Here’s another found negative. Mid-1960s. Not sure where. Nassau, possibly.
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 monitor, keyboard, and mouse. A well-implemented i3 configuration on a big screen is nifty! regolith-linux.org
Found a few new unknown negatives. Not sure who they belonged to. All transparencies (Kodachrome and Ektachrome). This one was labeled “Solar Eclipse, 1963” and it’s awesome.
Brought this back into rotation and gave it a prominent spot on my desk.
Tinderbox or Emacs for my daily blogging? I’m catatonic over it. I want both.
I don’t see many people talking about “The Righteous Gemstones”. I found it odd and hilarious. I guess you have to enjoy Danny McBride, since he wrote and stars in the show.
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 smudges. I just tried again, and really "dug in there" with the swab. It worked. Whew! That was scary.
A frequent mistake we make is to believe that we can know the intentions of others.
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 dig the bold but readable design and I’m a fan of its namesake.
The people who must never have power are the humorless. – Christopher Hitchens
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 syncing multiple devices added to my computing life.
Paul Ford, brilliant as always:
The supply chain is fractal: Zoom in on your stuff and there’s more stuff, ad infinitum.
I enjoyed “The Silent Sea” (Netflix) very much.
Charge me more for software but less for services
Friday, January 14, 2022
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 pay $250 for a great app, but don't want to pay more than $12/year for a read-it-later service or newsletter or magazine. The number of apps I need is rather low. The number services, news, and entertainment options I need approaches infinity and I just don't have the budget for that.
Trying @pimoore’s Hitchens theme. It’s so vivid! But, I’m not changing anything, because without the bright yellow it would hardly be Hitchens :).
A short review of my blogging with Tinderbox experiment: daily.baty.net/posts/202…
Checking in after a couple months of blogging with Tinderbox
Friday, January 14, 2022
Checking in after a couple months of blogging with Tinderbox
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Early last November, in Welcome back, I guess, I wrote this:
If I'm being honest, I'll admit that this is just an excuse to play with some old toys and experiment with new ones.
See also: Sometimes I change my mind
Let's look at how it's going with my Blogging With Tinderbox experiment.
First, it's been a ton of fun wrangling Tinderbox into generating a nice-looking blog that fits my particular way of blogging. I was inspired after trying Dave Winer's Drummer blogging tool. Tinderbox is ridiculously flexible and powerful and fun, and made this blog possible.
I love outliners, and this site is built using Tinderbox's powerful version of outliner. All the cool new kids are using outlines, too.
Keeping my "Daybook" type entries in the same Tinderbox file as my blog posts is pretty great. It lets me see everything all at once. I can link, collect, arrange, and analyze everything I write, whether public or private. This is not a small thing, it will likely become more useful over time.
So, I'll be sticking with Tinderbox for my daily notes blogging, then? Not so fast.
The mechanisms for generating this blog out of Tinderbox are fragile. More than once in the past week, I've broken large portions of the site after making what I thought to be a minor change to a template or Agent. Debugging it took quite some time. It makes me nervous.
Links are powerful but strange in Tinderbox. For a simple blog, I don't need powerful. I need them to be easily created and simple to edit. I don't find them to be.
The elephant in the room is Emacs, and, more specifically, Org mode. You see, as much as I like managing and processing notes in Tinderbox, I don't love writing in it. Notes in Tinderbox are rich text. Sure, technically you can have them behave as if they're Markdown, but doing so is definitely swimming upstream. Tinderbox does a good job of converting rich notes into HTML, and even offers control over how formatting is rendered. It's all very clever. However, it's a long way from plain text, and I prefer plain text for writing. And I very much enjoy writing plain text in Emacs.
I haven't decided yet which way I'll be taking this blog. For the moment, I like the results so much that I'm happy using Tinderbox. But I feel the pull of Emacs and the simplicity of Org mode and Markdown. I'm still hoping to find a way to have both.
I’ve always considered printing these tiny Instax prints from my phone to be cheating. I preferred making them the “real” way directly out of the Instax camera. I’m changing my tune. They’re a lot of fun either way!
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 “embrace the imperfections” of film, then go all in I guess?
I don’t know how to work an inkjet printer. copingmechanism.com/2022/abou…
Thinking about family snapshots copingmechanism.com/2022/what…