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twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2023.04.23

This past week, I added a new feature to this website. It's a view of the latest photos that I've added. I'm getting closer to a tool that would allow me to directly share select photos with this journal as well. I've done that a fair bit by hand, recently, but the idea just came to me that I could "blog" my own photos (instead of just troubling AI and WWIII videos on Youtube).

I also note that it's now been eight years since post 5,000. It took me 12 years to get to post 2,500, then another six to get to 5,000, and I've barely made 60% of the distance to 7,500 (this is 6,570) in a further eight years. Really slowing down! But they say it's quality not quantity.... And from my readership I seem to be getting fewer views than ever, so .. wait, what?

rand()m quote

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

—Michael Crichton