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Lou Plummer
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BatchMod - Classic Utility, Abandoned But Still Partly Functional https://amerpie.lol/2024/08/13/batchmod-classic-utility.html

Awesome Self Hosted - Links to dozens of self-hosting solutions to replace SaaSS providers - linkage.lol/awesome-s… #Blaugust2024

https://linkage.lol/awesome-self-hosted/

A Man Shopping - My relationship with shopping from the mallrat days of the 80s through the Amazon age - louplummer.lol/a-man-sho… #Blaugust2024

https://louplummer.lol/a-man-shopping/

From my 100 Strangers project - Elise was selling art, mostly pencil drawings and watercolors, at a street fair in Raleigh. She said businesses had been pretty good, but she was hot and tired and ready to go home.

"“Without labor nothing prospers.” — Sophocles"

No celebrating the grind life, celebrating all the workers who actually make stuff, the under-appreciated bedrock of society.

A Great Search Engine for the Indy Web - Submit Your Site - Searchmysite.net is a niche search engine for the Indy Web that contains ad free user submitted content - linkage.lol/a-great-s… #Blaugust2024

https://linkage.lol/a-great-search-engine/

Tattoos Tell a Story - The story of my three tattoos, all gotten under very different circumstances - louplummer.lol/tattoos-t… #Blaugust2024

https://louplummer.lol/tattoos-tell-a-story/

Time for an update to my /now page with info on a great book by Scottish writer James Rebanks, a TV show about ancient Rome, links to all of this week’s blog posts, an alternative to streaming music and all of the pages I bookmarked this week.

https://amerpie.omg.lol/now

This Week's Bookmarks - Sandwiches, Movies, Alcohol Preferences, Abandoned Buildings, Books, Warhol, Computer OS https://amerpie.lol/2024/08/11/this-weeks-bookmarks.html

From my 100 Strangers Project - Shayonna and her sisters were handing out flyers for a fundraiser to benefit a foundation that helps people in need in their community.

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A group of instructors from the Special Operations language school at Ft. Liberty play cricket at my neighborhood elementary school on weekends. They very graciously let me watch and take photos.

One of my favorite quotes of all time -

"“I will not stay silent so that you can stay comfortable.” - Mary Engelbreit"

The Norman Rockwell Painting That Changed the Internet For Me - The story of a Norman Rockwell painting of a civil rights murder case that went viral after I posted it in 2017. - louplummer.lol/murder-in… #Blaugust2024

https://louplummer.lol/murder-in-mississippi/

From my 100 Strangers project - Harold wasn’t the friendliest guy I ever photographed, but he’d just gotten off work and was on the way to the subway, so I cut him slack. He did affirm that he “works on Wall Street,” something I suppose a lot of bankers aspire to,

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Amateur Guide to Some BearBlog Extra Features - An explanation and code blocks for the customization I’ve done on BearBlog - louplummer.lol/amateur-g… #Blaugust2024

https://louplummer.lol/amateur-guide-to-some-bear-blog-extra-features/

One of my favorite mood lifters is making gratitude lists: home grown tomatoes, the first day it feels like fall, the cool side of the pillow, a good waitress, Bob Dylan, new socks, audiobooks, texts from my kids, days my knees don’t hurt, a good cuppa, a decade and a half of sobriety and you 😉