Row of drink mixing cups

Sunday, March 16, 2025

you can ā€œstudyā€ the data later and rearrange it. But the initial ā€œjust remember thisā€ impulse should be as close to simply throwing the data at Emacs as possible. Remember Mode (Manual) I like that. I’ve been secretly conducting an experiment called ā€œUse Obsidian Exclusively for 30 Daysā€. It started a week ago. I’m typing this in Emacs, in case you’re wondering how it’s going. Most days, I write the same things in both paper and digital journals. Then I print the digitital one. What’s wrong with me? šŸ˜„1 ...

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Friday, March 14, 2025

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde Walking Alice this morning shortly after 3:30 AM, I thought the moon looked weird. There was only the slightest sliver lit and the rest was a deep red. Turns out there was a total lunar eclipse at 3:30 that no one told me about. That explained it. I spun up a WordPress blog this morning because I was bored and wanted to tinker with something. It’s so easy to get started, but the block and site editors still feel like a janky, confusing mess. Just make me a nice theme with a few options and access to CSS and I’m good. I deleted the site 20 minutes later. Guess I’ll need to find something else to play with today. ...

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Black and white photo of my grandson sitting in his ball pit

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Nothing feels fun right now. Most of the things I typically enjoy have become frustrating exercises. I love paper notebooks, but can’t bring myself to write in them for more than a few minutes. I love film photography, but I don’t feel like dealing with the constraints and the costs. I’ve no patience for it. I love movies, but none of them look interesting. My typewriters collect dust. It’s probably just another allergic reaction to the terrible shit happening in the world right now, but I’m finding it hard to shake. ...

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Black and white photo of spoons in dishwasher

Sunday, March 09, 2025

I just exported 2700 tiddlers from my TiddlyWiki as one big markdown file, split it into individual files, and renamed them using Denote’s format. ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ. I guess I tired of searching my Denote notes, coming up empty, then having to go to the wiki and search again. I’ll write some notes about it at some point. Using ChatGPT reminds me of when they started letting us use calculators in class. Sure, I forgot how to do long division by hand, but who cares? Everything else was so much easier it was worth the trade. ...

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8mm movie film cannisters on shelves

Saturday, March 08, 2025

It seems like this is turning into an Emacs blog. Not that there’s anything wrong with that :). It’s getting harder and harder to discover useful videos on YouTube. Every thumbnail is created using the same ā€œMake a crazy face and point at something!ā€ format. Every title is a despirate grab for attention. The recommendation algorithm is all over the map and usually not helpful. I rely on subscriptions to known quantities and recommendations from other people. I wish it was better. ...

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Alice says, 'whatever'

Friday, March 07, 2025

My eyes were bored so I changed themes again. Back to PaperMod for now.

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Thursday, March 06, 2025

I’d like to not create these daily journal posts, and instead create several individial posts. The problem is that so much of what I write here in journal posts is not Postworthy. So, I’ll keep doing this, I guess.

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Sunday, March 02, 2025

Avatarium is new to me. I love her soulful (clean) vocals and the doom/sludgy sound. It’s like Joni Mitchell and Black Sabbath teamed up. Too many journals. Not enough to say.

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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. ...

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Friday, February 28, 2025

Hey everyone, a little more empathy, please. Thanks.

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Thursday, February 27, 2025

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. ...

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Well, I’m in that place again. You know the one. The one where I write the same thing in more than one, and sometimes more than two, places because I can’t decide where stuff goes. I’ve backed up and made all of my Kindle books readable on any device. I also just borrowed a book from the library, directly from my Kobo. This feels very good.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

I’d like to get kaorahi (Howm) and Prot (Denote) together and maybe lock them in a room for a few hours. At the end, there would either be plans for building the greatest Emacs package ever…or fisticuffs.

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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. ...

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Sunday, February 23, 2025

I’m starting to worry that Severance is just being weird for the sake of being weird. Some of this stuff had better resolve itself or I’m going to be very disappointed.

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Saturday, February 22, 2025

I still don’t know what belongs here. It’s mostly just a place to write things I’m thinking about. Things that have even the remotest chance of being useful or entertaining to someone else. There are at least three places I write things: Here, the wiki, and my Emacs daybook. And this doesn’t include the paper options. I don’t enjoy having to decide where to put things, but I have been unsuccessful in limiting myself to only one option. ...

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Friday, February 21, 2025

My personality is a rolling amalgam of the recent movies, blog posts, and YouTube videos I’ve taken in. I have more open loops than a macrame convention.

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Thursday, February 20, 2025

I’d love to have this for my M3. The Leica Summilux-M 50 f/1.4 is the fifth lens in the Classic Line I dreamt last night that my blog had a really fun, whacky design and everyone talked about it. Then, I woke up and remembered that my blog has a plain, boring, perfectly fine design and I’m keeping it. I’m considering adding a /notes section of the blog, with tweettoot-sized posts. No titles. Probably no RSS feed. And they’d be syndicated via EchoFeed to Mastodon. It would take the place of these Journal posts. Maybe? Not sure it’s something I want, but it’s being considered. ...

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

I’m typing this in iA Writer because I read a blog post. See how susceptible I am to the opinions of others? 10 minutes later: Back in Emacs. Other editors are fun for a minute, but nope. I’ll be honest here: if being a supermarket janitor paid as well as being a developer at a large consultancy firm that I won’t name, I’d go back to cleaning toilets in a heartbeat. Software is never really done, especially in an ā€œagileā€ shop, but least I can tell when the toilet’s clean. ...

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Monday, February 17, 2025

I’m realizing that digital photography is actually not always easier than shooting film. Wrangling the new Nikon Zf to do what I want has been the opposite of easy. It’s not the Nikon’s fault, really. It’s that modern cameras want to do everything for everyone and it’s exhausting getting them to do the right things for me. Trying to use both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic and syncing between the two was a terrible, terrible idea that I’ve tried and failed at several times. The worst being this past month. Now I’m spending the morning either finding missing photos or dealing with duplicates. I never learn. ...

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