I’ve been keeping a journal using Org-journal in Emacs since 2016. I’ve got the writing process nailed. I’ve configured it so that with just a few keystrokes I can export it to a nice PDF file every month for archiving and printing. I have no complaints. The
Analog
I still call this my “analog” desk. It’s for reading real books and articles. It’s for journaling. It’s for painting and drawing. It’s for sitting and staring out the window, even if the view is only that of a cul-de-sac in a boring middle-class suburb. I
Analog
Back in photo.net’s and rangefinderforum.com’s prime, there was a gruff, opinionated, brilliant, and helpful forum member and photographer named Al Kaplan. He helped me a great deal after I got my first Leica. When he died in 2010, his family sold mugs and T-shirts to raise
So I've been thinking about what to do with baty.net. After firing up my old-school looking WordPress blog at rudimentarylathe.org, I kind of want to move away from static blogging for a while. But I don't want to migrate the content here at baty.
Tornadoes blew through nearby and took our power with them for a couple of days. I keep my film in a small fridge in my office, so when the ice in the freezer section melted, it soaked my large format film boxes. While disappointing, most of the film had been
Photography
I sold my previous Q, a Q2 Monochrom, in spring of 2022. I was all in with the M10-R at the time, and I didn't feel the need for another small-ish digital camera, so the Q2M was sold. I've been shooting digital with a Leica SL2
I spent Fathers' Day with my dad and my daughter, so that was pretty perfect.
There was something about the PaperMod theme I was using here that didn't sit right with me. It's a nice theme, but off somehow. So I've gone back to Congo. I have some issues with Congo, too, but it's well-supported and being
Blogging
Today {#today} I'm still working through what goes into daily notes vs separate blog posts. My old rule was that anything longer than a short paragraph got its own post. Now, though, I think I prefer keeping things in the daily posts unless they need their own post.
Various & Sundry {#various-and-sundry} Controversial opinion: Not everything needs to be in Markdown. I'm looking forward to when AI becomes boring and we spend our time using it for stuff rather than talking about it incessantly. Mimestream early impressions {#mimestream-early-impressions} I am quite enjoying Mimestream for managing email.
Memorial Day with family with the Leica MP, 50mm Summilux, and a roll of HP5.