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In Memoriam Abbott Handerson Thayer and his angels 1

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One of the foremost portrait and figurative painters in the US at the end of the nineteenth century, his dominant theme is the ideal woman, with or without wings.

May 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Why cloning Big Sur isn’t as useful for an M1 Mac

For some, inability to clone to the internal SSD of an M1 Mac seems disastrous. In reality, it could achieve little, and there are better solutions.

May 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Frederic Edwin Church in detail 2

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His ‘Heart of the Andes’ was viewed by more than 12,000 when shown in New York. Many of them brought opera glasses to see its fine details.

May 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

M1 Macs running Big Sur 11.4 support external disks fully

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macOS 11.4 has finally fixed all the problems with installing current and older macOS on external disks, and booting an M1 Mac from them.

May 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Frederic Edwin Church in detail 1

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His working methods were traditional, in making copious drawings and oil sketches in front of the motif, then composing those into large finished oil paintings.

May 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Big Sur 11.4 brings LocalPolicy and recovery access to M1 Macs

What are a new kernel extension and a private framework doing in macOS 11.4? Here are some details, and suggestions for further research.

May 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 11: Rescue party

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Sancho returns to deliver a letter to Lady Dulcinea and get 3 donkeys, but bumps into the village priest and barber. Together they launch a mission to rescue Don Quixote from his madness in the mountains.

May 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Can you create an external bootable disk by cloning an M1 Mac?

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Cloning has been a popular way of creating external bootable disks. Now that CCC 6 can make full clones of disks for M1 Macs, is it a solution?

May 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Temporary restrictions on comments

I regret that I have just had to tighten restrictions on making comments across this blog. Because one […]

May 25, 2021 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

What has changed in Big Sur 11.4?

The Big Sur update to 11.4 is significantly smaller than that to 11.3, and its lists of changes […]

May 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

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