Lightroom CC’s blue sync status icons hurt my eyes Is there really no way to get rid of those horrible blue icons? I don’t want to use the “Photo Grid” view because it has no metadata overlays. Am I just being overly sensitive? An app for editing photos should be pleasant to look at, but I really dislike looking at this.
This, from a voicemail received recently at my (almost forgotten) Google Voice number:
Hi, this is Shay calling from fertility Specialists of Texas. I was calling regarding your extended analysis with us tomorrow. Wasn’t sure if you guys were aware of the fee for it, and it is $100 fee. If you have any questions, please feel free to give me a call back at 214-REDACTED. Once again for your semen analysis tomorrow morning at eleven o’clock.
None of this is to say that Facebook is not fucking up. It is. But its fuckups are not so much of the kind The Times, The Guardian, cable news, and others in media dream of in their dystopias: grand theft user data! first-degree privacy murder! malignant corporate cynicism! war on democracy! No, Facebook’s fuckups are cultural in the company — as in the Valley — which is to say they are more complex and might go deeper.
I spent some time rearranging things in my new 13″ Everyday Messenger bag from Peak Design, so I thought I’d share a quick snap of the contents. I’m a fan of “what’s in my bag” shots so here’s mine.
List of contents:
Apple AirPods Fuji Instax Square SQ6 Fuji X-T3 with 16mm f/1.4 Fujinon Leuchtturm1917 notebook with Quiver pen holder Lamy 2000 fountain pen Baron Fig Squire rollerball pen Papermate Flair felt tip marker Staedtler Pigment Liner 0.
Seriously: try and figure out what was happening around town on May 25, 2017 using Facebook’s search feature. I can’t. I can, however tell you that on May 25, 1962, plans were underway for a cross-country ski trail cleanup at Hickory Wing, the high school was hosting an open house, and Prime Ministerial candidates John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson were set to make dueling appearances in town for the ever-important Prince George vote.
I’ve finally created a gallery of scans including all of the old negatives given to me several years ago. There are so many fun images in there, including the one from which I made my avatar.
You can see the complete gallery here:
http://static.baty.net/galleries/found-negatives/index.html
A few examples:
Update: I’ve also added these to a public Flickr album: Found Negatives
Facebook continues to act as if they are the victims in all of this, pretending they care about privacy when the reality is they were following the incentives dictated by a reality that individual data is worthless but collective data is invaluable, all the while ignoring that monetary value is not the only measure of worth. Ben Thompson, Stratechery
The fun part of any venture is naming things, so when I started my own little software development company back in the early 90s, I spent a lot of time thinking up a business name.
This, unfortunately, is what I came up with:Ground Zero Software business card prototype
With only a little imagination, even the logo I made could be a premonition. Fortunately, the name went away when we founded Fusionary Media just a couple years later, in 1995
Drew Millard, The Outline:
My Lenovo computer is called a Yoga because it bends all the way backwards to become a tablet, which is something I both have absolutely no need for and am completely enamored with. Importantly, it does the main thing I need a computer (novo) to do, which is go on the internet and have a billion tabs open while typing in Google Docs.
An article about switching to Windows that’s not like the other articles about switching to Windows.
Daniel Huffman, somethingaboutmaps:
In sum: my typewriter is not a precision instrument. This makes it a somewhat uncomfortable-feeling tool for a detail-oriented designer like me. I like being able to zoom in to 64,000% in Illustrator and correct errors that are small enough that no human eye could possibly ever see them. But, there’s something attractive about the organic messiness of the typewriter.
Another very cool thing to do with a typewriter.
Is Org the Borg? | Irreal:
It occurred to me that Org is like the Borg: it absorbs everything that gets near it. So laugh all you want but you will be assimilated.
It’s true.
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