Insomniac passing anhypnic nights in writing, translation, music, mathematics, programming and whatever else captures my attention or alleviates agrypnia.
This consists mostly of quotations of things that stand out to me or reflect what's on my mind; occasionally I also post original, often more personal, content as well, which may be found under the "personal" tag. Anything posted under "translations" is also original work and may broadly be taken as personal as well as I seldom tackle a work that does not speak to or for me in some way.
While they weren’t snapped with that intention, I was intrigued when a script running on my computer decided that six older photos in one of my folders were suitable for a panoramic view. Not sure how well the quality will survive the Tumblr shrinking, as the original is 5864 x 1660px. We’ll see.
A random shot from the back yard. (Taken with instagram)
Instagram (for Android) users: has anyone else been having trouble with over-pixelation since the last update? These two are an example of a pre-update shot (on the left) and post-update, taken with the same camera. The original shots taken by and stored on the phone before processing are both clear, crisp, unpixelated scenes, and even though the shot on the left is a smaller crop of the original than is the right, the right Instagram-processed shot looks as if it were first shrunk to some overly small resolution and then enlarged into its present pixelated state.
It’s not a consistent behavior, as the flooded field and tree I posted yesterday was itself a post-update shot that doesn’t seem to suffer the same effect, but I’m seeing it on several other images; so many that I’ve taken to throwing the bulk out rather than posting, which is making the whole affair a bit of a waste of time. Just wondering if this is more wide-spread or unique to my device.
Giving an earlier photo the Instagram treatment. (Taken with instagram)
Mister Chu suggests
I add an insta-haiku,
but I haven’t one.
Yet perhaps I can—
with requisite syllables—
aptly say something.
“Most years see this tree
inundated with spring rains;
this year, it’s been dry.”
Suitable? I hope.
I am uncertain what else
I could have written.
The life of a tree. A few years ago, someone found a photo of my home in the city archives, circa the 1880s. The house was a decade or two old by that point; as far as I can tell from the records, the elderly gent pictured is the original owner/builder. By the time I acquired the place, the upstairs porch had been removed—I intend to rebuild it, in time—and those trees, and the many others on the lot, had grown extensively. In 2008, Hurrican Ike, while “only” a category 4, was so strong that after hitting the southern coast of the US from the Gulf of Mexico, continued in a fierce storm inland well into the central part of the country. When it hit here, it ravaged one of those trees pictured. It had by then grown to such a size that the fallen tree covered about a quarter of the width of my front yard, the whole of a neighbor’s yard, and had its topmost part jutting into the yard of the neighbor beyond them. Not sure how many years it had accumulated in total, but by then it was at the least 128 y/o.
A tree rising from the midst of flooded farm land, taken earlier this year a few blocks from my home.
Insomniac passing anhypnic nights in writing, translation, music, mathematics, programming and whatever else captures my attention or alleviates agrypnia.
This consists mostly of quotations of things that stand out to me or reflect what's on my mind; occasionally I also post original, often more personal, content as well, which may be found under the "personal" tag. Anything posted under "translations" is also original work and may broadly be taken as personal as well as I seldom tackle a work that does not speak to or for me in some way.
