A mini roadtrip up the CA-1, from Davenport to Pacifica. Shot on a Hasselblad 500CM with Instax Square, via a NONS instant film back.

First frame out of my new instant film back for Hasselblad.

Got my 30m purple pin for barebow achievement shoot today. Needed 170 out of 360, got 271. Gotta repeat for a gray pin next! Much gratitude for the community at Golden Gate JOAD!

2 pins, one green and one purple, on a green ribbon, with archery targets in the distance

Torpedo Wharf, Crissy Field. Portra 400 on Fujifilm GA645Zi

If you happen to be in a window seat, on a Boeing Dreamliner at sunrise… the electrically-tinted window shades make for some really interesting pics, especially on a recent iPhone with NightMode enabled!

Distraction-free living and working in tech seems at-odds with each other.

Distraction-free living and working in tech seems at-odds with each other. On the one hand, you want to be able to focus on thoughts, and act on long term goals without being constantly distracted by the next shiny thing. You want this because you know you’d do quality work, be a better person overall, if only you weren’t switching context every 30 seconds. But on the other hand, by definition, working in tech almost certainly means working with tech.

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Got my hands on the GOAT of laptop keyboards, IMHO. Beautifully resto-modded with new screen, new WiFi and SSD. Unfortunate that the donor laptop had chips on the case.

Now I just need to install Linux.

New old toy. Completed the vibes with late 90’s tunes.

I forgot how small these things were!

Beautiful day to be out working on my release

Weekend practice can’t come quickly enough #archery

Archery target with arrows, outdoors, in a park

Morning commute

Picture of cars on a highway, backlit by an overcast sky that obscures the sun

A place to contemplate

A bench along a dirt path, next to a tall, barren, black tree, surrounded by an ivy-covered forest floor, on a winter’s day

A Lonely Christmas Tree

Found this Taiwanese #alishan coffee way too tart when brewed via pourover. Workaround was to make cold-brew concentrate with it and top with cold milk instead, which made it almost delicious

Bag of Taiwanese Alishan coffee beans and empty OXO cold brew glass container with remains of coffee concentrate

First roll of #film in some time.

Fort Mason, today #shotoniphone

Turns out that if you ever pull out the rubber grommet around your car’s cable bundle, the way to reinsert it is to ease out the clips on the hard plastic bit and put the grommet on that before clipping it back in #TIL #carmaintenance

What is this crazy thing I’ve found? CARROT, the weather app, has a soundtrack?

Zooming through the night sky, over the Pacific. #shotoniphone

Instax Wide should probably be rated ISO 4000 in bright light

Instax Wide should probably be rated ISO 4000 in bright light. Wasted a box of film and 2 hours to figure it out.

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