Bookshelf Exadelic The world’s most powerful artificial intelligence machine has decided you are a threat and is targeting you. From there, anything goes. I’d give this a 3 out of 5 stars because 3/4 through and the novel has lost it’s way diving into computer science and black
Micro 108/366 Today is the 108th day of the year and I have 108 images posted for the 366/2024 photo project. One photo a day, every day for a year so far using the Hipstamatic model 10 camera.
Micro Minor Annoyances My sleep schedule is off. My weight is over. My creativity is stifled even though I have major ideas I want to tinker with. All because of this move prep. Cannot wait to eventually get settled so I can correct these annoyances.
Newsletter Goodbye, Things “When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” - Lau Tzu This will be the last newsletter for a few weeks until I have completed another cross-country move. Once I am done with relocating to Florida and have unpacked and then organize, I can start
Journal Totality After a three hour drive to Paris, Arkansas, I parked the car behind a roadside bar and awaited the moon to orbit in between the Sun and the Earth. I’ve experienced multiple solar and lunar eclipses but this was by far the best In a total coverage of the
Photography Create > Document Recently, I discussed how my photography is now more of a documentary style rather than a portrait or landscape genre. But now that I have some time, I want to dive in and play with the existing images to create something entirely different. Long ago, I purchased Pixelmator Pro, the
Epigraph Follow "The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can." – Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Reading The Book Finds You “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” — Haruki Murakami Picture yourself walking through the halls and shelves of a vast library. Among the endless rows of books, one catches your eye. You reach out, and as your
Micro Self Care After months of traveling on the road for work, poor nutrition habits and then stop working, my body has had enough. I've crammed the 15 pounds lost last year back inside. My blood pressure has suffered. The clothes are tighter. I feel like crap. I resubscribed to Apple
Epigraph Strict Tolerance Be strict with yourself and tolerant of others. Your standards are for you.
Micro Unintended Consequences I hear the phrase "Don't Care. Didn't Ask." quite a bit and only recently realized it hits harder than expected.
Micro Hot After three years of owning this MacBook Pro with the M1 silicon chip, I got to hear the internal fan for the very first time. This machine can take quite a lot, but while I was importing images into Lightroom from an external hard drive, I was also uploading other
Journal Suspension Ever since voluntarily leaving my job one month ago I've done my best to keep busy but this is slowing down. I'm grateful to have some dedicated time to complete a few personal projects and work on a few more. But I am in a state
Epigraph Mystery “We don't know enough about ourselves. I think it's better to know that you don't know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that's why so many
Micro Breaking In The Ricoh I took the new Ricoh GR out for a walk yesterday to see how it performs under harsh lighting conditions. The images are just as sharp and vibrant as expected. But ugh, the scenery and subject matter is still the same so not really chuffed about them. I crave something
Photography Document > Create In the early years of my photography hobby, I would venture out and search for the most creative shots I could find. Using various tips and techniques that I had read about, I would try creative angles one day. Then the next outing would creatively use monochrome shots or some
Newsletter The “La Flor Dominicana” Factory Tour Hello and thanks for subscribing to the newsletter! Because of recent news of events on the island of Hispaniola, I've recalled a lot of memories from a few years ago when I was invited to photograph, document and serve the ongoing Christian missionary works based in Santiago de
Reading S. My tsundoku keeps multiplying and I won't apologize for this self-infliction. I saw this beautiful novel titled S. in a bookstore recently and decided I had to have it knowing very little about this other than it was sealed in plastic, but well designed. I was not disappointed.
Photography Ricoh GR I know, I know. I can hear you bringing this up to me when I said "new year, no new gear." After weeks of waiting, I finally have a new camera in my hands. I said goodbye to my fantastic but bulky Nikon D90 DSLR and lenses and
Photography Photo Archive Site This new website has been designated as a repository for a small set of images to be stored online instead of an expensive third-party photo hosting site (see ya, Flickr!). The actual photo archives are numbered to almost 50,000 images, so only a select few are chosen to be
Photography Tulsa At 6am I decided to go for a walk and capture a view of downtown Tulsa this morning. I set the iPhone shutter to open for 3 seconds to capture light streaks and capture it in RAW. Then I decided to go without light streaks, for a straight scenic view:
Technology ugh Parsing an exported .json file into something readable like a plain .txt format is proving troublesome. These are old posts that need to be translated and then migrated over to the Archives site since they were not imported due to these .json errors. Unfortunately, there has been no easy solution.