uhuang – Curiosi-teas and Contemplations

Cat pics!

Trying to learn some basic film photography.

I have a newfound appreciation for pre-digital, pre-autofocusing era photographers, especially those who took wildlife or other often-moving subject photos. Attempting to take pictures of the cats I live with with a manual focus and fixed lens has been a lesson in patience and reflexes.

Two rolls of film later, I have just two vaguely-presentable, somewhat-in-focus images of a cat. Both are taken with a Canon AE-1 Program using Ilford HP5 Plus black and white film, developed with Cinestill Df96 B&W Monobath, and scanned with a dusty Minolta Revive 5.

Black and white photo of a tabby cat behind a couch arm staring into distance with light source coming from top left.

Black and white photo of a tabby cat licking/cleaning its leg tucked into the corner of where the couch meets the couch arm.

PPL Staff Recs – My Submissions

Some Staff Recommendations I’ve written for Portland Public Library, compiled here so I can keep track of what I’ve recommended. Starting with the most recent recs.

Last updated October 2023.

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Stuff I run/host on this site (or intend to)

Last updated October 2023.

Up and Running:

Foundry Virtual Tabletop, a virtual tabletop for RPGs.

Grocy, a means of inventorying food and other items.

Barcode Buddy, a companion barcode reader for Grocy.

Bookstack, to keep track of my D&D campaign and one-shots.

Jitsi, for private video/voice chat without needing to sign up for a service.

And of course, WordPress for this (rarely-updated) blog.

Planning or attempting to set up:

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Tea Review: 2017 Nannuo Mini Mushroom Shou from Crimson Lotus Tea

Link to the tea. Unfortunately sold-out as of this writing. I’ve had some sitting in my tea storage for a while.

Steep Method: Gongfu style using the Gongfu2Go, also by Crimson Lotus Tea, 1 mini mushroom (~4g)

Water: Poland Spring, 150 mL @ uncertain temp (a water cooler’s “Hot” setting)

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Whoops, part 2…

Note to self: check logs thoroughly when encountering errors.

Also don’t blindly follow possible fixes on Stack Exchange that involve deleting files without reading and understanding the logged errors to determine whether or not deleting those files would actually be of any use.

Oh, and make a backup of those files, too.

Whoops…

Welp. Accidentally nuked my server with an errant app configuration, which knocked out my main site, the virtual tabletop, and a few other apps the server hosts. And this blog.