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Sam
@samco.me
Photographer / web dev.
he/him
Portland, ME
https://linktr.ee/samcousins
This is awful. Avoid commercial st and downtown for a bit. If you must gawk, go to bug light.

www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...
Crews respond to large fire at Custom House Wharf in Portland
Fire officials in Portland urge drivers to avoid the area Friday evening while they respond to the fire.
www.newscentermaine.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I cut on my thumb, and put on a bandaid.

And now using my phone is almost impossible.
December 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This storm warning for tomorrow doesn't exactly make me want to leave the house.

"Remain in the lower levels of your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows."

it's gonna be like *that*, is it?

forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.ph...
December 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My cat, who is over the age of 20, has learned a new trick this afternoon. She figured how to climb over the back of my desk so she can climb into my lap.

Doesn't want to jump up from under the desk. Gotta go over, so she can go *through* everything.
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
...foam santa? Am I supposed to eat these? Or stuff them into a pillow?

maybe didn't translate quite right here.
December 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
wow, heard that Joe Ely passed today.

An absolutely wonderful musician & songwriter.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3uA...
Joe Ely "All Just to Get to You" | ACL 8th Annual Hall of Fame Honors Joe Ely
YouTube video by Austin City Limits
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
trying to figure out a photoshop replacement. they replaced my $10/mo photographer plan with a new $22.99 plan.

any favorite software for managing nikon raw files?
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The batteries I buy for my camera used to be $20 for 8. They're now $20 for 4. And $35 for 8.
December 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
oh, I guess we're doing santacon tonight.

consider all y'all duly warned.

You want to see the giant crowd, we're taking a photo in from of the tree in monument sq ~7:30.
December 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We're at Odd Fellows Hall for a holiday market til 3:00.
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We're at a holiday market at Fork Food labs.

It's like 75% food vendors. And there's a couple grills going. Trying not to spend more than we sell.
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A thanksgiving classic
WKRP Turkey Drop
YouTube video by Brian Henigin
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is a real _briny_ fog on the east end.
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
You will forever be on my shit list if you use both zeroes 0 and the letter O in your codes, but don't clearly differentiate them on printed materials.

It's supposed to be a impossible-to-guess access code, not a fuckin puzzle.
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
here's a dude with his head so far up his ass, it's come out his mouth, and up his ass a second time.

It's because we can't trust it for mission critical work. Work needs to be predictable and repeatable across different computers 100% of the time.

www.pcmag.com/news/microso...
Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI?
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's head of AI, vents after the company receives backlash for saying 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.'
www.pcmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I guess there's a big fire on red oak drive in falmouth, which is off blackstrap. You can see the plume of smoke from the hill.

I don't really have more details other than 3rd hand social media posts.

A) Maybe avoid the area.

B) Shout if you see an actual news report
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
what are we using to clean up blu-ray discs? isopropyl alcohol was fine on dvds, but that theoretically eats the BR coating.

and google search is all fuckin slop and contradictory information. so I'm asking humans who may know better.

I have 30+ discs that my PC errors on.
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The question of "why is my cat's tail wet?" Is almost always because she was by her water fountain and swished her tail through it...

But even so, it's not a thing I really like to be asking at one in the morning.
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I just got a reply to a bug report from shopify staff.

I posted the issue in 2022.

Thanks. Glad you finally got around to that.
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is hilarious. and makes me worry about the future of the franchise, TBH.

It's been a minute, you can reboot the series with a new guy.

Or have Oscar Isaac superglue all the Bond bits back together...

YOU HAVE OPTIONS
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is amazing and hilarious.
Still need more baseball?

We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We're at a craft fair at South Portland High til 3. Come say hello.
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
and there's the email from adobe, raising my rate from $10/mo to $15/mo.

so I can have a bunch of AI tools that I don't want.

::cancel::
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM