Santorum drops from the RNC primary

I don't think he stood much of a chance getting the nomination, but there was also a grimmer reason behind it: his daughter has a fairly rare genetic disorder called Trisomy 18, or Edwards Syndrome. He spent Easter weekend with her in the hospital then Tuesday announced his dropping the campaign.

It's a pretty grim condition, as most genetic problems are. Half the infants do not survive beyond the first week of life, median life span is 5-15 days and only 1% make it to age 10.

To drop the race because you don't stand a chance is one thing, to drop it because your daughter is probably doomed is quite another and very sad.

RIP: Jack Tramiel

A computer pioneer of a different sort, Jack was the maker of the Commodore 64, undeniably a seminal computer in the PC revolution. He had quite a history: born in Poland, interred at Aushwitz, and started a typewriter company that became a computer company that made one of the first truly affordable computers.

Oddly, neither Wired nor Slashdot seem to have mentioned it yet.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/253473/computer_pioneer_commodore_founder_jack_tramiel_dies_at_83.html

There's few things more depressing to me than throwing away darkroom supplies

I just threw away four rolls of film, including a roll of Fuji Sensia slide film, which is a gorgeous transparency film if you need to shoot slides. And probably half a 100 box of Kodak Supra Endura color printing paper.

All these were over five years old, and though they were kept in my fridge, there is a limit. The color paper definitely has a fixed life, it had already started to fog purple. I don't know if I'll ever work in a darkroom again, and I don't know if I even should if I could having an immunodeficiency. And I needed a place to put my Mountain Dew Throwback.

I always wanted a darkroom of my own, with a nice Besseler 4x5 enlarger with a cold light head. The 23C is a great enlarger, but I really like the motorized carriage and I always wanted to shoot 4x5. I turned 50 last year, it hasn't happened yet so it's probably not going to happen at all.

I still have my film cameras: three Canon Eos 35mm bodies, a 4x5 press camera, a Yashica 6x6cm, and some miscellaneous stuff. They're effectively worthless, or at least far less than I'd be willing to sell them for.

I love photography, and I shoot pretty regularly, but I imagine that everything for me will be digital and Photoshop from now on.