I figured someone would have at least made a good Linux app or two. But I'm not complaining at this point. I just hope nostr itself catches on.
I've never said that sentence before.
I've wanted the same thing. Coracle is what I use on the desktop, but I very much wish it had that feature.
Start Making Physical Photo Albums: Digital Memories Are Too Easily Lost
https://void.cat/d/Ae5cZmZTQEEysiDoCaLqYC.webp
The linked article really focusses on physically printing photos and sticking them in an album. But I've actually found printed Photo Books to work very well. They do achieve the same purpose of sitting around a table and being able to enjoy looking at the memories together, and they both last 100+ years. I've been able to add the text captions, stickers, etc quite well to Photo Books, and they look great with their hard covers which also include selected photos.
Digital photos are very easy to share, and to forget, as the constant stream on Instagram or Facebook moves relentlessly onwards. People die, and hard drives crash: It's easier than you think to lose thousands of photos in a flash. We're not even sure if the JPG format will be readable in 100 or 200 years time.
A photo book is a great birthday or anniversary gift, as memories are probably more precious than a pair of socks or another T-shirt. By doing a book, you are also forced to select the very best memories to be printed.
And it's not just about family or friends, organisations should also be producing similar printed Photo Books. When I left my company I was working for, I had 10+ years of photos and videos. Hopefully, many of those are still on one of the servers, but a collection of printed Photo Books by the year, would have been really worth something to have on a bookshelf or even in the reception area.
I've been slack myself, but I'm going to now commit to doing at least just one such Photo Book annually from now on.
See https://www.wired.com/story/photo-album-rave/
#technology #photos #memories
Great post, Danie.
I'm often at a loss for coming up with gift ideas -- this might be perfect one for my wife.
I'll need to log in to Facebook so I can know what my opinion is supposed to be.
When Twitter/X promotes brain-numbing, IQ-plummeting posts like this, you know it's time to get it out of your life.
Last weekend my wife and I were able to take our last kayak trip of the season. We purchased our kayaks very late in the season, so this was probably only our fourth trip.
It's very peaceful, and we don't have to worry about gasoline costs or mechanical issues. We can just plop into the water wherever we want, and paddle around to our hearts' content.
I've gotten to see beavers up close, plenty of flopping fish, herons and geese and ducks, other people's lakeside back yards, and other pleasant scenery.
We usually bring a sandwich bag of summer sausage and cheese when we want a snack, and we beach our kayaks onto a shore somewhere to pray our daily rosary. We got plenty of sun this summer.
Next spring I want to start catching some fish.
So long, lake life!
Wasn't Batman in 1989? 😁
With a little polish, nostr seems (I think) to be the best way forward.
Tonight the wife and I are watching one of the volleyball teams we follow.
Because of our brief exchange about memorization yesterday, right now while working I am memorizing all our players in alphabetical order along with their jersey numbers and heights.
Using the mind palace is fun and easy and makes a person look smart. 😄
I do the same. Who really wants an email for every Substack update?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YkNEIiy2W8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQYezs9DlLEDefinitely
Brian Regan or his brother Dennis Regan!
You're welcome. My pleasure.
It puts me in the mood to memorize ALL my secret phrases for fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vlpQHJ09do
Oh you will love this. You are welcome.
You can start out with this video and you can branch out from there (it's also called the method of loci).
It is made for things like memorizing seed phrases!
Again, you're very welcome.
Sweet.
By what method are you doing this? Rote? Memory palace? Something else?
I don't belittle homemaking, but I do belittle the idea of men choosing to be homemakers while their wives go out into the workforce (working for and with other men). It's the reversal of roles I take issue with, not the roles themselves.
I believe we should all have a full life, but that involves committing to fulfilling our state in life the best we can -- not just doing anything we feel like.
Children deserve to be raised by their parents, no matter how "shackled" the parents may feel by that at any given moment.
When husband and wife don't fulfill their roles, chaos and contention are ready to pounce. Spouses' equally important roles may have some overlap, but they are not interchangeable.
Children need dads who are dads and moms who are moms, according to God's design.
I came across this page last night in a late 16th-century Catholic catechism written by St. Robert Bellarmine, doctor of the Church.
I wonder what he -- and every other Catholic saint, ever -- would think about Pope Francis' view that priests may decide to bless same-sex couples.
Evil may not be blessed. Pope Francis must be resisted by Catholic believers.
So true. With it, you get the all the content you want, when you want, without all the clutter.