wincent/clipper: Clipper is an OS X “launch agent” that runs in the background providing a service that exposes the local clipboard to tmux sessions and other processes running both locally and remotely. I’m trying this as a replacement for the “reattach-to-user-namespace” workaround when dealing with tmux sessions and the OS X clipboard. Seems to work just fine.

Fuji X-T1 with Leica Summicron 50mm I’ve never gotten comfortable using old manual-focus lenses on modern cameras. I tried a few times with earlier cameras like the Olympus E-P1 and Zeiss Biogon and the Fuji X-E1 with Leica 9cm Elmar but the experience was terrible. Fuji recently released a major firmware update to the X-T1 so I was playing around with it while reading John Caz’s excellent Setup Guide.

Jamie Todd Rubin: It is interesting to look at that post from nearly 3 years ago and the 4 arguments I made against my own use of audiobooks, and compare them to how my opinions have changed today I’m about halfway between dismissing audio books and embracing them completely

Rian van der Merwe: We’re just not forced to experience art any more. Don’t like the song? Skip it. Don’t like the movie? Stop watching — it’s not like you had to drive to a video store to get it. Don’t like what you’re reading? Go to the next URL. Touches on some of the reasons I believe listening to music on vinyl improves not only the sound of music, but also the experience of music.

This is the back of a Leica M3. Just look at it! Could there be anything simpler? There are no controls; just an ASA indicator and a (world-beating) viewfinder1. I find the whole thing to be a work of art. The only thing better than looking at the back of a Leica M3 is looking through one. There’s also a couple of flash ports but those can be safely ignored since no one uses them.

I’m sure others have thought of this before, because in hindsight it seems obvious. The cassette is Led Zeppelin II

I just bought Chris Hadfield’s book directly via his tweet @Cmdr_Hadfield_{.twitter-atreply.pretty-link}. My personal proceeds from @gumroad, as with all You Are Here sales in the US, go to support the @MichaelJFoxOrg. http://t.co/4NggAlaLL4 — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) December 15, 2014 Screenshot, in case the embedded Twitter card doesn’t show properly: This must be a new thing, right? My first reaction is that it’s a great idea. I like books.

I usually listen to music on vinyl, just as I have for 40 years. Keeping my vinyl library up to date is easy. Whatever is on the shelves is what I have. I keep albums in basically alphabetical order by artist. Easy, and there’s not much that can go wrong with such a system. I also use streaming services (my current favorite being Deezer). There’s not much to organizing streamed music other than favoriting albums and picking which I want to have downloaded to my phone.

2014-12-13 Installed on iMac Downloading all iTunes songs to /Volumes/Media and will import into beets when complete. It’s like 6,000 songs so may be a while 2014-12-14 Installing and configuring beets for managing music library Ran into bug https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/1117 Waiting for upgrade to beets, sigh. Ok never mind I installed from source (via Pip) Running 1 $ beet import -q ~/Volumes/Media/MusicImport Then 1 $ beet import /Volumes/Media/MusicImport

Every picture tells a story, don’t it. —Rod Stewart This is one of the few photos from my grandfather’s photo albums without a detailed caption written the reverse. It says simply, “Aug 1954”. I love it. The woman with the beach ball is playing catch with another woman who is out of frame. The man watches the second woman until his wife has had enough and snatches the binoculars away from him.

For years now I’ve maintained a list of books I’ve read and have stored it in many different formats using many different tools. It started as a simple text file. Then I got fancy with Delicious Library, which was a lot of fun for a while, but eventually the novelty wore off and I started looking for something easier and cloud-based. I ended up importing the list into LibraryThing. That was nice, but soon after I went through an anti-web app phase so I wanted something local.

Cole Rise | Pi.co: “I have days of photos and no actual memory of that day aside from the photos that I took. That’s because I’m so lost in the minutia of the camera and trying to get a photo that I’m not participating. I’m hiding behind this machine.” “…no actual memory of that day aside from the photos I took.” I used to believe this was a thing.