Day 93: Road Overlook

2026-05-10

Hello! I'm up to no good again, staring at my screen and hoarding interesting internet stuffs to share on this here website. I'm planning to celebrate Day 100 with One Thousand Links of cool posts and works online. If you want to promote something interesting you made, now's the time to contact me.

The lens of my camera can't fit through the chain link fence of the bridge above this road. So at this overlook, I had the camera focus on a point far away, hoping that the gray lines of the fence would fade away and not be distracting.

Well, it worked. Rather than the fence wire being a gray mark on the image, it is a wide blob that's mostly transparent and at worst takes a bit of contrast and saturation away. It seems like the fence wire is in the bottom right, but you can't notice.

I wonder what this road looked like long ago. I assume it must have been a trail that slowly got widened and paved over. At least they added a sidewalk on both sides (although you can only see one in this photograph).

In between reading books, I'm researching about books. I came across this article on "why hardbacks"? Obvious disclaimer: it's a Substack blog written by someone who sells books. So I'll give the short summary directly: it's all about status and profit. A disappointing answer, to be sure, but there a few more subtle answers (and misconceptions!) that make the original article worth a read.

Finally: ow, ow, ow, ow. I give no explanation. I have none.

Cheers,
David