Category: overnight notes

pyro whores

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the page2 of glycin-gone

every war has a whore patch. The bleachers, the sidelines — those who can’t do, cheer, claim, proclaim. With nothing but hearsay, they say much. They are without nous.

so what . so what’s the difference . so what’s it to me ? The chatter clique dilutes the craft; frequently out of fear of losing standing, even though the standing is among the multitude of casual crafters as intent on social gossip as they are in advancing their skills. They replacing experience with gossip. These back-benchers share another common habit – they dislike “art-speak” — even as they fail to grasp the disdain of their “snobby-hobby” formulas.

Tanning developers longest use was in dye-transfer (imbibition) printing. There are many posts on this topic on webionaire.

PMK supply is in decline, as is most of the chemical based photographic world. The on-again, off-again extremes of demand make reasoning about making chems for general consumption a risk. Prepared chems are profitable, but not risk-less. Researchers have little opportunity to recover from a single failure, which is likely why they supply standard solutions. Deeper budgets have already explored those hills. Maps of success are available at the counter.

A moersch product I’ve used within the past year. (2025). Note how long the developer last during development

venom, vengeance among the Camp followers. craft culture Delayed until vacation or retirement. A Hobby to fill time … Sharpening pencils hoping someday you’ll have something to write .

[ Parkinson’s Law of Triviality – which states that, “The time spent on any item of an agenda is in inverse proportion to the sum involved,” with a local example where it took the Singapore City Council “six hours to pick a new man for the gasworks and two and a half minutes to approve a $100 million budget ]

going, going, glycin :2026

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The thin trail .. drip drop of darkroom chemicals . It will be available, sometimes… until it is no longer around. The depth of the market is thin and thinning. You may sing the hymn, but you aren’t its author. The supporting structures are not stable enough to sustain even the small subsistence suppliers of your hobby. Knowing that, is the difference between paths to keep, paths to explore.

Glycin, when made in quantity, by industrial chemists using trained technicians is a long lived chemical. Light is its ager. When made in small batches, using cookery skills, it lasts months before losing its use as a magic-developer-bean.

the shorthand: it hasn’t been in stock for 2 months…

Asking for more isn’t enough … the oasis has limits of everything but sand… an acolytes prayer book can lead the neophyte into a desert. Memories don’t matter when it comes to nourishing a craft…

Better build using what is replaceable, repeatable… that’s just my opinion..

NB: “overnight notes” are briefs, responses, as are “minimum daily requirements,” “morning wood” — the differences are along the lines of possibly longer, should be considered, scoffs – toss outs — one liner possibles.

weather changes.. gain some self confidence by shopping for yourself. have more trust in facts you make. the facts of darkroom life change more often than the opinions, awareness of the ensconced forum-familiary.

davos snowjob

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in sum: it’s disappointing that a strong speech doesn’t lead to durable or stronger action. meaning, broader widely applicable action . if you say it do it . you’ve told people,now, show people 

if thucydides had surrendered as quickly as carney we’d never known his quotes [principle. “Questions of justice apply only to those equal in power,” stated bluntly. “Otherwise, such things as are possible, the superior exact and the weak give up.”]

[ There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power. Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion, and, in one word, whatever affairs are our own. Beyond our power are body, property, reputation, office, and, in one word, whatever are not properly our own affairs. — EPICTETUS , The Enchiridion ]

RAW NOTES — not for fresher, refresher dropouts seeking a better handout from the marketing department [c–hn]  know that using an em-dash is treated as a sign of using LLMs. LLMs are never used for my writing. I like em-dashes

snowblower ran out of gas, but not before his invocation snowballed.

OR? The world has changed, Washington has changed. There is almost nothing normal in the U.S. now and that’s the truth,” Carney said in French in Parliament on Tuesday.

markets hinder progress beyond low baseline . mature civilizations re-dress rather than regress .