Art Highlights ….
A Personal Favorite
’3D’
‘3D Meets 2D’
2D Details
2023 | 07 | 30
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More to come on the ongoing site changes, but my podcast can now be found on my 🎙️Philpin domain - and if I can get Substack to fix their bug, it will soon there, which is part of the reason why my newsletter is no longer called a newsletter - but rather 🔗 a ‘Substack’.
📸 I don’t remember this movie …
I do remember this one though.
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In Days Of Yore.
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Stylin'
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We did. We had to. I mean - how could you not?
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2023 | 07 | 29
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With service like this … there is seriously no reason to leave home.
Shoutout to the Wonderful People at Panic.
I have used Transmit to connect to my servers for years. N’er a problem until a couple of weeks ago.
I didn’t think I had changed anything - but did my usual checks ….
- what have I done wrong … nothing I could find.
- what has changed - a couple of things - uninstalled apps
- switched off Firewall.
Still no connection.
I pinged my hosting provider - Siteground.
They could access from their end no problem.
Asked me to try accessing via a different network, so tried by camping on the phone.
Straight in.
Back to my usual access - nothing.
Their conclusion was something about my network provider.
In my case it’s Spectrum and I just shivered at the thought.
So, first I contacted Panic, to see if they had any ideas.
Longer story shorter …
Ran some diagnostics and sent to them - and they asked me who was hosting my servers … told them.
And then in an email this morning ….
Out of curiosity, can you change the connection type to FTP with TLS/SSL? From my own SiteGround servers, I know that helps.
… and BOOM. Working.
This bear ain’t technical - so I have no idea what strange magic this is and why suddenly everything is different, but suffice to say … WORKING.
Thankyou Panic.
I got an oil change on my car … two weeks later an email from my insurance company.
Doesn’t matter what they said - what matters is ‘WTF’!! Who needs to be worried about digital tracking when a simple oil change results in this.
I am in California - is this happening in other states?
When did we ‘decide’ to allow this kind of tracking and reporting?
When did I grant my permission for this to happen?
How you know what kind of establishment you are sitting in.
Jax: “What’s the Chianti like?”
Waiter: “Let me check.”
5 minutes later
Waiter: “It’s red.”
🎥 Oppenheimer, 2023 - ★★★★½
Stunning. 🤯 … if you’ll pardon the pun. Wanted to see it - and couldn’t fit the IMAX experience in to the schedule, so will go again next week. Not for me to review this movie - far more qualified and interesting people than me to read on that front - BUT - it is as good as you have been told.
Two thoughts beyond what yours truly has so far read.
1] I knew Robert Downey Junior was in the movie and just did not recognize him. He must surely be up for a best supporting actor nomination.
2] I did not know Tom Conti was in the film - and there he was - playing Einstein. For me, not a logical choice, but having scene him - GREAT choice.
About two minutes in and already this 🔗 NOSTR client makes more sense than others I have used.
🎵 Spotted in a store yesterday … reminding me of the permanent loan of my vinyl collection to a friend in the UK.
2023 | 07 | 28
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