I accidentally logged into baty.blog's admin and said, "SQUIRREL!", and spent time taking another look at the site. Who knows, I might start using it again. Baty.blog runs on Pure Blog, by Kev Quirk. When Kev first announced Pure Blog, I (o…
Lawns Are an Ecological Disaster Americans devote 70 hours, annually, to pushing petrol-powered spinning death blades over aggressively pointless green carpets to meet an embarrassingly destructive beauty standard based on specious homogene…
Alice Cooper (2004): “If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and ver…
STATUS: Reconfiguring my backups TODO: Finish reconfiguring my backups WATCHING: Finished "Gone". It was meh. LISTENING: Rush "Hemispheres" I love Emacs. Even when I hate it. Just saying. A week ago I started a new habit: Every day I give a…
I've been sort of half-assing my Linux backups for a while now. I finally decided to fix them. My backups were a combination of rsync to a Hetzner Storage Box and Pika backups to an external drive. Each setup did different things, and there…
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on Earth which can make them come back again -- Henri Cartier-Bresson ✍️ Reply by email
"I'll be curled up under my bed all day because I got an unexpected and (IMHO) unnecessary Emergency Alert on my phone that one time." 🙄 510 Pyro: The Best First Developer - by Derrick Buckner One dilution, one bottle. No drama. I’m going
My ~/org/notes folder had nearly 4,000 files in it this morning. It now has 170. I deleted the rest. Having lost my religion around "zettelkasten" and "second brains", my notes started to look a little silly. Hundreds of nearly empty files
I had to buy a new watch so that I would stop wanting more watches. I know it's counter-intuitive, but hear me out. I like watches. It started after I bought a nice Tag Heuer automatic to reward myself for some achievement (which I've forgo…
You’re Pointing Your Camera the Wrong Way (NYTimes): “There is no simple way to banish the ennui of our age, but maybe it would help if we stopped looking at our own faces and turned instead to documenting the vanishing natural world in all…
Yes, I know, "Substack is horrible..." etc., but I'll set that aside for a moment to point out that Photoni.st has created a collated list of more than 600 photographers on Substack. Lots of them I'd not seen before. ✍️ Reply by email
You may have noticed that I haven't been putting images atop these journal posts. There are a couple reasons for that. First, it's kind of a pain to find a photo I want to use and then add the date/weather overlay. It's not hard, it's just