dumping digital clutter
I wasn't intending on deleting a bunch of internet accounts to be my New Year's Resolution, but that's just how things ended up happening.
While going through the account list in my password manager, I found some seriously old and crusty stuff there, and it was long overdue to do some jettisoning.
True, I could have just left those old crusty accounts as-is and nothing bad would have happened... probably. But that lingering doubt is something I couldn't shake, so I started deleting the old stuff.
plain text zen
It's funny how things work out.
Something about Linux I totally didn't expect is how much better it feels using text now.
Years ago, I would read about certain editors for Mac that bragged about distraction-free writing as a selling point. I was using Windows at the time, and it made no sense to me that the editor itself could somehow be distracting. My thought was why not just get Notepad++ and call it a day?
Yeah, I was wrong there.
analog is real
Something I started last week is wearing an analog watch, but not just any analog. It's the sole 100% mechanical watch I own, an Orient Crystal (a.k.a. "3 Star" or "Tristar") that was gifted to me close to ten years ago. It still works. More on that in a bit.
I've said before that I hate analog watches because sometimes it's difficult for me to tell the time depending on where the hands are. Even so, I needed to get over that and get used to it.
I have both legitimate and kooky reasons for why I'm wearing it, so let's get into that.
rewatching charlotte's web 40+ years later
The Charlotte's Web I'm referring to is the animated movie from 1973. And even before I start, I noticed something weird right at the beginning of the flick. The copyright date states 1972, but it's always listed everywhere as '73, so I looked up why that is. It's because the release date was 1973-March-1.
Only because I didn't know otherwise, I always thought this was a Disney movie. No. It's Hanna-Barbera. I could forgive anybody for mistaking this as from Disney, as it an animated feature film, a musical, G-rated, has talking animals in it, dancing numbers, and so on.
As for how I feel about the movie, I'll get the negatives out of the way first.
i deleted thunderbird
While I did switch over to a TUI mail client, I did keep Thunderbird on my computer just in case I wanted to switch back to it.
After using NeoMutt for a couple of weeks, I did the deed and deleted Thunderbird. A backup was made first, then I deleted both the program and user data folders Thunderbird used.
Before the deleting, I thought about switching back to it. Twice.