As a guy currently going through a divorce, I see it very differently to how I did before she left. Previously I saw it as a public commitment and celebration of love, and making vows to each other. Now I see it as a bullshit waste of time and money. I was cynical before (not religious, didnt see muxh point) but went through with it because it was something she wanted.

CK1. Had some when I was a teenager, forgot about it for 20 years, now whenever I smell it I am instantly transported (sadly not literally) back to a more simple time before I completely fucked my life up.

Seems like user error, I’m no programmer but even I lnow you don’t give an agent access to critical things, and Claude is very insistent at asking for permission at every step.

This feels overly pessimistic, I met my current wife online and there’s zero chance we would’ve bumped into each other IRL. I know the apps have gone to shit in terms of monetization and gamification but there are still real people out there who use them.

I wonder if the tethering is any good. Lightroom is pretty bad compared to Capture One and I’m not aware of many other alternatives.

Curious whether the standard image upload makes any effort to strip this?

Nice light. I can hear the sound they make. Looks like flake Aluminium powder under a microscope at a glance!

My mate’s guitar setup is pretty cool.

Harboro is up there in my top 10 rocky outcrops. You have good taste in rocky outcrops and good friends. Thanks for sharing.

Nanami Togarachi, it’s a Japanese seasoning with chilli, orange peel, sesame, ginger, seaweed and sancho pepper. Looks and tastes fantastic, I put it on everything.

I looked at how much my 128GB DDR4 costs and holy shit £900. Timed my build well I feel with the 3080Ti.

Watched Inglorious Basterds for the first time the other night

Gaming. It has completely replaced flatscreen gaming for me. Playing FPS on a screen feels so ridiculous to me now.

I recently lost out on some work (big retouching job) due to AI, when the client came back to me to fix the huge mess, it turned out the job had just been farmed out to India by the ‘AI’ company. They weren’t even using a recent Photoshop version so were actually using less ‘AI’ than any pro retoucher would.

Shooting weddings is uniquely draining, physically and mentally. 16 hours on your feet carrying weighty kit, putting your body in awkward positions to get the right angle, needing to stay hyper alert so you don’t miss the perfect shot, constantly thinking ahead, all with the added pressure to not fuck things up. I’ve done some really gruelling location work with even longer days but weddings are always the hardest.

I do retouching work. Recently lost a client to an ‘AI’ retouching firm. When the client came back to me to fix loads of stuff and I looked at the output, it became apparent that the work had actually just been outsourced to India and there was no magic AI solution.

Gen AI is an amazing tool but not a one click solution like so many are claiming.

Maybe lemon tek method might help. Or just find some DMT or 2-CB, which have been by far the strongest visuals for me.

Deflagration-to-detonation transitions are pretty cool but my all-time favorite would be acoustic strobes.

Add a Ligne Roset Togo orange sofa cluster and it’s perfect.

Just a heads up in case you haven’t updated firmware on your 980. I wasn’t aware of the problem and lost my c drive a few months back.