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It’s Gonna Take Me a Year to Finish Reading This Book.

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 14, 2024September 14, 2024

That’s the plan (and actually better pace than the stack of partly reads on my nightstand table). The book is “A Year in the Woods” by Norwegian writer Torbjørn Ekelund– the sad state of web search yields no author managed web site, just links to book sellers or book reviews, I link therefore to a […]

Photography, Random Musing

Wither the Camera/Photograph as Machines of Truth/Reality

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 12, 2024March 28, 2025

After so many years of taking/making photography, from an undergraduate photography class at the University of Delaware, to a darkroom in my grad school apartment, to first digital photos with an Apple Quicktake, on through DSLRs, and the alluring capability of an iPhone 13, I’ve been firm on representing the world I see. Even if […]

On Sharing, Photography

Got Explored!

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 9, 2024September 9, 2024

Woah, two blog posts two days in a row? That has not happened since, like… 1942 (that’s a joke for Cori and I). The blog is not dead! But indeed, I got some of the nice, chest thumping “chuffed” feeling (as my friends on the other pond side say), for a recent flickr photo I […]

Blogging

I [Still] Blog Therefore I [Still] Am

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 8, 2024September 8, 2024

To break my own languishing of writing here (to which nobody notices), I reach for the bloggers oldest topic, blogging about blogging. Right? And so I reach back, way back, to my own Pre-Cambrian blogging era, the first post, to which, true to form, I pun[t] on the descriptive title for what I think might […]

On Sharing

Amazing Still Happens. The Incalculable Odds of Clicking My Way Back to Phenix

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on August 10, 2024September 8, 2024

Just when one might think the glorious, joyful, unlimited potential of the internet has cratered to an ad-laden pool of machine generated goop, amazingness happens again. The odds of what I will lay out here seem improbable. Well, someone can likely do a back of the napkin estimate. While I have hung up efforts to […]

Coding, How To, Rants

Building Yer Own Tools

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on August 4, 2024August 4, 2024

I recently managed to fix an issue with a water pump I use for our irrigation projects that someone else had put together for me. The fix was round about. I did some web searching, found the culprit was likely a pressure switch, ended up swapping the whole pump out, rewiring it the same, and […]

On Media, On Sharing

The State of Finding Image Attribution

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on July 23, 2024July 23, 2024

It’s more than tattered and a while since I blabbed about the spurious nature of online practices of attribution. I was somewhat inspired here by interesting analysis of Why I Attribute made by Stephen Downes (who’s busy biking somewhere, why do I need to write this?) based on a simple series of online posts/shares that […]

Memories

Isadore/Ira & Abraham/Alan “like a distant radio station”

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on July 9, 2024July 11, 2024

Podcasting, it’s still a thing, eh? Everyone is doing them, posting them in their substa– no not everyone. But to play my old man internet card, I was rambling Podcasting Schmodcasting back when the people who would spin out the bird site were deep into making Odeo. I was recording with that bubble gum pack […]

On Sharing, Photography, Rants

Not Dead Yet. Humanly Made, Shared, Attributed, and Thanked for Photographs

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on July 2, 2024July 2, 2024

Claims of technical death are always overrated, but in the hell mell rush and glee for the synthetic cartoon garish sadly robotic “style” of generative AI imagery I for one remain thrilled by the small acts of thanks. These acts are “generated” from the closing in (if I can catch up on the backlog) of […]

Photography, Random Musing

Be / Between the Cacti

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 26, 2024June 26, 2024

I have a thing for cactuses… grammatically I ought to say “cacti” but that always sounds high brow. What did I know of them as a kid growing up in Baltimore? Nada. Maybe as cartoon scenery in Road Runner cartoons, and cliché background props of western movies. Here at our acreage in Saskatchewan, in the […]

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