the internet is dying

Or why should we persist in these types of spaces?

Is there still a place for user generated content and unique web addresses?

Seems odd, but now content is coordinated with large social media aggregators. You toob, Tick tock, insta, book face, and the array of fresh places like post, countersocial, spoutible, mstdn, vero...  and then the og of og social stuff, forums and listservers.

Content made and shared there, it isn't really yours but it makes it easier for hosting and finding, sure, and then all the algorithms can direct you to new stuff or direct you to stuff similar to what you want to see but paid for by adjacent creators. 

We blogs the OG social media? Maybe. But they weren't really even all of it. Plenty of people had their own page and did their own thing with it. blogging platforms just made that easy. 

This contemplation brought on by getting here SUPER early today, being really productive but then finding that in between space. That point where you normally would stop for lunch but it is an hour earlier than lunch and if you eat then you'll never make it through the day so you delay. And today I opened up some old folders of bookmarks. So. Many. Dead. Links. So. Many. Kind of surprising though, there were lots of sleeping, static, lost or forgotten or just hanging on for some reason, frozen in the moment of last creation, 2008, 2013 or whenever. 

Found some great content, some stuff to re-read. Didn't go through and delete anything yet or clean it up, or re-organize. I did read some of it. Left a few tabs open to come back to. 

And then I opened this up.

It was a great morning ride in, warm, already in the 50s by the time I got on the bike just after 7. over 60 right now. 

This morning would have been the absolutely fabulous perfect sit on the porch and drink coffee and chat and hang out. I just don't have a porch or someone with the time to do that with. I certainly didn't have the time this morning. But I did make time to snap a few photos of three deer that were hanging out near the bike path and walked past me. It was cool. 

I had stopped to get a black and white film photo of the tire and foot prints on the wet surface of the bike path. A documentation of who had ridden past that spot in the morning. And while I got the camera out and the lens cap off they walked out onto the path. I think I got a good shot of one of the deer on the path. We'll see when I develop and scan the next roll. Should be soon.

One rabbit hole I dove down was trying to identify that Lens that got away, the one I saw in a used camera store in Seattle in the early 90s. A perfect condition M42 screwmount Zeiss ~20mm lens. A fisheye almost but with nearly no distortion. I think I found it today, found one in Ukraine being sold for almost $1000. A few others here and there all expensive, the nicest Pentax ones are also very expensive. Wish I had bought it, my up until 2005 self always regretted not getting it, and now my 2023 self is just as mad if not more so. So far I haven't really shot anything with a wide angle lens. Although the yashica has the zoom on there. wider for sure than the 50 on the Canon and the Olympus. 

Once this roll is done I'll see if I can jam the LR44 into that weird battery holder on the Pentax and blast through one more roll of Tmax400 before deciding which camera to shoot the Arista.EDU film in first.

Hey look at the time. 

Eating.

Food.

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