Lost In Haste
Lost In Haste
Full Stack Developer and Digital Packrat

Post: Micro

  • On a lark, I fired up the VPN connection on my iPad to dump my internet traffic out to Berlin, just to see which podcasts would give me advertisements in German. 😆🎙️🇩🇪

  • It’s only taken nineteen years but I’m finally watching the series finale of Frasier tonight. 🤣📺

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 15: Red

    Rectangular shot-glass made out of ice, with red liquid inside, in front of a teddybear-like ice sculpture on a bar made of ice, sitting next to another ice sculpture (a random carving) and the '2' and '0' also made out of ice.

    Taken back in 2020, we got in / out of Québec right before the Pandemic lock-downs in March of that year. Whilst visiting the Great White North, we stopped for a drink in the Ice Hotel and had some Caribou. 😋🥶🇨🇦🇫🇷 #mbsept

  • Discovered book 8 in “The Magician’s Brother” series came out this month and as it’s been a while since I read any of them, I think a re-read of the series is in order. So, firing up my favorite eReading software (Yomu) and starting on book one, conveniently named: The Magician’s Brother. 📚

    Book cover for the Magician's Brother.

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 14: Statue

    Stone statue in a tai chi pose, with public bikes in the background on the left and cars parked along a street going up a hill in the background on the right.

    While wandering around Montréal back in 2014, my partner and I stumbled upon the Tai Chi Single Whip statue in Victoria Square. 🗿🇨🇦🇫🇷 #mbsept

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 13: Glowing

    Sunset on one of the Great Lakes (the sun covered by clouds, casting a yellow-orange glow across the sky), with a sailboat in the distance and a fishing boat in the forground.

    Nothing like a glowing sunset on one of the Great Lakes. 🌤️🛥️ Took this on my summer vacation. #mbsept

  • On a lark yesterday (it was a very long day at work), I decided “oh, what the heck, install the betas”…and honestly, I’m rather surprised. Both my phone and tablet are running faster and smoother. (Side Note: having iOS tag your pets into a collection is amazing. 🐶🐱) #iOS #beta

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 12: Panic

    Plastic dongle on a table, with three buttons on it; 'off' in grey, 'away' in blue, and 'panic' in red.

    Per the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” one should never panic, hence the security system. 🚨 #mbsept

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 11: Retrospect

    Series of locks on a rail, on a bridge, with a slight view of the river below, in Paris.

    It’s been a little more than ten years since I was in Paris and I have to wonder what became of the couples who symbolized their relationships with these locks. 🤔🇫🇷🔐 #mbsept

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 10: Cycle

    Two bibles in the snow, one showing the handle-bars and the seat, while the other, only one of the handle-bars is poking out of the snow. The sidewalk is visible in the lower-right of the photo and cars are in the upper-left, along with a sign in French.

    Winter in Québec has a tendency to cover everything and clearly, some people should have brought their bikes inside. 😆❄️🇨🇦🚲 #mbsept

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 9: Language

    View of a split-flap display board (looking up from below) with times, places, and destinations in French, along with a clock on the left side of the board.

    Given this photo was taken around ten years ago, I’m not sure why I took it but this was the view of an arrival/departure board at a train station in Paris. 🚄🇫🇷 Now if only I’d learned French… 😢 #mbsept

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 8: Yonder

    View of a desert, with distant hills in the background, rocks and short brush in the foreground, and a sliver of a small creek in the middle.

    Another one from photo library, this view into the yonder was taken near the Four Corners monument in the South West of the States in 2019. 🌵⛰️ #mbsept

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 7: Panorama

    Panoramic view of a water fall on the right, with a bridge going over the falls, wooden steps in the lower-right of the photo, leading down to a covered octagon pavilion on a hill-side, and a large body of water in the center of the photo, flowing out to a river in the distance, in the upper-left of the photo, where several bridges can be seen.

    A panorama view of Montmorency Falls, just outside of Ville de Québec (Quebec City) in Canada, as it tumbles down into the basin and flows into the Fleuve Saint-Laurent (St. Lawrence River), on a sunny day in August. #mbsept

  • 📸 September 2023 Micro.Blog photo challenge. Day 6: Well

    Big bucket of red liquid in the foreground, with a person directly behind it (their face has been replaced with a smile emoticon) in a white shirt, with another person in the background; a white Christmas tree, with lights, is in the background behind the second person.

    Closest thing I could find in my photo library, this is a “well” of alcohol at a Holiday party back at University. 🎄🍾🥳 #mbsept

  • As much as I enjoy the stability and reliability of Apple products (my M2 MacBook Air is the best computer I’ve ever used), I’m done with AirPlay / HomePods. Multi-room audio will just randomly stop working, which defeats the purpose; I never should have invested in the HomePod ecosystem. 😭