Good morning, or is it goodnight? Either way, that came quickly.

About an hour until departure on my Europe Train Adventure!

I haven’t talked about this much here, but in March I left my job with the intention of taking some extended time off. Travel is one of the things that I want to do during my time off. And my first big trip is coming up this week: I’ll be traveling from London to Rome via train! The trip … read more

A view from Cedar Key, Florida.

The Butterfly Rainforest at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the University of Florida’s campus.

Spotted one of Brood XIX in Macon, Georgia.

My drink is called [The Placeholder].

Spotted a juvenile and adult barred owl tonight! There was a third owl that I think was another juvenile, but wasn’t able to get a photo of that one.

Emulators Will Change the App Store Forever - Wavelengths The introduction of emulators offers an alternative within this ecosystem, providing games with immersive stories and gameplay systems that are designed for extended play sessions. These games, though designed for other hardware, still offer … read more

Schmidt’s Sausage House, Columbus, OH.

Currently reading: Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod 📚

The Best Photos and Videos of the 2024 Solar Eclipse - kottke.org

Great collection of photos posted around the web. I especially love this tiny planet time lapse:

Just added my blogroll using the new-ish Micro.blog feature:

Blogroll

Totality timelapse 🌘🌑🌒

Beautiful wildflowers from a hike near Arabia Mountain.

Finished reading: Batshit Seven by Sheung-King 📚

This one lives up to the title. I enjoyed it though.

Currently reading: Dune by Frank Herbert 📚

Saw Dune 2, which I really enjoyed. Now, while caught up in the Dune universe, I want to re-read the book!

NASA has an interactive Eclipse Explorer page that’s worth checking out. I’m planning to travel to Delaware, Ohio to experience totality.

Via 512 Pixels:

I have two pieces of advice:

1. Don’t try to photograph it unless you’re an expert. Soak it in, and then download some sick wallpapers from NASA the next day.
2. Buy and use eclipse-ready glasses, and make sure your kids do, too.

I’m happy to hear point 1. I was debating on if I should try to photograph it and this cements it as a no.

Neatnik Notes · A Fediverse, if you can keep it

The very thing that makes the Fediverse special—the ability to seamlessly cross a platform boundary and talk with one another—relies on striving to keep things as open as possible. An open network fulfills the promise of an open internet. Open is good.

Via Maique

The Apple Jonathan: A Very 1980s Concept Computer That Never Shipped (512 Pixels):

In the middle of the 1980s, Apple found itself with several options regarding the future of its computing platforms. […] Those four machines are well known, but there was a fifth possibility in the mix, named the Jonathan.