The nectarine tree is starting to bloom.
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Riese & Muller Load 60 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Ride My Bike
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When I started to shop around for a cargo bike, I wanted to get an idea of what people were riding in areas like mine. I never see any cargo bikes, but there has to be some out there right? When I go to a Ciclavia or similar, they come out of the woodwork and I see a few, mostly long tails, but there are some front loaders around too.
I wanted to make sure it can be ridden, and not stuck with odd gear ratios or being too heavy to push up hills.
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Running Man (2025)
I’m an Edgar Wright mark, I’ve enjoyed pretty much every movie he has made. The Cornetto trilogy is a lot of fun. I had a smile all through Baby Driver, it’s like they went into my head for the soundtrack, then synchronized the movie to it. That sort of stuff makes me feel like what I imagine ASMR people feeling when someone whispers a pancake recipe or something.
So when I heard he was making a Running Man movie, I was stoked, sign me up.
Glenn Powell can be fun, let’s go.
Then the movie started.
As cliché as the story is, its very timely, and at the rate we are going, set in a not too distant future. Inflation is gnarly, medical care is crazy expensive, and the only way to get ahead is to put your life on the line for a TV show.
The main character never seems to act consistently, sometimes angry, sometimes goofy, but never in a predictable manner, just whatever would be more extreme for the given scene.
Without getting into spoiler territory though, things fall apart about 75% of the way through, its trudges along and feels like they tacked on a more specific ending after bad focus testing.
There’s a bad boss guy, but you never really find out much about them, and at the end, there’s a reveal that just falls flat because you don’t really know or care about the character.
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Think I’ll pass on this version of Running Man. I’m fine with the 1989 version. I didn’t want a retelling of the original, and was glad to see a different take on it. I’m glad they didn’t try a modern “Dynamo” or any of the bosses from the first movie. But after a point, the story just falls flat as you try and figure out how things got to that point.
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Man with a Phone Camera
The best camera you have is the one you have with you. Usually, that means my phone. It take ok pics using the regular camera, sure, but you get very “point-and-shoot” results. They work for documenting something, but meh for anything else.
Doesn’t really scratch the itch. So why not use it as a different type of point and shoot camera? Enter an old Android favorite of mine, Vignette.
Been using it for years with my favorite set up:
- 1:1 aspect ratio
- instant film frame
- black and white
Not every shot comes out good or as you expect. You have to think about it a little bit more, need to pay more attention to contrast and form. Some shots just don’t translate well, but that’s part of it. Getting a feel for what will look good, and what won’t.
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Maui and a New Camera
Went to Maui in January 2026, took a new camera along – Fujifilm X-E5. I’ll talk more about it later, but until then heres some pictures.
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Sailing Away to a Distant Shore
I gave social media a chance, I really did.
From MySpace to Facebook and Twitter. In one way or another, they all went to crap. There’s others out there, but do I really want to be a part of that? No.
If your not paying, your the product
See the thing with all these sites is they make their money off of your data, your consumer profile. From the brands you like, your age, location and estimated salary. All of that shapes how the sites target you. What ads you see, what content they think you would be into seeing or in the case of Facebook, who paid to get their content in front of you.
Like newspapers before it, rich guys got in there and ruined the party. Sure there were other after parties, but they have, so far, not been as good as the first one.
So what now?
I don’t want to feed the machines anymore, at least directly. There going to have come and get it. But at least this way they can’t really tell me what i can and can’t say, or bump me down because my opinion doesn’t align with the owners.
This is all mine. It’s all here, you can read it if you want.
That’s cool. I can post what i want, quick bits, long pieces, pictures. That’s all I really want. never cared much about like buttons or notifications.
