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 I'm not sure why it's considered so outlandish that the moon could influence us in various ways. It does, if you recall, MOVE THE FUCKING OCEAN.
 
 Expertise is over valued. You don't need to be a master carpenter to build something out of wood, you don't need to be a chef to cook a meal. Up to a point anyway. You probably do need to be a doctor to perform open heart surgery.
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-i learned something today, some people are scared of mold. 
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-I've been selling the trailer I bought a while back. We decided to go with an RV so our kids don't have to be subjected to car seats all the time. Anyway, I placed an ad, a very nice woman got in touch, she was interested. She even tried to buy this thing from the guy I bought it off. So I figure cool, you want it, I like that, I'll sell to you even though I could get more money off craigslist.
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-But then she brought along a friend to check it out too. He was wearing plaid shorts and short, cuban style hat. And he was not the sort that could pull off such a thing. I've always preferred style over fashion, but hey, to each their own. That's not what got me. 
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-What got me was that he was so afraid of mold he wouldn't even get in the trailer. I overheard him call it a biohazard. It's fucking mold. Like the black stuff that grows on anything wet. Hate to hear what he'd make of India, Indonesia or even Florida for that matter, half the things in those places are covered in black mold. 
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-I'm not saying mold is good. Or that you shouldn't use precautions like a respirator when you're working with it, but christ, it's not a biohazard, it's just mold. Mold might give you a headache, in some rare cases long term exposure is bad for some people, but it's not going to kill you.
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-Why I am telling this story? To make fun of some hipster who caused his friend to miss out on a great deal on a great project (a few days later a woman who wasn't afraid of mold towed it away)? No, not really. Okay, maybe a little, but to me there's something deeper here than fear of mold.
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-The world I inhabit -- in other words this is all my own fault -- has become increasingly paranoid about the weirdest things -- mold (apparently), gluten, legumes, iron, 
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-I gave her my email address to send me pick when she's done.)
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+People email me all the time to ask how I do this. It's easier to talk about tool than methods, so while I can't really explain how I do this to you in any meaningful way -- beyond saying, I just write, take pictures and combine them into stories, which I recognize is not particularly helpful -- here's a look at the tools I use instead. Because, consumerism!
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+## Hardware 
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+### Notebook
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+My primary recording device is my notebook, which is generally a Moleskin (I know, I know) though it could also be whatever I happened to grab on my way out of the bus. I'm not all that picky about notebooks, but I could devote thousands and thousands of works to pens. At the moment I'm pretty happy with the Uniball Vision which fills my two primary requirements: 1) it writes well 2) I can buy it almost anywhere for next to nothing.
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+### laptop
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+My main laptop is a piece of still-somewhat-functional junk I bought off eBay for $300. It's a Lenovo x230 from, uh, maybe 2012 or so? I upgraded the hard drives and put in an HD screen, which brought the total outlay to $500, which is really way too much to spend on a computer these days, but my excuse is that I make money using it. 
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+Why this particular laptop? It's small and the battery lasts quite a while (like 15 hrs when I'm writing, more 12 when editing photos). It also has a removable battery and can be upgraded by the user. I packed in almost 3TB of disk storage, which is nice.
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+Still, I could get by with less. I should get by with less.
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+### Camera
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+I have used many cameras at different points in time on this site. I went around the world the first time with a Canon point and shoot of some wort. Then I got a Panasonic GF-1, which I loved. There's also quite a few pics taken with cameras I was testing for Wired. That said, since 2016 I've been shooting primarily with two cameras, both Nikon. 
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+The first is the digital, a Nikon D600 (eBay, about $600). About 90% of the time I have a very fast, lightweight Nikon 35mm f/2 lens on it. This is what I use for taking pictures of the kids and walking around towns. For landscapes I generally use the Nikon 20mm f/2.8, a manual focus lens that I really, really love. Other lenses include a Nikon 70-300 zoom I use for the occasional wildlife shot, and a Rokinon 12mm Fisheye lens for shooting in tight spaces like our RV. 
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+The other camera is 35mm film, a Nikon FE that I picked up off eBay (notice a running theme here? Buy used) for $75, which blows my mind since once upon a time as a teenager I worked for months to afford nearly the same camera. Anyway, I worry that all the digital photos will disappear one day so I wanted to leave behind some physical artifacts for my kids to dig through later in life. I typically process the color film at costco in the U.S. and send off of the black and white to a lab. But the b&w is really expensive so I mainly shoot color these days. A handful of the prints stay with us in the bus, the rest are shipped to relatives for relatively safe keeping.
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+### Phone/Tablet/drone/wrist tracking device thingy
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+Don't have one. Yeah I know, I'm one of those people. We pay for everything in cash too. Terrible.
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+## Software
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+The laptop runs Arch Linux because once I set it up I never have to think about it again. Because I test software for a living I also have a partition that hosts a revolving door of other Linux distros that I use from time to time, but never when I want to get work done. When I want to get work done, I use Arch.
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+I don't run a desktop, just a window manager (Openbox) with a menubar (tint2). I launch appsand other stuff with dmenu.
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+Almost everything I do is done inside a terminal (urxvt) the command line. I write in Vim. For email I use mutt. I read RSS feeds with newsbeuter and I listen to music via mpd. I also have a command line calculator and a locally-hosted dictionary that I use pretty regularly.  
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+I do use a few GUI apps: Tor for browsing the web, Darktable and GIMP for editing photos, Stellarium for learning more about the night sky, and LibreOffice Calc for speadsheets.
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