn, photo, teeth, teething, toddler, tooth
RichC | September 4, 2020
Larry and Lin Pardey have been a couple of my sailing idols since I was in high school. Their life adventure, magazine articles and books have been a mainstay in keeping the cruising lifestyle close to my heart and in my dreams. I’ve posted a few times before regarding their philosophy and many skills, but […]
Category: Blogs, Books, Obituary, Sailing, Travel |
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Tags: articles, Books, larry pardey, lin pardey, new zealand, nytimes, obit, Obituary, pdf, sailing
RichC | August 14, 2020
Friday afternoon was a day of server housekeeping, along with the week’s usual billing and accounting. It was also time to update this blog’s WordPress plugins and to the current version called “Eckstine” 5.5. In WordPress 5.5, your site gets new power in three major areas: speed, search, and security. Thankfully after the move to […]
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Tags: blog, eckstine, housekeeping, idiom, knock on wood, server, update, wordpress
RichC | August 14, 2020
Wouldn’t you know, just as I was contemplating how to get rid of our annoying pair of Mourning Doves (pretty much pigeons in my book), they go and have at least one baby. Now I can’t in good conscious shoo them away. The little guy must have jumped or fallen out of the nest and […]
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Tags: baby, bird, birds, doves, mourning, nest, pigeon
RichC | August 13, 2020
There is no doubt in my mind that I would have tried to do this if Photoshop would have been as advanced when my kids were younger (or if I would have been has skilled – I’m basically a retoucher). As it was, I did include one of Katelyn’s computer art pieces (on my Mac SE […]
Category: Art, Blogs, Computer, Humor, Memories, Social Networking, TBT |
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Tags: artwork, drawings, Humor, parenting, photoshop, photoshopped, TBT, throwback, thursday
RichC | August 1, 2020
My goodness, where have the years gone!?! I know that I’m not the only one who asks that question, but when it stares me in the face from 6700 blog post ago … it is a big reminder. I’ve noted in this post that 15 years ago Taylor and I headed up to see my […]
Category: Blogs, Health, Memories, Nature, Personal, Recreation, Travel |
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Tags: back problem, blog, brenda, canadian rockies, epidural, hiking, mri, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, pain, Travel, treatment, xray
RichC | July 21, 2020
After updating a few security features on this server, there is/was a problem (?) in posting to MyDesultoryBlog.com. So as an update test, I’ll add a couple photos. The subject line question is really a trick question since the photo on the right was taken a day before the one on the left a couple […]
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Tags: age, beard, blog, mdb, richc, security, testing, update
RichC | July 18, 2020
As politicians and most of us in the United States (and probably world) debate how to live under the shadow of the Coronavirus pandemic, researchers, doctors and academics are flooding the Internet with studies and opinions both for and against opening up the country. Some have our best interest at heart … and likely some […]
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Tags: central, coronavirus, covid19, economic, fee.org, freedom, gcc, graph, idiom, idioms, karl marx, liberty, lock down, ludwig von mises, marxism, masks, new york, planning, Politics, prageru, shutdown, studies, sweden, youtube
RichC | July 8, 2020
The “Coconut Rifle” … known to most as the Colt ArmaLite AR-15 (SN 000106) … the original for what is now the longest primary service weapon in our country’s military history. The originals firearms (20 of them) were manufactured by Colt in 1959. One of them #106 was involved in a July 4th 1960 “Watermelon […]
Category: Blogs, History, Hobby, Human Interest, Millitary, Tidbits |
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Tags: ar-15, ar15, armalite, black rifle, coconut, colt, firearms, gen curtiss lemay, History, jfk, m16, president kennedy, rifle, vietnam, watermelon
RichC | June 20, 2020
A couple weeks ago I shared an old automotive link from MyDesultoryBlog.com on Twitter and one of my automotive buddies sent me a private message asking about the name of my blog (now nearly 7000 posts). The conversation had me contemplate the early decisions and thoughts .. or lack of thought .. when all of […]
Category: Archive, Blogs, Business, History, Memories, Personal, Technology |
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Tags: aol, apple, blog, cppnet.com, desultory, domains, myarchive.us, netscape, printing, publishing, richc, superdrive, syquest, wayback machine, wordpress, zip
RichC | June 19, 2020
Way too often those who maintain their own web servers and computers grit their teeth and cringe when it is time to update and upgrade. A month or so ago I replaced one of my servers (the one this blog is on) and suffered through the anxiety of getting everything working again. I generally follow […]
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Tags: apt-get, bionic beaver, blog, idioms, linux, phrase, server, ubuntu, update, upgrade, wordpress
RichC | June 12, 2020
Regular readers have likely noticed a few “hopefully” discrete ads running on My Desultory Blog. It is a way for me to experiment with ways to help my customers choose or forgo the use advertising services like Google Ads on their sites. For the most part it has been relatively painless (although nothing to retire […]
Category: Blogs, Financial, Personal, Photography, Photos, Technology |
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Tags: 1970, adsense, big tech, deepfakes, google, kent state, life magazine, manipulation, mydesultoryblog, photo, photojournalism, photoshopped, riot, tech friday, techfriday, violation
RichC | May 28, 2020
What do you call the two pieces of bread that bookend all of the slices? Every once in a while, a quirky story gets me thinking and talking to those around me. I once though everyone called the ends of a loaf of bread the “heels.” Unbeknownst to me, even my wife had a different […]
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Tags: baking, bread, butt, crust, end, endeskiver, heel, loaf, patka, skalk
RichC | May 12, 2020
After mentioning problems last week, the new webserver is up and running with a fresh install of Linux Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic Beaver,” MySQL database and PHP 7.2 … well I actually decided to upgrade that to PHP 7.4 for a little better speed (who knows?) I’ve abandoned MongoDB for the time being for the Quickdex.net […]
Category: Blogs, Business, Computer, Hobby, Personal, Photos, Technology, Woodworking |
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Tags: blog, challenge, linux, makers mob, mysql, php, quickdex, scrap wood, update, upgrade, webserver
RichC | May 11, 2020
One of posts that once received a lot of traffic on my blog was Jacob Tolliver playing a piano in an Ohio hardware store several years ago. The Facebook embed was taken down, but I reposted the video from YouTube last year. I must not have been the only one who appreciates watching those with […]
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Tags: facebook, Music, music monday, musicmonday, piano, public, social network, video
RichC | May 8, 2020
Actually this is just a filler post while working on server upgrades. Hopefully when finished, the new server will be fully up-to-date with Linux (Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04), PHP 7.2 and a current LAMP stack set-up. WordPress will finally be able to be updated to 5.4.1 and maybe eventually bring back a cache to speed […]
Category: Blogs, Computer, Technology |
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Tags: bicycle, bike, camper, Computer, lamp, linux, stack, tech friday, techfriday, traveling, webserver, wordpress
RichC | May 6, 2020
Today’s post serves as a test … since I’m having a few webserver and database problems. If you are a regular reader, this will also be a notice that this blog will likely be sporadic until it is fixed. Once my business sites are updated, then I’ll address my long-in-the-tooth (see below) Quickdex project site and […]
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Tags: blog, Computer, database, idioms, maintenance, problems, quickdex, server, update
RichC | April 18, 2020
Another nail or something in the tire, this time in Brenda’s Acura RDX. Thankfully it was in the tread and small, so an easy plug … but plugging two tires within 30 days? (the animated gif above is just a little soap water sprayed on the tire for leak detection) As for a video that […]
Category: Acura, Automotive, Blogs, Human Interest, Photos, Video |
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Tags: acura, ani gif, blogworthy, leak, moose, nail, plug, positive, rdx. brenda, repair, roses, thankful, tire, video, youtube
RichC | April 16, 2020
For those automotive enthusiasts who are spending A LOT more time at home due to the Coronavirus stay-at-home orders and interested in ways to entertain our minds, try the ConsumerGuide.com Automotive blog’s Engine Parts word search. Tom Appel and crew always find something interesting for their blog (and car stuff podcast). Click image larger or […]
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Tags: automotive, blog, consumerguide, engine, entertainment, game, parts, tom appel, twitter, word search
RichC | March 31, 2020
Olympus Mons is the tallest mountain and largest volcano on any planet in the solar system. It is about the size of France (or the U.S. state of Arizona) and is a shield volcano 624 km (374 mi) in diameter, 25 km (16 mi) high, and is rimmed by a 6 km (4 mi) high […]
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Tags: astronomy, brilliantmaps.com, france, mars, mons, mountain, olympus, space, volcano
RichC | March 29, 2020
This is a two-purpose post: A woodworking (sort of) bookshelves project archive update and shared information on a jig I made. First, the bookshelves and music room/ library painting coming along slowly. I’m bogged down with putty, sanding and painting after adding a strip light shield (wood to hide the LEDs that I’m planning to […]
Category: Archive, Blogs, Personal, Photos, Tidbits, Tools, Woodworking |
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Tags: bookshelves, crosscut, discussion, jigs, jon peters, painting, project, sled, tools, woodworking
RichC | March 20, 2020
It is a Friday personal archive catchup for MyDesultoryBlog. One of the greatest things about living in today’s connected and technological time is that it is easy for today’s parents to share even minor milestones with grandparents. Between receiving daily text messages with photos, Alexa Echo voice messages and “hearing” my granddaughter’s voice (and what […]
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Tags: 4 weeks old, annalyn, archive, artwork, blog, ellerie, family, granddaughter
RichC | March 19, 2020
Every once in a while MyDesultoryBlog’s “Year(s) Ago On This Day" script pops up something that shocks me. It is hard to believe we donated Brenda‘s 1998 Toyota Rav4 back in 2016? It does not seem that long … but "life moves pretty fast …" as the Ferris Bueller line goes. So I’ll repost one […]
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Tags: blog, ferris bueller, mydesultoryblog, Rav4, TBT, throwback, thursday, toyota
RichC | February 28, 2020
Right-click and Save-as for a very interesting larger download version of this map A new Brilliant Maps twitter feed is constantly sharing some very interesting mapping projects and this one was particularly intriguing. As a commenter posted, “obviously a map like this is going to disputed, but PisseGuri82 has gone to great lengths to explain […]
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Tags: border, geography, History, maps, reddit, tech friday, techfriday, world
RichC | February 27, 2020
Six years ago, which seems like yesterday (considering everything that has happened), I recalled and blogged on my first journaling in 1977 noting that the focus was on planning my life around sailing – to quote George Bernard Shaw, “Youth is wasted on the young.” The reference was that the number of posts on MyDesultoryBlog […]
Category: Archive, Biodiesel, Blogs, Diesel, Memories, Personal, Photos, Quotes, TBT, Volkswagen |
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Tags: annalyn, archive, blog, database, dayplanner, daytimer, diesel, drew, ellerie, family, george bernard shaw, journal, katelyn, moleskine, mydesultoryblog, posts, quotes, search, tdi, volkswagen
RichC | February 19, 2020
Although I have not sought Katelyn’s approval to include her rounded “personal coffee table” or her pregnancy photo (cough, cough – one in the same) to MyDesultoryBlog, but I’m boldly going out on a limb by posting it. The longer I post daily, the more I find myself wanting to archive family milestones … as […]
Category: Advice, Archive, Blogs, Humor, Personal, Photos |
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Tags: baby, baby oostra, babygirl, blog, deanna eppers, drew, family, grandparents, katelyn, parenting, pregnant, TBT
RichC | February 17, 2020
Although this may have been included this Music Monday song on MyDesultoryBlog before, seeing it in a recent commercial has me pondering living life in a balanced way. I’ve always been a planner and an advocate of the Boy Scouts “Be Prepared” motto… but sometimes that can get in the way. The older I get, […]
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Tags: be prepared, blog, boy scouts, life, living, lyrics, motto, music monday, musicmonday, ooh la la, planning, retirement
RichC | January 21, 2020
Although mentioned in publications before (here’s an older article), I always smile when I see the Little Tikes Cozy Coupe in automotive stories. In part, because the car is not what people envision of when they read “World’s Best-Selling Car,” but also because the manufacturer, Little Tikes, was founded in Aurora, Ohio (where I worked […]
Category: Automotive, Blogs, Business, Memories, Personal, Photos |
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Tags: annalyn, aurora, automotive, cars, cozy coupe, hemmings, hudson, jim mariol, little tikes, newell, ohio, rubbermaid, university of cincinnati
RichC | December 19, 2019
How does a “relatively open minded” politically moderate to conservative American see the impeachment of President Trump? I pay relatively close attention to the news … and politics since it is a big part of our news nowadays … AND with three years of quarrelling and intense dislike for President Donald Trump by his political […]
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Tags: abuse, biden, campaign, clinton, congress, democrats, donald trump, dossier, election, fisa, hatred, impeach, impeachment, motive, opinion, politcs, Politics, potus, president, Republicans, ukraine
RichC | December 15, 2019
I’ve often questioned just how much data is being collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc … but considering I’m a relatively light user of FB … getting push timely advertising is a bit creepy. I called my insurance company last week for a windshield repair/replacement for our 2010 BMW X5 35d and handled the entire […]
Category: Automotive, Blogs, BMW, Diesel, Marketing, Personal, Photos, Social Networking, Technology |
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Tags: advertising, BMW, chip, crack, facebook, information, insurance, internet, privacy, safelite, windshield, x5 35d
RichC | November 20, 2019
Actually needed a short video for testing the updated .mp4 embed code for WordPress.
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Tags: beach, coding, embed, florida, flying, formation, jets, military, sunset, testing, wordpress
RichC | September 8, 2019
Hopefully grandparents are as appreciated ad much today as they were in generations past? I think most are, but as a new grandfather, it is hard to live up to the legacy left by grandparents of previous generations. I’m thankful for the 10-years I had with my grandparents on this year’s National Grandparents Day (September […]
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Tags: 4gen.org, grandparents, jack levine, legacy, lessons, national grandparents day, opinion, values
RichC | August 13, 2019
Great energy use tip for those of use who heavily rely on ceiling fans: The direction a ceiling fan should turn can be confusing. Modern fans have a switch that enables them to blow the air either up or down. During the summer you want the fan to blow air straight down, so your ceiling […]
Category: Advice, Blogs, Energy, Financial, Tidbits |
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Tags: blog, ceiling fan, cooling, energy, fpl, heating, tips
RichC | August 9, 2019
Currently, I pay for a few subscriptions. Some pricey (Wall Street Journal, Barrons, etc) because I avidly read them. Others, like monthly magazines, I continue to pay for and rarely get around to reading, especially online only subscriptions. Several others, I occasionally receive a link or click on one from those annoying “reader apps” that […]
Category: Advice, Automotive, Blogs, Cellphone, Computer, News, Tablet, Technology |
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Tags: getpocket, jeffp, media, nytimes, online, paywalls, pdf, pocket, publishers, reading, websites
RichC | May 7, 2019
In a discussion with my son Taylor last week, the subject of homeownership came up. He is single and currently rents, but like many millennials, hasn’t been in a big hurry to "put down roots" as have previous generations. On the other hand, being that his career is in "planning" and "economic development," regularly talks […]
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Tags: case-schiller, chart, homes, house, housing, phrase, real estate, rent
RichC | March 27, 2019
A couple of decades ago I suffered from Ménière disease (Ménière’s disease) and struggled to find treatment and relief from the miserably vertigo episodes. One does not understand how debilitating and miserable that this be, so much so that any potential treatment, regardless of the risk, seemed worth it at the time. In my case, […]
Category: Archive, Blogs, Health, Medical, Memories, Personal |
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Tags: archive, disease, medical, medscape, menieres, Personal, richc, surgery, treatment
RichC | March 15, 2019
Just upgrading blog to WordPress 5.1.1 and needed a little text copy to try out the new editor (below). It does seem a bit snappier? BTW, did you know WordPress now powers over 1/3rd of the top 10 million sites on the web? Site Health With security and speed in mind, this release introduces WordPress’s […]
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Tags: 5.1.1, editor, speedtest, tech friday, techfriday, update, wordpress
RichC | March 9, 2019
We all see them, even if we are not using Pinterest or refuse to go to pages designed to generate click income … but still, there are some great ideas. Here’s a packing tip that might help next time your putting liquids in your suitcase – put a little plastic wrap or any plastic over […]
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RichC | March 8, 2019
Animated GIF of Dolphin pod jumping and leaping
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RichC | February 28, 2019
I enjoyed this photo enough to use it as my “too lazy to blog” filler photo for the day … and just to make it a ThrowBack Thursday #TBT … how about a photo with my buddy Mark Jones from 2014 looking down from up on Encore’s mast? 🙂
Category: Blogs, Photography, Photos, Sailing, TBT |
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Tags: beach, encore, filler, mark jones, mast, ocean, photography, richc, sky, sunset, surfing
RichC | February 20, 2019
Just an ominous filler photo that you probably don’t want to be looking at before going for a swim in the ocean. The Great White Shark can definitely give you nightmares. EDIT 2/22/2019 with an image from a Twitter friend: Let’s just hope sharks don’t like the crunchy texture of surfboards?
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RichC | February 9, 2019
Although I’m not fond of birds that mess up the topsides of our boat, this Osprey made for a great photo from Aruba. Above is an Osprey is catching a blue reef fish.
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Tags: aruba, encore, filler, mirror, osprey, photo, photography, reef fish, uk
RichC | February 2, 2019
One never knows who you will offend and who you will connect with when posting on an open social network, but Friday I had an enjoyable back and forth with Troy from Missouri. He is a like-minded political conservative, a patriot (a Navy veteran who served on the USS Stonewall Jackson) and seemed to also enjoy […]
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Tags: blog, chat, friend, missouri, navy, politcs, troy, twitter
RichC | January 30, 2019
An ani-gif of our Canary driveway cam early Wednesday Morning – 1/30/2019 The … dare I say a hated and banished phrase … “polar vortex” has swooped down from the north and frozen everything. It is brutally cold, but then it is winter. Schools, of course, are closed and even mail delivery in Cincinnati has been suspended. […]
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Tags: anigif, banished, boa, canary, cold, driveway, frozen, gif, lssu, polar, snake, snow, vortex, weather
RichC | January 14, 2019
If there is one thing that will keep me blogging and archiving, it will be my granddaughter Annalyn; I can’t help myself in smiling and grinning when receiving a video of her singing “Baby Shark doo doo doo doo doo” to Bompa (below). Hard to not want to give her a big hug, although our […]
Category: Archive, Blogs, Music, Video |
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Tags: annalyn, baby, family, katelyn, kids, Music, music monday, musicmonday, shark, song, Technology, video, youtube
RichC | January 7, 2019
After years of posting what I suspect are now considered “oldies” for Music Monday posts, I’ll at least start 2019 with a change. The Christmas season was a chance to listen to holiday music performed by a variety of different artists, and as I have in the past, enjoyed songs by almost all contemporary country […]
Category: Alexa, Blogs, Entertainment, Music, Sailing, Technology |
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Tags: 1970s, Alexa, boats, casey kasem, christmas, country, debbie boone, kenny chesney, Music, music monday, musicmonday, new year, pandora, radio, sailing, siriusxm, song
RichC | January 2, 2019
Each year since 1976 Lake Superior State University posts its list of “banished words.” Usually, we’ve all heard (or used!) the overused words and phrases — this year is no exception. I thankfully have only repeated a few, but have certainly heard most of them overused. The 2019 list, along with reasons for banishment by […]
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Tags: annual, banished, list, lssu, words
RichC | December 7, 2018
A couple years ago I added Simple Slideshow Manager to MyDesultoryBlog as a way to include a series of photos in a single post. Having "attempted" different approaches that fail in one OS, Browser or device before the above plugin seemed to work … that is, until it didn’t. Having posted to the forums, trying […]
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Tags: blog, jquery, master, plugin, programing, slideshow, tech friday, techfriday, wordpress
RichC | August 19, 2018
In preparation for an upcoming work related project, I need to record a video for a client’s website and include both their voice and that of someone asking questions. I was hoping to keep it as professional as possible and will be using my Lumix GX8 DSLR.f I am using my external Rode shotgun microphone […]
Category: Advice, Audio, Blogs, Business, How-To, Misc, Technology, Video |
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Tags: gx8, interview, lavalier, lumix, mic, microphone, rode, shotgun, video, website
RichC | July 31, 2018
I’ve mentioned GroupBibleStudy.com before as a website I work on and have helped develop for my friend Pastor Keith Thomas, but didn’t realize I’ve been doing it for 7 years — shocker. It is now time to hand it over to a new volunteer … and I’m finding it difficult to relinquish control, but also know Keith would love […]
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Tags: Faith, gospel, groupbiblestudy, hosting, keith thomas, webdesign, website
RichC | July 25, 2018
While doing a bit of server housekeeping on the CPP servers and preparing for the eventual push to make all websites secure for users, I ran across a helpful Qualys SSL Labs site to check on certificates, etc. If you are working to get websites updated and compliant for the day ALL site will need […]
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Tags: browser, chrome, consolidated, cpp, cppnet.com, google, plugin, qualys, servers, wordpress, wp hide
RichC | July 15, 2018
Like most who spend their days using smartphones, tablets and computer devices, I’m prone to making typos along with various written communication mistakes. If you’ve read my blog a few times, you will undoubtedly notice mistakes, even if you have an untrained eye — that is because I rarely proofread. I’ve been criticized by everyone […]
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Tags: blog, communication, critique, grammer, misspellings, mistakes, typing, typos