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On my computer, iPhoto no longer launches every time I attach a camera or compact flash reader. The setting to stop this was not in iPhoto (as you might foolishly expect), but in Image Capture. That is so much better.

If I want an application to launch, well then I’ll damn well launch it myself thankyouverymuch.

Oh Man, I always loved the Calvin and Hobbes Snow Man Strips. It’s easy to forget how funny that strip was. via

I’ve heard all the Mac faithful singing the praises of 10.3. Some of the features look nice and all, but I haven’t felt any upgrade pressure. However, this little trick that would allow me to have command-N create a new folder (again as god intended) rather than open a new finder window (as Jobs intended) might almost be worth the $100+ price tag.

I LOVE the artwork of Lori Agostino. It’s just exactly perfect.

I have to remember to go to This:

The Open Show is Gallery 825/LAAA’s annual exhibition in which all Southern California artists are invited to submit work. This year’s Open Show is an incredible survey of the wide range of local talent, including the work of over thirty artists.

I want some new art for my place, and I want to support local artists. Hopefully, I can find something there.

I keep this web site for myself mostly. I come across interesting sites, or I have a thought or story I know I’ll want to remember, so I post it here.

Most times I don’t go back, but as I build an archive, more and more I find myself hitting Google and typing in a likely keyword and my site. Boom! Instant memory. Still, when I read something like this speculative analysis of the photography and life of Charles W. Cushman, I can’t help wondering what future historians might make of my life.

Will my site, all of this creative output even last, or will it all rot, an unparsable mess of ones and zeros on a server (or more likely a CD ROM or Hard Drive somewhere buried in a landfill)?

Most of my life isn’t even in this site. I deliberately leave a lot of things out. How would a stranger connect the dots? Am I too self-absorbed in even assuming that somebody might bother to try?

Of course I am, and yet we’d all like to think that we mattered, that we left some mark upon the world. I feel like Ozymandias looking out over my kingdom of sand.

I seem to be running out of morning. Staying up super late will do that to you I suppose. Anyway, I don’t have time to listen to these Dakota Smith MP3s right now. Maybe later. via

Penguin Push is maddening. The first few levels are easy, but once you get up there a bit, just as you’re figuring out how to solve the puzzle, you run out of time. Every single blessed time.

Plus, it seems to have crashed my browser (Mac/Moz/1.5) a few times.

I have a sense that I’ve been getting too self-deprecating recently. My confidence in myself has often been confused with arrogance. I understate my abilities and qualities for humorous effect, and to keep my ego from blossoming out of control. Uncertainty is less appealing to me than excessive confidence though. I need to dial that crutch back a bit.

When I was younger, I thought it was self-defecating. I still prefer that as a phrase. It so perfectly describes what is happening. I should start a movement or something (I didn’t intended that to be a pun, but recognizing it as such, it tickles me more than it should).

Oh my god! Matt Stuart’s photographs are awesome. Why don’t I ever get shots that good? Well, OK, I don’t stage my photographs very often, and at least some of Matt’s clearly are. Also, I’m not very good.

See, it’s that last part that really breaks my spirit. I need to try harder.