I prefer wired devices but I hate wires.
I enabled “stacking” on my Mac’s desktop a few weeks ago and I can’t believe how much I like it.
I still find it amazing that these were made more than 60 years apart. Top: Leica M3, 1960. Bottom: Leica MP, 2021.
“Nina Simone Sings the Blues” #NowPlaying
I haven’t liked a Kansas record since 1977 but I love everything up to that point, including this one, 1975’s “Song for America”. #NowPlaying
Here I am cheating on my darkroom with a digital camera.
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 by the same team. Others noticed too. It’s the “book blob”. www.printmag.com/book-cove…
And whenever I think I was cool, I remember this photo of my dad, taken in Hawaii when he was 50.
I keep this photo around as a reminder that I used to be cooler.
Listening to Swans' “The Seer” makes my stomach hurt but it’s so good that I don’t care. #NowPlaying
Calm technology
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 the New World Knowledge Graph” and it makes me nervous. Settle down, Logseq, you’re a note-taking app.
How mechanical watches work. Riveting! (via Gruber)
Judas Priest - “Rocka Rolla”. It’s an odd record that I’ve come to enjoy more over time. #NowPlaying
Men make these laws…and they also don’t know where a girl pees from
– Patricia Lockwood, “No One is Talking About This”
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.
I miss DVD special features, especially audio commentaries.
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.
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 all-time favorite.
New workstation.
(in 2005)
