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 # Scratch
 
-Last week:
-paper notebooks (new)
-REI Deals
-
-This week:
-Bote Paddleboard review
-paddleboard guide (new)
-Organic Mattress update
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-## Best Paper Notebooks 
+## Outdoor Gift Guide
+
+Trillium hammock
+Water bottle
+hatchet
+knife
+Minus33 sweatshirt
+Snow Peak Titanium French Press
+Darn Tough socks (bombas for adrienne)
+Laws Guide to Nature Journaling
+notebook field notes waterproof
+binoculars
+onX subscription
+Local hiking guide
+evergoods packing cubes
+Black Diamond Mission MX Mitts (chris)
+Opinel No.12
+JBL speaker from: https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-bluetooth-speakers/
+A donation in their name to a local outdoor group.
+jefferson's bourbon: https://jeffersonsbourbon.com/whiskeys/jeffersons-ocean-bourbon/
+nomad grill
+
+
+
+## Darktable
+
+One of the great myths of free software (free as in freedom, not necessarily free as in beer) is that if it doesn't work the way you like, you can take the code, modify it to suit your needs, and go on your merry way. This is the cornerstone of the Free Software Foundations argument for why free software is better than proprietary software. While this is technically true -- the provisions for copying, modifying, and redistributing are governed by the licence -- it ignores the social reality that there is more to software than code. 
+
+The code is perhaps the least important part of a software project, particularly a large software project. The other two elements, the human elements, the developers and the users are the important part of software. These are the two elements that determine the fate of the code. While there are doubtless exceptions, most major project splits I've witnessed have been related to personalities within the project more than the capabilities of the code. Think LibreOffice, which spun off of OpenOffice in major part because the developers wanted a more egalitarian project structure, or NextCloud, which was forked from OwnCloud in part because, again, there were cultural differences between developers and the parent company. There are plenty of other examples. WordPress forked from b2, MariaDB, from MySQL, Tenacity from Audacity.
+
+In every case the project that ends up continuing is the one that draws in the most developers and consequently users. 
+
+Software without developers quickly dies. This is obvious. What's less obvious is that software without users quickly does the same. Developers need users. The relationship between the two is what makes software more than code, more human. 
+
+When we make something public a certain amount of control of that thing slips out of our hands. This is true of any writing, software, fiction, even this column will no longer be exclusively mine once it leaves my notebook. Somewhere in the process of publishing it, I fade to the background, the reader comes to the foreground. What matters now isn't what I have written, but what you think of it. These words don't belong to you in a legal sense, but in reading it you become part of a conversation and any community that surrounds it.
+
+The same is true in software development. Whether you are a contributor or just use a piece of software, you are a part of the conversation that surrounds that software and whatever community may exist around it.
+
+As with communities in other parts of life, some software communities are better than others. 
+
+Therefore, you have
+certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if
+you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others
+
+
+The conversation and community look different depending on where you stand. 
+
+Personally I don't use software made by people I don't like. 
+
+Somehow segue to darktable.
+
+
+One of the more interesting examples of software
+
+like undeveloped film : a raw image can be developed by software in a non-destructive manner to reach a complete image that resolves every pixel in a RGB color space. Raw development adjustments include color, contrast, bjurightness and details recovery. A given raw dataset can be developed many times with different adjustments.
+
+When Adobe moved Lightroom to a subscription model I started looking around for alternatives. I tried a few, but quickly settled on Darktable. It has the same conceptualization as Lightroom -- it is both a photo file manager and RAW image editor -- that it felt familiar even if all the tools and workflow was different. 
 
-How we tested
+According to the commits in Git, Darktable came on the scene in 2009. I believe I first began using it in 2010. 
 
-There are a few things to consider the first is the paper. Paper ranges from the very heavy and smooth to light, but ragged and everything in between. Every notebook we tested seemed different. Even the same weight of paper made by two different production companies can be different. The only real way to know what the paper is like, how much feathering you're going get (that's when ink bleeds out from the edges, making blurry lines) is to put pen to paper, which is what we did. Many pens to many papers. 
 
-We studied the feathering, watched for ghosting (where the writing is visible from the other side of the page) and, gods forbid, bleeding (where ink actually soaks through to the next sheet). The texture of the paper is also important if you're sketching (artists refer to this as the toothiness of the paper. The more tooth, the more the paper will hold your charcoal when sketching).
+So it is literally the raw recording of the camera sensor. It's not even an image file as I understand it, it's just raw data, which is why you need a program like darktable or lightroom to display it.
+4:32 PM
+But it gives you more editing capabilities than jpg.
+4:32 PM
+And ultimately, when you're done tweaking it, you export it to JPG, TIFF, PNG or whatever
+4:33 PM
+Jason Kehe
+ ahh, fun
+4:34 PM
+so the column is about darktable - which is obviously NOT a programming language - but, sure, it kinda sorta qualifies as machine-speak in a way, right?
+4:36 PM
+sng
+ yeah because I really want to talk about the user/programmer relationship. the give and take (give and build?) that happens there. I'm just going to use darktable as an example of how that works in both good and bad ways.
 
-We doodled scribbles, brainstormed, took notes, made plans, even attempted bullet journaling (sorry, didn't take). We used gel pens highlighters, fountain pens, ball point pens, micron pens, copic markers, oil pastels, water colors, charcoal, soft graphite pencils, hard graphite pencils, the best mechanical pencil, erasers, and even white out for thoroughness. But don't use white out. Seriously.
 
-We also enlisted some lefties to learn how different notebooks smudged and how comfortable they were for the left-handed among us. The result of all this testing was a cloud of notebook chaos which we distilled down to these picks, which we believe are the best of each of our use cases. That said, if you think we missed something, drop your favorite in the comments below and we'll check it out for future updates to this guide.
+## Bote LowRider Aero Tandem 11'6" Review
 
-Feathering
-Ink bleeds from the edges of letters rather than creating crisp lines.
+It's summer. It's hotter than tk. You're going to the lake. Should you bring the kayak or the paddle board? The paddle board industry has an answer to this dilemma and answer is the hybrid inflatable SUP with a kayak seat. The best of both worlds. Maybe. 
 
-Ghosting
-Pen ink is visible on the other side of the paper.
+Bote has long included a kayak seat with some of its pricier offerings, like the Bote Aero Breeze ([7/10, WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/breeze-aero-inflatable-paddle-board/)) we tested last year, but the new Bote Lowrider comes in a tandem option, adding two seats and anchor points for Bote's Bac rack system, making it possible to have a SUP and a full fishing rig of a kayak in a single craft. It is the best of many worlds.
 
-Bleeding
-Ink actually comes through to the other side of the paper, or even the next sheet.
+## tk
 
-Tooth or toothiness
-Toothiness refers to the paper’s texture. Generally, toothy paper is great for pencils because charcoal adheres better to paper that isn’t very smooth.
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+The Bote Lowrider comes in two sizes. The 10-foot 6-inch single person version (with a single seat) and the 11-foot 6-inch tandem version which features two seats. I tested the latter, though nearly everything here will apply to the former as well, it's just a foot shorter and only has one seat.
 
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+The Lowrider is the widest SUP in Bote's lineup at 36 inches. It's big. Really big. This makes the Lowrider very stable, which is what you want when you're trying to use it as a tandem sit on top kayak.
 
+The seats are comfortable, though they are laid back. From the side it looked like my kids were riding recumbent bikes more than using a kayak. You are high on the water as well, so you aren't going to want to paddle anything technical, but it's very stable, comfortable, and yet manages to be plenty maneuverable. Cruising flat water it was suprisingly fast and agile (for something this size) and didn't blink even when I took it out in a 15 knot wind with pretty good chop. 
 
 
+There are three tie down points on each side of the board for the seats,a nd then two more which can be used to attach a Kula cooler or similar cooler. There are also two magnapod anchors that will hold your [magnapod tumbler](https://www.boteboard.com/collections/magnepod-accessories/products/magnetumbler-20oz-with-lid-seafoam) or [speaker](https://www.boteboard.com/collections/magnepod-accessories/products/magneboom-surge-waterproof-speaker) in place.
 
 
 ## Notes