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Keeping the Leica SL2, for now

We look good together, no?

We look good together, no?

When I bought the Nikon Z f recently, the way I intended to offset the cost was to sell the Leica SL2. The mistake I made was to buy the Nikon before selling the Leica.

Yesterday, I gathered up the SL2 with accessories and took some photos of it for the listing. Picking up the camera reminded me that, as nice as the Z f is, it’s not in the same league as the SL2. Everything about the Leica feels nicer. Controls, covering, grip, doors, battery, all of it.

Saturday, March 01, 2025

I would love to be a person who goes out to photograph because I have something to say, rather than someone looking for an excuse to play with cameras and because I’m bored.


I find YouTube to be 95% useless, but the other 5% is helpful and can be absolutely amazing and wonderful.


If I cancel my subscriptions to every newspaper that publishes something stupid, I’ll have nowhere left to get any news. Mastodon, you say? Hardly.

Thursday, February 27, 2025

New t-shirt is funny.

New t-shirt is funny.

I’ve been shopping for desktop computers to run Linux. Something easy and nice, like a low-mid range Thelios, maybe. This is a terrible idea and I should stop doing it at once.


When do you think I’ll finally find something that I’m good at?


There are too many people in my head.


I like Matt Birchler’s Quick Reviews app, but I wish it would look up the year/director for me. The new iOS app might do something like that, but I won’t use the app on iOS.

Monday, February 24, 2025

What’s New in Emacs 30.1? - Mastering Emacs

Full support for Emacs on Android, and a whole host of touch screen-related improvements to Emacs as a result.

Sooo, do I need an Android phone, now?


Most of today was spent farting around in Emacs. Again. I don’t mind. It was fun. I tweaked Howm. Played with Gnus. Upgraded to Emacs 30.1, and cleaned up some config. A good time was had by all.