Just got a letter from a place I havenβt worked at for eight years (UPenn) telling me that my personal data was leaked by a company Iβve never done business with (Oracle), and so theyβre giving me two years of credit monitoring with another company (Equifax) to make up for it.
The future isnβt everything it was cracked up to be.
Iβm always amused when movies set in the present day have a scene with a crowd of press photographers and use the whirring of 35mm film motor drives as a sound effect.
Photo nerditry: Because of the kind of photography I do, I generally use a big camera on a tripod, and spend a long time fussing with exposure, focus, and composition before I trigger the shutter..
But I frequently carry around a small mirrorless camera, often without a tripod or multiple lenses. I use that as a sketchbook, to plan my "real" photos. Occasionally I end up printing and publishing them, but I try at the time to think of them as ephemeral. This gives me permission to experiment.
I'm just imagining what the reaction would have been if Obama had suggested renaming NFL football. They would have had to put him in witness protection.
