The best way I’ve found of preventing photos from looking too digital is to make them with film.

Sometimes I defend people from pile-ons, even when they deserve the pile-on. I feel like too many people wake up and think, “Who can I decide is bad, today?” and that’s just no way to be. So, if you point out that someone did something horrible (and by “horrible”, you usually mean “something I don’t agree with”) and I say “But maybe they just…”, it’s not always because I agree with what they’ve supposedly done, but rather to point out that there might be more to it. We’re complicated. Situations are complicated. You don’t know everything about it, so maybe back off a smidge and consider that.

I used to look forward to “advances” in the technology I use. Those days are gone. Sometimes I think this is because I’m older now. I don’t think that’s it, though. The changes that happen now are not meant to make my life better. They’re meant to make someone else’s life better. Maybe they always were, but I doubt it.

When I started this blog in 2000, I mostly posted links to articles I enjoyed. In recent years I’ve stopped linking to things and I don’t know why. Maybe I should include a section in these daily posts with links to things I found interesting that day. Noodlin’ on it.