This might be my favorite part about using fountain pens.
Inks:
iroshizuku shin-kai in the Lamy 2000. It's a beautiful blue.
Noodler's Bernanke Blue in the Pilot Custom 823. The Pilot has a juicy nib so, being left-handed, I need a quick drying ink.
Notes
Quick notes, links, photos, quotes, etc.
I chose Pika Backup for backups on Linux because it's very basic and simple to use, which is at least as important as features. Anyway, I somehow stepped on May's org-journal file and was able to browse the backups and quickly restore an earlier version. So, Pika Backup passed it's first real test for me. Nice.
I love science and space flight as much as the next boomer, but my attitude has changed over the past decade. Now, when some billionaire's rocket "experiences an anomaly", I cheer a little.
Pretending to use the Crown Graphic while taking a self-portrait using the Linhof Master Technika.
Ben Thompson, Stratechery:
I think digital ads, particularly Meta-style ads that introduce you to things you never knew you wanted, a societal good.
Thompson's and my worldviews continue to diverge.
Ran across this one from 2023. I used the 4x5 Crown Graphic and a single strobe. Makes me want to shoot more large format. It's always fun and I like the look of it.
Found Negative #017. 1910s
I made it 30 minutes. Good cast, but the movie adds nothing and was almost aggressively unfunny.
Great cast. Not great writing. Started off strong but petered out for me. Too many plot holes. Geena Davis is attractive and all, but that was quite an age gap. I don't understand the entire sequence with the peach.
Do my choices have to be black and white?
You can spend all your time scrutinizing every decision, slicing your options thinner and thinner until there's nothing left. You can reject every imperfect tool and flawed platform and compromise until you die a slow death of inconvenience, isolation, and frustration.
And when that happens, the easiest thing to do is give up entirely
Repost, but I was reminded of it yet again today.
🐹 Deep clean and optimize your Mac.
It's like a CLI version of CleanMyMac
Want to see the earliest resident monitors? The ancestor of all modern OSes (CTSS)? The earliest versions of Unix? The first OS with a desktop metaphor GUI (Xerox Star Pilot/ViewPoint)? Early versions of mainstream OSes? If you want to explore historical OSes and platforms without having to worry about configuring/installing emulators and OSes or corrupting emulated installations, you’ve come to the right place.
Amazed that this exists. I'm not an OS nerd, but maybe I will be after downloading this.
The Emacsification of Software — Quarrelsome
If you look at /r/emacs, it’s 0% Product Hunt, 100% show-and-tell.
Thinking of starting a routine of "Unsocial Sundays" during which I avoid all social media. Today is Sunday, it's 05:52 AM, and I'm already twitchy about it. Worth a try, though.
Ascetic Computing - ratfactor by Dave Gauer resonated with me. I have been unable to "Reduce & Simplify" or "Use What I Have", even after years of trying. My definition of what "simple" means changes daily. Still working on it.
FAQ: How do you use your typewriters? | Chris Aldrich
Below are some various recent uses I’ve made of my typewriter collection
I have a handful of nice typewriters that sit unused. I would really like to change that. Chris' list gives me a few ideas.
taken. — Since You Arrived Vol. IV
You opened this page. It already knows the following.
I already knew most of this, but it's still alarming to see it all at once.
Grove.el is "An Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs". I'm already overloaded with note-taking tools, but Grove is an interesting take on the idea.
It's from Jonathan Chu. Here's the introductory post.
There's currently another internet pile-on happening. "Everyone" is leaving Github because someone else said, "Everyone's leaving Github". I'm no fan of Github, but a handful of people will actually leave, and we'll forget about it in a week, because it's the internet.
"I refuse to use anything that has touched A.I. in any way!"
...later...
::rubs sticks together to make fire::