I'm told that GIFs (particularly of TV show the The Office) are passé in various contextual uses. Yet they find their way into my teaching decks and they always make me smirk. And by find I mean I put them there, on purpose, much to the shrieks of my teenage twins saying nooooooooo

Surprised to see the faint pink glow of aurora through the clouds (Central Valley, California); one helluva of storm!

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

@cdevroe Yeaaa, it's a shame really; I don't have a lot of the pack film left in my refrigerator, but at this point I've worked through the last of my 2015 packs and I'm down to my 2019's. Won't buy more; the pricing is outrageous (even if doing neg recovery)

Shooting persimmons turned into a bit of a travail; lost the last three shots of a pack of FP-100C to failure (a first; I've never had the tab pulls fail, but that pack was 10 years old), and lost a sheet of FP4 to a film holder failure (film popped and the slide crushed it; I must have loaded it poorly). I did persist, and photographs were indeed made. 😂

@slightlyoff The jealously/FOMO is real LOLOLO, have an amazing time!

#NoKings #Protest #Resist #Resistance #Alt

Quiet. #grickledoodle #kermit #muppets #autumn #leaves #melancholymood #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

@MLE_online watching him on PBS in the 90's brings back a lot of happy memories; he was just amazing and genuine

Took the twins and their friend to see Laufey in concert last week, and just amazing show for a first tour. Great opener (Suki Waterhouse), crowd was amazing, girls had such a great time. Incredibly talented (her cello and piano playing is just lovely).

@Alice as the driver of a pack of wild Swifties I am deeply offended and you will be hearing from a response track on the next album in 6 months about this. I am now being told to stop at the next Sephora to ease their pain, please send help

A little FP-100c instant film of our ever-surprising passion fruit plant (which has decided to flower again, this time in bulk); too stark a dynamic range for my now aging instant film but I thought why not. I believe the black and white film will come out more to my liking (a few holders of FP4); better multiple flower compositions as well. We shall see.

https://youtube.com/shorts/n3XIBwxiGHY?feature=share

The apple trees have done well this year, and after a morning wander-and-pick, it was time for a Dutch Apple Baby bake. The twins tell me this is my best version yet; only took me three years to sort it.

One of the more ridiculous things I recently added to the darkroom was a $3 dollar yard sale findl red outdoor safety light I tied into the safelight switch. If the red light is on, I'm printing, don't open the door.

Did I need this? No. Does it make me happy? Absolutely.

The twins had a birthday party this weekend; 19 thirteen and fourteen year olds (we survived). They decided laser tag across the property was the way to go and I can never find the stupid weird jack size cables for these charge bases. Nothing a soldering iron and some broken USB cables can't fix.

CBS Mornings talks to Sally Mann. Interesting story. Her current work is playing with the Sabattier effect, exposing negatives to light during development. She notes that it’s unpredictable. Having tried this recently, that made me feel better, because I couldn’t predict results either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-DfSu3uIQQ

Frameworkists are eager to tell you about the name-brand tech they're using on the project, then put a Miele oven in the bathroom. Do not be a frameworkist. Do not _hire_ frameworkists.

Be someone who is agnostic to tools but laser focused on goals.

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

@wxcafe Ooooo nicccce! 1000% this approach; I buy (too much probably) broken large format gear and part outs for my enlargers. Patience can bring some sweet deals.

@leaverou @wollman color me suspicious; coding (be it open or axial) and calcing CA for inter-rater is not just about agreeing but also the disagreement. Researchers debate and review and collect more data and subsequently what emerges is stronger research findings/theory development. I would hesitate to equate text analysis from an LLM with the coding one does to understand the experiences and perspectives of participants, to do more than just describe (a very Charmaz approach at that).