christian crumlish doing stuff
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The 12 Pods of 2022
Twelve podcasts of 2022
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Grrr
I plan to strip down and rebuild this blog (gradually, over time) but it’s still annoying that something I did with a new summary page template messed up the basic typeface of the place!
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Ready fedi?
As I get more into this fediverse thing I want to start trying to wean my photos off of Instagram / Bookface and my videos off of YouTube / same. Just as Mastodon is an open federated microblogging service akin to Twitter, Pixelfed and Peertube and federated photo and video services. Just so, I have…
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Yule see
Where I am in my life now this time of year more and more represents a necessary period of calm and reflection, a time for taking stock and considering possible course corrections for the next cycle to come. This becomes more and more important and even dear to me, I find. Anyhow, see you on…
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Testing, testing
Trying to see if my posts are propagating across the fediverse as intended…
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Migration
After reactivating the Mastodon account I provisioned in 2019 over at mstdn.social, I started noticing that that instance, well managed and moderated as it is, is a larger one, getting bigger all the time, and it was starting to throw errors. They say to build the fediverse out and not up, so I started exploring…
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Sure, summer break is nice
but have you tried generally just kind of slowing down, exhaling, taking stock, wrapping things up, and accepting the open secret about most of the working world that doesn’t have a seasonal spike between mid-November and the end of the year, that around now people are taking their foot off the productivity gas pedal and…
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My birdsite visits are getting shorter
As I move my online conversational focus to the more open federated spaces (rumors are Tumblr will be plugging in next), I am spending more of my time checking (and debating the cultural norms of) Mastodon, and connecting to folks there, and while I still feel compelled to check Twitter via its website (I removed…
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Bucket list achievement unlocked
I have often said I will end up as a minor footnote in Grateful Dead history, on the back of my obscure essays and peripheral involvement with “Dead scholarship.” Recently, one of my writer pals with similar obsessions has been the host of the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast, which has quickly turned into one of…
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Quiet mornings are good for reflection
I used to be a night person. I used to sleep in as much as I possibly could. Sometime in the last decade or two I turned into a morning person and I’ve learned to really appreciate the quiet early morning hours before the rest of the world has woke up. This is when I…
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Got my flu shot yesterday
Remember when vaccines were just a normal thing nobody freaked out about? So far no arm ache and no malaise, so that’s good. On the other hand I may already have had this flu after my trip to Europe in September and October. Meanwhile covid cases are up in California again, darnit.
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More geek stuff
I’m still messing with how these blog posts display when they are federated out to the #fediverse. It may take a little bit of tinkering but eventually, I’ll get things how I like them.
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rip van weblog
anybody else feel like they’re waking up from a #lazyweb trance?
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Quick recursive test
trying out a fediembedi tag to insert my mastodon feed here as a test
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Whoa, we’re halfway there
OK, so I was able to find @xian@mediajunkie.com in a fediverse lookup, which was pretty cool. There was a sort of bio listing in Mastodon. From there I was able to follow my own blog (yay), and I could click through as well, but that brings us to the design-neglected user page instead of the…
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Getting the itch
It feels like time to blog again. For one thing, a lot of stuff is happening every day and I’m losing track so just literally logging interesting things right now would be a good idea. Also, the microblog walled gardens are starting to eat themselves and this blog can be part of the fediverse, I…
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Wish Y’all Were Here
So, so you think you can tell…
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Down to the Mountain (Please Set Me Free)
Seems like the chorus has a mind of its own and has settled out into something like: Let me beSet me freeLet me be me, oh please, pleasePlease, set me free though we’ll see what happens once the Kincaid get their greasy mitts on it.
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Down to the Mountain
Set me free