I never actually stopped using Tinderbox, but for the past six months or so I’ve not been using it as my “daily driver”. There are a few reasons for this, but primarily I just wanted to check out my options for note-taking and project management. There are two approaches I take when in comes to keeping notes and lists. The first approach is to use fancy, pointy-clicky apps like Tinderbox, Circus Ponies Notebook, Evernote, and Curio.

Marco.org Web ads are dramatically different from prior ad media, though — rather than just being printed on paper or inserted into a broadcast, web ads are software. They run arbitrary code on your computer, which can (and usually does) collect and send data about you and your behavior back to the advertisers and publishers. I didn’t believe in using ad blockers until about 6 months ago when I became fed up with exactly what Marco describes.

Joanna Newsome, "Have One On Me" I love this record so much.

Khoi Vinh: I’ve long been skeptical of vinyl’s second act. In spite of the surprising growth in sales figures for the format over the past few years, it has rarely had the feeling of an authentic revival—more like the feeling of a bubble among people who are desperate to buy authenticity, artificially inflated by those who profit from selling it. Why do so many people spend so much time “Poking Holes in the Vinyl Revial”?

Beth Orton – Comfort of Strangers Not my typical fare, but I’m enjoying it.

I own two very nice watches. Tag Heuer Aquaracer automatic and Apple Watch The first is a Tag Heuer automatic that I bought six years ago and had, until recently, worn every day. It looks the way a watch is supposed to look, requires no batteries, and is waterproof to 1000 feet (because over-engineering). The second is an Apple Watch that I bought just a couple of months ago. I’ve worn it almost every day since.

Sony TC-378 You just knew I was going to end up with a reel-to-reel deck some day. Or as I like to call it, reel-to-real. Many of the GRAMC{.} films include a separate audio track on 1/4-inch magnetic tape. I had no way to play the audio so I bought the above Sony TC-378 from a local record store. It’s probably overkill but it’s pretty cool.

Ello launched last year and of course I signed up as soon as I could. It was hyped at the time as the “anti-Facebook”. This appealed to me since I’m rather anti-Facebook myself. But I was disappointed. I found the layout and typography to be a little too quirky, and it seemed there were more bugs than people. I posted a few things, followed a few people, and soon forgot about Ello.

Pink Floyd. Atom Heart Mother I don’t always find Atom Heart Mother easy to listen to, but it’s still worth the occasional spin. “If somebody said to me now – right – here’s a million pounds, go out and play Atom Heart Mother, I’d say you must be fucking joking.” –Roger Waters1 "Dear Diary" (PDF). The Word. July 2008 ↩

Grab your Hasselblad and 1 roll of film. See what you get.

I have been using OfflineIMAP, on and off, for a long time. The reason it’s been “on and off” is that once in a while I’ll have some inexplicable problem and give up and just access my IMAP accounts directly. A few months pass and I wonder why I stopped using offlineIMAP and so I update the configuration and the circle begins again. This time I’m writing it down. I love having all my Gmail messages stored locally in simple text files.

Fusionary{.} was incorporated on July 15th, 1995. We celebrated by getting together to eat, drink, and bowl. Bowling Shoes.. (2015)