2022 Thoughts
✦ April
The West Wing Productivity System
The last time I rewatched “The West Wing” I was once again impressed by how good people were at their
Archives
2022 Thoughts
✦ April
The kinds of portraits I prefer…Judith Joy Ross, for example
I recently read Joe McNally’s book, The Real Deal: Field Notes from the Life of a Working Photographer . While
2022 Thoughts
✦ April
Comparing film and digital: Mom
I had lunch with my parents recently and took a few photos with both my film and digital cameras. I
2022 Thoughts
✦ April
Some unremarkable pens the Internet made me buy
I’m an impressionable young man, and when I notice someone on The Internet raving about something, I want to
2022 Thoughts
✦ March
Publishing portions of my Org-roam database
I’m trying something new.
I’ve become a pretty heavy user of Org-roam  for personal notes. I put nearly
2022 Thoughts
✦ March
Aligning comments in Emacs
I want my per-line code comments to line up nicely, so I’ll often add a bunch of spaces by
2022 Thoughts
✦ March
Configuring the org-download save directory
When I drag and drop an image into Emacs, I want the attached file to end up in ./img/YYYY/
2022 Thoughts
✦ March
Feelings about the Leica M10-R
I’m feeling twitchy about owning the Leica M10-R .
The M10-R is an astonishingly good camera. World-beating build quality, timeless
2022 Thoughts
✦ March
I love this boring photo of a lamp
My wife bought an awful, kitschy plastic lamp and set it on one of the floor speakers. I, of course,
2022 Thoughts
✦ March
Adding an RSS feed to my wiki
TiddlyWiki is a single static HTML file. It does not generate an RSS feed of new entries. It doesn’t
2022 Thoughts
✦ March
Fiber-based silver gelatin prints are a wonderful PITA
I hate making fiber-based silver gelatin prints in the darkroom. But I love having them to hold and to hang.
2022 Thoughts
✦ March
Plain text can’t save you if you lose the files
Derek Sivers suggests, in a much-linked-to post , that all your stuff should be in plain text files, and I (almost)
2022 Thoughts
✦ March
I enjoy processing film
There are things that I dislike about shooting film, but processing isn’t one of them. I actually enjoy it.
2022 Thoughts
✦ February
The Kodak Retina IIIC
My dad called me from Florida and said that one of his neighbors had died and left a bunch of
2022 Thoughts
✦ February
The Daily Notes Dilemma
You see, I have a nice wiki , and for a couple of years, I have written a new entry in
2022 Thoughts
✦ February
Highlighting in notebooks
One valid criticism of using paper for notes is that searching through notebooks is rather difficult. With my poor handwriting,