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Review: UG Monk Analog Notecard Productivity System

A Japanese tea ceremony for your todo list.

The Nothing That Is

The breath of the world

Developing Photos With Darktable

A brief intro to Darktable in 2024

Getting Things Done With Notecards

They’re cheap, they’re everywhere, and they work.

Turn Your Own Wrenches

Repair as a way of life.

Everything is a Practice

There is no finish line. There is no winning, no losing.

Sunbeams

Developing a photograph from Patrick’s Point

Safety Third

Life first

The Cavalry Isn’t Coming

It’s just you and me and the rain.

Rules for Screens, Part Two

Let’s talk about your phone.

Rules for Screens, Part One

You can have a television or you can have a life.

Birds, Sky

Developing a photograph from San Miguel de Allende

Bayside Sunset

Developing a photograph from long ago in Florida

Pawnee Grassland

Developing a photograph from the Colorado grasslands

Alborada Festival

San Miguel’s best festival

Black and White Badlands

Toning a photograph from South Dakota

Lone House, Near Rutherford Beach, LA

The loneliest place in Louisiana

Dragoon Mountains

Black and white backlight

Three Quick Edits

Yes, you can process image quickly in darktable

Zion Canyon

An image from one of my favorite Zion hikes.

Trinidad Road

A storm, a road, a photograph

Ancestral Puebloan Dwelling

A place unlike any other

Is This Water?

Walking, Cleaning, Walking some more.

Bayou, Palmetto Island, LA

Developing a photograph from a Louisiana bayou

Quay Wardlaw House

Imitating Fujifilm Acros with Darktable

The Best Shoes I’ve Ever Worn Are Hardly Shoes at All

Let me tell you about my shoes

Waffle the World

A waffle iron can do a whole lot more than breakfast

Why Live in a Vintage 1969 RV?

The less you have, the further you can go.

Life in Chains: Del Taco

Written for an Eater.com series on fast food chains.

What’s Missing Is

A story (fictional) based on my grandparents and other bits of family history.

Comeback Sauce

An Ode to JB’s Sausage Cart, an Athens, GA Institution

One Nation Under a Groove

Consider the iPod, destroyer, or perhaps protector, of worlds