Aloha Friday and Point-and-Shoot Life.

What was I thinking—using my phone/camera in point-and-shoot mode? Point-and-shoot works fine for nearly everything. Except when it doesn’t. And since the phone/camera is now my only camera, I really need to do a better job.

(Right now, Big Orange Asshole is meeting with Putin in Alaska. I’m hoping a massive earthquake takes out both of them. There will be collateral damage—but there’s already intentional damage.)

This is better than the point-and-shoot butterfly from earlier this week. Not SLR-good, but better.

Lots of photos from my July trip need deleting. And the rest should be cataloged.

As I grow older, I sometimes wonder why I keep culling and cataloging photos. I guess I do it because I always have. Habit.

Speaking of old—I suspect I’ve been living my life in point-and-shoot mode lately. Time to get back to manual mode.

I’ve also been playing around with AI—mostly ChatGPT—trying to turn my antique iPad mini into a voice-activated AI “assistant.” Something like Alexa with half a brain. I’m not expecting it to replace Alexa for running the lights, and I’m certainly not expecting Amazon to get AI sorted anytime soon.

But that’s enough. It’s Aloha Friday.