Notes

This is a collection of short notes and photos. They are not included in the main RSS feed, but are cross-posted to my Mastodon account. If you prefer RSS, there’s a dedicated feed.

I’ve noticed that I’ve started posting things with an eye toward getting more attention online, and I hate myself for it. Might be time to pull back for a bit.

Why can’t they make players with big, obvious, differentiated Play/Pause/Stop buttons. My CD and Blu-ray players require a magnifying glass and a flashlight to find the right buttons.

Here’s a stupid idea I’m thinking about trying. What if I were to write all my posts in Emacs and render them locally using Hugo. Then, copy and paste the rendered HTML into the Ghost editor for publishing? A bonus with that approach would be that when I inevitably end up back to using Hugo for the blog, all the content will already be there 😁.

I’ve been using my new MacBook Air for a few days. I just now did a search (using Google, by default) and noticed that I’d not yet installed the Kagi extension. If I didn’t notice, I must not have missed it, so I canceled my subscription.

Tim Bray’s post about Qobuz got me thinking. I have a lifetime subscription to Roon, and Roon integrates smoothly with Qobuz. The problem has been that I already subscribe to Apple Music, so Qobuz felt redundant. However, after recently freeing up $10/month by

I hate not knowing how many times I’ll need to press the button in order to turn a light off. Power on/off switches should be separate from brightness controls.

When including these “Notes” on my daily journal pages, I forgot to deal with cover images. This here is a test of this morning’s fix for that.

I’ve changed my Hugo template so that any “Notes” I create on the same day as a daily journal are included inline in the journal post. No titles, just text. They’re still on the /notes page, too, so I can see them all at once. I’m also still cross-posting them to Mastodon, for now.

If you think photos are important now, wait until they are all you have left

I think about this a lot. Whenever I read it I usually make a few prints.

It happened again and it was so satisfying.

I want to just walk around the seaside village all day, making small watercolor paintings of things I observe. I would do that, but I rarely leave the house in my boring midwestern suburb and I can’t paint for shit.

It’s gotten out of hand.

I took a roll’s worth of frames today, but on four different film cameras, so I still don’t have anything new to process.

Kazuyuki Hiraoka, author of the Howm Emacs package:

If you don’t organize notes, it’s wearisome to read them.
If you try to organize notes, it’s wearisome to write them.

got that right.

Color film photo of toddler playing with water table

I know people throughout history have successfully used Rolleiflexes for all kinds of documentary photography and photojournalism, but have they ever tried following a toddler around?

I’ve not quite gotten the hang of the Rolleiflex, apparently.

This is expired Kodak Portra 400 (Expired 2012).

Black and white photo of trees. There's a hole in the negative.

Looks like I accidentally took a photo of a hole in the universe.

(Either that, or there’s a problem with the film negative.)

I can’t explain why I like listening to my old cassettes so much. All I can say is that I’m having a blast.

Now Playing: Rush, “Roll the Bones”

In 2010 I would walk around with the Hasselblad and a roll of Tri-X and take photos of just about anything. This is a spring from a train car. I like how it turned out.

I spent hours yesterday watching YouTube videos about photographers. Ernst Haas, Winogrand, Helen Levitt, Irving Penn, Tish Murtha, etc. I loved it, but so help me if I don’t get out and make some of my own pictures soon what am I even doing?