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I added a keybinding to my #Emacs config which maps CMD-p to the same thing as M-x (execute-extended-command) so that now Emacs works more like Obsidian. Am I a bad person?

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I could just snort those shavings.

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I'm coining a new acronym for myself: RASMA. It stands for "Reduce and Simplify, my ass!" and it describes my complete failure to do the one thing I promised myself I would do this year. This photo of...

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BoothLeica M3. 50mm Summilux ASPH. HP5. https://glass.photo/jbaty/7aXG2TQ4q4MKIlToNeRf32#FilmPhotography

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Alice enjoying the sunshine, pleased that there's now a Dog category on Glass.photoLeica M3. 50mm Summilux ASPH. HP5. https://glass.photo/jbaty/2RMScadVRySlOHbXaGtoLc#FilmPhotography

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This Leica M3 was made in 1960. I bought it in 2012. I had DAG give it a complete CLA in 2019. It's the smoothest, nicest-feeling camera I've ever used. It's also a beautiful, timeless work of art and...

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I mean, just look at the back of the M3. There's basically a hole to look through and that's it.#FilmPhotography#Leica

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Coffee mug (2015). This photo is one of the reasons I love film and film cameras. It's grainy and there's some motion blur, but I love it. I probably wouldn't have taken it if not for wanting to use up...

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I took a digital camera to a family event recently. When I returned home, I imported the SD card into Lightroom and just sat and stared at a wall of nearly identical thumbnails. Hundreds of them. The...

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I give up. This is just how it's going to be, I guess.

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I'm mad at the trend of creating giant social media (open graph) images for blog posts that don't otherwise have images. They're basically ads.

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I was feeling crabby today so I made a Nope page on my blog. https://baty.net/nope

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Some people play video games. I tinker with my blogs and note-taking software. It's OK.

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The new iPads are so thin I'll hardly even notice it sitting unused in a corner with the others.

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I just added notes about the new Casual Dired Emacs package as a tiddler to the wiki, a Markdown file in Obsidian, and as a Howm note in Emacs. It's going to be one of those days, I guess.

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Car rides were chaotic for me in 2012.

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The Howm #emacs package does certain things much like TiddlyWiki does. In a good way. https://baty.net/2024/05/howm-reminds-me-of-tiddlywiki

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I've had this Markdown->Pandoc->LaTeX->PDF personal letter template for years, but I don't use it nearly enough. Maybe I'll start writing emails and blog posts as letters instead, and then...

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The placeholder is from a letter by Nietzsche. This is a great line: "When I and my steed gallop round the large parade ground, I feel very contented with my lot."

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I always wanted to direct. (Behind the scenes at "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Disney World, 1996)

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