I've been looking for years for a decent "To Do" application. Much as I hate the idea of it, I am much more productive at work when I have lists to keep me organized. (10 - 15 jobs at any given time, with various stages in each...)

Something that lets me create a list, with child items. Allows me to very simply prioritize items. Make changes on the fly with little effort. I want to be able to check off items, and collapse items for simpler views.

I don't want feature bloat. I don't like most of the "GTD" applications and ideas, because they're more impressed with their lists than what they can accomplish with them; and they often rely on multiple interlocking lists. If I have to think about this list, it's blown its point.

While I found a couple that seemed promising, they all either were too expensive or were not available for my version of the computer's OS. So I've just kept the idea on the back burner for a year or so, assuming I would pursue it the next time I upgrade the OS.

Today... looking for a video program in my Applications folder, I realize one of the bundled free applications this computer came with (quite a while ago) was OmniOutliner.

Which does... you know... exactly what I need in exactly the way I want. Already licensed. Sitting 'round. Waiting for me to ... well... you get the idea.

Welcome to another day in the D.O.C.

Nine people dead, 12 serious injuries, 50 minor, on a subway crash. Two people shot overnight.

Beautiful weather. Bright, deep blue skies.

Movie preview last night at E Street, whose biggest laugh involved an Angel dying.

Krispy Kreme is calling my name. I surely must go.

IMO, Ray Bradbury can put words together like no one else. I would read a recipe book, if he wrote it. But as he has shown repeatedly in recent years, he is a cranky old fart. :) Thankfully I don't need to worship someone to like what they produce.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

- Jacques Barzun

Photography is the embalmers craft. When I photograph something my camera kills it, and I must gently and with love restore it with the life I witnessed with my own eyes, so that others can see what I saw. To do less would be merely to exhibit a corpse.

- Clayton Cubitt

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

- Bertrand Russell

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

- Diane Arbus

Mamihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.

Playing with some TTV photography, today. (Taking pictures with a modern camera through the viewfinder of an antique box camera.) In this case, sitting on the fountain in Dupont Circle. Click the image for bigger.

It's important to remember, when you're latching on and criticizing the man for the latest unpopular or controversial thing done by the Obama administration, that every president does bad things. No one can lead and be perpetually good and popular. We weren't ashamed of Bush for doing bad things. We hated him for lying, deceiving, manipulating, obfuscating, and depriving. If the most awful thing we can say some day is that Obama made a decision we don't agree with, then he'll still go down on his worst day as a better leader and a better man than Bush ever was.