Last night was full of dreams. The one I remember went like this. Gail and I were sitting in small chairs against the wall of a plainly-decorated hotel room. We were talking with another woman seated to our right. We were waiting for something. A large, olive-skinned man stepped into the room. He said nothing, but began to burp. His burps were loud, deep, and disgusting. Gail struggled to avoid vomiting from the sounds.

Vox: But one thing’s for certain: even if the market stabilizes completely, vinyl is never going to be the dominant way consumers listen to music Why would anyone write something like that? Really, vinyl isn’t going to be dominant? First off, no shit. No sane person would suggest the contrary. Second, that’s not the point of vinyl.

Apple released the new Photos app today along with OS X 10.10.3. I never gave iPhoto a serious try, but I did use Aperture for a while. Photos seems to aim for somewhere between those two. I love the idea of Photos handling everything for me. That seems nice, so I’m reviewing my current workflow to see how that might work out. I have 3 different photo sources: iPhone, a Digital Camera, and my Film Cameras.

Ron in “hot rod” 1958 I was scanning my grandfather’s photos and found this one of my dad from 1958. His 74th birthday is coming up and he still has that same smile. Probably wishes he still had the car, too.

Rishabh R. Dassani: The first and the most important reason standing doesn’t work is because it isn’t productive. Standing and working at the same time affects overall performance because you’re focusing on two things. Having to distribute your cognitive capacities between standing and working nullifies the benefits you might get from standing alone because only part of your mental resources are going toward your work, thus making you less productive in the end.

Álvaro Serrano on A briefcase containing the chronicles of an affair between a man and his secretary: Next time somebody complains to you about how social networks and the Internet are destroying privacy and marriages, just point them towards this article. (Via Analog Senses) I’m not sure I’d compare an affair exposed by material found after 30 years of being stored in a briefcase to broken security or privacy issues on social media, but I am fascinated by the degree to which Günter documented the thing.

An Open Letter to Tesla, From Your Friendly Local Car Dealers – Column – Car and Driver: Now, you may enjoy selling your cars with no middleman and just keeping all the money. But I ask, have you considered letting us have some of that money? It is our position that we would like some of the money. Could just be due to a series of poor experiences with car dealers, but I’m pulling for Tesla on the whole dealership thing.

Maybe it’s app fatigue or maybe I’m just tired of staring at “glowing rectangles”, but Golden Krishna’s The Best Interface is No Interface resonated with me. Let’s end our slavery to screens I’m in.

I wanted to burn through a roll today so I grabbed the little Leica IIIf and shot a few around the house then took a walk to finish it up. I nearly lost the roll while processing, but salvaged enough to get a few usable images. Door on wall. Leica IIIf. Canon 50mm 1.8 LTM   Barn. Leica IIIf. Canon 50mm 1.8 LTM   Crosses on garage.

On blogs – Matt Gemmell: Blogs have self-esteem issues. Instead of a blog, let your site be a site. Or a journal. An online anthology. Your collected works. Your essays, to date. Your body of writing. A blog is a non-thing; it’s the refusal to categorise what you produce, and an implicit opt-in to the disappointing default. Nah. I think instead that many bloggers have developed an inflated sense of self.

Woman's legs near snow. (2009) The above image is poorly-focused, improperly processed, and full of dust spots. I love it anyway and wish I could make more like it. It also reminds me to stop worrying about technical perfection and to focus on images that I simply enjoy looking at. That’s what counts.

Each day I create a note called “Doing” in my Tinderbox daybook. This note is a dumping ground for little things I want to record during the day. I wanted to include the day’s weather, just for fun. Here’s how I did it. First I had to find a way to grab the weather via command line. Turns out that Weather Underground has a nice API and Stephen Ramsay has created a little command-line application (written in Go) called wu https://github.