Kent Island and Other Fun (Weeknotes

• ✈️ For the fourth time this year, I flew to Baltimore to visit with my good friend on Kent Island. This trip was unique though because we walked across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The bridge itself is 4.3 miles long, but the race course was 6.2 miles (10km) total. Marlene and I finished in about an hour and a half. My chip time was 1:31:10.37, placing me 9,042 out of 15,082 overall and 363rd out of 549 old farts aged 50 to 54. So I guess my power walking isn’t all that powerful after all. Might need to step it up for next year.

  • You can check out a few pics here.

• 📷 If you’ve been following me here (and judging by the Tinylytics numbers you haven’t) you know that I’ve been playing around with stereoscopic photography. I loved to use the old View-Master and similar devices when I was a kid. I was very excited to find this site for making your own custom 3D reels. Unfortunately, they don’t actually have a consumer-oriented service for stereoscopic images. All the images are FLAT—i.e. same image on left and right! What good is that?! (Their “corporate” service does handle proper 3D images, but the minimum run is 26 reels.) What am I going to do with 26 identical reels?! There are a few places that’ll make them on Etsy, so I may need to poke around there some more.

  • The upside is that along the way I also stumbled across this list of stereoscopic links, which has some promising content. I’ll need to come back to this.

• 📷 I created an interactive depth of field table, which estimates depth of field based on subject (or scene) size rather than distance. I’m working on a separate blog post around that, which I hope to post soon.

  • Nothing to do with depth of field, but I took these pics of autumn colors using my iPhone and a toy kaleidoscope.

• ⛏ I came across Followgraph for Mastodon, a tool that basically mines the profiles of the people you follow on Mastodon for other accounts that you might want to follow. I tried it and it generates a ton of results so going through and evaluating them takes a lot of time. But it looks like it could be useful.

  • Speaking of mining, I also installed the StreetPass, which looks for verified links to Mastodon profiles on the web sites you visit. I’m curious to see what it finds after several weeks of ordinary browsing activity.

• 📓 I’ve been a happy Day One user for a while now, but it doesn’t satisfy my note-keeping needs. I tried Obsidian because a lot of folks in the Fediverse seem to love it. I, however, did not. I found Bear much more to my liking and more intuitive to use. I’ve been happily migrating content out of Microsoft OneNote and into Bear all week.

• The App Defaults conversation reached a fever pitch this week, as Robb posted an App Defaults mega list that at last count had reached 141 links! I’m happy to say that my own Defaults page is on the list, and I’ve been randomly clicking on some of the other pages to see what else is out there. And wow, there’s some good shit out there! I’m going to need to take some time to visit more of those pages.

• 🎸If you happen to be on Kent Island, stop by the Pour House or one of the other local venues where Joe Bryan plays.

• 🌊 As I continued at a snail’s pace reading The Blue Machine by Helen Czerski (not because it’s boring, but because I am a slow reader) I learned that some of the largest waterfalls on Earth are beneath the ocean’s surface. And not just that. Some of those waterfalls flow UP instead of down. Bonkers.

That’s all for this week. Thanks for tuning in.