Patrick Ford

I tried to made a point of watching the eclipse with my own eyes and not through a camera, but I really like these two shots of the “diamond ring” I managed to get before totality. What a truly special experience.

The stage of the eclipse known as the "diamond ring" a second or two before totality. This is where the sun is almost completely occluded by the moon, with a brilliantly bright "diamond" at one edge.

Opening Day at Fenway!

Big ups to the streamers raising money for The Trevor Project that aren’t using it as a fig-leaf to play Hogwarts Legacy

If you have Game Pass you should absolutely give Hi-Fi RUSH a try. I’m having a ton of fun so far and the music is awesome. We’re all used to games getting delayed, so today’s demo/drop was a great surprise.

The Last of Us is amazing so far, but man this Boston skyline is something. Right buildings, wrong order. 😂😂😂

Screenshot of the terribly mangled Boston skyline from The Last of Us tv show.

~TEST~ is this API still working for posting to the site owned by the tissue-thin-skinned jackass?

Seems the third-party Twitter API is down. Don’t have my hopes up, but hopefully this is just a glitch. That Tapbots Matodon client can’t come soon enough.

All other tropical storms must bow before El Niño

Screenshot of Wired article on Apple News. Headline is "El Niño is coming and the world isn't prepared." Screenshot of Chris Farley on SNL as "El Niño."

Feels like I’m exhaling for the first time in over a year. 🥲

Made an apple, onion and bacon pizza with a recipe from my hometown orchard, @kollasorchard.

Damn. Good end to a good day.

Here are some turkeys from a few days ago.

Few things remind me more that I’m a hairless monkey struggling to survive than my utter inability to stop eating berries regardless of how full I am.

“Harry Redknapp called three times!”

I couldn’t love Ted Lasso more.

First attempt at homemade Jamaican beef patties.

I think I did alright!

Photo of a Jamaican beef patty I made from scratch on a plate after baking. Photo of homemade beef patty with bite take out of it, showing flaky crust. image of last bit of a patty, showing gorgeous flaky and delicious layers.

Made pizza with @mrgan’s pan pizza recipe (https://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/618372067755196416/nevens-pan-pizza) and it might be the best pizza I’ve ever made.

No sourdough—just a 3 day cold ferment—but the crust was at once crispy, soft and tangy. Perfect.

Thanks, Neven!

Top down view of an 8 by 10 inch pan pizza cooling in the pan. It has a sliced mozzarella base, stripes of tomato sauce, bits of sausage and shredded parmasean cheese on it. Side view of home made pan pizza sliece. Lots of big bubbles - the dough is super airy.

I don’t normally do this when I get texts from campaigns I don’t support, but made an exception here because HOLY SHIT does Mike Bloomberg suck.

The camera system on the new iPhones is banana-pants-insane.

This is straight-out-of-camera from last night’s Black Keys show. (Ok, I erased a bright phone in the lower left. But no color adjustments.)

Better than my pro Nikon can do.

Burger Blue Balls

Yesterday I tried what some consider the best burger the Boston and didn’t care for it. Today, I decided to slay my craving and make a @kenjilopezalt double smashburger. Was going great until I set the smoke alarm off in my apt, then frantically tried to stop it before the building alarm went off—which summons the fire department.

I succeeded, but the resulting adrenaline crash put my stomach in knots and now I can’t even think about eating. FML.

A picture of some boats in Boston (er, Cambridge) for #worldphotographyday. From before the new Four Seasons messed up the balance of this skyline. 🤓