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December 6, 2024

The Secret of Orange Cats Finally Uncovered After 60-Year Search : ScienceAlert

Here’s an Interesting read for those of us who have loved orange cats.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-secret-of-orange-cats-finally-uncovered-after-60-year-search

This article brings up some compelling points to consider. I am currently thinking about where I get my news and considering shifting my support away from these mainstream media publications to some not for profit publications.

The publisher is always right

 

My Favorite Podcasts

When I had long commutes to work, I often listened to podcasts on my phone. Now that I mostly work from home, I listen to them during my daily walks. 

Here’s a list of the podcasts that I enjoy:

Breakdown, Atlanta Journal Constitution

This is Criminal, VoxMedia Podcast Network

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler, Lemonada

In the Dark, The New Yorker

Invisibilia, NPR

Life, Craig Harper (inactive)

On Being with Krista Tippett

Poetry Unbound, On Being Studios

Serial, The New York Times

The Clark Howard Podcast

The Matt Walker Podcast

The You Project, Craig Harper

This American Life

This is Love, VoxMedia Podcast Network

I created an OPML file that includes subscription information for all of these podcasts and have uploaded the file to Dropbox to share with my friends. You can download the file and then use it to add the feeds for these podcasts to whatever podcast app you use.

Download Julie’s favorite podcasts RSS feed (OPML file) from Dropbox

#podcasts #RSS

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

The Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan

so beautiful, brings tears to my eyes  . . .

Streaming Holiday Tunes on SiriusXM

I’ve had such a pleasant day at work, listening to holiday music on the Mannheim Steamroller channel on #Siriusxm

How to import and export RSS feeds through OPML files in Feedly:

How to import OPML into Feedly?

How can I export my sources and feeds (through OPML)?

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

The Invisible Man

We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the Walmart, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he used to be somebody. He still is. A firsthand account of homelessness in America.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/?src=longreads

A gofundme page has been set up for Mr. Fealey

I wonder how many Mr. Fealeys park their cars at the local Walmart parking lot near me.

Under pressure from the SCC, Dominion reveals the true cost of data centers

New filing shows electricity demand would be flat without the industry https://virginiamercury.com/2024/11/26/under-pressure-from-the-scc-dominion-reveals-the-true-cost-of-data-centers/

Under pressure from the SCC, Dominion reveals the true cost of data centers

I am concerned this could be Georgia’s future.

Remove CoPilot from Android Phone

Microsoft’s Copilot showed up on the app search bar on my Android phone. I don’t want to use it and never installed it. When I reviewed the apps that were installed on my phone, Copilot wasn’t in the list.

I have a personal outlook.com account that I use on the phone via the Outlook and OneDrive apps and I’ve installed the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote apps on my phone, but I don’t subscribe to Office 365 and I don’t have a work or school acount set up on the phone. I checked and Copilot pro is not activated within any of those apps.

I was baffled for a minute as to how Copilot got on my phone. . . Then I remembered that I also use the Microsoft Launcher app. When I opened up Microsoft Launcher and looked through its settings, I found the answer:

I disabled Copilot by taping the Copilot option and then tapping the on/off toggles beside “Your feed” and “Search bar” on the next screen:

 

When I was a child, growing up in Alaska, my mom was a prolific painter

My mom loved the Eskimo people and became close friends with an older Eskimo woman named Mary who shared her family photo album with my mother. Many of the portraits my mother painted were from Mary’s photo album.

My mother passed away more than 30 years ago. Several years ago I created a page here that is devoted to my mother’s art. Several people who were lucky enough to have one of my mother’s pieces have reached out to me after googling my mother’s name and finding that web page. Many of them have shared photos of their art with me and today I spent quite a lot of time organizing my mother’s artwork into this album on flickr.

Click to view Mom’s Art Gallery.

Click here to view Flickr album of artwork

Rest in Peace

I’m sad to post that Thelma Turley died on June 12th. Click here to read her obituary.

Back when I held the very first NeedleNerds meeting 18 years ago (?!), the first and only person who showed up that night was Thelma. She and I sat and talked late into the night and when I left the restaurant I knew that I had made a dear friend.

Throughout the years, Thelma attended most of our meetings and was always so willing and generous to share her knowledge about all things related to fiber with me and so many others, and she was always so quick to help out the newbies with any knitting or crocheting questions they had.

In our early days, Thelma held a knitting workshop for anyone who wanted to learn how to knit and Thelma can be credited and praised for getting some of us started on our very first knitting projects through that workshop.

I can’t begin to put into words how much I will miss her.