Walking in the prairie near our home. Found this guy munching away.
Packing for a photo workshop tomorrow at the MN Arboretum on pollinators. They say to bring a >200mm telephoto (ok) and a 20mm+ wide angle (huh?). Throwing the macro in the kit for good measure. Hoping to pick up a few tips.
The new reMarkable Paper Pro Move was an instant purchase. The size is perfect for toting around. Now if Apple could replicate that screen feel in an iPad mini I’d be very tempted, but I don’t see that happening.
Bringing my Tinderbox skills back up to snuff for my Oakes Folks web site. It’s the best tool I’ve found for this work. Let’s me organize the way I want.
Pulled my big full frame camera out of hibernation today. Heavy body & heavy lens but it takes nice shots. Maybe I’ll build some muscles this weekend.
Had the slow leak repaired in my bike’s back tire. Road 15 miles. Time for my G&T.
Just preordered the new Ricoh GRIV and putting off my expected upgrade to the next iPhone. Keeping the 14 Pro Max. May even downsize at some point to a smaller model.
If you can’t drive when you’re drinking a beer get your kid to do it.
This guy had just gotten off the Scorpion. He didn’t look so hot.
At the fair yesterday. Perfect day for it. Apparently we set a new attendance record.
I use Tot pretty regularly. Nice to see an update!
Hoping to release this week. Much remains to be done, but I still hope to take tomorrow off to get to the best state fair in the country: the Minnesota State Fair. My camera is calling me.
Using AI
I consider myself a moderately heavy user of AI. I have subscriptions to ChatGPT, Claude, and whatever magic Dia has under the hood. Questions/conversations fall into a few different areas: Coding – mostly syntax help and some interlanguage conversion, but also to develop skeletons to be fleshed out/rewritten; queries about topics of interest (e.g. what’s the general opinion of Neil Young’s guitar playing); and product reviews and comparisons (e.g. camera X vs camera Y).
Pedicures are my favorite indulgence.
Hmmm. Things are going well. Too well. I’m suspicious.
I’m going back to my favorite scripting language: Ruby. So long Python, you can’t say we never tried.
Builds finally going smoothly. Lots of itty bitty details. I have to find a better way to automated this.
Music in my head: The Comedians Suite by Dmitry Kabalevsky. Hey, I heard it yesterday and it’s 4am. It could be worse.
When I have the radio on (MPR’s Your Classical) the “Music In My Head” turns off. I guess that’s not surprising.
A nice G and T to start an evening of cozy mysteries with my favorite person. Using Hendricks and Fever Tree Elderflower. It seems to be a good combination. Mysteries could be Misomer Murders, Death in Paradise, or Foyle’s War.