Adrian’s Microblog

On our recent family road trip to Maine, did some audibook listening via the Libby public library app. I never read C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series as a kid, but have been discovering them with my kids. We ended up listening to two from the series on the trip: The Horse and His Boy, and The Silver Chair.

Enjoyed both, and definitely found the latter particularly engaging myself. A big part of that was the reader: Jeremy Northam. And as the graphic below suggests, it wasn’t so much “read” by Northam, as “performed” (in a good way). Not that it’s an overly dramatic reading, but the character voices he does are great and do draw you deeper into the story (including Puddleglum, a particular star of the tale).

Anywho, a recommend if you’re looking for something and/ or come across. 🙂👍

Totally gonna give this a swing at next opportunity - Ribbie.tv, an 8-bit way to visualize the ball game. ⚾

(via @shep)

Jeff Cavins provides a 20-minute overview of The Great Adventure Bible from Ascension Press, which powerfully embeds his Bible Timeline method with wonderful maps, charts, explanations, and cross-references turning what can be a daunting text into a highly accessible and spiritually fruitful treasure.

Like Proton Pass for personal use, but seeing good things about Keeper for business team use.

(And have been less-than-thrilled with LastPass over the years - adequate but feel like could be notably better.)

Need to check your favicon? – Look no further: Favicon Checker.

(Okay, so slightly niche, but still useful, product.)

Finally getting around to rolling out Mythos Theme released by Matt Langford in Aug 2025 –

As part of that, just learning that as of Oct 2025 he migrated his personal blog to Bear.

Nonetheless, still appreciate his work and also seems like he may be keeping connections to the Micro.blog platform.

I was today years old when I realized I could mark a text message thread as unread on the iPhone.

Color me tickled.

HipCamp - Described as AirBnB for campsites

(via Boston Globe, 26 July 2026 Sunday Arts section)

“To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. The book-learning gradually dribbles away; problems melt and dissolve; ties are gently severed; thinking, when you deign to indulge in it, becomes very primitive; the body becomes a new and wonderful instrument; you look at plants or stones or fish with different eyes; you wonder what people are struggling to accomplish by their frenzied activities; you know there is a war on but you haven’t the faintest idea what it’s about or why people should enjoy killing one another!”

—Henry Miller

(via Austin Kleon)

The grass isn’t greener on the other side, its greener where you water it.

An unexpected and insightful twist to an old favorite.