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Which TV shows should I show my toddler? | Daniel Thomason
Daniel's opinionated list of children's shows: what I'm going to let my daughter watch, and why. Possibly helpful for other parents!
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The Grasshopper and the Widget | Daniel Thomason
A short economic fable, in the style of Aesop, about a grasshopper who discovers that the value of his work depends on countless hands he never sees.
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The moral of "Whiplash" | Daniel Thomason
I just watched Whiplash last night (writing this in October 2026). I enjoyed it. The moral is one I've pondered a few times: we collectively celebrate greatness, but prefer to avert our eyes from the process of becoming great.
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Your Customers Never Wanted a Relationship With You | Daniel Thomason
People don't want relationships with brands; they want relationships with people. As AI agents take over our dealings with businesses, the fight to own the customer relationship gives way to a new goal: retaining the agent.
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I Am an Amateur Photographer
Louise in the "kitchen" of our first camper. I am an amateur photographer. The word "amateur" is derived from the Latin "amare" which means "to love." Since buying a cheap Instamatic camera in 1968 to make pictures of my newborn son, I have carried a camera with me most of the time and pointed it at what ever caught my interest. Including, of course, many pictures of my family. And although my career as a professional photographer spanned more than 50 years, I have always been an amateur. Photographing for the love of it. I did my last paid gig in 2023 --- just three years ago yesterday. And a
A Life in Photography · EN
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Things I've Learned in a Life in Photography
Old Ford pickup in auto graveyard, U.S. 27, Troup County, Georgia. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 One: The Thing Is the Thing The one essential thing without which no photograph can exist is the thing itself -- the subject. As the late, great Bill Jay wrote: This immediate emotional or intellectual response to the subject matter is at the core of photography. Its periphery is the photographer's manipulation of framing, focus, exposure, lighting, and all the other variables, in order that a bland record is invested with depth through the production of an intriguing image.
A Life in Photography · EN
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Bruges: The City of Canals
Birds on the canal, Bruges, Belgium. Blog Note: This post was originally written in 2022, but for some reason not posted at that time. I discovered it a few days ago while looking through my blog archives. 1990 was our big year for touring Europe. In February and March, Louise and I visited nine countries, mostly in Eastern Europe, just as they were emerging from 70 years of Communist domination, and in November we visited England, Belgium, France, Spain, and Morocco. All these travels were commissioned by the Church of God for the purpose of making still photographs and video and gathering in
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I'm Getting Overhauled!
Abandoned Corvair, Sunbury, Georgia. I've been blessed with pretty robust health for most of my life. In fact, I was doing okay at age 87 until I had a bad fall while going down into a canyon to photograph Potter's Falls near Wartburg, Tennessee. (You can read about it here .) That cost me some walking mobility, and things have been moving slowly downhill since then. I haven't been writing much lately because, frankly, I haven't been feeling great. I've been lethargic and unmotivated. I think what I need is an overhaul! A round the end of World War II, while I was still a child, my father owne
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My Overhaul Got Derailed!
RCB-TN-57-B, West of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Warning to first-time visitors : If you haven't visited my blog before, I suggest you read some of my older posts first to get a true sense of what the blog is about. Because today's post is a downer. Here's a good place to start . If you're still with me, and you don't have delicate sensibilities, let me bring you up to date. My last post was on August 10. On August 12, I lost my balance in our bedroom, my foot got caught in the carpet, and I fell heavily. A trip to the emergency room confirmed the bad news — I had a compression fracture of a vert
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I Am Obsolete!
Obsolete and abandoned, but still beautiful. 1937 Hudson Terraplane. A few months ago I logged onto the web site of one of my credit card companies, only to be informed that I could not access the site because my computer's operating system was out of date. A little background: In 1993 or '94, around the time we built our house, we got our first computers -- a desktop, and a neat little Toshiba laptop that I really liked and used to write the text of t he the Rock City Barns book. It was eventually stolen. Over the years we went through machines from several different manufacturers and used su
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Greetings—And An Update!—from Dave's Granddaughter
Hello, dear readers, my name is Jennifer. I'm one of Dave Jenkins' two best granddaughters, as he often tells me. I happen to be the red-haired one with five children who farms the lands he used to own in McLemore Cove, which he's shared quite a bit about here. His other granddaughter is a trained ballerina and soon-to-be medical school student! My grandpa loves this blog and you, his readers and friends, so he asked me to share an update. I’ve actually been working with my grandpa for a while on his blog and print shop, so it was an honor to be asked to author a post, too. If only it were und
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Memorial Services for Dave Jenkins: Honoring His Life & Legacy
Friends, there are no words that seem right. I wish I didn’t have to write this blog post. I wish I could call my grandpa on the phone again and hear his voice and teasing. I wish I could give him one more hug. Unfortunately, his medical complications continued to compound over the last few weeks and he was not able to recover as we hoped. A few days ago, when he sensed he was nearing the end of his life, he asked that I share the news on his blog when the time came, and so I am. He passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 24th, 2026, surrounded by loved ones. I was not able to be there, sa
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Mixed nuts #17
A new name for Eleventy, trying CachyOS, some new powers for Hugo, and other folderol from my noggin.
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Hugo’s new CSS powers
A recent update can make it easier than ever to style your site, depending on how you want to do that styling.
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Mixed nuts #18
AVIF support in Hugo, hashes in action(s), floaters, and clankers.
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MarkEdit: a TextEdit that knows Markdown
Apple may never give us this answer to a long-standing itch; but, fortunately, someone else did.
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What the Floccus?!? — or, another look at cross-browser bookmarks sync
My new choice turns out to be not new at all.
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No longer a good sport
I still love watching sports in the abstract, but that’s where it stops.
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The parting glass
Last night I visited Meaford with my mom and her partners to hear The Irish Descendants, an iconic Newfoundland band. They are touring a new album of Stan Rogers covers, and between those pieces and the Irish Descendants’ own repertoire, I think I sang along with just about every tune they played. Afterwards we headed across the street to The Dam Pub. This whisky bar is one of my favourite pubs in the world. It has over 1000 whiskies in the collection, a supremely knowledgeable staff and a great kitchen. It has been a longstanding tradition whenever I visit this ...
Chris Corrigan · EN
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How rivers of conflict flow
I don't love using Jeff Bezos as an example of anything virtuous, and the anecdote in this post may just be apocrophal, so let's treat it like that, but this is a useful quote: A group that gathers but doesn’t know how to fight without ‘un-gathering’ won’t remain a group for long. A group that can’t disagree and commit will disagree and dissolve. The point here is that "conflict preservation" is much more useful to a group than "conflict resolution" for most things. When clients ask me to help people come to "alignment" on things like the organization's vision or ...
Chris Corrigan · EN
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The new stuff we are doing in the Art of Hosting
Lots of new stuff is bubbling up into the Art of Hosting we teach, including different ways of teaching. Read on to find out more.
Chris Corrigan · EN
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Dialogic containers and the danger of metaphors
I'm writing about dialogic containers these days. They are tricky to describe, and in the same way that Mike asserts a sophisticated understanding of systems, it's important to find helpful metaphor for a dialogic container. As facilitators we are used to using the world "container" to describe something that we can sense, feel or even physically see. The term does not convey the nature of an actual thing, but if you ask people what they mean by container you find yourself in a metaphorical world. And also, it feels like a finger pointing at the moon. Dialogic containers are important to dialo
Chris Corrigan · EN