My Notebook intentions for 2018 didn’t take into account my work projects, so I’ve been reviewing my options for note taking and project planning at work. I’ve been using the big Boorum & Pease at work, but it’s pretty bulky, so I have been considering using a daily planner instead. Enter the Hobonichi Techo Cousin and Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter I’ve had the Roterfaden for a few years but haven’t used it lately.

I didn’t think I needed a microblog but I think I need a microblog. I like writing short posts and sharing random images and links. These don’t need titles or tags or other meta data. They’re just throw away thoughts, but I wouldn’t mind if they were preserved just the same. Here are my options: Post everything, including short (microblog) posts at jack.baty.net Continue using snippets.baty.net Use Micro.

I’m taking a hiatus from shooting 35mm film, so I thought I’d share some notes about why. My use of 35mm film has been driven more by my love of the cameras than by the results I’m getting. I’m indoors most of the time and even though many film photographers seem to make wonderful photos with the slower speed of film, mine just end up badly-exposed or motion-blurred. I can pretend they’re “art” but if I’m honest they’re just crappy images.

Try as I might to make using an iPad feel like I’m typing in “the good old days,” I still prefer the original. The Penna looks great and works well. It’s especially fun to use with Hanx Writer. In the end, though, my solid-as-a-rock Swedish Hermes 3000 from 1964 wins easily.

Patrick Rhone posted a photo of his pile of unread books. I’m glad I’m not the only one suffering from the “too many books, not enough time” problem. Here’s my pile. I call it “The Graveyard of Good Intentions”.

There are many options for “private” Git hosting. I put “private” in quotes because private repos on Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, etc. are still sitting on a server to which people I don’t know have access, so I considered other options. I’ve been watching Gogs for a while and thought it would be fun to set up a server running Gogs for my private Git repos. Gogs is “A painless self-hosted Git service” and is basically a Github clone.

I read 27 books in 2017. A book every couple of weeks is about my usual pace. The list contains a pretty good mix of fiction and non-fiction. Pricing Design by Dan Mall (2017-01-08) Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (2017-01-09) The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman (2017-01-15) The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida (2017-01-19) The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey (2017-02-08) Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin (2017-02-08) Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Grag McKeown (2017-02-26) Deep Work by Cal Newport (2017-03-02) Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B.

A stupid cartoon of a movie.

I found a box of color film for the SX-70 from the early days of The Impossible Project so I thought I’d shoot a few and see what happened. Not much happened. The coating must have gotten wonky and the shots came out either blank or mostly blank. Oh well, unpredictable results are part of the fun of shooting old film in old cameras.

Janko Roettgers in Variety: And there’s simply no room for your 10,000 meticulously tagged MP3s in a world of an always-available 40 million songs. This is probably true, and it makes me a bit sad, but as Rian van Der Merwe points out on Twitter: This article generally rings true, but I think it misses a few trends: 1) The vinyl resurgence 2) The rise of hi-res music platforms like @HDtracks

I very much enjoyed Blade Runner 2049. Seeing Harrison Ford emerge as older versions of characters he originally played 30+ years ago is my new favorite thing. I can’t wait to see him step out, wearing a cowboy hat, as Bob Falfa in “American Graffiti, the Next Generation” or whatever. Roger Deakins has outdone himself here. I’m tempted to rewatch the film with the sound off, so I can just look at it.

I just found these awesome tiny photos tucked into my grandfather’s high school yearbook. Written on the back of each is “Senior class picnic 1933 Grand Haven.” Pretty cool.