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York Labs - Only 1¢ per super glossy upgrade!
Along with all my negatives were some mail-in envelopes from York Labs; must have been a favorite of mine. Just crazy to see the prices. Rolls of film for $2.99. Developing with prints for a roll of 36: $3.00.
New Flight Bag Camera: Kodak Snapic
Thanks to @macmanx posting this YouTube video from Becca Farsace about why cheap cameras are better, I now have a Kodak Snapic to carry in the flight bag.
It Ain't Much - Adobe Stock Sales
I’ve been selling my photography on Adobe Stock for many years now, and my sales have slowed considerably in the past few years.
Kodak Mini 2 Retro Photo Printer
I saw a review for the Kodak Mini 2 Retro and thought, what the hell, let’s try it.
Beam Paints - M’Chigeeng First Nation Company on Manitoulin Island
My wife is a watercolor artist in her free time and just found a wonderful resource for hematite pigment.
Denoise: LightRoom vs DxO PureRAW 5
A quick down-and-dirty comparison between LR and DxO denoise. There is a very clear winner here.
Pentel Arts Multi 8 Pencil
Hiro had this pencil in his last Hiro.report. Had to order it right away and get penciling.
It’s a fun pencil, and switching leads is easy. Rotate the clip to the color you want—the cutout in the clip shows which one is selected. Press the top button, and the lead drops down. Adjust it to the length you want, then start writing. To switch colors, hold the pencil upside down, let the lead fall back into place, and rotate the clip to your next color.
It’s surprisingly small for how much it holds. The tapered barrel makes it comfortable to hold, and it never feels awkward. It’s all plastic, so it has a slightly cheap feel, and you’ll probably want to be careful not to stress the clip too much. Still, it feels solid enough to last a long time with reasonable care.
Bright, fun colors in a very small pencil. This is definitely going to become a must-carry item with my journal.
Custom Oura Ring Data Board
Poking around, I found out that Oura ring has a robust API, so I wanted to see what Claude Code could do with it. It took an afternoon of fiddling, but it seems to be a robust custom data board with about 4 years of data, that updates itself 3 times a day to a SQLite database. It runs on my Mac Mini home server.
Kumari Gold Tea
Kumari Gold deserves its own post. This is a reserve tea from The Tea Spot in Boulder, CO.
Flashback to 2009
Browsing the internet archives, I stumbled upon my blog from 2009. The original cliff538 was built from scratch as an exam for an HTML/CSS class that I was taking.