Discovered cool photo features of my new iPhone 8 Plus: profile mode with lighting options. Used it on a turtle shell my son and his friend found this afternoon in the woods out back.
Posted this earlier to my linklog: great visualization of the UNC-Duke men’s basketball rivalry over time.
And here’s a can commemorating one of UNC’s national championships, washed from beneath the toolshed in the recent heavy rains here in Chapel Hill.
Today I gladly told my colleagues at the Duke Audio Working Group about Micro.blog and how much fun I’m having using the microcast feature. The Duke River of News has a podcast tab, good place to listen to what my colleagues are producing.
The Voices of Duke Health listening booth will be in full swing next week! And podcast to follow, but we already have clips and teaser audio, and theme music, at listeningbooth.info
Sounds of the South Pacific
We’ve been back from our epic South Pacific trip for nearly two months, and only now am I getting a chance to log the various sound recordings I made during our week in Vanuatu. I hope to stitch together the best of the sounds and interviews into an audio postcard. Here, though, is one full clip of my interview with my son, Oliver, on the morning we first woke up at Erakor Island Resort in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu.
That’s Oliver in the green swim shirt in the photo above.
I also interviewed my son, Oliver, about starting third grade tomorrow. He commandeered the microphone and talked and talked, about kittens and airplanes and more. Will take some time to edit and trim to post to the microcast.
I have used Captio for many years, but I have seen too many Drafts fans to ignore so just installed the app and paid for a year’s subscription.
I have used Captio for many years, but I have seen too many Drafts fans to ignore so just installed the app and paid for a year’s subscription.
After many hours on chat, phone, and in the Sprint store, I have upgraded my phone and my daughter’s phone. I’m now on an iPhone 8 plus, and looking forward to better photos and improved web browsing.
Caps
After these hard rains, mushrooms are popping up all around our house and in the woods.
Yesterday’s stroll in the woods listening to an owl was a joy to owning land. Today’s emergency installation of a new well pump one of the expensive downsides to owning an old house not (yet) on city water.
Just confirming that is is quite easy to record and publish a microcast on Micro.blog. I just used my iPhone, the Ferrite app, and the Wavelength app on a walk through the woods on my property as I stalked a squawking owl.
Stalking a squawking owl
Have been wanting to record a microcast, so first I listened to a few from others in the Micro.blog community. Then while I was outside dumping the day’s scraps into the compost bin, I heard an interesting sound. (Here is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology page with the sounds of the great horned owl.)
Live music. Local beer. Warm doughnut with chocolate glaze. A tree for Oliver to climb, without shoes (just like Paama). Rain clouds cleared today and so we are on the Saxapahaw hillside for a perfect evening.
Two kittens have arrived at our home.
In the backyard we have a pear tree. It started the summer with many pears. The squirrels visit the tree, calmly sitting up high, peeling and eating the pears. The deer gather under the tree to eat the peels.
Needed to make space in the freezer so I took out the frozen sour cherries picked in Virginia in June 2016, pitted them and prepared a sour cherry shrub for cocktails next weekend and a simple cherry jam for this week’s yogurt breakfast and ice cream desserts.
Another big rain, another creature crawling across the yard. This an Eastern box turtle.
In the middle of (the stormy) night, a crash from the kitchen jolted me and Erin awake. I immediately thought that copperhead had gotten inside, but it was our daughter, who accidentally brushed a glass off the counter.
Thunderstorm just rolled over, dumping a lot of rain, so much the gutters couldn’t keep up. I shined the flashlight out the back porch to watch and noticed a copperhead snake slithering along (right where I was trimming bushes yesterday).