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The GR IIIX

I've got a trip to San Francisco coming up, and I'm taking a few days in the city after the business part is over. I...

Let go and let camera

Tonight Al and I decided to take a long walk to the corner store. I grabbed the Ricoh GRIIIX on a whim. The first thing...

Podcasts circling about the ideological accretion disk

Al and I listened to a pair of podcasts while we were on the road over the weekend. As usual, I'm going to skip what...

Mary's Peak, Hoka Anacapas, Alsea Falls

We camped down at Alsea Falls this weekend. The highlight of the trip was our hike up Mary's Peak. Alsea Falls is a great place...

after a few months with Scribbles ...

... I still like it a lot. How did I adapt to WYSIWYG writing?  Just fine. I even look forward to it.  How did I...

The content producer ouroboros (or: Lou Plummer is right)

Lou Plummer on The Phones of Normal People and the recent, I dunno, caterwauling over the fact that Apple keeps making tech bloggers buy the...

Dental work

I had to do an emergency dental appointment today. It boiled down to "chunk of a filling went missing, and another tooth decided to light...

A little goes a long way

I had some X100V raws from a trip to SF earlier in the year, so I loaded them into X Raw Studio and that gave...

Misadventures in Velvia

Al and I went to see Blood Simple at the Hollywood Theater last night. That was pretty awesome. Even better to have an emcee before...

About the smashing

I once had a friend who hated Apple in a way I had never come across before. At first I confused it with the  recreational...

Rise of the Rangeoids

I read a rumor site that says Canon is doing a fixed-lens Canonet QL revival to compete with Fuji’s X100, and that maybe Leica's next...

Long-term commitments

I listened to a recent installment of Citations Needed about "the rise of the war on drugs 2.0" that was usefully recalibrating. Citations Needed is...

Rainy day time with X Raw Studio

I don't think I'd like it as my primary workflow tool, but I do love X Raw Studio for modeling in-camera effects on a Fujifilm...

Lazyweb: Tools newsletters?

Is there anyone out there doing a tools recommendations newsletter or site that doesn't feel like a lazy affiliate link skimming operation? Where I am...

Dinner on an M-Class Planet

This week I started a new manager on my team. We worked with each other at Puppet—I promoted him to management on my IT services...

The VSCO camera

I've always kind of wondered about where exists in Fujifilm's mind the line between the looks you can get from the film simulations + the...

Look to your left. Now look to your ri ... No. Sorry. Keep looking left.

I've been a longtime reader of The Nation. I don't remember when I first subscribed, but I can remember it on the magazine pile as...

MultCo commission primary: Something to think about

With the primary next month, May is a consequential month for Multnomah County. I had dinner with friends over the weekend and was  surprised at...

Garmin Fenix 7 Pro Solar

I went through a phase where I felt very irritated with the Apple walled garden. Apple Watches, in particular, were bothering me, because of their...