Author: sjwillis
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Almost Spring
Out for a late afternoon walk in my local woods. The silence in this particular spot was incredible, in part because I’m in NJ and it’s almost never quiet, anywhere here. Took this with my iPhone. I had my Fuji w/ me in my backpack but was too lazy to take it out. Wish I…
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What is necessary
Several months back I read Tim Egan’s Pilgrimage to Eternity. I am a sucker for books about long walks. Egan’s was really good. He references a great St. Francis of Assisi quote: Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. I’ve had that quote in my mind so many times…
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February, 2022 Top Tracks
Month 2 of my algorithm-free music discovery. I think my Top 5 songs definitely reflect that. You can listen to this playlist on Apple Music or Last.FM The Alison is a real gem that I found digging through Bandcamp. I’m withholding judgment a bit on Epic’s takeover of Bandcamp. I hope it doesn’t destroy the product/community…
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OneDrive and SharePoint Finder Issues after update
Sort of relieved to see that I’m not the only one who had some significant fallout with the latest round of OneDrive and MacOS updates. It looks like it mostly had to do with a new File on Demand issue in MS’s OneDrive client update. The problem, for me at least, is that the update…
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January, 2022 Top Tracks Playlist
As promised, I’m trying to get better with tracking my listening and less-algorithmic with my music discovery process. Here’s what I listened to a lot of in January. Maybe next month I’ll figure out some fancy way to make this list streamable? We’ll see. Here’s the playlist on Apple Music. Wet Dream – Wet Leg…
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Memory, time and quarantine.
“I may not be as strong as I think,” the old man said. “But I know many tricks and I have resolution.” – The Old Man and the Sea, E. Hemingway. At baseline, my memory is only so-so. For example, I can remember chord progressions to songs and lyrics only with a lot of…
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SuperDuper! & OneDrive errors
Appears that with Monterey 12.2 or some other recent upgrade, something changed with OneDrive’s local file storage. I had been excluding Users/$username/OneDrive from my backups but now need to include: Users/$username/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-SharedLibraries-$name of share OneDrive’s links seem to cause SuperDuper! to fail, so this path needs to be updated in any Exclude scripts on your backup. If…
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Day One and iOS/Mac Shortcuts Parity
One of the most popular Shortcuts I’ve written is my “Logging to Day One” shortcut that allows you to keep a timestamped list of items to a single day’s journal entry throughout the day. I wrote a post about it two years ago, you can read more about it here. I updated the post today…
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Diet & Sleep
A new study/meta analysis: Diet Composition and Objectively Assessed Sleep Quality: A Narrative Review …diets higher in complex carbohydrates (e.g., fiber) and healthier fats (e.g., unsaturated) being associated with better sleep quality. Diets higher in protein were associated with better sleep quality. In general, diets rich in fiber, fruits, vegetables, and anti-inflammatory nutrients and lower…
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After Life Season 3
Finished watching Season 3 of After Life with Ricky Gervais last night. Felt like he had to do season 3 to wrap up the series and some of it felt forced and there were more than a few scenes of dog-walking that just felt like filler material so that they could stretch season 3 out…