the art of writing is discovering what you believe
I have heard of using protective gases, even your exhaled breath, to cut down on the oxygen exposure of film developers. But this is a great idea.
I keep my opened Rodinal in the fridge, next to the beer, and I fill the bottle with glass marbles, to
cut down on the O2 that eats the Rodinal.
This wine bag/boxes would be good for this as well, but Rodinal comes in such small quantities, this is a fine option.
I was directed to this book after installing a wiki (it was mentioned in the documentation).
This is the core of it:
I read the book in about an hour. It was like reading a book I had already read, recently, though I had never heard of it before.
I am in the midst of preparing an artist’s statement for a portfolio workshop I am doing and this fits in quite well with what I have been saying in a less concise way. This puts a name to this idea and helps refine my understanding. The page linked above might be interesting to programmer/hacker types as it uses XP/pair programming as a manifestation of wabi-sabi.
I was also reminded of this:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
It really did feel as if I was returning to something I had already read.
Nice: an old school movie on the process of exposing and developing film.
It’s a movie about the chemicals and science behind movie film. However, it is a great watch if you ever wanted to know the basics of b&w film. I was finally able to understand how everything works from start to finish and I didn’ t have to read a thing.
From the Prelinger Archives:
Part 1:
www.archive.org/stream/Alchemis1940/Alchemis1940_256kb.mp4Part 2:
www.archive.org/stream/Alchemis1940_2/Alchemis1940_2_256k…
Takes me back to my school days before we had VCRs and TVs or the internets.
More of the icicles formed by dripping gutters, this on an ornamental filbert, aka Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick.
I’m not sure why Black and White film makes sense any more. When I want black and white, I can just choose “desaturate” in PhotoShop and it is done. Still, if you want to work with traditional processes (i.e., you don’t want to scan) and you want a negative that will last for hundreds of years, black & white is the way to go.
Actually, it’s more likely to be true of color film than B&W. But coming from someone who thinks desaturate in PS is the same as true B&W, who cares?
I guess they don’t require law professors to understand statistics, but I should leave the beatdowns to others who are better at it.
As seen on BTCNews, you can compare different municipalities for things like crime rates/types. In response to a column in the NYTimes by tenured bloviator Glenn Reynolds on the benefits of mandatory gun ownership, we learn — to our great surprise — that Reynolds trotted out a widely-held but bogus ‘truth’ and found a way to sell it. The Houston Chronicle has more.
I guess they don’t require law professors to understand statistics, but I should leave the beatdowns to others who are better at it.
I think this is an interesting tool for these kinds of ‘debates’ (debate defined as some monkey flinging his work product at the keepers): the cited comparison — between Kennesaw, GA, and Schererville, IN — makes Kennesaw look pretty damn violent.
| Kennesaw | Schererville | |
|---|---|---|
| Population: | 28,189 | 27,602 |
| Murder: | 0 | 0 |
| Forcible Rape: | 0 | 1 |
| Robbery: | 7 | 9 |
| Aggravated Assault: | 27 | 3 |
| Burglary: | 91 | 45 |
| Larceny Theft: | 398 | 596 |
| Vehicle Theft: | 56 | 66 |
What’s with the huge disparity in assaults? And burglaries — Reynolds’ main point — certainly don’t prove anything about gun ownership being a factor.
Gotta be some way to work in how they both got a smooch from W: will their experiences make him their Judas?
Borrowed from comments over here.
In response to “Jane Galt” and her claim that being wrong on the details but right on the outcome means you’re wrong:
In all fairness, pundits are not usually this wrong this fast, and so are not used to being held accountable. Usually, if they are wrong (say, about the economic benefits of tax cuts, or aid to the poor), the results come out in dribs and drabs over the years, and can be explained away. Being held accountable in a small time frame, just like people with real jobs, must suck.
ciocia | 01.16.07 – 12:53 pm |
Do the people who pay their wages as pundits/writers/opinionators ever follow up on their output? A blind guy could do better with darts.
