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Letterboxd is one of the few websites that feels like it's working for me rather than against my interests. It will be a welcome miracle if it remains this way.

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My daughter and I still use SnapChat every day to send each other pics of our meals and sometimes a funny face using one of the filters. That's ALL I need SnapChat to do, but noooo.

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A recent version of SilverFast added this thing where it scans 3 frames of 35mm at once, as long as there are 3 strips in the holder that line up. It works really well and makes scanning go much...

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Dammit. I had to go and edit my Ghost theme. Just a little, but it still undermines my "letting somebody else drive" plans.

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https://baty.net/2024/11/roll-185-canon-ae-1-program-hp5/#FilmPhotography

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I just can't leave things alone.https://baty.net/2024/11/adding-an-edit-link-to-ghost-posts/

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I am 70 pages into Gibson's "Neuromancer" and will probably stop there. I know it was seminal and revolutionary at the time, but I'm not enjoying it enough to finish.I don't like any of the characters....

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I promised myself I'd finish my current Leuchtturm dot grid notebook, even though I don't like dot grids. 5mm rules are too small. Does anyone ignore the dots and just write at length with no regard to...

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I loaded the FM2n and remembered that I don't like its LED meter readout. Then I remembered how much fun it was shooting the AE-1 Program using auto exposure. Then I looked at an FM3a but they're very...

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I'm still not sure that I'll ever get used to having to pull the advance lever out to turn on the camera, though. It's dumb, and could end up a dealbreaker.

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How is it possible that one person can enjoy using both Evernote and Emacs at the same time?

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Who needs video games when I can spend the morning trying to find the right contact form on Amazon?

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I sure am glad that stopped using Hugo after spending so much time putting together a workflow and a handful of lisp functions to make posting using Hugo super smooth. 🙄

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While I wait for the FE2 to arrive, I was thinking about other Nikons I've owned over the years. For a while, I had an F6. That was a great camera, but I find the super-cheap F100 I still own to be a...

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I dug out my scan-with-digital-camera setup, just to see if I still think it's more trouble than it's worth. Tethering to Capture One on the iPad then using "Cloud Transfer" to my Mac works great. But...

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Anyone have a coin I can flip?

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If someone were to want to do as much as possible in a web browser, which feed reader should they try?

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Some quick notes on the software I had fun trying today. https://baty.net/2024/11/fun-with-software-today/

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I'd use the original X100 (2011) more often, but the autofocus is so slow that I'd rather use manual focus, but manual focus on this camera is the opposite of fun. It's a gas to play with once in a...

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Do not think me gentlebecause I speak in praiseof gentleness, or elegantbecause I honor the gracethat keeps this world. I ama man crude as any,gross of speech, intolerant,stubborn, angry, fullof fits...

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