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Lots of Birds

2020-12-13 Jeff

This weekend we got out for another wander around Frog Lake (or is it pond). Our friend the wood duck was there, along with a murder of crows. I started thinking about getting a new mirrorless body this summer, and I think I have made my pick, a Canon EOS R6. It is a huge […]

General Thoughts birds, canon 60D, crows, ducks, photography, photos

Another Weekend in the woods

2020-12-01 Jeff

This weekend we went out for another walk around Sir Standford Flemming park, and this time I took my camera. Last weekend we saw a huge woodpecker and a wood duck, but since I only had my phone we only got a decent picture of the duck. I try to get into a wooded area […]

General Thoughts forest bathing, squirrel, walking, wood duck

A weekend in November

2020-11-23 Jeff

It was a pretty good weekend as 2020 goes. There was some sun and while there are rising numbers of #sars-cov-2 all around us, and we are looking at being locked down like we were in April for at least the next 6 weeks, we are doing pretty ok. We got out of the house […]

General Thoughts baking, covid-19, sars-cov-2, weekend

Summer is coming in fast

2020-06-14 Jeff

The trees are full and the rhododendrons are in bloom, summer is here.

General Thoughts, microblogging flowers, rhododendrons, yard

Testing if Steempress is working

2020-03-30 Jeff

just ignore this if you are reading it on the blog. If you are reading it on www.steempeak.com/@jeffmackinnon it went there. If you are reading this on peakd.com/@jeffmackinnon that is where I expect you to read it.

General Thoughts steempress, testing

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Today is a big day

2021-01-20

Not just for the USA, but for the world. Having a sane executive in the whitehouse is important for a predictable world.

Picture of  the town clock in Halifax, NS
Sometimes we just need a pretty picture

The start of baking day

2020-12-26

Visiting mummies

2020-12-23

We visited the NS Natural History museum yesterday especially for the mummies.

They were a hit.

Weekend oatcakes

2020-12-20

I really love warm oatcakes with old cheddar cheese. The perfect afternoon snack.

I don’t want to go back

2020-12-09

Between the time of me pouring the last pound of beans into the coffee grinder and boiling the kettle, I ordered another batch of coffee on my phone.

The Colombia is the go to, the Holiday Blend is something special

Not two hours later a bicycle courier shows up at the door with the order. This is amazing, and if you are in Halifax I highly recommend getting your coffee fix from Java Blend

There should never be a limit

2020-12-07

What possible reason should there be a limit on the password! Maybe a computer science person that can tell me.

Supper last night

2020-12-06

I wasn’t sure what we going to do with this shallow fried chicken strips, but we figured it out.

If anyone has tips for making excellent breading I’m all ears. The seasoning was pretty good, but the breading was weak.

I marinated them in butter milk for a wash before breading and frying.

Another dead hard drive

2020-12-03

This workhorse has started making grinding noises. It was a drive that came out of a laptop that I upgraded to an SSD a few years ago.

Its making grinding noises

Since then I have been using it as an archive drive, something that I dump backups on and then put it in a fancy shoebox just in case a backup dies. Well, this is why you should ALWAYS have three copies for importance things:

  1. The working copy (the one you use)
  2. The on-site backup (or cloud backup)
  3. The off-site backup (or a second cloud)

I like to keep a fourth “archive” backup, this is a backup that isn’t attached to a computer or network. A copy that will likely survive a massive EMP or CME.

This has been a long, long year

2020-12-02

I think everyone knows that this has been a year, well I just watched a great video from Sarah (rhymes with peachy) Dietschy about what she has been going through over the last little bit, spoiler alert, its been a lot.

Not much to say, just wanted to share.

I got out with the camera this weekend

2020-11-30

Small bird at red bird feeder

I was able to get out to take some pictures with my camera this weekend, but I haven’t had a chance to look at them let alone edit them.

This shot is from early in the summer of a little bird eating at the feeder, by fall they were eating at the sunflowers.

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I have many interests and wear many hats. I'm a generalist at a lot of things and an expert at a few. I focus a lot of my time on power systems, reducing carbon emissions, electrifying everything, cooking, taking pictures and keeping the internet open and free.

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