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May 10, 2025: Well, the mulch ain’t gonna spread itself. Catch you all later. Bring ice packs.
May 10, 2025: I love having options, but I hate making decisions.
May 10, 2025: I logged into my tilde.club account this morning, typed “mutt” and there were a bunch of threads still being posted to. Oh, and there are …
May 9, 2025: While I tolerate and even encourage motion blur or slightly out-of-focus images when shooting film, I find these imperfections in digital photos to be …
May 9, 2025: This gets truer every day.
May 9, 2025: I’m typing this in MarsEdit for posting to Micro.blog and makes me feel nostalgic.
May 9, 2025: 1934 Smith Corona Standard. It’s been in the garage for a few years, it needs some platen work, and it smells funny. But just LOOK at it!
May 9, 2025: My uncle Ray. He’s been suffering from dementia, and it’s been difficult. He still laughs a lot. Always has.
May 8, 2025: I love the new Peanuts screen savers on the Apple TV, especially when Snoopy does his impersonation of me.
May 8, 2025: I have things to do today that aren’t related to blogging. Weird, I know. And of course, I move the small posts and federation to Micro.blog …
May 8, 2025: It’s been a minute, eh?
Sep 12, 2024: I love Micro.blog, but I’m thinking I don’t really need a microblog right now.
Sep 8, 2024: I dare you to read the Denote manual and not feel 100% like it’s software you can use and trust. Prot is just so damn thoughtful about …
Sep 6, 2024: It’s a relatively minor thing, but uneven frame spacing bothers me. This is a sample from the Canonet, which I am going to retire for real this …
Sep 5, 2024: I waffle between Capture One and Lightroom. I’m not an Adobe hater by default, but this is the sort of thing that puts me right off. It showed …
Sep 5, 2024: Photo from my station at last week’s sewing class. We made pillowcases. The next class is Monday and I need to go buy fabric. We’re making …
Sep 4, 2024: My iPhone fired off a few photos while in the pocket of my shorts. It’s kinda cool.
Sep 4, 2024: Still getting used to Nick Cave in a good mood, but I love this record.
Sep 1, 2024: Me too, Chuck.
Aug 31, 2024: I wrote a blog post this morning about how I didn’t renew my SetApp subscription. It was titled: “How long can I go without SetApp?” …
Aug 30, 2024: Rewatching “An Impossible Project”
Aug 30, 2024: It was a different time.
Aug 30, 2024: The Sony BM-575 recorder, one of my favorite old-school devices, has finally died. I may not replace it this time 🥺. I do need a microcassette player …
Aug 30, 2024: The Nick Cave of “Wild Gods” is in a good mood, after a long while, and from it he’s made a beautiful, joyful record. “This …
Aug 30, 2024: This resonates today.
Aug 30, 2024: I have the following table formula at the bottom of my weight log table in org-mode and I totally understand how it works… #+TBLFM: …
Aug 30, 2024: I logged into the tilde.club server after a long time, typed “mutt” and found 678 emails in the inbox. Most are spam, but there are some …
Aug 29, 2024: Speaking of records, I don’t buy a ton of vinyl, but when Nick Cave releases a new record, I’m going for the “Limited Edition (Grey) …
Aug 29, 2024: My mom (82) wanted to listen to music and her record player is broken, so I thought I’d introduce her to the joy of streaming using Apple Music …
Aug 29, 2024: In any given 72-hour period, I can go from, “I’m going to live completely within Emacs using my 10-years-in-the-making custom config …
Aug 28, 2024: Spent today building this with my daughter. Not bad for a couple of complete rookies.
Aug 28, 2024: A few weeks ago I spun up a Ghost instance (on PikaPods). This was meant to be for photography-related posts and galleries. I never shared it because …
Aug 28, 2024: What my poor journal sees every day.
Aug 27, 2024: The comments on Verge’s article “Hello, you’re here because you said AI image editing was just like Photoshop” are all basically …
Aug 27, 2024: I can’t remember if I shelved the wonderful little Canonet because of some issue or if it just sort of happened. I’ve loaded a roll of HP5 …
Aug 27, 2024: You can tell by my recent movie reviews that I must be in a sour mood, lately. I mean, 3.5 stars for Anchorman? c’mon!
Aug 27, 2024: I don’t really enjoy printing contact sheets, but I love having printed contact sheets, so that’s what I’m doing this morning.
Aug 27, 2024: I’ve been feeling the urge to have a separate microblog again, so I’ve dusted off the ol' Micro.blog account. Let’s see what …
Aug 21, 2023: My Leica SL2 is for sale if anyone is looking for a really really nice 47 Megapixel mirrorless camera. jbaty.smugmug.com/For-Sale/…
Aug 21, 2023: I replaced the yellow legal pad on my desk with DSri’s “Emergent Task Planner”. I used an ETP almost daily from 2012-2018. If …
Aug 19, 2023: I sometimes forget that film is expensive. (Kodak 400, expired, in the M3.) #film
Aug 13, 2023: I love this photo of my son-in-law and his dog during the pandemic, but the view count on Flickr seems a little crazy. …
Aug 13, 2023: I should know this, but I’m looking for a way to share a bunch of event photos with family. I don’t want them in my iCloud library and I …
Aug 11, 2023: I’ll go see Barbie, but not until they project it on a beach and I can pull up in this.
Aug 11, 2023: Last frame from a roll of expired Portra.
Aug 11, 2023: Me too, Joan! :) #vinyl #nowplaying
Aug 11, 2023: My goal today is to do something interesting in here. Anything.
Aug 8, 2023: Today strikes me as a Tangible Things kind of day. I may need to shut down the computer for a while.
Aug 6, 2023: I feel like I’ve printed many photos of various sizes with this little Epson (ET-8500) and the ink levels have barely moved. It’s nice not …
Aug 6, 2023: Rereading Camera Lucida.
Aug 6, 2023: I can’t think of a better record than this right now. #vinyl #nowplaying
Aug 6, 2023: Also relevant #emacs
Jul 31, 2023: The photos people are able to make with iPhones are amazing. It’s not a camera I want to use, though. daily.baty.net/posts/202…
Jul 31, 2023: I worry about unwittingly starting public conversations (aka “arguments”), so I temper my writing/posting. To mitigate this, I’m no …
Jul 30, 2023: So every attachment in Obsidian gets dropped together in one big folder? That’s gonna come back and bite, for sure.
Jul 29, 2023: Caught a nice moment between my mom and dad today.
Jul 29, 2023: Current status: Channeling Nick Nolte in “Under Fire” #photography
Jul 29, 2023: Re: Which camera(s) to bring? Option one on the left. Option two on the right. An embarrassment of riches, and a good problem to have, but still, I …
Jul 29, 2023: I’m going to a family reunion today. Decided last night to only bring my big digital camera. This morning I “decided” to bring two …
Jul 29, 2023: As easy and flexible as digital journaling can be, for me it pales in comparison to physical journals/scrapbooks. The spread shown here covers more …
Jul 29, 2023: Speaking of fatigue, I’m wondering if maybe this is all a symptom of some kind of overarching “Digital Fatigue”. None of my digital …
Jul 25, 2023: When I was a kid I used to hide under the covers with a flashlight so I could keep reading after my bedtime. Now, I can’t read for 15 minutes …
Jul 25, 2023: I’ve been dragging my feet about pulling weeds behind the house. Good thing, because it turns out they’re not weeds after all; …
Jul 23, 2023: This is what happens when I run out of ideas. #film #photography #largeformat
Jul 22, 2023: I learned about rx structured notation in Emacs by seeing it mentioned in Denote’s release notes. Means my dblock queries can look something …
Jul 21, 2023: Here’s a slide of my dad at the Acropolis in 1963. He has the place to himself. I wish I could have traveled back then.
Jul 19, 2023: Testing the new not-quite-makeshift basement studio. I need a stylist and also the button in Photoshop for “AI: Remove bags under eyes” …
Jul 19, 2023: I’ve taken over the spare bedroom. It’s too small for a “studio” and it’s definitely too small for a studio /and/ a …
Jul 18, 2023: Using the Light Phone today because I guess I hate myself?
Jul 18, 2023: Mmmm, fresh chemicals. #darkroom
Jul 17, 2023: Have I mentioned lately how much fun TiddlyWiki is? It’s so much fun. This would be enough on its own, but good lord it’s also crazy …
Jul 16, 2023: Camera Identification Selfie
Jul 16, 2023: I waste a lot of film taking photos of movies playing on my TV. I still get a kick out of it.
Jul 16, 2023: Still excites me every time.
Jul 14, 2023: The Snoopy face is adorable and the best thing about watchOS 10.
May 28, 2023: I’ll be withdrawing from social media, for a while, anyway. Posts will continue, but only on baty.net. I may decide to post links here, but I …
May 26, 2023: Backstage at “Everything Everywhere All at Once”? 😆
May 25, 2023: Aaah, film photography.
May 25, 2023: Remember when we could smoke in restaurants?
May 24, 2023: I’d like to open a video rental store. DVD, Blu-ray, and VHS. I’m serious.
May 23, 2023: I took this photo in 1982 of Judas Priest during their “Screaming for Vengeance” tour. The opening act was an obscure band named Iron …
May 23, 2023: iTerm has been crashing recently, so I’ve been trying kitty terminal for a couple weeks and have no issues or complaints. I really like the …
May 23, 2023: Same here, Sam.
May 23, 2023: Mastodon posts aren’t a lot of fun. Bluesky posts are too much fun.
May 23, 2023: I’ve been using Bike Outliner (macOS only) as an antidote to the complexities that have otherwise been poisoning my process. Things were getting …
May 19, 2023: Can’t decide if I should buy a battery for it, or just move it right into the recycle bin.
May 19, 2023: I am “Used a ‘What would Jakob Do?’ mousepad” years old.
May 19, 2023: What do I want in a note-taking tool today? Usually anything other than what I had yesterday.
May 19, 2023: Software notes (from my Tinderbox daybook) - October 19, 2022: I was invited to the Tana early access release Tinderbox released a beta with a new …
May 19, 2023: Subtitles help with the sound issues in modern movies/shows, but where is the “Someone turn on a damn light!” option?
May 19, 2023: Sascha, Zettelkasten Forum: Often, I don't need it after I have written it. However, I don't need it because I have written it.
May 19, 2023: I enable (English) subtitles in English-speaking shows about 50% of the time. Otherwise everything sounds like [INDISTINCT CHATTER].
May 19, 2023: I wake up each morning and tell myself to “Make something better.” So then I fart around with my Emacs config and call it a day.
May 19, 2023: I’ve noticed that I haven’t actually learned much while on Bluesky. I’ve been entertained, annoyed, and flummoxed, but I’m …
May 18, 2023: This shirt still cracks me up.
May 18, 2023: A week with my old Fujifilm X100: baty.net
May 18, 2023: I’ve been head over heels in love with Arc for a long time now. There is one thing I don’t like about it and that is the lack of support for …
May 18, 2023: Unpopular opinion: Obsidian is even uglier than Emacs
May 17, 2023: Speaking of Bear. I’m feeling an affinity toward apps that are simple-and-smooth rather than my usual tendencies toward powerful-but-janky. …
May 17, 2023: Image test for crossposting
May 17, 2023: I’ve never understood why people might dislike or refuse to use an app because they don’t like its icon. On the other hand, an app’s …
May 16, 2023: I like the always-moving-forwardness of paper notebooks. Anything new goes in the next available blank space. It’s nice not having to think …
May 16, 2023: I threw away a gas mask while cleaning out the storage unit this week. This feels like just asking for trouble.
May 16, 2023: This is Pierre, the cleaner shrimp. He makes keeping a saltwater reef tank worth all the trouble.
May 16, 2023: How does everyone handle replies to folks who cross-post? There are people I follow who cross-post everything to e.g. Bluesky and Mastodon, and I …
May 16, 2023: Current status
May 16, 2023: I restarted my Micro.blog subscription this morning. I was feeling lonely all by myself over at baty.net, so I thought I’d revisit some old …
May 16, 2023: tap tap tap ::clears throat::
Feb 17, 2023: All That Breathes, 2022 - ★★★ I was looking for an uplifting story about rescuing birds. That's not really what this is. I left feeling way more melancholy than I'd planned.
Feb 15, 2023: Infinity Pool, 2023 - ★★★ Rich people are bad, we get it.
Feb 2, 2023: Babylon, 2022 - ★★★½ Too loud, too much, and way too long. But there were moments I loved.
Feb 2, 2023: Shotgun Wedding, 2022 - ★★★ Third star is for Jennifer Coolidge simply being there.
Jan 31, 2023: I’m going to start using my jack@baty.social Mastodon account for short posts, then pull them into Micro.blog’s timeline via RSS. …
Jan 29, 2023: I’ve started making it easier to find things in my paper notebooks. Or trying to, anyway. baty.net/2023/inde…
Jan 28, 2023: “I began to read just after I was four. The letters on the page suddenly gave in and admitted what they stood for. They obliged me completely and all …
Jan 27, 2023: I shot a couple 4x5 frames of Ektar I had in the fridge and it was kind of fun so I thought I’d try some Portra. It’s around $7.50/sheet …
Jan 26, 2023: The current state of the “photo wall” in my office. I love the chaos. (Reminder: print your photos!)
Jan 26, 2023: I love contact sheets, especially those made from medium format film. Here’s one of my former dog, Josie. baty.net/2023/cont…
Jan 26, 2023: I often think it would be a smart move to sell off some cameras and use the money to buy 100 books of photographs instead.
Jan 26, 2023: Finished reading: Antinet Zettelkasten by Scott Scheper 📚 You don’t have to convince me that analog note-taking is superior, but Scott spends …
Jan 25, 2023: Finished reading: Walking by Thomas Bernhard 📚 Repetitive and nihilist and negative and sometimes hilarious. Weird sentences that I got sucked into. …
Jan 25, 2023: M3GAN, 2022 - ★★★ I could've used more dancing.
Jan 25, 2023: Yesterday, I was talking about how I miss smoking even after quitting more than 20 years ago. Then today, this photo of me smoking with my ex-wife …
Jan 25, 2023: I’ve been reviewing some of my older (early 2000s) photographs and have noticed that the 20-year-old film photos look great but most of the …
Jan 25, 2023: Here’s a photo of my grandparents in 1931. How do I know that? Because my grandfather wrote it on the back. “In the rumble seat of my …
Jan 24, 2023: Here’s a (Digital) test shot outtake from yesterday that shows the superiority of double-wristing. 😆
Jan 24, 2023: “few things are more infuriating than a task or delay that’s foisted upon you against your will, with no regard for the schedule you’ve …
Jan 23, 2023: 4x5 self-portrait on Ektar. I have an aging box of Ektar in the fridge, so I thought I’d make use of it in the Crown Graphic.
Jan 23, 2023: 100%. From The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ba…
Jan 23, 2023: Down by Law, 1986 - ★★★★½ A somewhat slight, gorgeous, funny delight from start to finish.
Jan 22, 2023: I appreciate all of the feedback on my blog post format question yesterday. I summarized the results here: baty.net/2023/surv…
Jan 21, 2023: I was worried it would be way too chunky on my dainty wrist, but I think it’s fine. Suddenly, and out of nowhere, I’m a G-Shock fan.
Jan 21, 2023: It’s just a dumpster, but I like the lines and colors. At least it’s something that’s not about blogging. Or is it? 😜
Jan 21, 2023: An informal survey: When visiting a blog (not via RSS), which layout do you prefer? (I like them all, so help me decide.) Full posts Titles and a …
Jan 21, 2023: I find WordPress capable and easy. It does everything. But dammit, it’s been uncooperative the last few days and it’s ruining my plans. …
Jan 20, 2023: Continuing the conversation with myself about where to post. baty.net/2023/blog…
Jan 19, 2023: This is very much how I’m feeling lately.
Jan 18, 2023: A little about my Evernote 2023 experiment: baty.net/2023/ever…
Jan 17, 2023: Chompy & the Girls, 2021 - ★★★ I swallowed it whole.
Jan 17, 2023: Dio: Dreamers Never Die, 2022 - ★★★★ As a ginormous Dio fan since, I don't know, 1980 or so, what's not to love here.
Jan 17, 2023: Decision to Leave, 2022 - ★★★½ I would like to revisit this.
Jan 17, 2023: Apple Notes keeps launching itself on my MBP without my permission. I can’t make it stop so now I probably need to switch to Linux.
Jan 17, 2023: Guess which one even I can’t believe I’m using again.
Jan 17, 2023: Last night I dreamt that I was giving a presentation in a large auditorium. I was editing a simple web page by hand and every time I refreshed the …
Jan 17, 2023: Tinderbox as a blogging platform Tinderbox as a blogging platform I'm pretty good at using Tinderbox, so I made this blog with it. I've used Tinderbox since the mid-2000s for all …
Jan 16, 2023: All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist. –Martha Wells, “Fugitive Telemetry” I know just how you feel, Murderbot.
Jan 16, 2023: Someone should remind the UI folks that they’re check boxes not check balls
Jan 15, 2023: I made my first photogram in the darkroom today. This is an 8x10 print using a drinking glass. Neat!
Jan 15, 2023: The thing that most improved my enjoyment of shooting/developing/printing film was to stop worrying about the details. The less fussy I am, the more …
Jan 15, 2023: If I were to post every passing thought here on Micro.blog rather than on baty.blog as I do now, I worry that: A) I’d bore everyone to tears …
Jan 15, 2023: I have yet to muster any interest in AI-generated artwork. "Prompt writing" is the most useless and least creative form of "creativity" I can imagine.
Jan 15, 2023: Emily the Criminal, 2022 - ★★★ The more I see Aubrey Plaza, the less I understand her. And therefore the more I like her. This was a tense, straightforward thriller and I enjoyed …
Jan 15, 2023: Our obsession with being informed makes it hard to think long-term. We spend hours consuming news because we want to be informed. The problem is, the …
Jan 14, 2023: My wife needed a new passport photo so I took advantage of the rare opportunity of her posing to snap a few extras.
Jan 13, 2023: I’m impossible and will never stop changing my mind. baty.net/2023/my-p…
Jan 13, 2023: I took the same route on my walk yesterday, but brought a digital camera instead. It’s not the same: baty.net/2023/tryi…
Jan 13, 2023: I happily blurt out whatever I'm thinking about here. Over on Micro.blog, however, I hesitate. Knowing that everything I post ends up in some number …
Jan 13, 2023: Bodies Bodies Bodies, 2022 - ★★½ Everyone please stop talking.
Jan 13, 2023: Nope, 2022 - ★★★½ More like Nah.
Jan 12, 2023: A darn good record.
Jan 12, 2023: I’d have more room if I could just let go of things. This original Kindle in its original packaging, for instance. I miss the little wheel and …
Jan 12, 2023: I’ve configured MarsEdit to post to Micro.blog. I’m typing this in MarsEdit’s global micropost window. If you’re reading …
Jan 11, 2023: TÁR, 2022 - ★★★ I know I'm supposed to like this more than I did, sorry.
Jan 11, 2023: This time I took a digital camera on my walk. Not much good came of it. This one was taken toward the end. I was too far away and had to crop the …
Jan 11, 2023: As of right now, I’ve decided to keep using the jack.micro.blog domain (and @jack@micro.blog for Fediverse) rather than custom. My own domain …
Jan 11, 2023: I don’t understand why I continue to think that the solution to having too many blogs is to start another blog.
Jan 11, 2023: This is just a quick test of posting photos. It’s been a while! I took the Hasselblad and some very expired Delta 100 on a recent walk. The …
Jan 11, 2023: I set up a Mastodon instance planning to use it as a microblog. Then I remembered that Micro.blog has ActivityPub features and is /already/ a great …
Jan 9, 2023: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, 2022 - ★★★★½ Well, goshdarnit that was good.
Jan 4, 2023: The Menu, 2022 - ★★★ Four and a half stars during the movie. Three stars when it was over.
Jan 3, 2023: Petite Maman, 2021 - ★★★★½ Just a sweet, lovely 70 minutes that I already want to experience again.
Dec 31, 2022: Depth of Field: Documentaries on Photography The Man Who Saw Too Much Camera Store Everybody Street Rock Prophecies Finding Vivian Maier 1341 Frames of Love and War Shooting War A …
Dec 30, 2022: Mandibles, 2020 - ★★★★ Dominique and the Doofuses. Very fun.
Dec 28, 2022: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, 2020 - ★★★★ Looks like Nolan has had is ass handed to him, using an iPhone.
Dec 28, 2022: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★★ A rollicking good time overall. Also, I'll no longer be pronouncing Benoit as "Ben Oyt"
Dec 25, 2022: Something in the Dirt, 2022 - ★★★★ I love everything Benson & Moorhead do.
Dec 16, 2022: The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022 - ★★★★½ How can a thing be so hilarious and sad at the same time? Lost half a star because of that thing I don't allow to happen in movies.
Dec 16, 2022: The Fabelmans, 2022 - ★★★★ I love movies, too.
Dec 10, 2022: The Last Resort, 2018 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday December 10, 2022.
Dec 1, 2022: Funky Forest: The First Contact, 2005 - ★★ Nope. Not the good kind of funky.
Dec 1, 2022: Werewolf by Night, 2022 - ★★★★ Great vibe
Dec 1, 2022: Tiny Cinema, 2022 - ★★½ I didn't care for it.
Nov 28, 2022: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, 2022 - ★★★★ Delightful all the way through.
Nov 24, 2022: Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, 2021 - ★★★½ It was all about the visuals for me.
Nov 22, 2022: Triangle of Sadness, 2022 - ★★★★ That was a LOT of vomit.
Nov 17, 2022: I'm using Tinderbox to generate this website, so RSS feeds are not a gimme. I have to build them myself. For short, title-less posts such as this one, …
Nov 17, 2022: When I grow frustrated with indecision around my note-taking process, I seek refuge in paper notebooks. That's often not the answer either, so the …
Nov 17, 2022: I keep trying to enjoy using Obsidian, but I still don't like using Obsidian. I wish I understood why. I think it's simply that it doesn't feel …
Nov 14, 2022: Nothing Compares, 2022 - ★★★★ I remember, at the time, loving the songs but disliking the artist. I'm not sure yet how watching this has changed things.
Nov 6, 2022: The Pez Outlaw, 2022 - ★★★ That was fun enough
Nov 6, 2022: When the Screaming Starts, 2021 - ★★ I think this was supposed to be funny.
Oct 26, 2022: Vinyl Nation, 2020 - ★★ Maybe there's nothing more to be said about vinyl.
Oct 26, 2022: Pearl, 2022 - ★★★★ Goth is so good
Oct 25, 2022: Found this photo of drawings on my bedroom’s bulletin board in 1982. I think I’m weird.
Oct 23, 2022: 10 rolls of HP5 from B&H runs nearly $100. Not long ago it was $72. I hardly flinch at paying many thousands of dollars for a digital camera, but then …
Oct 23, 2022: OMG, I just learned I can add my Obsidian vault as a “Library source” in Curio. Then, I can drag those Markdown files into Curio as …
Oct 22, 2022: So I guess every movie from now on has to be either a horror movie or "based on the graphic novel..."?
Oct 22, 2022: I'm indexing my test Obsidian vault in DEVONthink. It's reminding me of the advantages that local files in things like in Obsidian offer over …
Oct 22, 2022: Generating a blog with Tinderbox is tricky but fun. One thing I’ve added is a “crosspost” field. Checking this box makes the post …
Oct 21, 2022: I don't want another blog I don't want another blog <img src="https://baty.blog/img/small/shrug.jpg" alt="I don't want another blog" …
Oct 20, 2022: I love that Leica has re-released the original M6 (but with a brass top and upgraded finder). I recently tried and failed to sell mine, so I’m …
Oct 17, 2022: The reef tank is so weird. I have all kinds of critters in there that I didn’t invite. Here’s one I spotted today for the first time. …
Oct 14, 2022: Vengeance, 2022 - ★★★½ I removed half a star about an hour after finishing the movie because I wondered why I gave it four stars to begin with. Funny and sometimes clever. …
Oct 12, 2022: I think I’ll retire the little Canonet. My focusing ability can’t be /that/ bad. I don’t trust the shutter speeds. Frame spacing was …
Oct 11, 2022: Finally caught up on creating a digital index of my current paper notebook. This is the first notebook I’m trying this with. It’s work! …
Oct 10, 2022: After following the Tana Slack channels for a few days I’m ready to just go back to paper.
Oct 9, 2022: How I plan to spend my day
Oct 6, 2022: Here I am looking out for bad guys with my super cool binoculars from Andor.
Oct 6, 2022: “I have sad news that I have decided to shut down the mastodon.technology instance.” Looks like I’m going to need a new instance: …
Oct 6, 2022: While visiting the new bookstore near me yesterday, I was reminded how pleasant it is to wander through a bookstore instead of clicking and scrolling …
Oct 6, 2022: I am disabling cross-posting to Mastodon and Twitter. It still feels weird pushing the exact same nonsense to three different platforms every single …
Oct 6, 2022: “‘It Just Works’ causes a pervasive ethos of incuriosity that’s marketed to us as a luxury.” “The Dark Side of …
Oct 5, 2022: These instructions are on the TAOCP page (by Donald Knuth), but should be universal: “your message should be readable on brand-X operating …
Oct 4, 2022: Every single person pulls the handle first. Every time.
Oct 4, 2022: I see the race is on to be in the first group of Thought Leaders around Tana.
Oct 3, 2022: Vesper, 2022 - ★★★½ I loved the mood of the film, even though it was grindingly bleak. Great visuals. Interesting ideas. A bit too long and a bit too thin on narrative …
Oct 2, 2022: If I could keep just two 35mm film cameras, these would do nicely.
Sep 30, 2022: I do not keep a diary although I plan to start doing so any day now. Every preparation is in place and it only remains for me to begin. – I do …
Sep 30, 2022: Thinking about how I think is, by hours spent, my number one favourite hobby. As hobbies go it fits somewhere between self-flagellation and NFTs. …
Sep 29, 2022: My “Inspiration Board” is telling.
Sep 29, 2022: I wake up every day swearing off Emacs and go to bed every night having put even more of my life into it.
Sep 29, 2022: Maybe renewing my Micro.blog subscription will cheer me up. Let’s find out!
Sep 28, 2022: Bullet Train, 2022 - ★★★½ Moved right along, while going nowhere. And for too long.
Sep 28, 2022: Dinner in America, 2020 - ★★★★ Simon's character needed to bring it down a notch, but the second half was great.
Sep 26, 2022: Strawberry Mansion, 2021 - ★★★★ Sweet, weird, lo-fi, candy-colored fantasy. I love movies that make me say "WTF?!" in a good way. I'm totally naming my turtle Sugarbaby.
Sep 20, 2022: Confess, Fletch, 2022 - ★★½ I like Hamm, but he's not Fletch. Not for me, anyway. His snark seemed pasted on and used inconsistently. I found it...boring? Maybe the next one will …
Sep 16, 2022: Three Thousand Years of Longing, 2022 - ★★★½ I'll watch Tilda Swinton do anything. Like most, I loved the visuals. Thought things just sort of fizzled out toward the end. I didn't buy the love …
Sep 12, 2022: Thor: Love and Thunder, 2022 - ★★½ You get a joke, and you get a joke, and YOU get a joke. An extra half-star for the screaming goats.
Sep 12, 2022: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, 2021 - ★★★★★ 100% wonderful through and through. I loved everything about it.
Aug 27, 2022: The Phantom of the Open, 2021 - ★★★½ Sweet and charming and there's nothing wrong with sweet and charming.
Aug 16, 2022: Absolutely Anything, 2015 - ★½ I laughed zero times
Aug 15, 2022: Paterson, 2016 - ★★★★★ That was beautiful
Aug 14, 2022: Minions: The Rise of Gru, 2022 - ★★½ Too much Minions is too much.
Aug 14, 2022: Official Competition, 2021 - ★★★★½ The make out scene among the microphones. The cherry screensaver behind her. The closeups of Cruz. Her dance in the bedroom
Aug 11, 2022: Dave Made a Maze, 2017 - ★★★★ Inventive and fun. Feel free to ignore the script.
Aug 8, 2022: Elvis, 2022 - ★★★ Everything Elvis All At Once
Aug 8, 2022: The Rescue, 2021 - ★★★★ I nearly drowned while sitting on the couch.
Aug 8, 2022: Prey, 2022 - ★★★½ I don't give a whit about the Predator universe, but I enjoyed this quite a lot.
Aug 5, 2022: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, 2022 - ★★★★ What's wrong with watching a nice person get most of what they wish for? Nothing is wrong with it. In fact, it's delightful.
Jul 19, 2022: Lightyear, 2022 - ★★★ Turns out I didn't need this as much as I thought I did.
Jul 2, 2022: The Princess, 2022 - ★★½ Some fun choreography in what is otherwise mostly a video game.
Jun 23, 2022: Crimes of the Future, 2022 - ★★★ I was riveted for a while, but then I wasn't.
Jun 22, 2022: Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★½ This is what a good time at The Movies means. It's great when a film delivers on its promise and is exactly what it should be.
Jun 20, 2022: Mad God, 2021 - ★★★★½ Vile, disgusting, incoherent, disturbing, and bleak. Also exhilarating and stunningly intricate and beautiful. There is nothing like stop motion and …
Jun 10, 2022: Hustle, 2022 - ★★★½ Adam Sandler is great when he does a "Good Movie" This was one of them. Too bad it was NBA fan fiction. I don't know basketball.
Jun 7, 2022: RRR, 2022 - ★★★★½ An absolute over-the-top blast, start to finish.
May 27, 2022: Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, 2022 - ★★★★ How is it possible I had that much fun?
May 27, 2022: Metal Lords, 2022 - ★★★½ It pretty much is what it is, which is fine. Good to see some cameos from a few favorite bands, too.
May 23, 2022: The Lost City, 2022 - ★★★½ I smiled the entire time. What more can I ask for?
May 19, 2022: I get a kick out of Styx’s Wooden Nickel period. Some rough but fun rock and prog rock songs. #NowPlaying “Styx II”
May 19, 2022: The Photos widget might be the greatest thing on my iPhone. This morning, it surfaced this photo of me water skiing (1981, maybe). Kodachrome!
May 19, 2022: There’s a googly eye instead of the normal “Watched” icon! I never tire of googly eyes. Another reason to love Letterboxd. …
May 18, 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★★ Pretty great, but maybe there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
May 17, 2022: And then there’s this self-portrait in which I didn’t realize my head was in direct sunlight. None of this is the Linhof’s fault. …
May 17, 2022: I sometimes don’t know why I bother with large format photography.
May 16, 2022: Some days are more analog than others. Today is one of those days.
May 16, 2022: I recently returned to using an automatic mechanical watch. Mmmm, I love mechanical watches, but the convenience of an Apple Watch is hard to resist, …
May 16, 2022: Lots to do today. But first, a quick selfie with Alice 👋
May 15, 2022: The Northman, 2022 - ★★★★ Well, that was impressive. Weird and brutal. Beautiful.
May 15, 2022: Sure, why not? #iPod
May 14, 2022: Lightroom’s window was acting strangely on my MBP. It got smaller when I switched to it. Learned about this setting today: “Scale to fit …
May 14, 2022: I need to take a break from my favorite keyboard: baty.net/2022/i-lo…
May 12, 2022: This wonderful painting by my great grandfather hangs on the wall at my mom’s house. I’ve loved it for as long as I can remember. There …
May 12, 2022: Love this letter (fax!) from Douglas Adams: news.lettersofnote.com/p/please-… American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion …
May 10, 2022: Manual-focus rangefinder selfies with a 50mm lens are a hit-or-miss thing. This one is close enough.
May 10, 2022: Here’s my original copy of “Frampton Comes Alive”, the first album I ever bought. It was pressed with sides 1 and 4 on one record …
May 10, 2022: 1970s Zimbabwean heavy rock: Watch Out! - Wells Fargo. #NowPlaying …the irony of the band’s name is not lost on founder/drummer Ebba …
May 10, 2022: I have failed to fall in love with the AirPods Max baty.net/2022/airp…
May 10, 2022: I prefer wired devices but I hate wires.
May 10, 2022: I enabled “stacking” on my Mac’s desktop a few weeks ago and I can’t believe how much I like it.
May 9, 2022: I still find it amazing that these were made more than 60 years apart. Top: Leica M3, 1960. Bottom: Leica MP, 2021.
May 9, 2022: “Nina Simone Sings the Blues” #NowPlaying
May 8, 2022: I haven’t liked a Kansas record since 1977 but I love everything up to that point, including this one, 1975’s “Song for …
May 7, 2022: Here I am cheating on my darkroom with a digital camera.
May 6, 2022: Stopped at a Barnes & Noble on my way back from Cheesecake Factory (no, really!). I noticed that the new release book covers seemed to be designed …
May 6, 2022: And whenever I think I was cool, I remember this photo of my dad, taken in Hawaii when he was 50.
May 6, 2022: I keep this photo around as a reminder that I used to be cooler.
May 6, 2022: Listening to Swans' “The Seer” makes my stomach hurt but it’s so good that I don’t care. #NowPlaying
May 6, 2022: Calm technology
May 5, 2022: I’ve been using Logseq regularly for a while. Love it. But now with more VC money, they’re saying things like “Accelerate Growth of …
May 5, 2022: How mechanical watches work. Riveting! (via Gruber)
May 4, 2022: Judas Priest - “Rocka Rolla”. It’s an odd record that I’ve come to enjoy more over time. #NowPlaying
May 4, 2022: Men make these laws…and they also don’t know where a girl pees from – Patricia Lockwood, “No One is Talking About This”
May 4, 2022: I was in a foul mood this morning so I spent an hour making prints in the darkroom and now I feel much better. That never happens with Lightroom.
May 4, 2022: I miss DVD special features, especially audio commentaries.
May 4, 2022: After fixing a slow leak in my car’s tire, the shop told me it was caused by a bone fragment. There’s a short story in there somewhere.
Apr 30, 2022: I don’t have data to support it, but I’d wager that the computer I spent the most time on ever was the Macintosh IIci. It might be my …
Apr 30, 2022: New workstation. (in 2005)
Apr 30, 2022: 1964 Hermes 3000. It’s not a light typer, but it feels good because it’s so solid.
Apr 28, 2022: Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny #NowPlaying
Apr 27, 2022: I’d probably be invited to more parties if I had this Spinnerette Turntable from Third Man Records.
Apr 27, 2022: Pulled the Hermes 3000 out of storage but it had a dead ribbon. Surprisingly, I had a new ribbon on hand.
Apr 25, 2022: Blade Runner 2049, 2017 - ★★★★½ This one is special.
Apr 25, 2022: The Outfit, 2022 - ★★★★½ As solid as it gets. Tight, fun, no gimmicks, and features the absolutely fantastic Mark Rylance.
Apr 21, 2022: Pleasure, 2021 - ★★★★ Well, that was brutal and disturbing. What a terrific debut.
Apr 20, 2022: I’m replacing Instagram with Glass as my social media photo sharing link. What I lose in “reach” I’ll more than make up for in …
Apr 20, 2022: The Batman, 2022 - ★★ People sure overthink the shit out of Batman. I was an hour and a half in before I realized it was only half over. Decided I didn't need another 90 …
Apr 20, 2022: Benedetta, 2021 - ★★★★ So, kinda nunsploitation, but really well-done nunsploitation and I loved it.
Apr 20, 2022: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, 2010 - ★★★½ Some of the slowest bits were dreamlike and mesmerizing. Others bored me to tears. It was worth finding out which were which.
Apr 19, 2022: Dog, 2022 - ★★★ This reminded me how much I miss my shepherd. His name was Zim and he was a good boy.
Apr 18, 2022: I’ve been testing the Orion browser and it’s quite nice. One side effect is that I haven’t gotten the Tweaks for Twitter extension …
Apr 17, 2022: Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), 2021 - ★★★★ That was amazing
Apr 17, 2022: Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Friday April 15, 2022.
Apr 15, 2022: I should never have sold any of my film cameras.
Apr 15, 2022: Liza, the Fox-Fairy, 2015 - ★★★★ Dark and Twisted Amélie.
Apr 14, 2022: I just looked up my EagleFiler serial number in DEVONthink because ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
Apr 14, 2022: X, 2022 - ★★★★ That was a blast.
Apr 14, 2022: The Bubble, 2022 - ★★ Wildly unfunny while trying way to hard to be wildly funny.
Apr 14, 2022: CODA, 2021 - ★★★ I'm sure it deserved all its awards, but it didn't move the needle a lot with me.
Apr 12, 2022: I noticed that all this was within arm’s reach and I think I’m on the right track.
Apr 12, 2022: Say hello to Glass on the Web. Well hello! 👋. A web UI makes Glass much more interesting for me. I’m jbaty there. glass.photo/jbaty
Apr 12, 2022: I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop, but early indicators suggest that I have successfully replaced a cracked screen on the iPhone XR.
Apr 11, 2022: Instagram can sometimes make people feel inferior, but I just finished Isaacson’s biography of Leonardo da Vinci so yeah.
Apr 11, 2022: Carla Bruni: Little French Songs
Apr 11, 2022: Started consoldating my typewritten pages and printed digital journals into the new lever arch binders. This is better.
Apr 10, 2022: I like Hugo’s Page Bundles feature. It lets me keep all of the assets related to a post in one place.
Apr 10, 2022: Current blogging system. It’s all in this single Org-mode file.
Apr 9, 2022: Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, 2022 - ★★★★ I'm so high on nostalgia right now.
Apr 9, 2022: I’m so high on nostalgia right now. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022) directed by Richard Linklater
Apr 8, 2022: Severance is the best thing on television.
Apr 8, 2022: The list of changes in Emacs 28.1 is ginormous: www.masteringemacs.org/article/w…
Apr 7, 2022: I finally found a lever arch binder in US Letter size. Everything about it is better than our typical (in US) 3-ring binders. Why are they so hard to …
Apr 3, 2022: I always come back to this record. I just love it.
Apr 3, 2022: At the time, I fancied myself the kind of person who simply must have a fancy case for their fountain pens.
Apr 2, 2022: Found my first fountain pen, the Waterman Philéas. It punches so far above its weight it embarrasses much more expensive pens. It’s not pretty, …
Apr 2, 2022: The fanciest and most expensive iPhone case I’ve ever seen. (Leica M3. 50mm Summilux on T-MAX P3200)
Apr 2, 2022: For films with longer processing times.
Apr 2, 2022: I would be remiss if I didn’t remind everyone using both Org mode and Hugo that ox-hugo is the bee’s knees and makes static blogging a joy …
Mar 31, 2022: Speaking of enlargers. A helpful seller on eBay was kind enough to part out the Focomat IIc parallelogram he was selling and sold me only the threaded …
Mar 31, 2022: I tested the big Beseler in the spare room with the bare minimum of fuss and it worked! The filter mechanism is a little janky, so have work to do, …
Mar 30, 2022: Creator: “Welcome to the channel, where we do such and such! Today’s video is about such and such and I’m pretty stoked, so …
Mar 30, 2022: From one makeshift darkroom to another. The Beseler still works so I’m going to try printing some 4x5 negatives later. There’s no water in …
Mar 30, 2022: Gosh, the Technika is lovely. Shame it’s been unused for so long. Maybe I’ll fix that today.
Mar 30, 2022: Now Playing: Primus “Pork Soda”
Mar 30, 2022: Briefly considered going from Doom Emacs back to a home-rolled vanilla config but realized I’d just spend the next two years basically …
Mar 29, 2022: I like Bruce Dickinson fine, but I’d sure love to visit the alternate timeline in which Paul Di’Anno stuck around.
Mar 28, 2022: An email said, “You need a modern email client to view this email.” but my copy of Mu4e was released Nov. 2021 so I’m confused
Mar 28, 2022: Drive My Car, 2021 - ★★★★½ Beautiful. Melancholy. Rewards patience.
Mar 28, 2022: Poor Olaf
Mar 27, 2022: Trying something with Org-roam and Hugo baty.net/2022/publ…
Mar 26, 2022: This morning I thought, “Hey, I think I’d like to tinker with Linux” so I upgraded Regolith. Nope, it hung somewhere in the middle …
Mar 25, 2022: It's Such a Beautiful Day, 2012 - ★★★★ Still amazing. Almost anything else you could spend an hour on would be worse.
Mar 25, 2022: This big guy is waiting patiently for when (if) I get a real darkroom one day.
Mar 25, 2022: The “dry side” of my darkroom is really just a bathroom closet, but I love it.
Mar 25, 2022: It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) directed by Don Hertzfeldt is still amazing. Almost anything else you could spend an hour on would be worse.
Mar 25, 2022: I’ve been using Emacs for 7 or 8 years now and yet I’m still new to Emacs.
Mar 25, 2022: I’ve been ironing fiber prints between two pieces of card stock and then pressing them under heavy books for a day or so. This gets them …
Mar 24, 2022: I’ve been dragging my feet on this little project. I’m too easily frustrated lately and I don’t want to throw anything against the …
Mar 24, 2022: After a long search, I finally found someone willing to part with the 100mm helicoid threads for the Focomat. It’s coming from Germany and I …
Mar 24, 2022: Bigbug, 2022 - ★★ I see no evidence that anyone involved with making Amélie was responsible for this.
Mar 23, 2022: I went into the darkroom this morning to test a new safelight bulb and made a handful of 5x7 prints while I was in there. Darkroom prints are special. …
Mar 21, 2022: I need reminding often enough that I pinned it to the board.
Mar 21, 2022: D’ya ever feel like you deserve more Likes? Whenever I start to feel that way I want to delete my accounts.
Mar 21, 2022: My dad’s garage is like some sort of art installation. This wall is a Dali within a Dali.
Mar 20, 2022: Defrosting the little fridge I use for film.
Mar 19, 2022: Once I stopped worrying about making perfect, “archival-quality” prints, darkroom work got a lot more fun.
Mar 19, 2022: The Adam Project, 2022 - ★★ Reynolds doing the only thing Reynolds knows how to do is fine, but man I hated that kid.
Mar 18, 2022: Paper nerds: I would like to try lever arch binders but I only see them in A4. Is there such a thing as lever arch in US Letter size? Also, do you …
Mar 18, 2022: I love Nic Cage, and was worried that making the Nic Cagiest of Nic Cage movie was a bad idea, so I was happy to see this today. I can’t wait!
Mar 17, 2022: I was hoping I could use a brighter safelight in the darkroom, so I bought a random red light bulb from Amazon. I ran a 5-minute test for …
Mar 17, 2022: I’ve been having a ball printing from some old negatives. I made these last night (from 2003).
Mar 16, 2022: Sometimes I abruptly change my Emacs theme to trick myself into thinking I’m trying a new app
Mar 16, 2022: Still frustrated by current point-and-shoot film camera prices. Here’s my B&H Order for a Stylus Epic in 2004.
Mar 16, 2022: I suddenly don’t feel like “Blogging”. There are things I’d like to write about but can’t bring myself to sit here and …
Mar 15, 2022: I started today by revamping my Org mode config so now I have every possible tweak to my tasks and projects and journals and notes. I then spent this …
Mar 14, 2022: Interesting how my initial reaction after developing film is often “Darn, it’s grainy and not sharp!” but then a week later I love …
Mar 14, 2022: Wings of Desire, 1987 - ★★★★½ Well that was beautiful.
Mar 13, 2022: Gave up 30 minutes into “Spider Man: No Way Home” and watched Wim Wenders' “Wings of Desire” instead. Glad I did. The special …
Mar 12, 2022: She doesn’t like the popping or beeping sounds that the flashes make so she’s “hiding”.
Mar 12, 2022: Forgive me, I’ve misplaced my slogan mug.
Mar 12, 2022: I’m loving “Prioritize Pleasure” by Rebecca Taylor.
Mar 10, 2022: Made a couple more fiber-based prints in the darkroom. It’s fun digging through old negatives and printing some favorites.
Mar 10, 2022: I’d made a huge mistake.
Mar 8, 2022: New posts will be via baty.net or other external feeds for a while.
Mar 7, 2022: Fresh, 2022 - ★★★½ I don't have a better ass joke, sorry.
Mar 6, 2022: West Side Story, 2021 - ★★★½ Dazzling and terrifically well-made. Visually stunning and occasionally breathtaking. Spielberg is a genius. And yet, and I'm not sure how this is …
Mar 6, 2022: WordPress is fine. Medium is fine. Facebook is fine. Twitter is fine. Mastodon is fine. Your self-hosted static-HTML website is fine. Instagram is …
Feb 28, 2022: Is there something I can use to automatically unfollow and/or mute anyone whose Twitter avatar is not round?
Feb 27, 2022: The Kodak Retina IIIC is neat. baty.net/2022/the-…
Feb 26, 2022: My dad called me from Florida and told me that a friend had no need for “some old Kodak” camera. Turns out it was a Retina IIIC, which …
Feb 26, 2022: Well, I got the Focomat IIc in place, but it doesn’t quite fit. I was able to make 8x10 prints but it can’t be raised high enough to do …
Feb 26, 2022: Contact sheets are no longer technically necessary, but I find them to be beautiful on their own, especially with 6x6 negatives. I often make 2 …
Feb 26, 2022: I woke up and went with a real blog (Hugo again) for my daily notes posts. I think I’ve turned waffling into a hobby. baty.net/2022/the-…
Feb 25, 2022: I found half a box of Blackwing Naturals in a drawer so of course I immediately sawed that obnoxious eraser off all of them.
Feb 25, 2022: I’ve been highlighting key phrases in my paper notebooks and it’s awesome. baty.net/2022/high…
Feb 25, 2022: If you need photos of my dog, desk, notebooks, cameras, or self… I’m your guy!
Feb 24, 2022: Here’s one I like from that roll of TMAX-100 in the OM-2n.
Feb 24, 2022: How many times a day do you think I click that Move “button” in Apple Mail thinking it’s the search field? Lots of times, …
Feb 22, 2022: The OM-2n looked lonely so I loaded it up with some TMAX-100 and bolted on the flash. It’s the lovely 85mm Zuiko that keeps me coming back.
Feb 21, 2022: Guess Who’s not rockin' no more.
Feb 20, 2022: Hair and makeup didn’t arrive in time for my self-portrait session. Apparently.
Feb 20, 2022: I slipped the leather case off the 1960 Leica M3 and put it on the 2021 MP and it fits perfectly. I find that to be amazing. Oh, and the MP is back …
Feb 19, 2022: I’ve been buying more music lately, but streaming isn’t going anywhere. write.as/jackbaty/…
Feb 18, 2022: I seem to kill every single one of them.
Feb 17, 2022: I lost interest before completely conquering my cable management problems, but it got much better at least.
Feb 16, 2022: BBEdit 14.1 write.as/jackbaty/…
Feb 16, 2022: This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper: This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history’s tragic glitter, where Delilah …
Feb 16, 2022: I just noticed that I got my date stamp 11 years ago yesterday. Guess I’ll need a new one next year.
Feb 16, 2022: While reading back through the past few days of my blogs, I’ve noticed that my tone has been rather negative. That’s OK on the wiki …
Feb 16, 2022: I love everything about playing records
Feb 15, 2022: Pressfield’s “The War of Art” is one page about an anthropomorphic “Resistance”. That page is then repeated 150 times. …
Feb 15, 2022: I got one of these fancy BenQ screenbar lights and it’s great, but now I’ve been made painfully aware how astonishingly filthy my keyboard …
Feb 15, 2022: Well this took me by surprise. A pleasant, heavy surprise: Zeal & Ardor
Feb 15, 2022: I’ve been thumbing through my Henri Cartier-Bresson book and was reminded once again that not one of his photos would have been improved by …
Feb 15, 2022: I’ve been doodling as a form of meditation: write.as/jackbaty/…
Feb 15, 2022: A clean desk helps. write.as/jackbaty/…
Feb 14, 2022: I just discovered that this engineer’s scale ruler divides inches into 10 units per inch. Now I want all rulers to work this way. (If we …
Feb 14, 2022: I used to be so much cooler
Feb 14, 2022: This all started with the best of intentions. Chaos ensued.
Feb 13, 2022: It’s feeling like an HCB kind of day. Photo books are the best.
Feb 13, 2022: Some “tools” can also be wonderfully tactile works of art. write.as/jackbaty/…
Feb 13, 2022: I would like to declare Sundays to be my “Stay Away From Screens Day” but I know me. Also, I’ve been sitting at this screen since 5:00 am with no …
Feb 13, 2022: I’ve been happy with NetNewsWire, so when my Feedbin subscription came up for renewal today, I closed the account. They sent me an email about …
Feb 12, 2022: I keep breaking links and wish I’d do better. write.as/jackbaty/…
Feb 12, 2022: I had a screen protector leftover from the Q2 and it happened to fit on the M10-R so I carefully cleaned everything and applied it just so. Of course …
Feb 12, 2022: The irony of my posting a link to this here is not lost on me, but: write.as/jackbaty/…
Feb 12, 2022: Recently discovered that Write.as has a “tiny” version of every blog. Mine is tiny.write.as/jackbaty and I kind of like it :).
Feb 12, 2022: I started naming files using CamelCase.jpg instead of lowercase-with-hypens.jpg and it’s my favorite new thing.
Feb 9, 2022: Thanks to all the recent mentions around here, I’m going to try blogging with Write.as for a while. Haven’t posted there since 2018. …
Feb 8, 2022: I’ve had a matte cutter for 10 years and today was the first time I used it. Pretty easy. I cut custom mattes for 2 prints. Only had to redo …
Feb 7, 2022: I made a camera-selling mistake recently and today I’ve corrected that mistake. All is right, again.
Feb 7, 2022: I printed a recent self-portrait on fiber-based paper in the darkroom and was a little surprised to find that I liked it much better than the inkjet …
Feb 7, 2022: I snapped this photo yesterday of E.’s snack nook and was reminded of my long-dormant Refrigerator Project on Flickr. It’s like a family …
Feb 6, 2022: Journaling is fun. It’s a great way to put the little Instax printer to use, also. My big journal has become a sort of scrapbook with supporting …
Jan 23, 2022: I wish I needed one of these.
Jan 23, 2022: After a few days, I’ve fallen so in love with the i3 and Workspace setup in Regolith Linux that I’m questioning everything. I need to calm …
Jan 22, 2022: Didn’t I just say I wasn’t going to do this? baty.blog/2022/linu…
Jan 21, 2022: Alice is enjoying the sun this afternoon. Also, ear kaboom! (Hasseblad 500C/M. Zeiss Planar 80mm. HP5 Plus.)
Jan 20, 2022: “Unknown”
Jan 20, 2022: ‘68 Europe. This is how people used to organize “albums” 😆. Apparently we also wildly over-exposed our chromes, based on this …
Jan 20, 2022: Why didn’t anyone tell me that “Joe Pera Talks With You” is the greatest thing on Television? www.adultswim.com/videos/jo…
Jan 20, 2022: I need to stop installing Linux. baty.blog/2022/stop…
Jan 19, 2022: I can’t explain why, but it makes me uncomfortable knowing that 1Password has more than 500 employees.
Jan 19, 2022: This afternoon’s antidote to spending the entire morning futzing around with Linux.
Jan 19, 2022: Here’s another found negative. Mid-1960s. Not sure where. Nassau, possibly.
Jan 19, 2022: I spent the morning installing Regolith Linux on my old ThinkPad. I can’t stand the trackpad on that machine, so I plugged the thing into my big …
Jan 18, 2022: Found a few new unknown negatives. Not sure who they belonged to. All transparencies (Kodachrome and Ektachrome). This one was labeled “Solar …
Jan 17, 2022: Brought this back into rotation and gave it a prominent spot on my desk.
Jan 17, 2022: Tinderbox or Emacs for my daily blogging? I’m catatonic over it. I want both.
Jan 16, 2022: I don’t see many people talking about “The Righteous Gemstones”. I found it odd and hilarious. I guess you have to enjoy Danny …
Jan 16, 2022: I recently (accidentally) spit on my SL2-S's sensor while trying to blow some dust off it. (Don't do that). The first swab cleaning didn't remove the …
Jan 16, 2022: A frequent mistake we make is to believe that we can know the intentions of others.
Jan 15, 2022: After living with it for a couple days, I think I’ll stick with Hitchens, @pimoore’s Hugo port of @pat’s original Jekyll theme. I …
Jan 15, 2022: The change to using only one computer was the greatest thing I’ve ever done for my sanity. I didn’t realize how much overhead managing and …
Jan 14, 2022: Paul Ford, brilliant as always: The supply chain is fractal: Zoom in on your stuff and there’s more stuff, ad infinitum. A Grand Unified Theory …
Jan 14, 2022: I enjoyed “The Silent Sea” (Netflix) very much.
Jan 14, 2022: Charge me more for software but less for services Charge me more for software but less for services I would like pricing pressure for software to go up, but for subscriptions to go down. I'll happily …
Jan 14, 2022: Trying @pimoore’s Hitchens theme. It’s so vivid! But, I’m not changing anything, because without the bright yellow it would hardly …
Jan 14, 2022: A short review of my blogging with Tinderbox experiment: daily.baty.net/posts/202…
Jan 14, 2022: Checking in after a couple months of blogging with Tinderbox Checking in after a couple months of blogging with Tinderbox <img src="https://baty.blog/img/small/tinderboxicon.png" alt="Checking …
Jan 13, 2022: I’ve always considered printing these tiny Instax prints from my phone to be cheating. I preferred making them the “real” way …
Jan 13, 2022: I dropped the Printfile sheet on the scanner and pressed the button. Then cropped to a single frame and here we are. I mean, if you’re going to …
Jan 12, 2022: I don’t know how to work an inkjet printer. copingmechanism.com/2022/abou…
Jan 12, 2022: Thinking about family snapshots copingmechanism.com/2022/what…
Jan 10, 2022: I learned today that I can trigger the camera by stepping on the release bulb. Look ma, no hands! (Leica MP. Summilux 50mm ASPH. HP5 Plus)
Jan 10, 2022: My wife surprised me with an ice cream maker for Christmas and I’ve since learned that homemade ice cream is the greatest thing ever.
Jan 9, 2022: There, that’s a little better. (Still playing with strobes in the basement)
Jan 9, 2022: Portraits are all about hair and lighting and I pretty much nailed both of those here, eh?
Jan 9, 2022: I spent some time over the past couple of weeks creating a new blog using Tinderbox. It’s to a point where I’m comfortable with the format …
Jan 9, 2022: Well, hello again. How’s everyone doing? I’ve missed you.
Jan 9, 2022: Should I crosspost to Micro.blog? Should I crosspost to Micro.blog? I find myself missing Micro.blog. The community there is unmatched by any that I've found elsewhere. I sometimes …
Jan 9, 2022: Programming note: We're now officially at baty.blog Programming note: We're now officially at baty.blog <img src="https://baty.blog/img/small/meta-splat.png" alt="Programming note: …
Jan 8, 2022: New RSS feed for all posts New RSS feed for all posts I built this site's RSS feed so that it only includes the big daily posts, one per day, but that post is appended to …
Jan 8, 2022: What a great post by Moxie Marlinspike. Instead of storing the data on-chain, NFTs instead contain a URL that points to the data. What surprised me …
Jan 8, 2022: Shooting film when I'm in the mood Shooting film when I'm in the mood Over the past several years, my interest in shooting film has regularly ebbed and flowed. This fluctuation wouldn't …
Mar 22, 2020: Jack's Favorites A selection of movies I absolutely adore and am happy to rewatch any time. Updated occasionally. Drowning by Numbers Big Night Raising Arizona …