Around 2014, I was obsessed with building a collection of point and shoot film cameras. The wishlist: Contax T3, Hexar AF, Leica Minilux, Nikon 35ti, Yashica T4. I never actually built out the collection. I went after interchangeable lens 35mm instead, and never quite caught the medium format bug. I still plan on shooting every one of these at some point!
Small fragments. Things I read, heard, or couldn't stop thinking about. These are too short for essays but too good to lose. Sort of like commonplace book meets tumblelog.
524 bits, and counting.
There's nothing like driving through Big Sur in the winter. I love turning the heat up inside the car and rolling the windows down. The coastal drafts create an incredible temperature collision, all along my favorite stretch of coastline in the world.
Noel Gallagher and an acoustic guitar, nothing else. Strip away the wall of noise and the song still stands on its own. I keep coming back to how little it actually needs.
I've been procrastinating on editing my travel photos from Japan. Probably a big weekend push to lay out another photo book.
Does programming language loyalty survive when we're generating most, if not all, of our code? Either it matters more than ever or it stops mattering entirely. The question makes me nostalgic. For more than a decade I checked the TIOBE Index and went to language meetups every month. It feels like the end of an era!
I love checking out and learning all sorts of new things I can do with my DGX Spark on the forums. I may need to check out Perplexity's Portable Computer too.
What would you have to give up to do your life's work?
Everyone washes their hands. Same soap, same water, same thirty seconds. The difference is who we see in the mirror.
I made it almost 3 years without upgrading my phone. While I love the dimensions and weight of my current device, I'll probably have to upgrade this winter as battery life is just abysmal. On a recent family trip to Japan, I was cycling through two magnetic battery packs a day (and charging both every night)!
Magical Mystery Tour is the best-sequenced pop record ever made. All the weird on side A. All the hits on side B. A two-minute instrumental, a Harrison drone about waiting on a friend who never shows, music hall played straight, Walrus, and then five singles with nothing to skip. Those five? Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Baby You're a Rich Man, and All You Need Is Love. No producer would sign off on that shape today!
I have fond memories of my grandfather driving my grandmother, brother, and I to his office. North on the 101 for 20 miles, listening to music from the 60s. Today a distant memory triggered when I listened to the Kinks. It really got me.
Pushed a big update to this site. New look and feel, and Atlas, Palabras, and Records are now online. Feels good to have them deployed.
Weeks and quarters produce output. Decades and centuries produce civilization.