February 2012
9 posts
“@lonelysandwich: When someone puts a confidentiality notice in their email...”
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★ Olympus OM-D
One of my favorite cameras ever is a beat up Olympus OM-1n I picked up on Craigslist for next to nothing. It’s compact, nicely built, and the OM lenses are terrific. I love that camera.
When Olympus started the recent retro fad with the E-P1 I fell in love and bought one. The E-P1 was a nice camera (is a nice camera, I still have it) but lacked a viewfinder. I need a viewfinder. Also, the...
“@Kalli: I like to think Robert Capa was too hungover to use the morning light to...”
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“@Kalli: I hate Safari Web Content more than I hate fascism.”
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“@Mike_FTW: “Ugh. Are you watching Idiocracy AGAIN?”
“No. CNN.”
“Ohhh.”
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January 2012
45 posts
“@robweychert: Is it still too early for me to go back to building web sites with...”
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Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The...
“Technology lets us do things faster and more efficiently; why would we use that newfound free time to do more and more of the same old thing? I’m not just talking about smarter consumption of content like Johnson is– I’m also saying, fuck consumption.”
I’ve been thinking along these lines a lot lately. Something’s gotta happen.
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from Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The Wirecutter
“@yaykyle: I’m really enjoying this “too tired to get up but too old...”
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“@ethanschoonover: When the internet was fresh from DARPA it could survive a...”
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★ My Trusty Stylus Epic
In 2004, during one of my many film-digital-film waffle sessions, I picked up an old Stylus Epic for use as my “every day carry” camera.
Many of the cameras I buy for specific reasons turn out to have been wishful thinking. Not so the Epic. I still carry it in my jacket pocket every day. Most of the lettering is worn off, but it still works great. And it’s still the easiest and fastest pocket...
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Turned Off: CIRCA1977
“That our definition of activity has to come to include endlessly creating and replying to micro-messages and refreshing feeds, that productivity now means evaluating and adopting the latest-and-greatest app that will let you scan more messages faster, push more bits around or check off more items, is troubling.”
I know I’m addicted to the internet and have learned to function this way. Also...
“@Pinboard: I wish 37 signals would offer a product where I pay them a monthly...”
– from http://bit.ly/vR7KbD
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★ Laugh
I love this photo. It’s from a set of early 1900s negatives I picked up at a garage sale. The expression on the man’s face makes me smile every time I look at it. I like it so much in fact that I’ve made it my new avatar.
from ★ Laugh
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★ A few more found negatives
Someone asked me about a photo that I’d scanned a couple years ago, so I went into my Lightroom library to dig it up. I couldn’t find it. Many of the other scans from that same batch of found negatives were there, but a number of them seemed to have gone missing. I thought making things digital was supposed to make it easier to store and find things. Apparently, I’ve not figured out how to do...
“@hotdogsladies: At the end of the day, if a second set of eyes hasn’t...”
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Mark Bernstein: Google FTW, Google Fail
I’m sure there are people who blog about football, and I bet every one of them was surprised by this play, and that some of them wrote about it.
But there’s no space for that in Google: we’re too busy selling ads on SEO sites and link farms.
Every recent story about Google makes me sad.
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from Mark Bernstein: Google FTW, Google Fail
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★ Don’t call it a “Startup”
Why is it that someone referring to a new company as a “Startup” sets me on edge? Wikipedia describes startups like this, “A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history.”1, which is a totally fair description, so that’s not it. I know people at these companies, and for the most part they are smart and driven and doing awesome things. That’s not it either.
The...
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★ The iPhone “Mute” discussion
There is a fun discussion going on around how the iPhone handles the “Ring/Silent” switch.
Marco on the iPhone’s Mute behavior
“The user told the iPhone to make noise by either scheduling an alarm or initiating an obviously noise-playing feature in an app.
The user also told the iPhone to be silent with the switch on the side.
The user has issued conflicting commands, and the...
“@trevso_electric: An agnostic is an atheist who doesn’t feel like having a...”
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“@ckindel: I am convinced the only reason people are still using vi is nobody can...”
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★ patrickrhone – My Daily Pens
My Daily Pens
These are the pens I carry on me daily
I started to watch this with fascination, until I realized it was a video about what pens he carries. PENS! And I was riveted there for a minute.
Just shoot me.
from ★ patrickrhone – My Daily Pens
“@cjchilvers: The more “productive” my day is, the less interesting...”
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“@Mike_FTW: I’ve taught my kid to tell all his friends that atheists can eat all...”
– from http://bit.ly/mOAhCb
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Tweetage Wasteland : We All Have Photographic...
Dave Pell:
The wave of emotions, senses and reactions that made up his initial experience were swept away by the undertow of a single sense: what his eyes saw on a two inch viewfinder.
That describes another negative side effect of the immediate “convenience” of digital photography. We experience less.
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from Tweetage Wasteland : We All Have Photographic Memories
“@dpmorel: This whole “everybody can learn to code” meme is retarded....”
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