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Sunrise at McAfee knob

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Sometimes it rains \"\"\"\"\"\" : curious.port111.com

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I got an interesting email reply from a friend who used to sit on the ATC board about some cultural difficulties between new England and the south
\noutdoorfoo.wordpress.com/2026/05/0…

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El Buzzard Pasa \"\" : curious.port111.com

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Which of these is not like the other ? \"\"\"\"\"\" : curious.port111.com

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Can I replace this app with a text file?

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I wanted to try the app “hikers logbook”, but it is apple only. It was easy to figure out what it tracked, create a text template for daily use and enter data. Files can be analyzed offline or with AI.

\n

What apps can you replace with a text file?

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The USPS has problems. I shipped a priority mail package, “1 to 3 day delivery”, it’s taking 5. Their “intercept” service will charge me $47 to forward, and even charges for return to sender. I redirected an Amazon package already out for delivery with a comment, no charge.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/05/08/the-usps-has-problems-i.html","date_published":"2026-05-08T11:27:24+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-08 11:27","date_timestamp":1778239644,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89804958","content_html":"

A day along the blue ridge \"\"\"\"\"\" : curious.port111.com

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Views \"\"\"\"\"\" : curious.port111.com

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Chasing butterflies down the trail \"\"\"\"\"\" : curious.port111.com

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Spring in Virginia \"\"\"\"\"\" : curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/05/02/spring-in-virginia.html","date_published":"2026-05-02T09:33:15+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-02 09:33","date_timestamp":1777714395,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89424964","content_html":"

More spring beauty \"\"\"\"\"\" : curious.port111.com

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Mountain Laurel in bloom

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","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/05/01/mountain-laurel-in-bloom.html","date_published":"2026-05-01T10:11:45+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-01 10:11","date_timestamp":1777630305,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89279951","content_html":"

Flowers and clouds \"\"\"\"\"\" : curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/04/29/flowers-and-clouds.html","date_published":"2026-04-29T23:04:02+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-29 23:04","date_timestamp":1777503842,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89194671","content_html":"

The flip-flop class of 26 leaving Harper’s ferry \"\"\"\"\"\" : curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/04/28/the-flipflop-class-of-leaving.html","date_published":"2026-04-28T18:58:37+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-28 18:58","date_timestamp":1777402717,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89089610","content_html":"

2026 Appalachian Trail Flip-floppers about to set off on an adventure, walking from Virginia to Maine, then Virginia to Georgia.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/04/27/appalachian-trail-flipfloppers-about-to.html","date_published":"2026-04-27T10:12:18+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-27 10:12","date_timestamp":1777284738,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88541042","content_html":"

Robert takes his tools seriously \"\" : curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/04/18/robert-takes-his-tools-seriously.html","date_published":"2026-04-18T22:17:25+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 22:17","date_timestamp":1776550645,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88450914","content_html":"

AI will allow us to be more human: curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/04/17/ai-will-allow-us-to.html","date_published":"2026-04-17T15:18:44+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-17 15:18","date_timestamp":1776439124,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://fosstodon.org/@eludom/116420720885852752"]}},{"id":"88182166","content_html":"

@ctietze I love the cooperative anarchy. So emacs :-)

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I can converse with Claude in Latin about learning swedish. Mira enim est !!!

\n","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/04/11/i-can-converse-with-claude.html","date_published":"2026-04-11T11:03:09+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-11 11:03","date_timestamp":1775905389,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://fosstodon.org/@eludom/116385735909302253"]}},{"id":"87906382","content_html":"

Moon Shots: My Views at 8 and 64: curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/04/09/moon-shots-my-views-at.html","date_published":"2026-04-09T12:54:08+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-09 12:54","date_timestamp":1775739248,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://fosstodon.org/@eludom/116374853740957722"]}},{"id":"87853334","content_html":"

Seems like a good day to watch “lost in space”.

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@rscottjones I tend not to advertise exactly when I will be away from home? Paranoid? Maybe if my primary residence were an RV it would be different.

\n

“When it’s warm above the Arctic circle”

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@rscottjones I have a hiking trip in the north 1/3 of Sweden coming up …. would love to test this before that trip.

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Ode to a Rock: outdoorfoo.wordpress.com

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Ode to a Rock: curious.port111.com

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I’m going to drive 10 hours to Toronto to fly to Europe for vacation this summer rather than 30 minutes to my local US airport.

\n

I just have no idea what to expect anymore flying out of my home country.

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Summer project… \"\" : outdoorfoo.wordpress.com

","summary":"If you were always curious about reindeer hearding but were afraid to ask…","url":"https://outdoorfoo.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/summer-project/","date_published":"2026-03-14T16:41:55+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-14 16:41","date_timestamp":1773506515,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88541044","content_html":"

Summer project… \"\" : curious.port111.com

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@manton We had a NeXT (“Nee-zit”) around at Ohio State Computer Science in those days. Pretty slick machine at the time.

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@jtr yeah. Old saying about Microsoft something like “things will get worse, but it will take time”.

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@todd we could set things up regionally. We could call one of them the North American Numbering Plan.

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@manton sent

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@manton I recently enabled reply box on posts. It seems to be showing up on some but not others (most). Am I missing something? Thanks.

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@jaek Yeah, the older you get the truer that seems.

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@publicvoit Yes, I know you’re right (and have studied it way more than I ever will).

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Shiny marketing web sties (obsidian) activate my contrarian instincts and make me think “how can I solve this problem without funding your home on the golf course” ?

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@fedops or ftp.uu.net or ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu (where I was for a while), or ftp.wustl.edu, all popular back in the day. Assumes Internet, only true for some in 80s/early 90s.

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I did show up at a MIT tape-in-hand once. Jeff Shiller cut me a copy of Athena/X.

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@publicvoit Im looking at the hype on the obsidian website thinking “how many of those benefits can I get using a single sheet of paper and a pencil.

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I’m running an experiment. Paper vs denote.

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@jtr How are your posts/follows between here and fosstodon set up?

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@kickingvegas Thanks for creating the issue. Github is not letting me log in. Rainbow unicorn, no servers available?

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A little more background on how Romans dealt with zero here.

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I’d argue the right behavior for zero is to return “nihil”.

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@kev As someone who spent 25 year of my life before getting on the Internet (1985-ish) and who worked for a bit at “America Oniline”, I’m implementing “George Offline”. Paper journal/books in the morning, pushing all “interruptions” (to include phone use) to end of day. Scheduled.

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@kickingvegas As a dabbler in Latin I say “Gratias tibi ago”.

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I feed it a trick question

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(numeri-arabic-to-roman 0)

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it returned zero. The Romans had no concept of zero as a number. I propose nil or “nulla” or “nihil”.

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Are you accepting pull requests :-)

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@yeinerf Yep. Let me know how the RAG learning goes.

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@joshuapsteele For straight-up journaling I use
\nRETTACY Lined Journal Notebook. Nice. Basic. Acid free paper.

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@yeinerf I like the approach. I’m doing things that are a little more pestrian, as I learn/do things I post learning notes to https://codeberg.org/eludom/home.public.notes/src/branch/master/home/public/notes/ai (most of them start with dialog with the AIs). Emascs, org mode and soon NixOS

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@marmanold Wow. Was that targeted at anyone in particular? Dagny Tagert perhaps? :-)

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@jtr Thanks for sharing. I seem to be constnatly riffing off a lot of the same ideas/tech.

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My reply was a little longer than 300 chars.

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I like Claude’s final line:
\n“Maybe the test is simpler: would you be embarrassed if this existed publicly in five years? If not, ship it.”

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@jtr THe lack of integraton of private notes or the size?

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I guess I’m treating everything in denote as private with an opt-in (_public tag) to share. Solves the problem? Aside form a little extra complexiy (copy, commit, push).

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@ridwan and you can draw lines, cross things out, doodle. The slow speed of writing, forming each letter, crossing out mistakes, erasing, etc. somehow gives you time to think.

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@jtr My current approach to public/private is to simply tag anything OK to share as _public. It get’s copied separate directoy/git repo and pushed to codeberg.org/eludom/ho… and under that /ai is a lot of share-the-learning-with-future-self-and-anyone-else-who0cares how-to stuff.

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