Taken on our way to Anaheim for the Podcast Movement
Machu Picchu and Galápagos: My Best Shots
I am very proud of myself. My habit, after a vacation, is to put away the pictures (well, stuff them in a folder on a big hard drive, anyway) and never look at them again. The thought of going through thousands of pictures to find the gems is just too daunting. This time I did …
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A visit to Las Islas Encantadas with Leo and Lisa (and Michael and Mario)
We're back from the trip of a lifetime. Wow. In many ways both places were spiritual sites. We came back invigorated. Check out Lisa's amazing images at her blog, Life of Lisa. And here's a little slide show I put together using Microsoft's Sway. For best results go full screen. A slideshow from our trip.
Buckeye
Edited in the new free Topaz Studio with the HDR preset.
Treed
We're practicing for our vacation. Lisa by climbing trees. I'm practicing taking pictures of her climbing trees. At the advice of Thomas Hawk I'm thinking of biting the bullet and bringing the big and heavy Canon 5D Mark IV and an assortment of lenses (70-200, 16-35, and a fast 50). That's about 15 pounds of gear. …
Galloping Galápagos!
So this is why I am so adamant about hosting your own content. I was hoping to use Storyhouse to host pictures from my upcoming trip to South America. I'd used them to create a couple of slideshows before and I liked the mobile app and the features. But they were bought by Square last year and …
Why I Fast
I’m not a doctor, and you shouldn’t consider me an authority on any health issue, but this is what I’m reading now... It’s a new book from Canadian nephrologist (kidney doctor) Jason Fung, M.D. Much of what is in this book is also available on his YouTube channel. Everything in here makes total sense to …
You Can Go Home Again
I'm back home. For years I ran this site as a self-hosted WordPress blog. Nearly a decade, in fact. I set up Leoville in September, 2007 as a refugee from Vox (remember that?) That was the blogging platform that convinced me to own my own content. Many of the missing pictures and links on this site were …
My 2016 Audible Reads
I posted the entire list of audiobooks I've bought from our sponsor, Audible.com, in November 2015. But here we are more than a year later, and I've listened to quite a few more books. Here's an update in reverse chronological order... A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present Howard Zinn …
It Was 40 Years Ago Today…
On this day 40 years ago I took the train into New York City and sat for the exam for my third class ticket, the then required license for working in radio. The original certificate is long gone -- probably lost in the archives at my first station, WYBC New Haven -- but this is …
Tour the Brick House Studios
The old TWiT Brick House studios may be vacant now, but they live on in this 3D walkthrough, thanks to Tertius Carstens of Carstens360 Business Photos and Google Maps.Click the ^ to enter!
A Grand Experiment
The latest debacle over the "forced" upgrade to Windows 10 and Apple's increasingly locked-in ecosystem has got me thinking. Do I really need to use a proprietary operating system to get work done? And while I'm at it, do I need to use commercial cloud services to store my data?I've always used Linux since the …