Steve (2016). Nikon F3. 50mm f/1.4. Tri-X in D-76 1:1 9 min. I love this shot of Steve. It’s a candid shot that doesn’t look candid.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons My rating: 3 of 5 stars This type of science fiction is no longer my bag. The childish sex scenes and the dialog of the “poet” killed it for me after about 30% of the way through. Did not finish. View all my reviews

The Deep Whatsis by Peter Mattei My rating: 3 of 5 stars I no longer enjoy following douchebag characters. Didn’t finish this one. American Psycho did it better anyway. View all my reviews

Andrew. Nikon F3. 50mm f1.4. Tri-X in HC-110" Andrew. Nikon F3. 50mm f1.4. Tri-X in HC-110 One from 2016 Roll-022.

I am easily distracted by shiny new things. This is dangerous for productivity because it causes me to burn down my system and start over on a regular basis. As fun as that is, it’s not what I should be doing. For example, last night after reading a random blog post I impulsively started moving all of my tasks and projects back into that other todo app that I love. Doing that led me to changing how capture works with email, which makes me want to look up some helper scripts and then it was 2:00AM and I realized how much I’d miss Org Mode and oh yeah Mu4e is awesome and now what?

Empty film rolls and scraps. Nikon F3. 105mm f/2.5. Tri-X Remnants in the corner of the darkroom

Today I learned about Lsyncd. Not sure how it ever escaped my radar. Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or block devices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.

Waited for the bus (2016). iPhone I’ve driven by this scene many times and finally decided to stop and make a photo of the silhouettes of condensation at this nearby bus stop.

Manton Reese I have a lot of work to do over the next couple of weeks before it’s ready to open up to real users. As I’ve talked about a few times on my Timetable podcast, I’m planning a Kickstarter project to complement the web app. I’ll be sharing more soon. I’m still on the lookout for a nice micro-blogging option. Manton seems to be on the right track with [http://snippets.

NYT: We are overloaded daily with new discoveries, patents and inventions all promising a better life, but that better life has not been forthcoming for most. In fact, the bulk of the above list targets a very specific (and tiny!) slice of the population. As one colleague in tech explained it to me recently, for most people working on such projects, the goal is basically to provide for themselves everything that their mothers no longer do.

The Wire: On July 31st 2004, Abbas Raza began to curate the internet. On his first day, he posted links to the Cavafy poem, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’, a New Scientist article on the possibilities of extra-terrestrial contact, ‘Is it Art, Or is it Arab Art?’, two obituaries of Francis Crick, a primer on how to avoid copyright litigation and a curious piece in the Independent on Mike Tyson’s short-lived comeback.

Dave Winer: I have an idea. Do I put it on Facebook or Twitter or my own blog or Tumblr or Medium or whatever shiny new thing everyone’s playing with this week. My answer is this. It goes on my blog. I’m with Dave. It goes on my blog. Now to figure out which blog that should be.