Run
Really tough this evening. The heat and humidity were just a little too much. Slow pace but further distance than I thought I would do. #RunTLH
Baseball
Congratulations MLB and the City of Atlanta for a wonderful All-Star Game. It was great seeing the incredible athletes showing their skills and the sincerity they have with each other playing a game.
I also like the compromise for the Swing Off.
What a Deal…
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day to those that celebrate. Still 10 more years left on that contract. Amazing.
The “Final” mission was absolutely an amazing thrill ride with a bunch of wonderful little Easter eggs. #FindAWay Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
They Fixed It!
HaHaHa…. I wrote earlier this month about Apple swapping the colors on the Finder icon in the beta for the next macOS. See here Robinette - Finder for reference.
In the most recent beta version for macOS, they switched it back. MacRumors - Finder
The Fediverse
I have gotten asked what exactly Mastodon is and I always give the very simple answer of “it’s like the old Twitter but not owned by any one company”. For most the answer is fine and the questioner goes on about their day. A few ask for more details and that is where I run into trouble, trying to explain the Fediverse in more detail can be hard for someone who has only ever use social media from the big tech companies like Meta. Recently, someone I follow on Mastodon, Elena Rossini made a video that perfectly sums up exactly what the Fediverse is and why someone should consider using it instead of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, etc. Take a look and see if it might be right for you, like it is for me.
Adobe and their latest trickery.
So, like many large tech companies, Adobe has been adding on various artificial intelligence features across most of their applications. Many of them are quite useful, such as the photo cleanup tools added to Photoshop, as well as the auto generation background for InDesign. I don’t begrudge any company for wanting to continue to make profits from the software services they provide. However, Adobe is doing something that is down right scummy. If you subscribe to their Creative Cloud plan choice, you will be automatically enrolled into their higher priced Creative Cloud Pro plan, this new plan is $120 more a year when billed yearly. Again, I have no problem with the addition of a “Pro” tier plan option, if you have a use and find value in the options available there, then that is the plan for you. My problem is Adobe not notifying the plan switch in any way or at least I can not find any notification with my account. There will be 1,000’s (100’s of thousands?) of accounts that get upgraded and those users may not even know. Users have the option to resume their non “Pro” plan but you have to log in to your account page at adobe.com and manually switch to the now Creative Cloud Standard plan.
I am a Graphics Manager for a small printing company and have use Adobe applications going on 35 years, hell I was even a beta tester for InDesign. My biggest complaint with Adobe is their lack of an à la carte choice for those users who don’t need all 20+ applications that are part of the Creative Cloud plans. I really only ever use the four Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop in our production workflows and have absolutely no need for the Audio and Video applications, as nice as they may be. Now they have given me a new complaint and this is pretty scummy on their part.
Adobe is switching some Creative Cloud users to a pricier AI plan article at The Verge has more details.
Finder
Watched the Apple Keynote for this years WWDC and something struck me as odd looking at the screens of the new macOS… the Finder icon seemed off. Yep turns out they reversed the colors on the icon and my brain just keeps saying nope. This is a beta and I hope they uh, reverse course and switch it back to the correct way.
Also the text in the About windows needs to be centered not left justified.
Norm!
Of all the characters on Cheers, Norm was by far my favorite and George Wendt’s portrayal was comedy gold. Incredible talent and loved by his peers, sad to read of his passing.
Visiting Tallahassee
Other than a few mispronunciations (forgiven) and calling the Gulf of Mexico an ocean. ;-)
Tony of Build the Dream Now does a really great job of telling you about my hometown of Tallahassee.
Run - May 12, 2025
I am going to start posting my general running activity. Today was just an after work easy run…
3.77 Miles in 41 Minutes for a 11:02 Pace
I have too may interests.
Over my lifetime I have tried a lot of different things from various sports to games, to hobbies, to activities and for the most part I have enjoyed most of them. To the point, that it occured to me that many of these things (except for maybe a couple) I rarely do anymore or even at all. When this thought came to me, the second thought was, it this normal? I think it probably is. I guess if you grow up with enough time and resources, (and I am grateful that is the case for me) you will probably try a lot of things at least once.
Sports Growing up, I hadn’t played many team sports, mostly because I wasn’t skilled enough to make the team or it wasn’t really an interest to me but soccer was something I could do and enjoyed. Starting in middle school I played on some Parks and Rec teams and then continued playing for my high school. Playing ended after graduating and moving on to college. Later, many many years later, I began playing again in an adult recreational league. I still play in this league today and this year will be 16 years. I also occasionally play in a Parks and Rec softball league but that has been sporadic. I am a long distance runner but this has been a new activity for me and I was never on any school or organized cross country teams. I will also play golf, both club and disk versions, was a member of a few bowling leagues, will play pickup baseball, basketball, or even touch football. Sometime, I would even like to try hockey and also ultimate frisbee.
Hobbies While sporting activities are things that keep me physically fit, there are also a great may things that will exercise my brain. Being a card carrying Registered Geek® I love playing games and will pretty much sit down and play at least once, anything that you put in front of me. It could be board games, card games, role-playing, strategy, video, I have favorites in all the categories. I can remember my parents teaching me games like Yatzee, Sorry, checkers and chess. I still enjoy the classics like Clue, Risk, Uno, and of course Monopoly. I have owned in my lifetime an Atari, Super Nintendo, Playstation 1, Original XBox, XBox One, and a Nintendo Switch and while I don’t consider myself an avid video gamer, I do really enjoy sitting down and being a hero for a while, even more so if the game has a great story. I have played many role-playing games, some you may have never heard of like Traveler or Gamma World and of course the big one, Dungeons & Dragons. I have such fond memories of playing D&D with my friends going all the way back to the orignal red box set that I got for my Birthday. I remember reassuring my Mom that the game was not devil worshipping and to think of it more like King Arthur, Lancelot and their adventures vanquishing monsters. I don’t have the time like those days but still manage to play with friends and family on the regular.
We should all take the time to play more games… speaking of which… I think it’s time for a little Baldur’s Gate.
Jordan Travis Deserved Better
Football is a brutal sport and there are countless stories of career ending injuries to players. The injury to Jordan Travis was unfortunate and unlucky. Everything I ever read or heard about him was positive. He was never selfish, always seem to do the right thing, and by all accounts his teammates loved him. This Seminole fan will have fond memories or his incredible play at Florida State and I wish him all the best.
Developerese
This is a hilarious take on the language developers use in trying to explain their process.
Writers Block
Sometimes I write a blog post and then I save the draft because I don’t believe it’s good enough to post. I need to quit that.
I will write something soon.
Oh man….rest in peace, Val.