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Author: @jmproffitt

tech nerd, media critic, snarkmaster my hat tips and finger wags are my own

Thanksgiving weekend Bluesky jokes extravaganza

I share Bluesky-sourced jokes each week in my weeknotes series, and to say THANK YOU this Thanksgiving holiday weekend I'm releasing a larger-than-usual collection of recent jokes from some of the funny people I follow or get re-skeeted my way. If you need some humor in your own Bluesky feed, I can heartily recommend the … Continue reading Thanksgiving weekend Bluesky jokes extravaganza →

@jmproffitt Humor 2024-11-29 1 Minute

5 Photos: Decades of life revealed after death

In October 2010 the wife and I headed to upstate New York for the regrettable task of combing through her parents' home after her mother passed away and before the house was sold. Like so many generations before us, it was our job to comb through the accreted objects of two lifetimes and find anything … Continue reading 5 Photos: Decades of life revealed after death →

@jmproffitt Pixels 2024-08-04 1 Minute

5 Photos: ECHT 1992

From late August to late December 1992 I was a non-digital nomad. I was traveling with about 40 other Americansโ€”mostly college studentsโ€”on a 16-week (semester-long) tour of western and eastern Europe (mostly), visiting 16 countries in that time, starting in London and ending in Jerusalem. I picked up college credit for several classes, a new … Continue reading 5 Photos: ECHT 1992 →

@jmproffitt Pixels 2024-07-142024-07-13 3 Minutes

5 Photos: Death Valley 2004

If February 2004 my wife and I escaped the Alaskan winter to find a little time in the southern California sun. I'd been working for an Alaska Native Corporation on a military contract at Fort Irwin, staying in Barstow, so I'd been getting to know the Mojave a little better, but I never had enough … Continue reading 5 Photos: Death Valley 2004 →

@jmproffitt Pixels 2024-06-292024-06-30 2 Minutes

5 photos: Earthquakes and The Lost Coast in 1992

I'm trying out something new here -- limiting myself to 5 photos from my collection, and telling the story around those images. Immediately after finishing my junior year of college I took a trip. This was late April 1992. No parents. No friends. No cell phone. No GPS. I flew from Ohio to San Francisco, … Continue reading 5 photos: Earthquakes and The Lost Coast in 1992 →

@jmproffitt Pixels 2024-06-232024-08-01 7 Minutes

2013: Alaska to Ohio

I've driven between the midwest and Alaska a total of 6 times: 1996 Ohio to Alaska / Alaska to Ohio 2001 Kentucky to Alaska 2010 Alaska to Missouri 2010 Ohio to Alaska 2013 Alaska to Ohio And I've got some photos from these epic 4,000-mile journeys. This post is the fifth and final post in … Continue reading 2013: Alaska to Ohio →

@jmproffitt Pixels 2024-06-15 6 Minutes

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