in 2012, work sent me to a college named for a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and which featured a large recreation of the document on a building's wall, so as a joke i had a friend taking photos like i was running for office.

the king 🇪🇬🥲

The fix is in.

i love shooting film as much as the next person, and it's nice to have a big folder of tangible negatives, but it does feel more and more like i see posts whose only really selling point is [xyz] shot on film, or people who only shoot film and entirely eschew digital for whatever reason.

the sony announcement has me wondering if we are in the last two decades of video games as a mass hobby. as with youth sports, this continuing price escalation and rent seeking is going to destroy the user base.

@starclusterr.bsky.social TACO D’OPPOOOOOO FILS DE PUTE

youtube ads in 2015: gamers love doritos and mountain dew, it's a guaranteed high score! youtube ads in 2026: ai rendering of wilford brimley saying "my doctor said my heart was going to collapse unless i drank 30 gallons of antifreeze a day, here is the secret you need to know"

today's work

da big apple, baby

I don’t think he would actually do it but imagine if Dunkey did his GTA VI review and ended it with his yearly Super Mario Brothers 2 joke.

Marcel, mon pote, I loved your first book but I don’t know if I can do another 30 pages about how conflicted you feel about breaking up with your friend

this is is not vague posting as it’s about everything and nothing in particular but damn, all of adulthood really is just having to improvise from one thing to the next. I feel so terribly anxious about the future and feel like I’m in a constant state of having to set up the next phase.

Gang’s all here

the CTA, while far from perfect, is nevertheless still a miracle to me, having gone from Logan Square to Oak Park in just over an hour.

not a new observation by any means but sade might truly be the best to ever do it.

moots, y'all got any tips for speedrunning recovery from jet lag? i'm going to have two days from arrival until an all-afternoon event and so i'm trying to get ahead of it.

allez les bleus, sources are saying

@badbisque.bsky.social @acat.bsky.social funny moment at work where i had to decide how to apologize to a french colleague for a delay without using a word that might get picked up for offensive language by the english-based system (i went with "delai")

allez les bleus, sources are saying

today's work - trying out a new-to-me technique of slow-ish shutter speed and moving the camera with a fast subject to still the subject but blur the background.

Gaijin’s Japanese breakfast - egg, rice, unagi, and tofu agedashi. Off screen is miso soup.

For the first time in 10 years, the USA benefits from an own goal

The best part of every World Cup is the commercials going "there’s nothing more golazo than managing EBITDA with Deloitte”

there are often times I feel sad that social apps have become so onerous and unpleasant to use because they once felt like the perfect asynchronous hangout, and now it feels deeply isolating to even open them

Non alcoholic cocktails: Mockarina of Lime

it's officially been ten years since i left what was almost certainly the worst job i've had to date, to the point i was crying before going in and doing too much of various things to cope. although life is both better and worse, i still am so relieved that place is now in the past and in the dust.

i'm considering a pivot where i just post bullshit like this on my photography insta

today's work

“Nice to meet you, Sam Porter Bridges. My name is Pastrami Ryeman."

i grew up in dallas but i have not lived there in 15 years, and god willing i will never live there ever again, but - the stars and mavs both leaving the AAC for the burbs is such a succinct example of why that city will never become anything than what it is - an ever-expanding slop of parking lots

damn it really feels like everything’s running off the rails today

today's work. one of those nice moments that the universe delivers if you are patient enough.

running thread of my presidential platform: - no Taco Bell meal shall exceed $10 - death penalty abolished except for litterers and people who do not pick up after their dogs - Hannah Einbinder gets a Gundam - all work email shuts off at 6pm

does anyone have tips for iPhones randomly being slow on data? my phone plan’s full up so it’s not like I am being throttled…

two from the weekend. i'm doing a bit better on street work even if it's not my favorite genre, and i did get an unintentional reflection of the sears tower in the second photo, which adds some nice local flavor.

Deep sigh seeing this (from "The Spirit of 45")

the former site of the Warehouse club, the birthplace of house music and thus like 75% of all today’s dance and pop music

@rockcelery.bsky.social cherishing the thought of Bryce in the North End going "is dat the shit that killed the dinasahs?"

Chicago, do not be like me and forget the impacted Red line service this weekend.

after a loooooong decade+ of waiting, i finally saw rilo kiley in concert

an astounding sentence all around but i'm particularly fascinated by a professional organization around offshoring companies (to say nothing of the franglais "l'offshoring")

new film from the lab

I saw an instagram post about "films that show how trauma changes you", with some valid picks (requiem for a dream, children of men) but one was also…Oldboy?…which…uhhhh….ehhh….ya know…

truly nothing dissuades me from making a big purchase quite like hard sell after hard sell. if people aren’t buying your shit maybe that’s a sign!

Why does the local food court suddenly make me want to write a double LP about social isolation and depression caused by the trauma of WW2 and abuse in the English school system in the 1950s

it feels bad that it feels so good to completely put down the apps for an entire day or weekend. all of the noise and nonsense goes screaming by and yet one remains blissfully unaware and uninvolved.

The ecstasy of Palhina scoring a goal by an inch to avoid a disastrous but entirely preventable collapse is a succinct recreation of my university years.

originally the windows at the Obama museum were going to be completely opaque but then he said "uhhh let them be clear"

from yesterday - chicago's driehaus museum

i would not wish an interest in photography upon anyone. there is so much more to life than constantly worrying you have set the wrong iso range for every possible situation you might encounter in a day. those who don't think about the exposure triangle can sleep soundly at night.