2021-10-16: Trying Gluon for this place. Nice looking app. Digging it.
2021-10-14: The best I could do. Animals (October Photoblogging Challenge, Day 13. @agilelisa)
2021-10-13: Absolutely stumped on ideas for today’s prompt legend. So here’s a book I’m reading by one. (October …
2021-10-11: I’m American, so I’m taking today’s prompt (hygge) to mean things that give comfort. (October …
2021-10-10: Bridges. The under side of them, at least. Fun fact: the one on the right was kilometer zero for the …
2021-10-09: It cannot be overstated how comforting it is to live in a place that’s so safe you can walk around, …
2021-10-09: Twilight on my early morning bike ride. (Day 8 of the October Photoblogging Challenge @rom).
2021-10-07: Goodbye old 10-gig iPod.
2021-10-07: Walked all over hell and gone and couldn’t think of anything for spice. Then Halide’s macro mode …
2021-10-06: Had no worthwhile ideas for street, so I decided to just take a shot down the road I live on. Maybe, …
2021-10-05: Some Yodae. (October photoblogging challenge: toy @Gaby)
2021-10-04: As it happens, I got blood drawn/tested today. (A lot of it….) The needle was (needles were) sharp. …
2021-10-03: Majority. (Day three of the October Photoblogging Challenge. @jemostrom)
2021-10-02: Day 2: Dark. (October photoblogging challenge. @pratik.)
2021-10-01: A touch of rain. Then a typhoon came. (October photoblogging challenge. Day 1 @warner) 📷
2021-09-29: Bias buries its bodies in consequences. –Marcus Thompson II, The Athletic: “Sha’Carri Richardson got …
2021-09-29: One gets hardened in time. –unnamed WWI soldier, quoted in Dan Carlin’s Blueprint for Armageddon III …
2021-09-29: I am only capable of love and hate. And I hate General Falkenhayn. –Erich Ludendorff
2021-09-29: Took an agitated 81+km ride this morning after waking up early. Never felt like I had any gas, and …
2021-09-28: That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.” —P.C. Hodgell ❝❞
2021-09-28: The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for …
2021-09-26: Stuck my broken SX-70’s ND filter onto a friend’s old iPhone 5 and took photos with it on a long …
2021-09-26: There’s no subtext to anything in the suburbs. –John Roderick; Roderick on the Line; episode 395, …
2021-09-26: If you don’t know what the problem is, you don’t know where to assign blame. —John Siracusa, …
2021-09-26: The only thing people hate more than the status quo is change of any type. –Svante Myrick, Mayor of …
2021-09-26: (Of the 1960s) Every time you turned around, some nut was knocking off one of the best men in the …
2021-09-26: So much of high school feels like you’re getting a master’s degree in jr high. –Merlin Mann, …
2021-09-26: The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re …
2021-09-25: Quote 8: Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. –Pablo Picasso ❝❞
2021-09-25: Quote 7: Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. –Marvin Bell ❝❞
2021-09-25: Quote 6: For spry minds, inspiration comes from everywhere. – Jason Kottke. ❝❞
2021-09-25: Quote 5: But the march of science crushes even masterpieces! – Jules Verne; From the Earth to the …
2021-09-25: Quote 4: Countries don’t get humiliated. People do. –Tommy Vietor; “Pod Save America”; …
2021-09-25: Quote 3: No financial pressure has ever stopped a war in progress. –Horatio Herbert Kitchener ❝❞
2021-09-25: Quote 2: You can misuse anything. –Chris Lattner, on ATP/Accidental Tech Podcast, ep 371 ❝❞
2021-09-25: Quote 1: There’s all kinds of ways to rationalize what you don’t want to learn. –Dan Carlin; …
2021-03-10: I watched All About Eve for only the second time last night. The first time was probably around 25 …
2021-03-07: Speaking of Hey: I didn’t understand why e-mail newsletters seem so popular recently – who …
2021-03-07: Signed up for Hey – the e-mail service – and almost immediately realized there are a couple ways I …
2021-02-27: The Starbucks-Radio station playing in this Starbucks is playing “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My …
2021-02-27: Sitting in a Starbucks again, editing a thesis (about fashion, whereof I know nothing), absolutely …
2021-02-26: Sitting in Starbucks again. Finished my work, so now I’m watching the Clippers game. I could …
2021-02-17: Anybody got any good Alfred tips?
2021-02-16: Strongroom (1962) is incredible. Great movie. 🍿 🎥 youtu.be/jftJYw2Eu…
2021-02-10: Typing from my new M1 MacBook Pro.
2021-02-02: The worst part of updating a credit card is the struggle to remember all the places the old one was …
2021-01-24: Just became my birthday. Set up my HomePod (midnight gift). It starts by playing some Springsteen, …
2021-01-12: You know who I think has his head up his ass? That Donald Trump.
2021-01-09: I’m not sure what this place should be, or how it should differ from the (admittedly now …
2021-01-06: Just finished season 2 of the Mandalorian. I’ma need a minute.
2020-12-31: The Midnight Sky is deeply flawed, but I liked its pacing and somber tone. Would’ve spent …
2020-12-24: I never start listening to Christmas music early enough. It’s Christmas Eve. I’ve only listened a …
2020-12-24: Another advantage of catching up on podcasts: I can listen to Christmas music. Currently playing: …
2020-12-23: Road House (1948) is pretty decent, even without Patrick Swayze. Lupino was fantastic.
2020-12-19: Thinking about watching all the Marvel movies, which I’ve largely avoided. Rewatching the first Iron …
2020-12-18: The Bigamist is absolutely fascinating. 🍿
2020-12-17: Shadow of a Doubt is perfect. And I say that without a shadow of a doubt. 🍿🎥
2020-12-15: I’d be lost without a sense of direction.
2020-12-14: I never believe signatures in movies. Each time they’re shown, they look like they were farted off …
2020-12-14: One great thing about movies from the ‘40s is you get to see really vigorous handshakes. Like there …
2020-12-14: Best corrected misspelling of today: Bard Pitt.
2020-12-12: After watching The Program (2015) and The Program (1993), both disappointing, I decided to rewatch …
2020-12-10: Stairs.
2020-12-10: Taken at the future home of the Jade Ore Museum, apparently.
2020-12-10: Running my first-ever (I think) Automator workflow. Converting 145 HEIC images to PNGs. About …
2020-12-09: I fucking love The Rewatchables. 🎙🍿
2020-12-09: The no-likes feature should be rethought. It would be nice to show appreciation for a thing without …
2020-12-07: The more I think about Mank, the less I like it. I’ll watch it again in the new year (because …
2020-12-06: A lady in white.
2020-12-06: Saw Mank. Gonna take more time to digest. And at least another viewing. 🍿
2020-12-05: The only donut that matters (here). The glazed old fashioned, from Mister Donut. I ate this. (I …
2020-12-04: Zodiac is one of the most unsettling movies I’ve ever seen. It’s great. It’s not an enjoyable watch …
2020-12-01: Adrian Tomine’s work is always incredible.
2020-12-01: The fuckin’ Depahted, dude. 🍿
2020-11-30: They pulled off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man. 🍿 (RIP.)
2020-11-30: Darth Rebar would be all, “May the reinforce be with you.” #mbnov
2020-11-30: My pedestrian daily activity is walking. (Sorry.) #mbnov
2020-11-30: Finally caught Motherless Brooklyn. Great atmosphere; couple silly bits but a largely effective …
2020-11-29: “One of the things that’s so great about movies is they give you an opportunity for raw hatred.” …
2020-11-29: For people who like smiles, or communicate with some level of lip-reading (👋🏻), masks are a pain in …
2020-11-28: Just watched State of Play – a movie I don’t remember even hearing about – on Netflix. Not bad, …
2020-11-27: Had a hot chocolate (ホットココア) while taking a long walk home last night. In the background, you can …
2020-11-27: I had a lesson/conversation with a fun and funny lady whose grandfather was in China during the …
2020-11-27: Shampoo is pretty good. I watched the Carrie Fischer scene for quite a while before asking, aloud to …
2020-11-25: An airplane. And the Sony building…. (Fujifilm X100.)
2020-11-25: Finished The Wolf of Wall Street (again) today, and started 8mm. The first is incredible. The second …
2020-11-20: Baffled by the Instagram change. Apparently photos are no longer allowed and it’s a video service …
2020-11-19: Extended my visa for another three years today. Or it was extended by the people with the power to …
2020-11-19: I’m correcting a thing where the person argues that immediate and violent retaliation is the …
2020-11-19: “The Folkland Islands” is the cutest misspelling I’ve seen in a while.
2020-11-19: Real dependance is living somewhere at the pleasure (and whims) of the government. #mbnov
2020-11-19: Waiting in Immigration for my visa extension. Thought of this, from the Thin Red Line – which only …
2020-11-18: That’s a lotta smog.
2020-11-17: In the main, living in Tokyo isn’t that different living in any other massive city, or so it …
2020-10-30: I’m correcting a thing that is addressed to a “Mr Lint”. I laughed out loud. “Mr Lint, why are …