It’s weird how I spend a few days relaxing in WordPress, then I wake up one day and think, “Maybe I’ll generate my whole website with Org-mode and Emacs!” I probably won’t do that, but I sometimes consider it. I don’t want photography be just another way to generate files to play with on the computer. The temperature dipped to freezing for the first time this year. This usually means it’s truly the end of summer. Blech. ...

I prefer seeing a new tab, not the URL search dialog

I’m fishing for a new theme. I’m willing to change SSGs to get one I like.

I’m becoming a fan of this awkward kit. The F100 is such a sleeper and can be had relatively cheaply. I ended up with that weird-looking SB-20 flash as part of a local Facebook purchase. There might be something to this TTL flash, auto-focus, auto-exposure photography thing.

My therapist asked me why I thought it was a problem to have so many blogs/cameras/notebooks/etc. and I couldn’t give her a good answer. It often feels like a problem, but is it? Maybe not. Maybe I’m just having fun and that’s fine. I’m using WordPress lately because it’s easy and I don’t have to think about anything but the typing. Images are easy to add and it can do fancy things when it needs to. Sure, it’s a bit bloated and janky, but if what I do most of the time is hit “New post” and write, who cares? ...

I have so many great cameras, and I have the free time to use them. Yet I’ve barely been taking any photographs. Why is that? I’d love to figure it out. I wake up every day wondering who I’m going to be that day. Both WordPress and Hugo have things to like about them, so I keep using both because I don’t want to miss out on the good things about one when I decide to use the other. It’s silly, but there we are. ...

I impulse ordered the new Pebble smartwatch as soon as it was announced. At the time, I was looking for excuses to stop wearing my Apple Watch, and this seemed as good as any. The watch arrived yesterday. It’s very white :). There was no setup to speak of other than downloading the app so I can pick from thousands of faces. That should keep me busy for a while. I love e-paper screens. ...

I’m trying to spend as little time as possible on any social media. I’m finding it difficult. I started posting over at baty.blog again for some reason.

It’s nice having a pocketable point-and-shoot film camera with me. Normally for me, this either means an Olympus Stylus Epic or Ricoh GR1. Both of these are having issues, so I impulse ordered a Canon Sure Shot AF-7 from eBay. It was $30 shipped, so there wasn’t much risk. Here’s a self-portrait using the self-timer from the first roll (Kentmere 400) through the new camera: Self-portrait at my desk ...

Me, on this day in 2019: For like a week now I’ve gone to bed with the ThinkPad and using Linux to actually do stuff. It’s fun. Not easy or care-free, but for the first time I’m having a little fun. It’ll stick eventually. The 3.1.0 update to Omarchy has been released. The Discord channels are awash with people having trouble with the update, but I ran it on both my machines anyway. No issues so far. ...

I should probably write more about Linux and the NAS and the little Canon AF-7 and the sorry state of the US, but I don’t have the energy to put the words together in a useful way. So I’m kind of doing it one sentence at a time here in the dailies. If I’d have stuck with one system/process for longer, I’d really have something. As it stands now, all I have is a big fat mess. ...

I don’t know where to put things. I have several dozen files in my Downloads folder and I’ve no idea what to do with them. All the second engine does is fly you to the scene of the crash. – Pilots It’s possible I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. New desktop and laptop. New OS on both. New NAS. New media streamer (Jellyfin rather than Plex). New Immich install (via Docker on the UGREEN NAS). New photo editing software (Darktable). It’s a little overwhelming. My M4 Air is taunting me from the shelf over there. ...

Thinking about including a status thingy at the bottom of my daily posts. Got the idea from Warren Ellis. Do I actually do enough to justify writing it down every day? Maybe. Gruber doesn’t get art: Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal: ‘A Cartoonist’s Review of AI Art’ STATUS: 6h 24m sleep. Weight is ⬇️. TODO: Organize computers/cables. Water change in fish tank. READING: The Tools by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels LISTENING: Painkiller, by Judas Priest

I’m still working on my photo workflow in Linux. It’s gotten to the point of being tolerable, but it’s still not enjoyable. Darktable is powerful but there are too many ways of doing everything. I feel like I’m just throwing stuff at the wall, hoping it turns out. I suppose I will eventually find a process that works consistently, but right now I’m not even close to that. I really miss Capture One. ...

I mean, if you’re going to start using new computers running a new OS, you might as well get a new, unfamiliar NAS and an updated Orbi router kit while you’re at it. That’s what I did. Chaos! I haven’t been mentioning Omarchy or the Framework laptop lately because I don’t feel like being scolded for “supporting projects that promote facism” which is of course not what they’re doing, but whatever. I’m not interested in arguing about it, and I’m not going to clear my throat before every mention. fwiw I like both products very much. Send me an actual apples-to-apples equivalent and I might switch. ...

I’m trying not to miss my Mac but I kind of miss my Mac. Not being able to develop a comfortable photography workflow might be a dealbreaker for Linux. I’m still trying, though.

I’m still finding things that I’d changed in my PaperMod fork that I kind of need now that I’ve switched to the stock version. The Reply-By-Email button, for one. My improvement to image rendering from yesterday doesn’t work in the RSS feed because it uses a relative URL for the image. I had fixed this in my fork, so I copied that over. I also tried adding the reply button there, also. ...

I finally got around to updating Hugo’s image_render.html so that I can use normal Markdown for images rather than a Hugo shortcode. I used the version from Alec’s blog and it seems to work great. Here’s an example: We'll miss beach season! Markdown-mode in Emacs can hide markup so things feel a bit more WYSIWYG, but I’ve turned that off by default. Don’t WYSIWYG Markdown editors sort of defeat one of the purposes of Markdown? Plus, I don’t get confused about what is actually in the post this way. I can see the URL for links without C-c C-l-ing all the time. ...

Aaaaand, we’re back. Sometimes I really like WordPress. It lasts a week or two. I cleaned a few things up around here. The big one is that I’m now using the stock PaperMod theme rather than the mess I made in my own fork. I’ll probably tweak, but I don’t want to maintain my own theme. I also removed /notes from the navigation. I don’t need them. I may find some other way to indicate/present shorter posts, but for now it’s all either a post or a daily note. ...

Sometimes one really needs to go out of their way to borrow trouble.