thank god

new PB

If you consider how long it took me to add thumbnails to my website, it honestly was pretty quick how fast I fixed the issue where landscape thumbnails were sideways.

I also made it so the tag pages were somewhat useful and got rid of the comment section because I forgot how to use it.

One day (maybe even one day this year?) my process for posting photos won't require me to copy/paste all the image IDs into a command line script

Winter is an underrated time for photography. Obviously, I love to take photos of flowers and insects and other things that are only around in summer, but when it's all white out it's a chance to really lean into texture and shadow as the focus of a photo

once in the game, and once in real life

What if there was a number, A such that X + A = X for any value X

I don't know if anyone ever thought of this before

Is the Twitter Logo (not a bird the brand guide is very clear that it was the twitter logo and not a bird) now called the X Logo?

The thing about "whatever wrapped" that is separate from whatever company is doing it is that the data you can track about a thing is not especially relevant to my experience of it. Yeah, my favourite album probably isn't one I didn't listen to^*, but iTunes doesn't know whether one of the times it played an album it was the perfect time and I still think fondly about it. Did I already complain about this recently? I'm not keeping track

* Ok, but now that I think about it, I definitely said Hellraiser was one of my movies of the year the year after I first watched it. I was still thinking about it and it's probably better as a concept than a film.

the purpose of a system are the friends made along the way

a movie is basically the same thing as it's plot summary, but to really know a film you also have to read about it's continuity errors on IMDB

Obviously it is bad that companies compile and sell all this information about you but I feel like people don't worry enough about how keeping track of that information about yourself can lead to unhealthy habits. It's good to forget things sometimes or just not know something and be happy in that

It's my favourite holiday and I've been busy. I just published my Year in Review/Year-end Best Ofs/Plans for 2025 as well as my 2025 Qualtagh

I also posted my first photos of the year to my to my photo blog (yesterday I posted my last photos of the year if you missed that)

IMDB, there is simply nobody on Earth who has gone to Tarkovsky's page with the primary goal of finding out what three Additional Crew credits he has. What are we doing here

my aunt sends us a box of petit fours every year where some have letters on the top spelling out MERRY CHRISTMAS so then we spend time rearranging them to spell out different words and phrases

All the music in my library having a little arrow beside it that says 'downloaded'. You didn't download shit. You don't even sell a bunch of this

Is that their viewers might actually want measurements provided in both US customary units and in a metric unit. They are holding up the sky when they do a unit conversion once in their scripted content or copy both numbers off the spec sheet they were looking at in the first place

Once again remembering I need to rewatch it

The person across from me in this airport terminal is wearing a US Space Force toque, hoodie, and sweatpants

Don’t come a knocking

Normally when I travel I plan on checking a bag (as camera stuff takes up too much of a carry-on to fit everything else) so I put any liquids I need to bring there.

Today, I just had a carry-on bag but I had put the liquids in a different pocket than I remembered so I assumed I just forgot them when packing. Those liquids went through the scanner and the person didn't even notice. It's all a sham.

It is so annoying to deal with and yet do they have a single instance of it stopping anything? I bet that rule has a death toll and I bet it hasn't done shit.

Shoe thing also fake (Canadian security don't even make you do it. That's a TSA special) but it still feels more real

It should have to state it’s automated. This is not about LLM bullshit. Form emails should not get to pretend to be personal even if a human wrote it.

The expectation of this fake personal touch is the gross automation already

is corn

Why would i want a computer to tell me my ‘stats’ for the year? I can think and feel for myself

“It’s just a little fun”. It’s an ad. It’s all just trying to make you forget that the app doesn’t make the things you like. People do

My grandparents lived in the US, so every summer we'd drive down to visit them and some other extended family. One of the things I remember about there old house was the junk drawer in their kitchen. I remember it had playing cards, dice, rubber bands, and stationary. I truly don't think it had anything especially exciting or interesting for a young kid and yet I remember taking the time to root through it each time I was there. It was mundane but a slightly different mundane than I was used to.

Basically, this is my goal for one gross online

I feel like this site doesn't really count (though maybe I'll do some thinking about how I'm using it in the new year).

I started to do some planning for my year in review, and I realized I don't have somewhere I want to put it. The last few years I've thrown it on cohost and that seemed like the right place for it. I could reshare it a time or two and then it would fade away. It's not really something I need or want to be permanent.

Which is all to say, I added a sort of not-quite-blog to one gross online. Just a place to throw a few paragraphs of text. I've got some idle thoughts about Spelunky 2 there now. Whenever I have something new to say, I'll just write over it. It's like they always say, a cool URL is one that never changes. The logical conclusion is to keep it the same even as the content does. On the first I'll put up my ear in review. Maybe before then I'll have something else to say. Watch this space (or watch that one? [Watch neither and let your feed reader handle it for you?]). If anything there is worth keeping around I'll find a place for it.

I guess I did just write more text here to explain that I wanted a place to throw a few paragraphs of text. Best not to worry about it.

Was miserable.

removed word + added 'random' letter is too much for a clue. And then the amount of fill throughout the rest which is names of places/people and archaic words? fuck off

Actively hilarious that I thought I was going to recommend a movie every single week. I figured maybe I'd rewatch the movie and that would be it. For my new recommendation, I showed it to friends but also watched 3 additional movies. Anyway, project isn't dead (I'm still thinking about it a lot), but it is probably more like a monthly thing

for repeatedly calling John the Baptist Johnny Baps

I also think quantum computer stuff is never going to happen but I have way less background knowledge to back that one oup

I don't even dislike him, I just cannot imagine a single person choosing him over everyone else or even him winning a split vote with other directors

I think every profession should have its own egg dish

starting a new movie project

and yet it is easy to imagine a liberal Heathcliff wearing a Hamilton helmet

What is up with Kid Cudi's filmography page on wikipedia. They have labelled the sidebar 'film discography', a phrase I cannot find on any other actor/musician's page (Gaga gets videography to emphasize it has music videos and I found a case or two of artists with combined filmography and discography but this only contains Cudi's music videos and acting roles). Why are they using this picture of him?! It's a bad photo at a premiere for a film he doesn't act in. I had to go to his main page to even confirm he wrote a song for the movie

I was annoyed when I opened it and some of the clues were multiple words but I feel like it earned it

This morning's afternoon's music. An album by King Khan that is both a tribute to members of Sun Ra's Arkestra and a collaboration with some of the Arkestra

Sometimes when I plug my work computer into my external monitor, it runs into a situation where the cursor and absolutely nothing else renders incorrectly. It is wrong for all cursor types and it looks correct when I move it onto my laptop.

I don't really know what's going on. I sort of assume it's something about subpixel rendering and the differing resolutions and some flag not being set but why wouldn't it impact anything else?

Wait, I could be doing morning music during the hiatus. Anyway, Mammal Hands is band that I either found through Bandcamp's new & notable section or when looking at related music for another band I found that way. They're a jazz trio (sax, piano, drums) who tend to favour driving and somewhat ethereal compositions

before I don't think I can really tell how many movies I've recommended.

I'm still having a lot of fun thinking about and writing about the movies on this list but it's tricky in a way I wasn't expecting. Coming up with the main movies is easy enough so far—there are a bunch of movies I like a lot and have seen enough that I can pitch them. It's the related recommendations that are hard.

There's sort of a two-fold problem: there are movies that I think are interesting pairings but I haven't seen often or recently enough to be sure without a rewatch; and there are movies that are good pairings but I want to debut them on the main list before they appear in follow-ups (for the first films anyway. I promise you there is no way I am making it to 1,001 if I'm burning 4 films for each main recommendation). That part is also fun though. It lets me mention second films by directors early (in F for Fake I even mention that I am planning on recommending a different film by Peter Watkins), and also it's going to make it easier to mention something other than the big obvious choice film by some directors.

Anyway, movies rule. You should watch them and you should tell me about the cool ones you're watching

6 updates

apparently when I (finally) added smaller versions of of photos for my website, I did it in a way that broke portrait photos. Weirdly they look right in my feed reader but not on my site.

I think I know what's happening. My camera stores all photos in landscape resolution and sets a flag for rotation in the EXIF data. My naive file conversion isn't doing anything about this and thus the resulting webp file is also in landscape. That EXIF rotation data isn't used by default (or is even out of spec?) for webp so at least in firefox on a mac it renders as horizontal on my website. My feed reader is actually using that EXIF data and fixing it? That's my guess without actually testing anything anyway.

I'll fix it by the next time I upload photos since that probably broke a tone of older pages