Notes

So my little essay about the computer, why I'm not going to buy a computer, was just a part of my strategy to try to keep myself whole as a human being. I don't want my life to be lived for me by a machine."

-- Wendell Berry, referring to his 1987 essay, "Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer"

I just want to choose a service without feeling like I'm also committing to an ideology.

I can't seem to read fiction anymore. Every time I pick up one of the novels I've started recently, I find myself saying, "Don't care." and I put it back down. Non-fiction is faring much better.

Ghost is nice, but it still makes me feel like I'm living in someone else's space. There's a sort of background hum of "this isn't really yours", and it bothers me. I haven't decided yet if it bothers me enough to do anything about, though.

I find that I'd much rather look at these janky Polaroids than any super-sharp-and-clean hi-megapixel digital image.

It's funny how when I move something for like the fifth time, I think to myself, "There, now I never have to move that again!"

I've noticed that I've started posting things with an eye toward getting more attention online, and I hate myself for it. Might be time to pull back for a bit.

Why can't they make players with big, obvious, differentiated Play/Pause/Stop buttons. My CD and Blu-ray players require a magnifying glass and a flashlight to find the right buttons.

Here's a stupid idea I'm thinking about trying. What if I were to write all my posts in Emacs and render them locally using Hugo. Then, copy and paste the rendered HTML into the Ghost editor for publishing? A bonus with that approach would be that when I inevitably end up back to using Hugo for the blog, all the content will already be there 😁.

I've been using my new MacBook Air for a few days. I just now did a search (using Google, by default) and noticed that I'd not yet installed the Kagi extension. If I didn't notice, I must not have missed it, so I canceled my subscription.

Tim Bray's post about Qobuz got me thinking. I have a lifetime subscription to Roon, and Roon integrates smoothly with Qobuz. The problem has been that I already subscribe to Apple Music, so Qobuz felt redundant. However, after recently freeing up $10/month by

I hate not knowing how many times I'll need to press the button in order to turn a light off. Power on/off switches should be separate from brightness controls.

When including these "Notes" on my daily journal pages, I forgot to deal with cover images. This here is a test of this morning's fix for that.

I've changed my Hugo template so that any "Notes" I create on the same day as a daily journal are included inline in the journal post. No titles, just text. They're still on the /notes page, too, so I can see them all at once. I'm also still cross-posting them to Mastodon, for now.

I think about this a lot. Whenever I read it I usually make a few prints.

It happened again and it was so satisfying.

I want to just walk around the seaside village all day, making small watercolor paintings of things I observe. I would do that, but I rarely leave the house in my boring midwestern suburb and I can't paint for shit.

It's gotten out of hand.

I took a roll's worth of frames today, but on four different film cameras, so I still don't have anything new to process.

Kazuyuki Hiraoka, author of the Howm Emacs package:

If you don’t organize notes, it’s wearisome to read them.

If you try to organize notes, it’s wearisome to write them.

got that right.