Petapixel had an article on a Kickstarter project that’s building a tiny light meter for film cameras, small enough to clip into the hotshoe and stay out of the way, while providing immediate info for shooting. It’s a little under $100 at the time of writing, but I think I’m going to keep an eye on it for the future—this would be exceptionally handy to have.
Awesome! My cousin Mike got a great writeup in the Syracuse paper:
Scipio, N.Y. — Sometimes a great meal is worth a drive, even if it’s a 48-minute stroll from Syracuse, through roads squeezed between acres of farmland full of cattle.
Meals at Dugan’s Country Grill are prepared by a Culinary Institute of America graduate who cooked at fine dining restaurants across the country’s before opening his own place on Route 34B in the southern half of Cayuga County.
(via Syracuse.com, which is behind a registration wall).
I had made a call downstairs to the backstage area: “Are we good, are we good?” And then I finally heard from one of the people downstairs and I said, “Is Prince OK?” And then he said, “He wants to know if you can make it rain harder.” I was like, “We’re gonna be OK.”
via The Oral History of Prince’s Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show
On Jalopnik, Andrew Collins (fellow Scout owner) writes an appreciation of The Second-Gen Honda CR-V. Because Jalopnik’s commenting system is such a giant bag of dicks, I couldn’t log in with one of the four accounts it’s made me create over the years to add my opinion, but my love of our CR-V is well documented here.
Hooray! a bunch of the writers from Deadspin have come together and stood up an Unnamed Temporary Sports Blog for the next couple of days. I hope they are able to keep it going.
“In my mind, it’s been in maintenance mode the last eight years,” says Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint who accepted Intuit’s offer, found himself tasked with improving Quicken, and then left the company in 2012.
I used Mint for several years and found it super-helpful for a top-level overview of finances and money flows. Fast Company does a little shallow digging into why it’s stalled out.
Open Culture has a great list of Free Online Data Science Courses to look over; there are a bunch in here that I’m going to check out.
According to 2010 census data, the surname Dugan is ranked 1,679th out of all names in the United States. Put another way, there are a little more than 7 people per 100,000 who share my last name, or 21,455 other people in this country. (via StarTribune.com)
…A world-weary Tokyo cop, Kenzo Mori (Takehiro Hira), is sent to London to find his wayward brother, an enforcer for the Japanese crime syndicate the Yakusa, whose activities in the UK are primed to ignite a gang war back home in Japan.
I’m three and 1/4 episodes into the series Giri/Haji on Netflix and I’m hooked. A co-production with the BBC, it’s a slow burn but masterfully written and acted. I can’t wait to get through the rest of the series.
Cortellessa reports that Hogan, who ostensibly left his brother in charge of his real estate brokerage firm when he was elected, has, in fact, maintained ownership and control while serving as governor; the trustees he handpicked to run his company have continued to keep him apprised of its business dealings. And as governor, he has advanced highway and road construction projects that directly boosted the value of land owned by his company.
I don’t know how to feel about this. Outraged that my governor is so corrupt, or disgusted that he just doesn’t give a fuck about hiding it. Call it another symptom of Trump status quo. The New Republic wraps up a longer piece by the Washington Monthly detailing the whole story.