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The AI Poop Ouroboros

Today one of my IT customers pinged me asking if I could help with a quality-of-life issue in one of our apps. They had a...

Hazel, shell scripts, Kagi's AI Quick Answers, and Magick photo borders

I was looking around for "resize and add a border" options for photos. Lightroom mobile will do it. There are some iOS apps that will...

Bridge Pedal

We got up early and rode our bikes across town to do the Bridge Pedal.  Getting there and back plus the route itself, plus a...

Dusted off the Framework 13

I haven't used the Framework 13 for a long while. Maybe a year or so. It was mostly a "I'm in a gray area using...

Along I-5 South

Got some rolls from the Olympus OM-2N back

I put off taking these rolls from a month ago because the camera back opened while I was rewinding and I wasn't sure what would...

autocuration with Hazel

Hazel is a Mac app that watches folders and does things when something happens inside them. You can base your Hazel rules on "file added...

Some curious place in the Pearl

Chinese Festival at Pioneer Courthouse Square

Ramen and the new Hong Phat in Lents

the rare productivity post these days

I moved a bunch of work projects and tasks into a personal JIRA tracker with a board view. It works fine: I can keep track...

Pool players at Sam's Billiards

We stopped with some friends for drinks and dinner before going to see Barb Wire at the Hollywood. Al and I sat down next to...

more m43

I sold off a few more lenses I haven't used in years and got an OM System OM-5. It has a pretty specific function, which...

Kill Your Inner Sorkin

This evening I went through and unsubscribed, un-boomarked, or otherwise dropped out of a bunch of political fora, subs, newsletters, etc. I felt the usual...

Lava Lake

Cabin in the Snow

I was in Fred Meyer tonight for camping groceries, and passed by the wine section. I idly wondered if they had any sake at all,...

July is not December

So, I ordered an X100VI from B&H on the third or fourth day of general availability, back in February. Last week I got a friendly...

... are the pictures we took along the way

I have no idea if Fujifilm is a "say anything as long as it is not next year" kind of company, or a "surprise and...

First roll through an Olympus OM-2N

... and my first roll of film in a very long time, for that matter. Since the year before Ben was born and I was...

The film aesthetic ouroboros

So, I got Al that X-700 for our anniversary. We didn't have to go to the camera store right away because I had a...