Friday, Sept. 2, 2022
This is what the Ricoh GR JPGs can look like with very minimal editing after downloading from the camera. If I had to choose one digital camera to keep, this would be it.
Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022
Well, shoot. I’m glad I never went too far down the GitHub path for Logseq syncing: GitHub - logseq/deprecated-github-backend
Warning:
The GitHub integration is deprecated, we’re not going to accept any PRs.
Beyond the keyboard: Fountain pen collectors find beauty in ink — The Washington Post Magazine
It’s not so much that the Ricoh GR color JPGs “look like film” (they do get pretty close), but that their take on what RAW files should turn into is the most pleasing one I’ve ever used.
Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022
Some of my favorite images on Glass.photo are from people who use iPhones and little else. Kartik, for example, uses an iPhone XS most of the time as far as I know.
I had to fix a couple of slightly corrupted org-mode formatted Logseq pages today (in VS Code, not even in Emacs or Doom Emacs), and seeing the nested headlines and arbitrarily long blockquotes made me want to go back to real org-mode, just for a minute.
Margaret Atwood on the talent for insatiability
Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Margaret Atwood - The New York Times
MARGARET ATWOOD: So the talent for insatiability kicks off around 1950, the most recent wave of it. In the ’30s, the virtue was not to waste things. And in the ’40s, that became very much more accentuated because not only did you not waste things, but you saved certain things up because it was the war effort.
So you saved elastic bands. You saved fat in little tin cans. I don’t know what they did with it. You saved newspaper. You saved tin foil. You saved all of those things up. And then they had war salvage drives, and you donated all of those things. You saved up your clothes. You donated them to Europe for people who didn’t have clothes. You never threw things out. And then in came the consumer society, and that has pretty much driven to — because everything is joined at the hip with the energy force driving that civilization. And if you want to read about that, you can get a book called “Art and Energy” by Barry Lord. So every energy source produces a culture which is connected to that energy source.
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022
Jen Powers and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Sicut cervus:
I remember hearing this for the first time during a music history lesson at a vocational school I attended when I was 16 and it completely, sweetly crushed me. I’m pretty sure the teacher and me were the only two deeply affected by it—thanks, Mr. McCargish
One of the best things I’ve done recently is make and use a Twitter list that I call “Pleasant Twitter” (and no you may not see who’s on it). In it are book nerds, musicians, friends, NASA employees, etc. Absent are journalists, people who quote-tweet dumb things to dunk on them, and anyone trying to get everyone else riled up about this or that. I can’t look at that Twitter anymore, at least for now.