Month: November 2023
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Reading Notes for 2023-11-29
From: MacStories Weekly: Issue 395 – Club MacStories MusicHarbor John: In a small but handy update, Marcos Tanaka has added the ability to create an Apple Music or Spotify playlist off all new music releases you track in the app for any given month. With a little tweaking of the long list of artists I…
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Reading Notes for 2023-11-27
Small Choices, Big (Brain) Impact. – Charlotte Grysolle 📧 But what if you *knew* that with every single choice, however small, you’re tapping into that aMCC? Slowly but surely, you’re creating physical changes in your brain that will help you stick to your long-term goals and promises. Treat every choice as an opportunity to strengthen…
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Original Music Links
Experimenting with Linode, S3 storage and Nextcloud to see if I can find an easy way to link to music I want to share. While bluegrass, country and Dead are my primary musical outlets, I like to switch gears (ha, that’s funny in a way that will be clear in a minute) and play with…
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Researching ABLE accounts with ChatGPT4
Spent my lunch hour researching ABLE accounts with ChatGPT4. Overall positive experience (I sanity-checked the results). Some interesting findings: The average annual maintenance fee for ABLE accounts, considering a range of states, is approximately $42.67. This is based on the fees of several states, which generally range from $35 to $60. NJ’s program offers ZERO…
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Troubleshooting Linking iPad to Mac
I’m regularly struggling to get my iPad recognized by my Mac for Handoff and Keyboard/Mouse sharing. I like to be able to use a single keyboard and mouse to dive my computer and my iPad, located next to my Mac monitor. Even after making sure that they’re on the same network and signed in with…
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Nashville Notes
In addition to catching Lucas Nelson + POTR at the Ryman, we saw a bunch of other great music, here’s a run down. This doesn’t include any details about the killer guitar shops we checked out, I’ll try to write some of those notes up. My nephew and I landed in Nashville, dropped our bags…
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Lucas Nelson + POTR @ Ryman
First off, the Ryman. Whoa. What a venue. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a comparable space for hearing live music. Not just how my history is there but the sound quality was astounding. We lucked into Nelson playing at the Ryman while we were in town. He had an opener, Meg McCree. She…
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Music Update for October 2023
Here are some of the Albums I’m currently checking out. Most of the New Releases have been added to my “New Releases to Check Out” playlist through the Music Harbor application as noted in my On Listening post. Blues From the Rainforest by Merl Saunders – found this CD when going through an old stack, so…
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On Listening
Let’s start by agreeing that there is so much great music out there—old and new—that it’s not possible to listen to all of it. Today, discovering new music now can feel like drinking from an algorithm-fueled firehose, but I can remember before the internet came around where all we had were music magazines, really good…