Notices by Anita Lewis (ajlewis2@social.vivaldi.net)

@liztai

I don't like to cook either and make those big batches for a week. Lots of veggies, too, but none home grown like you. Onion, celery, carrots, garlic, mushrooms in everything and then whatever else like zucchini, mung sprouts, tomatoes. Lots of cooked chicken and the broth of that. And I eat a salmon concoction made from canned salmon in a pita with raw veggies almost every day for lunch. Sometime just a turkey sandwich or scrambled eggs. That's about it. I especially enjoy a bowl of stew though.

@liztai

I remember you mentioned Boox. I looked at their Go 10.3 which is an ereader with note taking capability. That looks like what I want. It says there is no front light and I don't seem mention of backlight. I don't need it, so it doesn't matter. I'm thrilled to find it with that nice large screen.

@liztai

I've been meaning to tell you that my new book case and rechargeable AA batteries are made in Malaysia. I thought of you when I got them and saw this.

@liztai

This is such a strange thing to me, but it seems like this venting of hatred is in so many cultures at this time. I hope for a shift away from this in my lifetime. I wonder if this has always been with us, but now has a way of being more visible as we are able to communicate more widely. Such a sad use of the gift of communication!

@liztai

It's working fine now that I can see the sidebar with the project, scenes section to add items, compile button etc. I use pandoc within Obsidian to generate the epub.

@liztai

Did you have any trouble using Longform? I did "Create Longform Project" in the directory where the notes I want to use are located. A new folder was created with an index file inside. There is a property "?longform" and nothing else. No project is seen in the longform panel. I have a feeling that property with the question mark means there is a problem.

Does your index file have the same property in it?

@liztai

I hadn't heard of Longform plugin for Obsidian. I use Pandoc in CLI often, but forgot I'd installed the plugin in Obsidian. I just made a hotkey to create epub and I'm all set to use your process! Thanks. Good way to catch up on articles for bedtime reading.

@liztai

I didn't catch on to how easy webclipper is until I tried again just now. I was using MarkDownload, but I see that it may soon no longer be supported. I do like the way I can see what is being captured prior to saving the page. Also noticed that it has a way to highlight and save only a portion.

@liztai

I don't know what Omnivore does, so not sure if this is a replacement.

I use MarkDownload which is an extension on browsers, in my case Vivaldi. I highlight part of a document or take the whole tab into Obsidian with a click. I use it on my computer and don't do any syncing between devices.

I finished reading The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. I saw a review of the book by @82mhz on his blog (https://82mhz.net/posts/2024/09/the-books-i-read-in-august-2024/) and even though I have no interest in SF War stories, this looked enticing. I was in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War period as was Joe Haldeman. His experience was immensely different than mine! I worked at a burn center in a lab so I saw people returning from Vietnam, but that is as close as I got. Haldeman obviously expresses his thoughts on war in this book. He does it through a fantastic story of time and space and very real people. I'm sooo glad I got introduced to this book and read it. Thanks Andreas.

@nlowell, I'm wondering if in the years when you did read Trade published books, did you read this?

@liztai

You have just pushed me closer to enlightenment!! So much in this world that I do not know.

@liztai

Yes, I had this terrible problem when I lived in cities! Walking is such a chore!!!

@ellanew

You mentioned putting your site in Obsidian. I did that and it seemed great, but I had a thought in the early morning and turns out to be a good one. So this is something to consider.

Watch out for local links getting changed in Obsidian.

My problem may be a plugin or two that I have which help with links. Unfortunately something helps a little too much and the links got broken on my last build and sync of the website.

I can either move the Website folder outside of Obsidian or track down the problem. I'll probably do a little of the latter, but move it outside anyway for possible future problems with plugins.

@nlowell

I think of @liztai and her balcony garden. That inspires me. When I first moved to Florida I planted a very small garden with tomatoes, cucumber, squash... A couple plants of each. The only thing I really grew well was kale. Too much work for not much. I sure didn't have any great feelings of "close to the land." Main feeling was "incompetent."

@liztai

Bookmarked this to follow the story! I read something about this recently and had no concept of what it looked like. Wow!!

@liztai

Wild!! I've never experienced anything like that. I'll try to remember your story and keep my wits if I ever do meet up with a ghost--and know it. Possible that I have and just wasn't aware. That doesn't bother me. I'm just not good with shocks!

@liztai

Okay, so after doing this I'll be 110 and can relax in complete organized comfort. 😃

@liztai

I agree on this! I have plenty, but there was a "Buy One, Get One Free" sale...

Made a new page called "Now" on my website. https://anitalewis.org/now/

This blog post nails the feeling I've had as I encountered some social media posts. It's especially glaring when it comes as a response to a rather normal sounding post. I bet this person's explanation of why this happens so often is correct and it is remarkable to me how the flame gets fanned on and on. It keeps the money flowing to the owners of the sites.

"There is a specific flavor of overly cool, casually careless, sarcastic, flippant, at times vitriolic undertone to everything that is hard to describe and pinpoint, mixed in with the latest meme speak (L, ratio, touch grass, etc.). Language formed throughout the years to attain maximum engagement within the culture of Twitter or Tumblr. The way they behave feels like it is part of a huge collective hivemind and makes them feel inauthentic and replaceable. If they didn't have different usernames and bios attached, I would not be able to tell them apart."

Interesting thinking on this blog: https://blog.avas.space/online-interactions/