2023-03-05: 🍿 Creed III (2023) The movie itself was fine: My parking lot comment was “very efficient …
2023-03-01: Oh, nice. I put the two non-Airplay Sonos 1’s in my office, but I hate the Sonos app so much. …
2023-02-24: 🎮 Tetris Effect (2018) I had a Gameboy when they came out and have missed Tetris on that for 30 …
2023-02-24: omg it's a weekly update (2023-02-24) Week of 2023-02-19 📷 Photography The snow gave and the snow took away this week. We had a winter …
2023-02-22: Night Snow Walk, 2023-02-22 Lents, Portland, OR #photography #pdxtst #monochrome #fujifilm …
2023-02-22: Another small “thanks, past me” moment: I was struggling with an app that replaces a …
2023-02-22: Two things I am grateful for: 8 years ago I used my office allowance from The Foundation We Will …
2023-02-21: Whenever I’m going over why 1999 was an amazing, awesome year for movies I miss Ghost Dog …
2023-02-19: One false start, but I’ve got the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter in place with my CenturyLink connection …
2023-02-17: omg it's a weekly update (2023-02-17) Week of 2023-02-12 📷 Photography I took a few pictures every morning this week. It was pretty cold …
2023-02-16: Coffee Walk, 2023-02-16 Foster Road Floodplain Lents, Portland, Oregon #SpringwaterCorridor …
2023-02-16: Streetpass for Firefox is kinda cool: As you visit sites with Mastodon verification links, it …
2023-02-15: This is a nice workflow for Alfred. It indexes all your Sublime projects for quick opening with st …
2023-02-12: omg it's a weekly update (2023-02-11) Week of 2023-02-05 📷 Photography This wasn't a great week for taking pictures. I got out a few times …
2023-02-11: 🍿 Minority Report (2002) Huh. Well, the CG became more distracting than Tom Cruise.
2023-02-11: Subscription service for Apple devices where you’re entitled to two of: iPad mini iPad Pro …
2023-02-11: When I was a managing editor I’d tell people interested in switching from straight reporting …
2023-02-07: I was a managing editor in tech journalism for years & the current deluge of AI scare stories …
2023-02-06: 🎮 Elite: Dangerous (2014) Another old favorite. I used to play Elite until dawn on a Commodore 64 in …
2023-02-04: Saturday Coffee Walk, 2023-02-04 Mt. Scott/Arleta Portland, OR #portland #pdx #photography …
2023-02-04: 🎮 WipEout Omega Collection (2017) First thing on my new (to me) PS4. I played the original to death …
2023-02-03: omg it's a weekly update (2023-02-03) Week of 2023-01-29 📷 Photography It was really cold this week, so we didn't take many coffee walks, …
2023-02-03: Weekly update: mph.weblog.lol/2023/02
2023-02-03: omg it's a weekly update (2023-02-03) Week of 2023-01-29 📷 Photography It was really cold this week, so we didn't take many coffee walks, …
2023-02-03: Coffee Walk, 2023-02-03 Foster Road, Portland, OR #portland #pdx #FosterRoad #fujifilm …
2023-02-03: #FensterFreitag #portland #pdx #Woodstock #photography #fujifilm
2023-02-02: Making a Picture of the Week feature on Hugo: <mph.url.lol/potw-on-h…> #hugo …
2023-02-01: Currently reading: Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚 Off to a good start!
2023-02-01: Just had one of those unburdening moments as I sat fretting about permalinks & realized I should …
2023-01-31: Lunch Walk, 2023-01-31 Alberta St. Portland, OR #alberta #portland #pdx #StreetArt #photography …
2023-01-31: Updated my Hugo poster to includes time and tz offset: <paste.lol/mph/hpost…> If …
2023-01-29: Very quick little Hugo posting script that lets you set title, tags and category, then makes a …
2023-01-29: I updated my tags shortcode to include a little Mastodon icon at the front of the line since the …
2023-01-29: #SilentSunday #OregonCoast #manzanita #pnw #photography
2023-01-28: I’ve got a test instance of my new Hugo site running on Cloudflare. I built an “image of …
2023-01-28: imgup kept getting slower and slower, then I realized “oh, it’s returning the whole …
2023-01-28: The other thing I’m debating is how much old content to bring in. I have 18 years of posts …
2023-01-28: I’m close to switching from a heavy Jekyll site to something lighter on Hugo. SimpleCSS is …
2023-01-28: Saturday Coffee Walk, 2023-01-28 (Exteriors) Foster Road Portland, OR #FosterRoad #portland …
2023-01-28: Saturday Coffee Walk, 2023-01-28 (That Fence Edition) Mt. Scott/Arleta Portland, OR #portland …
2023-01-28: Saturday Coffee Walk, 2023-01-28 (Little Things) Mt. Scott/Arleta, Foster Road Portland, OR …
2023-01-27: Columbia River Gorge at Dusk, 2023-01-27 Corbett, OR The light gave out and there’s a lot of …
2023-01-27: Mt. Hood from Horse Thief Butte, 2023-01-26 Columbia River Gorge Washington
2023-01-27: Horse Thief Butte, 2023-01-26 Columbia River Gorge Washington The light was tricky and hard, so at …
2023-01-27: Drive Down the Gorge, 2023-01-26 Columbia River Gorge Washington Second of several. Horse Thief …
2023-01-27: Drive Down the Gorge, 2023-01-26 Columbia River Gorge Washington One of several tk. Took a drive …
2023-01-27: omg it's a weekly update (2023-01-27) Week of 2023-01-22 📷 Photography The highlight of the week was for sure a trip down the Columbia …
2023-01-26: omg it's a weekly update (2023-01-27) Week of 2023-01-22 📷 Photography The highlight of the week was for sure a trip down the Columbia …
2023-01-25: I wanted to make hashtags link to something more useful on my micro.blog blog so I made a shortcode …
2023-01-25: Well, the happiest medium I can figure out for crossposting from micro.blog to Mastodon while still …
2023-01-25: Atlas Van Lines, 2023-01-23 Luther Rd. Natural Area, Springwater Corridor Portland, OR #portland …
2023-01-25: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-25 Springwater Trail, Foster Floodplain Natural Area Lents, Portland, OR …
2023-01-24: I left out the salmon I caught this morning, so here they are.
2023-01-24: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-24 Foster Road, Mt. Scott Portland, OR #portland #pdx #MtScott #FosterRoad …
2023-01-24: About Hi, I’m Mike Hall. I live in Portland, OR. Here are some things I like: Movies! If I had to list …
2023-01-24: Colophon The site it built with Hugo, a static site generator. The theme is hugo-simple-css. hugo-simple-css …
2023-01-23: Haircut Loitering, 2023-01-23 Downtown Portland, OR My barber was running late so I drank a …
2023-01-23: Haircut Day, 2023-01-23 Downtown Portland, OR Downtown for lunch with a former colleague and a …
2023-01-23: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-23 Foster Road, Mt. Scott/Arleta Portland, OR #FosterRoad #Portland #pdx …
2023-01-22: Working on my homepage. Wanted to get the branding right for each social network.
2023-01-21: My first swing at overriding the basic palette for SimpleCSS was overdone. This pulls in …
2023-01-20: 📺 The Wire (2002) - ★★★★★ Doing a rewatch. Wonder how the last season will land this time.
2023-01-20: omg it's a weekly update (2023-01-21) Week of 2023-01-20 📷 Photography Most of my photography energy went to workflow stuff. I finished up …
2023-01-20: #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #photography #LeicaQ2
2023-01-20: Added a "recents" page to imgup's SmugMug branch Last night I finished up the /recent page for imgup’s SmugMug version. It provides the last 20 …
2023-01-20: 📺 The Last of Us (2023) - ★★★★ Hope it keeps up the standard set in E1. Also hope it doesn’t go full …
2023-01-19: omg it's a weekly update (2023-01-21) Week of 2023-01-20 📷 Photography Most of my photography energy went to workflow stuff. I finished up …
2023-01-19: imgup (now with SmugMug as the image upload backend) I finished up the initial SmugMug version of imgup today. There are some things I’d like to …
2023-01-19: 🎵 I Told You So - Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio brain.fm has been fine, but honestly I think this is just …
2023-01-19: Currently reading: Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚 In the home stretch. It’s like KSR woke up one …
2023-01-19: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-19 Foster Road, Portland, OR Bonus self portrait.
2023-01-17: oAuth, rubocop, a Drupal recollection, and the value of play oAuth is sort of a pain. Now that I sort of know how to plumb it in – enough that I’m …
2023-01-17: I found a lab result on the Kaiser website from 2012 I never opened. I often struggle to remember …
2023-01-17: Shortcut: upload stuff to Cloudflare Images service I made a shortcut that pretty much does what imgup does, except from an iPhone (or Mac, I guess, if …
2023-01-17: Coffee Walk (No Coffee, Just Doctors Edition), 2023-01-17 Mt. Scott Medical Clinic Happy Valley, OR …
2023-01-16: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-16 Mt. Scott, Foster Road Portland, OR
2023-01-16: calling imgup Today I put the last things into imgup I need to just run it and use it. I cleaned up the result …
2023-01-15: I added an image uploader to omgloldev today. Pick an image It uploads to Cloudflare’s image …
2023-01-15: 💻 Yesterday was “learn oauth” day. It was frustrating. After a day I have a working …
2023-01-15: 🍿I’ve got a Letterboxd account now: It sounds like a system service and that’s how I …
2023-01-14: 🍿 M3GAN (2023) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Best kind of silly
2023-01-14: Saturday Coffee Walk (House with an Interesting Fence Edition), 2023-01-14 Mt. Scott/Arleta …
2023-01-14: Saturday Woodstock Coffee Walk, 2023-01-14 Lents, Woodstock, Mt. Scott-Arleta Portland, OR …
2023-01-13: Want to read: The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber 📚 It’s time to revisit this one in light of …
2023-01-13: I need to add feeds and tweak some stuff but my weblog.lol blog will be fine for a weekly status …
2023-01-13: Insomnia-driven development and omgloldev 1.0 Well, it was an insomnia night so I came downstairs to finish up. It took a little work to evade the …
2023-01-12: omgloldev - now with a copyable raw template code view A little more progress on omgloldev tonight: I put the conditional logic in the haml template such …
2023-01-12: Wondering what the magic formula is for sharing images on micro.blog. Something somewhere in the …
2023-01-12: I have 3 Obsidian kanbans: One is a WIP tracker and two are process trackers. I wanted a way to copy …
2023-01-12: omg it's a weekly update (2023-01-12) Week of 2023-01-08 📷 Photography It was a quiet week for pictures. We skipped longer morning coffee …
2023-01-12: Abbreviated Non-Coffee Walk, 2023-01-12 Lents, Portland, OR Razed house down the block from us.
2023-01-11: omg it's a weekly update (2023-01-12) Week of 2023-01-08 📷 Photography It was a quiet week for pictures. We skipped longer morning coffee …
2023-01-11: Took me an unreasonable number of guesses to make the red squigglies go away on my …
2023-01-11: I’ve had enough luck with Obsidian kanbans that I’m willing to use it again, so …
2023-01-11: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-11 Springwater Trail, Foster Floodplain Lents, Portland, OR “Tear Stained …
2023-01-10: 🧠 I’m trying out brain.fm this week. I had some of those light goggle 20 years ago, so I think …
2023-01-10: Seems more fun to be a bear who can dance, however poorly, than a bear who only fishes. You need …
2023-01-10: Okay. This morning’s “me time” sprint is “build a HAML- and Sinatra-based …
2023-01-10: I don’t know if it’s a new thing or if I stumbled across a setting or what, but the X-T5 …
2023-01-10: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-10 (Regular Edition) Foster Road Portland, OR A meter reader appeared this …
2023-01-10: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-10 (“House with the Good Fence” Edition) Mt. Scott-Arleta Portland, …
2023-01-09: Coffee Walk Relocated, 2023-01-09 Biscuits Cafe Happy Valley, OR Didn’t feel like getting …
2023-01-08: Everyone could use a hug. A few thoughts on a couple of Masto photography squabbles. This weekend I saw a few culture-clashes go by around the topic of photography that helped my …
2023-01-08: Giving Readwise Reader another chance. I mistakenly dumped my RSS reader’s OPML into it, and …
2023-01-07: Build an OPML file of new stuff in ohh.directory so you don't have to visit site-by-site in a browser I love that ooh.directory exists: It’s a clean, simple, helpful directory of blogs. The site …
2023-01-07: Why Feedly, and why Feedly + something else I like Feedly as an RSS back-end a lot. There are other RSS services that offer keyword filtering, …
2023-01-06: Make an omg.lol pURL v2: Drafts native, no dialog Make an omg.lol pURL v2: No need for Shortcuts, uses name|url. The Draft is here (unlisted … …
2023-01-06: An Apple Shortcuts shortcut to use with Drafts to make omg.lol pURLs from selected text 🔗🧑🏻🔬🧪🔥 I made a thing. I was posting a link to Mastodon this morning and went just over the 500-character …
2023-01-06: Do I know any Apple Shortcuts users who can tell me why my options for an “if” action …
2023-01-06: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-06 (Regular Edition) Lents, Foster Road Portland, OR
2023-01-06: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-06 (Traffic Crash Edition) Foster Road, Portland, OR Not sure what happened but …
2023-01-05: Drafts -> Inbox of an Obsidian kanban is pretty handy. I like making a card for a writing idea …
2023-01-05: The dreaded “back in ten minutes” till change at Plaid Pantry. Nothing to do but mill around and …
2023-01-05: Probably asking for it, trying to get things done with both a new tool (Nova) and a new CMS (Hugo), …
2023-01-04: Just enough to get you going with adding a text overlay with rmagick: marcgg.com/blog/2020… …
2023-01-04: Just remembered why I had that hacky Shortcuts workaround for daily pages: the reMarkable …
2023-01-04: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-04 Lents, Mt. Scott Portland, OR “Tear Stained Eye,” Son Volt …
2023-01-03: I used NoteTo to make a nicer version of the reMarkable daily page I built in Apple Pages a while …
2023-01-03: reMarkable v3 arrives and I have impressions and questions My reMarkable finally got the v3 update and, a day and some change later, the desktop client …
2023-01-03: The Portland Outdoor Store (2016-2022) Downtown Portland, OR Fujifilm X100F, X-T2/5, X-Pro3; Leica …
2023-01-03: The first 2023 edition of Erin Kissane’s Calm Covid is out. Every time I read it I’m …
2023-01-03: Well, done with Phase 0 Once I knew my time at Puppet was winding down I took stock and decided to take a break. I gave …
2023-01-03: Coffee Walk, 2023-01-03 Lents, Mt. Scott, Foster Road Portland, OR
2023-01-02: Going through that thing with my reMarkable where I’m frustrated with some of their design …
2023-01-02: Short, pretty walk at Portland Audobon, 2023-01-02 Portland, OR
2023-01-02: A Lightroom feature wish and a non-resolution I’d like a way to lock images in Lightroom or otherwise add a tiny bit of friction to just …
2023-01-01: Rare opp’ty to take out the Fuji XF35mmF1.4 today. It was my first Fujifilm lens & I love it, …
2023-01-01: Just let me shoot, revisited^3 After two weeks of my previously described low-frills camera setup I think I am ready to stop …
2023-01-01: Foster Floodplain at Dusk, 2023-01-01 Foster Floodplain Natural Area Lents, Portland, Oregon
2023-01-01: Walk to the Checkers Mart, 2023-01-01 Lents, Portland, Oregon Ben celebrated a little hard, so we …
2023-01-01: Foster Floodplain Details, 2023-01-01 Foster Floodplain Natural Area Portland, OR
2023-01-01: Kelly’s Olympian, 2016-2022 Downtown Portland, Oregon Fujifilm X-T2,4,5; X-Pro3; Leica Q2 …
2022-12-31: Happy new year, everybody!
2022-12-31: Bread and Roses Market Foster Road, Portland, OR Sort of an extended coffee walk today that took us …
2022-12-31: Coffee Walk, 2022-12-31 Foster Road, Portland, OR “Just Another Sucker on the Vine,” Tom …
2022-12-30: The unrelaxed photographer (on taking pictures on the street) It was nice to be given permission to take pictures inside the Outdoor Store. There aren’t a …
2022-12-30: Downtown Portland Coffee Walk, 2022-11-30 Fujifilm X-T5, XF23mmF2 WR Al had to get a photo taken for …
2022-12-30: Portland Outdoor Store Portland, OR Fujifilm X-T5, XF23mmF2 WR Gallery: …
2022-12-29: One last post to squeeze a few more favorites in and make sure to include Mt. Scott Fuel, maker of …
2022-12-29: 2022 was also the end of my ten-year run at Puppet. From tech writer to sr. director of IT ops, with …
2022-12-29: 2022 was also the year Ben graduated from high school and moved down to Eugene. He’s been home …
2022-12-29: My favorite photo outing of 2022 was a trip to Northern California and the Redwoods. We stopped all …
2022-12-29: Morning Coffee Walk, 2022-12-29 Springwater Corridor Trail, Lents, Portland “Criminals,” …
2022-12-29: Just going with WP. The "P" stands for "Punting." It is no fun trying to figure out how to syndicate photos if you don’t own some part of the …
2022-12-28: It always comes back to that chart Matt Gemmell on using Drafts as a local wiki: “Drafts on iPadOS, iOS, and macOS can now be …
2022-12-28: Finding the rhythm A good thing about morning coffee walks is that I am content to see the same thing each day and try …
2022-12-28: Coffee Walk, 2022-12-28 Mt. Scott/Foster Road, Portland, OR Al spotted mushrooms, it was busy in …
2022-12-27: Lightroom Sorted It took a whole day at the desk but I think Lightroom is straightened out: Everything that exists …
2022-12-27: That time I decided I was going to do a web comic with plastic soldiers and Ben’s toys.
2022-12-27: The time Ben took on the big-time Hearthstone guy from Seattle in a tournament.
2022-12-27: Dapper Dashboard Shriner
2022-12-27: Fiddling with Drafts. It's a lot. I spent a while this morning cleaning up my Drafts actions and making it a little more focused for …
2022-12-26: It sort of has to work on my phone these days. Unbundling Tools for Thought Short version: Tools for thought promise to let you centralize and …
2022-12-26: Damp Coffee Walk, 2022-12- 26 Mt. Scott/Arleta, Portland, OR Fujifilm X-T5, XF35mmF2 WR I can always …
2022-12-26: Station Attendant Lents, Portland, OR Leica Q2
2022-12-25: Observation Deck Chicago, IL Fujifilm X-T2, XF23mmF2 WR
2022-12-25: Christmas Foster Floodplain Natural Area details Foster Floodplain Natural Area, Portland, OR …
2022-12-25: Priest Hole John Day River, Oregon Fujifilm X-T4, XF16-80mmF4 WR
2022-12-25: I’d like to come at all my web stuff from a sort of unixy “string of single-purpose …
2022-12-24: Side street
2022-12-24: Rainy day in Chicago Chicago, IL Fujifilm X-T2, XF23mmF2 WR
2022-12-24: Chicago on a rainy day, 2017 Chicago, IL Fujifilm X-T2, XF23mmF2 WR Makzo, Hereafter #photography …
2022-12-24: Santa Pioneer Place, Portland, OR Fujifilm X-T5, XF27mmF2.8 WR One of my holiday traditions is to …
2022-12-24: Something seems to be weird about PIxelfed’s Atom feed – micro.blog logs show a parse …
2022-12-24: Pile of black stuff Somewhere off Foster Road, Portland
2022-12-24: Al Overboard Diamond Lake, Oregon Fujifilm X-T4, XF10-24mmF4 R Delayed, Little Spirit #DiamondLake …
2022-12-24: Cape Disappointment Beach Long Beach WA Fujifilm X-T2, XF35mmF2 WR Philanthrope, Cabin in the Woods …
2022-12-24: Cape Disappointment Jetty Long Beach, WA Fujifilm X-T2, XF35mmF2 WR Philanthrope, Cabin in the Woods …
2022-12-24: Kelly Elementary School, 2021 Ghost Poet, Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam Leica Q2
2022-12-24: A photo is found; delayed thoughts on the 6 Jun 20 BLM march The act of dividing catalogs and using Lightroom to find some missing files triggered a bunch of …
2022-12-23: Photo management blues, but light at the end of the tunnel That’s a picture of a giant steer head taken from the front seat of the U-Haul Al and I moved out …
2022-12-23: Wi-Fi New Clean Rooms (Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood) FujiFilm X-Pro3, XF35mmF1.4R
2022-12-22: In the process of thinking about everything boxes and iOS/iPadOS, I came back across a useful thing: …
2022-12-22: Throwback Thursday. Me with a Korean politician in Waegwan, RoK, 1995. I was stationed with the …
2022-12-22: Wow. EagleFiler is still doing releases. Do I know anyone who uses it?
2022-12-22: I would love to go to the mall with you (2)
2022-12-22: I would love to go to the mall with you (1)
2022-12-22: There’s a culture where people say “this is something I don’t understand. The reasons supplied thus …
2022-12-22: Evernote drained my 14" MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) to 30% in under 90 minutes. Its 12 hour energy …
2022-12-22: Hug Point, Oregon Coast
2022-12-21: This morning as I was walking downtown I rounded a corner and saw that the light for half a block …
2022-12-21: Completely wonderful day. Walked around downtown Portland doing my shopping, lunch with Patrick, …
2022-12-21: Christmas shopping #2
2022-12-21: Christmas shopping #1
2022-12-21: Morning coffee walk, 2022-12-21
2022-12-20: These things are amazingly annoying on a trackpad.
2022-12-20: New Backblaze backups. Next up: Untangle the Two Lightrooms and their woeful syncing situation. I’m doing my first photo backup to Backblaze B2 over the new CL connection. My next project is …
2022-12-20: Night Bikes
2022-12-20: Morning coffee walk, 2022-12-20
2022-12-19: Aspire to helpfulness I brought Tot back so I could have a universal place to copy my pointer when people toot about …
2022-12-19: I finally un-collapsed Lightroom's B&W mixer I accidentally learned how to use Lightroom’s black and white mixer over the weekend. …
2022-12-19: Al spent all last night thinking that the battle cry for upgrades to this tower is “shit got big!” …
2022-12-19: The CL installer is here! Flashback to my first DSL install in 1998: Tech: “Well, I need to …
2022-12-19: A small slip on digitial minimalization Earlier this year I did the Digital Minimalism thing and pared back a lot of tech stuff then layered …
2022-12-17: on the way home
2022-12-17: Assorted humans downtown
2022-12-17: Saturday afternoon downtown
2022-12-17: Saturday night downtown
2022-12-17: BILL’S QUALITY AUTOMOTIVE
2022-12-17: Saturday morning Woodstock trek homes
2022-12-17: Saturday Woodstock trek details
2022-12-16: I just got a “save this for your records” thing that reminded me I used to stuff …
2022-12-16: Finally set up my CenturyLink install. Xfinity has sent its last “hey, your rates are going to …
2022-12-15: On track to look fully like John Brown by retirement.
2022-12-15: On the occasion of honoring a photography superstition I sold a few bodies to fund a new Fujifilm X-T5, and it arrived today. I honored the ancient …
2022-12-15: hahahaha omg no
2022-12-15: Some mornings we have to look around the cars.
2022-12-15: Frosty morning
2022-12-14: 🎬 About White Noise: Our little group was quiet afterward, and then slowly warmed up, and were all …
2022-12-14: Whiskey after White Noise
2022-12-14: I got to the couch first this afternoon and everybody is agitated about it.
2022-12-14: Living with Twitter is living with humans Over the past few months, as the Twitter thing has unfolded, I’ve seen a few things go by and …
2022-12-14: coffee #1 coffee #2
2022-12-13: This is a nice case for the Fujifilm 18mm/f1.4. I’ve got the 16mm/f1.4 and like it a lot, but …
2022-12-13: Curious to see how long it can last in low power mode with a minimal face.
2022-12-13: Just let me shoot revisited, revisited That is a picture of a sandy yellow hat draped over a piece of flat metal shaped like a porpoise, …
2022-12-13: Early start.
2022-12-12: I thought I’d messed up a merge of my fork of @amit’s latest version of Paper, but turns …
2022-12-12: Weird.
2022-12-12: Well, it turns out I learned how the AEL button works, but not how to use it as well as it could be, …
2022-12-12: lol. Went to the filter list to add all the current owner’s name variants and completely forgot I’d …
2022-12-12: Hug Point, OR
2022-12-12: What passes for a wild coffee walk rumpus this morning: Caught the guy who opens up the warehouse …
2022-12-11: Camp 18, Elsie, OR
2022-12-11: Camp 18, Elsie, OR
2022-12-11: Manzanita, OR
2022-12-11: Manzanita Beach, OR
2022-12-11: Hug Point, Oregon /cc @maique
2022-12-10: From micro.blog news: “Added setting alt text when cross-posting to Twitter.” 🙌 If you need a …
2022-12-10: Manzanita Beach mph posted a photo:
2022-12-10: There was a helpful iOS app a few years ago called Feedhawk that made it easier to subscribe to RSS …
2022-12-10: I know. I know I know I know. Forcing Apple to ditch Lightning is fash adjacent, and a criminal …
2022-12-09: Sorry, that’s MacGregor’s, and it is one of my favorite places on the whole Oregon Coast. #manzanita …
2022-12-09: HWY 26 to Manzanita, and a smokey cocktail at McGregor’s.
2022-12-09: Switzerland? Obvious, and we’ll deal with that soon enough! France? A mere feint — he knows better …
2022-12-09: Yeah, but are video games art?
2022-12-09: Reeder does RSS fine on Mac and iOS, and it has an iCloud-based read-it-later service that’s …
2022-12-08: DXO FilmLab and Lightroom compared by a normie Today I finally took the time to sit down and round-trip a few Fujifilm raw files through DXO and …
2022-12-08: “Turn it off then on again” is a valid strategy, esp. for an impatient customer. But the …
2022-12-08: Wet coffee walk this morning.
2022-12-07: I’m not clear on how a bottle of Suntory Toki got into the house, but it’s open now and …
2022-12-07: Latourell Falls mph posted a photo: Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
2022-12-07: 🍿 3 nights, 3 Godfather movies. Only my second time for Pt 3, which I saw at release, but as the …
2022-12-07: Finally took a little time to play with Fantastical’s Openings feature. I think there’s …
2022-12-07: I’ve been keeping a lightweight daily journal of whatever I did of note during This Current Period. …
2022-12-06: Foster Road Floodplain Natural Area mph posted a photo:
2022-12-06: Foster Road Floodplain Natural Area mph posted a photo:
2022-12-06: Foster Road Floodplain Natural Area mph posted a photo:
2022-12-06: Starday Tavern mph posted a photo:
2022-12-05: Solomonic feature decision of the decade.
2022-12-05: Kelly's Olympian mph posted a photo:
2022-12-05: I just finished three pomodoros worth of writing project work, and that felt pretty good. Treating …
2022-12-05: I think I may be a Ulysses person after all. It took saying “okay, Monday we get started in …
2022-12-04: Snow walk. #snow #portland #pdx #FosterFloodplain #landscape
2022-12-03: Four reconsiderations
2022-12-03: LinkedIn deduces your desired career path and sends a mail about it every few days. It feels good on …
2022-12-03: Around Foster Rd.
2022-12-03: Exposure therapy revisited, or: A personal practice for tolerating awesome Almost 12 years ago I wrote up a few thoughts about a morning routine I’d adopted to help me deal …
2022-12-02: I’m gonna admit that when I think “Signal” I don’t think “great place …
2022-12-02: ☕️ Alison bought some coconut sugar for reasons I don’t know and we haven’t found time …
2022-12-02: I understand my behavior has caused harm.
2022-12-02: Just one screen.
2022-12-01: Luc Lac Vietnamese Kitchen
2022-12-01: Cannon Beach tide scramble #ThrowbackThursday 📷
2022-12-01: Hug Point #ThrowbackThursday 📷
2022-12-01: Morning coffee walk. No idea what happened to that gas pump.
2022-12-01: Well, made a small production about using alt tags and then noticed something went wrong with adding …
2022-11-30: Nice evening at Bye and Bye with Puppet friends
2022-11-30: Some things I learned about alt text, and some complications My long-dormant technical writer impulses kicked in a few days ago and I began to wonder about alt …
2022-11-30: Tortas at Guero
2022-11-29: 📷 Pixel-peeping DXO and LR renders. DXO is using a recreation of Fuji’s Classic Chrome that I …
2022-11-29: Other photo challenge: I want to get my cloud backups off of Amazon, but the thought of moving 2TB …
2022-11-29: Adulting - ✅ Now on to Day 2 of Adventures in Photo Workflows. Cobalt seems to support DXO, and …
2022-11-29: November’s pretty much done, so Tue & Thu mornings are for reading job posts and sending …
2022-11-28: There’s a super high dynamic range look out there that DXO facilitates. I know how I’d reproduce it …
2022-11-28: 📷 from some poking around: DXO likes to talk about the visual component you’re adjusting (e.g. …
2022-11-28: Today is photo workflows day. I’m starting with a trial of DXO Photolab. Wow, I wish Adobe …
2022-11-28: Hey, everybody! Here I am! I’ve joined Hive! Ready to PARTY!
2022-11-28: I appreciate Substack as a way for writers to get paid, but it reminds me of the early blog era …
2022-11-27: “Accessibility & the Problem of Alt Text: Who Is It For & How Could It Be …
2022-11-27: I’ll do my own reading but I’d love to read a good guide to alt tags. By thatI mean one …
2022-11-27: Around Foster Rd.
2022-11-27: puff
2022-11-26: “The Whiteness of Mastodon” is a dense and good interview with Dr. Johnathan Flowers. …
2022-11-26: Space Monkey Coffee
2022-11-26: Saturday Coffee Walk
2022-11-26: Really digging Fujifilm Raw Studio 📷 I learned photography by shooting on a Minolta X-700 and dragging my film back to a tiny darkroom at …
2022-11-25: Walking back from the U-Haul store.
2022-11-25: One w/Astia and one w/Classic Chrome, both w/boosted chrome settings. Classic Chrome is a better …
2022-11-25: "Just let me shoot," revisited. Well, having put several hundred exposures through my jpeg-forward workflow, I’ve re-learned: …
2022-11-25: Coffee walk
2022-11-25: Multipurpose
2022-11-24: Ben being home means more things like this. I know I don’t want to understand TikTok, so I like this …
2022-11-23: Success.
2022-11-23: I understand why Apple prefers to tie the idea of depth of field to “portraits.” But if you’re then …
2022-11-23: O: redo Ben’s room KR: Retain all fingers 10/10 ✅ KR: … KR: …
2022-11-23: Every morning at tea time: Me: “Hey, Siri. Set a timer for three-and-a-half minutes.” Siri: “Three …
2022-11-23: About that room Last night after a 12-hour day of learning how to put down flooring then putting down flooring I …
2022-11-23: Morning coffee walk
2022-11-22: Floor’s done! Finishing the trim tomorrow. 😅
2022-11-22: I never thought of an Apple Pencil as a thing that could fail. Only writes on one side of the tip, …
2022-11-21: I just buttoned on Metafilter (again). I like what I’ve found on micro.blog, and I like my …
2022-11-21: It’s table saw day, too, so it’s time for my traditional power tool microfiction: He approached the …
2022-11-21: Flooring day
2022-11-21: Newt has lived here for 10 years. She’s always avoided me, to the point of leaving the room when I …
2022-11-21: I’ve played plenty of Sudoku, but don’t know much about it. This app added a button that automates …
2022-11-20: Painting is done! Last-minute things + the flooring tomorrow.
2022-11-20: Painting day
2022-11-20: Sunday morning coffee crew
2022-11-19: My failed posting aspirations As a minister’s child, I ran in minister child circles. I was not bad at cussing, but it took …
2022-11-19: Done patching the walls. Painting tomorrow, then tearing the carpet out so we can put down the …
2022-11-19: Here and there
2022-11-18: Ending the week at Delta Cafe. I had a great week, Al didn’t, so it’s good they’re fast with the …
2022-11-17: So many moments in Capt. America and the Winter Soldier, but the one I really anticipate is where we …
2022-11-17: Apparently can’t look away.
2022-11-17: se crow party
2022-11-17: Here and there
2022-11-17: Chinatown gate
2022-11-17: Fujifilm "Just Let Me Shoot" Configuration It’s time for the rains in Portland, so that means the Ricoh GRIIIx has to stay inside, the …
2022-11-17: PDX rainy season "grab-n-go" prime kit for an X-Pro3 📷 Experimental “grab-n-go” X-Pro3 EDC kit. The whole thing + 3 spare batteries tuck in a …
2022-11-17: OH: “I don’t want a damn rancher breakfast or buckaroo plate or whatever. I just wanna know how to …
2022-11-17: Okay, fine, but what is in each half?
2022-11-17: Okay, fine, but what is in each half?
2022-11-16: Letting go of IT brain while Twitter burns (or whatever the hell it is doing) It’s nice to not have to think like an IT person while Twitter decides whether or not to …
2022-11-15: "The Whole Body Yes" One of the ideas I loved from Conscious Leadership was the “whole body yes.” I was …
2022-11-15: Back in stock for the season. 🥰🤎
2022-11-15: “I would love to see some third way between ‘this centralized thing carved its initials on the …
2022-11-15: Winner’s choice from the MetaFilter auction. I’m going to ship them a 16x10 float-mounted metal …
2022-11-14: After rest, some clarity on a kind of bullshit Beneficial outcome of the fortnight: I dropped a bunch of culture-war-adjacent subscriptions. Having …
2022-11-14: mph posted a photo:
2022-11-14: mph posted a photo:
2022-11-14: mph posted a photo:
2022-11-14: OH: “this is a rapidly escalating from ‘dispelling the myth of elon musk’ to ‘calling into question …
2022-11-13: Well cool! I donated two prints to the MeFi auction & they did okay! I was hoping for $150 each, …
2022-11-13: Honestly not horrible. It was sort of fun seeing design decisions I made on the fly as I uncovered …
2022-11-13: Present Me: Wow. All these lags AND the pocket jig. You shouldn’t have. 😐 Past Me: Right? This thing …
2022-11-13: It’s Take Down the Loft for Himself’s Thanksgiving Return Day. I’ve got the tool apron on. Very …
2022-11-11: Such a good time at the Puppet reunion. At one point it was enough to just find a quiet corner & …
2022-11-11: Social plumbing during the Mastodon Moment The Mastodon Moment is making me think about the socials again. I like a nice, tidy flow where I …
2022-11-10: Every now and then I tell Siri, “set a timer for three minutes” and it says “you don’t have the …
2022-11-09: Sometimes it feels good to say things that are more true than factual. Sometimes it is nice to say …
2022-11-08: Pausing to consider smallness I appreciate omg.lol and micro.blog for making space for small things. The early web was like that. …
2022-11-07: You know how your friend crying at work isn’t really crying because someone ate all the good …
2022-11-07: omg.lol just added Passkeys. I was worried that Passkeys might not work well for me because I …
2022-11-07: Hi, all. The MetaFilter fundraising auction is live. I contributed a float-mounted metal print and a …
2022-11-07: 📺 Not caught up on this season, but I love #Atlanta so much. It runs headfirst into messiness and …
2022-11-07: It’s fun to have a favorite place in some other town.
2022-11-07: tap tap
2022-11-07: me @ puppetconf 2013
2022-11-06: Jumpstarted my social calendar with lunch with one of my favorite humans.
2022-11-06: Little known Mastodon feature: when the status monitor goes to all red bars, that’s Masto’s way of …
2022-11-06: The faceless waif series, and my 100th post
2022-11-06: The dinosaur kick
2022-11-06: 2012 primary season
2022-11-06: Mixel is the great failed app heartbreak of my life. It was a collaborative collage app where each …
2022-11-06: One challenge: Overhearing two very online people discussing a podcast. “My app doesn’t …
2022-11-06: Twitter, Facebook & the rest want dominance. I don’t want anything to replace any of them. …
2022-11-04: Makes sense.
2022-11-02: I’m donating a floated metal print to an online fundraiser. I’ve been asked for reserve …
2022-11-01: I really like SizeUp for managing Mac windows. I just added a 125px left margin to the maximize …
2022-10-31: delta cafe, woodstock, portland
2022-10-31: Don’t have a CS degree and I’m not sure if it’s even possible, but I hope …
2022-10-31: 🎃👻🧟♀️🧛🧙🏻♀️ youtu.be/deJxTxghW…
2022-10-30: Sort of an off shooting day at the Japanese Gardens, but still a wonderful place to be.
2022-10-30: A few Stage Manager notes Things I like about Stage Manager on iPad: The basic concept. I made stacks for social networking …
2022-10-26: “The Hollow Core of Kevin Kelly’s ‘Thousand True Fans’ Theory” Really want to believe …
2022-10-25: I can’t decide if this review of Stage Manager is merely bad writing or if it is elevated …
2022-10-24: Someone made a Thundarr the Barbarian reference and I felt very happy about that. “You want a …
2022-10-24: Smurfs covering MMMBop in Hungarian
2022-10-22: Compound pejoratives on Reddit – from ‘buttface’ to ‘wankpuffin’
2022-10-21: The invitation said “Portland cocktail,” but it was chilly for shower shoes.
2022-10-20: An early management experience I should probably have posted on LinkedIn (Posted this elsewhere and felt like sharing more widely. -mph) So, when I enlisted I had the …
2022-10-18: HN thread on whether or not typing on an iPhone has gotten worse (and when it happened) and some …
2022-10-18: National Museum of African American History & Culture, DC
2022-10-17: p.s. the point of the trip: mom and dad, brother Jamie and SiL Evonne, Tyson, Selah, Jordan, Luci, …
2022-10-16: At the subterranean Trader Joe’s: Clerk 1: Hey! Hey! Are you a director? Clerk 2: No, dummy, he’s …
2022-10-16: One more night out east.
2022-10-16: Amtrak Cardinal line, Virginia
2022-10-16: dad, Fairview Church of the Brethren, Harrisonburg, VA
2022-10-15: Grub & Gab Diner, Elkton, VA
2022-10-14: Mennonite and Brethren Heritage Center, Harrisonburg, VA
2022-10-12: shoeshine, union station, dc
2022-10-12: bedroom, waynesboro, va
2022-10-12: union station, dc
2022-10-11: Dinner and a fine old fashioned at Ted’s Bulletin, DC
2022-10-11: Smithsonian butterfly
2022-10-11: smithsonian museum of natural history
2022-10-10: dc
2022-10-10: Portland’s reification awareness campaign was only partially funded this year.
2022-10-10: pdx
2022-10-08: I’ve got a week in DC & Virginia coming up. Not sure what to take. I’m really uncomfortable with …
2022-10-08: Here and there
2022-10-08: 📽 Resurrection was sort of a family litmus test: Al: Plainly a psychotic delusion from end-to-end. …
2022-10-08: The Maestro mini is such a nice commuter. Every time Bustin’ spams me I have to suppress the urge to …
2022-10-06: Three stops away! Count Chocula is the best, but with the growing sophistication of my adult palate …
2022-10-05: “NPR is not our friend." (… and media literacy isn’t about choosing the …
2022-09-29: Puppet people and alum Last Wednesdays at Bye and Bye are pretty great. Maybe we can catch up at the …
2022-09-27: I have a reason to get out my Fujifilm 56/f1.2 glass about once every two years, and every time I do …
2022-09-26: Busy week, decompressing stay in Skamokawa, time to head back. This is an autumn for the books.
2022-09-26: Breakfast at Patty Cakes in Cathlamet, WA
2022-09-25: Cathlamet, WA
2022-09-25: Skamokawa Vista Park, WA
2022-09-24: Astoria maritime museum
2022-09-24: Astoria day trip
2022-09-23: Constantly using timers to keep small, intentional breaks from turning into long, undirected ones. …
2022-09-22: Good enough. Heading home.
2022-09-20: Off to college tomorrow
2022-09-17: In the tiny tiny hours
2022-09-10: How would it affect the way you think about things if, instead of saying “why” you said “when”? e.g. …
2022-08-28: We took the scenic train from Garibaldi to Rockaway Beach
2022-08-20: Guy on street outside our house: ‼️ I can’t wait to be like you two. Can’t WAIT ‼️ Me …
2022-08-18: story bundle is a great way to get bunches of ebooks for very little; Nickelmenu restores Dropbox on Kobo Libra 2’s Today I learned about Storybundle and was pretty excited to get a bunch of “dark sf” books for $25. …
2022-08-15: Some initial impressions of the Opal C1 After some issues with delivery, my Opal C1 finally arrived. It is a pretty good product, but it …
2022-08-10: The Kobo Libra 2 is pretty great If you haven’t gone Kobo yet, I’m back to re-recommend having upgraded my Forma to a Libra 2. Same …
2022-08-07: Purse
2022-08-06: Hot but beautiful day at Smith Rock
2022-08-02: No Loretta Jean’s tonight, which was a mild bummer. 2x Old Fashioneds, tho.
2022-07-31: Mt. Scott mulch pile
2022-07-31: A lot of folks in the Cathlamet area live right on little channels and inlets and have docks in …
2022-07-31: We camped in Vista Park, outside Cathlamet. The soda machine was close, which was … nice? The …
2022-07-31: We poked around Cathlamet a little. I want to go back and stay in the hotel some time.
2022-07-31: We took the ferry outside Kathlamet, WA to the Oregon side this afternoon.
2022-07-22: I watched the trailer and was just, like, “oh cool, it has owlbears.”
2022-07-20: qft
2022-07-20: It is mildly weird to me that Newsweek on Apple News is mostly recaps of Reddit posts. In my working …
2022-07-19: A little on the Ricoh GRIII X and light hiking carry I took my Ricoh GRIII X along for this past weekend’s camping trip. Usually I go with my …
2022-07-19: Cold lake
2022-07-18: Unicorn floaty
2022-07-18: New cups at Carnelian Coffee so there has been a bit of excitement this morning. They’re very good …
2022-07-17: Lava Lake
2022-07-12: Luther Rd. Floodplain
2022-07-11: “A cursed Rubik’s cube that sings the Star Spangled Banner with weasels”
2022-07-11: “A can of coors light used to fake a mapplethorpe”
2022-07-10: Took Lou out to Sauvie Island today. Lou didn’t have a name or a song when we set out, but it …
2022-07-08: Never enough red pills in this present moment This is pretty fun. Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault debating each other in 1971, defining some of …
2022-07-06: Favorite fastmail thing of the week: Filtering things of short-term value into a …
2022-07-05: Diamond Lake has some huge sites on the shore. Car camping paradise.
2022-07-04: Hiking up Mt. Bailey
2022-07-04: 15.4 miles round trip, 2300 foot gain up Mt. Bailey from the Diamond Lake campground. 🥾😅 The descent …
2022-06-30: New jacket day. My mass redistributed over the past two years, so not a lot for the tailor to do …
2022-06-25: Celebrating 20 years at our favorite place
2022-06-25: “Democratic Leaders Don’t Fear Their Own Base. They Should."
2022-06-24: The video that sold me on the TW200. No, no immediate plans to cross a desert on it.
2022-06-24: DNC Out of My Inbox
2022-06-22: “Laundry Symbols Make No Sense” Wonder what my designer friends make of this.
2022-06-22: Replacing the Himalayan with something Yamaha literally classifies as an “agricultural …
2022-06-22: “I Fucking Hate JIRA” needs to spin off an “I Fucking Hate my Management …
2022-06-20: Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 📚 This is one of those “mention advisedly” book summaries because there is something in …
2022-06-19: Fun weekend in Florence. I don’t know if Zizzo’s are durable as daily commuters, but …
2022-06-16: Sticking a keyboard on top of a laptop violated some vague aesthetic, but I’ve been doing it …
2022-06-15: I moved a few thousand blog entries from twenty years of blogging off the web and into a journaling …
2022-06-15: Some have the idea that “selling out” means “making money.” Maybe embracing …
2022-06-13: I ordered two, because we will not be liberated as individuals. Any comrades out there who could use …
2022-06-12: I mean, Apple TV+ is a subscription service. Making shows with stories that end or leave people …
2022-06-09: I have a lot of time for some heterodox thinkers. I wish “heterodox” was narrow-able to …
2022-06-07: Grad
2022-06-07: Looks like Raycast could replace Alfred, SizeUp, and FastScripts. Do I know anyone who’s been …
2022-06-06: Prehistoric Planet, S1E1: Many dinosaurs lived near the ocean and were often horrible to each other. …
2022-06-06: I have made worse decisions than “build a sectional out of 2x4” (summer 2020), but I have also made …
2022-06-05: I bought my Grom thinking I was satisfying a passing urge & took it out a few weeks ago to make …
2022-06-04: “How One Billionaire With a 300-Year Plan Fueled the Popping Tech Bubble” I started The Rise and …
2022-06-04: Ready for it to quit raining now. This thing wants to be out there.
2022-05-31: I wish every skate company did its marketing copy like Comet. (Just look at the whole page.)
2022-05-27: What Remains of That Digital Declutter In March I started a digital declutter inspired by Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism. I wanted to get …
2022-05-20: I thought the Peak Design out-front bike mount had an outsized trust in the power of magnets, and …
2022-05-19: Safari tab groups & I have entered into the dysfunctional stage of the “new Apple …
2022-05-19: Pretty big goings on at work with the Perforce acquisition final. It’s exciting and it’s …
2022-05-19: “Kindle, EPUB, And Amazon’s Love Of Reinventing Wheels” I don’t think the article …
2022-05-19: Ignore the Internet (except me) and fix the Kobo I’m writing this post in a likely futile attempt to save you a few minutes or hours if you …
2022-05-18: I remembered that Jekyll doesn’t do a feed out of the box so I added one. The last few weeks …
2022-05-18: That Didn't Happen! So, I had to talk about something difficult recently. How do you do that? I mean, “you the reader,” …
2022-05-18: On the Leica Q2 and Fujifilm X100V Another post rescued when 404s started popping up. I think it …
2022-05-17: Falls
2022-05-17: Org-Mode in Your Pocket Is a GNU-Shaped Devil I nearly decided to ignore the 404s this was …
2022-05-17: I retract anything I may have said about knowing how to fix Safari’s tab groups feature. Also, …
2022-05-16: I really appreciate cheesy-gallery and switched out all my old galleries with it last night. I woke …
2022-05-15: At the carnival
2022-05-15: I made a first cut at automating gallery pages on Jekyll today using a frontmatter-driven technique …
2022-05-15: “How Do Anti-Theft Wheel Locks on Shopping Carts Know to Trip at the Edge of the Parking …
2022-05-10: Early Fastmail impressions: I secured a new domain today that’s quite similar to but more …
2022-05-10: How to find a collection of photos in LR Classic using a CSV file. That you generated by finding …
2022-05-10: Last night I learned that if you’re getting the “pages in Safari tab groups open blank …
2022-05-10: I just set up a custom domain for email on iCloud and it was shockingly non-dramatic. I got a dialog …
2022-05-08: … and flagged this as “military.” I’ll allow it.
2022-05-08: Wow. I was downsampling an image in GraphicConverter, clicked the little lightbulb icon, and it told …
2022-05-08: I’ve never use the Finder for “work,” but faced with triaging 800 markdown files, …
2022-05-07: Obsidian Things Link turns Obsidian pages into Things projects and Obsidian tasks into Things todos, …
2022-05-06: Every 7-8 years I have to retrain myself to not over-filter email. Sanebox has been worth the …
2022-05-06: I tried out Secure ShellFish on my iPad to see how it compared to Blink. Wow. Logging in to a remote …
2022-05-05: The Moonlander didn’t stick with me – too many devices to tolerate the difference in …
2022-05-05: Forty is nice but doesn’t observe a few blog conventions, so last night’s fussing around …
2022-05-04: Something good that came out of 2 months of refusing to do much on a topic until writing about it: …
2022-05-03: Three other learnings/reminders from the tool whirlwind over the weekend: GitHub pages …
2022-05-03: This morning’s “putter around before the first meeting” project was to automate a …
2022-05-02: If you use Drafts, here’s a simple action to upload a photo to micro.blog then get markup …
2022-05-02: How to Listen to People I spent a year as the engineering site lead for Puppet’s Portland office. During that time it was my …
2022-05-02: Notes on Fostering Equitable and Inclusive Behavior At the core of whatever we want to call this period of distributed work – hybrid-remote, …
2022-05-02: Notes on Technical Leadership Groups Technical leadership groups can take a number of forms: working groups, architectural groups, …
2022-05-02: So You Want to Write an RFC This post pairs pretty well with “Using the DACI Framework” -mph A lot of organizations are settling …
2022-05-02: Supporting an Open Door Culture by Listening I was once asked to give a talk on how men can support women in the tech industry. At first I was …
2022-05-02: Using the DACI Framework I’ll never forget the first time I was introduced to decision-making frameworks. A peer from another …
2022-05-02: How to Listen to People: A guide for leaders and managers (There’s a bigger project here; I …
2022-05-02: Higgins Restaurant, Portland, OR The doctor assured me the cold I was down with last week was not …
2022-04-29: Al on the Southern Oregon coast
2022-04-24: Finished reading: Old Man's War by John Scalzi 📚 Well, part of the point of re-reading this was to take a small break from more dense stuff, so I …
2022-02-21: Finished reading: Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti 📚 Ride Attendant, 2017 I don’t know how many times I’ve said “the legacy …
2022-02-13: Currently reading: How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens 📚 In the process of doing my digital declutter, I came across this little book about a particular …
2022-02-12: Saturday morning coffee and cameras
2022-02-09: Some notes on my emerging digital declutter and assorted practices I'm going to go a little quiet for a month and take a stab at a digital declutter. Here are a few …
2022-02-08: Notes on a digital declutter I gave myself a few days to think about Digital Minimalism, wondering if a declutter might be a good …
2022-02-06: The outrage clown industrial complex Freddie deBoer on socialist entertainers: ”… I often get asked about ‘Breadtube,’ a loose …
2022-02-06: Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚 Person reading alone on a rooftop patio, January 2022 A few years ago, pre-Trump, I quit social …
2022-02-06: Learning the ins and outs of the GR IIIx’s snap focus
2022-02-02: After 10 minutes with the Fujifilm mini Evo Instax camera I bought the very first Fujifilm Instax hybrid camera they came out with a few years ago and I did …
2022-01-29: Finished reading: A Lesser Photographer by C. J. Chilvers 📚 A lot of advice and writing on photography is caught up in the difficulties professional …
2022-01-25: Finished reading: A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling 📚 Camp 18, Elsie, Oregon In 2004, a group of Libertarians realized the dream of the Free Town Project …
2022-01-24: Elsewhere Find me socializing here. Find my microblog here. Find some of my photography here. Find my weekly …
2022-01-24: Morning walk
2022-01-23: Sunday breakfast walk
2022-01-17: quiet day
2022-01-16: Finished reading: Wabi-Sabi - Photo School by Jana Mänz 📚📷 One to review advisedly, added to the reading list to give my brain a little time to cool off from …
2022-01-02: Night walk for chocolate cake
2022-01-02: Finished reading: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard 📚 This is a breezy read characterizable more by how fun its barbed skepticism is than any technical …
2022-01-01: Everything, All the Time, Everywhere by Stuart Jeffries 📚 (Finished) I read Helen Pluckrose’s Cynical Theories over the summer and it was a useful primer on the …
2022-01-01: Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs 📚 📷 (Finished) I first came across Daido Moriyama’s work in an article about presets for Fujifilm cameras. It …
2021-12-31: Walk to a plant sale at Larkspur
2021-12-31: NYE coffee walk
2021-12-29: Cold walk from downtown to Cafe Nell
2021-12-28: Quick review: Cobalt Image for normalizing raw across cameras I think Cobalt Image may have taken away my last excuse for working on a collection of the last few …
2021-12-27: Took a walk for gin and groceries
2021-12-27: Coffee walk (w/YakTrax)
2021-12-26: Christmas day walk
2021-12-26: Coffee walk
2021-12-24: Christmas Eve
2021-11-28: Coffee walk
2021-11-21: Saturday morning coffee and korvapuusti. (Finnish cinnamon rolls)
2021-11-20: On iPhoneography these days I took my iPhone 13 Pro along as my sole camera for a quick camping trip to Vernonia. I’ve only had …
2021-10-31: Newport & South Beach
2021-10-31: Yaquina Head Light and environs
2021-10-24: Two Gandalfs I’ve never particularly identified with Gandalf. I took some “Which Middle Earth person …
2021-10-23: Two Gandalfs I’ve never particularly identified with Gandalf. I took some “Which Middle Earth person are you?” …
2021-10-10: I ended up at the Cape Disappointment lighthouse at the same time as some kind of photography field …
2021-10-10: Long Beach, WA misc
2021-10-10: Cape Disappointment battery and light house
2021-10-10: Cape Disappointment beach and jetty walk
2021-10-03: Wild rabbits at Webb Co. Campground in Pacific City
2021-10-03: Cape Kiwanda hike
2021-10-03: Cape Kiwanda morning walk
2021-10-03: Cape Kiwanda Sunset
2021-09-12: Mt. Hood from the Lost Lake lakeshore trail
2021-09-05: Vernonia antique store
2021-09-05: Old Vernonia mill (we think this was the drying room)
2021-08-29: The Outfitter 1 (and me & Mel)
2021-08-29: Picking up the Outfitter 1 Al and I spent the weekend driving out to LaGrande to pick up our new trailer from Mel Sandland at …
2021-08-28: Picking up the Outfitter 1 Al and I spent the weekend driving out to LaGrande to pick up our new trailer from Mel Sandland at …
2021-08-04: Around Portland mph posted a photo:
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2021-08-01: Sunday walk from Oldtown to Alphabet and back
2021-07-25: Dinner at Higgins and a long walk to dessert
2021-07-25: Coffee walk to Woodstock
2021-06-28: Waited until it was below 90 to walk around on the Springwater and enjoy the breeze.
2021-06-20: Me and Dad
2021-06-20: Mt. Thielsen
2021-06-20: Howlock Mountain to Thielsen Creek Loop
2021-06-20: Diamond Lake boat ride
2021-06-20: Toketee Falls, Umpqua NF
2021-06-15: Couldn’t wait
2021-06-15: I can’t wait to take this out. Eagle Rock this weekend!
2021-06-08: More shots from Smith Rock. It was a spur-of-the-moment stop on the way back from Lava Lake in the …
2021-06-07: I’ll share more and better from Smith Rock later, but: I was taught early on to keep humans in the …
2021-05-10: evening stroll to Woodstock with the Funleader. “Five-mile walk after work? Sure!” …
2021-05-08: Wahkeena Falls Trail, Multnomah Falls, East Wind Drive-In
2021-05-07: Floodplain, a little better
2021-05-03: Pretty day at Yaquina Lighthouse and tide pools
2021-05-03: Hobbit Beach, near Heceta Head
2021-04-18: Windmills
2021-04-18: Rufus Landing and Deschutes Canyon Loop Trail, Columbia River Gorge
2021-04-12: The Soapstone Lake trail, a few miles south of Hwy 26 on the way home from the coast.
2021-04-11: Walk along the Nehalem Bay spit
2021-04-10: Snowy Plovers
2021-04-10: Manzanita Sunset
2021-04-10: Assorted sights on Crescent Beach at Ecola State Park
2021-04-10: Assorted creatures on Crescent Beach at Ecola State Park
2021-03-07: Walk along Manzanita Beach
2021-03-06: Around Nehalem Bay
2021-03-06: Hug Point
2021-03-06: Manzanita
2021-03-05: Al at Manzanita
2021-02-28: Coffee walks
2021-02-28: Evening walk
2021-02-28: Downtown
2021-02-20: Lechon
2021-02-15: Trek to Shun Fat We were going to take a walk to Woodstock today, but the sidewalks are in terrible shape and the …
2021-02-14: Smokes in a tree
2021-02-14: Out in the cold
2021-02-14: 82nd Bar & Grill
2021-02-13: Springwater and Luther Natural Area
2021-02-08: Some plant all twisty
2021-01-18: The Foster Floodplain, until the recent heavy rains, had a tree I liked a lot. Every time I’d …
2021-01-18: Dawn
2021-01-18: Dry Creek Falls
2021-01-17: A tree on the floodplain The Foster Floodplain, until the recent heavy rains, had a tree I liked a lot. Every time I’d go out …
2021-01-09: Springwater & Floodplain
2021-01-05: Morning coffee walk and the first COVID Couches of 2021
2021-01-03: Hug Point
2021-01-03: Oswald West & Cannon Beach
2021-01-03: Hug Point
2021-01-02: Rainy and quiet in Manzanita
2021-01-01: Manzanita, a little before midnight.
2020-12-31: Break area
2020-12-31: Manzanita NYE
2020-12-31: Oblig Camp 18 stop
2020-12-31: On the way to Manzanita
2020-12-27: Coffee walk down Foster
2020-12-27: Springwater walk
2020-12-25: Christmas Day walk. Wandered out of the back of the Foster Floodplain and into an asphalt factory.
2020-12-21: Walk to coffee on the first day of the holiday break
2020-12-20: Rainy day walk
2020-12-19: Morning Luther Natural Area & Springwater walk
2020-12-18: I shot these in monochrome to make the manual focus aids stand out a little more as I shot, but I do …
2020-12-18: Zone focusing walk
2020-12-15: 'Toxic Positivity' Toxic Positivity Is on the Rise. Are You Guilty of Spreading It? “Research has shown that accepting …
2020-12-05: Around Lents and Brentwood
2020-12-03: On the Leica Q2 and Fujifilm X100V Somewhere mid-summer I decided to take a break and head for the coast. I found a room with a small …
2020-12-02: On the Leica Q2 and Fujifilm X100V Somewhere mid-summer I decided to take a break and head for the coast. I found a room with a small …
2020-11-30: Springwater
2020-11-29: Luther Road Natural Area and Springwater Trail
2020-11-28: Night walk around Lents and Foster Rd.
2020-11-26: Springwater and Foster Floodplain Thanksgiving walk
2020-11-24: Woodstock alleys
2020-11-24: Night around Foster (and the return of Furniture of COVID).
2020-11-20: Morning walk for coffee
2020-11-14: Flu shot day
2020-11-08: Glenwood Park. Just a few more days of the show left.
2020-11-07: Blue doors
2020-11-07: Oldtown Noir
2020-11-07: Here and there, Oldtown and Division
2020-11-06: Night walk around Hawthorne & Belmont
2020-11-04: Morning after walk
2020-11-01: Fall on the Springwater and Foster Floodplain
2020-10-31: Don’t think I’ve seen Glenwood Park quite this vibrant ever.
2020-10-27: Night walk around SE Portland
2020-10-25: Foster Floodplain
2020-10-25: Springwater and Foster Floodplain walk
2020-10-24: Night walk in downtown Portland
2020-10-24: Night walk along Foster Road
2020-10-22: Eight years today
2020-10-21: Night walk around Mt. Scott
2020-10-19: Night walk around Lents
2020-10-18: Evening walk to the ballot dropoff.
2020-10-18: Out at night
2020-10-18: Alphabet District
2020-10-18: Out and about with the Funleader 18/f8 and XPro3
2020-10-17: Goodbye, Elsa Today our family said goodbye to Elsa. It went the best we could hope for: The initial sedative …
2020-10-07: Steel Bridge
2020-10-07: Burnside Bridge
2020-10-07: Downtown Portland
2020-10-07: Downtown Portland
2020-10-05: Kind of a flat day for photos at Hug Point yesterday. The tide was in and I wasn’t feeling it, so I …
2020-10-04: Cool Alone I just finished reading Pema Chödrön’s When Things Fall Apart and recommend it to people who think …
2020-10-04: Time to head back
2020-10-03: Around sunset
2020-10-03: Manzanita Beach
2020-10-03: Teeter totter
2020-10-03: Burnside bridge
2020-10-03: Springwater
2020-10-03: Smoke memories
2020-10-03: Beach walk
2020-10-02: The Little Apple
2020-10-02: Some living room on the coast.
2020-10-02: Some garage on the coast with antlers, plastic chairs, and a flag.
2020-09-27: Downtown Portland walk
2020-09-21: River walk
2020-09-14: Sunset on the Foster Floodplain
2020-09-13: Sunday morning at Glenwood Park
2020-09-10: Pay Here
2020-07-17: PTO Day 6: Last night on the coast. Took the Woodford and a tumbler of rocks down to the beach for a …
2020-07-16: PTO Day 5: Small things at Hug Point
2020-07-16: PTO Day Five: Hug Point morning walk
2020-07-14: PTO Day Three: Manzanita sunset
2020-07-13: Be here now “If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations I am …
2020-07-13: PTO Day Two: Morning Beach Walk
2020-07-12: PTO Day One
2020-07-09: Springwater/Foster Floodplain Walk
2020-06-21: Lensbaby on the Springwater
2020-06-06: Here and there
2020-05-28: Here and there Sunday
2020-05-28: Around the Springwater at dusk
2020-05-22: Evening walk
2020-05-19: Skate kids
2020-05-03: Afternoon walk to Fubon.
2020-05-03: Night walk around Lents.
2020-05-02: Night walk through Lents with Ben.
2020-04-27: Lunch walk on the Springwater.
2020-04-25: Walk to Woodstock for Otto’s hot dogs
2020-04-22: a pause for appreciation Some things from this period I am appreciating: I started an early rise routine a few months ago, …
2020-04-21: Evening walk on the Foster Floodplain
2020-04-19: Sunday afternoon walk
2020-04-18: Outsiders MC
2020-04-18: Night walk through Brentwood-Darlington.
2020-04-15: Tonight’s amazing sky
2020-04-14: Venus over Lents at dusk
2020-04-13: Night walk around Lents
2020-04-12: Glenwood Park
2020-04-12: 205 bike path
2020-02-22: Saturday walk from Lents to Mt. Scott Blossoms in Lents, Portland, Oregon Studebaker Lark Cruiser, Mt. Scott, Portland, Oregon Studebaker …
2020-02-22: The Graduate Hotel, Eugene The Graduate Hotel, Eugene, Oregon Al had a physical therapy appointment in Eugene, so we made an …
2020-02-17: Image of the Weekend Hug Point, Fujifilm X-Pro3 with XF23mmf2 R WR, Acros-R film simulation This shot made me pretty …
2020-02-16: The weekend landing zone in Manzanita "An Amazing Place," Manzanita, Oregon
2020-02-16: Camp 18
2020-02-16: Hug Point in Color
2020-02-16: Hug Point in Monochrome
2020-02-16: Morning in Manzanita
2020-02-14: Another nice shooting day Around downtown Portland The days are getting noticeably longer, so there's more daylight to work …
2020-02-14: The picture habit: On 37,000 pictures in three years after a week of bad pictures Hotel Dossier with Nick's American lads, the second bar of the night, having realized I had not …
2020-02-13: The picture habit: On 37,000 pictures in three years after a week of bad pictures This week was packed and long in a way I haven’t had to deal with in a while. One day started at 7a …
2020-02-10: Pine Street Market
2020-02-07: Kells
2020-02-07: commute walk
2020-02-06: Downtown Portland
2020-02-06: Downtown Portland
2020-02-03: pretty day today
2020-02-03: Morning commute walk
2020-02-03: Morning Walk From Parking Forgot to put an SD card in the camera this morning, so it’s a phone today.
2020-02-01: Portland Lee’s Assoc.
2020-02-01: Gun storage lockers
2020-02-01: Straps
2020-01-31: carts
2020-01-30: blue hour misc
2020-01-30: Max walk
2020-01-30: More on the X-Pro3, which has done as it should and largely disappeared When I first got the X-Pro3, I wondered if I was going to have that nagging “oh, this wasn’t the …
2020-01-28: Max Walk
2020-01-27: Downtown Portland
2020-01-27: Blue Hour
2020-01-26: Downtown Portland
2020-01-25: Morning
2020-01-25: Woodstock Walk And Lunch
2020-01-22: Skyscraper Noir
2020-01-22: Student Housing Noir
2020-01-22: Morning Blue Hour
2020-01-19: Walk for coffee
2020-01-17: Earlybird
2020-01-17: Trimet Noir
2020-01-16: Portland Sign
2020-01-14: Ben, 2017 (the nice part of scrolling through Lightroom is finding the ones to keep).
2020-01-11: Standup
2020-01-11: The Hawthorne
2020-01-11: Riot cops
2020-01-11: lotto
2020-01-11: Downtown
2020-01-11: Commute
2020-01-10: Tonight’s walk to the Max
2020-01-09: Very early thoughts on the Fujifilm X-Pro3 When I was in the market for a better-than-high-end-of-the-low-end camera a few years ago, I glanced …
2020-01-09: This ticket machine seemed sort of poignant there in the cold.
2020-01-08: Half Moon Bay, CA
2020-01-07: Smoke break
2020-01-07: Oaks Park Midway
2020-01-07: Indianapolis Flight Crew (Original)
2020-01-05: Early riser tips skimmed from a collection of articles Consistent rising time is more important than consistent bedtime, which sorts itself out. More …
2019-06-27: Some Notes on How to Listen to People Last year I was asked to put down some thoughts about how to have an active listening practice as a …
2018-10-19: The Mid-Life Longboard Purchase and Use Lifecycle A Selection of Advice I’ve bought a few longboards over the past couple of months. Some for me, some for the rest of the …
2018-01-20: 'shopped I still hear people skeptically asking "did you have to touch it up in Photoshop?" as if …
2018-01-20: 'shopped I still hear people skeptically asking “did you have to touch it up in Photoshop?” as if the purity …
2018-01-14: Tools for Playing with Fujifilm Film Presets A while back I found a really interesting blog post by Peter Evans on using Fujifilm film …
2017-06-26: Journals Against Stories This is about a supplemental habit I’ve picked up to go along with my recent anti-story …
2017-06-25: Journals Against Stories This is about a supplemental habit I’ve picked up to go along with my recent anti-story practice, …
2017-06-11: That Didn't Happen! So, I had to talk about something difficult recently. How do you do that? I mean, "you the reader," …
2017-02-19: Supporting an Open Door Culture by Listening The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination. — bell hooks Next week …
2016-04-16: Please be considerate of my neighbors So, here’s a scenario to try on: You’ve just woken up in your tent down on the Springwater Trail. …
2016-02-14: Thinking About Priorities I’ve had to think about prioritization a lot over the past few years. A few things make …
2015-07-04: You can't say what you are, but you should try anyhow. I say ‘I consider myself a feminist,’ because I really do. But I always feel …
2014-12-01: Breakfast at Oliver's I appear to have eaten at Oliver’s Cafe about 90 times since March, 2012 (can’t account …
2014-11-30: Breakfast at Oliver's I appear to have eaten at Oliver’s Cafe about 90 times since March, 2012 (can’t account for a few …
2014-04-05: 9, 23, 25, 26, 29, 33, 35, 39 & 46 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore …
2014-04-04: 9, 23, 25, 26, 29, 33, 35, 39 & 46 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore …
2012-09-27: One jumper to the left door This aircraft is used to train astronauts in zero maneuvers, giving them about 25 seconds of …
2012-09-26: One jumper to the left door [ This aircraft is used to train astronauts in zero maneuvers, giving them about 25 seconds of …
2010-02-02: org-mode In Your Pocket Is a GNU-Shaped Devil If the iPhone has helped me accomplish one thing, it has probably been to make it easier for me to …
2009-01-12: Predominantly Inattentive I meant to start with as clean a slate as possible when I moved this site over and left a bunch of …